Softcat plc (SCT) Q2 2024 Earnings Call

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Softcat half year results call. All lines have been placed on mute during a presentation portion of the call with an opportunity for question and answer at the end. If you would like to ask a question at this time, please press start followed by one on your telephone keypad. I would now like to turn this conference call over to our host, Graham Charlton, CEO. Please go ahead. Thank you very much. Good morning, everybody. And thank you for joining Katie and I for Softcat's first half 2024 update. And we are delighted to be sharing another strong set of results with you, which puts us in a slightly better position than we expected to be in at this point of the year. You'll hear about how we continue to make progress and just how excited we are about the future of our industry. And we'll also talk about how confident we are that Softcap is in the very, very best position to capitalize on the huge opportunity ahead across all areas of IT, as we see yet another revolution, this time kicked off by AI starting in technology and its underpinning infrastructure. But first, if we can turn to the next slide, please, we'll start with our usual reminder of who we are and how we got here. We are the largest provider in the UK in our space now achieving that from a standing start 31 years ago with an entirely organic track record and no debt in the company's history. Today, we are just under two and a half thousand employees spread across 11 locations globally. We only service customers from the UK and Ireland, but we work with them in their overseas operations too. And we've now established a presence in the US, on mainland Europe, as well as in the Far East and Australia. We work with all of the ver...