Rolls-Royce Group plc Preliminary Results 2006

The Group continued to make strong progress in 2006, increasing sales to £7,156 million (2005 £6,603 million), with underlying sales growth of 14 per cent, and increasing underlying profit before tax by 19 per cent to £705 million (2005 £593 million). Importantly, our ability to access growing markets on a global basis enabled us to continue to grow our order book, which ended the year at £26.1 billion (2005 £24.4 billion).