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9 Dividends
2008 2007 2008 2007
per share per share £m £m
Dividends on equity ordinary shares
Paid final dividend 12.0p 9.2p 203.5 154.6
Paid interim dividend 8.3p 6.3p 140.1 106.0
20.3p 15.5p 343.6 260.6
In addition, the directors have proposed a final dividend in respect of the year ended 29 March 2008 of 14.2p per share amounting
to a dividend of £217.9m. It will be paid on 11 July 2008 to shareholders who are on the Register of Members on 30 May 2008.
In line with the requirements of IAS 10 – ‘Events after the Balance Sheet Date’, this dividend has not been recognised within
these results.
10 Employees
A Aggregate remuneration
The aggregate remuneration and associated costs of Group employees were:
2008 2007
Total Total
£m £m
Wages and salaries 930.8 931.3
Social security costs 62.3 75.7
Other pension costs 103.1 111.9
Share-based payments 29.0 27.3
Employee welfare and other personnel costs 35.7 32.5
Ex-gratia costs 10.5 5.1
Capitalised staff costs (20.9) (9.7)
Aggregate remuneration 1,150.5 1,174.1
Details of key management compensation are given in note 32D.
B Average number of employees
2008 2007
UK stores
– management and supervisory categories 5,267 5,235
– other 62,820 64,074
UK head office
– management and supervisory categories 2,599 2,396
– other 927 850
Overseas 3,776 3,316
Total average number of employees 75,389 75,871
If the number of hours worked was converted on the basis of a normal working week, the equivalent average number of full-time
employees for continuing operations would have been 52,276 (last year 52,670).
C Directors’ emoluments
Emoluments of directors of the Company are summarised below. Further details are given in the Remuneration report on pages
48 to 55.
2008 2007
£000 £000
Aggregate emoluments 3,930 5,369
The emoluments exclude payments to former directors of £262,000 (last year £307,000).
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