NICHOLS PLC (NICL) — Preliminary Results for the year ended 31 December 2025

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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the NICHOLS Group PLC full year results investor presentation. 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, 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. Thank you. Good afternoon, everybody. A very warm welcome to our full year presentation this afternoon. And I'd firstly like just to say a big thank you to all of you for taking the time to dial in this afternoon. So if we just move on to the first slide, so the flow today will be I will kick us off, and I will look back at from a strategic and an operational point of view in terms of what has happened in 2025. I will then hand you over to Rebecca, our financial director, who will give you a deep dive into the numbers. And I will then come back and give you a view on the rest of 2026 and the future, and then we're very happy to open the floor to the q and a. So okay. To kick off today, then I'll first start by just giving you the key highlights that we'd like you to take away today. So firstly, we're really pleased to announce that we have delivered double digit growth in operating profit plus 10%, which is absolutely in line with the expectations we have out...