VIANET GROUP PLC (VNET) — Interim Results

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the VIANET GROUP PLC interim results investor presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged. They can be submitted at any time via q and a tab that's just situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Please just 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 we'll publish those responses where it's appropriate to do so. And before we begin, as usual, we would just like to submit the following poll. And if you could give that your kind attention, I'm sure the company would be most grateful. I would now like to hand you over to the executive management team from VIANET GROUP PLC. James, good morning, sir. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us today with, Mark and and Sarah. I'll kick straight into the results. Strong set of results. BeverageMetrics acquisition is now fully integrated. The hospitality division is in growth and we're seeing real momentum in the unattended retail division. And there's been further progress in new verticals where we've installed over 1,800 devices in forecourts, so we've got an established presence there. And another period where the group is ahead on key metrics. Top line growth agenda is being delivered. We'll turn over to page two. Quickly for those that are less familiar with the business or perhaps seeing us for the first time, I'll I'll do a quick run through of what we do. Basically, help customers transform business performance, allowing them to do more with less. We install hardware that allows us to harvest data, thereby produ...