BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC (BMY) — Interim Results

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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING 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 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 we'll publish those responses where it's appropriate to do so. 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 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. Nigel, good afternoon, sir. Well, good afternoon to you, and a very warm welcome to all of you here to Bloomsbury headquarters in Bedford Square in London, England. We're we're very pleased to speak to you with these interim results about the first half of our year. And we're particularly pleased because historically, Bloomsbury was very weighted to the second half with the Christmas book market. But our our diversification and our strategy of building a portfolio of portfolios has meant that we we also now have a good first half of the year and are not relying on cliffhanger year ends around the Christmas season, thanks to the the back to the university season in August and and so on. So this portfolio portfolios, if I can guide you to slide page two, if we could just flip that for you, shows you our, we hope, resilient model for long term success. Fantastic revenue increase there...