VULCAN TWO GROUP PLC (VUL) — Introduction To The Company

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Good afternoon, or welcome to the VULCON II Group PLC investor presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and could be submitted at any time by 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 receives 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. I'd now like to hand you over to the management team. Michael, good afternoon, Good afternoon, Lily. Thanks so much for the introduction. So welcome everybody to our first public investor presentation. So we'd like to give you a quick overview of the team and then into our business and our business model and what we've been doing since we've raised our funds. So so I'm Michael. I'm I'm chief executive. My last business was Vision Direct. It it I started that business when I acquired Brendan's business called GetLenses in in 2009, we developed that through a combination of very strong organic growth plus nine further acquisitions to grow the business. We sold it to in 2016, continued to develop it. And when I left in 2021, it was over 100,000,000 of sales. When I bought Brendan's business, I signed him up on a six month, three day a week consultancy contract, and somehow he's he's still here. He's my right hand man and and COO. So, Brendan, please introduce yourself. Hi. Hi, everybody. I I'm Brendan. I originally trained as an optometrist. As Michael mentioned, I set up GetLens in 2000 and sold it to Michael in 2009. I look after everything to do with customer retention. So b...