Adam Sofa
CEO & Government Director
Good morning, all people, and welcome to our 2026 outcomes presentation. Delighted to welcome you all right here as we speak in one other corridor this time at Butcher’s Corridor. Alongside myself is Mark, Jim, when he will get his water down right here and in addition a number of extra members of our senior management staff, which most of you may be accustomed to.
Please seize maintain of them on the finish of the presentation if there’s any burning questions, however there’s three of us right here as effectively. So hopefully, we’ll have the ability to cowl any questions that you might have after the formal presentation has been accomplished. If we are able to simply flip your consideration to the agenda to start with, I will touch upon the progress all year long, Mark, as standard, on the financials. After which Jim gives you as standard incisive info relating to the industrial setting that we’re dealing with into, after which we’ll open it as much as Q&A on the finish of that process.
Initially, turning to Web page 3 on the agenda. It is a slide we dwell on quite a bit and now having entered our 36 yr of unbroken dividend development, one which we need to proceed to dwell upon, hopefully, for some years to come back. However on Web page 4, on the highlights, we have delivered a robust strategic yr of development and monetary progress. This displays the confirmed enterprise mannequin that you will be accustomed to and the disciplined execution of the long-term priorities. We have elevated income by 9.5%. This has been underpinned by quantity development of greater than 8%.
