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109
Unilever Annual Report & Accounts and Form 20-F 2000 Financial Statements
Notes to the company accounts
Unilever PLC
Fixed investments
£ million
2000 1999
Shares in group companies 2 266 1 016
Book value of PLC shares held in
connection with share options 176 180
2 442 1 196
Shares in group companies
Shares in group companies are stated at cost or valuation, less
amounts w ritten off.
Movements during the year:
1 January 1 016
Additions 1 254
Disposals (4)
31 December 2 266
Shares held in connection w ith share options
Movements during the year:
1 January 180
Additions 24
Disposals (22)
Valuation adjustments (6)
31 December 176
Cash at bank/in hand
This includes amounts for which
repayment notice is required 387 —
Debtors
Due w ithin one year:
Amounts owed by group companies 1 894 1 034
Other 44 13
1 938 1 047
Due after more than one year:
Amounts owed by group companies ——
Total debtors 1 938 1 047
Creditors
£ million
2000 1999
Due w ithin one year:
Amounts owed to group companies 182 940
Bonds and other loans 1 447 —
Taxation and social security 79 10
Dividends 249 246
Other —1
Accruals and deferred income 16 —
1 973 1 197
Due after more than one year:
Bonds and other loans 1 713 —
Profit retained
1 January 905 618
Goodwill movements ——
Profit of the year 405 643
Dividends on ordinary and deferred shares (375) (356)
31 December 935 905
Contingent liabilities
These are not expected to give rise to any
material loss and include guarantees
given for group companies, under
which amounts outstanding at
31 December were: 11 712 899
Of the above, guaranteed also by NV 7 570 279
Remuneration of auditors
Parent company audit fee 1.4 1.3
Payments by the parent company for
non-audit services provided by
PricewaterhouseCoopers United Kingdom(a) 16.2 3.6
(a) See also note 2 on page 56.
Profit appropriation
The proposed appropriation of the profit of PLC is as follow s:
Interim and recommended final dividends 375 356
Profit of the year retained 30 287