Michael Franks

Well, we do have solar.

We've got 1,000 kilowatts of solar on the roofs of our cool stores now.

The unfortunate fact about that is that they produce electricity in the summer and we use it in the winter.

And so we have got technology in the company where we are looking about

The load management, bringing cool stores up more slowly, managing when they cycle, what times of the day we might turn them on or off to minimise electricity.

And that should reduce our power demand by 5% to 10%.

But at the end of the day, we are a big user.

Look, climate change is real.

It's not something that's going to come.

It's something that is here now.

We're adapting to it by introducing rootstock, which is more tolerant.

to high levels of rain, of water.

We are adapting to it with new varieties that may not need so much winter chill.

And so actually around us now, there is things happening that should make us more resilient, but we are a company and we are a sector and an industry which

grows fruit outside and there will always be risks that come with weather events which are beyond our control.

Well, I think in our company, there's a couple of things I'd say.

Firstly, we are fortunate that we've got fantastic people right across the business.

So there actually wasn't a problem with the leadership or the management of the company.

The simple problem that we had was the occupancy in our hotel was down below break-even.

We understood that over a period of time, the volumes would come back.