Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Karooooo first quarter 2022 earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in listen only mode. After the speakers' presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you will need to press star one on your telephone. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. If you require any further assistance, please press star zero. I would now like to hand the conference over to speaker today, Mr. Zak Calisto, CEO, founder. Thank you. Please go ahead, sir. Thank you very much, AJ. I want to thank everybody that's made time for our presentation, the Q1 FY22 results. I will go through the presentation, and clearly at the end, I will answer as many questions as I possibly can. I founded the company in 2001. We launched in South Africa in 2004, and during April this year, we've moved our headquarters to Singapore. The holding company is called Karooooo, and it now owns 100% of Cartrack as from April in this first quarter. Since we set out in the business in 2004, we were always of the view that all vehicles will be connected and data will drive all aspects of mobility in the future. This has taken much longer than anticipated, but our mission is certainly to build the leading mobility SaaS platform that maximizes the value of data. With over 76,000 commercial customers and approximately sole proprietors and consumers of 500,000 customers, we've got a data set and collect over 58 billion data points on a monthly basis. A comprehensive data from customers in different industries, in different geographies, using different types of vehicles, different fleet sizes. All of this data, it allows us to contextualize a lot of different businesses, a lot of different business processes, and that allows us to give comprehensive business intelligence report and predictive analytics to our customers, whether they're in just fleet management, in the insurance industry. That's fundamentally what we do. We collect data from proprietary in-vehicle smart devices. We also collect data from third-party OEM devices in vehicles. We store the data, and fundamentally, we then process the data to create the value. We have APIs into third-party systems where we push and receive data from. We've got a relatively consistent history where we've year-on-year consistently, or even on quarter-on-quarter consistently have increased our customer base, our subscribers. We've grown our revenue on a consistently, and our operating profit has also grown consistently. However, from time to time, it does go a little bit up or down, but over time, the linear, the line is certainly a trend upwards. One of the things we proud ourselves is the way we allocate capital. We've got a strong financial discipline, and we continuously monitoring our process on a daily basis. We're quite fortunate that our business is annuity-based business. We've got a very healthy subscription revenue growth. 97% of our revenue comes from annuity, and that obviously gives us quite a bit of confidence into the months to come or into what our revenue line would look like. Our subscriber growth, if we compare it this quarter compared to the previous, last year's quarter, we grew by 21%. Revenue growth grew by 17%. On a constant currency, we grew by 22%. I think it's important to note that on a constant currency, our subscription revenue grew by 20%. Our ARR as at May is ZAR 2.5 billion, which is up 18%. We did have quite a bit of play in terms of currencies over this last year. We saw the Rand appreciate substantially against the basket of currency that we operate in. If you then look at our ARR in US dollars, you will see a 51% increase to $181 million. A lot of that is led by the appreciating South African Rand. We've had a relatively good Q1. We grew, compared to Q1 last year in terms of net subscription additions, 760%. That could be a little bit out of context given that in Q1 last year, it was really the beginning of COVID. It was very difficult times. The times are still difficult for us at this point in time, but we've got a bit more used to trading in this current environment. Irrespective of that, if you look back to Q1 of FY20, our net quarterly subscriber additions is still more than 100%. I would say that the last three quarters have been very good quarters in adding net subscribers. Typically, our Q1 is not normally our strongest quarter, given quite a lot of the Jewish and Christian holidays and also the Asian holidays. We're quite content with the results and our achievement in Q1. We continue to see growth of our customer base. Our experience with COVID is, more than normally, what we're seeing is the different sizing of customers, where you'll have a customer that had 30 vehicles, now is with 20 vehicles. There is a bit of more movement in the downsizing or increasing of vehicles throughout our customers. Our commercial customer retention has remained strong at 95%, and we have very low industry and customer concentration risk. The car industry, which is considered to be quite risky given COVID, it's less than 1.1% of our base, and our largest customer is less than 1.7% of our revenue. Also, I must add that the largest customer, the 1.7 in terms of bottom line, due to the discounts, it's substantially less than 1%. In