Olivier Bohuon
Management
Good morning, everyone. I'm Olivier Bohuon, and I'm the Chief Executive Officer of Smith & Nephew, and I welcome you to our third quarter results presentation. I will speak about our results for the third quarter and then hand over to Adrian to take you through the numbers. When Adrian is finished, I will come back and update you on the progress we are making against our new strategic priorities and the programs we are issuing to generate efficiencies and revert resources for investment to drive future growth. As usual, we'll take questions at the end of the formal presentation. The trending environment in the established market continues to be difficult. Despite this, Smith & Nephew has another strong quarter of revenue growth, and regained market share in many of our product franchises and geographies. Overall, our revenues were up 10% to just over $1 billion, an underlying improvement of 5%. Orthopaedic Reconstruction generated revenue growth above the market rate for the straight fifth quarter in a row. Endoscopy grew 7%, with a strong improved performance in Europe. Advanced Wound Management grew at more than double the market rate. This was driven by our Negative Pressure Wound Therapy franchise, and a steady flow of new products across our wound care range. Our trading profit -- and trading margin was 19.8%. Endoscopy and Advanced Wound Management delivered strong margin, and both achieved improvement year-on-year. The Orthopaedic margin was disappointing at 15.6%. Some of this was due to the continuing negative sales mix we highlighted in the first half, some is due to an unusually high level of periodic expenses on which Adrian will give more detail. However, a significant amount is due to Orthopaedic having a close base which is structurally too high, given the challenges and changes in the established…