ME GROUP INTERNATIONAL PLC (MEGP) — 2025 Interim Results

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the ME GROUP INTERNATIONAL PLC Interim Results Investor Presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. 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. The company may not be in a position to answer every question it receives during the meeting itself. However, the company can review all questions submitted today and we'll publish those responses where it's appropriate to do so on the Investor Meet company platform. Before we begin, we would decide to submit the following poll. And if you could give that your kind attention, I'm sure the company would be most grateful. And I would now like to hand you over to the executive management team from ME GROUP INTERNATIONAL PLC. Vlad, good morning, sir. Good morning, and thank you all for joining us. My name is Vlad. I'm executive executive director of ME GROUP and head of IR. And alongside me is the CFO, Stephane Gillon. Today, we report on ME GROUP's interim results for the six month ending 04/30/2025. The agenda for today's presentation is as follows. We will start with a brief overview of the financial performance in the first half. We'll then remind you about our business model and growth strategy. We'll then talk about the financial performance in more detail and provide an update on operations. And finally, we'll conclude with a summary on the outlook for 2025. So in terms of highlights, we're delighted to report another excellent performance in the first half with record profitability, and this was led by a strong performance in our laundry operations, which we have continued to...