terms of cash flow, our operating activities, we're actually up 19% compared to Q1 of FY21. Clearly, with the growth, we've invested more into PPE. We've seen a 77% growth in PPE, and our free cash flow is down 12%, primarily on the back of our growth and investing in our growth of our business. We believe one of our advantages over and above our internal systems and our platform is, over years, we improving substantially in our ability to acquire customers, to acquire subscribers, subscriber being the vehicle that belongs to customers. I always tell. We have a certain element of control on retaining customers, but the vehicles or the subscribers, that's really by default, we can't prescribe to our customers how long they retain their vehicle on our platform. We do see customers selling their vehicles after they've been in the platform for 12 months, others after 18 months. All of these unit economics we take into consideration to build out our model. What we saw in Q1 this year compared to Q1 of last year, we saw an ARPU drop from ZAR 155 to ZAR 151. Predominantly, that drop is actually got to do with currency, where the strong ZAR had a negative impact on our ARPU. It's also got to do with quite a lot of customers in some Asian countries and in Africa, outside South Africa, where they're getting holidays, where they're not actually using their vehicles. That's had a negative impact. I think overall, on the constant currency, our actual ARPU is actually increased compared to last year. It's still trading in the range that we find a healthy range, which is between ZAR 150 and ZAR 160. Our subscriber contract life cycle remains very consistent, just over 60 months. We depreciate any capitalization of customer acquisition or subscriber acquisition over 60 months. It's more subscriber acquisition. What you do see is a huge decline in our cost of acquiring a subscriber from ZAR 2,636 to ZAR 2,005. There's a little bit of noise in that, in the sense that in Q1 last year, we had substantially less overheads in terms of salespeople, but the productivity is substantially less because of COVID. At this point in time, our productivity is still not where we want it because we onboard a substantial amount of sales and marketing staff. Nevertheless, we've seen that improvement from ZAR 2,636 to ZAR 2,005. In terms of what we capitalize, that's dropped from ZAR 1,624 to ZAR 1,489, and that's got predominantly to do with our new generation telematics hardware. Subscription revenue gross profit margin, that dropped to 72% as opposed to 74%. Once again, that is also driven by the revenue in ARPU, which is lower because of the currency, predominantly the exchange rate against the rand. It's important to note on the slide that the portion that we expense upfront is normally related strongly to customers that we've onboarded. These customers, when they have the second cycle of vehicles coming, when they de-fleet their vehicles and bring in more vehicles, that would normally, we wouldn't be incurring the sales salaries again, nor the marketing costs. Over time, it would stand to reason that your cost of acquiring a subscriber will decline. However, we see that that could change with 5G units that we'll have probably within the next year or two, and that could also have an impact on the unit economics. We operate in a large under-penetrated market. South Africa. It's our estimates, sometimes it's very difficult to get numbers with a huge amount of accuracy. It's just over 10 million vehicles. Some people talk about 12 million vehicles. We've got just under 1.1 million vehicles, so at this point in time, we believe about 8% of the market. We believe that allows us to grow at very good rates, specifically still for another five years, before we'll slow down growth. In Africa, we believe we've got 63,000, so we can really grow Africa. It hasn't been one of our priorities. We will focus on that priority probably in four years time, once we believe South Africa has reached a certain level where we've moved that 1 million customers to a few million, and then we can use our stronghold in South Africa and the human capital we've got in South Africa to move into Africa. In Southeast Asia, it's a huge opportunity with well over 100 million vehicles. It's substantially more than 100 million vehicles. We've only got 124,000 vehicles, and we, approximately two years ago, were feeling very positive about growing Asia, and we were at our best. COVID came, which is basically now 15 months ago, 16 months ago, and that's really made it very difficult for us to be able to move around Asia to be able to onboard people. We were hoping, if you asked me 5 months ago, 6 months ago, how would Asia look like, I would have thought by the middle of this year, the markets would have opened up much more. The reality is they're actually closing up more. Southeast Asia, we see Singapore has gone into a relatively. Most people are working from home. They're closing all the restaurants from tomorrow. The trading conditions don't seem to be very favorable, but we're very well positioned to grow in Asia once the market opens up. We have employed about 150 people in this last quarter in Asia in the hope of the market opening up, and we are moving some of our staff that are sitting