RS Group plc (RS1) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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Good morning, good afternoon or good evening everybody. Thanks for joining us today and thanks for your continuing interest in the RS Group. Welcome to our interim results for the six-month period ended 30th September 2024 and also welcome to this new virtual format that we're making this interim presentation in. Should take about 30 minutes to do the formal piece of the presentation. I'll do a quick overview and share some thoughts about the markets. Kate will take us through what's driving the numbers and the regional performance. And then I'll wrap up by highlighting some of the positive strategic and operational progress that we're making along our exciting medium and long term goals. journey at RS, which we shared with you in a bit more detail at our Capital Markets Day a few weeks ago. We'll leave plenty of time for questions at the end, and Becky, our moderator, will remind people how to ask questions at the end of the presentation, but we should be through by around 10 o'clock. So as I've mentioned before, we like to start all meetings at RS with the values highlight in a health and safety moment. And as we're virtual and there's no particular benefit to pointing out the fire exits in Kings Cross, I thought I'd share how our values are actually driving changes in our approach to health and safety to ensure we better embed it into our DNA. So as one team delivering brilliantly, doing the right thing and making every day better, we have a collective responsibility to ensure that every employee at RS gets home safely every day and in at least as good a physical and mental state as when they arrived at work. And this means that as one team we watch out for each other and hazards anywhere and all the time. We deliver brilliantly by role modelling safe behaviour, c...