Wesfarmers Ltd Old (WFAFF) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for holding and welcome to the West Farmers 2025 Half Year Results Briefing. Your lines will be muted during the briefing, however, you will have an opportunity to ask questions immediately afterward and instructions will be provided on how to do this at that time. This call is also being webcast live on the West Farmers website and can be accessed from the homepage of westfarmers.com.au. I would now like to hand the call over to the Managing Director of West Farmers Limited, Mr Rob Scott. Thanks very much. Well good morning and good afternoon everyone and welcome to our half year results briefing. So today I'm joined by our Divisional Managing Directors and our CFO Anthony Gianotti. To begin I'll talk to the group's performance and key highlights across the portfolio and then Anthony will provide more detail on our financial performance. I'll conclude with some comments on the group's outlook, and Anthony, our divisional MDs, and I would then welcome any questions that you may have. So I'll start on slide four, which is a slide that you will be familiar with. The West Farmers' objective is to deliver a satisfactory return to shareholders, which we define as a top quartile total shareholder return over the long term. And we acknowledge that we can only achieve this if we anticipate the needs of our customers, look after our team, treat suppliers fairly and ethically, contribute positively to the communities in which we operate, take care of the environment and act with integrity and honesty. And this half has once again provided us with many opportunities to demonstrate progress in these areas and you'll hear this throughout our presentation. So turning to slide five, and there are three points I'd like to highlight from today's result...