Cash Flow Statement
| in € thousand | Note | 2016 | 2015 | |||
| 1. Cash flow from operating activities | 
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| Earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) | 
 | 164,010 | 156,539 | |||
| Depreciation, amortisation, impairment and reversals on non-financial non-current assets | 
 | 122,431 | 124,238 | |||
| Increase (+), decrease (-) in provisions | 
 | 17,883 | - 16,509 | |||
| Gains (-), losses (+) from the disposal of non-current assets | 
 | 621 | - 2,723 | |||
| Increase (-), decrease (+) in inventories, trade receivables and other assets not attributable to investing or financing activities | 
 | - 35,261 | 968 | |||
| Increase (+), decrease (-) in trade payables and other liabilities not attributable to investing or financing activities | 
 | 11,288 | - 4,414 | |||
| Interest received | 
 | 2,674 | 3,692 | |||
| Interest paid | 
 | - 16,964 | - 18,980 | |||
| Income tax paid | 
 | - 31,672 | - 41,107 | |||
| Exchange rate and other effects | 
 | - 451 | - 6,363 | |||
| Cash flow from operating activities | 
 | 234,559 | 195,341 | |||
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| 2. Cash flow from investing activities | 
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| Proceeds from disposal of intangible assets, property, plant and equipment and investment property | 
 | 27,032 | 13,774 | |||
| Payments for investments in property, plant and equipment and investment property | 
 | - 117,884 | - 150,800 | |||
| Payments for investments in intangible assets | - 12,323 | - 8,814 | ||||
| Proceeds from disposal of non-current financial assets | 
 | 0 | 361 | |||
| Payments for investments in non-current financial assets | 
 | 0 | - 1,685 | |||
| Proceeds (+), payments (-) for short-term deposits | 
 | 54,255 | 16,950 | |||
| Cash flow from investing activities | 
 | - 48,920 | - 130,214 | |||
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| 3. Cash flow from financing activities | 
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| Payments for increasing interests in fully consolidated companies | 
 | - 13,556 | 0 | |||
| Dividends paid to shareholders of the parent company | - 46,062 | - 40,482 | ||||
| Dividends/settlement obligation paid to non-controlling interests | 
 | - 24,907 | - 32,400 | |||
| Redemption of lease liabilities | 
 | - 5,132 | - 7,144 | |||
| Proceeds from the issuance of bonds and (financial) loans | 
 | 10,000 | 121,265 | |||
| Payments for the redemption of (financial) loans | 
 | - 42,754 | - 123,964 | |||
| Cash flow from financing activities | 
 | - 122,411 | - 82,725 | |||
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| 4. Financial funds at the end of the period | 
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| Change in financial funds (subtotals 1.–3.) | 
 | 63,228 | - 17,598 | |||
| Change in financial funds due to exchange rates | 
 | - 1,006 | - 2,604 | |||
| Change in financial funds due to consolidation | 
 | 4,760 | 0 | |||
| Financial funds at the beginning of the period | 
 | 165,415 | 185,617 | |||
| Financial funds at the end of the period | 232,397 | 165,415 |