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KESA Eletricals plc

Type	Public (LSE: HOME)
Founded	2003
Headquarters	London, England
Key people	David Newlands Chairman Jean-Noël Labroue CEO Simon Herrick Finance Director
Industry	Retailer
Products	Brown Goods, White Goods, Telecommunications, Information Technology, Digital photo processing, Pre-Recorded Media
Revenue	£4,500 million GBP (End of January 2007)[1]
Employees	circa 25,000+
Slogan	Best price, Best choice, Best service
Website	www.kesaelectricals.com

KESA Electricals Plc, (LSE: KESA Euronext: KESA) is a British electrical retailer formed in 2003 by demerger from Kingfisher plc. It is dual-listed on the London Stock Exchange and Euronext and is a member of the FTSE 250 index.

KESA Electricals is based in London and owns several European retailers including Comet in the United Kingdom, Darty in France and Wegert in Germany. It also has sourcing offices based in Paris and Hong Kong, as well as a wholly owned wholesaler of electrical accessories, Dacem. In the year ended 31 January 2006 KESA had turnover of £4,100.0 million and made profits of £143.3 million before tax and £94.7 million after tax. At the end of 31 January 2007 turnover at KESA were up 3.5% to £4,500 million. Profits before tax. For full financial highlights from 2004 see below. Dacem is a wholesaler of electrical accessories, wholly owned by Kesa Electricals, who supply all of Kesa's european operations.

1 Corporate affairs
2 Group at a Glance
3 Compepitors
4 External links
5 Refrences

[edit] Corporate affairs

[edit] Management Team

David Newlands

Chairman, Kesa Electricals (Non Executive Director) - David Newlands was appointed as Non-Executive Chairman of Kesa Electricals on 13 June 2003 and is Chairman of the Nomination Committee. He became a partner at Deloitte and Touche London in 1977 and joined Saatchi & Saatchi plc in 1986 as Group Finance Director. Between 1989 and 1997 he was Group Finance Director of GEC plc. He is Non-Executive Chairman of Tomkins plc, and PayPoint plc. He is also a Director of several private companies.

Jean-Noël Labroue

Chief Executive, Kesa Electricals (Director) - Jean-Noël Labroue was appointed Chief Executive of Kesa Electricals on 13 June 2003 having been Chief Executive of the Kesa Group and a member of the Kingfisher Board, since Autumn 2000. From Spring 2000 to Autumn 2000 he was first Senior Vice President of the Kesa Group and responsible for business development, logistics and IT. He was Chief Executive of Darty between 1994 and 2000, having previously held a number of senior roles at Darty since joining the company in 1979. He worked with Intertechnique, a computer manufacturer, as Commercial Director from 1972 to 1979. Jean-Noël is a trained engineer and graduated with a Master of Science from the Northwestern University, Chicago in 1971.

Simon Herrick

Finance Director (Director)

Peter Wilson

Senior Independent Director (Director)

Michel Brossard

Non-Executive Director (Non Executive Director)

Bernard Dufau

Non-Executive Director (Non Executive Director)

Andrew Robb

Non-Executive Director (Non Executive Director) ^[1]

[edit] Financial results

**KESA Eletricals plc financial results**
Fiscal Year	2007	2006	2005 ⁺	2004
Fiscal Year End Date	31/01/07	31/01/06	31/01/05	31/01/04
Turnover £ 000,000	4,500.9	4,100.0	3,959.1	3,711.1
Profit before tax £ 000,000	165.4	164.9	193.7 *	202.1
Profit for the period £ 000,000	307.9	159.9	209.7	149.9
Basic eps (p)	13.3	12.1	11.0	10.0

*These profits include exceptional items and goodwill amortisation
in the case of 2005 profit before tax it actually went up by 8.0%. ⁺ Please note that 2005 was the year that Darty started up, so note that all these losses in 2005 were due to start up losses.

[edit] Annual Shareholder Reports

[edit] Group at a Glance

Darty France Retail originally in France. They own 209 stores, equaling 274,400 square metres of selling space and 10,848 employees.	Darty Italy Retail in Italy. They own 9 stores, equalling 13,600 square metres of selling space and 214 employees.	Darty Turkey Retail in Turkey. They own 1 store which has 1,500 square metres of selling space with 58 employees.
Darty Switzerland Retail in Switzerland. They own 3 stores, with 4,400 square metres of selling space and 114 employees.	Comet Retail and E-commerce in UK. They own 248 stores, with 258,900 square metres of selling space 8,544 employees.	But Retail in France. They own 107 stores, with 348,100 square metres of selling space and 3,755 employees.
BCC Retail and E-commerce in Holland. With 42 stores, 55,800 square metres of selling space and 983 employees.	Vanden Borre Retail in Belgium. They own 53 stores, with 53,800 square metres of selling space and 892 employees.	Datarat Retail in Czech Republic / Slovakia. Owning 33 stores and 33,400 square metres of selling space, with 1,125 employees.

[edit] Compepitors

DSG International - Who own retailers such sa Currys, PC World and The Link.
Home Retail Group - Who own Argos and Homebase.

Map shows counries in which KESA have operations in. Blue indicates established bussiness, Red indicates developing bussiness and orange means new markets