in Europe, in America, and in South Africa that were meant to go into Asian countries. We are bringing them to Singapore. With the Singapore team, we'll start gathering momentum, hopefully in the near future in Asia, because we certainly believe that's our biggest opportunity. Europe, also a massive opportunity for us. Europe is what we're waiting for. We certainly want to start really investing for growth in Europe. What we do see in Europe is they go from lockdown to open up the market. It fluctuates. The policies seem to change quite frequently. We would like to see Europe through this next winter, then after that, start investing substantially in Europe, just the same way as we've invested in South Africa in the last six months or seven months, where we've actually employed in the region of about 700 people, 650 people. We look forward to the opportunity. We believe it's huge. We will focus on customer acquisition. As the markets become more penetrated, then at that point in time, we can focus on increasing our ARPU by charging for the value-added services that we're continuously adding onto our platform, that at this point in time, we're giving to our loyal customers, just for customer retention and to create customer stickiness and to make our proposition very attractive. If we look at our subscribers in this quarter-on-quarter, South Africa grew by 23%, Africa by 5%, Europe by 14%, and Asia by 17%. During this quarter, in actual fact, I would say actually for the last six to seven months, we've been investing quite heavily for growth. If you look at the amount of capital that we've allocated to sales and marketing, that's gone up by 71%, R&D by 44%, and G&A approximately 21%. We did experience growth in the G&A, but there's also expansion costs for Asia and even for South Africa there. We believe we will reap the rewards of this investment in months to come. We've onboarded a lot of people. They'll probably take a few months to become totally productive. Given COVID, which obviously slows down the process of the transfer of knowledge, we believe that by Q4 of this year we'll get the results that we desired out of all the staff that we've onboarded, and we're very excited about the future that holds for us. Our operating metrics. Our subscription revenue grew from ZAR 526 million to ZAR 606 million. ARPU drop from ZAR 155 to ZAR 151. Our gross profit margin dropped from 70% to 71%. Most of this is really due to the foreign exchange on the ARPU. It brings those margins down. Research and development, that we increased from 4% as a percentage of subscription revenue to 5%. Sales and marketing, that's been increased from 10% to 15%, all in line with our plans. G&A, that's increased from 20% to 21%. Our adjusted EBITDA margin last year was 50%. This year, it's 44%. It's very much in keeping with our expectations, and we believe that the adjusted EBITDA margin will increase about 45% by the financial year end. Our outlook that we gave at the end of FY 2021, we maintain the same outlook, and that is to get subscribers to be between 1.5 million and 1.6 million. Our subscription revenue between ZAR 2.5 billion and ZAR 2.7 billion, and our adjusted EBITDA margin between 45% and 50%. It's just important to note that our ARR is actually at ZAR 2.5 billion as of May. On that note, I would like to thank everybody for taking the time to listen to us, and I will open up for questions. Question number 1 from Reuben Molotsi. "Good day, Zak. What do you honestly think of our prospects so far about expanding into mature markets like Europe and the U.S.? Don't you think it's too risky, or do you think the competitive advantage we have is strong enough to compete in such markets? If yes, what makes you think so?" It's quite a long question. We've got a very small office in the U.S. I think the U.S. market is a very exciting market, full of opportunity. We're spread too thin to go tackle the U.S. We, in Europe, we compete very favorably with our competitors there. In actual fact, we win a lot of the business over them, and we believe that that's definitely an area where we want to certainly invest in Europe. I think the U.S., over time to come, we've got enough on our plate that probably the best solution for us would be an acquisition or a merger in the U.S. at a later time to come. I don't think right now. Right now, I think we've got enough on our plate and a lot to do. Next question from Rudi van Niekerk. "What was the impact of COVID restrictions during the period? How do you think your net add would compare if we had 0 COVID restrictions in your operating regions?" Rudi van Niekerk, I haven't got a crystal ball, but my gut feel is, the way we've prepared, is to obviously be growing much faster than what we're growing at. I think under the circumstances, we had to focus on the markets that we believe were the easiest to trade under COVID. South Africa had a very open market, just like the U.S. Europe was half open. Asia was a very closed market. We focused where we could do best, and this is the results we achieved. Obviously, under COVID, we believe, and our targets for our management would certainly be to be doing better than we're currently doing. Anthony Geard. "Hi, Zak Calisto. Great subscriber growth. Can you provide more color on