SMITHS NEWS PLC (SNWS) — Full Year Results

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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the SMITHS NEWS PLC full year results investor presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged. They can be submitted at any time via the q and a tab that's just situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Please 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. However, the company can review all questions submitted today and we'll publish those responses where it's appropriate to do so. Before we begin, we would just like to submit the following poll. And if you could give that your kind attention, I'm sure the company would be most grateful. I would now like to hand you over to the executive management team from SMITHS NEWS PLC. John, good afternoon, sir. Good afternoon, and good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to SMITHS NEWS full year results for the period ended the 08/31/2024. I'm John Bunting, CEO of SMITHS NEWS, And with me today to talk through our full year results presentation is Paul Baker, our CFO. Before I get into the detail of the results, I'd like to take a minute to briefly highlight the main headlines and give a flavor of what we will cover later in the presentation. First and foremost, I'm delighted to confirm that our full year results reported today are ahead of market expectations driven principally by improved revenue in news and magazines and the contribution of our growth activities. This excellent outcome has been built on another resilient performance from our news and magazine business, which continues to both underpin and sit at the heart of our developing strategy for growth. Pleasingly, we've now secured over 90% of ...