Mr Price Grp Ltd S/Adr (MRPLY) Q4 2026 Earnings Call

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Good morning everybody, I'm Mark Bled, the CEO of Mr Price Group and welcome to the results for the year ended 30th of March 2026. I'm joined today by Pranil Nankumar, the CFO and please everybody, as questions do come to mind, I think send them through so that we can start agitating and preparing for questions later. So although we're dwelling on obviously the 2026 financials for Mr Price Group, just to give you a heads up that we will also be talking to certain high level aspects of the NKD performance to the year ended 31st of December 2025 and we can also then tell you what to expect in terms of financial statements released. This is the agenda for this morning. I'll be giving a brief overview on exactly where we're at, some items on performance and also what's impacted our performance over the years. Pranee will then do a deep dive into the financial results and then I'll come back and talk about the outlook and some strategic matters. So into the overview, and I think it's really worthwhile at this point, just sort of pausing and reflecting on everything that's come before. And when I say everything, I'm talking about probably the last five years or so, five to six years. And this is really from the start of our previous strategy reset. That happened and we started implementation in 2020. And there's the background of all the things that we've done over those years. Acquired three acquisitions locally, We had two organic launches, we've opened new store concepts and obviously expanded merch categories. During that time we've also, and it didn't span the whole five years, but we did research additional markets as you know and as we did explain at the Capital Markets Day a short while ago and obviously entered one of those markets being being the European market ...