the geographic split of sales and marketing spend, please? Where are you spending the extra money, and when do you think the fruit of this investment will be evident? The travel restrictions I'm sure most are out of the way now. Is your team able to travel in the region? The travel restrictions, with anything that intensified, still very difficult to travel in the region. I think, Anthony, quite frankly, I thought by now things would look very different. I would say it's even tougher now than it was three months ago. Where did we spend most of our allocation of sales and marketing? It was predominantly South Africa and a bit of Asia. We want to then spend the growth in Europe, just, I would say, in about two quarters' time. We just want to see after the summer holidays of Europe, what that would look like. The minute we see Asia will open up, that's where we really want to allocate a lot of capital to. We see Asia as the big opportunity. At the moment, very tough to do business there, especially if you haven't got the strong presence on the ground and you're busy growing the business. It's quite difficult. Daniel Bartus? Okay. Daniel says he'll ask the question rather than that way. Okay, I'll do it afterwards. Roy Campbell. "Could you talk through the seasonality embedded in your four quarters in a normalized environment?" Our business is not very seasonal, although our two weakest quarters is Q4 and Q1. Those quarters are normally quite weak quarters, given all the holidays, specifically in South Africa in December, and then obviously with the Easter and the Jewish holidays, and some Asian holidays around the first quarter. For us, it's all about trading days. The less trading days we have. That's how it impacts us. It's not really the weather. It's more the trading days if one had to take it directly. I'm not sure if I've answered your question, but I think I have. AJ, can you ask the questions from Mike from Canaccord? Perfect, sir. Mike, your line is open now. You can ask your question. Great. Thank you. Zak, congratulations on the strong start to fiscal '22, despite probably some of these markets more locked down than you anticipated when you gave the initial guidance. Can you just talk longer term, just should some of these regions such as Southeast Asia start to reopen, how do you think the business might re-accelerate in terms of longer-term growth, particularly with the sales and marketing headcount additions you've made over the past year? Most of sales this quarter, the increase was actually in South Africa. Although we did add about 157 people in total in the last few months in Asia in anticipation of the market opening. We believe we will do really well in Asia. We feel very confident in it. Our management feels very confident, and we will have to build our expansion in terms of distribution. Our distribution is quite limited given the size of Asia. We shouldn't allocate capital, and we believe we'll do well. Where we have got traction, we believe we're winning on the ground. I certainly believe that our platform is superior, and our solution is very comprehensive. I think we'll do really well in it. Great. Thanks. Just a follow-up question from me, and I'll pass the line. Zak, are you seeing any change in competitive dynamics in South Africa? Inseego sold their Ctrack business, MiX Telematics made some headcount reductions last year, there's companies such as Samsara moving in there. Could you just talk about competitive dynamics as it looks like you guys continue to do very well in the South Africa market? The South Africa market is very competitive. It's also one of the most highly penetrated markets in the world. It's very competitive. I don't really always have the color on what our peers are doing if that makes any sense. We're winning on the ground, and we're growing our business. I think that's maybe the thing we've really focused on. At the end of the day, we've only got 8% of the full market. We believe, over time, we will continue growing. Great. Maybe just one quick follow-up, too, just on South Africa. There's been some social unrest in the news there. Any impact to your business in the current quarter, or do you feel like trends remain pretty strong in that region? Thank you. It will certainly have an impact in this quarter. The social unrest lasted, if my memory serves me correctly, about two weeks. It appears that it's all calmed down, and it's all back to normal. Like we all know with these unrest situations, they could spark up again, they could not, if that makes any sense. In June, we had a great month, and July, we probably got 80% of the business that we would have normally done. However, in August, we'll have another great month in August. June was absolutely super. July, despite this, we are still due more than half of the sales. Under the circumstances, I think it will impact this quarter, but it will not be good. Obviously, some of our customers, small, medium businesses, they're struggling to survive off this. It could have an impact on us in terms of some loss of customers because they can't pay their bills with COVID actually. Nevertheless, I think given that we already have so many of our customers that we work with in difficult times, I can't believe it's gonna have an impact on