Keller Group plc (KLR) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Good morning everybody and welcome to the presentation of Keller's half year results for 2026. I'm James Roath and I'm the Chief Executive. Before I get on to the main business of the day, very sadly since our full year results, you'll know that my predecessor Michael Speakman sadly passed away at Easter and I wanted to take this opportunity to pay a final tribute to him. The results that you see today and many of the themes that come out in terms of just how great a business Keller is lead directly from Mike's work with the management team and the changes that were made in the last five or six years have been fundamental in my belief to how Keller has performed. Very sad that business will always remember Mike, but he did an absolutely superb job with Keller. So on with the presentation for today. Firstly, the cautionary statements, which I'm sure is a slide that you're all very familiar with. For our agenda this morning, I'm going to take you through a snapshot of our results before handing over to David Burke, our CFO. who will take you through the financials in more detail I'm then going to return to give you some greater colour around our divisions a view of the outlook and a reminder of our strategy as I think you all know we're going to be holding a capital markets day on the 14th of October and there we'll cover our strategy and growth plans in a lot more detail and then finally we're going to finish with a Q&A so a very brief results summary the Keller Group continues to deliver record financial performance with H1 2026 being no exception in fact 2026 is on course to be the group's fourth record year in a row revenues are up 11% overall due to significant increases in both North America and APAC EME is holding steady despite the Middle East conflict and a to...