CEO's Review

Group's performance has been excellent

The Group's performance over the past financial year has been excellent, with strong revenue growth of 19.5%. We have maintained our gross margin and driven operating profit⁽¹⁾ growth of 39.1% to an operating margin of 4.0% - a position that puts us firmly on track to achieve our medium term goal of 5% for the Group.

CFO's Review

Revenue up 16.9%

Revenue for the year was $4,511 million, an increase of 16.9%. Revenue from Asia and Middle East and Africa, and overall Services growth, were exceptional. Across the businesses, trading was particularly strong in Systems Integration (trading as Datacraft in Asia and as Dimension Data elsewhere), in Internet Solutions and in Plessey, with revenue growth of 18.8%, 30.1% and 17.3% respectively.