Roisin Currie
CEO & Govt Director
So good morning. Beautiful to see so a lot of you right here this morning, and welcome to Greggs’ interim outcomes. And it is fairly a momentous event at this time as a result of it’s Richard Hutton’s final interim gross sales presentation after 20 years as CFO at Greggs and 28 years with the enterprise.
So Richard grew to become CFO a bit of over 20 years in the past in Could 2006. And Richard, the share worth at the moment was round 160p, and that’s making an allowance for the replenish splits. And the market cap at the moment was round GBP 180 million. On the time, we had 2 U.Ok. manufacturers. We had Greggs, and we had Bakers Oven. And we additionally had a small chain of outlets in Belgium at the moment, Richard. So we ended that 12 months with Richard being CFO with 1,300 outlets, and we delivered GBP 40 million of PBT in that 12 months.
Richard has additionally been a long-standing trustee of our Greggs Basis, and he is been an actual champion of the Greggs Breakfast Golf equipment from the very inception again in 1999. So he most likely sits right here very proudly with the ability to speak about the truth that we feed 75,000 youngsters each college day that might, in any other case, not have a breakfast once they flip up in school. So can I simply ask you to
