ANPARIO PLC (ANP) — Interim Results

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Good afternoon, and welcome to the ANPARIO PLC investor presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and can be submitted at any time via the q and a tab situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Simply type in your questions and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question it received during the meeting itself. However, the company can review all questions submitted today and publish responses where it's appropriate to do so. Before we begin, I'd like to submit the following poll, and I'd now like to hand you over to Mark Wilson, group finance director. Good afternoon, sir. Hi. Thanks, everyone, for joining our first IMC meeting. I'm Mark Wilson, group finance director. I'm joined by Richard, chief executive officer. I'm gonna start by running through the most recent set of results, and then I'll probably go through these quite quickly because given it's our first IMC then I'm sure it would be useful to go through the strategy more and Rich will do that later on in the slides. Okay. So just a bit of an overview in terms of the highlights of of the business for this most recent interim results. We've seen an increase in revenue of 11%, 1,700,000 to 17,000,000 and a larger increase in gross profit of 20%, 1,400,000 to 8,100,000. Adjusted EBITDA has increased higher on a on a percentage basis by 41% or 800,000 to 2,700,000, and profit before taxes up 53%. Following the tender offer last year, then we've had a larger impact on the diluted adjusted EPS, which is up 84% for the period, and we've increased the interim dividend by 2% over the same year last year. I'll just move on through the next slides. So in terms of income statement, as I said, we've seen that re...