Group cash flow statement
| For the year ended 31 December 2007 | |||
| notes | 2007 £m |
2006 £m | |
| Cash flows from operating activities | |||
| Cash generated from operations | 27(b) | 248.2 | 160.0 |
| Interest and finance charges paid | (16.5) | (12.1) | |
| Tax paid | (5.4) | (24.9) | |
| Net cash inflow from operating activities | 226.3 | 123.0 | |
| Cash flows from investing activities | |||
| Acquisitions of businesses | (35.5) | (20.9) | |
| Net cash assumed on acquisitions | 12.3 | 1.9 | |
| Investment in associates | (2.8) | (41.8) | |
| Disposal of business | - | 130.2 | |
| Purchase of property, plant and equipment | (232.6) | (171.2) | |
| Disposal of property, plant and equipment | 87.4 | 78.7 | |
| Net cash used in investing activities | (171.2) | (23.1) | |
| Cash flows from financing activities | |||
| Proceeds from issuing ordinary share capital | 1.3 | 1.2 | |
| Decrease in loans due within one year | (39.4) | (6.6) | |
| Increase/(decrease) in loans due after one year | 36.0 | (45.9) | |
| Decrease in finance lease obligations | (15.2) | (7.9) | |
| Dividends paid to the company’s shareholders | (41.9) | (39.6) | |
| Dividends paid to minority interests | (1.0) | (0.9) | |
| Net cash used in financing activities | (60.2) | (99.7) | |
| Net (decrease)/increase in cash, cash equivalents and overdrafts | 27(c) | (5.1) | 0.2 |
| Cash, cash equivalents and overdrafts at the beginning of the year | 27(c) | 71.1 | 71.6 |
| Exchange losses on cash, cash equivalents and overdrafts | 27(c) | (3.6) | (0.7) |
| Cash, cash equivalents and overdrafts at the end of the year | 27(c) | 62.4 | 71.1 |
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