Sir Andrew Witty
Management
Thank you very much and welcome to our Q1 call. I’m joined today with Simon Dingemans who I’ll hand over to in a couple of minutes to take you through some of the detail of the quarter. I thought before doing that though, it was worthwhile and actually I think the quarter is quite good exemplar to just remind you and review where the strategic shape of the group is particularly in the light of the three-way transaction that we announced last week with Novartis. Clearly we are focused on successfully launching and establishing further growth opportunity in our respiratory portfolio, secondly, development of our vaccine business in particular of course helped with the proposed transaction with Novartis and then of course developing that premiere Cx business, consumer business between ourselves and Novartis, all of that really built on the foundations of very strong industry-leading R&D capability and global footprint. I think the first quarter is a key quarter in terms of signaling the kind of transition that’s underway for the business. Of course there are as always other issues like price competition and the like in the environment. What’s really going on in this quarter is the beginnings of the full row relative [ph] on new product portfolio including of course in respiratory and also the transmission if you will of business from the older portfolio to the new. As we’ve said many times before, it’s very difficult to synchronize that transmission perfectly quarter-to-quarter, but our goal is to make sure that gets done over the next several years. So our strategy is very clear. I think the transaction last week really emphasizes where we’re focusing our attention for the future. Key to all of this is new products and actually I think we’re seeing good performance from new…