RTC GROUP PLC (RTC) — Final Results

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Good morning and welcome to the RTC Group PLC Final Results Investor Presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and could be submitted at any time by the Q and A tab situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Simply type in your questions and press send. Before we begin, I'd like to submit the following poll. Now I'd like to hand you over to Andy Pendelbury, Chairman and CEO. Good morning, sir. Good morning, and welcome, everybody. It's nice to be able to present such a good set of results to you as shareholders and take you through the, activities that we've been doing to achieve those results. With me today is Sarah Dye, our group finance director, and Paul Crompton, who's managing director of Ganymede, which represents the majority of the sales in the group. We have an international business, which the chap who runs it answers directly to myself. So we'll take you through the, the presentation, and then we're gonna do some questions. So, look, our results, in a normal year would be considered very good looking at the state of The UK economy in 2025. But actually, given the significant increase in costs driven by the government's national insurance and minimum wage, our results are absolutely excellent. To have achieved the same level of profitability is testament to the teams of people that we've got working in the group. So absolutely very, very pleased about the record profits being maintained. Our balance sheet has continued to grow. It may have only grown marginally, but in the same time, we have significantly increased our cash. And through our policy to do our share buyback, we were able to increase our earnings per share significantly as well. All of that results in the positio...