PPHE HOTEL GROUP LIMITED (PPH) — Interim Results for the six months ended 30 June 2026

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the PPHE HOTEL GROUP LIMITED investor presentation. 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 will publish those responses where it's appropriate to do so on the Investor Meet company platform. Before we begin, we would just like to And I would now like to hand you over to the team from PPHE HOTEL GROUP. Greg, good morning, sir. Hello. Good morning. Good morning, and welcome to our twenty twenty six half year results. My name is Greg Egity. I'm co CEO of the PPHE HOTEL GROUP. And to my left, I'm joined by Robert, our EVP of Commercial. And to my right, I have Daniel Kos, our Chief Financial Officer. So we are really pleased to report good solid half first half year results, good strong operating performance. But before we get into the detail, I think it would be poignant to show a quick video. Thank you. Dave, thank you for that. Right. What we're gonna do, I'm gonna talk you through some of our strategic and operational updates. So we have had several strategic financing highlights during the period. These include the acquisition of a freehold of Park Plaza London Waterloo for a 147,900,000, which was funded by a new five year facility at 136,500,000. This transaction has simplified and strengthened our balance sheet, and Daniel will take you through that a little bit more as we go through the presentation. We also refinanced our Ardutel in Rome for 27,600,000, which was also on a five year facili...