Annual report and financial statements 2008 - Highlights
ATH Resources plc annual report and accounts 2008 ¦01
Highlights
Turnover up 9% to £76.9 million (2007: £70.5 million)
on sales of 2.0 million tonnes of coal (2007: 2.2 million tonnes)
Average selling price increased by 21% to £38 per tonne
Profit before interest and tax up 8% to £11.9 million (2007: £11.1 million)
Earnings per share up 4% to 15.3 pence per share (2007: 14.8 pence per share)
Dividend rebased to 6.0 pence per share for full year (2007: 11.6 pence per share),
with final dividend of 2.64 pence per share (2007: 8.24 pence per share),
enabling a greater proportion of investment in new, high growth,
opportunities to be funded from existing cash resources
Planning consent recently received from Nottinghamshire County
Council for a 0.5 million tonne regeneration project at Langton –
consent from Derbyshire County Council expected in early 2009
Proven coal reserves up 29% to 4.5 million tonnes (2007: 3.5 million tonnes)
with total reserves at 8.2 million tonnes (2007: 8.6 million tonnes)
Further 1.8 million tonnes increase in proven coal reserves post
year end following recent planning successes
IFC
Corporate statement
01
Highlights
02¦03
at a glance
04¦05
Chairman's statement
08¦11
Chief executive's stat ement
14¦15
Financial review
18¦19
Environment and community
20
Board of Directors
21
Financial ca lendar and advisers
22¦60
Group ac ounts
23¦25
DIRECTORS' REPORT
26¦27
CORPORATE GOVE RNANCE report
28¦30
REMUNERATION committee REPORT
31
Independent Auditors' Report
32
Consolidated income statement
33
Consolidated balance sheet
34
Consolidated statement of changes in equity
35
Consolidated cash flow statement
36¦40
Group acc ounting policies
41¦60
NOTES TO THE group Financial statements
61¦66
Company acc ounts
62
Independent Auditors' Report
63
Company ba lance sheet
64
Company acc ounting policies
65¦66
NOTes to the company financial stat ements
67¦68
NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL METING
69¦70
Appendix and explanat ory notes about
the resolutions
71¦72
Form of proxy
IBC
Corporat e informat ion
earnings per share (pence)
15.30p
(2007: 14.76 pence)
2008
2007
2006
EBITDA (£Million)
£25.7m
(2007: £25.2 million)
2008
2007
2006