1999 1998 Personnel costs Salaries and wages 780.6 712.0 Pension costs 33.9 58.8 Other social security costs 172.6 148.7 Other personnel costs 154.0 129.9 1,141.1 1,049.4 Personnel costs capitalized in connection with production of tangible fixed assets for own purposes -8.7 -7.9 1,132.4 1,041.5 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. Personnel numbers The average number of employees was: The Netherlands 5,647 5,839 RestofEurope 17,635 14,139 Western Hemisphere 813 746 Africa 5,421 6,197 Asia Pacific 1,119 1,060 Heineken N.V. and fully consolidated participations 30,635 27,981 RestofEurope 932 565 Africa 537 764 Asia Pacific 4,629 4,201 Proportionally consolidated participations 6,098 5,530 Heineken N.V. and consolidated participations 36,733 33,51 1 Depreciation and value adjustments Depreciation on tangible fixed assets 355,2 339.9 Othervalue adjustments oftangible fixed assets 30.5 37.1 385.7 377.0 Withdrawal from investment facilities equalization account -7.2 -7.8 Value adjustments of other assets 49.1 3.7 427.6 372.9 The other value adjustments of tangible fixed assets mainly concern assets in Asia Pacific and Central Europe. The increase of value adjustments of other assets concerns accelerated write-offs of packaging materials in Central Europe and depreciation of receivables from a participation in Africa. H E I N E K F I N A N C S T A T E M 19 9 9 59 EN N. V. I A L E N T S

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