BILLINGTON HOLDINGS PLC (BILN) — Interim Results

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Good afternoon, and welcome to the BILLINGTON HOLDINGS PLC investor presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and could 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 receives during the meeting itself. However, the company can remove 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 I'd now like to hand you over to Mark Smith, CEO. Good afternoon, sir. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. I'm Mark Smith, chief executive officer officer at BILLINGTON HOLDINGS PLC, and my colleague, Trevor Taylor, chief financial officer, are pleased to present to you our 2024 interim results. Next slide. Next slide. Our executive summary provides some of the highlights of 2024 to date. Following an exceptional group performance in 2023, we're pleased to present our 2024 interim results, which report the BILLINGTON Group's achieving a turnover of 57,900,000, PBT of 4,600,000, and a margin of 7.3%. 2023 was an exceptional year, and we are proud to reward our loyal shareholders with a very competitive ordinary dividend of 20 p per share and a further exceptional dividend of 13 p in June. Despite subdued trading conditions, the group operating in all construction sectors has achieved a strong order book we spanned into 2025 with the thread of work into 2026. We've continued the implementation of strategic investment program with the purchase of a new high-tech laser fittings machine, and a coke drill line is expected to be installed in the next few weeks at. At Easy Edg...