Domino's Pizza Enterprises Limited (DMP) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Good morning all. I'm just going to wait for the webinar to populate with our participants and then we will start today's presentation. Okay, I can see our participants have now joined the call. Thank you for joining Domino's Pizza Enterprise Limited's half-year results for the period ending December 2025. I'm Nathan Scholz, the Chief Communication and Investor Relations Officer, joined today by Jack Cowan, our Executive Chair. and George Sayoud, who is our Group Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer. I will hand over shortly to our Executive Chairman to prepare to provide some of his opening remarks. When we get to the Q&A session at the end, if you can raise your hand, I will, as usual, hand around to the different analysts to ask a question and a follow-up, and then I'll ask to hand on to the next question and answer before coming back. So with that, I will hand over to Jack Cowan. Jack, for your opening remarks. Good morning, everyone. It's my pleasure to give you an overview on the company's first half results and progress that the company is making as part of a significant reset. Before I start, just a headline. The company is on track to what we have endeavored to do in getting out of the discount business and making more money for our franchisee community, which is a basic plank of the success going forward for this business. To move into kind of my commentary, the most important step in structuring the company for the future is the new management that has been established over the past few months. World-class management team, second to none in the food service industry. Incoming group CEO, Andrew Gregory, most recently executive vice president of McDonald's, a senior executive with McDonald's for 30 years, including as CEO at ANZ, Japan experie...