Frank Sagnier
Group Interim Government Chair
Good morning, and welcome to everplay interim outcomes presentation. I’m Frank Sagnier, Exec Chair. I’m right here with my colleagues, Rashid Varachia, CFO and COO; and James Targett, our IR.
Let’s begin right away. We have had a robust — we’re ready for a robust full 12 months. The important thing headline for as we speak. H1 income was strong with good efficiency from new releases and again catalog. We anticipate H2 to be stronger than H1, because of extra new releases, a stronger again catalog in the course of the Christmas interval, as you’ll anticipate, and a variety of licensed offers, a few of them already signed.
When it comes to EBITDA, we delivered GBP 19.2 million, because of improved margins. This is because of a product combine with packaged items in a a lot decrease proportion. We’re delighted to pay our shareholders a 1p per share dividend for H1. We proceed to generate money, serving to our M&A ambitions and [ allowing ] [indiscernible] [ those ] dividends. Most significantly, we’re properly positioned for future natural development, because of our doubling down on first-party IP, robust again catalog, new income streams, together with extra again catalog republishing and we’ll proceed to actively search for accretive M&A to speed up that development.
Operational highlights. We have had fairly just a few new video games this 12 months, and we’re pleased to say that we had success specifically, with Date The whole lot!, which achieved over 500,000 items thus far. We proceed to manage our prices, enhance combine and powerful efficiency of latest releases contributed to robust margin enchancment.
New IP introduced for ’26’27. At this
