Ansell Limited (ANN) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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That's pretty over. You'll hear the brief hold music. I will do my intro and hand it over to you guys. Thank you, sir. and self-limited fiscal year 2026 half-year results briefing. 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 Neal Salmon, Chief Executive Officer. Please go ahead. Thank you and good day to you all. It's a pleasure to join you this morning from Melbourne on what is my last day as Ansell's Chief Executive Officer. And I hope you'll agree that we're reporting to you a pretty good result to go out on. But more important than that, I also hope you'll hear through this presentation that I believe we have very solid foundations in place that should drive long-term shareholder value creation. So here are the matters we'll cover today. I'll give you the highlights of our performance overview. You'll see another half of double digit earnings growth and that against that critical goal, we are on track to offset the effect of tariff costs. I'll then dig a little deeper into the drivers of our growth and give you our usual sustainability update. I'll then hand over to Brian Montgomery, who will highlight the continued improvement in ancill margins and a strong cash result. And then it'll be my great pleasure to introduce Natalie Elstrom, who is succeeding me today as Ansell's Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director. Although today is her first day as CEO, she's been with us the last three weeks, starting to get up to speed on the Ansell business. She'll talk to our decision to maintain guidance and continue our buyback prog...