TheWorks.co.uk plc (WRKS) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Good afternoon and welcome to the works.co.uk plc investor presentation. Throughout this quarter presentation, investors will be in listen-only mode. Questions are encouraged and they can be submitted at any time by the Q&A tab situated in the right corner of your screen. Just simply type in your questions and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question it receives in the meeting itself. However, the company can review the 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 CEO, Gavin Peck. Good morning to you, sir. Good afternoon, good afternoon everyone and thanks for joining us today. Rosie and I look forward to updating you on the significant financial and strategic progress we've made in the first half of FY26 and the robust store performance we've delivered through peak trading. We'll have plenty of time to answer questions at the end. So in summary we've had a significant strategic progress in the first half with strong store performance and improved profitability. We're fulfilling our mission to become the favourite destination for affordable screen-free activities for the whole family and that mission is something that is increasingly relevant given the growing desire from people wanting to reduce the time they spend on screens and research highlighting the negative impact of too much screen time, particularly amongst children. Our continued execution of our elevating the work strategy which we launched a year ago is focused on us delivering on that mission and we've made good progress across all three pillars of that strategy, growing our brand fame, improving customer convenience and being a lean and efficient ...