Dunelm Group plc (DNLM) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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Squeeze. Morning, everyone. We're going to get started. We've got some online guests, so we're going to get going. Are we good to go? Yes. Great. Well, good morning and a particularly colourful welcome to the Dunelm Interim's presentation covering the first half of our financial year to the end of December. My name is Nick Wilkinson and Alison Britton and Karen Witts and I are delighted to welcome you to the offices of Peel Hunt in London. Whether you're here in person or joining virtually, I hope you're well and thank you for your continuing interest in the story of Dunelm. We'll use this presentation to bring some colour to how we are developing the business and the results we are achieving. It's our normal running order. I'll introduce the highlights. Karen will then go through the first half financials and guidance. And I'll be back to share more on our plans as we carry on unlocking our full potential as the UK's home of homes. So with an image from our edited life range to show that even if colour isn't your thing, we can still give joy to your home, I will get started. But before I do that, I would just like to acknowledge the other announcement this morning, that at some point I will be stepping back from full-time executive life and retiring from Dunelm. As you'd expect, we'll be ensuring a first-class transition, smooth and orderly, no dates, just a recognition from me that as I start my eighth year, this is the right time personally to be making a transition and allow myself to do more than one thing, including to better support the many charities and projects that are close to my heart. This is quite simply the best job in the best company with the best team that I have ever known, and I will be forever green. And those of you who know me well will know I...