Preliminary Results for year ended 31 March 2012

Ø Revenue increased to €10.7 billion (+24.9% on a constant currency basis) driven by acquisitions, higher oil prices and strong organic growth in DCC SerCom.

Ø Operating profit declined to €185 million (-18.3% on a constant currency basis) reflecting the significant impact on trading in DCC Energy of the very mild weather, higher oil prices and the continuing difficult economic background.

Ø Excellent cash flow despite the reduced level of operating profit

o Operating cash flow of €277 million (€270 million in the prior year)

o Free cash flow of €146 million (€124 million in the prior year)

o Working capital days reduced to 2.5 from 4.9 in the prior year.

Ø Proposed 5% increase in the final dividend to give total full year dividend of 77.89 cent, an increase of 5% over the prior year.

Ø Good year for development activity with committed acquisition expenditure of €169 million which has strengthened DCC's market positions in a number of its businesses.

Ø The Group anticipates a return to strong growth in operating profit in the year to 31 March 2013.

Commenting on the results, Tommy Breen, Chief Executive, said:

"The operating profit of the Group declined by 18.3% on a constant currency basis in the year ended 31 March 2012. As signalled during the year, the Group's results were adversely impacted by trading in DCC Energy due to mild weather, higher oil prices and the continuing difficult economic background, particularly in the UK. While operating profit in DCC Energy in the year ended 31 March 2012 declined by 38.3% on a constant currency basis, reflecting the factors already referred to, operating profit in the Group's other four divisions combined increased by 11.3% on a constant currency basis. This was driven primarily by DCC SerCom, DCC's second largest division, which increased its operating profit by 17.0% on a constant currency basis.

The year was also one of significant development activity, within DCC Energy and across the wider Group, with total capital deployed on acquisitions and net capital expenditure of €235 million. With the benefit of this activity and the prospect of a more normal winter, DCC looks forward to a resumption of strong growth in the year ahead.

The Board is recommending a 5.0% increase in the final dividend reflecting DCC's continued strong cash generation and its confidence in the future development of the Group.

The outlook for the year to 31 March 2013 is set against a continued uncertain economic environment and the important assumption that there will be a return to more normal winter temperatures compared to the extremely mild winter last year, which should give rise to a strong recovery in DCC Energy's operating profit. Consequently, at this very early stage, the Group anticipates that its operating profit and adjusted earnings per share on continuing activities, both on a constant currency basis, will be approximately 15% ahead of the prior year. This would result in approximately a 20% increase in operating profit and in adjusted earnings per share compared to the prior year on a reported basis, assuming an exchange rate of Stg£0.81 = €1.

DCC retains a strong equity base, relatively long term debt maturities and significant cash resources which leave it well placed to take advantage of further acquisition and development opportunities."

For reference, please contact:

Tommy Breen, Chief Executive Tel:+353 1 2799 400

Fergal O'Dwyer, Chief Financial Officer Email:[email protected]

Redmond McEvoy, Investor Relations Manager www.dcc.ie

Results

A summary of the Group's results for the year ended 31 March 2012 is as follows:

Overview of results

Revenue

Group revenue increased by 24.9%, on a constant currency basis, to €10.7 billion primarily as a result of acquisitions, the impact of higher oil prices and strong organic growth in DCC SerCom. DCC Energy increased its sales volumes by 10.8%, however, like for like volumes declined by 5.9%. Average selling prices in DCC Energy increased by 16.9% due to the higher oil prices. Excluding DCC Energy, Group revenue was 13.6% ahead of the prior year on a constant currency basis; approximately half of this growth was organic.

Operating profit

As signalled during the year, the results for the Group were adversely impacted by trading in DCC Energy, which suffered from the effects of the very mild weather, higher oil prices and the continuing difficult economic background, particularly in the UK, DCC Energy's largest market. Operating profit in DCC Energy declined by 38.3% on a constant currency basis as the impact of the sustained period of extremely mild temperatures on both volumes and margins was exacerbated by its comparison to the extremely cold weather conditions of the prior year. The average temperature in the UK in the very important quarter to 31 December 2011 was the mildest on record, in contrast to the same quarter in the prior year which was the coldest on record. The other key quarter to 31 March 2012 was also significantly milder than the prior year. DCC Energy's total heating related volumes declined by approximately 15% on a like for like basis compared to the prior year. The substantially weaker demand for heating oil products gave rise to considerable excess capacity, even during the normally busy winter months, which in a very competitive market resulted in reduced gross margins across all product grades. This reduction in gross margins, combined with the effect of a predominantly fixed operating cost base, had a significant impact on DCC Energy's operating profit for the year.

