Mayr-Melnhof Karton Ag (MNHFF) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Welcome to this video conference call of the Meier-Melnhof Group on our first half-year results in 2026. I'm heading investor relations and communications here at MM and I will be the moderator in this call. Earlier this morning we already published a press release, a half-year report and the CEO video statement which is available from our corporate website mymm.group. Following our brief statement In this half year, we want to provide a more comprehensive update on our performance through this live presentation with our CEO Peter Oswald, who is sitting next to me, and our CFO Franz Hiesinger. Subsequent to the presentation, we will enter into a Q&A session. For this, I want to give you some technical information. Thank you for questions during the presentation by pressing the blue live Q&A button on your screen in the webcast and follow the instructions. Alternatively, if you cannot join through the browser, you have also a dial-in telephone number, you dial your country-specific number and enter the individual PIN followed by the hash key. You can then register for asking a question by pressing 0 followed by 1 on your telephone. I also want to inform you that this webcast will be recorded. I would now like to hand over to Peter to start the presentation. Thank you Stephan. Welcome everyone and thanks for your interest in our half year results. We have basically four messages. Number one is that our results were mainly broadly in line with last year, slightly down, but broadly in line with last year, but significantly up compared to the second half year. And we will come to the individual items later, but the real positive surprise for us was the strong performance of pharma, significantly up. Food could again make Very strong result like we are always used to it an...