NICHOLS PLC (NICL) — Full Year Results

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the NICHOLS PLC Full Year Results Investor Presentation. 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 our responses where it's appropriate to do so on the investor meet company platform. Before we begin, as usual, we would just like to submit the following poll. And if you could 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 NICHOLS PLC. Andrew, good morning, sir. Good morning. Welcome, everybody, to our full year 2024 presentation, and and thank you very much for taking the time to dial in this morning to listen to the presentation. So we will split the presentation into three to four parts, and it will probably take about thirty to thirty five minutes. So I will kick off just with a look back on 2024 in terms of our strategic and operational highlights. I will then hand over to David, our finance director, who will take you who will take you through all of the numbers. I will then come back on and just give you a flavor for what's to come in '25 and beyond, and then we're happy to take questions. Okay. So probably the key highlights to take away from today's presentation. Well, first and foremost, we are really pleased to be able to have delivered strong package revenue growth in our higher margin business, which is in line with the strategy that we outlined at our Capital Markets Day at the back end of twenty twenty four, and we grew that package business by 4.4% in the y...