Historic trend

Five year review


  2010
£m		 2009
£m		 2008
£m		 2007
£m		 2006
£m
Revenue 4,829.6 4,648.7 4,177.3 3,581.9 3,333.2
           
Operating profit before intangible amortisation
and acquisition related costs		 306.7 295.7 280.5 242.9 226.3
Intangible amortisation and acquisition related costs (51.0) (41.8) (36.0) (24.4) (19.9)
Operating profit 255.7 253.9 244.5 218.5 206.4
Finance income 20.3 16.8 27.6 21.1 19.6
Finance cost (50.8) (54.7) (65.2) (48.5) (36.3)
Profit before income tax 225.2 216.0 206.9 191.1 189.7
Profit before income tax, intangible amortisation
and acquisition related costs		 276.2 257.8 242.9 215.5 209.6
Income tax (66.2) (67.1) (64.7) (61.0) (60.3)
Profit for the year 159.0 148.9 142.2 130.1 129.4
           
Basic earnings per share 49.1p 46.4p 44.5p 39.8p 37.8p
Adjusted earnings per share 60.6p 55.9p 52.7p 45.1p 41.7p