Imperial Brands PLC (IMB) Q2 2021 Earnings Call

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Welcome and thank you for joining our interim results presentation. I'm joined today by Oliver Tant, our Chief Financial Officer, and Peter Derman, our Investor Relations Director. Lucas Paravicini, our incoming Chief Financial Officer, is also with us. Lucas joined Imperial and the Board on the 1st of May. He will be formally appointed CFO tomorrow and will work with Oliver to ensure a smooth and orderly handover. Before getting into the results, let me hand over to Lukas for a few brief words. Thank you, Stefan, and good morning, everyone. I'm delighted to be able to join the team this morning and to have this opportunity to introduce myself. Perhaps a little bit of my background. I've spent 20 years in the consumer goods industry, working in a range of senior finance and operational roles in large international companies. I was at Nestle for 22 years and worked across a range of parts of the business in Switzerland and in several Latin American markets. I also spent six years at Fonterra, the world's largest dairy cooperative, and responsible for some well-known leading dairy brands, joining first as a CFO and then becoming chief operating officer of its global consumer and food service business. So I bring a blend of strong financial experience and commercial expertise, and have specific experience of driving significant change programs, including implementing global shared services in large international organizations, all of which should be relevant for Imperium. I'm really pleased to be joining the company at such a great time as we begin to implement the new strategy and drive the changes necessary to strengthen performance and to deliver sustainable shareholder value. I'm eager to get to grips with the business and to a time where we can meet in person. I'm ...