Operating profit in the Group's other four divisions combined increased by 11.3% on a constant currency basis. DCC SerCom, DCC's second largest division, increased operating profit by 17.0%, also on a constant currency basis. This reflected another excellent performance in SerCom Distribution, where revenue and operating profit, on a constant currency basis, were 16.5% and 20.0% respectively ahead of the prior year.

DCC Healthcare increased its operating profit on continuing activities by 5.3% on a constant currency basis, while DCC Environmental's operating profit advanced by 24.9%, also on a constant currency basis driven, primarily by acquisition activity during the year. Operating profit declined by 7.0% in DCC's smallest division, DCC Food & Beverage.

Overall operating profit in the Group declined by 18.3% on a constant currency basis. Approximately 70% of the Group's operating profit in the year was denominated in sterling. The average exchange rate at which sterling profits were translated during the year was Stg£0.8684 = €1, compared to an average translation rate of Stg£0.8522 = €1 for the prior year, a weakening of 2% which resulted in a modest negative translation impact on Group operating profit of €2.5 million. Consequently on a reported basis operating profit decreased by 19.4%.

An analysis of the performance in each half of the year, on a constant currency basis, is shown below:

Finance costs (net)

Net finance costs increased to €17.9 million (2011: €14.6 million) primarily due to higher average net debt during the year of €248 million, compared to €167 million during the prior year. Interest was covered 10.4 times by Group operating profit before amortisation of intangible assets (15.8 times in 2011).

Profit before net exceptional items, amortisation of intangible assets and tax

Profit before net exceptional items, amortisation of intangible assets and tax of €167.1 million decreased by 21.1% on a constant currency basis (by 22.2% on a reported basis).

Net exceptional charge and amortisation of intangible assets

The Group incurred a net exceptional charge before tax of €22.8 million as follows:

The cash effect of the net exceptional charge was €2.8 million.

In January 2004 the London High Court awarded Stg£10.2 million in damages and interim costs of Stg£2.0 million (in both cases together with interest) to DCC's British based mobility and rehabilitation subsidiary for breach of an exclusive supply agreement by a Taiwanese supplier. Further amounts in respect of costs of Stg£2.9 million were subsequently determined by the London High Court to be payable. In order to enforce the London High Court judgements, it has been necessary to pursue the collection of all outstanding amounts through the Taiwanese courts. In March 2012, DCC received the initial Stg£12.2 million referred to above. The recovery of accumulated interest on this amount and the additional costs referred to above continue to be pursued through the Taiwanese courts. DCC has not accrued the amount of the outstanding claim.

Restructuring of certain of the Group's pension arrangements during the year gave rise to an exceptional gain of €3.6 million.

The Group incurred an exceptional charge of €19.4 million primarily in relation to restructuring costs and the cost of integrating recently acquired businesses.

There was a non-cash charge of €14.4 million relating to the impairment of subsidiary goodwill and of an associate company investment and the write-down of certain property assets. Included in this charge is an impairment charge in relation to the carrying value of Allied Foods, a subsidiary of DCC Food & Beverage, following the loss of a major distribution contract during the year. In addition, on 3 April 2012 the Group announced that it had agreed to dispose of Altimate Group SA, DCC SerCom's Enterprise distribution business, which is expected to give rise to a loss of approximately €8.0 million, primarily resulting from the non-recovery of a portion of the goodwill arising since the acquisition of Altimate in 2000.

IFRS 3 requires that professional fees and tax costs (such as stamp duty) relating to the evaluation and completion of acquisitions are expensed in the Income Statement and these costs amounted to €6.6 million.

The charge for the amortisation of intangible assets was €11.3 million (2011: €11.0 million).

Profit before tax

Profit before tax of €133.0 million decreased by 28.6% on a constant currency basis (by 29.8% on a reported basis).

Taxation

The effective tax rate for the Group decreased to 18% compared to 21% in the previous year, the reduction being primarily due to a lower proportion of UK taxable profits and a reduction in the UK corporation tax rate.

Adjusted earnings per share

Adjusted earnings per share of 163.51 cent decreased by 18.4% on a constant currency basis (by 19.5% on a reported basis).

