Douglas McKay
[Foreign Language] Good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to this meeting. My name is Doug McKay, and I am Vector’s Chair. I’d like to acknowledge Ngati Whatua Orakei as mana whenua for Central Auckland, where we are today. As we have a quorum, and it’s 2:00, I will now declare open the 2025 Annual Meeting of Vector Limited shareholders.
We’re starting today with ordinary business, which includes short addresses from myself and Simon, and then 7 resolutions. We’ll see how short Simon can be given its his last one. You take as long as you like, mate. As part of these resolutions, you will also hear short addresses from the directors who are seeking reelection. After that, we’ll move to general business, Q&A and then voting.
Today’s meeting is a hybrid meeting where shareholders can participate here in the room and online. As this is a shareholder meeting, we ask that you do not use the time for asking specific operational or customer service questions that relate to individual projects or your situation. We’re happy to have those questions and queries, but we have members of our customer team available here in the room and after the meeting, and they will be very happy to help you with any of those types of queries.
We do encourage shareholder questions, and we’ll indicate question time after each of the presentations. We’ll have microphones available for you. Once you’ve asked your question, please give the microphone back while we’re answering your question so that others can have their turn. And so that everyone can have a turn, we ask that you keep to 1 or 2 questions per person. If you still have more questions or
