Clicks Group Ltd S/Adr (CLCGY) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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Good afternoon. Thank you for joining the webcast of our interim results for the six months ended 28 February 2025. I am Bettina Engelbrecht, Chief Executive Officer of the CLICS Group. I am joined here today by Gordon Trail, our Chief Financial Officer. Together, we will take you through the presentation of our interim results. I will respond. together with Gordon, to any questions that you may have after the conclusion of our presentation. This slide sets out the outline of our presentation. I will kick off with a review of our performance of the past six months. Gordon will follow with an overview of our financial results. Hereafter, I will walk you through the trading performances of our operating business units, starting with clicks, followed by UPD. I will then close with the outlook for the group. Please feel free to submit any questions you may have via the webcast platform during or after the conclusion of our presentation. Sue Hemp will read out your questions to which Gordon and I will respond. Before I commence with the review of the period, I would like to acknowledge the invaluable contribution of David Newrick, our former chairman, who retired in January. His keen insights, selfless commitment to the company, and support to our executive team will be sorely missed. Thank you, David. I will now take you through the review of the period. We delivered another solid set of results, with diluted headline earnings per share up 13.2% in spite of the tough trading environment. Our performance is due to the proven resilience of our business model and defensiveness of our core offering. As a group, we remain focused on delighting and creating value for customers. We achieve this by investing in the expansion of our store and pharmacy network, technology enableme...