ANGLING DIRECT PLC (ANG) — Half year results for the six months ended 31 July 2025

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the ANGLING DIRECT PLC Half Year Results Investor Presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged. They can be submitted at any time via the Q and A tab that's just situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Please 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 will publish our responses, but it's appropriate to do so on the Investor Meet company platform. Before we begin, we would just like to submit the following poll. 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 ANGLING DIRECT's half year twenty twenty six interim results. I'm with my colleague, CFO, Sam Copeman, will take you through our short presentation, and then I look forward to taking some questions at the end of There we go. So first up, copy of our r and s, some extracts from that. You know, in terms of the half from a financial perspective, record revenues, substantial margin growth, and we're trading, as we set out later on, comfortably ahead of market expectations. And the group for the first time is signposting a full year revenue ahead of GBP 100,000,000. Group earnings now, we're looking to upgrade those by about 14% to just over GBP 4,300,000. And again, the business demonstrating its capability in terms of margin expansion and substantial earnings growth. Operationally, in the half, we've continued with substantial strategic delivery, in particular, leveraging MyAD, our loyalty and repeat purchase progra...