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J D WETHERSPOON PLC ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2001 Wetherspoon owns and operates pubs throughout the UK. The company aims to provide customers with good-quality food and drink, served by well-trained and friendly staff, at reasonable prices. The pubs are individually designed and excellently maintained. Contents Highlights 1 Public houses nationwide 2 Chairman’s statement and operating review 3 Finance review 10 Directors, officers and advisers 16 Directors’ report 17 Remuneration report 20 Corporate governance 22 Independent auditors’ report 23 Profit and loss account 24 Statement of total recognised gains and losses 24 Note of historical cost profits 24 Cash flow statement 25 Balance sheet 26 Notes to the accounts 27 Financial record 39 Information for shareholders 40 Notice of Annual General Meeting 41 Public houses directory 45 Financial calendar Annual General Meeting 31 October 2001 Final dividend for 2001 30 November 2001 Interim report for 2002 March 2002 Interim dividend for 2002 May 2002 Year end 28 July 2002 Preliminary announcement for 2002 September 2002 Report and accounts for 2002 October 2002 FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS I am pleased to report another year of good progress for Wetherspoon... Tim Martin, Chairman Sales (£m) Number of pubs 522 484.0 94 pubs Turnover 428 opened, 369.6 up 31% 327 making a 252 to 269.7 total of 194 £484.0m 188.5 139.4 522 97 98 99 00 01 97 98 99 00 01 Profit before tax Adjusted EPS and exceptional (pence) items (£m) Profits Earnings 44.3 before 14.2 11.8 per share 36.1 tax up 9.4 up 20% 26.2 6.8 20.2 23% to 6.1 to 14.2p 17.6 £44.3m (after adoption of FRS19 deferred taxation) 97 98 99 00 01 97 98 99 00 01 Free cash flow per share Dividend per share (pence) (pence) Free cash Dividend 2.9 29.1 2.7 flow per per share 2.4 24.2 2.2 2.0 share up 20.3 increased 14.4 20% to 13.4 by 10% 29.1p to 2.93p 97 98 99 00 01 97 98 99 00 01 J D WETHERSPOON PLC ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2001 1 PUBLIC HOUSES NATIONWIDE At the end of July 2001, the number of pubs nationwide was 522. Grampian Region Tayside Region Fife Region Lothian Region Strathclyde Region Borders Dumfriesshire Northumberland County Antrim Tyne & Wear Pubs in Greater London/M25 area Durham Cumbria Cleveland Key North Yorkshire J D Wetherspoon pubs J D Wetherspoon Lodges Lloyds No.1 pubs Lancashire West Yorks Humberside Greater South Merseyside Manchester Yorkshire Derbyshire Clwyd Cheshire Lincolnshire Gwynedd Notts Staffordshire Leicestershire Norfolk Shropshire West Midlands Cambridgeshire Northamptonshire Suffolk Hereford & Warwickshire Worcester Beds Dyfed Gloucestershire Herts Bucks Gwent Glamorgan Oxfordshire Essex Avon Berkshire Wiltshire Kent Surrey Somerset Hampshire West East Sussex Sussex Devon Dorset A list of all of our pubs can be found on pages 45 to 52. 2 J D WETHERSPOON PLC CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT AND OPERATING REVIEW I am pleased to report another year of good in cash. This has the effect of reducing the progress for Wetherspoon. Sales increased stated earnings per share, but has no effect on by £114.3 million to £484.0 million, a rise of our cash flow. The other main effect is to 31%. Operating profit, excluding sale & reduce our net assets in the balance sheet by leaseback rentals, increased by 22% to the amount of deferred tax on past profits, £66.1 million, and profit before tax rose by resulting in a rise in gearing as indicated below. 23% to £44.3 million. Earnings per share, before the adoption of a full provision for We believe that the deferred taxation under the new accounting standard FRS19, increased by 18% to 19.9p. strategy which we Allowing for the adoption of FRS19, restated earnings per share increased by have pursued in recent 20% to 14.2p. years of improving the The company currently has a low rate of tax real wages of our of 5%, as a result of tax relief available on capital investment. The effect of FRS19 is to staff, combined with provide in the profit and loss account for the full tax charge, even though it is not paid out competitive bar and food prices, is the Free cash flow after payments of tax, interest and capital investment of £15.8 million in right one for the existing pubs increased by 24% to £61.2 million, resulting in a cash flow per share of company... 