CAKE BOX HOLDINGS PLC (CBOX) — Investor Presentation

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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the CAKE BOX HOLDINGS PLC Investor Presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and can be submitted at any time just using that Q and A tab on the right hand corner of your screen. Please simply type in your questions at any time and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question received during today's call. However, the company can review your questions submitted today, we'll publish those responses where it's appropriate to do so. Before we begin, we'd like to submit the following poll, and I'm sure the company would be most grateful for your participation. I'd now like to hand over to the management team from CAKE BOX HOLDINGS PLC. Good afternoon to you. Good afternoon. Thank you for joining us today. For those of you who don't know us, CAKE BOX is The UK's largest retailer of fresh cream celebration cakes. I will give you an overview and then hand over to Michael to present the financial performance of the business. After that, I will give you a strategic and operational update followed by q and a. So just one second. Yep. We are pleased to announce, we're pleased with our performance in the first half of the year. As you would have noted, we delivered an increase in revenue, profits, and dividend. Our store opening program is gaining momentum with more stores open due date than compared to last year. I will speak later about this later in the presentation. We've seen continued growth in our online sales as well as brand awareness and seen our customer database grow by 40%. We have entered the second half with ongoing positive trading momentum and expect to deliver full growth for the full year 2025 in line with mar...