HARWORTH GROUP PLC (HWG) — Half Year Results

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Good morning, and welcome to the HARWORTH GROUP PLC Half Year 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 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 received during the meeting itself. However, company will review all questions submitted today and publish responses where 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, Linda Sheelaw. Good morning to you. Good morning. Thank you, Alex, and good morning, everybody. Welcome to HARWORTH's Investor Meet company presentation. Today's presentation relates to our half year results for the first six months of twenty twenty three, which were announced to the market a couple of weeks ago on the September 12. I'm Linda Shillor, chief executive officer, and I'm delighted to be joined by Katie Patmore, our chief financial officer, and we we are here. We hope we hope you can see us. We're real. We're gonna go off when we do the rest of the presentation, then come back on at the end during q and a so that you've actually got some you've got a full and clear screen. It's great to be back on this platform and to have an opportunity to speak to our valued retail shareholders and those who are considering an investment in HARWORTH. So we'd like to start by thanking you all for your support and your interest in HARWORTH and that continued support going forward for the business. Thank you. So on to the agenda slide. So this slide shows the agenda for the morning. I'm going to begin with an overview o...