XP FACTORY PLC (XPF) — Interim Results

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Good morning, and welcome to the XP FACTORY 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 just by 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 it receives in the meeting itself. However, the company can review all the questions submitted today and publish responses where it is 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, Rich Topham. Good morning, Giselle. Well, good morning, and thank you to everybody that's joined that's joined us this morning as we talk us talk everybody through the results to September 30. So that's our six month results to that period. Just by way of introduction for anybody that isn't familiar with us, I'm Richard. I'm the chief executive officer here at Escape Punts and Boom Baffle Bars, and Graham's joining me as well, our CFO. And, again, I'm sure that many of you on this call have got at least some familiar with XP FACTORY, the umbrella company that sits over Boom and Escape Park. But just in case you haven't, we operate in the experiential leisure sector. We're one of the preeminent businesses within that space, and we trade through our two brands. Escape Hunt is now the largest global escape rooms operator. Escape escape rooms are heavily immersive themed environments where we bring teams together. They find clues. They solve puzzles, and ultimately, they look to escape. Boom is a much younger business for us. It is in the competitive socializing space, large format bars, very vibey, cocktails, high ...