Financial Highlights

SHOPRITE HOLDINGS LIMITED AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES
for the year ended 30 June 2009
		30 June	30 June
	%	2009	2008
	increase	R’000	R’000

Sale of merchandise	24.5	59 318 559	47 651 548
Trading profit	28.1	2 940 914	2 296 550
Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and mortisation(EBITDA)	25.3	3 687 440	2 941 865
Profit before tax	22.6	3 018 116	2 461 259
Headline earnings	28.6	2 021 560	1 572 231


PERFORMANCE MEASURES
Headline earnings per share (cents)	29.4	401.1	309.9
Diluted headline earnings per share (cents)	30.9	390.8	298.6
Dividend per share declared (cents)	29.0	200.0	155.0
Dividend cover (times)		2.0	2,0
Trading margin (%)		5.0	4.8
Return on average shareholders’ equity (%)		41.4	37.3


DEFINITIONS Return on average shareholders’ equity: Headline earnings, expressed as a percentage of the average of capital and reserves and interestbearing borrowings at the beginning and the end of the financial year.