Focusrite Plc (FOCIF) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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Good morning and welcome to the Focusrite PLC Interim Results Investor presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen-only mode. Questions are encouraged and they can be submitted at any time using the Q&A tab situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Simply tap in your questions and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question received during the meeting itself. However, the company can review all questions submitted today and publish responses where it is appropriate to do so. Before we begin, I would like to submit the following poll and I would now like to hand you over to CEO Tim Carroll. Good morning to you. Hello and good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us. Sally and I are delighted to have you with us today to go over our half-year results through February of 25. So to start off with, just to get some color, so I know we have a mixed crowd in the room. There's some people that know us well, some people that maybe have just started following us. We thought we'd start off with just a little bit of an introduction in terms of what it is that the Focusrite group does on here. If you've heard this before, bear with me, I'll make it short and as un-painful as possible on there. But basically the best way to think of the group really is we have two basic divisions. One is really all about the creation of audio, primarily for music. but for other applications as well. It could be podcasting, it could be the sound design or the dialogue or the soundtrack for a TV show or a piece of media you write. But really it's all about software and hardware primarily that is really involved in the creation process. The other part of our business is the audio reproduction business. This really is all a...