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Professional presentation of an extract from the MD&A (Management Discussion and Analysis) section of the annual report of an international group headquartered in France.

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Language

English

Voice Age

Middle Aged (35-54)

Accents

British (General) British (Received Pronunciation - RP, BBC)

Transcript

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Theo earlier environments. Third quarter revenue rose 15.3% to 26.3 billion euros at September 2008 as compared with 22.8 billion at September 2007. Organic growth came in at 10.9% driven by the strong commercial development of the group in all its businesses on the start up of engineering and construction contracts in the water business as well as the benefit from tariff index ations. The increase in energy prices contributed around 240 million euros to revenue growth in the energy business. External growth of 7.1% resulted in particular from the acquisitions made by Veolia Environmental Services in Germany, Italy and France, with a total contribution of 791 million euros by Veolia Energy in the United States, 230 million euros and by the earlier water, mainly in the United Kingdom and Japan. Total contribution of around 205 million euros