HUDDLED GROUP PLC (HUD) — Final Results

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Good afternoon, and welcome to the HUDDLED GROUP PLC final results investor presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and can be submitted at any time by the q and a tab. Sit to the right hand corner of your screen. Just 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, the company can review all the questions submitted today and publish responses where it is appropriate to do so. Before we begin, I'd like to submit the following poll. I'd now like to hand you over to CEO, Martin Higginson. Good afternoon to you, sir. Yeah. Good afternoon. Thanks for allowing us to present today. So really just wanted to get into it. First of all, HUDDLED, it's been a transformational year as people have seen in the results earlier this morning. Just a little bit of background on who we are. We've had about forty years of experience in sort of not only starting businesses, but exiting them and listing them. We've listed six businesses in total, one of them getting to an AIM top 50. So I'd like to think we've we've got a reasonable understanding of of sort of business and and how to make it and turn them into a success. What we're doing here really is about bringing together a number of ecommerce business predominantly focused in the discount sector. You'll see with the addition of our Food Circle acquisition, that's another string to the to the to join Discount Dragon. And our ambition really is to to grow this into a sizable business. We we can see all the benefits of, one, the strong balance sheet allowing businesses to buy more stock. We've seen a lot of the benefits in Discount Dragon and some of the earl...