VP PLC (VP.) — Preliminary Results for the year ended 31st March 2022

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the VP PLC Full Year Results Investor Presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and can be submitted at any time via the Q and A tab that's 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 will review all of the questions submitted today and publish responses where it is appropriate to do so. These will be available via your investor meet company dashboard, and we will notify you by email when these are ready for your review. Before we begin, I would like to submit the following poll. And if you could give that your kind attention, I'm sure the company would be most grateful. And I'd now like to hand you over to CEO, Neil Stoffard. Good morning. Thank you very much. Good morning, everybody. I'm Neil Stoffard, the CEO and VP. I'm Alison Bainbridge, Group Finance Director. So we're looking forward to telling you a bit about our results for the year ended the 03/01/2022 for VP PLC, the equipment rental specialist. We're I will run through the highlights and market and trading review, and Alison will complete the presentation talking to the financial review. This photograph, we say we're an equipment rental specialist. I think it's worth just focusing on this photograph. This is in Gothenburg. It's a large metro contract for our ground force business. You can see this is a highly complex and highly skilled offer that we have and a great demonstration of how we are a specialist in equipment rental. I'll start with the highlights. We had a material growth in profits of 67...