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Sales grew organically by 7% and operating income improved organically by 11% |
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Conversion ratio (operating income divided by gross profit) increased to 18.9% |
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Professional and executive recruitment sales grew by 10% organically, with the strongest growth achieved in the IT, accounting and engineering recruitment sectors |
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Strong sales growth in emerging markets |
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Eight acquisitions completed during 2005 |
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Simplified capital structure following the redemption of preference A shares |
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Acquisitions and organic growth in strategically important markets expand global coverage to 44 countries providing increased diversity |
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Promotion to Euronext’s AEX index, the first recruitment company to join this benchmarking index of the 25 most actively traded securities in the Netherlands |
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Earnings per share increased by 30% and annual dividend increased by 25% |
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