SEVERFIELD PLC (SFR) — Investor Presentation

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Good afternoon, and welcome to the SEVERFIELD PLC investor presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and can be submitted at any time by the q and a tab situated in the right hand corner of your screen. Just simply type in your questions and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question it receives during the meeting itself, but the company can review all questions submitted today and publish responses where it's appropriate to do so. Before we begin, I'd like to submit the following poll. I'd now like to hand you over to CEO, Alan Dunsmall. Good afternoon to you, sir. Good afternoon, and welcome to our half year results presentation. I I'm going to give a a brief introduction overview of the the highlights. I'll hand over to Adam Semple to talk to the financial results in bit more detail, and I'll come back and talk a about strategy, a deeper dive into the different business units in The UK market, bit of India, and then we'll wrap up and take questions at the end. So just starting with a reminder of the five pillars of our investment case, built around exciting growth prospects. We've aligned the business over the years with strong growth potential in The UK and Europe. And also we have significant opportunity to grow profits and build value with our Indian joint venture. I think we've proved over the years that the business is resilient through the economic cycles of a range of different sectors and they all have their own cycles, which in effect means they largely cross out and provide a good resilience for the business as a whole. We've been developing the kind of the platform for operational excellence over many years, involves both capital investment, operati...