ME GROUP INTERNATIONAL PLC (MEGP) — Annual Results for the financial year ended 31 October 2025

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Good morning, and welcome to the ME GROUP INTERNATIONAL PLC 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 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 it receives 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 the management team. Vlad, good morning, sir. Good morning, Lily. Thank you. Good morning, and welcome to the ME GROUP twenty twenty five annual results presentation. My name is Vladimir Krasnianski, Deputy Chief Executive Officer. And sat next to me is Stephane Gabon, who is our CFO. We'll start with an overview of the financial highlights for 2025, and we'll then provide a brief reminder of our business, our key activities today and the evolution of our business mix. We will then talk about the financial performance and our key geographic regions, followed by an update on our business areas, And we'll conclude with a summary of 2025 and the outlook for 2026. In terms of highlights, I'm pleased to report that 2025 has been another solid year for ME GROUP. We achieved record profitability with year on year profit before tax growth of 6.5%, and we generated £115,500,000 of cash from operations. The highly cash generative nature of our business is a key strength, which funds our investment in future growth. This includes further expanding our washing operations, a key strategic focus with a record thirteen twenty six new laundry mach...