M.P. EVANS GROUP PLC (MPE) — Annual General Meeting

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Good afternoon, and welcome to the MPEvans Group PLC annual general meeting. The meeting will begin shortly. Yeah. Good. Are we ready? Yeah. Great. Ladies and gentlemen, good to see that everybody has a seat. It is now twelve noon, the time appointed for the annual general meeting. I have great pleasure in welcoming you to the meeting. A quorum of two members is required, and I confirm that more than this number is present. I'm also pleased to inform you that the meeting today is being live streamed and recorded so that shareholders and other stakeholders who cannot be present can view it live or watch it on the company's website in due course. And I'm pleased to confirm that I'm joined today by my colleagues on the board. Sadly, though, without Tanya, who I think we will let off because she is in Iceland for a family reunion of 150 family members, which had been planned long ago. So, we wish her well for that. And I'm sure she will be back here next year. I would though just like to take the opportunity to say on behalf of myself, on behalf of the Board, and I think on behalf of all shareholders there are seats at the front, by the way a huge thank you to my colleague, Bruce, who has served on the board magnificently for the last nine years and will be retiring in his capacity as a non executive director. For the last number of years, he has been our senior independent director as well as chair of both the Audit Committee and the Group Remuneration Committee. Bruce has so many different skill sets and areas of knowledge and expertise, it's hard to enumerate. But amongst them, banking, commodities, agriculture, ESG, many, many others. So, yours will clearly be a tough act to follow, but I know that we'll stay in touch with you and you with us, and I'm sure we'll be s...