Financials
This is TNT’s financial reporting information, prepared in accordance with Dutch regulations. Since TNT delisted its American Depositary Receipts from the New York Stock Exchange on 18 June 2007, and its reporting obligations with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission terminated 90 days later on 16 September 2007, TNT is no longer required to file its annual report on Form 20-F.
The annual report reflects that, as, for example, there are no references to Form 20-F and information that only needed to be provided on the basis of US law, and not required by Dutch law, has not been inserted. TNT will continue to publish its annual report and communications in accordance with the US Securities Exchange Act on its corporate website, group.tnt.com. Also, where TNT thinks it is helpful, certain information is retained for comparative purposes. In this way TNT intends to provide its stakeholders with a clear overview of its financial year 2007.
Unless otherwise specified or the context so requires, “TNT”, the “company”, the “group”, “it” and “its” refer to TNT N.V. and all its group companies as defined in article 24b, book 2 of the Dutch Civil Code.
TNT has its seat in the Netherlands, which is one of the Member States of the European Union (EU) that has adopted the euro as its currency. Accordingly, TNT has adopted the euro as its reporting currency. In this annual report the euro is also referred to as “€”.
As required by EU regulation, as of 2005 TNT’s consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with International financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) as adopted by the European Union.
Cautionary note with regard to “forward-looking statements”
Some statements in this section are “forward-looking statements”. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainty because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that will occur in the future. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that are outside of TNT’s control and impossible to predict and may cause actual results to differ materially from any future results expressed or implied. These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations, estimates, forecasts, analyses and projections about the industries in which TNT operates and TNT management’s beliefs and assumptions about future events.
You are cautioned not to put undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which only speak as of the date of publication of the annual report and the publication date of the quarterly financial statements and are neither predictions nor guarantees of future events or circumstances. TNT does not undertake any obligation to release publicly any revisions to these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this annual report or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events, except as may be required under applicable securities laws.