HARWORTH GROUP PLC (HWG) — Investor Presentation

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Good afternoon, and welcome to the HARWORTH GROUP PLC full year results investor presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and can be submitted at any time by the q and a tab situated in the right hand corner of your screen. Just simply type in your questions and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question received in the meeting itself. Have the company camera view all the questions submitted today and publish responses where it is appropriate to do so. Before we begin, I'd like to submit the following poll. That's now I'd like to hand you over to Linda Shillor, CEO. Good afternoon to you. Hi. Thank you, Alessandro, and good afternoon, everybody. And I would normally be saying thank you for joining us, but it it is just me this afternoon. Kitty sends her apologies, our CFO. She's had a bit of a medical emergency with her her young son, overnight, which has run through into today. So please be kind. I will attempt to answer as many of the questions that would come to the CFO as possible at the end. But as Alexandra highlighted, you know, we might not be able to do all of those, so we'll come back to you, in writing afterwards. But I suppose sort of, just to kick off really, and present to you, you know, sort of, what HARWORTH has actually achieved during the year. So from a 2023, perspective, this slide actually shows the highlights, and you will see that actually we delivered an EPRA NDV of 205.1p a share, so that was up 4.4%. Total return of 5.1%, so up on '22, which in itself, although it doesn't look terribly shiny, '22 was also a market leading year. So 5.1% is a market leading return for the business, in a year where, you know, there were sort of many challe...