HARGREAVES SERVICES PLC (HSP) — Interim Results

Investor webinar replay

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Good afternoon, and welcome to the HARGREAVES SERVICES PLC Interim Results Investor Presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged, and they can be submitted at any time using 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 received during the meeting itself. However, the company can review all questions submitted today and publish responses where appropriate to do so. Before we begin, I would like to submit the following poll. And I would now like to hand you over to CEO Gordon Banham. Good afternoon to you, sir. Yes. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, everyone. Pleased to have such a high attendance. Thank you for taking the time to listen on how the story is developing at HARGREAVES. Quite a lot to tell you about today. I think most of you know me after the last twenty years. I think, again, some of you have all have known Steven, as group FD. And, obviously, we've got Simon, my successor, who has been with us nearly twelve months now, just under. So we'll talk about that in bit more detail through the presentation. So just like to hand over to Stephen, who'll just talk through the financial highlights of the last six months. Thanks, Gordon. First slide here really talks through the the key highlights of the last six months, and it's been a really busy and exciting period of time at HARGREAVES. The first thing to pick out on here is we sold the first tranche of renewables back in October. This is something we've trailed for quite a while, and we highlight we'd realized value out of these renewable energy assets, and we've done so. First tranche sold for upfront cash of just ...