M.P. EVANS GROUP PLC (MPE) — Full-year results for the year ended 31 December 2025

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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the MPEF Group PLC twenty twenty five Results. Throughout today's recorded meeting, attendees will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged. They could be submitted at any time. Please just use the Q and A tab situated on the right hand corner of your screen, type in your questions and press send. Before we begin, we would like to submit the following poll, and I'm sure the company would be most grateful for your participation. I'd now like to hand over to the management team from MPEF Group PLC. Peter, good afternoon. Thank you very much, Mark, and good afternoon to everyone. Thank you so much for joining us for this presentation of our 2025 annual results. I'm joined as usual by my colleagues, Matthew Coulson, our CEO, and Luke Shaw, our CFO. And as usually happens, we'll take you through the presentation, which will last about half an hour, and then we'll allow up to another half an hour for any questions you may have. And please do submit any any questions that you're interested in knowing the answers to. But the full presentation and q and a won't go on for any longer than one hour. So without further ado, let us move to the first slide. This is an overview of us, MPE Evans. We're a 150 year old AIM listed plantation group, focusing on sustainable Indonesian palm oil. We now, including our, smallholders who I think to our projects have, over 70,000 planted hectares. We, produce 76% of our CPO is certified sustainable. The the that has gone up, as Matthew would explain, because, we are taking out less from independent smallholders. We've continued to grow. Impressively, we've acquired 14,000 hectares since 2023. We have six zero waste palm oil mills. Again, Matthew will talk more about that on the sustainab...