AVON TECHNOLOGIES PLC (AVON) — Interim Results for the six months ended 31 March 2025

Investor webinar replay

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Good afternoon, and welcome to the AVON TECHNOLOGIES PLC investor presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and can be submitted at any time via the q and a tab situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Simply type in your questions and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question it received during the meeting itself. However, the company can review all questions submitted today and publish responses where it's appropriate to do so. Before we begin, I'd like to submit the following poll. And then I'd like to hand you over to Josh Slater, CEO. Good afternoon, sir. Hi there, and hello to everyone on the calls. I'm here today with Rich Cashion, our CFO, and also Steve Elwell, who runs the president of our AVON protection business, which is over half of the group. We're very happy to talk to retail investors. We have a very long history, of engaging with retail investors, being a 140 year old company, so we do regard all of our investors as important. Those of you that didn't join in to the call this morning, we're gonna go through the same slides, but we'll do it in a slightly faster fashion. We will leave lots of time for questions. Despite the disclaimer at the beginning, actually we generally answer every question we get, so do feel free to ask us questions. So just some highlights. If I take the half we've just had compared to the same half in the prior year, we've made excellent progress across all of our financial metrics. Revenue's up, as Rich will describe in a second. Profit's up, cash flow's up. Return on capital's up significantly, and perhaps most excitingly because it supports future growth, our order book is also up. Rich will give you the detai...