S & U PLC (SUS) — Interim Results for the 6 months ended 5 August 2025

Investor webinar replay

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Good morning, and welcome to the S and U PLC Interim Results Investor Presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged, and they can be submitted at any time using 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 received during the meeting itself. However, the company can review all questions submitted today and publish responses, which is appropriate to do so. Before we begin, I would like to submit the following poll. And I would now like to hand you over to chairman, Anthony Coombs. Good morning to you, sir. Good morning, Alex, and and good morning to all our very valuable retail investor friends. We find that these webinars are extremely valuable way of keeping in touch with the very important retail investment market. Can I just introduce everybody on the panel? Can we go to the next slide, please, Alex? And you'll see that we've got some familiar faces, myself and my brother are probably overly familiar with you. And and Carl Varley, know, who's the chief executive of Advantage Finance, and has done a wonderful job in in reconstituting the company over the last two years. And Ed Arons, who is driving, as CEO of Aspen Bridging, the record results of that company as is Jack Coombs, who is my, on my right and who has been made chief operating officer of the of the company. And that behooves very well for the future of the company and lines of succession along with his cousin, Richard Coombs, who is also involved in the business. And on my left, we have Chris Freckhamson, who is the is the group CFO, doing a wonderful job, and is just bedding in as the successor of Chris Red...