Coats Group plc (COA) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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WEBVTT 00:00:00.031 -- 00:00:03.854 Hello everyone and thank you for joining COATS 2026 half-year results. 00:00:03.854 -- 00:00:06.697 My name is Claire and I'll be coordinating your call today. 00:00:06.697 -- 00:00:11.000 During the presentation, you can register a question by pressing star followed by 1 on 00:00:11.000 -- 00:00:15.484 your telephone keypad. If you change your mind, please press star followed by 2 on your 00:00:15.484 -- 00:00:19.788 telephone keypad. I would now like to hand over to David Paha, Chief Executive Officer, 00:00:19.788 -- 00:00:22.828 to begin. Please go ahead. 00:00:22.870 -- 00:00:27.634 Good morning everybody. I'm delighted to welcome you to today's presentation covering 00:00:27.634 -- 00:00:32.661 our first half results. I have with me today our Group CFO, Hannah Nichols. 00:00:32.661 -- 00:00:36.102 Let's move to the first slide. 00:00:36.804 -- 00:00:39.546 We'll start with the first half business highlights. 00:00:39.546 -- 00:00:44.690 Hannah will then share our financial results, and following this, I will give an update 00:00:44.690 -- 00:00:48.273 on our strategic progress and address the outlook. 00:00:48.273 -- 00:00:51.035 After the presentation, we will take questions. 00:00:51.035 -- 00:00:54.917 Let's look at the highlights for each one. 00:00:55.870 -- 00:01:00.893 We have delivered 1% organic revenue growth in the period where markets declined by 00:01:00.893 -- 00:01:06.036 mid-single digit, demonstrating again that we can consistently outperform our end 00:01:06.036 -- 00:01:07.877 markets. 00:01:07.877 -- 00:01:13.320 We have maintained a strong group margin of just below 20%, even after making significant 00:01:13.320 -- 00:01:17.282 investments in technology and growth initiatives. 00:01:18.083 -- 00:01:22.28...