Mark Cairns
[Foreign Language] Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I’m Mark Cairns, Freightways Chair, and it’s my pleasure to welcome you to our 2025 Annual Shareholders Meeting. It’s great to see you again, and welcome also to those people joining us online, hopefully. We’ll talk some more about that shortly.
On the stage are my fellow directors, Peter Kean; Abby Foote; David Gibson; Fiona Oliver and Grant Devonport. David is standing for reelection, and Grant is standing for election following his appointment by the Board in November last year. They’ll both address the meeting later today prior to the vote.
We’ll shortly hear from our Chief Executive, Mark Troughear. Also on the stage, we have our Chief Financial Officer, Stephan Deschamps; and our General Counsel and Company Secretary, Nicola Silke. Other members of our executive are also present in the room today and happy to chat with you over morning tea after the conclusion of the formal business.
Also here today are the company’s auditors, PricewaterhouseCoopers and the company’s legal advisers, Mayne Wetherall.
We have a quorum of shareholders, so I declare the meeting open.
Firstly, a few housekeeping matters. The bathrooms are located on the first floor atrium. In the event of an emergency, please evacuate immediately through the fire exit doors and gather at the assembly point in the car park behind this building. Could I please request that you switch your mobile phones off or on to silent, please. Lastly, we’ll be making an audio recording of the meeting, which will be made available on the Freightways website.
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