FRANCHISE BRANDS PLC (FRAN) — Full Year Results for the year ended 31 December 2024

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the FRANCHISE BRANDS PLC Full 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. And before we begin, we would just like to submit the following poll. And if you'd 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 team from FRANCHISE BRANDS PLC. Stephen, good morning, sir. Good morning. Welcome, everybody. It's good to see you. Next slide, please, Jules. I'd like to introduce the presenters today: myself, Executive Chairman and Co Founder of the business Peter Malloy, our CEO Andrew Mallows, our chief financial officer and Beth Peace, the, newly appointed group finance director. Next slide, please. Next slide, please. Next slide, please. FRANCHISE BRANDS is in the business of acquiring, developing, and organically growing market leading franchise businesses. We build market leading businesses primarily via a franchise model. Although we will use direct labor businesses, DLOs as we call them, where we think that that will help grow a a franchise channel. We support our franchisees to successfully develop their business and achieve their goals as we believe that if they grow, we grow, and this is driven by the, royalty model that underlies most of our businesses. Next slide, please. 2024 saw a resilient performance by the group. Most of the services we offer are essential reactive services, which means tha...