HEADLAM GROUP PLC (HEAD) — Half Year Results

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Good afternoon, and welcome to the HEADLAM GROUP PLC Half 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, which 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, Chris Payne. Good afternoon to you. Hi there. Thanks for joining the presentation for the half year. So if we just turn the page, Adam, there's just a short introduction before I hand over to Adam who's gonna kick us off. So the four four main sections of the presentation, given we're already in October, the first half seems a little while ago, so we'll probably canter through that section. But what you'll see is this sort of I suppose the market conditions remain pretty challenging, which has affected our first half, but Adam will talk us through that. What you will see is that we've managed to navigate cash and working capital in a well controlled manner. And I'll give a little bit more of a detailed update on how our strategic initiatives are rolling out together with this acceleration by way of a transformation plan that we've announced. So I'll spend a little bit more time on providing an update on those elements. So I'll just ask Adam to to sort of update us really on the first half performance and and that backdrop of the market context that I mentioned at the start. Thanks, Chris. Yeah. I'll I'll start ...