Lagardere Sa (LGDDF) Q2 2024 Earnings Call

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WEBVTT 00:00:00.031 -- 00:00:05.139 Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining us this evening to 00:00:05.139 -- 00:00:09.185 Lagardère SA first half 2024 results. 00:00:09.185 -- 00:00:14.454 I am Emmanuel Rapa, head of financial communication, and I will be guiding 00:00:14.454 -- 00:00:16.837 you through this presentation. 00:00:16.837 -- 00:00:21.244 The conference is led today by Arnaud Lagardère, 00:00:21.244 -- 00:00:26.963 chairman and chief executive officer of Lagardère SA and Hachette Livre SA. 00:00:26.963 -- 00:00:32.631 Grégoire Casta, Deputy CEO of Lagardère Group in Charge of Finance, 00:00:32.631 -- 00:00:37.839 Diagra Smitsen, Chairman and CEO of Lagardère Travel Hotel, 00:00:37.839 -- 00:00:43.428 and Stéphanie Ferrand, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Hachette Livre. 00:00:43.428 -- 00:00:49.256 After the presentation, I will be reading the Q&A session 00:00:49.256 -- 00:00:50.779 from 00:00:50.779 -- 00:00:53.162 financial analysts 00:00:53.162 -- 00:00:57.592 only, and now I will leave the floor to Arnaud Lagardère. 00:00:57.592 -- 00:01:01.016 Thank you, Emmanuel, and good afternoon to everybody. 00:01:01.016 -- 00:01:06.041 Before I get to my brief introduction about 00:01:06.041 -- 00:01:11.607 H1, let me give you two quick updates. The first one is 00:01:11.607 -- 00:01:16.493 to introduce Grégoire Castin, who will cover H1 in details. 00:01:16.493 -- 00:01:22.557 You received the PR, so you know exactly who he is and where he's coming from. 00:01:23.621 -- 00:01:27.157 He will be fully operational in September. 00:01:27.157 -- 00:01:32.164 And the idea is to reinforce our financial team, 00:01:32.164 -- 00:01:36.070 while Sophie remains a CFO of the group, obviously. 00:01:36.070 -- 00:01:40.857 Grégoire will report to me, and the current ...