Angling Direct PLC (ANG) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Angling Direct PLC interim 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&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 will publish those responses where it's appropriate to do so. And before we begin, as usual, we would just like to submit the following poll. And if you could 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. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to Angling Direct's interim results for the year ended January 25. We'll take you through a short presentation and then take some questions later on and look to use the full hour if we can. we move on to our FYI, half year 25 overview. So this is the extract from the R&S that we published last week. I think thematically, continued strategic progress for us in the six months to July, margin and revenue progression and underpinned by some strong EBITDA growth outstripping our sales growth. Alongside that, some key operational changes, both in UK and Europe, which I'll cover as we go through the slides later on. Here we've set out a reminder of our purpose, our ambition and our medium term objectives. We set these objectives out around four and a half months ago for our final year results for January 24. And just a reminder of tho...