THE ARTISANAL SPIRITS COMPANY PLC (ART) — Half Year Results for the six months ended 30 June 2025

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Good afternoon, and welcome to the ARTISANAL SPIRITS COMPANY Investor Presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and can 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 was received 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, and I'd now like to hand you over to Andrew Dane, CEO. Good afternoon, sir. Good afternoon. Thank you very much all for joining. I'm Andrew Dane. I'm the chief exec. I'm joined today by Billy McArthur, our CFO. Good afternoon. And it's a chance for us to talk about our interim results for the half year ended 06/30/2025. Before we get into the details, what we'll do is we'll set out the plan for today. We'll start with an introduction and overview of the business and an exact summary on the results. I'll then hand over to Billy who'll take you through some of the trading update. I'll put some strategic context to that update, and then we'll finish with a bit of a current trading update and outlook for the balance of the year. First of all, as a reminder, the ARTISANAL SPIRITS COMPANY creates and sells limited edition outstanding whiskies and experiences around the world. We primarily do that through the Scotchbalt Whiskey Society. Over 40 years old and over 40,000 members around the world, the heart and soul of the business. But we've been expanding the group with the acquisition of Single Cask Nation, a US based independent bottler in January of last year, the laun...