Annual Report and Accounts 2008
Group Statement of Cash Flows
For the year ended 31 December 2008
| Note | 2008 £m |
2007 £m |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Cash generated from operations | 38 | 218.2 | 272.1 |
| Tax paid | (5.0) | (18.8) | |
| Net cash from operating activities | 213.2 | 253.3 | |
| Cash flows from investing activities | |||
| Payments to acquire businesses, net of cash acquired | 19(a) | (11.4) | (485.0) |
| Deferred consideration for businesses acquired | (0.3) | (1.7) | |
| Purchase of property, plant and equipment | (124.4) | (149.7) | |
| Proceeds from disposal of property, plant and equipment | 33.7 | 22.9 | |
| Payments to acquire intangible assets | 14 | (8.2) | – |
| Receipts from disposal of available for sale investments | – | 10.7 | |
| Receipts from disposal of businesses, net of cash disposed | 5.4 | 34.3 | |
| Payments in respect of discontinued operations | 11 | (6.1) | (1.9) |
| Interest received | 17.4 | 17.0 | |
| Net cash used in investing activities | (93.9) | (553.4) | |
| Cash flows from financing activities | |||
| Proceeds from issue of ordinary shares | 0.4 | 5.5 | |
| Purchase of treasury shares | (1.7) | – | |
| Interest paid | (66.5) | (39.5) | |
| Finance lease principal payments | (32.8) | (26.3) | |
| Net loans advanced | 14.0 | 424.9 | |
| Payments for the maturity of foreign currency swaps | (33.0) | – | |
| Dividends paid to minority interests | (0.4) | (0.1) | |
| Dividends paid to shareholders of the Company | (59.6) | (53.9) | |
| Net cash (used in)/from financing activities | (179.6) | 310.6 | |
| (Decrease)/increase in cash and cash equivalents | (60.3) | 10.5 | |
| Opening cash and cash equivalents | 157.2 | 143.6 | |
| (Decrease)/increase in cash and cash equivalents | (60.3) | 10.5 | |
| Foreign exchange | 9.0 | 3.1 | |
| Closing cash and cash equivalents | 23 | 105.9 | 157.2 |