Carlton Annual Report & Accounts 1999
INTRODUCTION

Financial highlights

From the Chairman

From the Chief Executive

 
OUR BUSINESSES

Broadcasting & advertising sales

Programme making

Digital pay television

The internet

Technicolour Group

 
FINANCIAL REVIEW

Finance Director's Review

 
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Directors' report

Remuneration report

 
FINANCIAL RESULTS

Auditors' report

Profit and loss account

Consolidated balance sheet

Consolidated statement of cash flows

Statement of total recognised gains & losses

Reconciliation of movements in shareholders' funds

Principal accounting policies

 
NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS

Index to notes

 
APPENDIX

Euro conversion

US$ conversion

Differences between UK and US GAAP

Historical record

Summary notice of AGM

Shareholder information

NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS
for the year ended 30 September 1999
19 CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR

Group Company
1999
£m
1998
£m
1999
£m
1998
£m
Trade creditors 237.7 221.7 0.6 1.2
Accruals and deferred income 151.4 142.1 14.8 10.6
Overdrafts and short term borrowings (note 20) 85.2 10.6 68.1 165.2
Corporation tax 57.8 120.3 0.5 23.0
Other creditors 51.7 49.9 - 0.3
Dividends 61.1 55.6 61.1 55.6
Amounts owed to subsidiary undertakings - - 927.4 785.2
644.9 600.2 1,072.5 1,041.1

Trade creditors and trade debtors include £45.5m (1998 - £44.1m) representing amounts not due to the Group but for which the Group is subject to a limited recourse.

 
20 OVERDRAFTS AND SHORT TERM BORROWINGS

Group Company
1999
£m
1998
£m
1999
£m
1998
£m
Overdrafts 82.6 7.6 65.5 162.2
Loan notes 2.6 3.0 2.6 3.0
85.2 10.6 68.1 165.2

 
21 LOANS
Group Company
1999
£m
1998
£m
1999
£m
1998
£m
Repayable:
Between one and two years 42.1 2.8 39.5 -
Between two and five years 2.3 41.5 - 38.3
Over five years 446.0 199.2 445.4 198.0
490.4 243.5 484.9 236.3

Loans repayable between one and two years include unsecured dollar borrowings of US$65m bearing a fixed interest rate of 9.55%, repayable on maturity in June 2001. Loans repayable after five years principally comprise an unsecured £200m Eurobond stated net of the costs of issue which has a coupon of 7.625% and matures in June 2007 and an unsecured £250m Eurobond stated net of the costs of issue which has a coupon of 5.625% and matures in March 2009.

 
22 CONVERTIBLE DEBT
Group Company
1999
£m
1998
£m
1999
£m
1998
£m
Exchangeable Capital Securities 87.3 84.5 87.3 84.5

The US$150m undated Exchangeable Capital Securities are divided into 6,000,000 Exchangeable Capital Securities of US$25 per security with a coupon of 8% per annum, and were redeemable at the option of the Company from 7 October 1998 at US$26 per security reducing each year until 7 October 2003 from which time the redemption price will be US$25 per security. The Exchangeable Capital Securities rank senior to the Preference shares of the Company in the event of a winding up. The Exchangeable Capital Securities are exchangeable at the option of the Company at any time into Cumulative US Dollar-denominated Redeemable Preference shares of US$0.01 each in the Company. The rights of such Preference shares are summarised in Note 25.

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