LIKEWISE GROUP PLC (LIKE) — 2023 Full Year Results

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Good morning, and welcome to the LIKEWISE GROUP PLC Full Year Results Investor Presentation. The 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 is 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, Tony Brewer. Good morning to you. Many thanks, and thanks everybody for joining this presentation this morning. I believe we can demonstrate another positive year of development in the group. Really good sales growth, and that's continued into 2024. So importantly, the group has put together over the last four years now 11 distribution and logistics centers, and we've created extra capacity to be able to develop the business in the future. Importantly, we have 80 suppliers across our various product categories where we have extremely good long standing relationships. That includes suppliers of carpet, residential vinyl, laminate, luxury vinyl tile, artificial grass, flooring accessories, and commercial flooring. And another key feature of the group is the 94 customer focused sales executives that we have with extremely good customer relationship and floor covering knowledge. And through the business that we develop, those are delivered on our fleet of trucks to service our customers on a next day delivery service. The just over 500 staff are extremely important to us. And, many of them, whether that be management, sales representatives, telesales, warehouse staff, delivery drivers, all have long standing floor covering experience. And through our sales teams, we're placing on a daily basis a huge amo...