GALLIFORD TRY HOLDINGS PLC (GFRD) — Full Year Results

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the GALLIFORD TRY HOLDINGS PLC full year results investor presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged. They can be submitted at any time via the q and a tab that's just situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Please just 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 review all questions submitted today, and we'll publish those responses where it's appropriate to do so. And before we begin, as usual, we would just like to submit the following poll. And if you could give that your kind attention, I'm sure the company would be most grateful. And I would now like to hand you over to the executive management team from GALLIFORD TRY HOLDINGS. Bill, good morning, sir. Morning. Thank you, Jake. Morning, everybody. Thank you for joining. I'm Bill Hocking, chief exec, and and I'm here with Chris Hansen, our new CFO. And you'll hear from Chris in a minute. So I'll start off with the the highlights, and then Chris will take us through the numbers in a bit more detail, then I'll get a bit of an update on the strategy. So here's a here are the highlights for the year. We've had a really, really good year, everyone. Revenue, £1,800,000,000, which is up 27% in the previous year. There are some reasons for that revenue growth, which I'll come back to, in a minute. As a result of that, we've we've raised our operating margins to two and a half percent on route to our, our original target of four of 3% in 2026 and our new target of 4% in 2030. But just for everyone's clarity, we are still aiming at 3% in '26 as a way mark along th...