1Good morning everyone, and thank you for joining this review of our third quarter sales results.
2Total revenue reached four point two million pounds, an increase of eight percent compared with the same period last year.
3Our northern region performed best, with sales rising by twelve percent to one point six million pounds.
4Online orders now account for thirty-five percent of all sales, up from twenty-eight percent last year.
5However, costs rose sharply, and our profit margin fell from fourteen percent to eleven percent overall.
6The marketing director, Sarah Brennan, spelled B-R-E-N-N-A-N, will explain the new advertising budget in just a few moments.
7She plans to spend two hundred thousand pounds on digital campaigns during the next three months alone.
8Customer numbers grew by nine thousand to a total of sixty-two thousand active accounts this quarter.
9If current trends continue, we expect annual revenue to reach eighteen million pounds by the end of December.
10Please email any questions to the finance team before five o'clock on Friday afternoon at the very latest.