Thank you all for coming to my talk this evening.It'snice to see so many people in the audience.For thoseof you who don't know very much about PSCamping,let me start by giving you somebackground information about the company.
The company started twenty-five years ago.Itactually opened as a retail chain selling campingequipment,and then twenty years ago,it bought asmall number of campsites in the UK,and beganoffering camping holidays.The company grew rapidlyand has been providing holidays in continentalEurope for the last fifteen years.
If you book a camping holiday with us,you'll have a choice of over three hundred sites.In Italywe now have some 64 sites that we either own,or have exclusive use of .France is where wehave the maiority of sites,and we currently have a project to expand into Switzerland.We alsohave a number of sites in Northern Spain,particularly in the mountainous region of Picos deEuropa.We've upgraded all these Spanish sites,and improved them considerably from theiroriginal three-star rating.