MARSHALLS PLC (MSLH) — Interim Results

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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the MARSHALLS PLC Interim Results Investor Presentation. Thank ahead. And And grateful for your participation. And then now I'd like to hand over to CEO, Matt Pollen. Good afternoon. Thank you, and good afternoon, everyone, and thanks for joining the presentation on MARSHALLS twenty twenty four half year results. I'm joined by Justin Lockwood. He's our chief financial officer, and, we'll be coming back to him later. So what have we got in store this afternoon? So, I've been enrolled now for for just six months. I've been formally taken over on the on the March 1, and I thought I'd just build on some very first early impressions that I shared back in March at the full year results, and then provide a a short summary, on the the performance at the half year before Justin leads us through the full details of those half year results. And then I'll come back towards the end of this to talk about a few thoughts on the developments of our new strategy, which we plan to communicate at the Capital Markets Day on the November 19. And then, obviously, we'll come back to answer any of the question questions that, that you raise. So let's move on to the half year in review. So, you know, I joined joined back in March, and at that time, I'd known MARSHALLS for for some time, primarily as a as a landscape business. But in terms of my first impressions, you know, this is a business with market leading brands with significant national scale working across commercial, house build, and repair maintenance and improvement markets. And it's actually been strengthened from its traditional core of landscape through the more recent acquisitions. I've visited now over, what, 25 sites across the business, some of them quite a few times. I've met...