PORTMEIRION GROUP PLC (PMP) — Preliminary Results

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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Port Marion Group PLC 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 those responses where it's appropriate to do so on the Investor Meet company platform. And before we begin, we would just like to submit the following poll. And if you'd 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 executive management team from PORTMEIRION GROUP PLC. Mike, good afternoon, sir. Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to Port Marion's twenty twenty four prelims webinar. Thank you very much for dialing in. Before I start, I'd just like to introduce my colleague, John Hill. It's his first one of these. He joined us late last year, and it's great to have him on board as our as our group finance director. So I'm gonna start off with a few headlines, and then John will take us through a more detailed review of our financials. I'll then come back and talk about our plans going forward, our strategy, our priorities. And as Jake said, we'll leave some time to cover questions at the end. Alright. Right. Just to make a start, some some headlines for full year '24. Clearly, overall, a disappointing financial performance with reduction in sales and profit, albeit against a much tougher consumer market around the world. Really, all of that down...