InterContinental Hotels Group PLC (IHG) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

Investor webinar replay

Replay transcript excerpt

Hello and welcome to IHG's 2025 Half-Year Results presentation. I'm Stuart Ford, Senior Vice President and Head of Investor Relations at IHG Hotels and Resorts, and shortly you'll be hearing from Ellie Malouf, our Chief Executive Officer, Michael Glover, Chief Financial Officer, and Jolie Fleming, Chief Product and Technology Officer. Before we proceed, I'm obliged to remind all viewers and listeners that the company may make certain forward-looking statements as defined under US law. please refer to the accompanying results announcement and the company's SEC filings for factors that could lead actual results to differ materially from those expressed in or implied by any such forward-looking statements. In addition, the presentation will refer to certain non-GAAP financial measures. Once again, please refer to the accompanying results announcement and SEC filings for reconciliations of these measures to the most directly comparable line items within the financial statements. The results announcement, together with the usual supplementary data pack, as well as the presentation slides accompanying this webcast, can all be downloaded from the Results and Presentations section under the Investors tab on ihgplc.com. Now over to our H1 2025 Highlights Reel, followed by Ellie. Hello, I'm Elie Malouf, Chief Executive Officer of ISG Hotels and Resorts. Welcome to ISG's 2025 Half-Year Results presentation. I'll kick things off in a moment by sharing highlights from the first half, a period of strong financial performance and excellent execution against our strategic framework. Michael Glover, our Chief Financial Officer, We'll then provide a financial review, after which I'll cover some important areas of strategic progress. We'll then hear from Jolie Fleming, our Chief Produc...