DSW CAPITAL PLC (DSW) — Half Year Results for the six months ended 30 September 2025

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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the DSW CAPITAL PLC Half Year Results Investor Presentation. 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 our responses where it's appropriate to do so on the Investor Meet company platform. Before we begin, 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 DSW CAPITAL PLC. Shrew, Pete, good afternoon. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Welcome, everybody. I'm Shrew Morris, CEO of DSW CAPITAL. Delighted to be here today. Thank you for joining. Just by way of background, I have been at DSW for just over a year. I'm a chartered accountant by trade. So I've worked professional services for over twenty years. I spent seven years in practice at what was Baker Tilly, now RSM, and went on to hold senior roles in other professional services firms within law, construction, and private equity backed businesses. Most notably, I was chief exec of a large regional law firm, where I led the firm through significant growth and change, to success across the Northwest. I'm immensely proud to have taken over from our founder, James Dow, who, led the business through success for over twenty years up until 04/01/2025. So, I'll just hand over to my colleague, Pete, to introduce himself. Thanks, Drew. So I am Pete Vendel, the chief finance and operating officer for DSW CAPITAL. I joined DSW just over four years ago, just before our IPO. So I joined...