Full Year 2024 Hays PLC Earnings Call Transcript
Good morning, and welcome, everyone. I'm Dirk Hahn, Chief Executive; and here with our CFO, James Hilton, to present our financial year '24 results. As you know, I became CEO on September 1, and while it has been a challenging first year, our senior team of leaders and I have firmly embraced these challenges.
Three key areas that we will cover throughout the presentation today, are: implementing our focused strategy and driving enhanced operational rigor. Closely managing our cost base. And actively shifting our business mix into more resilient, higher-value areas where we see sustainably higher productivity levels driving stronger profitability.
So, while we are not satisfied with our financial performance last year, we are firmly focused on ensuring that we benefit strongly from market recovery. And when the recovery comes, I remain confident we can return to, and then exceed, our prior peak profits of GBP250 million.
And right up front, I would like to sincerely thank all our expert Hays colleagues for the
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