NICHOLS PLC (NICL) — Interim Results

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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the NICHOLS PLC Interim Results Investor Presentation. 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 on the Investor Meet company platform. Before we begin, 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 afternoon, sir. Thanks, Jay. Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to our half year results presentation, and thank you very much for taking time out today to dial in to listen to us. Okay. In terms of the flow we're going to follow today, I will kick off and look at half year one from a strategic and operational perspective. I will then hand over to David, who's our Interim Finance Director, who will give you a deep dive into the numbers. Then I will come back and give you a forward outlook, and then we are happy to open the floor to q and a. So in terms of today's presentation, the real highlights we'd like you to take away from today is that we're really pleased that we've been able to continue delivering against the key strategic initiatives that we outlined back at the Capital Markets Day in November 2024. Firstly, we're really pleased with one of those key initiatives, which was growth in Africa. And in half year one this year, we have delivered 17% revenue growth versus half one last year...