Dentsu Group Inc (DNTUF) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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Welcome to Dentsu FI 2025 first half earnings call and thank you for joining us today. My name is Morishima from the Group IR office and I will be your moderator for the call today. This is a reminder that today's call is being recorded. This call will be held in Japanese and English with simultaneous translation for those joining online. Please choose your preferred language from the bottom of the Zoom screen. For those joining on the telephone line, you will only be able to hear the original language spoken. Today's presentation materials are available on our website. Joining me today are Global CEO Dentsu, Hiroshi Igarashi, Global CEO Dentsu and Chairman and Acting CEO of Dentsu Americas, Julio Maliguri. Hi everybody, it's Julio Maliguri here, thank you. CEO Dentsu Japan and Deputy Global COO Dentsu, Takeshi Sano. Sano desu. Yoroshiku onegai shimasu. Global CFO Dentsu, Shigeki Endo. Endo desu. Yoroshiku onegai shimasu. They will be responding to your questions after the presentation. Today's agenda will begin with business and strategic update from Hiroshi Igarashi followed by financial update from Ashigaki Endo. The presentation will end with FI 2025 consolidated guidance and dividends by Hiroshi Igarashi. We will invite you to ask questions after the presentations. Mr. Igarashi, please go ahead. Thank you very much for joining us today for the FY 2025 Q2 earnings call. Let me start with the highlights. In the first half of 2025, organic growth rate was negative 0.2%, slightly below our expectations. owing to the challenging conditions that our international business is facing in all three regions, although Japan performed well. Meanwhile, operating margin was 12.0%, exceeding our expectations and the previous year. Efforts to rebuild the business foundation and ...