RWS Holdings plc (RWS) Q4 2024 Earnings Call

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the RWS full year results for 2024. Thank you all for joining us today. I'm Ian Al Mockadam, CEO, and presenting alongside me today will be our CFO, Candy Davis. I'm also pleased to welcome Ben Fass who's here in the audience today. Ben is our CEO designate. We commenced our handover last week and Ben will be taking over from me on the 6th of January before I leave at the end of January. Ben's here observing today so we've promised that we'll take the questions but I know he's looking forward to saying hello to everybody who's present today and indeed to engaging with our shareholders once he takes over next year. So welcome to Ben. In terms of the format for today, very similar format to normal. I'll start with some opening remarks. I'll then hand over to Candy to take us through the financial review. I will then come back to go through the strategic and operating review, looking specifically at our individual business units. I'll close then with some comments about current trading and outlook, and then we'll go to questions. So just a bit of an introduction. I know many of you are very familiar with RWS, but for those who are a bit newer to the story, who are we? We are a unique, world-leading provider of technology-enabled language, content, and intellectual property services. We're well diversified with many market-leading positions. We operate in a large and fragmented market with some clear structural demand drivers. We've built a unique platform combining human expertise with proprietary language and content technologies. And we are a very well established provider of AI-led solutions, something I'm sure we will talk a lot about as we go through the presentation. The business has an attractive financial profile, we're ca...