Metcash Limited (MTS) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to Mathcash 2026 Half Year Results Briefing. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask your question during the session, you'll need to press star 11 or your telephone keypad. You will then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press star 11 again. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Doug Jones, CEO. Please go ahead. Thank you, operator, and good morning, and welcome to the Metcash Limited FY26 half-year results presentation. As noted, my name is Doug Jones, Group CEO, and I'm joined this morning in Sydney by Deepa Sita, Group CFO, Grant Ramage, Food CEO, Kylie Walbridge, Liquor CEO, and Scott Marshall, CEO of the Total Tools and Hardware Group, as well as Steve Ash, EGM Investor Relations. Before I go any further, you'll no doubt be aware that this morning the ASX has a technical issue uploading certain documents to their public site. This affects all companies and not just us. We lodged all of our release statements, our financial report, our dividend declaration and our presentation this morning just before 9am. All of those, except for the presentation, were released by the ASX. on their side shortly thereafter. We have confirmed with the ASX that because all price-sensitive information is in the market, we may proceed with this call. I'd like to begin by acknowledging the traditional custodians of the land from which we're all connecting today. I'm in Wala medical country and I pay my respects to elders across country, past, present and emerging. As you know by now, our pu...