Overview/Key facts
| Financial Highlights | ||||
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| 2009 | 2008 | |||
| Revenue from ongoing businesses | £600m | £611m | ||
| Benchmark profit before tax* | £33.4m | £50.6m | ||
| (Loss)/profit before tax | (£51.9m) | £25.2m | ||
| Benchmark basic earnings per share* | 30.04p | 43.02p | ||
| Basic (loss)/earnings per share | (49.45p) | 19.90p | ||
| Dividends per share | 2.20p | 22.20p |
DID YOU KNOW THAT Findel plc...
Was created in 1955 and joined the Birmingham Stock Exchange in 1962 |  | Supplies a majority of UK schools with equipment |  |
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| Sells 350,000 football kits annually in more than 140 countries around the world |  | Express Gifts has a database of some 3.7m buyers |  |
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| Sold 1.51m pieces of Confetti since 1999 when Confetti Network was founded |  | Personalises over 3.2m products each year through Express Gifts, Confetti and Kitbag |  |
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| Delivers nearly 9m parcels per year in the UK |  | All Healthcare Trusts are covered by NRS with 35% having a dedicated contract |  |
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Our operating divisions
Home Shopping provides a personal shopping service to around 1.5m customers and is the fourth largest direct mail order company in the UK.
Educational Supplies is the largest independent supplier of resources to schools and educational establishments in the UK.
Healthcare is a leading provider of outsourced integrated community equipment services and healthcare support services.
Findel Sourcing is responsible for the group's buying offices in Hong Kong and India and through them procures a wide range of merchandise, both for group companies and a substantial number of third-party customers, and procures a wide range of merchandise.
* Benchmark results are defined as being before results of businesses sold or terminated in the current or previous periods, exceptional stock rationalisation costs, amortisation of acquired intangibles in business combinations, share option expenses, other one off exceptional operating items, (including profits and losses on sale of investments and businesses, goodwill and tangible fixed asset impairment, one off additional debtor provisions, negative goodwill income, and other exceptional items including net restructuring charges) and net fair value re-measurements adjustments to financial instruments, together with the associated tax effect, but includes interest receivable from its associate.
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Board of Directors
Overview of Our Operations
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