us. Great. Thanks for taking my questions, and best wishes for ongoing success. Next, from William Blais. Sure, sir. We have our next question. Your line is open. You can ask your question now. Thanks for taking my questions, Zak. Just wanted to follow up on your supply chain and how you feel about your inventory levels and ability to source new inventory, and is there any sort of concern about that being a constraint from a growth perspective? At this point in time, Matt, I don't believe so. We've got certainly enough inventory at this point in time to conduct business as normal. If we did ever get into a situation where we haven't got inventory, I would say it's probably in the next financial year should something that we cannot think about go wrong in terms of the supply chain. We believe this financial year, we certainly feel very comfortable we're gonna have no issues. Great. Then just one more question from me. Just wondering if you could provide some detail on some of your newer growth initiatives, such as Carzuka or the insurance initiative that you have. With Carzuka, we're hoping to launch in Q4 of this year. With COVID, we've always put out that we will launch in the latter part of this financial year. We're doing tests at this point in time, and we feel very confident we're going to do well, and we're going to build this business over the next 2-3 years, and I believe we will grow it into a big business. I don't want to promise the market or promise anybody expectations, create expectations, but myself and management feel that we're doing the right thing and that we believe that's going to create a tremendous amount of value, not only for us but for our customers as well. Great. Thanks a lot for taking my question, Zak. Thank you. The next question is Daniel Barker. Say something. Great. Hey, Zak. Your line is open. Okay, great. Hey, Zak. Thanks for taking the question. First, I noticed the large fleets continue to grow as well. Can you just talk a little bit about what you're thinking in terms of second half or next year? How much of the growth should be coming from larger fleets versus the smaller fleets? Are you changing strategy at all to go after that opportunity more? My view, Daniel, is this, large fleets are actually a very small percentage of the vehicle park in the world. We've taken the view that we go for the small, medium enterprises, and then after time, we're going to the large fleets. We've started going to the large fleets. The penetration rate in large fleets is larger than in the small and medium enterprises. We certainly are going to target the large fleets, and we are already starting to see quite a few of the large fleets switching from the current providers to us. I think there's a long runway for growth in my view. Given all of that, I think we mustn't go and focus on large fleets as a core business. I believe the way we've grown the business, we must stick to our formula. Yep. That makes sense. Just wondering, Zak, if you could talk a little bit about what you're seeing in Africa outside of South Africa. That's kind of the one area where you've seen a little bit of weaker growth. Are there things that you see that you can, or levers you can pull to improve growth outside of South Africa in the African region? I think it's not our core focus, at this point in time, to grow Africa. It hasn't been our focus for the last four years. We have put in a bit more focus, but with COVID and the traveling restrictions, it's become a bit more difficult. Obviously, we will focus on Africa, and it's not that we're not focusing on it. We are growing the Africa business, but it's not our major focus. Although we are investing, we've now done quite a comprehensive deal with Toyota for the whole of Africa. I think fundamentally, the real growth right now in the next two to three years is not going to come from Africa. It's going to come from other segments. Got you. Thanks. Obviously, Africa at this point in time is also being hit quite hard with COVID, specifically Q4 of last year, and we see Q1 this year, COVID even taking a more deadly toll in Africa where medical assistance is not the greatest. Africa is such that COVID is definitely having a very strong impact on it, on Africa, specifically outside South Africa. Mm-hmm. Got you. Just quickly, lastly, the travel restrictions have been hurting you guys in certain regions, and we've talked a lot about it. It's holding back your growth to some degree in certain pockets of the world. Are there ways that you can adjust the business to operate more efficiently remotely and not needing to travel on the ground? I'm wondering if you could just give us some color on, is it sales and marketing that's being hurt by the travel restrictions? Is it more G&A and getting management on the ground, or is it mostly related to the implementation of the devices? Thanks. I think it's a combination of everything. I think fundamentally, if you get to the bottom line is, if you look at Asia, we've got a very strong team in Singapore. We've got a relatively strong team in Thailand, but our teams aren't strong enough in a lot of countries. Approximately two years ago, we had a lot of managers, and I think where we went wrong, we had Americans, South Africans, Singaporeans, Europeans to