PROCOOK GROUP PLC (PROC) — Investor Presentation

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Good morning, and welcome to the PROCOOK GROUP PLC investor presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and could be submitted at any time via the Q and A tab situated on the right hand corner of your screen. 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 publish responses where it's appropriate to do so. Before we begin, I'd like to submit the following poll. I'd now like to hand you over to Lee Tappenden, CEO. Good morning, sir. Good morning, everybody, and thank you for joining us this morning. I'm joined by Dan Walden, our CFO at PROCOOK. Today, we're happy to share with you our half year results for FY 2026. For today, a quick agenda. I will cover the highlights of our first half. Dan will give more detail and color on the financials for that period. I will touch on a strategy update around three key initiatives, just to follow on from what we would have shared with you previously if you've joined us. And then Dan will wrap up with the current trading outlook the last eight weeks up until this recent Sunday, December 7. So the first half of this year, it's probably important to start with the fact that summer twenty twenty four, we set out a very clear medium term strategy to open a 100 stores in The UK, deliver a 100,000,000 sales revenue, and a 10% operating profit margin. I'm very pleased to say that we are making great progress towards those goals, and the financial highlights basically illustrate that and reinforce the progress that we've been making. In the first half of twenty six, we had a record sales performance of £3...