M.P. EVANS GROUP PLC (MPE) — Investor Presentation

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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the MPEvans Group PLC webcast. Throughout today's meeting, attendees will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged. They can be submitted at any time using the q and a tab just situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Please simply type in your questions at any time and press send. Before we begin, we'd like to submit the following poll and it'd be most grateful if you could give that your kind attention. I'd now like to hand over to CEO, Matthew Coulson. Matthew, good afternoon. Thank you, Mark, and good afternoon, and good afternoon to everyone who's joining us today. I should start by explaining that today's session is a little bit different from our usual results presentations. We wanted to take this opportunity to look in a bit more detail at two areas of the business that are very important to understanding MPE Evans, responsible production and pricing dynamics. Our aim is very simple, to give shareholders and other investors a clear sense of how we think about these topics, how they relate to the group, and why they matter to the long term investment case. So we'll start with two short videos that feature me and Luke before we return for about twenty or twenty five minutes of q and a. Now if time doesn't allow us to answer everything today, we will, of course, respond to any remaining questions after the event via the platform. So now time for the videos. At MPEvans, we're proud of our long term commitment to responsible production of sustainable Indonesian palm oil. We understand that at times, the palm oil sector has received criticism, and also that at times, certain participants in the industry have not followed sustainable practices. As a result, the whole industry suffered reputational...