MACFARLANE GROUP PLC (MACF) — Half Year Results

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Good morning, and welcome to the MACFARLANE GROUP PLC investor presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and can be submitted at any time via the q and a tab situated on the right hand corner of your screen. 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 questions submitted today and publish responses where it's appropriate to do so. Before we begin, I'd like to submit the following poll. And I'd now like to hand you over to Peter Atkinson, CEO. Good morning, sir. Good morning, everybody, and welcome. I'm Peter Atkinson, the CEO of MACFARLANE GROUP. I'm with our CFO, Ivor Gray, and we're gonna take you through our interim results presentation this morning. And before I do that, I I recognize some of you may not be familiar with the MACFARLANE story. So a brief introduction to MACFARLANE. The company is almost 80 years old. We've been on the main market since 1974, and our business is a supply of protective packaging to businesses. And we have two divisions, a distribution division where we're a classic, wholesaler of protective packaging materials, and we're the market leader in The UK in that particular division, and we're also a new entrant into Europe. And our second business is we have run a specialist design and manufacture business where we provide protective packaging for those companies with very high value or sensitive items. So let's move on to the presentation of our twenty twenty four h one results. And if we got the agenda, I'll make some opening remarks, and then Ida will cover off the the key metrics. I'll come back and cover the individual divisio...