1 Results in brief
1 Financial calendar
2 Board of directors
3 Chairman's statemenl
6 Executive directols
Review ol activities:
7 Worldwide
I Home Entertainment
8 Consumer Electronics
10 Television and Cable Rental
12 Music
14 Screen Entertainmenl
16 Electronics,lnlormationTechnology
and Engineering
16 Electronics
18 lnf ormation Technology
20 Telecommunicalions
21 l\4etal lndustries
22 , Commercial and Home Appliances
26 Lighting
28 Retail
29 Central Research
30 Notice of meeting
31 Beport of the directors
u Report ol the auditors
34 Accounting policies
36 Consolidated prolit and loss account
37 Balance sheets
38 Notes to the accounts
52 Source and application of Group lunds
53 Five year record
54 Current cost inlormation
Shareholders
56 lvlanagement
External turnover
Trading profit
Depreciation
Profit before taxation
Prolit after taxation
Gross cash llow
Capital expenditure - property, plant, etc.
- rental equipment
1984 1983
Basic earnings per Ordinary Share 47.8p 3540p
Dividends per Ordinary Share 17.5p 1575p
Number of employees (worldwide) at year end
lnterim results announced January Report and Accounts published August
Final results announced July Annual General lvleeting held September
DIVIDEND PAYMENTS INTEREST PAYMENTS
On Ordinary Shares: On Loan Stock:
lnterim paid 2 lvlarch '1984 6% Unsecured Loan Stock 1979/84
Final to be paid 5 October 1984 6Yr% Unsecured Loan Stock 1985/89
30 June and 31 December
On 3.5% Preference Shares:
31 lvlarch and 30 September 7Y2% Unsecured Loan Stock 1989/92
8727o Unsecured Loan Stock 1989i94
On 7% Convertible Prelerence Shares: 5% Unsecured Loan Stock 2004/09
30 June and 31 December 73l+7o Unsecured Loan Stock 2004/09
7 May and 7 November
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Peter Laister BSc Tech, ANilCT, F Inst Pet, F Inst Chem Eng
Chairman and Chief Executive
Sir Graham John Wilkins.
Deputy Chairman
Harold George l\,4ourgue FCA
Vice Chairman
Sir William Barlow.
Peter Ward Bennett OBE.
The Lord Brabourne"
Leslie Charles Hill
Sir Trevor Holdsworth.
Hiram James l',4axmin BA, PhD
Richard Edward Norman CBE, N,4A (Cantab), C Eng, FIEE
Sir John Fead"
John Arthur Sibley
Colin Grieve Southgate
*
non-executive
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
Vijaya Bhaskar Menon MA (Oxon)
SECRETARY
Robin Charlton t\.4A (Oxon), Barrister
REGISTERED OFFICE soLtctToRs
THORN EMI plc Fowe & Maw
THORN EMI House 15 Devereux Court
Upper Saint l\lartin's Lane Essex Street
London WC2H 9ED London WC2F 3JX
REGISTRARS AUDITORS
National Westminster Bank PLC Ernst & Whinney
Registrar's Department Becket House
37 Broad Street 1 Lambeth Palace Road
Bristol BS99 7NH London SE1 7EU
BANKERS STOCKBROKERS
National Westminster Bank PLC Rowe & Pitman
Bloomsbury, Parr's Branch City Gate House
126 High Holborn 39-45 Finsbury Square
London WCl V 608 London EC2A 1.lA