John Fallon
Management
Well, hi, everybody, and thanks for joining us. I know what a busy week this is for all of you. And I know also what a tough job it can actually be to interpret what's really going on at Pearson from a first half that usually consists of somewhere around 40% of our sales but only around 20% of our profits. So what Robin and I are going to try and do this morning is talk you through what we've seen so far this year, give you our best take on what that tells us about our prospects for 2013 overall and also take a little bit of time to set out the progress we're making on the strategy, the restructuring and the organizational changes that we outlined to you back in February. Before Robin talks you through the details of the numbers, I really want to make 3 points about our performance in the first half. They are entirely consistent with what we saw last year, and in fact, they continue some trends that we've been seeing for some years now. First, we are continuing to win a lot of market share. However, we still face challenges in some markets. For example, in North America, as you all know, college enrollments are down again this year. And the result of that is that we can no longer rely on the old model in which we outperformed our traditional competitors and if we do so, we automatically deliver growth. Second, we are still growing quite rapidly in some key categories and geographies. The categories are digital products and services, the learning systems, the direct delivery of education and the geographies, including Brazil, China, India, South Africa. And third, we do face still significant structural change in what are our biggest…