2007 Shareholder Review - Coca-Cola Amatil

ReviewYear inIn 2007 CCA achieved arecord result, deliveringnet profit after tax of$366.3 million, beforesignificant items, anincrease of $42.8 millionor 13.2% on 2006.CCA’s profit result has beenachieved through the strongperformance of the Australian andNew Zealand beverage businesses,an excellent result from Indonesiaand a solid contribution from ouremerging alcohol business.The result has been driven byimproved pricing and product mix, anumber of successful new productlaunches, and the incrementalearnings generated by oursignificant capital investmentprogram and the Trans-Tasmanbusiness integration.Our strong financial performanceenabled the Board to increase thefinal dividend to 20.0 cents a share,fully franked. This gives a total fullyfranked dividend for the year of35.5 cents a share, a 9.2% increaseon last year, representing a payoutratio of 73.0% of net profit, beforesignificant items.Over the past five years, we havedelivered average net profit after taxgrowth of 12.3% per annum, beforesignificant items, underpinning the13.9% per annum average increasein dividends paid to shareholdersover that period.2 CCA Shareholder Review 2007 Year in Review