WATKIN JONES PLC (WJG) — HY24 results for the six months ended 31 March 2024

Investor webinar replay

Replay transcript excerpt

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the WATKIN JONES PLC half year results investor presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged. They can be submitted at any time via the q and a tab that's just 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 can review all questions submitted today, and we'll publish those responses where it's appropriate to do so on the investment company platform. And before we begin, I would just like to submit the following poll. And if you'd give that your kind attention, I'm sure the company would be most grateful. And I would now like to hand you over to the executive management team from WATKIN JONES PLC. Alex, good morning, sir. Good morning, and, welcome to the twenty twenty four half year results for WATKIN JONES. I'm Alex Pease, the chief executive for WATKIN JONES, and I'll be joined in presenting our results this morning by Sarah Sargent, our CFO. So moving on to the agenda. The the agenda for this morning will begin with a short overview from myself reflecting on the key operational and market updates for WATKIN JONES at the half year period. Sarah will then take you through the financial performance and the outlook for the remainder of 2024, and she'll also touch on our property management business, FRESH, and also our continued focus on ESG and our future foundations program. I will then provide a more detailed review of the operational, investments, and transactional markets in which we operate, the gradually improving sentiment, and the and the challenges and opport...