3 Exemplare

Georg Fischer Annual Report 2003 Adding Quality to People’s Lives GF Georg Fischer

Content

Content (outside cover)

• At a glance; Financial overview (inside cover) (p. 2)

Corporate Report 2003

• Four reasons to watch GF (p. 3)
• Overview of the business year 2003 (p. 4)
• Business review (p. 6)
• Adding Quality to People’s Lives (p. 10)
• Markets and customers (p. 12)
• GF Automotive (p. 14)
• Innovation and technology (p. 16)
• GF Piping Systems (p. 18)
• Investments and strategy implementation (p. 20)
• GF Machine Tools (p. 22)
• Quality and environment (p. 24)
• Employees and social responsibility (p. 26)
• Corporate Responsibility (p. 28)
• Corporate Management (p. 29)
• Corporate Governance (p. 30)

Financial Report 2003

Investor information

• Share information (p. 42)
• Five-year overview Corporation (p. 44)
• Financial review Corporation (p. 45)
• Value-added statement (p. 49)

Consolidated financial statements

• Balance sheet (p. 50)
• Income statement (p. 51)
• Statement of changes in equity (p. 52)
• Cash flow statement (p. 53)
• Segment information (p. 54)
• Corporate accounting principles (p. 56)
• Notes (p. 59)
• Report of the Group Auditors (p. 73)

Financial statements Georg Fischer Ltd

• Financial review (p. 74)
• Balance sheet (p. 75)
• Income statement, statement of changes in equity (p. 76)
• Notes (p. 77)
• Proposal for the carrying forward and accumulated losses (p. 80)
• Report of the Statutory Auditors (p. 81)
• Affiliated companies (p. 82)
• Index (p. 86)
• Locally anchored, globally active (p. 87)
• Corporate publications (p. 87)
• Disclaimer; Imprint (p. 87)