LORDS GROUP TRADING PLC (LORD) — AGM 2025

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Good afternoon, and welcome to the LORD Group Trading PLC twenty twenty five AGM. Throughout this recorded meeting, attendees will be in listen only mode. Questions could be submitted at any time by the Q and A tab situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Simply just type in your question and press end. The company may not be in a position to answer every question received during the meeting itself. However, the company can review all questions submitted today and publish responses where it's appropriate to do so. I'd now like to hand you over to Gary O'Brien, Chairman of the LORDS Board. Good afternoon, sir. Good afternoon. Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon to you as well, and welcome to twenty twenty five Annual General Meeting for the LORDS GROUP TRADING PLC. My name is Gary O'Brien, as I've just been introduced, and I'm the Chairman of the company, and I'll also be Chairman for this meeting today. Thank you every everyone for attending both in person and in the investment company platform. We have at least two members present personal by proxy, so I, therefore, can declare that quorum is present. For this morning's or not this morning, this afternoon's AGM, I have in the room with me, sitting on the right, who's the chief executive officer for the group. Stuart Kirkpatrick, sitting on my left, chief financial officer. And then either end of the table, we've got Andrew Harrison, independent nonexecutive director, and Sheila McKay, also independent nonexecutive director. Right. Just a bit of housekeeping for everybody in the room. Can we all make sure we've got our phone switched to silence, if you don't mind? And if there is a fire, closest the exit or follow instructions given by any fire marshals that may be around. Now before we turn to the formal b...