Bachem Holding AG (0QND) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Good morning, everyone. Welcome to our Half Year twenty twenty six Results Call. Joining us on the call are our CEO, Anne Katrin Stoller and our CFO, Anna Schaffter. My name is Barboura Bachem, responsible for Investor Relations, and I will walk you through the call. Before we begin, a brief housekeeping note. There will be enough time for questions after the presentation and if you would like to ask a question, you can use the raise hand feature in Zoom during the Q and A. And as always, this call is being recorded and a replay will be available on our webpage. A few words on the agenda. Anne will start with an overview of our half year results 2026. Alain will then review the financial performance and Anne will conclude the presentation with an update on market development and our business outlook. Following the presentation, we will be happy to take your questions. We expect today's call to last approximately sixty minutes. And with that, over to you, Anna. Thank you very much, Barbara, and good morning to everyone. Also from me, it is my pleasure to talk about our half year results today. So let's look and start with the look at the team. So as Barbara mentioned today, Alain and I will be here on the call to guide through the results. And I'm very happy to draw your attention to our newest member of our executive team, Boris Corporatore. Boris is not new to Bachem. In fact, he's been with Bachem for more than twenty years. But we were very happy to appoint him to our new Chief Commercial Officer starting in this position on August 1. I personally worked together with Boris for many years and I'm extremely pleased that we found such a capable internal candidate for this position. So let's look at our half year results. We achieved million sales in the first half o...