1997
1996
Personnel costs
Salaries and wages
Pension costs
Other social security costs
Other personnel costs
Personnel costs capitalized in connection
with production of tangible fixed assets
for own purposes
The appropriations concerning reorganizations to the balance
sheet item Provision for other personnel schemes are accounted
for, inter alia, under the heading Other personnel costs.
1,559,555
76,451
330,729
322,896
2,289,631
-16,027
2,273,604
1,424,260
77,155
299,572
384,558
2,185,545
-11,126
2,174,419
Personnel numbers
The average number of employees was:
The Netherlands
Rest of Europe
Western Hemisphere
Africa
Asia Pacific
Heineken N.V. and fully consolidated
participations
5,791
13,487
638
5,678
1,453
27,047
5,766
13,555
709
5,142
1,477
26,649
Rest of Europe
Western Hemisphere
Africa
Asia Pacific
Proportionally consolidated participations
511
91
742
4,030
5,374
676
118
613
3,626
5,033
Heineken N.V. and consolidated participations
Depreciation and value adjustments
Depreciation on tangible fixed assets
Other value adjustments of tangible
fixed assets
Withdrawal from investment facilities
equalization account
Value adjustments of other assets
32,421
739,101
17,945
757,046
-18,619
5,724
744,151
31,682
641,372
401
641,773
- 32,571
16,333
625,535
The increase of other value adjustments of tangible
fixed assets concerns an adjustment to net realizable value
of real estate in Switzerland.
HEINEKEN N. V.
ANNUAL ACCOUNTS
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