Consolidated Income Statement

of The BSS Group plc for the year ended 31 March 2009

  Notes 2009
£m		 2008
£m
Revenue 1 1,340.6 1,289.0
Gross profit   306.6 290.1
Staff costs before redundancy costs   (132.0) (121.6)
Redundancy costs   (1.2) (1.2)
Staff costs 3 (133.2) (122.8)
Depreciation   (5.8) (5.1)
Amortisation of non-current assets   (2.5) (1.6)
Other operating charges   (104.5) (99.7)
Other operating income   3.8 2.5
Operating profit 1 64.4 63.4
Finance income 5 0.1 0.4
Pension schemes net finance income   0.5 2.1
Finance costs 5 (7.2) (7.6)
Profit before taxation 2 57.8 58.3
Income tax expense 6 (16.8) (17.5)
Profit after taxation for the year attributable to equity shareholders   41.0 40.8
     
All results derive from continuing activities.      
     
Earnings per share 8 33.3p 33.3p
Diluted earnings per share 8 33.2p 33.0p
     
Dividend per share      
Interim dividend 7 1.89p 1.89p
Proposed final dividend 7 5.54p 5.54p
Total dividend for the year 7 7.43p 7.43p