LORDS GROUP TRADING PLC (LORD) — Annual General Meeting

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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the LORDS GROUP TRADING PLC Annual General Meeting. Questions are encouraged. They can be submitted at any time via the Q and A tab that's just situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Please just simply type in your questions and press send. I would now like to hand you over to the Board from LORDS GROUP TRADING. Gary, good afternoon, sir. Good afternoon, and thank you for the introduction. Well, good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to twenty twenty six Annual General Meeting of LORDS GROUP TRADING. I'm, Gary O'Brien, as you've just been introduced, and I'm the Chairman of the company, and I'll be chairing the meeting this afternoon. Thank you, everybody, who's joined us in the offices of Bursons today and, and everybody who's joined us on on Investor Meet. I'd like to start by, first of all, introducing you to everybody in the room. I've got on my left hand side, Shankar Patel, group CEO, here, I think we're all aware of. Stuart Kilpatrick, to my immediate right, chief financial officer, followed by Sheena Mackay, who is an independent non executive director for the group. And last but not least is Andrew Harrison at the very end, again independent non executive director. Just a bit of housekeeping for people who are in the offices here today, which is if the alarm goes off, But listen to what the fire instructors tell you to do and follow instructions accordingly. Now before turning to the formal business of the meeting, there was a release yesterday, a trading update that we released yesterday at 11AM. What I'd like to do is actually read through that. I'll find it. I will probably actually do it. He brought it to him. Should have that. Looking forward. Thank you very much. So it's all pre...