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East of England Ambulance Service.
By Kim briscoe
Thursday, July 5, 2012
A union says plans to reduce the number of staff and vehicles delivering emergency response services will put patients at risk.
Unison officers say the East of England Ambulance Service plans will mean patients in rural areas will wait longer for a response in an emergency, and even then it will be likely to be a solo responder incapable of transporting patients to hospital.
The union says the service has held a number of vacancies empty and has already removed 110 posts and intends to remove up to a further 150 posts from the budgeted establishment, although the service has not confirmed these figures.
Although there are no ambulance stations closing as a direct result of these changes, the union says they will result in there being fewer or no ambulances capable of transporting patients at several stations across all counties within the region at certain times of the day and night.
Examples given by Unison include a 50pc reduction in double staffed ambulances in Ely and in Cromer, and North Walsham will lose one double staffed ambulance.
Gary Applin, branch secretary for Unison, said: "The proposed scaling down of resources across all areas will put patients at risk.
"The trust's own figures show that in many areas, staffing levels will be below what is needed for many hours of the day. "In rural areas, patients will wait for longer for any member of trust staff to attend in an emergency and even then it is likely that will be a solo responder and therefore incapable of transporting them straight to hospital."
He added: "These changes will also have a detrimental effect on the work life balance of our members who may be required to travel longer distances to work, and, while at work have to travel longer distances under emergency conditions on unfamiliar roads to get to people in need. Unison represents all trust employees and we urge trust management to develop alternative proposals and the Conservative/Lib Dem government to reverse the spending cuts for ambulance trusts. The public are going to suffer because of these cuts.''
The Eastern Daily Press first reported in May 2011 on the ambulance service's plans reduce its intensive care ambulance fleet size from 276 to 138 vehicles and increase its response car fleet from 145 to 232 vehicles. It could also increase its "intermediate tier" vehicles from 21 to 105, which Unison says would look the same as traditional ambulances, but instead of being double staffed by band five or six paramedics, would instead be staffed by emergency care practitioners or assistants and therefore unable to transport the most critically ill patients.
The East of England Ambulance Service said it was not making any front line staff redundant and it was making changes to the way it works because of three challenges: an ever increasing number of 999 calls, making savings through more efficient working of more than £50m over five years and improving the quality of services to patients.
A spokeswoman for the service said: "We are treating more people through a more in depth clinical assessment over the phone so they can be referred to the correct health service or given advice – already more than 900 patients a week are being managed by our clinicians without the need for an ambulance to be sent giving the patient a more tailored response to their needs.
"It is estimated that as this service continues to build, we will be managing up to 170,000 calls a year through this process. This is better for the patient, a more efficient way of working and frees up ambulances to respond to people in the local community who need them."
It says this has allowed it to remove a number of existing vacant posts and it will be putting some of the remaining vacant posts back into rural areas at a cost of £400,000 as part of our promise to improve services for patients there, as well as recruiting more than 110 new emergency care assistants (ECAs) by the end of October this year and up to 10 more paramedics in Cambridgeshire.
The spokeswoman said: "The nature of demand is changing and it is true we are, following much work with sophisticated demand prediction modelling, changing the balance of vehicles as we need less double staffed ambulances (transporting vehicles) and more rapid response vehicles (which are fully equipped and staffed by trained paramedics), and we will be allocating these to the optimum standby points to better match and meet demand in the best interests of our patients."
However, Unison says there is no evidence that this triage system will be successful, and has called for it to be properly resourced and tested before plans are made to reduce ambulances and staff.
The ambulance service said it disputes the figures quoted by Unison, as these have yet to be decided as optimum vehicle locations and numbers have not yet been worked out and there is ongoing demand analysis work and a consultation with staff to reach the final figures.
However, Unison said it had been given the figures by the ambulance service in a consultation document, which the service refused to show to the EDP, saying it wanted to share it with staff first.
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Julygirl......you took the words right out of my mouth.... I just cant help thinking that this government of ours wont rest until the NHS is destroyed. Lets just hope that they arent able to do this before then next election..
