RS Group PLC

Hello everyone and thank you for joining the RS Group 2026-27 half-year results call. My name is Molly and I will be coordinating your call today. During the presentation you can register a question by pressing star followed by one on your telephone keypad and if you change your mind please press star followed by two. I will now hand over to your host Simon Pryce to begin. Please go ahead.

Thanks Molly. Good morning everyone. Thanks for joining us today and thank you for your continuing interest in RS and welcome to the presentation of our interim results for the six months ended the 30th September 2026 which was a strong half for us where we delivered our performance in all regions. Our presentation this morning should take about 30 minutes and we'll have time for questions at the end but we're conscious that it's a busy day in the market so we'll try to make sure everybody can get away by no later than 10 o'clock. Presentation materials that we'll go through are already available on our website and the recording of the presentation and the subsequent question and answer session will also be available on the website later today. But before we get into the detail of what was a pleasing first half, we always begin our meetings, as you know, at RS with a values or a health and safety moment. So this morning, I'd like to highlight our Protect What Matters global safety campaign that we launched across the group at the beginning of this financial year. Health and safety has always been an area of focus for the group. We recognized in 2026, the financial year 2026, that we had some health and safety centers of excellence across the group that consistently outperformed other locations. Learning from them, we developed and launched Protect What Matters, a global program to remind all our teams that every colleague matters, and that as a team of nearly 9,000 people around the globe, our joint responsibility to ensure that everybody returns home safely and at least as good a physical and mental condition as when they arrived at work. We encourage us all to look out for each other, to intervene, to speak up and to make safe choices every day and continues to be behind the drive and the focus on physical and mental well-being both within and outside of RS.

And so this is the presentation itself.