Greif, Inc. (GEF) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the second quarter 2026 earnings call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you will need to press star 11 on your telephone and wait for your name to be announced. To withdraw your question, please press star 11 again. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to your first speaker today, Bill D'Onofrio, Vice President of Investor Relations and Corporate Development. Please go ahead. Good morning, and thank you for joining Greif's fiscal second quarter 2026 earnings conference call. Today, our CEO, Oli Rosgaard, will provide a strategy and market update, followed by our CFO, Larry Hilshimer, with a review of our financial results and guidance. Please turn to slide two. In accordance with regulation fair disclosure, please ask questions regarding topics you consider important because we are prohibited from discussing material non-public information with you on an individual basis. During today's call, we will make forward-looking statements involving plans, expectations, and beliefs related to future events. Actual results could differ materially from those discussed. Additionally, we will be referencing certain non-GAAP financial measures and the reconciliation to the most directly comparable gap metrics that can be found in the appendix of today's presentation. I'll now turn the call over to Ole on slide three. Thank you, and good morning, everyone. We continue to execute against our strategy during the second quarter with a particular focus on productivity and cost optimization, which remains a core driver of our ma...