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SYDNEY, March 4 Asia Pulse - AMP Ltd (ASX:AMP) today booked Australia's second biggest corporate loss.
Writedowns and costs from spinning off its British operations have left the group $A5.542 billion ($US4.15 billion) in the red in 2003.
The loss for AMP, which demerged its struggling United Kingdom business HHG Plc in December last year, compared to a million loss in 2002.
The insurance and financial services company's net profit after tax and before other items for the year to December 31, 2003 was $619 million for the demerged AMP.
That compared to $257 million profit in the previous corresponding period, excluding HHG plc.
The group said today its loss on the demerger of HHG was .585 billion, business restructuring costs were $233 million and demerger costs were $193 million.
Losses reported for the demerged entities were $2.193 billion, which included writedowns and provisions.
Source: HighBeam Research, AMP BOOKS AUSTRALIA'S 2ND-BIGGEST CORPORATE LOSS.