Dublin headquartered DCC has announced a 21% rise in its operating profit for the year to the end of March with all of its divisions recording "strong" profit growth.
The energy, healthcare and technology company said it made £363.6m over the 12 month period on a 17.4% rise in continuing revenues to £12.270 billion.
Its pre-tax profits for the year rose by 23.7% to £268.2m from £216.7m
The company has also proposed a dividend per share of 111.80 pence, up 15% on the 97.22 pence declared last year.
DCC owns Flogas and Emo in Ireland, and also operates a number of gas and fuel station brands across the likes of France, Belgium and Denmark.
In the area of healthcare its brands include Fannin and Kent Pharmaceutical, while its technology division Exertis offers a range of services including cloud computing and home entertainment software.
Last month DCC said it was selling its Environmental division to private equity firm Exponent in a deal valued at £219m.
"The results reflect the continued successful execution of our strategy in significantly growing our operating profits, converting those profits into cash and re-deploying capital into our Energy, Healthcare and Technology businesses," commented outgoing chief executive Tommy Breen.
"The group continues to have the ambition, capacity and opportunity for further development. We expect that the coming year will be another year of profit growth and development for DCC," he added.
Mr Breen said last month he would retire from the company after its AGM in July.
Mr Breen, who has been CEO since 2008, has been with DCC for over 30 years. He will be succeeded by Donal Murphy, executive director and managing director of DCC Energy, DCC's largest division.
The company said today that the 12 month period saw very active corporate development, with over £550m spent on acquisitions.
These deals included the purchase of Esso's retail operations in Norway, the acquisition of Shell's LPG business in Hong Kong and Macau - the company's first material step outside of Europe.
Revenue at DCC's Energy division rose by 20.7% to £9.074 billion while operating profits increased by 24.3% to £254.9m as the business was boosted by the full year contribution of acquisitions completed in the previous year and strong organic growth in the LPG business.
The division sold 14.6 billion litres of product during the year, an increase of 12.5% on the previous year.
Operating profits at DCC Healthcare's division rose by 8.7% to £49m while revenues grew by 3.2% to £506.5m. DCC said the division again improved its operating margin and continues to generate excellent returns on capital employed.
Revenues at DCC Technology - which trades as Exertis - were up 10.1% in the year to March to £2.689 billion while operating profits grew by 17.1% to £41.1m.
The company said the increases reflected organic profit growth in the UK and Ireland and the benefit of the acquisitions of Hammer and CUC.
DCC noted that the business in Ireland achieved strong organic growth, driven by good business development in the mobile and retail sectors and growth in the sales of networking and security systems.
