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Notes to the company accounts

9 Share capital

 

Number of shares

Issued
capital
£m

Consideration
£m

Ordinary shares

     

At 31 July 2007

385,498,273

144.6

 

Exercise of share options

2,380,908

0.9

15.5

At 31 July 2008

387,879,181

145.5

 
       

B shares

     

At 31 July 2007

4,926,594

0.1

 

Purchased and cancelled

(4,467,437)

(0.1)

 

At 31 July 2008

459,157

   
       
       

Share capital classified as equity at 31 July 2008

 

145.5

 

Share capital classified as debt at 31 July 2008

     

Total share capital at 31 July 2008

 

145.5

 

 

On 17 April 2008 4,467,437 B shares were purchased and cancelled. The remaining B shares carry annual interest of 75% of 12 month LIBOR, payable in arrears in April. Smiths may redeem and cancel the remaining B shares up to November 2008 for a consideration of 365p per share in cash or convert them to ordinary shares. B shares have no voting rights.

The authorised capital at 31 July 2008 consisted of:

  • 533,333,333 (2007: 533,333,333) ordinary shares of 37.5p each; and
  • 600,000,000 (2007: 600,000,000) non-cumulative B shares of 1p each.

At 31 July 2008 all of the issued share capital was in free issue. All issued shares are fully paid.

 

31 July 2008

31 July 2007

Number of ordinary shares issuable under outstanding options

8,777,181

11,585,441

 

Year
issued

Number of
shares

Subscription
prices

Dates
normally
exercisable

Smiths Sharesave Scheme

2001

30,990

608.00p

2004/2008

 

2002

11,851

645.00p

2005/2009

 

2003

118,006

554.00p

2006/2010

 

2004

115,973

525.00p

2007/2011

 

2005

194,283

704.00p

2008/2012

 

2006

227,085

798.00p

2009/2013

 

2007

189,534

868.00p

2010/2014

 

2008

326,309

1,097.00p

2011/2015

Smiths Industries Executive Share Option Schemes

1998

19,244

765.00p

2001/2008

 

1999

64,845

858.50p

2002/2009

 

2000

69,653

750.00p

2003/2010

 

2001

97,076

790.00p

2004/2011

 

2002

1,213,113

806.00p

2005/2012

 

2002

143,500

654.00p

2005/2012

 

2003

214,800

669.00p

2006/2013

 

2004

1,007,600

774.00p

2007/2014

 

2005

1,146,437

901.00p

2008/2015

 

2006

1,845,427

896.50p

2009/2016

 

2007

1,610,500

1,097.00p

2010/2017

TI Group Executive Share Option Schemes

1998

8,607

849.79p

2001/2008

 

1999

19,183

907.23p

2002/2009

 

1999

87,181

1,103.92p

2002/2009

 

2000

2,459

661.23p

2003/2010

 

2000

13,525

626.16p

2003/2010


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Smiths Detection, Smiths Medical, John Crane, Smiths Interconnect, Flex-Tek

 

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