Frank Sagnier
Group Interim Govt 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 immediately. We have had a robust — we’re ready for a robust full 12 months. The important thing headline for at present. H1 income was strong with good efficiency from new releases and again catalog. We count on H2 to be stronger than H1, because of extra new releases, a stronger again catalog through the Christmas interval, as you’ll count on, and plenty of licensed offers, a few of them already signed.
By way of 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 progress, 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 progress.
Operational highlights. We have had fairly just a few new video games this 12 months, and we’re comfortable to say that we had an excellent success specifically, with Date All the things!, which achieved over 500,000 items up to now. We proceed to regulate our prices, enhance combine and powerful efficiency of recent releases contributed to robust margin enchancment.
New IP introduced for ’26’27. At this
