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Table 11-3
Food and soft drink manufacturing — Selected ratios

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Selected ratios
  2004  2005 2006 2007  2008
Selected ratios  
Debt to equity (ratio) 0.953 0.940 0.925 0.869 0.917
Profit margin (percent) 5.3 5.0 5.1 5.7 5.2
Return on equity (percent) 12.6 11.0 12.3 13.6 15.0
Return on capital employed (percent) 8.5 7.8 8.7 9.4 9.9
Working capital (ratio) 1.046 1.057 1.081 1.097 1.198
Quick ratio (ratio) 0.640 0.662 0.679 0.653 0.744
Inventory turnover (ratio) 11.629 11.617 10.693 10.798 11.087
Receivables turnover (ratio) 10.150 9.245 9.006 10.907 10.268
Taxes to positive adjusted profit (percent) 27.1 30.9 28.1 26.8 23.1
Income taxes to taxable income (percent) 32.1 32.9 33.0 31.5 31.1
        percentage change
Selected items  
Operating revenue, year-over-year change 5.4 -1.6 -1.6 5.9 7.8
Operating expenses, year-over-year change 4.5 -1.3 -1.6 5.2 8.5
Operating profit, year-over-year change 26.5 -7.0 -0.7 19.5 -2.4
Taxable income (tax base), year-over-year change 24.0 -14.1 10.2 5.6 0.5
Taxes, year-over-year change 17.0 -13.2 9.0 0.7 -0.4