CAKE BOX HOLDINGS PLC (CBOX) — Half year results for the twenty-six weeks ended 28 September 2025

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Good afternoon, and welcome to the CAKE BOX HOLDINGS PLC Results Investor Presentation. Throughout this quarter presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged, and they can be submitted at any time via the Q and A tab situated in the right corner of your screen. Just simply type in your questions and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question received in the meeting itself, and the company can review the questions submitted today and publish responses where it's 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, Sook Chandao. Good afternoon to you, sir. Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for joining us today for our interim results presentation. I'm excited to share some key highlights and show you how our strategic plan is driving growth. After I wrap this up, I'll hand over to Michael who will dive into the financial details. Strong start. We had a fantastic start to this financial year with group revenues up by 53.5%. What's driving growth? This incredible growth comes from sustained demand for our diverse cake offerings, the successful opening of nine new cake box stores, significant enhancements to our digital platform. I'll provide more details on these later. The acquisition update, you may remember that we completed the acquisition of Ambala just before the last financial year ended. In the first half, Ambala contributed 6,500,000 in revenue and naught 400,000 of EBITDA. The franchise sales growth, we've also seen like for like growth in CAKE BOX franchise sales. Our digital presence is stronger than ever. The store network, we are proud to now have 284 CAKE BOX and BULANA stores nationwide. On this next slide, let's now talk about ...