M WINKWORTH PLC (WINK) — Half Year Results

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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the M WINKWORTH PLC half year results investor presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged. They can be submitted at any time via the q and a tab that's just situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Please just simply type in your questions and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question it receives during the meeting itself. However, the company can review all questions submitted today, and we'll publish those responses where it's appropriate to do so. Before we begin, as usual, we would just like to submit the following poll. And if you would give that your kind attention, I'm sure the company would be most grateful. And I would now like to hand you over to the executive management team from M WINKWORTH. Dominic, Andrew, good afternoon. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Hello, everyone. I'm Dominic Egase, chief exec of WINKWORTH PLC, and this is Andrew Nichols, CFO of WINKWORTH PLC. And it's our pleasure to be here to present h 01/2024 results. So on that note, I'll crack on through them. So I thought, first of all, for those that aren't familiar, we'd go through the WINKWORTH model so that you get a feel for how it operates. But a very old business established in 1835 originally. We started franchising in 1981, which I think was the first we were the first company to franchise state agents in The UK. Since then, we've grown from Central London outwards to a 100 UK franchise offices. We own three ourselves, which are, I should say, in partnership with entrepreneurial managers that I'll explain a bit more about as we go through the presentation. As I said, we're very we grew from London, and we're predomin...