Reckitt Benckiser Group plc (RKT) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Good morning and thank you for joining us online for the Reckitt Half Year 2026 results presentation. I'm Nick Ashworth, Head of Investor Relations here at Reckitt. Before we start can I draw your attention to the usual disclaimers in respect to forward-looking information. So presenting today we have our CEO Chris Licht and our CFO Shannon Eisenhardt. Following their presentation will be the usual Q&A session. For our covering analysts if you would like to ask a question live then please log into the zoom link shared with you and we'll bring you on screen when it shall turn. We'll also take written questions via the webcast. If you can submit these using the ask a question tab near the top of your screen I can then read the questions out. If you have any follow-ups after the event please feel free to reach out to the IR team and we'll be happy to help. So with all that said I will now hand over to our CEO Chris Lick to start the presentation. Chris. Thank you Nick and good morning everybody. Welcome to the call. I will start with an overview of our first half performance and some of the key highlights, particularly the significant acceleration in Q2 with the more balanced growth that we delivered before Shannon takes you through the financial results in more detail. I will then come back and provide an update on the progress we're making across our areas and our strategic priorities for the second half, which underpin our reiterated four year guidance. After that, we will both be happy to take your questions. As I just said, we've delivered a significant acceleration across our business in the second quarter. In the first half, we delivered like-for-like net revenue growth of 2.7% in core record, with growth in the second quarter of 4.2%. Importantly, all areas in a...