THE MISSION GROUP PLC (TMG) — Final Results

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Good afternoon, and welcome to the MISSION GROUP PLC investor presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and could be submitted at any time via the q and a call situated on the right hand corner of your screen. 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 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 John Carey, CEO. Good afternoon, sir. Thank you very much, and good afternoon, everybody, and thank you for joining us today. My name is John Carey. I'm the CEO of THE MISSION GROUP, and I'm joined today by Giles Lee, who is our CFO, who I'm sure many of you have met many times now. So in terms of today, our agenda is to try and go through the headlines. Giles will take you through the figures, and then I'll come back and talk a little bit about our progress on the actions that we outlined the last time and progress against strategy as well. And, hopefully, that will give you a good view and a good overview of where the group is. I think if we look at 2025, 2025 has been a very mixed year in terms of the marketplace. And whilst we are very pleased about our client retention during 2025, like the rest of the market, we've seen a decline in spend with with with on the marketing side of the business, particularly around quarter four where we saw significant delays and and pushback of projects because of the environment and and and the expectations around the environment. And I'm sure with Giles will talk a little bit about that as we go through...