29.1p before investment in new pubs, loan repayments and dividends paid. Capital investment was £150.6 million, and net gearing at the year end, after accounting Economic profit, calculated by adding for the effect of FRS19, was 88% (2000: depreciation to profit before tax and 69% as restated for FRS19). Interest was subtracting capital expenditure on existing covered 4.2 times (2000: 4.5 times) by pubs, increased by 37% to £58.2 million, with operating profit. Operating margins before capital investment in existing pubs at 3.3% of depreciation, interest, sale & leaseback turnover, compared with 3.9% of turnover in rentals and tax were 19.8%, compared with the previous period. Economic profit margins 20.3% last year. This reduction principally increased from 11.5% to 12.0%. reflects higher labour costs and slightly lower gross margins, partly offset by proportionately lower head office costs. We continue to Cash profits per pub on this basis increased upgrade every area marginally from the previous year to £206,000. of the business... ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2001 3 CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT AND OPERATING REVIEW The total number of FINANCE The company had £74.8 million of unutilised banking facilities and cash balances at the pubs operated by us balance sheet date. Subsequent to the year end, £40 million of new banking facilities is now 530, have been agreed with repayments over a period between 5 and 10 years. These new including 8 opened facilities, coupled with our strong organic cash flow, underpin the company’s expansion since the year end. plans for the foreseeable future. DIVIDENDS FURTHER PROGRESS The board proposes, subject to shareholders’ We opened 94 pubs during the year, consent, to pay a final dividend of 1.93p net compared with 91 in the previous year, on 30 November 2001 to those shareholders excluding the 10 Lloyds pubs purchased from on the register at 28 September 2001, Wolverhampton and Dudley brewery in the bringing the total dividend for the year to previous year. The total number of pubs 2.93p, a 10% increase on the previous year. operated by us is now 530, including 8 The Picture Palace, Enfield, our 500th pub. At this level, dividends will be covered 4.8 opened since the year end. times by earnings, compared with 4.4 times very encouraging, including the first 5 which in 2000. A scrip alternative will again be As in recent years, the pubs are located in a have opened in Northern Ireland. offered to shareholders. variety of locations in large and small towns and cities. Sales at the new pubs have been The original 10 Lloyds pubs have now been operated by Wetherspoon for just over a year, and sales have approximately doubled. If this improvement is sustained in the next few months, this will confirm our belief that there The Lloyds pubs have now been operated by Wetherspoon for just over a year, and sales have approximately doubled... Award-winning toilets at The Ernest Willows in Cardiff. 4 J D WETHERSPOON PLC CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT AND OPERATING REVIEW The Ledger Building Docklands, London The building was originally erected in 1803 to hold the ledger books for the West India Dock Company. Pictured: Managers Edward and Sue Guyatt ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2001 5 CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT AND OPERATING REVIEW is the potential for a considerable number of competitive bar and food prices, is the right Lloyds sites in the country, in addition to our one for the company. This has resulted in plans for new Wetherspoon pubs, since strong increases over this period in cash Lloyds seem to complement trade at existing profits per pub, in spite of a slight decline in Wetherspoon outlets. margins, combined with a reduction in the percentage of pub managers, and other staff, After like-for-like sales growth of 8.6% in leaving the company; this percentage is now 1998/99 and a further 12.4% in 1999/2000, at its lowest level ever. Bonuses paid to like-for-like sales increased by an additional people working in our pubs amounted to 7.5% in the current year and like-for-like £10.2 million, compared with £8.5 million in profits increased by 7.0%. the previous year. We believe that the strategy which we have We continue to try to upgrade every area of pursued in recent years of improving the real the business, endeavouring, for example, to wages of our staff, combined with improve our buying terms as we grow; to upgrade our IT and management systems; to ..we are offering a enhance training courses for our people and to modify and improve the design of our pubs. try before you buy Bonuses paid to people We also continue to review our product scheme to encourage range and, in association with Cask Marque, working in our pubs the quality control system developed by a customers to try number of brewers, we are offering a try amounted to before you buy scheme to encourage guest ales from micro customers to try guest ales from micro and £10.2 million, compared regional brewers.
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