Income Statement
Sales
Appropriation of Profit
899
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(in millions of
2014
2013
Operating income
4 882
5 033
4 703
4 861
Other operating income
179
172
Operating expenses
(4 838)
(4 913)
Merchandise and consumables
(3 614)
(3 692)
Salaries, social security and pensions
(651)
(683)
Other operating expenses(1)
(573)
(538)
Operating profit
44
120
Financial income
233
238
Financial charges
(229)
(153)
Current profit before taxation
48
205
Exceptional income
8
Exceptional expenses
(166)
(288)
Current year profit (loss) before taxation
(118)
(75)
Transfer (-) to/ release from deferred taxes
Current taxation
Financial year results
(118)
(75)
Transfer (-) to/ release from tax-exempt reserves
1
Financial year results to be appropriated
(117)
(75)
(in millions of
2014
2013
Profit (loss) of the year to be appropriated
(117)
(75)
Profit brought forward from previous year
1 134
Transfer from reserves
782
1 059
Appropriation:
Profit to carry forward
617
899
Dividends to shareholders (1)
165
160
(1) As a result of the exercise of warrants issued under the Delhaize Group 2002 Stock Incentive Plan, the Company might have to issue new ordinary shares, to
which coupon no. 53 entitling the holder to the payment of the 2014 dividend is attached, between the date of adoption of the annual accounts by the Board of
Directors and the date of their approval by the Ordinary Shareholders' Meeting of May 28, 2015. The Board of Directors will communicate at the Ordinary General
Meeting of May 28, 2015 the aggregate number of shares entitled to the 2014 dividend and will submit to this meeting the final amount of the total dividend for
approval. The annual accounts of 2014 will be modified accordingly.