go run in these countries and work side by side and localize the business. The reality is that we're not allowed, or the people aren't allowed to get into the countries. It's very difficult to get them in. Even if they do get in, to get out and visit their families, it's very difficult. So it's very difficult also to onboard people, train them through Zoom, get the culture aligned, and get the distributions quite difficult. Had we known that Asia was still going to be a little bit difficult like it is today, we would have probably put that focus in Europe, which there's much less restriction in Europe. What we will see now is, we'll probably find that if Asia continues this way, we're just going to take our focus into Europe and to grow Europe and South Africa. The real opportunity is really Asia. Asia is a massive opportunity, but so is Europe, and we just don't want to allocate capital at this point in time until after the summer holidays. Just judging by what happened last year post-summer, then the whole of Europe went in total lockdowns because it then starts getting cold. I'm not a specialist on this, but I don't think that anyone is really. We just want to be quite strategic in the way we allocate our capital. Mm-hmm. Okay, great. That's really helpful. Thanks, Zak. Thank you. We've got Alex from Raymond James. Certainly. Alex, your line has opened up. Great. Thanks, Zak. I have two questions on the pricing environment. You mentioned some pricing uplift, constant currency. I'm just wondering if you can talk about what drove that increase absent the FX impact. You also talked about providing some support still to certain customers that were impacted in the quarter. Could you just help us quantify that impact? Is it 5% of the base? How that level of support has kind of trended over the past 16 months? Thanks. In terms of the ARPU, it's very difficult to keep your ARPU absolutely consistent. We believe ARPU between ZAR 150 and ZAR 160 is really consistent. Otherwise, you start misspeaking about your ARPU, if that makes any sense. I think it's gone up by approximately a few ZAR. I think in constant currency it's gone up by about 3 Rands, if I'm not mistaken. It's not that material. That gets offset against the currency and against the customers that we're giving them either discounts or we're allowing them two months or three months. How we do that, we have visibility of the fleets of our vehicles, of our customers' vehicles. If we see the customers not using their vehicles or the vehicles are parked and they call us, and they have issues with the vehicles, then obviously we cooperate with them. It's in our interest to get the good will. I believe in the long term, we create great relationships, and we assist our customers. Approximately, I would say at this point in time, about 4%-5% of our base have got some level of discounts. I would say it's approximately 4%-5% of our full base. Most of that would be, some in South Africa, some in Africa, and quite a lot in Asia. Okay, that's great color. One thing I don't think we've talked about as much, and you kind of teased this when talking about customer acquisition costs, but can you just talk about the 5G refresh cycle, what it's going to mean for the business down the road in terms of costs, and what are some of the incremental revenue opportunities that you're working on? Sometimes it is quite difficult to differentiate between customer acquisition and subscriber acquisition. A customer acquisition, once you have the customer, you have to service the customer. If we decide that tomorrow we are not going to acquire any more customers, then it is really about customer service and retaining and looking after those relationships, which is a very different thing to necessarily marketing and sales salaries. I do not want to say there will be no sales salaries or marketing, but it will be substantially different in terms of the amount of money that you spend on sales and marketing. Obviously the subscriber cost is really when one of our customers leases fleet and fleet lease. That is really what we capitalize. It is the vehicle, the technology that goes into the vehicle. The customer acquisition, as such, that gets expensed up front. When you're acquiring customers, you have the negative effect on your P&L today that you could have that customer for the next 20, 30, 40 years, where you've got very little sales and marketing to retain that customer. Does that make sense? Yeah, that makes sense. I guess, a little bit more specifically, I'm just curious what 5G is going to mean in terms of the refresh cycle and some of the incremental revenue opportunities that you're already working on now for when 5G comes into your base. It's all really about data, and it's all about us evolving our platform to be able to deal with much more data and much quicker. I do believe before we have that sort of environment, we still probably two years before we're there, if that makes any sense. We're busy getting to be much stronger, our AI to be much stronger. We're busy improving our business. We're busy building our data capabilities. I believe with that, we'll be able to drive more value to our customers. Fundamentally, at the end of the day, it's just going to be a faster and more comprehensive