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Can I just point out the following: An Emergency Care Practitioner (ECP) is an experienced paramedic that has gone extended further educationtrainingmentorship in primary healthcarewound carepalliative care. they are perfectly able to deal effectively with seriously ill patients in the pre hospital area and hold registration as paramedics An Emergency Care Assistant (ECA) is a medical assistant, trained to drive the ambulance and assist the technicianparamedic
Friday, July 6, 2012
Perhaps if a bit less money had been wasted on rubbish like torch relays and Olympic opening ceremonies, there might be funds available for essentials like ambulances.
Thursday, July 5, 2012
This is absolutely disgusting. We depend on these heroes day in day out. They already struggle to cope on a daily basis. It may be that some of the 999 callers can be dealt with via telephone advice only, however as a nation we are getting older and our health ailments inevitably affect us more. This means we need more help. When you are afflicted with a stroke, heart attack or something similar you need an AMBULANCE to get you to hospital quickly. This sounds like you will you have to wait much, much longer for one. I have very close connections to the Ambulance service and I already know that lives are being lost because of uncovered shifts. We need more Paramedics not less. My contact tells me that on their most recent shift, a 30 mile dash on blue lights to a serious road accident meant that the patient did not survive. Only serious opposition can change this. Please public support your Ambulance service. You may well need our help one day and when your closest Ambulance has to come from Ipswich, Cambridge or Peterborough, don't complain unless you fought these ridiculous cuts.
Thursday, July 5, 2012
All about saving or making money for the company providing the service. It will mean people will die in the Ely area where hospitals can be along way from the sick- peoplein East Cambs have to go to Hinchingbroke or Addenbrokes. The minor roads are bad-narrow and with bad subsidence in places- and while distances might look ok as the crow flies the nature of the landscape means routes are often tortuous. Replacing proper ambulances with fast response will mean in the event of serious incidents or accidents there will be a risk that there will not be enough vehicles to convey victims to hospital in time.
Thursday, July 5, 2012
so the truth is slowly coming out!!! the government are trying to close the NHS down and privatised it all by getting rid of our very very good ambulances and staff in favour of a voice on the end of a phone who then basically asks you a tick box questionaire to diagnose your own medical crisis before deciding what treatment you actually need.where is our friendly MP norman lamb he usually jumps on this sort of bandwagon but then i suppose he is playing at train controller this week. i hope for all our sakes we are not stranded in the middle of nowhere and are suffering a heart attack it would take an hour to describe the symptoms then say the wrong thing so it is put in a different catagory then you wait another hour for transport to the nearest hospital. this country gets worse!!!!!!
Thursday, July 5, 2012
This news is a joke, on the 19th June,2012 my wife was taken ill at work in Norwich, an ambulance was called at 11.30am and by 1.30pm the ambulance still had not arrived, and that was after 3 follow up calls to the Ambulance control trying to get an estimated time an ambulance would arrive, and they could not give a time, so after 2hrs 30 minutes the ambulance the ambulance was cancelled due to the fact a time could not be given to its arrival. absolutely disgusting service...
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Footyboy16 - I'm sorry to hear that....please tell me you made a formal complaint to the service.
Thursday, July 5, 2012
The trouble is two things really, the main one being the 999 system gets missed used. And I would say about 90% of calls ain't a 999 life threating emergency. Most of the calls are either for ongoing problems, problems that you can help and treat yourself at home with or go see your gp or walk in centre, and the biggest type of job is falls, mostly non injury falls where you don't need a 999 ambulance, it's a social problem not a medical emergency if they just need a hand up. There is falls teams in place and people should use them. Also the amout of calls we go to say "well we thought a check out was needed to check their pulse and blood pressure" god sake see your gp. People remember 999 is for LIFE threathing calls only!!!!!!!!
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Yes, we have made a complaint to the Service, who said they will look into it and get back to us with 28 days, can't imagine what they are going to say !! Sorry I expect.. and that isn't good enough..
Thursday, July 5, 2012
July girl has it spot on with the untold billions spent on the Olympics. Two weeks when professional athletes arrive to win Amateur medals. These two weeks followed by decades of debt repayment by the taxpayer. The Tories are in the advanced stage of privatising the NHS and the dismantling of the Ambulance service is part of it. But the statement by the spokeswoman of the Ambulance service is a wonderful piece of gobbledygook. She should look to a career in politics. The phrase " much work with sophisticated demand modelling " is truly wonderful. And followed by the final flourish of " in the best interests of our patients."The simpler version would be " We are cutting the service so suck it up and do not get sick".