Dividend

The Board is recommending an increase of 5.0% in the final dividend to 50.47 cent per share which, when added to the interim dividend of 27.42 cent per share, gives a total dividend of 77.89 cent per share for the year, a 5.0% increase over the prior year dividend of 74.18 cent per share. The dividend is covered 2.1 times by adjusted earnings per share (2.7 times in 2011). It is proposed to pay the final dividend on 26 July 2012 to shareholders on the register at the close of business on 25 May 2012.

Despite the challenging trading environment the Group generated excellent operating and free cash flow during the year as set out below:

Operating cash flow in 2012 was €277.3 million compared to €269.6 million in 2011. Working capital was reduced by €46.6 million despite a €2.0 billion increase in revenue, with overall working capital days reducing to 2.5 days at 31 March 2012 from 4.9 days at 31 March 2011, with debtor days reducing to 34.6 days from 36.8 days in the prior year.

The excellent operating cash flow performance generated increased free cash flow for the Group which, after interest and tax payments and net capital expenditure, amounted to €146.0 million compared to €123.6 million in the prior year.

Return on total capital employed

Notwithstanding the excellent working capital management, the Group's return on total capital employed reduced from 19.9% to 14.2% primarily reflecting the decline in operating profit in DCC Energy.

Acquisition and Capital Expenditure

The Group is encouraged by the substantial level of development activity in a number of its businesses during the year. DCC Energy made a number of acquisitions which have strengthened its position in oil distribution in Britain (including in the strategically important area of transport fuels) and extended its oil distribution operations in Continental Europe. Capital deployed on acquisitions in the year to 31 March 2012 amounted to €169.1 million, inclusive of estimated deferred consideration payable of €36.1 million.

Acquisition and capital expenditure in the year to 31 March 2012 amounted to €234.7 million as follows:

Acquisitions undertaken during the year ended 31 March 2012 included:

DCC Energy:

·; Certain oil distribution assets previously owned by Total in Britain, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands, acquired for a debt/cash free consideration of €67 million (the subject of DCC Stock Exchange announcements published on 23 September and 1 November 2011). This acquisition was subject to a review by the Office of Fair Trading ("OFT"). On 4 April 2012, the OFT announced its decision to refer the acquisition to the Competition Commission ("CC"). Pending the outcome of this review, DCC has agreed to continue with the hold separate arrangements already entered into with regard to this acquisition. DCC considers that the CC's more detailed review of the acquisition will enable it to conclude just how competitive the oil distribution market in the UK is.

·; Swea Energi, the leading distributor of heating oils and transport fuels to domestic, commercial and industrial customers in Sweden, acquired for an initial consideration of €23 million (the subject of a DCC Stock Exchange announcement published on 20 December 2011). This acquisition has significantly increased the scale of DCC Energy's oil distribution business in Scandinavia.

·; A number of smaller oil distribution businesses in Britain, Sweden, Austria and Northern Ireland.

DCC SerCom:

·; SerCom Distribution extended its range of customer services in the home entertainment market through the acquisition for a modest consideration of Ztorm AB, a provider of digital media distribution services based in Sweden (previously referred to in DCC's IMS published on 16 January 2012).

DCC Healthcare:

·; Investment of €9 million in May 2011 in acquiring the business, product licences and certain other assets of Neolab Limited, a British generic pharmaceuticals business based in Hampshire. The Neolab business is involved in the sourcing, registration, sales, marketing and distribution of generic pharmaceuticals and sells into the British community pharmacy sector under the Neolab and private label brands. Its portfolio covers a broad range of therapy areas including analgesia, respiratory, cardiology and psychiatry (previously referred to in DCC's IMS published on 15 July 2011).

·; The acquisition in February 2012, for a modest initial consideration, of the Forth Medical Group. Forth is a specialist distributor of neurology, orthopaedic and niche surgical devices which has strong relationships with clinicians in the British hospital sector. This acquisition strengthens DCC Healthcare's position in the sales and marketing of medical devices in Britain.

DCC Environmental

·; The acquisition of Oakwood Fuels Limited, an oil and hazardous waste collection, processing and recycling business based in Nottinghamshire, for an initial consideration of €11 million (the subject of a DCC Stock Exchange announcement published on 23 June 2011).

·; The acquisition of Maxi Waste Limited, a small recycling business operating from two facilities in Leicester (previously referred to in DCC's Interim Results announcement published on 8 November 2011).

Since 31 March 2012 DCC Energy has purchased Medical Gas Solutions Limited for a consideration of up to €5 million. This company supplies oxygen and analgesic gas cylinders to ambulance trusts in the UK and is complementary to DCC Energy's LPG business.

