Income Statement Summary

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  Statutory
52 weeks to
1 March
2008
Pro forma
52 weeks to
3 March
2007
Statutory
period to
3 March
2007
(short period)
Argos 4,320.9 4,164.0 3,912.8
Homebase 1,568.5 1,594.2 1,606.3
Financial Services 95.4 93.2 87.6
Sales 5,984.8 5,851.4 5,606.7
       
Cost of sales (3,852.2) (3,852.2) (3,680.5)
Gross profit 2,103.8 1,999.2 1,926.2
       
Net operating expenses before exceptional items and costs related to demerger incentive schemes (1,705.8) (1,639.8) (1,592.5)
       
Argos 376.2 325.0 300.9
Homebase 45.1 53.4 51.2
Financial Services 5.5 5.0 4.5
Central Activities (28.8) (24.0) (22.9)
Benchmark operating profit 398.0 359.4 333.7
       
Net interest income (see below) 33.3 16.6 n/a
Share of post-tax results of joint venture and associates 1.6 0.7 0.7
Benchmark PBT 432.9 376.7 n/a
       
Net interest costs attributable to GUS capital structure (see below) - (39.2) (21.0)
Exceptional items included in operating profit 0.8 (22.7) (22.7)
Costs related to demerger incentive schemes (11.7) (5.8) (5.8)
Financing fair value remeasurements (9.0) (0.1) (0.1)
Financing impact on retirement benefit balances 13.0 12.3 12.1
Profit before tax 426.0 321.2 296.9
       
Taxation (131.4) (117.5) (109.5)
of which: taxation attributable to pro forma benchmark PBT (138.5) (122.1) n/a
       
Profit for the period 294.6 203.7 187.4
Basic benchmark EPS 33.9p 29.3p n/a
       
Basic EPS 34.0p n/a 21.6p
       
Number of shares for basic EPS 867.7m 869.6m 869.6m
       
Net interest reconciliation:      
Third party net interest income/(expense) 13.7 (1.2) n/a
Financing costs charged to Financial Services 19.6 17.8 n/a
Pro forma net interest income 33.3 16.6 n/a
       
Interest costs attributable to GUS capital structure - (46.1) (44.3)
Exceptional finance income - 6.9 6.9
Financing costs charged to Financial Services - - 16.4
Net interest costs attributable to GUS
capital structure
- (39.2) (21.0)
       
Financing fair value remeasurements (9.0) (0.1) (0.1)
Financing impact on retirement benefit balances 13.0 12.3 12.1
Income statement net financing income/(costs) 37.3 (10.4) (9.0)