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Annual Report 2000 and Company Portrait „Getting There First“ Georg Fischer GF

Content

Reports Corporation and Corporate groups

• Financial overview (p. 2)
• Georg Fischer at a glance (p. 3)
• Message to the shareholders (p. 4)

Georg Fischer Portrait (p. 8)

• Georg Fischer Corporation (p. 8)
• Georg Fischer Automotive Products (p. 12)
• Georg Fischer Piping Systems (p. 16)
• Georg Fischer Manufacturing Technology (p. 20)
• Georg Fischer Plant Engineering (p. 24)
• Georg Fischer Services (p. 28)
• Locally anchored, globally active (p. 29)
• Georg Fischer Ltd, Schaffhausen (p. 30)

Financial Report 2000 (p. 31)

• Segment information (p. 32)

Financial review

• Georg Fischer Corporation (p. 34)
• Georg Fischer Automotive Products (p. 40)
• Georg Fischer Piping Systems (p. 42)
• Georg Fischer Manufacturing Technology (p. 44)
• Georg Fischer Plant Engineering (p. 46)

Consolidated financial statements

• Balance sheet (p. 48)
• Income statement (p. 49)
• Statement of changes in equity (p. 50)
• Cash flow statement (p. 51)

Notes to the consolidated financial statements

• Corporate accounting principles (p. 52)
• Supporting information (p. 56)
• Report of the Group Auditors (p. 67)

Five-year overviews

• Corporation (p. 68)
• Share information (p. 69)

Financial statements of Georg Fischer Ltd (Holding)

• Balance sheet (p. 70)
• Income statement, Statement of changes in equity (p. 71)
• Notes to the financial statements (p. 72)
• Proposal by the Board of Directors (p. 76)
• Report of the Statutory Auditors (p. 77)

Companies (p. 78)

Contents (p. 82)