Jtc Plc (JTCPF) Q2 2024 Earnings Call

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Hello and welcome to the JTC PLC interim results presentation. My name is David and I'll be your host for today's event. Please note that this conference is being recorded and for the duration of the presentation your lines will be on listen only. However, you will have the opportunity to ask questions at the end of the presentation. This can be done using the raise hand feature in the control panel on your screen. We will address as many questions as possible. When we come to answering your question, we will invite you to unmute and speak live to address our panellists. I will now hand you over to your presenters for today. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the presentation of JTC PLC's interim results for the period ended 30 June 2024. I'm Nigel O'Kane, the Group CEO, and presenting with me, as usual, is Martin Fotheringham, our Group CFO. Let's start with slide one and the agenda. In the next 30 minutes or so, I will present my CEO highlights for the period, and Martin will take us through the financial review. We'll follow up with a more detailed business review covering the macro environment, the regulatory landscape, the Group, and the two divisions. We'll then provide insights into our approach to M&A and to some of the activity to date in the Cosmos era. Finally, we'll summarize our key takeaways for the first half of 2024 and provide an indication of how we expect to close out the year. We'll have time for questions at the end of the presentation. We've carried our momentum through from an excellent 2023 and are delighted with the first half of 2024, which marks the first period in our new Cosmos era, where once again, we aim to double the size of the group within a three to four year time period. For H1, our group revenue was up 21.1% to £147.1 million, an...