Arcadis Nv S/Adr (ARCAY) Q4 2025 Earnings Call

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Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. I am Gayle, your chorus call operator. Welcome and thank you for joining the Arcadies conference call and live webcast to present and discuss the fourth quarter and full year 2025 financial results. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Ms. Christine Dish, Investor Relations Director. Ms. Dish, you may now proceed. Thank you. Good day, everyone, and welcome to our 2025 full year and fourth quarter results conference call. My name is Christina Dees, and I'm the Investor Relations Director at Arcadis. With me on this call are Alan Brooks, our CEO, Simon Crowe, CFO, and our CEO nominee, Heather Polinski. As usual, we will start with a presentation, followed by Q&A. We would like to draw your attention to the fact that in today's session, management may reiterate forward-looking statements which were made in the press release. Please note the risks related to these statements are more fully described on the company's website. Now, please, over to you, Alan. Thank you, Christine. Good morning and good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to our full year and fourth quarter results call. As Christine said, I'm joined by our CFO, Simon Crowe, who will outline the steps taken to address Arcadis performance, and by Heather Polinski, our CEO nominee, who will talk about her priorities for the future. Heather, who has been with Arcadis for 26 years and most recently run Resilience, the most profitable part of the business, assumes the role on March 1st. Heather is an exceptional leader and I am confident she will position Arcadis for success. Our end of year results are mixed and disappointing, reflecting what has been a challenging year. In light of those challenges, we have taken right-sizing and cost-reduction ...