ESSENTRA PLC (ESNT) — Annual General Meeting

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Good afternoon, and welcome to the ESSENTRA PLC Annual General Meeting. Throughout this recorded meeting, attendees will be in listen only mode. Question could be submitted via the Q and A tab situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Simply type in your question and press send. Company may not be in a position to answer every question it receives, but it can review all questions submitted today and publish responses where appropriate to do so. I'd now like to hand you over to Steve Chairman. Hello, and welcome to ESSENTRA PLC twenty twenty five Annual General Meeting. I am Steve Good, chairman of your board, and I will chair this AGM. As you know, I was appointed to the board in July last year, and it's a great pleasure to both be the chairman of your company and to meet you today. It's now 1PM. We have a quorum present, so I declare the meeting open. I am joined by here by my board colleagues, Scott Fawcett, chief executive Mary Riley, senior independent director and chair of Audit and Risk Committee, Kath Urant, chair of Remuneration Committee, and nonexecutive directors, Dupse Abiola, and Adrian Peace. Rowan Baker, our CFO, and Emma Reid, our company secretary. The format for today's meeting is that we will first deal with the formal business, then our chief executive, Scott Fawcett, will provide a business update. Once the meeting concludes, we will hope you will join us for a buffet lunch. Before going further, however, I have to hand over to my colleague, Chris Butler, our operations director, who will brief you on what you have to do in the event of a fire or other safety matter. Over to you, Chris. Thank you, Steve. Good afternoon. Welcome to ESNTRA. So just a couple of things with regards to safety. Hopefully, everybody's been issued with a a badge ...