ANGLING DIRECT PLC (ANG) — Final Results for the twelve months ended 31 January 2025

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the ANGLING DIRECT PLC Investor Presentation. Submitted at any time via the q and a tab that's just situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Please just simply type in your questions and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question it receives during the meeting itself. However, the company can review all questions submitted today and we'll publish those responses where it's appropriate to do so on the Investor Meet company platform. And before we begin, as usual, we would just like to submit the following poll. And if you'd give that your kind attention, I'm sure the company would be most grateful. And I would now like to hand you over to the executive management team from ANGLING DIRECT PLC. Steve, good morning, sir. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the ANGLING DIRECT 2025 financial results. It's been another record year for ANGLING DIRECT, record sales underpinned by my AD, the development of our customer loyalty and repeat purchase platform. And we've also deployed a significant amount of capital in line with our medium term objectives and the capital allocation policy we published back in December. Just take us on to the R and S slides, where we give an overview of the R and S we put out last week. We'll cover a lot of detail later on in the presentation, but some key standouts from the R and S. U. K. Record sales of $86,400,000 as we take an increasing step towards that $100,000,000 ambition. Gross margin progression of 130 basis points, particularly proud of that in an ever competitive marketplace. And indeed, we still remain have an incredibly strong balance sheet, just over $12,000,000 of cash on our balance sheet with clear plans how we deploy that surplus liquidity. ...