Mcbride Plc Ord (MCBRF) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Right, welcome to everybody. We're just going to wait half a minute or so to let everybody get on to the event today. There's been a lot of interest, which is good to see, so just bear with us. Right, okay, I think we've got a decent number now. So welcome to the webinar today from McBride, who'll be covering their recently announced interim results and also talking a little bit about the outlook for the business. I want to say administrative points first. This presentation is being recorded, so should you miss any of it, you can watch it again. We will be very keen to address questions after the formal presentation, which you can submit via the question button on your screen. And the presentation deck that the boys will be talking to is already available on the McBride Investor Relations page as well, along with lots of other useful materials. We're very pleased to be welcoming back CFO Mark Strickland, and the CEO Chris Smith and I'm now going to pass over to you Chris if you can start the presentation. Thanks Andy, good morning to everyone and welcome to our interim results deck and presentation for the six months to the 31st of December 2025. We'll cover today on the next slide, please, Andy, a series of, I will cover off headlines and an update on our business progress before I hand over to Mark, who will take you through a more detailed look at some of the financials. And then I'll come back to myself for the outlook and then into questions, as Andy said. Before I step through the various slides, I'd just like to comment that there are three key themes that the past six months can really be summarised by. First, continued delivery of our strong financial and operational performance for the third consecutive year now. Secondly, the passing of a significant miles...