Economic indicators |
| Core indicators | Additional indicators |
| Direct economic impacts |
| Customers |
| *EC1. Net sales | |
Net sales (gold income) of:
2004: $2,396 million
2003: $2,029 million | |
| EC2. Geographic breakdown of markets | |
| See graph on page EP4 | |
| Suppliers |
| *EC3. Cost of all goods, materials, and services purchased | EC11. Breakdown of supplier by organisation and country |
2004: $900 million*
2003: $760 million*
(*Cost of goods and services used to operate mines and produce refined metal, including market development costs, net of other income) | Information not available |
| EC4. Percentage contracts that were paid in accordance with agreed terms, excluding agreed penalty arrangements | |
| Information not available | |
| Employees |
| *EC5. Total payroll and benefits (including wages, pension, other benefits, and redundancy payments) broken down
by country or region | |
| See table on page EP5 | |
| Providers of capital |
| *EC6. Distribution of capital broken down by interest on debt and borrowings and dividends on all classes of shares,
with any arrears of preferred dividends to be disclosed | |
Distribution of capital in 2004 as follows:
Finance costs and unwinding of decommissioning obligation:
$87 million (2003: $53 million)
Dividends declared: $147 million (2003: $224 million)
See Report to Society 2004 for further details | |
| *EC7. Increase/decrease in retained earnings at the end of period | |
| Retained income utilised in the group is $66 million compared with $88 million reinvested in the group in 2003 | |
| Public sector |
| *EC8. Total sum of all taxes paid broken down by country | EC12. Total spent on non-core business infrastructure |
| Net $40 million taxation utilised in the group. $142 million distributed in 2003. | Information not available |
| EC9. Subsidies received broken down by country or region | |
| Information not available | |
| EC10. Donations to community, civil society and other groups broken down in terms of cash and in-kind donations per type
of group | |
| See the community section of this report | |
| Indirect economic impacts |
| | EC13. The organisation's indirect economic impacts. |
| | Quantitative information not available. See the
community section of
this report |
| | |
| Social performance indicators: product responsibility |
| Core indicators | Additional indicators |
| Customers' Health and Safety |
| PR1. Description of policy for preserving customer health and safety during use of products and services, and extent to which
this policy is visibly stated and applied, as well as description of procedures/programmes to address this issue, including
monitoring systems and results of monitoring | PR4. Number and type of instances of non-compliance with
regulations concerning customer health and safety, including the penalties and fines assessed for these breaches |
| Not applicable | Not applicable |
| | PR5. Number of complaints upheld by regulatory or similar official bodies to oversee or regulate the health and safety
of product services |
| | Not applicable |
| | PR6. Voluntary code compliance, product labels or awards with respect to social and/or environmental responsibility
that the reporter is qualified to use or has received |
| | See environment
and community section of this report |
| Product and services |
| PR2. Description of policy, procedures/management systems, and compliance mechanisms related to product information
and labelling | PR7. Number and type of instances of non-compliance with
regulations concerning product information and labelling including any penalties or fines assessed for these breaches |
| Not applicable | Not applicable |
| | PR8. Description of policy, procedures/management systems, and compliance mechanisms related to customer
satisfaction, including results of surveys measuring customer satisfaction |
| | Not applicable |
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