...Good morning and welcome to the 2025 Annual Shareholders Meeting of Designer Brands Incorporated. I'm Doug Howe, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Designer Brands. On behalf of the board of directors and officers of Designer Brands, it is my pleasure to welcome you today. Fiscal 2024 was a year marked by improvement and commitment to our core strategy. Reflecting on our performance, the improvement we saw was a direct result of our commitment to executing on those initiatives within our control. This included decisive actions to refresh our leadership team, revitalize and modernize our assortment, optimize our marketing, right size our brand portfolio organization, and improve our customer omnichannel experience. We began to see some fruits of those changes materialize in the back half of fiscal 2024, hosting two consecutive quarters of year over year adjusted operating income growth, and the first positive comparable sales at DFW in nine quarters. Within our US and Canada retail...
