Henkel Ag & Co Kgaa S/Adr (HENKY) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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Good morning to everyone. A warm welcome. Everyone joining the call today on PANCL's Task Year 2025 results. I'm Lydia Skinhead of PANCL's Investor Relations. Today I'm joined by our CEO, Carson Snowville, and our CFO, Marco Solvita. Carson will begin with a overview of the key developments and highlights in the first half. Marco will follow with a more detailed review of the financial performance. As always, following the presentation, we will open up the lines, and Carson and Marco will be happy questions. Before handing over to Carson, please let me remind you that this call will be recorded and will be available on our Investor Relations website shortly after this call. By asking a question during the Q&A session, you are going to go to live broadcasting as well as the recording of your question, including solicitation to be published on our website. Also, please do remind us that this presentation contains the usual formal disclaimer in regard to forward-looking statements, within the meaning of relevant news legislation. It can also be accessed via our website at hankl.com. As always, the presentation and discussion are conducted subject to this disclaimer. With this, it is my pleasure to hand over to our CEO, Karsten Sohles. Karsten, please go ahead. Thank you so much. So, good morning, and a warm welcome also from my side to everyone joining our conference call today. As always, we do appreciate your interest in our company, and we look forward to answering your questions After walking you through the key developments of the first six months, we will elaborate on Hackman's business performance and the full year outlook in more detail. So let me move straight to the key topics and highlights of the first half. Organic sales growth in the first half was flat, w...