XP FACTORY PLC (XPF) — Results for the year to 31 December 2023

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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the XP FACTORY PLC Results Investor Presentation. Throughout this quarter presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged. They can be submitted at any time. Just simply type in your questions in the Q and A box on the right hand side of your screen 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 your questions submitted today, and we'll publish those responses where it's appropriate to do so. Before we begin, we'd like to submit the following poll. I'm sure the company will be most grateful for your participation. I'd now like to hand over to the management team from XP FACTORY, Graham Richard. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, Mark, and good afternoon, everybody else. Thanks so much for joining us this afternoon. It's our pleasure to be talking through our twelve month interim results to December 23. But I thought very briefly, a quick introduction on who we are. So so I'm Richard. I'm the CEO here at XP FACTORY, and here's Graham Bird, who's the CFO. Good afternoon, everyone. And, obviously, we'll get into our results in a moment, but I'm aware that there might be some people listening today who are not quite as familiar with what we do at XP FACTORY. So I thought it might be a helpful precursor just to give you a very brief overview of what our two brands are. So XP FACTORY is the is the sort of the umbrella company, if you like, that sits over our two brands, Escape Hunt and Boom Battle Bar. Escape Hunt is the market leading escape the room provider. We now have 45 units trading internationally. We have oh, we within which we have 23 that are owner operated. We have 22 which are franchis...