Thursday, July 5, 2012
My previous comment was censored for some reason. No swearing or political content. Just a critique of the spokeswoman of the Ambulance service who used words like " sophisticated demand prediction modelling ". Anybody knows what that means? Except that the service is going to get worse for the public. Stephen Watson made comment about the whereabouts of Mr Lamb MP . Well he was well satisfied with the NHS being allowed to have up to 49% of its resources made available to the private sector.He did vote for that particular bill .So I doubt that he will be too troubled by this latest cut back in essential services.
Thursday, July 5, 2012
thank you to all the posters on here i thought i was the only one who thought this country was going downhill but reading your posts i can see im not.sorry to hear of wife footyboy16 hope shes ok now i had a friend who waited 3 hours for an ambulance after a stroke sadly he passed away three weeks later.
Thursday, July 5, 2012
This really is disgusting. Patients are already waiting 30 mins to one hour or even longer in Norfolk and Suffolk for an ambulance for a life threatening emergency. It's a pity the government couldn't put it's own people first for once instead of wasting billions on overseas aid, Europe, Afghanistan and Olympics. Why should people in rural areas have to endure such a terrible service when nearby areas such as Essex and Bedfordshire (part of the same ambulance service) do not. We pay the same taxes after all.
Thursday, July 5, 2012
.....would instead be staffed by emergency care practitioners or assistants and therefore unable to transport the most critically ill patients.....Is that unable to or not allowed to, there is a difference? I wouldn't think critically ill patients would be too fussy in emergencies.
Sunday, July 8, 2012
This really is disgusting. Patients are already waiting 30 mins to one hour or even longer in Norfolk and Suffolk for an ambulance for a life threatening emergency. It's a pity the government couldn't put it's own people first for once instead of wasting billions on overseas aid, Europe, Afghanistan and Olympics. Why should people in rural areas have to endure such a terrible service when nearby areas such as Essex and Bedfordshire (part of the same ambulance service) do not. We pay the same taxes after all.
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Thant succeeded Dag Hammarskjöld as acting secretary-general of the United Nations in 1961 and was elected secretary-general in 1962. In the early years of his tenure, he was deeply involved in the settlement of major international disputes, including the transfer of Netherlands New Guinea (now Papua and West Papua prov.) to Indonesia (1962); the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba (1962); the resolution of the civil war in the Congo in 1963; the establishment of a peacekeeping force on Cyprus (1964); and the achievement of a cease-fire in the 1965 India-Pakistan War.
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Q: Nick, Melbourne must have been a bitter pill to swallow for you. Youve always done well at Albert Park but you couldnt even make it through to Q3. What did you make of the Australia weekend?
Nick Heidfeld: It was disappointing indeed. First of all I didnt get qualifying right - obviously that was problem number one. And then I was just unlucky being hit in Turn One. But that can happen, especially in Melbourne over the last couple of years. We have seen that it does happen. I had a very good start, making up two positions, and would have been in a good situation for the race, as I started outside the top 10 and had a lot of fuel on board, whilst already up to seventh place by then. But that all doesnt count! After the first-corner incident my car was heavily damaged. And although I tried everything, my car was much too slow.
Q: What happened to the F1.09s good pace? At the tests you were outshining your team mate Robert Kubica, but now the situation seems to be reversed. How do you explain that?
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Q: What are you and your engineers doing to get you back to the front?
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Q: Was having KERS on board a disadvantage at Albert Park, and how will it perform here? Everybody says that with two long straights, the KERS cars will do better...
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Burke says Assistant County Attorney Murray Greenberg recommended to one of his commission aides that the commissioner try to secure the money by a motion. Greenberg denies saying anything of the sort. Battered by negative press reports of the incident, Burke admits "it was obviously a mistake to do it that way" and will now fund the picnic with private donations and with money from his re-election campaign account. However, he maintains that the picnic is a public affair meant to benefit the citizens of Dade County, not him. "I get no personal benefit out of it at all," he states. "It doesn't do anything for me."
