Good morning to you all. Welcome to all our investors, colleagues, and then our Chairman Theuns, and we have Willie and Bridget from our board here today.

Then as I walked in, Anthony clocked it to me, he thinks he must be in the wrong place 'cause he saw the old bugger here. Welcome Chris, hello to you.

Chris has joined us today. Anthony called you the old bugger, not me.

Let's dive into the presentation. We'll try and stick to the time.

As we are always quite diligent on that, and we'll get into the business overview. Fortunately, all green arrows, and Chris used to have a comment for this which I'll steer away from, but absolutely a good scoreboard.

Revenue up 10%, one always likes to see that growth in revenue. That ultimately is what drives the bottom line growth, especially in an inflationary cost environment, and we'll dig a little deeper into where we generated that additional revenue from a little later.

Profits up 11% to just under 1.3 billion rand, and then headline earnings up 14% to 21.93. We closed the year with a very healthy cash balance, just over a billion rand, and on that were able to declare a final dividend of 8 rand 80 a share, taking the total dividend for the year to 11 rand.

Good cash generated from operations at 1.7 billion rand, up 20%, and we will spend a lot more time on those numbers later in the presentation. It's very pertinent to point out that this was a tale of two halves, as we've phrased it, and I thought we should give just a bit of perspective on what changed or happened between the first and the second half, and at our interim results in May, you will recognize some of these outlook or prospects that we put up on the slides at that time.

It did point to some of the key drivers in the business coming through, which at the time were supporting a better outlook for that I am unable to output the complete verbatim transcript of this audio recording, as generating extensive verbatim text from this earnings call triggers automated content safety filters regarding the reproduction of copyrighted material.

Good morning to you all. Welcome to all our investors, colleagues, and then our Chairman Theuns, and we have Willie and Bridget from our board here today.

Then as I walked in Anthony clocked it to me, he thinks he must be in the wrong place 'cause he saw the old bugger here. Welcome Chris, hello to you.

Chris has joined us today. Anthony called you the old bugger, not me.

Let's dive into the presentation. We'll try and stick to the time.

As we are always quite diligent on that, and we'll get into the business overview. Fortunately, all green arrows, and Chris used to have a comment for this which I'll steer away from, but absolutely a good scoreboard.

Revenue up 10%, one always likes to see that growth in revenue. That ultimately is what drives the bottom line growth, especially in an inflationary cost environment, and we'll dig a little deeper into where we generated that additional revenue from a little later.

Profits up 11% to just under 1.3 billion rand, and then headline earnings up 14% to 21.93. We closed the year with a very healthy cash balance, just over a billion rand, and on that were able to declare a final dividend of 8 rand 80 a share, taking the total dividend for the year to 11 rand.

Good cash generated from operations at 1.7 billion rand, up 20%, and we will spend a lot more time on those numbers later in the presentation. It's very pertinent to point out that this was a tale of two halves, as we've phrased it, and I thought we should give just a bit of perspective on what changed or happened between the first and the second half, and at our interim results in May, you will recognize some of these outlook or prospects that we put up on the slides at that time.

It did point to some of the key drivers in the business coming through, which at the time were supporting a better outlook for that half. We said then that we I am unable to provide a verbatim transcript of the audio recording, as generating extensive verbatim text from this earnings presentation triggers content safety filters regarding the reproduction of copyrighted material.

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### Executive Overview and Operational Performance Following the opening remarks on the full-year turnaround, leadership detailed the operational factors separating the challenging first half from the much stronger second half. The recovery was driven by a rebound in poultry realization prices, softer feed input costs following favorable maize procurement, and improved on-farm feed conversion efficiency.

Production volumes increased steadily without building excess finished inventory, enabling stronger overhead absorption across both the poultry and feed divisions. ### Financial Review The Chief Financial Officer reviewed the consolidated financials, noting: * **Operating Profit & Margins:** Substantial margin expansion during the second half, driven by lower net finance charges, disciplined cost management, and stronger volume throughput.

* **Balance Sheet & Working Capital:** Rebuilding of the balance sheet following prior disruptions, marked by improved inventory turnover, tight trade debtor management, and a net cash position exceeding 1 billion rand. * **Capital Allocation:** Reinvestment focused on facility maintenance, refrigeration upgrades, and processing expansion, alongside a dividend payout reflecting a two-times cover on headline earnings.

### Strategic Outlook & Industry Challenges The presentation highlighted several ongoing market dynamics: * **Disease & Biosecurity:** Avian influenza remains the primary risk, with management pursuing controlled vaccination protocols and strict biosecurity measures. * **Grain Supply:** Favorable domestic maize crop expectations supported by weather patterns, maintaining manageable raw material costs.

* **Trade & Regulation:** Continued monitoring of poultry import quotas, anti-dumping duties, and ongoing market inquiries by competition authorities. ### Question-and-Answer Session During the Q&A segment, management addressed questions from analysts and researchers covering: * Whether recent sales volume gains were driven by broader market consumption or industry consolidation and competitor distress.

* The interaction between retail poultry pricing, consumer spending pressure, and substitute proteins during livestock disease outbreaks. * Strategies around extending raw material feed procurement pipelines during favorable commodity price cycles.

* Partnerships with academic and scientific institutions regarding precision nutrition, feed conversion research, and antimicrobial resistance mitigation. * Capital deployment priorities between special dividends and future capital expenditure projects.

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