The Company celebrated its thirtieth birthday with another record year, despite strong currency headwinds in the second half
Reported billings up 3.1% at £47.632 billion, and up 4.9% in constant currency
Reported revenue up 6.1% at £12.235 billion, down 1.4% at $18.693 billion, up 17.8% at €16.874 billion and up 12.4% at ¥2.264 trillion
Constant currency revenue up 7.5%, like-for-like revenue up 5.3%
Constant currency net sales up 5.8%, like-for-like net sales up 3.3%
Reported net sales margin of 16.9%, up 0.2 margin points against last year, up 0.4 margin points on a constant currency basis, ahead of the full year margin target of 0.3 margin points improvement in constant currency
Headline profit before interest and tax £1.774 billion, up 5.6% and up 8.7% in constant currency
Headline profit before tax £1.622 billion, up 7.3% and up 11.2% in constant currency
Profit before tax £1.493 billion, up 2.8%, up 7.3% in constant currency
Profit after tax £1.245 billion, up 8.1%, up 11.9% in constant currency
Headline EBITDA £2.002 billion, crossing £2 billion for the first time
Headline diluted earnings per share of 93.6p, up 10.2%, up 13.3% in constant currency
Return on equity at 16.3% in 2015, up 1.3 percentage points on 2014 versus a weighted average cost of capital of 6.7% in 2015
Dividends per share of 44.69p, up 17.0%, pay-out ratio of 47.7% versus 45.0% last year, effectively one year ahead of the newly targeted dividend pay-out ratio of 50% in 2017
Net debt £3.211 billion at 31 December 2015, an increase of £936 million on same date in 2014, with average net debt in 2015 at £3.562 billion against £3.073 billion in 2014
Net new business of £5.557 billion ($8.613 billion) in the year with the Group first overall in new business league tables for the fourth year in a row and GroupM topping both the RECMA media tsunami net new business and retentions tables
Above budget start to 2016, with January like-for-like revenue up 4.2% and net sales up 2.3%, against strong comparative last year
Including associates and investments, revenue totals over $27 billion annually and people average over 194,000
