Financial Review
REVIEW OF OPERATIONS Financial Review TURNOVER PROFIT ATTRIBUTABLE TO SHAREHOLDERS Turnover for the Group for the year ended 31 HK$ MILLION December 2001 increased by 58% to HK$5,036 1,575 million (2000: HK$3,196 million). Turnover from both 1,600 rental and sales registered increases during the year. 1,400 Gross property sales income increased from 1,203 1,233 HK$1,664 million in 2000 to HK$3,159 million in 1,200 2001. Property rental income also increased to 1,000 HK$885 million (2000: HK$820 million) whilst 728 income from warehouse and logistics amounted to 800 HK$744 million (2000: HK$481 million). The 600 396 Group’s hotel operations contributed HK$204 million 400 to turnover during the year (2000: HK$176 million). 200 BREAKDOWN OF KPL’S TOTAL TURNOVER 0 HK$ MILLION 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 5,500 5,036 decrease in the Group’s earnings in 2001 is due to losses incurred from the sales of Ocean Pointe, Kerry 5,000 Everbright City, Yuen Long 2 warehouse and a 4,500 specific provision of HK$360 million in respect of its 3,159 Constellation Cove project in Tai Po Kau. The Group’s 4,000 75% share of the provision amounted to HK$270 3,500 3,054 3,196 million. The Group also recorded a profit of 2,907 approximately HK$112 million from the disposal of 3,000 its 19.6% interest in the Hu-Ning Expressway in 1,664 2,500 2,342 December 2001. 1,921 1,747 2,000 44 FUNDING AND FINANCING 1,238 426 1,500 55 In order to achieve better control of treasury 410 318 74 47 operations and lower the average cost of funds, KPL 1,000 63 71 204 176 402 410 356 has centralised funding for all its operations at the 11 35 500 Group level.
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