Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Welcome to the CECONOMY Q2 and Half Year 2025, 2026 Results Webcast and Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded.

I would now like to turn the conference over to your speaker today, Fabienne Caron, Vice President, Investor Relations and Communications. Please go ahead.

Fabienne Caron

Thank you, Sharon, and good morning, everyone. It's a pleasure to welcome you to our Q2 results call today. I'm joined by our CEO, Kai-Ulrich Deissner; and our CFO, Remko Rijnders. Before we begin, I'd just like to briefly remind you that today's discussion will include forward-looking statements. Please refer to the disclaimer in the presentation for further details. This call is being recorded, and the recording will be available on our website later today. With that, I'm pleased to hand over to Kai.

Kai-Ulrich Deissner
CEO & Chairman of Management Board

Thank you, Fabienne. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us today. Together with my trusted CFO and my soon-to-be successor, Remko Rijnders, I will now take you through the results of our first half and the second quarter of this financial year. As many of you know, we set out on this transformation journey 3 years ago, and we made some bold promises back then at our Capital Markets Day '23. We said we would put customers first and that we would establish a new category, experienced electronics rather than consumer electronics. We said we would build a business beyond traditional retail, and we said we would deliver consistent profitable growth.