Carrefour Sa (CRERF) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the CAR4 half-year 2026 results conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, please press star 1 1 on your telephone. You will then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press star 1 1 again. Please note that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to your speaker, Mr. Alexandre Bompard, Chairman and CEO of Carrefour. Please go ahead. Thank you. Good evening, everyone. Bonsoir à tous. And thank you for joining us today to discuss our first half of 2026. This semester was marked by the elaboration of our new strategic plan, Carrefour 2030. that we had carefully and extensively prepared with all our teams. It has also been a very active semester in terms of communication and investor engagement around the plan. We intensified our dialogue with shareholders on the broader financial community, including through the CSR Capital Market Day we had on June the 16th. The feedback? We received from the investment community has been very encouraging and I'm not referring only to the share price performance since February. Investors have welcomed our sharper operational focus on our core markets, our investment program to modernize our stores, and our tech roadmap notably through our partnership with Vision and the broad deployment of AI. Our objectives in terms of price competitiveness, market share gains, and financial performance are well understood. We also recognize that expectations have now shifted from the strategy itself to its execution. And that's exactly where our focus is today....