Nicholas Ashworth
Senior Vice President of Investor Relations

Welcome to Reckitt's Q1 trading update. I'm Nick Ashworth, Head of Investor Relations here at Reckitt. And I am here with our CEO, Kris Licht; and our CFO, Shannon Eisenhardt, who will take you through some prepared remarks before we then take your questions.

Before we start, I would like to draw your attention to the usual disclaimer in respect to forward-looking statements contained on Page 7 of our RNS published this morning. And I'll now hand over to Kris.

Kris Licht
CEO & Executive Director

Thank you, Nick. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us.

Core Reckitt delivered 1.3% like-for-like net revenue growth in Q1. This was impacted by the end of a very weak season, a competitive environment in Europe and particularly in the autodish category as well as geopolitical disruptions. Excluding the seasonal business, Core Reckitt delivered 3.1% like-for-like growth. This was led by high single-digit growth in Emerging Markets with China and India, both delivering double-digit growth, and Dettol continuing to perform strongly in both countries driven by innovation.

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