RANK GROUP PLC (RNK) — Investor Presentation

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the RANK GROUP PLC full year results investor presentation. Throughout today's recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Before we begin, we'd like to submit the following poll and I'm sure the company would be most grateful. I'd now like to hand over to the management team, Richard, Cliff, good morning. Good morning all. Thank you to everyone joining us today for this presentation, which I'm delighted to host. My name is Richard Harris and I am joined by Cliff Baty, RANK's Interim CFO. We are going to look at RANK's full year results for the year ending 06/30/2026, which we published in mid August, and also give an update on the Group's forward looking strategy. These are my first set of results as Chief Executive and I'm grateful to the Board and our major shareholder for their support and for this opportunity. RANK genuinely is a great business and I'm delighted to share with you the story of another year of strong performance, to set out in a bit more detail how I see the opportunities for the group, and why I think we are really well positioned for future success. I'm going to start with the key highlights before handing over to Cliff for the financial review. Once again, there was strong revenue and underlying profit growth in the year. It was great to see all businesses contributing to the improved performance despite some external headwinds. During the year, we took decisive action to mitigate the impact of higher RGD on The UK digital business, and the performance in digital was therefore encouraging at plus 12% in Q4, particularly given the material reductions in above the line marketing. We started the new financial year in a similar fashion, so that's pleasing too. Going back a little ...