Samsonite Group S A (SMSOF) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to SAMHSA NITE 2026 Interim Results Presentation. At this time, all participants are in the listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you need to press star 1 and 1 on your telephone. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to hand the call over to your first speaker today, Mr. Alex Concepcion, VP, Investor Relations. Thank you. Please go ahead. Thank you. Welcome to the Samsonite Group Interim Results Conference Call. On the call with us today are Kyle Gendreau, Chief Executive Officer, and Tom Pizzuti, Chief Financial Officer. Before starting today's call, we would like to remind you that any forward-looking statements made on this call involve risks and uncertainties that are subject to the company's provisions, as stated in the disclaimers in the company's press release and earnings announcement, and that actual results can differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. I'll now turn the call over to Kyle. Okay, thanks. Thanks, everybody for joining. We're excited. We have a lot of things to talk about, including news that we put out earlier in the day today that I think many of you would have seen. I'm on slide five. So whoever's managing the slides, I'm going to start right in. So importantly, we're making strong progress on our key growth pillars that we've been talking about and we're executing against, which is helping drive resilient sales in this business. We're focused on amplifying and elevating the awareness of our iconic and consumer-centric brand. We've increased the advertising spend, as we signaled, in the first half of the year. We're really inve...