Olivier Bohuon
Management
Good morning, everyone. So welcome to our second quarter result presentation. I will cover the highlights and then hand over to Julie, our CFO, was a new CFO but she's not new anymore, and she will take you through the numbers. When she has finished, I will update you on how we've progressed on delivering on our priorities. And as usual, we'll take questions at the end. So Smith & Nephew produced a good second quarter in line with our expectations. The revenue increased 3% to just under $1.1 billion, and within this, we generated standout contribution from the emerging and international markets, as well as negative pressure on therapy. The Healthpoint acquisition is performing very strongly, and we continue to drive good growth in Sports Medicine. The market background adjusted for sales days in Q2 was very similar to Q1, stable in the U.S, weak in Europe and strong in the emerging markets. Our trading profit was $232 million, giving a trading margin of 21.6%. As expected, this was lower than last year, mainly due to the initial dilution from Healthpoint and the additional investments we are making. Adjusted earnings per share were $0.18, marginally ahead of last year. Just after the quarter closed, we announced an agreement to acquire our Turkish orthopedic distributor. This is part of our broader strategy to add to our emerging market platform. I will talk more about this later in the presentation. Finally, in line with our desire to enhance the value delivered to our shareholders, we have been executing on our capital allocation framework. We're declaring an interim dividend of $0.104 using the formula we set out last year and our $300 million share buyback program is on target. This slide captures our underlying growth in the quarter. On the left-hand side,…