The cash outflow on acquisitions in the year ended 31 March 2012 of €168.1 million includes those acquisitions completed during the year and deferred acquisition payments already provided for. This includes the completion on 30 September 2011 of the acquisition of Pace Fuelcare (the subject of a DCC Stock Exchange announcement published on 17 February 2011).

Net capital expenditure in the year of €65.6 million (2011: €77.2 million) compares to a depreciation charge of €55.4 million (2011: €52.9 million).

Financial Strength

DCC's financial position remains very strong, well funded and highly liquid. At 31 March 2012 the Group had net debt of €128.2 million and total equity of just over €1.0 billion. DCC has significant cash resources and relatively long term debt maturities. Substantially all of the Group's debt has been raised in the US private placement market with an average credit margin of 1.23% over floating Euribor/Libor and an average maturity of 5.5 years from 31 March 2012.

Key financial ratios (as of 31 March 2012), including the principal financial covenants included in the Group's various lending agreements, are as follows:

*the Group does not have any net debt: EBITDA lending covenants

The Group retains significant financial capacity to support its future growth plans.

Outlook

The outlook for the year to 31 March 2013 is set against a continued uncertain economic environment and the important assumption that there will be a return to more normal winter temperatures compared to the extremely mild winter last year, which should give rise to a strong recovery in DCC Energy's operating profit. Consequently, at this very early stage, the Group anticipates that its operating profit and adjusted earnings per share on continuing activities, both on a constant currency basis, will be approximately 15% ahead of the prior year. This would result in approximately a 20% increase in operating profit and in adjusted earnings per share compared to the prior year on a reported basis, assuming an exchange rate of Stg£0.81 = €1.

 Operating review

DCC Energy had a very difficult year with operating profit declining by 38.3% on a constant currency basis, as a result of the very mild weather, higher oil prices and the continuing difficult economic background particularly in the UK, its largest market.

The average temperature in the UK in the quarter to 31 December 2011 was the mildest on record. In contrast the same quarter in the prior year was the coldest on record. The average temperature in the other important heating quarter to 31 March 2012 was also significantly milder than the prior year. The substantially weaker demand for heating oil products created excess capacity across a very competitive market which resulted in reduced gross margins on all product grades. This reduction in gross margins, combined with the effect of a predominantly fixed operating cost base, had a significant impact on DCC Energy's operating profit for the year.

Overall DCC Energy sold 7.9 billion litres of product during the year, an increase of 10.8% over the prior year. Like for like volumes declined by 5.9% on the prior year with heating related volumes declining by approximately 15% and non heating related volumes declining by approximately 2%.

The performance of the oil distribution business in Britain and Ireland was significantly impacted by the factors outlined above and while the business in Continental Europe was also affected by the weather, it benefited from its substantially outsourced infrastructure and from the first time contribution of Swea.

The LPG business in Britain and Ireland was also impacted by the weak demand for heating products and the difficult economic environment with overall volumes down 10.5%.

During the year DCC Energy made a number of acquisitions which have strengthened its position in oil distribution in Britain (including in the strategically important area of transport fuels) and extended its oil distribution operations in Continental Europe. DCC Energy's strategy is to develop its business in the retail petrol station, marine, aviation and other value added product sectors, which along with other initiatives will, over time, reduce the impact of weather on its business.

At the end of the first half, DCC Energy completed the acquisition of Pace Fuelcare, a 455 million litre oil distribution business which operated from 19 locations across southern England. On 31 October 2011, DCC Energy completed the acquisition of certain oil distribution assets previously owned by Total in Britain, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. The Total businesses sold, in aggregate, 1.5 billion litres of product in 2010 to a broad range of dealer owned, dealer operated retail service stations, commercial, industrial, agricultural and domestic customers. Having carried out a review of the transaction, the UK Office of Fair Trading ("OFT") decided on 4 April 2012 to refer the transaction to the Competition Commission ("CC") and, pending the outcome of that review, the business will continue to be held separate. DCC considers that the CC's more detailed review of the acquisition will enable it to conclude just how competitive the oil distribution market in the UK is.

On 6 February 2012, DCC Energy completed the acquisition of Swea, the leading distributor of heating oils and transport fuels to domestic, commercial and industrial customers in Sweden, for an initial consideration of €23 million. The acquisition of Swea significantly strengthens DCC's oil distribution business in Scandinavia.

DCC Energy is at the very early stages of developing a presence in the alternative energy sector and in November 2011 acquired a small business in Britain which distributes a broad range of alternative energy products. In April 2012 DCC Energy acquired Medical Gas Solutions Limited ("MGS"), a supplier of oxygen and analgesic gas cylinders to ambulance trusts in the UK. MGS is complementary to DCC Energy's LPG business.

