HEADLAM GROUP PLC (HEAD) — Investor Presentation

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Good morning, and welcome to the HEADLAM GROUP PLC 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, company will review all questions submitted today and publish responses whether it's 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 morning to you, sir. Good morning, and thanks to everybody for joining the session today. So welcome to HEADLAM's half year results for 2023. I'm Chris Payne, the Chief Executive. I'm also joined delighted to say joined for the first time by Adam Phillips, recently joined us as CFO a few months ago. So welcome to Adam as well. You can see on screen just a brief summary of the what we're gonna talk about today. So summary of the half one performance. So we'll have a little look back half one. There'll be an update on the strategic progress of the activities that we've been carrying out and then a look forward both in terms of current trading and how we see the short and medium term panning out. So without further ado, I'll just turn to HEADLAM on a page. So this is about us. For those who are new to the HEADLAM story, this this slide's got sort of four boxes on it. This top left, if you like, is around the heritage and the legacy and the the experience of the business. We've been around a long time, thirty years market leading and we have got some great relationships with customers and many suppliers, mostly ...