TOUCHSTAR PLC (TST) — 2024 Full Year Results & Strategic Update

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Good afternoon, and welcome to the TOUCHSTAR PLC Investor Presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged, and they can be submitted at any time using the Q and A tab 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 receive or can review all questions submitted today and publish responses where appropriate to do so. Before we begin, I would like to submit the following poll. And I would now like to hand you over to executive chairman, Ian Martin. Good afternoon to you. Good afternoon, everybody, and and many thanks for taking the time to hear our story. I'm joined today with by Linden. He's new CEO of the group, and we're gonna talk you through the story of TOUCHSTAR. We'll we'll touch on the 2024 results, the strategic review that we've just come through, our ambitions in '25, and give you a feel of the long term potential that we really feel this this company has. For those of you that don't know me, I I've been with the group for about eight or nine years. Before that, I ran a big Lloyd's insurer called Brotbank, which you may not have heard of. But from Brotbank, we started Admiral from six people in in an office in Cardiff, and it's now a FTSE one hundred company. I was also chairman and CEO of a company called Avesco that did major events around around the the world, world, which was also a creative business that was sold about four or five years ago considerable at price. So we we try and and run these presentations in a very open manner, so please ask us any question that that is on your mind. It's very much your time. As...