Woolworths Holdings Ltd (WLWHF) Q3 2025 Earnings Call

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Thank you for standing by and welcome to Woolworths Group F25 Q3 sales announcement. All participants are in a listen-only mode. There will be a presentation followed by a question and answer session. If you wish to ask a question, you will need to press the star key followed by the number one on your telephone keypad. I would now like to hand the conference over to Ms. Amanda Bardwell, Managing Director and CEO of Woolworths Group. Please go ahead. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us today for Woolworths Group's third quarter sales results for the 2025 financial year. I would like to start by acknowledging the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet today, Dharong Country, and I pay my respects to elders past and present. Joining me this morning are Stephen Harrison, our Chief Financial Officer, Annette Carantoni, our new Managing Director of Woolworths Retail, Paul Harker, Chief Commercial Officer, Australian Food, Sally Copeland in her capacity as Managing Director of Group E-Commerce X, Peter DeWitt, Interim Managing Director of Woolworth, New Zealand, Von Ingram, Managing Director of W Living, and Dan Haig, Managing Director of Big W. The group's performance in the quarter reflects a continuation of trends from the first seven weeks with solid sales growth within the context of the challenging environments. Weather events in the quarter caused some isolated supply chain disruptions for our stores, and we temporarily closed and paused e-commerce services for team and customer safety. However, we worked hard to support affected communities across Queensland and northern New South Wales. This included the donation of groceries and essential items to evacuation centres, as well as airlifting essential items to Ingham and other communities is...