In addition to the charges of political sneakiness, Burke also has had to deflect rumors that he was directly involved in the last-minute withdrawal of Roy Hardemon, his only opponent, from the commission race. Burke won instant re-election when Hardemon, the brother of his chief of staff, dropped out at the last minute. The commissioner acknowledges he's heard the rumor that he encouraged Hardemon to run as a dummy candidate in order to deter other potential opponents. But Burke declares the rumor is untrue, arguing that Hardemon is a negligible political force and "wouldn't scare anyone else out of the race. If anyone thinks I did that," Burke continues, "then they obviously don't think very much of me intellectually."
The commissioner is now grappling with a third controversy besetting his camp. This past month a complaint was filed with the Florida Elections Commission charging that Burke has violated Florida's election laws. While FEC officials will neither confirm nor deny they have received a complaint, knowledgeable sources say an FEC investigator is pursuing, among other allegations, the claim that Burke has made illegal contributions to his church using funds drawn from his re-election account. (Burke says he learned of the investigation late last week.)
Burke's campaign expenditure reports indicate that since opening the account a year ago, the commissioner has dipped into his campaign coffers for $3980 in "offerings" and "tithes" to his church, Bible Baptist Church, at 9801 NW 27th Ave. But according to Florida campaign financing law, "contributions by candidates...to any religious, charitable, civic, or other causes or organizations established primarily for the public good are expressly prohibited."
But Burke argues that another part of state law does, in fact, permit his church offerings. He points to a section of the law that allows the use of campaign funds "to defray normal living expenses for himself or his family," as long as the candidate has filed a notice of intent to use campaign funds in this manner. (According to the Metro-Dade Elections Department, elections officials received such a letter from Burke on August 6, 1993, at the time he opened his campaign account.) "Offerings and tithes are a part of my regular living expenses," he contends, adding that he thinks the law is directed at other, less scrupulous people who go from church to church buying support with donations.
Burke, who is chairman of the county commission's powerful finance committee, cites the same law to explain his use of campaign funds for other payouts that raises questions about his judgment. From November 1993 to this past March, for instance, he paid $1925 in child support to his ex-wife, Marcia Burke, using campaign funds. "That is a normal living expense, like paying the electric company to keep my lights on," he argues. "There was a period of time when I was financially tight for funds. Not everyone who runs for office is a well-to-do person." Yeteva Hightower, senior counsel for the Florida Department of State's Division of Elections, says an opinion regarding child support as a "normal living expense" has not been issued in case law.
The bulk of his income, Burke says, derives from his work as a business consultant (his firm is called American Destiny Inc.) A lawyer, he was handed a three-month suspension from the Florida Bar in 1988 after the Florida Supreme Court cited him for "shabby accounting" and for delaying a payment to two clients for nearly a year. The politician suffered another three-month suspension in 1991, after the Supreme Court found "gross negligence" in his handling of a $150,000 settlement from a 1984 wrongful death case. Burke had paid himself $9919 too much in attorney's fees, an error he attributed to an accounting oversight. He remains suspended but recently applied for reinstatement.


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Net profit + depreciation of tangible assets + amortization of intangibles
Based on profit for the period attributable to the Group (PAT)
Barry Callebaut reports results for first nine months of fiscal year 2005/06: Very strong third quarter
- Third quarter has positive impact on top-line and profitability growth in the first nine months of fiscal year 2005/06
- Sales revenue up 8.7% year-to-date
- Operating profit (EBIT) up 14.6% to CHF 215.6 million year-to-date
- Net profit (PAT) up 23.8% to CHF 126.0 million year-to-date
- Consumer Products Europe turnaround achieved
- Three-year financial targets confirmed
- New organizational structure to increase regional market focus
Zurich/Switzerland, June 29, 2006 – Barry Callebaut AG, the world's leading manufacturer of high-quality cocoa and chocolate products, announced today its results for the first nine months of fiscal year 2005/06 ended May 31, 2006. Operating profit (EBIT) advanced by 14.6% to CHF 215.6 million for the current fiscal year, up from CHF 188.1 million in the prior year. EBIT per tonne, the key indicator for operational performance, was CHF 272.5, up 14.4%. Net profit (PAT) went up by 23.8% to CHF 126.0 million (prior-year period: CHF 101.8 million).
