Collins Foods Limited (CKF) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Thank you for standing by and welcome to the Collins Foods Limited HY26 Results Conference Call and Webcast. All participants are in a listen-only mode. There will be a presentation followed by a question and answer session. If you wish to ask a question, you will need to press the star key followed by the number 1 on your telephone keypad. I would now like to hand the conference over to Mr. Xavier Simonet, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer. Please go ahead. Thanks very much, Harmony. Good morning, everyone. I'm Xavier Simonet, the Chief Executive Officer of Collins Foods. With me on the call here in Brisbane, I've got Group Financial Officer Andrew, General Manager of Australian Operations, Crystal, and General Manager of Europe, Chris Johnson. We're presenting the first half 26 results announced to the ESX earlier this morning, as well as providing a trading update and refreshed outlook. As always, we will go through the presentation and then we will take questions. Slide two, executive summary. I joined the business just over one year ago and to start today, I would like to touch on the main highlights of the past year and what our priorities have been. We have a strong focus on operational excellence across our businesses and the results we are presenting today show the progress we are making. We are sustaining both momentum and achieved record revenues this first half with earnings and margins up on last year. We are delivering strong cash flow resulting in a significant reduction in net debts compared to prior year and broadly in line with the position at the end of FY25. Together with the debt refinancing we announced a few months ago, this means we have significant capacity to fund future growth initiatives. We continued to invest in our core busi...