Coca-Cola HBC AG (CCH) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Thank you for standing by, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Coca-Cola HBC conference call for the 2026 half-year results. At this time, all participants are in listen-only mode. There will be a presentation followed by the question-and-answer session. If you wish to ask a question, please press star 1-1 on your telephone keypad at any time and wait until your name is announced. I must also advise that this conference is being recorded today, Wednesday, 5th of August, 2026. and I'll pass the floor to one of your speakers, Jemima Bernstad, Head of Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Thank you. Good morning and thank you all for joining the call. I'm here with our CEO, Zoran Bogdanovic, and our CFO, Anastasis Stamoulis. Zoran will begin with the strategic highlights from the first half. Anastasis will then take you through our financial performance and outlook in more detail. We will then open up the floor to questions. Please keep to one question and one follow-up, waiting for us to answer the first question before moving to your follow-up. We have about an hour for the call today, which should give plenty of time for a good discussion. I will also remind you that this conference call contains various forward-looking statements. These should be considered in conjunction with the cautionary statements in our results press release this morning and at the end of our slide deck. With that, I will turn the call over to Zoran. Thank you, Jemima. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining the call. I'm very pleased with the progress we've made in the first half of 2026. We delivered broad-based, volume-led growth, continued to gain market share, and invested behind the opportunities that will support our future growth. Let me highlight three key takeaways from...