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- Christie Group plc (CTG.L) provides professional business services to the hospitality, leisure, healthcare, medical, childcare, education, and retail sectors in the United Kingdom, Europe, and internationally. The company operates through three main segments: Professional & Financial Services (PFS), which offers valuing, buying, selling, developing, financing, insuring, appraisal, project management, agency, consultancy, and valuation services under brands including Christie & Co, Christie Finance, Christie Insurance, and Pinders; Stock & Inventory Systems & Services (SISS), which specializes in stock control, inventory management, consultancy, compliance services such as control audits and live event stocktaking, valuation, and online cloud-based ticketing sale and admission systems for visitor attractions like historic houses, museums, zoos, safari parks, aquaria, and cinemas under brands including Venners, Orridge, and Vennersys; and Other activities. Subsidiaries comprise Christie & Co, RCC Business Mortgage plc (trading as Christie Finance), Orridge PS Ltd, Pinders Professional & Consultancy Services Ltd, Venners Ltd, Orridge International Ltd, and Vennersys Ltd. Founded in 1846 and headquartered at Whitefriars House, 6 Carmelite Street, London EC4Y 0BS, United Kingdom, the company, incorporated as a public limited entity in 1980, employs over 650 professionals and targets business owners, operators, and investors across its core sectors. Recent developments include the successful facilitation by its Christie & Co care team of a charitable trust merger in February 2024; advising on major care sector transactions such as the sale of 64 care homes from Four Seasons Health Care Group, Elmfield Care to The Orders of St John Care Trust, Hartford Care for over £100 million, and Signature Senior Lifestyle's portfolio; brokering the sale of the Vienna Marriott Hotel; expansion of its FCA-regulated Christie Insurance sales team as noted in the June 2025 AGM trading update; launch of a specialist Real Estate division within Christie Finance to provide alternative funding solutions like property-backed debt and bridging loans for SMEs; and achievement of a net funds position of £4.9 million by the end of 2024, reflecting improved financial health.