RS Group plc (RS1) Q4 2024 Earnings Call

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off this morning's presentation. Thank you for joining us and thank you for your continuing interest in the RS group. Welcome to our preliminary results announcement for the year ended the 31st of March 2024. Before we get into it for those physically present I'd just like to point out the fire exits they're in the corner of the of the room. There's no scheduled firearm test this morning. So if the alarm does go off, please make your way to the fire exit and follow the guidance and instructions of the fire marshals. The presentation should take about 40 minutes. I'll do a quick overview of the year and then Kate will take us through markets and numbers before I look at underlying strategic and operational progress and what we're focusing on for the next couple of years and why we're so excited about the opportunity at RS. And then we'll leave plenty of time at the end for questions, but we should get you away by about 10.15. Just before we get into the meat of the presentation again, as I said, we have recently launched new corporate values and we start all of our sessions not just with a safety moment, but also with a values call out. This helps us embed those values as rapidly as possible into the organisation and get it to be real for our people. I'd just like to call out one of those values now. We are one team. We listen, respect and trust each other. We actively seek diverse input and perspectives. We collaborate with purpose and we act as one. So hopefully you'll see us demonstrating that today. But as we expect of all of our stakeholders, if you don't see it, please call it out. And then finally, I'd just like to start with my four key takeaways from the past year. One, markets remain subdued. And although demand is stabilising short-term visibility... is lim...