RS Group plc (RS1) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Thanks very much, and good morning, everyone. Welcome to the RS Group Regional Results Call for the six-month period ending 30 September 2025, and thank you all for joining us this morning. The presentation should take around 30 minutes, and then we'll have some time at the end for questions, but we'll try and make sure that we finish the call by no later than 10. I'm going to start by summarizing our pleasing first half performance. Kate will then run through our in-line financials and what's driving them, both at a group and a regional level. Then I'll conclude by sharing with you the good underlying progress that we're making as we make the business better at RS and position ourselves to accelerate growth, improve efficiency, and drive better operating leverage over time. But before we get into the details of this morning's presentation, we would like to start our meetings, virtual or physical, at RS with a health and safety moment and values highlight. So although it's virtual, please make sure you do take a safety moment to identify your nearest exit and safest evacuation route in the event of an emergency. For our values highlight, I'd just like to call out and celebrate our new multi-year global partnership with SolarAid to support their mission to light up lives across more Africa. As our new global charity partner, their and our purposes and values are completely aligned. And as one team, delivering readily, doing the right thing, and making every day better, we will bring our people, our innovation, our technical expertise, and our suppliers and partners together to help raise over a million pounds to partner with SolarAid to deliver clean, safe solar light and power to over 150,000 people living in rural communities without electricity. And this is very mu...