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UBISOFT • 2006 ANNUAL REPORT
FINANCIER
The group’s activities and performance for fy 2005-06
by a company specializing in the recycling of CDs, DVDs,
computer disks and plastic electronic media of all kinds.
Products are crushed and sorted before being transformed
into fine particles that are resold to the plastic processing
sector.
Electrical consumption
The group consumed approximately 11,200 million KwH in
FY 2005-06 versus 9,650 million KwH in FY 2004-05, for
a total cost of nearly €1,780 thousand. This growing use of
energy is in fact consistent with the growth in business.
The countries with the greatest consumption levels were as
follows:
1.5.3
CANADA FRANCE UNITED STATES CHINA ROMANIA
Kwh (in thousands) 03/31/06 4,778 3,064 1,233 920 364
Kwh (in thousands) 03/31/05 4,093 2,660 1,100 508 270
Staff as of 03/31/06 1,444 673 351 427 218
Staff as of 03/31/05 1,110 656 321 329 218
% Additional employees +30% +3% +9% +30% 0%
Water consumption
Ubisoft’s amount of water consumption is not significant.
1.5.4
Environmental risk
The group has no knowledge to date of any environmental risk.
Ubisoft has not set up any reserve or taken out any specific coverage to deal with potential environmental risks, and it did
not pay any indemnity in this regard during the fiscal year.
1.5.5