Annual Report PDF - Carphone Warehouse Group plc

The Carphone Warehouse Group PLC Annual Report 2006The Carphone WarehouseGroup OverviewWe are a multinational gromarkets. The Group operatDistribution and TelecomsDistribution division:Comprises our Retail operations and otherdirectly related business streams.Revenue£1,753.5mHeadline EBIT£115.5mConnections8.2mStores1,778MARKETSUK, BELGIUM, FRANCE,GERMANY, IRELAND,NETHERLANDS, PORTUGAL,SPAIN, SWEDEN,SWITZERLANDTelecoms Services division:Comprises our Mobile Services operations and Fixed Linebusinesses, addressing SME and residential markets.Revenue£1,126.5mHeadline EBIT£26.4mResidentialcustomers2.9mMobile customers3.1mMARKETSUK, BELGIUM, FRANCE,GERMANY, IRELAND, SPAIN,SWITZERLANDRetail and OnlineDESCRIPTION AND KEY ASSETSProvision of mobile handsets and connections,accessories, and related products and servicesthrough 1,778 stores, call centres and the webacross 10 European countriesSTRATEGYTo grow our market share by opening newstores and developing additional distributionchannels; to reinvest the benefits of increasingscale into the customer proposition, togenerate like for like connections growth tosustain our competitive advantage51.8% 39.8%OF GROUP REVENUE OF GROUP CONTRIBUTIONMobileService ProvisionDESCRIPTION AND KEY ASSETSThe Phone House Telecom in Germany,a mobile service provider with 1.2m customers,that recruits, bills and manages customers onits own mobile packages, based on wholesaleagreements with network operatorsSTRATEGYTo grow the customer base by increasingour store portfolio and third party channels,while focusing on the higher value segmentof the market11.1% 13.9%OF GROUP REVENUE OF GROUP CONTRIBUTION