During the year, DCC Energy also completed the acquisition of a number of smaller oil distributors in Britain, Sweden, Austria and Northern Ireland.

The outlook for DCC Energy for the year to 31 March 2013 is set against the important assumption that there will be a return to more normal winter temperatures compared to the extremely mild winter last year which should give rise to a strong recovery in DCC Energy's operating profit.

DCC SerCom increased operating profit by 17.0% on a constant currency basis, reflecting another excellent performance in SerCom Distribution, which accounted for 94% of operating profit in the division and achieved constant currency operating profit growth of 20.0%. Good organic growth in SerCom Distribution of 10.9% was complemented by the contribution from acquisitions completed in the prior year.

On 3 April 2012, DCC announced that it had reached agreement to dispose of Altimate Group SA, SerCom Distribution's Enterprise business, subject to competition clearance from the European Commission. The decision to dispose of Altimate (which accounted for approximately 10% of DCC SerCom's profits during the year) reflects the strategy to focus SerCom Distribution on the supply of IT, communications and home entertainment products to retail and reseller customers who in turn service consumers and small and medium sized businesses. This is a business where DCC has strong market positions in Britain, France and Ireland and the potential for expansion, both within these markets and further afield.

SerCom Distribution (excluding Altimate) achieved excellent constant currency profit growth in the year of 17.5%. This was driven by good organic growth of 8.4% and by the full year contributions from the acquisitions in the prior year of Comtrade in France and Advent Data in Britain.

The business in Britain, which accounted for 79%* of revenues, achieved very strong growth driven by significant new vendor additions in PC and mobile communications products complemented by excellent growth in consumables. In addition, the business achieved good growth in its networking, components and tablet product categories as it continued to grow its market share in these areas.

The market for home entertainment products in Britain was weak and the games market was particularly affected by the games console market being at a mature stage in its current product cycle, disruption in high street retail and the rise of mobile gaming. Recognising the changing nature of the games market, SerCom Distribution acquired Ztorm AB, a leading provider of digital media distribution services, in December 2011 to complement its existing service offering.

In France, which accounted for 15%* of revenues, excellent operating profit growth was achieved, reflecting very good organic growth and a full year contribution from Comtrade. The French business was successful in broadening its vendor portfolio in accessories and peripherals and also benefited from increased sales of higher margin products and good cost control.

In Ireland, which accounted for 6%* of revenues, SerCom Distribution achieved strong growth in both IT and home entertainment products and has continued to broaden its customer base.

Operating profit in SerCom Solutions, the Supply Chain Management business, declined during the year reflecting a very weak first half, although the second half benefited from a contract with a new OEM customer.

The breadth of DCC SerCom's supplier and customer relationships across a wide range of products and markets leaves it well placed to continue to develop its business in the year to 31 March 2013, notwithstanding an anticipated further decline in demand for certain home entertainment products.

 * Note - based on continuing activities in SerCom Distribution excluding the Enterprise business.

DCC Healthcare achieved growth in operating profit from continuing activities of 5.3% on a constant currency basis despite a challenging market background, particularly in Ireland.

DCC Hospital Supplies & Services which operates in medical devices, pharma and value added logistics, had a good year.

In medical devices, modest revenue growth was achieved and the scale of activities in Britain was significantly increased through the acquisition in February 2012 of the Forth Medical Group. Forth is a specialist distributor of neurology, orthopaedic and niche surgical devices and has strong relationships with clinicians in the British hospital sector.

In pharma, strong revenue growth was achieved and good progress was made in the development of the product portfolio, regulatory capability and market coverage in Britain and Ireland. Important in this regard was the acquisition in May 2011 of the business and certain assets of Neolab Limited, a British generic pharma business. The Neolab product range, where DCC Healthcare is the product licence holder, has opened up valuable new customer and supplier relationships. DCC Healthcare also achieved strong pharma sales growth in the British hospital sector driven by a number of NHS contract wins.

Good progress was made in value added logistics services in Britain and the business has recently moved into a newly built state of the art distribution centre in Derbyshire.

DCC Health & Beauty Solutions which provides outsourced solutions to nutrition and beauty brand owners, generated strong revenue and profit growth in nutrition driven by continued strong development with existing customers and the expansion of its European customer base. Overall profit in DCC Health & Beauty Solutions was held back by the impact on its beauty operations of a reduction in contribution from one of its important customers due to destocking and an unfavourable change in sales mix.

