Angling Direct PLC (ANG) Q2 2024 Earnings Call

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Good afternoon and welcome to the Angling Direct PLC investor presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen-only mode. Questions are encouraged and can be submitted at any time by the Q&A tab situated in the right hand corner of your screen. Simply type in your questions and press send. Due to the significant attendance on today's call, the company will not be in a position to answer every question it receives from the meeting itself. However, the company will review all questions submitted today and publish responses where it is appropriate to do so. Before we begin, I'd like to submit the following poll. I'd now like to hand you over to CEO, Steve Crowe. Good afternoon, sir. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the Anglin Direct's half-year results. Delighted to present these, my first as the CEO of the organisation, having spent around three years as the CFO. I'd also like to introduce my colleague, Sam Coatman, who joined us back in June as the new CFO of the business. I'll let Sam introduce himself formally later on as we go through the presentation. I'll take everyone through the formal presentation that we've put up on the investor side. I won't really verbatim. I'll draw out the key points for everyone as we move through those slides. The first slide is a direct lift from the R&S. I think there's four points I really want to sort of leave investors with today. The first one is after a pretty soft half two in the UK in the financial year 23 to January 23, We only grew in the second half last year in the UK around 3.3%, 3.4%. We have traded the business in the UK very strongly in the first half of this year, double digit growth in the UK. And the strength of the growth was across both channels. So we grew over 11% in the store...