HARGREAVES SERVICES PLC (HSP) — Interim Results

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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 what is 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. Yeah. Good afternoon, and and welcome, everybody, and thank you for taking the time to hear how the HARGREAVES journey is progressing. I jokingly said this morning, if there was a gold medal for going from black to green, HARGREAVES must win it. Those of you who know us a long time ago when we listed we're a coal company, we're never very green, and it's amazing where the company's come to. We set out a load of strategic commitments to shareholders previously, and I'm pleased to say we are delivering against them. For those of you who don't know the company, we'll just talk about what the business is. So this first slide, it's a sum of the parts play. So what you get with HARGREAVES is three pillars, as we call it. So talking about services, had a very good period. We're doing very well. There's volume in the services sector. We'll talk about it in a bit more detail. We've got a margin maintained at 7%, 11% increase in revenue. And subsequent years, you'll see the brokers have increased the profits for subsequent years, which shows that we're we're building some real...