MARSTON'S PLC (MARS) — Interim Results for the 26 weeks ended 2 April 2022

Investor webinar replay

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the MARSTON'S PLC interim results investor presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and could 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. The company may not be in a position to answer every question it receives during the meeting itself. However, the company will review all of the questions submitted today and publish responses where it is appropriate to do so. These will be available via your investor meet company dashboard, and we will notify you by email when these are ready for your review. Before we begin, I would like to submit the following poll. And if you could give that your kind attention, I'm sure the company would be most grateful. Like to hand you over to CEO, Andrew Andrea. Good morning, sir. Good morning. Thank you very much, and thank you all for attending the presentation today of our interim results that we presented to the market last week. By way of introduction, MARS PLC is a pub operator principally in England and Wales, but we've also got 20 pubs in Scotland, around 1,500 pubs overall. And we also have a 40% minority stake in the the Carlsberg MARSTON'S Beer Company having disposed of MARSTON'S Beer Company into that, venture during the pandemic. So first of all, I'd like to start with a sort of overview of how we've seen the last six months and, and the things we've been up to. And And the the first thing I would say is that trading has been pretty resilient throughout the six month period despite the clear disruption of Omicron impacting the very profitable and critical, December trading period. C...