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Group financial review (continued)
Ahold at a glance
Business review
Governance
Ahold
Annual Report 2015
The key financial and non-financial information per segment for 2015 and 2014 is presented below:
Ahold USA
The Netherlands
Czech Republic
million
2015
(53 weeks)
2014
(52 weeks)
2015
(53 weeks)
2014
(52 weeks)
2015
(53 weeks)
2014
(52 weeks)
Net sales millions)
23,732
19,557
12,699
11,696
1,772
1,521
Net sales millions)
26,350
25,976
Net sales growth in local currency
1.4%
(0.5)%
8.6%
1.8%
15.3%
11.7%
Net sales growth adjusted for the impact of week 53 in 2015 in local currency
(0.5)%
6.3%
13.3%
Identical sales growth
(1.3)%
(0.4)%
3.2%
(0.5)%
(0.7)%
(1.8)%
Identical sales growth (excluding gasoline sales)
0.9%
(0.1)%
(0.5)%
(1.2)%
Comparable sales growth (excluding gasoline sales)
1.1%
0.1%
3.7%
(0.3)%
(0.4)%
(1.1)%
Operating income millions) 878 727 557 584 11 13
Operating income millions)
974
965
Underlying operating income millions)
940
738
578
574
27
19
Underlying operating income millions)
1,043
980
Underlying operating margin
4.0%
3.8%
4.6%
4.9%
1.5%
1.2%
Number of employees headcount (at year-end in thousands) 121 115 102 97 13 15
Number of employees FTEs (at year-end in thousands)
85
83
33
31
11
12
Contribution to Ahold net sales
62.2%
59.7%
33.2%
35.7%
4.6%
4.6%
Contribution to Ahold underlying operating income1
60.9%
55.5%
37.4%
43.1%
1.7%
1.4%
1 Before Corporate Center costs.
