Annual Report 2009/10 Excellence in Retailing - Douglas Holding

136 Financial statements
Facts & figures
Consolidated income statement
Consolidated balance sheet
Statement of changes in Group equity
Segment reporting
Consolidated Cash Flow statement
Notes
Notes to the income statement
Notes to the balance sheet
Auditor’s report
Income from costs passed on to third parties includes refunds for marketing costs and
other costs charged further. Other on-operating income contains an amount of 6.1 million
EUR due to the the revaluation of old shares held in buch.de internetstores AG. Furthermore
other income includes, for example, income from pension plans. In fiscal Year
2008/09 the line item for insurance casualty contained an amount of 1.2 million EUR paid
for damaged tangible fixed assets. Income from leasing and subleasing mainly relates to
stores leased that are not used by the company, but are subleased.
9. Personnel expenses
Personnel expenses
2009/10
(in EUR m)
2008/09
(in EUR m)
Wages and salaries 595.6 578.6
Social security, pension and other benefit costs 124.7 119.7
Of which for pensions 5.4 4.3
Total 720.3 698.3
10. Other operating expenses
Other operating expenses are broken down as follows:
Other operating expenses
2009/10
(in EUR m)
2008/09
(in EUR m)
Rent and energy costs 368.7 365.6
Advertisement in newspapers 20.5 23.8
Advertisement in other media 14.8 17.8
Direct mailing and customer loyalty card 26.4 27.4
Other marketing and advertisement costs 70.9 66.1
Costs of transferring merchandise 57.1 47.4
Other services 60.6 56.2
Repair costs 15.7 16.2
Credit card commission 11.8 11.4
Office and postal costs 13.9 14.3
Travel and vehicle costs 12.6 12.0
Consumables and supplies 11.3 10.8
Expenses from sublease 14.8 23.3
IT costs 17.7 16.0
Insurance premiums 4.6 4.4
Fees and dues 13.0 11.1
Other expenses 41.7 48.2
Total 776.1 772.0