Consolidated sales volumes were practically unchanged in the period under review (+0.1%). Sales revenue, including above-average physical cocoa bean sales in the second quarter, was up 8.7%. Excluding the latter, sales revenue grew by 4.4%. The third quarter showed particularly strong growth with a plus of 3.8% in sales volumes and of 9.5% in sales revenue.
Profitability growth was largely driven by improvements in gross profit across all business units. On top of this, the Consumer Products Europe business unit reduced costs as a result of the successful restructuring process.
Patrick De Maeseneire, CEO of Barry Callebaut, said: "I am very pleased with the strong third quarter results, which show positive developments in terms of volumes, revenue and profitability. The turnaround in the European consumer business has been achieved. As we pointed out at the end of the first semester, we see the effects of this year's late Easter confirmed with some sales being shifted from the second to the third quarter in the Food Manufacturers and Consumer Products business units."
Overview of business performance in the first nine months of fiscal year 2005/06
Sales volumes edged up by 0.1% to 791,115 tonnes from 790,134 tonnes. While the business units Food Manufacturers and Gourmet & Specialties recorded considerable growth, specifically in the Americas and in Eastern Europe, sales volumes in the business units Cocoa and Consumer Products decreased. The latter decline mainly came from discontinued unprofitable volumes.
Sales revenue grew by 8.7% to CHF 3,287.4 million, up from CHF 3,023.5 million in the same prior-year period. Excluding the higher bean sales in the second quarter in the business unit Cocoa, sales revenue growth amounted to 4.4%.[1] Sales revenue additionally benefited from positive currency effects stemming from the U.S. dollar, Euro, Canadian dollar and Brazilian real against CHF, which were partly offset by slightly lower underlying cocoa bean prices. Excluding all these effects, Barry Callebaut's sales revenue still shows an increase of 1.6%.
Operating profit (EBIT) was CHF 215.6 million, which represents a strong increase of 14.6% compared to the CHF 188.1 million in the same period of the previous year. All business units contributed to the good operating profit growth. In absolute terms, the most significant increase was achieved in the Consumer Products and Gourmet & Specialties business units. This EBIT improvement was reached despite the first-time recognition of the costs of over CHF 7 million related to the employee stock ownership program due to a change in accounting standards. Additionally, last year's operating profit benefited from curtailment gains achieved by adapting Brach's employee benefit plans.
Development of business segments in the first nine months of fiscal year 2005/06
Industrial business segment
The Industrial business segment focuses on selling cocoa and chocolate products to industrial food processors and consumer goods manufacturers worldwide.
Sales volumes amounted to 529,664 tonnes, which represents an organic volume growth of 3.4% compared to the 512,072 tonnes in the same prior-year period.
- Cocoa products sold to third-party customers decreased by 4.4% to 95,867 tonnes (100,298 tonnes for the same prior-year period). The main reason for this decline was the fact that Barry Callebaut has a growing need for cocoa butter and cocoa liquor as a result of the increased sales of chocolate products.
- Sales volumes in the Food Manufacturers business unit amounted to 433,797 tonnes, up 5.3% from 411,774 tonnes.
Sales revenue recorded in the Industrial business segment grew by 14.0% to CHF 1,849.9 million compared to CHF 1,622.5 million in the same prior-year period.
- In the Cocoa business unit sales revenue increased by 30.3% to CHF 485.8 million, up from CHF 372.7 million, driven by the significantly higher sales of cocoa beans in the second quarter. As mentioned earlier, reported sales volumes include only processed goods without any raw material sales. Adjusted for these extraordinary raw material sales, revenue of the Cocoa business unit decreased by 4.5% compared to prior year for the reasons explained above.
- The Food Manufacturers business unit managed to increase sales revenue by 9.1% to CHF 1,364.1 million, up from CHF 1,249.8 million in the previous year. Sales revenue growth, excluding positive foreign exchange effects as well as effects from a slight decrease in the cocoa price, amounted to a notable 6.7% and was mainly attributable to organic volume growth.
