FRANCHISE BRANDS PLC (FRAN) — Interim Results

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Good morning, and welcome to the FRANCHISE BRANDS PLC investor presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and could be submitted at any time by the q and a tab situated on the right hand corner of your screen. 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 publish responses where it's appropriate to do so. Before we begin, I'd like to submit the following poll. I'd now like to hand you over to the management team. Peter, good morning, sir. Good morning, and good morning to everybody, and welcome to the FRANCHISE BRANDS inventory presentation twenty twenty six. Before I go any further, I'll introduce myself. My name is Peter Malloy. I am the CEO of the business. I've been with FRANCHISE BRANDS in the group for about nine years and CEO for the last two. And I'd also like to introduce Neil Miller, our new CFO, who joined the business about two months ago, and I'm delighted to welcome to the group, and it significantly strengthens the executive team. So so welcome, Neil. Thank you. So in terms of an overview as the the first half of the year, what we saw was a return to growth driven primarily by things that we can control and some self help initiatives. What we didn't see was any particular improvement in the macros in any of our geographies, probably with the exception of the states where it remains strong. So across the group, record system sales in our three b to b divisions. In some businesses, that was a modest record, but nonetheless, a record. Exceptionally strong performance in filter international in The US helped by the incr...