Dentsu Group Inc (DNTUF) Q1 2026 Earnings Call

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Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. This is Takeshi Sama speaking. I took office as Global CEO at the end of March and am delighted to welcome you to Dentsu Fiscal Year 2026 First Quarter Earnings Call. Today, Shigeki Endo, our Global CFO, and I will be giving presentations. Following our business and strategic update and Q&A financial update, we will move on to a Q&A session. Before moving on to the financial results, I would first like to speak about the direction our group is aiming for. Our group's goal is to become a growth partner that realizes clients' medium to long-term growth. The three pillars necessary to achieve this are strengthening client centricity, enhancing agility, and accelerating collaboration. At the core of our business is client centricity, a customer first mindset. The marketing expertise we provide in media, creative, and the wider marketing services we offer are not the goal in themselves. They are the means. The true objective is the sustained growth for our clients, businesses, and brands. Therefore, it is critical that we go beyond responding only to today's clients' needs to proactively anticipating challenges they have not yet identified and delivering the most relevant solutions at the right time. To realize this client-centricity, agility and collaboration are essential. On agility, we are accelerating decision-making and reducing the distance between management, the front line, and ultimately our clients by streamlining management layers and moving to a more agile structure. Success depends on being the right scale. large enough to deliver impact, yet agile enough to remain fast and flexible. In addition, we are accelerating collaboration to create distinctive value, bringing together the diverse capabilities of the group a...