Quarterly Results

for the 52 week period ended 2 February 2008
  13 weeks
ended
5 May
2007
$m
13 weeks
ended
4 August
2007
$m
13 weeks
ended
3 November
2007
$m
13 weeks
ended
2 February
2008
$m
52 weeks
ended
2 February
2008
$ m
Sales 814.4 787.4 678.7 1,384.8 3,665.3
Operating profit 54.0 62.9 7.5 226.9 351.3
Net financing costs (3.2) (4.7) (5.0) (4.9) (17.8)
Profit before taxation 50.8 58.2 2.5 222.0 333.5
Taxation (18.3) (21.5) (0.9) (77.6) (118.3)
Profit for the financial period 32.5 36.7 1.6 144.4 215.2

for the 53 week period ended 3 February 2007
  13 weeks
ended
3 May
2006
$m
13 weeks
ended
2 August
2006
$m
13 weeks
ended
1 November
2006
$m
14 weeks
ended
3 February
2007
$m
53 weeks
ended
3 February
2007
$m
Sales 734.3 732.9 616.8 1,475.2 3,559.2
Operating profit 56.3 56.0 13.4 290.5 416.2
Net financing cost (2.6) (4.1) (5.4) (3.3) (15.4)
Profit before taxation 53.7 51.9 8.0 287.2 400.8
Taxation (19.3) (18.3) (2.8) (94.4) (134.8)
Profit for the financial period 34.4 33.6 5.2 192.8 266.0