DCC Healthcare is well placed for the year to 31 March 2013, which will have the full year benefit of recent development activity in pharma and medical devices and an expected recovery in the performance of its beauty operations.

* Note - based on continuing activities excluding Mobility & Rehabilitation

DCC Environmental generated an increase in operating profit of 24.9% on a constant currency basis, benefiting from the first time contribution of Oakwood Fuels, which has performed strongly since its acquisition in June 2011. Oakwood is a British waste oil and hazardous waste collection, processing and recycling business based in Nottinghamshire.

While operating profit grew strongly in Britain driven by the acquisition of Oakwood, trading conditions in the non hazardous waste management and recycling business were impacted by a decline in waste volumes in the market and a reduction in recyclate commodity prices in the second half of the financial year. The business consolidated its strong position in the East Midlands through the acquisition of Maxi Waste which operates two materials recycling facilities in Leicester. The hazardous waste management and recycling business performed satisfactorily and the scale and range of its activities was significantly increased by the acquisition of Oakwood.

The business in Ireland performed well, driven by the development of innovative solutions for hazardous waste and tight control of costs.

DCC Environmental is well placed for the year to 31 March 2013 to benefit from the full year contribution of acquisitions completed in the prior year.

DCC Food & Beverage experienced a decline in revenue and operating profit primarily due to the loss of a major contract in the frozen and chilled logistics business in the second half of the year.

The branded distribution activities delivered good growth in operating profit driven by strong growth in company owned brands. The business benefited from the development of its Goodall's and YR brands as well as growth in its Robert Roberts coffee and tea brands. DCC Food & Beverage's healthfood brand, Kelkin, continued to grow, particularly in the areas of cereals and gluten free products, although this was offset by a decline in sales of third party agency brands.

The frozen and chilled logistics business was negatively impacted by the loss of a major contract resulting in a significant decline in operating profit. A major restructuring has been undertaken and this will lead to improvements in competitiveness as the business seeks to win new customers over time.

The Group's joint venture, Kylemore Services Group, delivered a very good result due to a very strong performance in its contract services business. A number of large new customer contracts were won during the year.

It is anticipated that operating profit in the year to 31 March 2013 will decline due to the full year impact of the contract loss in the frozen and chilled logistics business.

Annual Report and Annual General Meeting

DCC's 2012 Annual Report will be published in June 2012. The Company's Annual General Meeting will be held at 11:00 am on Friday 20 July 2012 in The Four Seasons Hotel, Simmonscourt Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, Ireland.

This announcement contains some forward-looking statements that represent DCC's expectations for its business, based on current expectations about future events, which by their nature involve risks and uncertainties. DCC believes that its expectations and assumptions with respect to these forward-looking statements are reasonable, however because they involve risk and uncertainty, which are in some cases beyond DCC's control, actual results or performance may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.

Presentation of results and dial-in facility

There will be a presentation of these results to analysts and investors/fund managers in Dublin at 9.00 am today. The slides for this presentation can be downloaded from DCC's website www.dcc.ie.

A dial-in facility will be available for this meeting:

Ireland: 1800 946 811 or +353 1 242 1074

International: +44 1296 480 100

UK: 0800 783 0906

Passcode: 611 674

This announcement and further information on DCC is available at www.dcc.ie

Group Income Statement

for the year ended 31 March 2012

Group Statement of Comprehensive Income

for the year ended 31 March 2012

Group Balance Sheet

as at 31 March 2012

Group Statement of Changes in Equity

Group Cash Flow Statement

for the year ended 31 March 2012

Notes to the Preliminary Results

for the year ended 31 March 2012

1. Basis of Preparation

The financial information, from the Group Income Statement to Note 15, contained in this preliminary results statement has been extracted from the Group financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2012 and is presented in euro, rounded to the nearest thousand. The financial information does not include all the information and disclosures required in the annual financial statements. The Annual Report will be distributed to shareholders and made available on the Company's website www.dcc.ie. It will also be filed with the Companies Registration Office. The auditors have reported on the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2012 and their report was unqualified. The financial information for the year ended 31 March 2012 represents an abbreviated version of the Group's statutory financial statements on which an unqualified audit report was issued and which have been filed with the Companies Registration Office.

The financial information presented in this report has been prepared in accordance with the Listing Rules of the Irish Stock Exchange and the accounting policies that the Group has adopted for 2012 and are consistent with those applied in the prior year except as otherwise set out below: