3 Exemplare

Annual Report 2002 Georg Fischer GF

Content

Content (outside cover)

• Financial overview (inside cover) (S. 2)

Corporate Report

• Overview of the business year 2002 (p. 4)
• Creating value in a group (p. 7)
• Corporate Governance (p. 8)
• Innovation and technology (p. 20)
• Investment and strategy implementation (p. 22)
• Customers and business partners (p. 24)
• Quality and environment (p. 26)
• Employees and social responsibility (p. 28)

Corporate Groups

• Georg Fischer Automotive Products (p. 30)
• Georg Fischer Piping Systems (p. 32)
• Georg Fischer Manufacturing Technology (p. 34)
• Shared Services (S. 36)

Financial Report

Investor information

• Share information (p. 38)
• Five-year overview Corporation (p. 40)
• Financial review Corporation (p. 41)
• Value-added statement (p. 45)

Consolidated financial statements

• Balance sheet (p. 46)
• Income statement (p. 47)
• Statement of changes in equity (p. 48)
• Cash-flow statement (p. 49)
• Segment information (p. 50)
• Corporate accounting principles (p. 52)
• Notes (p. 56)
• Report of the Group auditors (p. 69)

Financial statements Georg Fischer Ltd

• Balance sheet (p. 70)
• Income statement, statement of changes in equity (p. 71)
• Notes and comment to financial statements (p. 72)
• Proposal for the distribution of retained earnings (p. 76)
• Report of the Statutory Auditors (p. 77)
• Associated companies (p. 78)
• Community Benefit (p. 83)
• Index (p. 86)
• Georg Fischer worldwide (inside cover) (p. 88)
• Publications, contacts and dates (outside cover) (p. 89)