FRANCHISE BRANDS PLC (FRAN) — Annual results for the year ended 2025

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Good morning, and welcome to the FRANCHISE BRANDS PLC twenty twenty five Annual Results Investor Presentation. Questions are encouraged and they can be submitted at any time using the Q and A tab situated on the top right corner of your screen. Just simply type in your questions and press send. Before we begin, I would like to submit the following poll, and I would now like to hand you over to executive chairman, Steven Hemsley. Good morning to you, sir. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the FRANCHISE BRANDS twenty twenty five results. I've got with me today, Peter Malloy, our CEO, and Andrew Mallows, our CFO. So for those of you who don't know the business, I'll I'll just do a brief introduction of who we are and and what we do and how we create value for shareholders. So so we're a leading international multi franchise business with a portfolio of of seven high quality franchise businesses operating through 600 franchisees in 10 countries across UK, North America, and Europe. We generate system sales of about 335,000,000 and and generate an adjusted EBITDA around 35,000,000. One of the key aspects of franchise brands is the resilience of the underlying demand for our mostly essential services. We also have a strategy to reduce our sector dependency by targeting growth in in in sectors that are particularly resilient. We have an attractive financial profile in a franchise model because we are focused on helping our franchisees grow. And if they grow, we grow because we generate a royalty on their system sales. We're capital light as our most franchise business and highly cash generative. The franchisees make the underlying investment in the in the business, and we just provide the central infrastructure. We have small shares, large fragmented markets, and our maxi...