ME GROUP INTERNATIONAL PLC (MEGP) — Interim Results

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the ME GROUP INTERNATIONAL PLC Investor Presentation. 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 will publish our responses where it's appropriate to do so on the Investor Meet company platform. Before we begin, we would just like to submit the following poll. And as usual, if you could give that your kind attention, I'm sure the company would be most grateful. And I'd now like to hand you over to Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Vladimir Krasnianski. Vlad, good morning, sir. Thank you very much. Good morning, and welcome to the ME Group twenty twenty six interim results presentation. My name is Vladimir Krasdanski. I'm Deputy CEO. Unfortunately, Stephane Gervont is unable to attend. I'll start with an overview of the first half of our 2026 financial year. I'll then provide a brief reminder of our business, our key activities today and the continued evolution of our business mix. I'll then talk about the financial performance and our key geographic regions, followed by an update on our business areas. And to conclude with, we'll look at the outlook for FY 2026. So, turning to a summary of the first half of the year, I'd like to start with a recap of on our trading update issued at the start of June. As we said then, the group's performance in the first five months of the year was as expected. However, during April, we saw a softening of revenue primarily within our photo booth business. We believe th...