BARR (A.G.) PLC (BAG) — Interim Results

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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the AG BARR PLC investor presentation. 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 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 your responses where it's appropriate to do so on the Investor Meet company platform. Before we dive into the live q and a session, we would just like to play a prerecorded video covering the results. Good afternoon, and welcome to the AG BARR results presentation for half one twenty twenty six twenty twenty seven. I'm here in Sutherland, and today, I'm joined by Stuart Lorimer, our Chief Finance and Operating Officer. Over the next thirty minutes, we'll provide a full review of half one, covering both the strong progress we're making executing our strategy and our financial results. We'll also provide an update on the outlook for the business in terms of the full year and leave plenty of time for your questions. Turning to the headlines on Page three. In the first half of the year, we made strong progress against our strategy. Our core brands are carrying good trading momentum with IronBrew, Rubicon and Boost all performing well in the market. Additionally, the product innovations we launched over the past year are outperforming our expectations and driving incremental growth, which I will cover later. On the operational side, we successfully completed the integration phase of Fentimans and Frobishers with synergies coming through from half two. Financially, the business continues to deliver even with s...