 All right, good afternoon, everyone. I'm Aisha Driggers with the City of Columbia Office of Business Opportunities. Thank you so much for being here to celebrate the grand opening of BOPS, our office supports initiatives to assist small minority women and veteran-owned businesses. We've had a lot of great success with grand openings throughout the year and expansions, and we're so excited to add BOPS to that list of openings in the city of Columbia. I had the opportunity to meet with Laila earlier this year, and she was determined to open a space before the end of the year, so we appreciate your dedication and making sure this happened. Also, we witnessed her winning the pitch competition with Benedict's Creative Entrepreneur, so we know that that's right. So we know the concept will be amazing, and we're so excited. We look forward to your continued growth and expansion and success. If there's anything we can do at the city, that's what we're here for, to offer you resources and be a network and connection for you and the community. So at this time, I'd like to introduce our Mayor, Mayor Rickerman. Well, here we are again, another great opening, but I think this is really exciting because so many openings that we've had here in Columbia, especially, I think the last 12 to be exact have all been women-owned business, minority women-owned businesses in Columbia, and that shows what a community that we are and that there's opportunities here for everybody. We're so excited for this, for BOPs, black-owned products here. And it's very interesting to learn as I had an opportunity to walk around products, toothpaste, I mean, toothbrushes, shampoo, deodorant, all these products, the everyday products that are also in the market owned by minority firms and being able to support them and allowing them to grow in our community. Deodorant made in Lexington, South Carolina didn't even know about it. What a great opportunity for people to be exposed to different products that are here locally. And as you know, we continue to push in efforts to grow our small businesses because they're the ones who are going to grow with us, who are going to reinvest in our community and live and breathe here in our community. So I'm so excited for you. I know this is just the beginning and exposure, but I hope everybody will take the time, especially during the holidays, to come down here and take a look at all these products and how you can support these businesses to continue for to allow them to grow and be part of our community. With that, I'm going to leave the floor to you. Thank you. Thank you, everyone. Thank you so much for the kind words, mayor. I'm Laela Soule. I am the founder and CEO of Bobs. And we are very, very excited to bring over 15 black companies to Columbia, South Carolina. Thank you. So all of these entrepreneurs that we are representing in our space have great stories on why they started their own companies. And our mission is to create a tangible shopping experience where black businesses are supported and black people are celebrated. So you have businesses that started their companies because they needed skin care products that were healthy for our skin. You have people who wanted to create healthy condoms over here at Bobs. So there's all kind of products here. We have home decor, clothing, everyday products that you guys can buy and take home. So we're very excited for you to come out and thank you for supporting us today. There is a few people that I would like to thank because I couldn't do this by myself. I would like to thank my husband, Ron, and my momager here, Deborah Tidwell. They will be assisting me with the ribbon cutting as well. But also I had many mentors that helped me on this journey. We have Dave, we have Raquel, we have Lance, we have Renee Joy, there's a couple of other people and I apologize if I forgot your name, but also our self-proclaimed incubator that I created with a couple of colleagues, Mari and Chiquita, they were very helpful. I also want to thank Beth Lawson, the owner and manager here at Noma Warehouse because this is the perfect space for us to introduce many black companies to the Columbia area. So we're appreciative of you and allowing us to be an anchor vendor for here at the Noma Warehouse. So thank you very much.