Ansell Limited (ANN) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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Thank you for standing by and welcome to the Ansell Limited FY25 half year results call. All participants are in a listen only mode. There will be a presentation followed by a question and answer session. If you wish to ask a question, you will need to press the star key followed by the number one on your telephone keypad. I would now like to hand the conference over to Mr. Neil Salmon, CEO. Please go ahead. Thank you. And thank you to all of you for your continued interest in Ansell as we update you on our progress over the last six months. And let me begin with a slide that summarizes the content we'll cover today and also what I hope you will find are the key takeaways from our current performance as a business. Firstly, in terms of performance overview, and I'm very satisfied to report double-digit top and bottom line growth, and that's come as a result of meeting or exceeding all our FY25 first half year performance objectives. Significant as part of that are results from the two major investments we've made, the acquisition of the KVU and our productivity programme. Both those are on or ahead of the goals that we previously communicated to you. Also significant to the result is our continued focus on what we consider to be our drivers of long-term growth and sustainability, and I'll outline how we continue to invest behind those. I'll then hand over to Zubair, who will summarise how that comes together in a strong financial performance and also in increasing balance sheet flexibility, all of which gives me confidence today to increase our overall EPS guidance range for the year. Having summarised that will then give you an opportunity to ask us questions. So to that performance overview, and as is our pattern, on the left-hand side of the page here are the goal...