SMITHS NEWS PLC (SNWS) — FY Results

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Good afternoon and welcome to the SMITHS NEWS PLC full year results investor presentation. Throughout this quarter presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and they can be submitted at any time by the Q and A tab situated in the right corner of your screen. Simply type in your questions and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question received during the meeting itself. However, the company can review the 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 Jonathan Bunting, CEO. Good afternoon to you, sir. Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to SMITHS NEWS full year results for the fifty two weeks ended the 08/30/2025. I'm John Bunting, CEO of SMITHS NEWS, and with me today to talk through our full year results presentation is Paul Baker, our group CFO. So looking at the headlines, we're delighted to produce such a strong performance across the year, generating 39,100,000 of operating profit exceeding market expectations. Our growth verticals continue to build, producing a 16% increase in revenues. I'll talk more about our growth activities in a little more detail later on, but I think it's worth highlighting that we are pleased with our progress in the year. Volumes grew, new clients and services were introduced, and the appointment of our first MD of SMITHS NEWS Recycle, Adam Wiley, is a demonstration of the confidence we have of the scale of the opportunity in that vertical. The ongoing cost savings program continues and produced 4,900,000 of operational efficiencies in f y twenty five. Our three year investment program is also continuing to plan with 2,400,000 of the incremental 6...