TOPPS TILES PLC (TPT) — Interim Results

Investor webinar replay

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Good morning, and welcome to the TOPPS TILES 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 or receives during the meeting itself. However, company can review all questions submitted today and publish responses where it 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 CEO, Rob Parker. Good morning to you. Thank you. Yes, good morning, everyone. Very warm welcome to the half year results update investor update and presentation. I'm Rob Parker, the chief executive, and with me this morning is our CFO, Steven Hobson. Slightly different update for investors this week. Actually, we're gonna cover the usual half year results, but we've also launched an exciting new goal for the business and a strategy to support that goal, and we're gonna spend more of our time through the presentation focusing on on that side of the update. So the the structure for this morning, I'll do the introduction. Steven will then cover the financials over the first half, and then I'll come on and talk again about goal and and strategy. On then to, the first slide of the presentation, the highlight slide, the macro, absolutely continues to remain tough. It has been for at least six months. Within our market, group sales over the first half of the year were actually down 5.8%. We do consider that an outperformance of the market. Fixed data is quite difficult to obtain, but in terms of our analysis and our underst...