United Biscuits
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A slight decrease (9%) of the Turnover is noticed in 2004. Although in 2006 the Revenue was established back to its previous values.
After hesitant levels of the values (varying around 0) of the Net Profit, Profit per Employee and ROCE respectively, during 2003-2005, a noticeable increase was examined after 2006. However, in 2002 the values of these three performance indicators happened to be close to their 2006 levels.
A decrease in the Gross Profit of around 7% was scrutinized after 2003. In the next years it was gradually running up.
United Biscuits’ employees varied around 7000 during the period 2002-2006. After an slight subsequent decrease from 2003 to 2005, the Sales per each Employee were increased with nearly 30% after the year of 2006.
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Premier Foods
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A drastic change in the company’s Turnover came about in 2007. The sales were risen more than two times which didn’t seem to help the Net Profit ratio, the Return on Capital Employed and the Profit per Employee accordingly, which values happened to decrease to a minus level, after a very noticeable raise of around 600% in the year of 2005.
The Gross Profit ratio values were examined to be relatively steady during 2003-2006 with only a slight decrease of around 20% in 2004, but in 2006 it restored its previous values reaching 94% of its 2003 levels. That “tradition” of steady values was ruined in 2007 when the Gross Profit increased with more than 250%.
An increase of more than 3 times of the compan ...