Lagardere Sa (LGDDF) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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Hello, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for joining us this evening to Louis Hachette Group 2025 first half results. I'm Emmanuel Rapa, head of financial communication, and I will be guiding you through this presentation. We will present the Louis Hachette Group results and those of Lagardère that are, of course, embedded. Nevertheless, if you want to focus only on the Lagardère Group performance, you can find them on the press release as well as the slide that relates to Lagardère on the dedicated website. This call is led today by Jean-Christophe Thierry, chairman and CEO of Louis Hachette Group, and Grégoire Castin, deputy CEO of Louis Hachette Group and Lagardère Group. Joining us for this presentation are Pauline Ouell, Group Secretary General, Dag Rasmussen, Chairman and CEO of Lagardère Travel Retail, Frédéric Chevalier, CEO of Lagardère Travel Retail, and Claire Lehost, CEO of Prisma, who will each share their insights and their key highlights. After the presentation, I will be reading the questions from financial analysts only. I now leave the floor to Jean-Christophe Thierry. Thank you, Emmanuel. Good evening, everyone. I am delighted to present today the results of the Louis Hachette Group. But before that, though, I would like to pay tribute to Sophie Stabile, Lagardeur's Chief Financial Officer, who sadly passed away last week after a long and brave fight against her illness. Sophie did a remarkable work to help the group bounce back after joining Lagardère in the midst of COVID crisis. She will make a lasting mark on the group. Now, the results. So following the listing of our group in December 2024, we are now reporting on our achievements for the first half of the year. You will see that, again, our results are very satisfactory. Louis Hachet Group pos...