Food Service/Retail business segment
The Food Service/Retail business segment serves a broad range of customers, from local craftsmen to global retailers. As of the current fiscal year, the Consumer Africa division has been shifted from the Gourmet & Specialties business unit to Consumer Products. The prior-year figures have been restated accordingly.
Sales revenue grew by 2.6% to CHF 1,437.5 million, up from CHF 1,401.0 million.
- Sales revenue recorded in the Gourmet & Specialties business unit increased by 12.6% to CHF 428.0 million, up from CHF 380.2 million. Excluding the positive currency effects, sales revenue growth in the Gourmet & Specialties business unit amounted to a remarkable 10.1%.
- Sales revenue in the Consumer Products business units decreased by 1.1% to CHF 1,009.5 million, compared to CHF 1,020.8 million in the same prior-year period. This decrease in sales is related to deliberately discontinued unprofitable customer label contracts.
The restructuring program in the Consumer Products Europe business unit has entered the final phase. The distribution structure in Germany is being optimized. The migration of administrative processes to the existing SAP platform has been completed and will now be rolled out to all factories. Price increases and efficiency gains, along with the discontinued unprofitable volumes and more higher-margin business outside of Germany, had a positive impact on the reported profitability growth. Together with the remaining elements of the restructuring program to be implemented by the end of the calendar year as planned, total cost savings and gross profit improvements are expected to reach the targeted amount of CHF 40 to 50 million as from fiscal year 2007/08 onwards, as announced a year ago.
New organizational structure to increase regional market focus
Barry Callebaut aims to increase the share of sales generated in regions other than Western Europe and North America from 11% to 20% by 2010. The company will therefore adopt a new organizational structure with a clear focus on regions. The Regional Presidents will have full Profit & Loss responsibility for their region. The regions will maintain the focus on customer segments – Food Manufacturers, Gourmet & Specialties and (where existent) Consumer Products. All business and staff functions will report directly to the respective Regional President.
The new organization will take effect as of September 1, 2006.
Members of the Senior Management Team as of September 1, 2006.
- Patrick De Maeseneire, CEO (unchanged)
- Dieter Enkelmann, CFO (unchanged)
- Benoît Villers, President Global Sourcing & Cocoa (previously President Gourmet & Specialties)
- Onno Bleeker, President Europe (previously President Consumer Products Europe)
- Massimo Garavaglia, President Food Manufacturers and Gourmet & Specialties North America (previously President Food Manufacturers)
Members of the Management Team as of September 1, 2006.
- Chuck Haak, President & Chief Operating Officer Brach's Confections, Inc. (unchanged)
- Maurizio Decio, Vice President Asia (new – see Curriculum Vitae)
- Dirk Poelman, head of OSCO (unchanged)
- Alice Larsen, head of Global HR (unchanged)
- Hans Vriens, Chief Innovation Officer (unchanged)
- Gaby Tschofen, head of Corporate Communications (unchanged)
Steven Retzlaff, previously President Sourcing & Cocoa, will assume a new function within Barry Callebaut and be responsible for developing the Group's global compound business.
Looking forward, CEO Patrick De Maeseneire said: "One year after the announcement of the restructuring program, we are certain to reach profitability for the Consumer Products Europe business unit for the full fiscal year 2005/06. The decline in the combined (cocoa) ratio will have an adverse effect on the profitability of our Cocoa business unit in the fourth quarter and into next fiscal year. However, barring any major unforeseen events, we are confident that we will achieve our financial targets for 2005/06 – despite the impact of the costs for our employee stock ownership program, which now affect the income statement due to a change in accounting standards. The stronger regional focus of our organization will allow us to tap faster and deeper into the above-average growth markets in North America, Eastern Europe and Asia."
As a reminder, Barry Callebaut's financial targets for the three-year period 2004/05 through 2006/07 are on average: organic top-line growth of 3 to 5%, EBIT growth of approximately 10% and PAT growth of 12 to 15%.
[1] Reported sales volumes only include processed goods. Therefore physical bean sales are not included in the reported sales volumes but the related revenue is included in the consolidated sales revenue. Bean sales have no significant impact on the Group's operating profit (EBIT).
