LIGHT SCIENCE TECHNOLOGIES HOLDINGS PLC (LST) — Results and Company Update

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Good morning and welcome to the LIGHT SCIENCE TECHNOLOGIES HOLDINGS PLC Investor Presentation. Before we begin, I'd like to submit the following poll. I'd now like to hand you over to Simon Deacon, CEO. Good morning, sir. Good morning, everybody, and and thank you very much for for attending the financial results for 2025. Do you want to go through who's presenting? Andrew? Thank you. So presenting today is Andrew Hemsall, chief operating officer. Andrew, do you want to give a little bit of background about yourself? Yeah. I've got over thirty years experience in sort of senior operations role, mostly within sort of private equity and PLC environments and kind of experience in integrating new acquisitions. Also with me today is Jim Snooks, CFO and company secretary. Over to you, Jim. Thanks, Simon. So, yeah, over thirty years in senior finance roles, great deal of experience in acquisitions and disposals, and I'm a qualified management accountant. And myself, Simon Deacon, chief executive officer, over thirty years of experience to founder of the business and a track record of founding and acquiring growth businesses. So looking at twenty twenty five's highlights, it was very much a transitional period for us in 2025. So the highlights were in ag tech. We were awarded an NTU contract, that's Nottingham Trent University contract worth £460,000 in AgTech. This increased post period to £600,000. And what this showed was our strength of bringing all of our divisions together in fire protection, in contract electronics, manufacturing the parts, and obviously in ag tech, bringing all of this to create this fantastic facility, is being created as we speak today. We've also strengthened the SensorGrow IP position through our patent grants moving forward. We've worked very cl...