service. It's going to be you touch the button and you've got your answers. That's the way we see it, but that's still going to take a little bit of time to get to that level where we've got a total 5G base. At this point in time, we have no 5G yet. Thank you. that certainly will impact your cost of acquiring a customer or a subscriber. Having said that, what we also expect is the 5G prices to also substantially drop over time. Just the same way as 2G and 3G and 4G. We don't believe that's going to be. Okay. Very helpful. Thanks, Zak. Thank you very much, Alex. We got one call from Parker from Circle. Certainly. Parker, your line is open now. Great. Thanks for taking my question. Zak, just one from me today. If I look at the consumer and sole proprietor aspect of your business, can you remind us how you go to market there? Is that primarily a self-service approach where consumers are buying your platform online? Do you see any heightened levels of churn and contraction right now in that area of the business relative to small enterprise, medium enterprise, and those large fleets? We find that our customer retention rate is over 60 months. We see the business not very different to what it was five years ago. We've also improved our internal systems to deal with the reality of the economic headwinds that we are seeing that part of the business potentially would have faced had we not developed. We've really invested a lot in our internal systems in the last three years. I think that's also allowing us to retain the customers, service the customers, continue to win in the market. Have I answered your question, Parker? I might have missed the point. Yeah, I'm just trying to figure out, when we think about the opportunity for you to sell to a large fleet, that seems like a very involved sales process. If it's just a person that is buying your technology for one car or their family's vehicles, the sales process seems quite different in those situations. I'm just wondering if there's been any change in a more distributed world where salespeople can't be on the ground in the way you're actually selling to those smaller customers. What we find is happens, for instance, in South Africa. In America, as you know, a lot of the business can be done over telephone and live demos. South Africa was not that way inclined, but things have changed substantially in the last few years, and today we can do quite a lot of business with demos on the phone. We're becoming quite successful, and we're certainly improving on month-on-month, and we're getting better at it. I would say most of our sales today gets done very much in the way they get conducted in America, which is live demos and over the phone. Got it. Congrats on the quarter, and thanks for taking my questions. Thank you very much. We've got one question from Chris Logan. There was a big decrease in the unit cost of acquiring subscriber from 2016 to 2000. Is this sustainable? Include more declines in cost. Chris, I think I answered that. I'm not sure. What I'll do, Chris, if you don't mind, I'll give you a call after this, just to take you through more detail, in case I did not articulate myself enough. Any other questions? I've answered those. It's Anthony. Anthony again, can you provide a bit more color on the reduction of subscriber growth, please? Are you doing particularly well in gaining corporate clients or seeing corporate clients add new vehicles? It does seem like a really strong result, so well done. Thanks. Anthony, what we're seeing in South Africa is we're winning both on the business front and on the consumer front, and we're winning equally on both fronts. What we have seen is the amount of customers that we're onboarding that are business customers, that in terms of percentages, is starting to increase substantially quicker than consumers. Rudy with Carzuka, "Do you foresee expanding the business by doing similar with buying cars, or do you take ownership of vehicles, make a margin selling those vehicles, or do you only foresee it being a more sophisticated online marketplace?" Rudy, the way we see our business in terms of Carzuka, very much a Vroom model, the American model, where we take and we buy the vehicles from our own customers. We actually keep the inventory, and we sell them on. I think today it's all about convenience. The platform, the way it used to be in the olden days, I think that's an old model. I don't believe it's got legs anymore. Today, everybody wants convenience, they want certain level of warranties. We're in a very strong position that we know who's owned the vehicle, where they've driven the vehicle, the type of the way the vehicle's been driven. That puts us in quite a strong position. For us, it's all about bringing value to the seller and to the buyer and to give them a level of comfort, that's where the industry is actually going. I think that's all the questions for today. I want to thank everybody that stayed on the call. Thank you very much, look forward to talking to you again in approximately three months' time. Thank you. Bye-bye. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, that does conclude the conference for today. Thank you for participating. You may all disconnect now. Thank you.
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