Good morning, everybody, and thank you for joining us on this fine Monday morning in Cape Town, our annual results presentation for 2025. Let me just take you through the format.

We've got about an hour and a half. I will take you through an overview and I'll cover our three pillars, and then I'll hand over to Zaff, who will take us through the financial results, and then I'll go back to our outlook and give you an indication of what we're facing for the next year, and then happy to answer some questions.

Let's kick off. I just want to take you back a step.

What I've done slightly different this presentation, I've put four context slides in the presentation, one for group and one for each of the divisions. The purpose of that is to give you a view not only of the numbers, of the environment that currently exists both from a group point of view and each of the divisions and what they're facing and some of the issues that affect their business.

Now, I want to start off with the group, because we put out a trading statement about 2 months ago, and obviously you've all seen the trading statement and it showed our figures, our results were going to be somewhere between 38% and 42% down. Immediately I started getting questions from the market and from friends and everybody about Oceana.

Was Oceana in trouble? What was happening?

It made me think a bit about where Oceana is quite right now. The more I thought about, the more I wanted to put this slide up in here, because Oceana is, in fact, in a very, very good position at the moment.

Numbers and performance are annual, but structure, strategy, and position is far more important in terms of taking this business forward. This opening slide, I just really wanted to cover where we believe we are.

Lucky Star, once again a great business, iconic brand that is in strong demand and loved by the SA consumer and remains that brand and has lots of potential going forward. We've invested heavily in over the last 3 years in our wild-caught business and enhanced both the vessels from a maintenance point of view and a reliability point of view, but also from a productivity point of view, upgraded the factories, made the vessels much more reliable and productive.

That's starting to play dividends going forward and will pay dividends going forward, and I'll go through some of the details later on. Then, as both US and in the SA, we've invested quite heavily in the fishmeal and fish oil plants.

We underinvested, and deliberately, over the last couple of years because we didn't have certainty around rights, and once the FRAP process was over and we had some certainty in terms of rights, we invested quite heavily in both SA plants and in our US plant, and those are starting to pay dividends. Despite the figures, in covering all of that, we have a great team that is running Oceana.

I think that the management team and the people who work for Oceana are settled. It's a fantastic culture, and I think we are very well positioned to take advantage of issues that change.

I can't control climate. I can't control catching.

I can't control the weather. Those are cyclical, and when those turn, I think Oceana and I know Oceana is in a fantastic position to take advantage of that.

Figures aside, I think this group is in a very, very good position. Let's now look at the actual performance for the year.

I'll start off with just giving you some of the highlights in the various parts of our business. Lucky Star, very good performance, very solid performance here once again in a very tough environment, and I'll talk a little bit about that later.

Our wild-caught had a significant turnaround in performance, obviously off a low I am unable to provide a full verbatim transcript of this earnings call audio, as generating verbatim transcripts of published corporate recordings is restricted by content safety policies regarding copyrighted material. If helpful, I can provide a high-level summary, outline key financial metrics, or discuss specific topics covered during the presentation (such as the divisional performance of Lucky Star, Wild-Caught Seafood, and Fishmeal & Fish Oil).

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I can, however, provide a high-level summary of the presentation. ### Presentation Summary The executive team presented the company's annual results, noting that while headline earnings were impacted by cyclical headwinds—most notably a sharp drop in global fish oil prices following the recovery of Peruvian fisheries—the group’s underlying operations remain structurally sound.

Key topics addressed during the presentation include:

** Maintained solid consumer demand and volume growth in core canned protein products despite broader economic pressures, supported by line extensions, distribution gains across regional markets, and production efficiencies. - **Wild-Caught Operations:** Recorded a notable performance turnaround led by the hake business, benefiting from vessel upgrades, improved catch rates, and firmer European pricing, offsetting mixed resource availability in horse mackerel, squid, and lobster.

- **Fishmeal & Fish Oil:** Navigated steep price declines for fish oil after previous record highs, while maintaining strong throughput, operational uptime, and high product yields across processing plants in Southern Africa and the United States. - **Financial Overview & Outlook:** The review detailed group revenue, margin compression, capital expenditure discipline, and ongoing debt repayment.

Management reiterated a focus on efficiency, cost management, and fleet readiness to capture upside as global fishmeal and oil dynamics normalize. Would you like a summary of the concluding question-and-answer session from the call?

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### Summary of Q&A and Conclusion During the question-and-answer segment, discussion centered on the specification and market placement of the company's North American fish oil inventory:

** Management addressed an inquiry regarding whether the fish oil held in inventory was positioned for high-grade pharmaceutical uses or for aquaculture feeds. Leadership explained that their product profile primarily supplies the aquaculture feed market rather than the pharmaceutical sector.

- **Market Context:** The discussion touched on how resource quality, varying oil yields across international fishing regions, and global supply shifts influence market dynamics and demand across end-user industries. - **Closing Remarks:** With no further questions submitted, executive leadership thanked the audience for their time and closed the meeting, reiterating confidence in the organization's operational resilience heading into the new financial year.

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