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For more detailed financial information see Barry Callebaut's "Letter to Investors".
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Barry Callebaut:
With annual sales of more than CHF 4 billion for fiscal year 2004/05, Zurich-based Barry Callebaut is the world's leading manufacturer of high-quality cocoa, chocolate and confectionery products – from the cocoa bean to the finished product on the store shelf. Barry Callebaut operates more than 30 production facilities in 24 countries and employs approximately 8,000 people. The company serves the entire food industry, from food manufacturers to professional users of chocolate (such as chocolatiers, pastry chefs or bakers), to global retailers. It also provides a comprehensive range of services in the fields of product development, processing, training and marketing.
Fiscal year 2005/06 will close on August 31, 2006.
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Financial calendar for the remainder of fiscal year 2005/06:
Annual results 2005/06: November 2, 2006
News release, Press conference and Analysts' conference in Zurich
Annual General Meeting 2005/06: December 7, 2006 in Zurich
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for investors and financial analysts:
Dieter A. Enkelmann, CFO
Barry Callebaut AG
Phone: +41 43 204 04 20
Fax: +41 43 204 04 00
for the media:
Gaby Tschofen
Barry Callebaut AG
Phone: +41 43 204 04 60
Fax: +41 43 204 04 00
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Analyst and Media conference call of Barry Callebaut AG
Results for the first nine months of Fiscal 2005/06
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in CHF |
Change (%) |
9 months up to May 31, 2006 |
9 months up to May 31, 2005 |
Income Statement |
Sales revenue in local currencies |
CHF m |
8.7 5.7 |
3,287.4 3,195.9 |
3,023.5 |
Sales volume |
mt |
0.1 |
791,115 |
790,134 |
Operating profit (EBIT) in local currencies |
CHF m |
14.6 12.9 |
215.6 212.4 |
188.1 |
EBIT per tonne in local currencies |
14.4 12.7 |
272.5 268.4 |
238.1 |
Net profit (PAT) in local currencies |
CHF m |
23.8 22.5 |
126.0 124.7 |
101.8 |
Cash flow (1) |
CHF m |
13.0 |
210.1 |
185.9 |
Shares |
EBIT per share in local currencies |
14.6 12.9 |
41.70 41.07 |
36.38 |
Earnings per share (undiluted) (2) |
23.6 |
24.47 |
19.79 |
Earnings per share (diluted) (2) |
23.6 |
24.47 |
19.79 |
Balance Sheet |
May 31, 2006 |
Aug 31, 2005 |
Total assets |
CHF m |
7.1 |
2,854.4 |
2,664.8 |
Net working capital |
CHF m |
25.4 |
1,041.9 |
830.8 |
Non-current assets |
CHF m |
0.6 |
1,175.1 |
1,168.2 |
Net debt |
CHF m |
12.6 |
1,073.4 |
953.5 |
Shareholders' equity |
CHF m |
11.7 |
934.6 |
836.7 |
Others |
Employees |
-7.2 |
7,929 |
8,542 |
in CHF |
Change (%) |
9 months up to May 31, 2006 |
9 months up to May 31, 2005 |
Industrial Business Segment |
Sales revenue |
CHF m |
14.0 |
1,849.9 |
1,622.5 |
- Cocoa |
CHF m |
30.3 |
485.8 |
372.7 |
- Food Manufacturers |
CHF m |
9.1 |
1,364.1 |
1,249.8 |
Sales volumes |
mt |
3.4 |
529,664 |
512,072 |
- Cocoa |
mt |
-4.4 |
95,867 |
100,298 |
- Food Manufacturers |
mt |
5.3 |
433,797 |
411,774 |
Food Service/Retail Business Segment (3) |
Sales revenue |
CHF m |
2.6 |
1,437.5 |
1,401.0 |
- Gourmet & Specialties |
CHF m |
12.6 |
428.0 |
380.2 |
- Consumer Products |
CHF m |
-1.1 |
1,009.5 |
1,020.8 |
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The Consumer Products business in Africa has been shifted from the business unit Gourmet & Specialties to the business unit Consumer Products. The prior-year figures have been restated accordingly. |