Highlights
- Excellent financial performance
- Significant profit improvements across all business units
- Underlying operating profit of €957 million, up 25%
- Underlying earnings of 133.7 euro cents per share, up 25%
- Cash generated from operations of €1,279 million, up 24%
- Return on capital employed of 20.5%
- Capital projects delivering growth
- Completed major projects delivering to plan, contributing incremental €50 million to underlying operating profit in 2015
- Strong capital investment pipeline: €450 million in major projects approved and in progress
- Ongoing portfolio optimisation and refinement
- Acquisitions totalling €94 million to enhance product offering in Consumer Packaging
- Closure of six operations and sale of a further four operations to optimise cost structures and refine product mix
- Significant progress made against our five-year sustainable development commitments
- Recommended full year dividend of 52.0 euro cents per share, up 24%
