WATKIN JONES PLC (WJG) — Investor Presentation

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Good afternoon, and welcome to the WATKIN JONES PLC investor presentation. Throughout the quarter presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged, and they can be submitted at any time by the q and a tab situated in the right corner of your screen. Simply type in your questions and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question received in the meeting itself. Have the company come review all the questions submitted today and publish responses where it's appropriate to do so. Before we begin, I'd like to fit the following poll. I'd now like to hand you over to Alex Pease, CEO. Good afternoon, sir. Good afternoon, and welcome all to the 2025 financial full year results for WATKIN JONES. I'm Alex Pease, the chief executive, and I'm joined today by Simon Jones, our chief financial officer, and and also George Dyer, our group investment director. The agenda for this afternoon will begin with a short overview from myself reflecting on the business and operational performance across the year. We'll update on the core occupational and investment markets we operate in before focusing in on our financial and operational highlights. Next slide. We entered f y twenty five with a continued environment of economic volatility, ongoing geopolitical disruption, slower than and then followed by slower than anticipated rate cuts and a drawn out weight for an unsympathetic budget, which has resulted in limited sentiment improvements across the year. With this backdrop, WATKIN JONES has continued our approach over the last twelve twenty four months with with a strategy of control, execution, and diversification, looking to provide a firmer platform for future growth. Inevitably, as a consequence of severely reduced market liquidity...