M.P. EVANS GROUP PLC (MPE) — Interim Results for the six months ended 30 June 2025

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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the MPEvans Group 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 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 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 team from MPEvans Group PLC. Peter, good afternoon, sir. Thank you very much, Jake. Good afternoon to everybody. Thank you so much for joining us today. Today's presentation relates specifically to the, interim results announced yesterday, which, have been well received by the market, and we will take you through a number of slides. Myself, Peter Hadsley Chaplin, I'm the nonexecutive chairman, joined by my colleagues, Matthew Matthew Coulson, who sat sadly, slightly ailing, but nonetheless, nobody joining us from his home, and our CFO, Luke Shaw. So what we would envisage is that the presentation will take, including questions will take no longer than, one hour maximum. Sure. It's quite quite enough time, for you to hear us, talking. So I will kick off with a little overview of, the results and then hand over to my two colleagues. So pleasingly, the group harvest for the group managed areas was up by 9% to just some under...