Olivier Bohuon
Management
Good morning, everyone. Welcome to fourth quarter and the full-year results presentation. I will start giving my thoughts on 2014 as a whole and give you some perspective on 2015. I will then hand over to Julie to take you through the numbers. As usual, we will take the questions at the end. 2014 has been a good year for Smith & Nephew. We have continued our journey to transform the company and I'm very happy with the progress that I see. We have made important investments for the future and I am increasingly confident in our prospects. Financially, our top-line growth was 2% underlying, and our margin improved by 20 basis points, both despite the significant headwind of RENASYS, and EPSA increased 8%. We have deployed our free cash flow and balance sheet to invest in high growth platforms. We acquired ArthroCare for $1.7 billion and have increased the dividend by 8%. This demonstrates our balanced and disciplined use of cash for the benefit of our shareholders. I hope, by now, you all know our five strategic priorities and I remain absolutely committed to these; not just because I like a clear, consistent direction but because they're working. By delivering on them we have made Smith & Nephew stronger and more efficient with an ever-greater proportion of the group in higher growth segments and geographies. This journey is not complete, and perhaps never will be, but during 2014 we delivered a number of important actions to accelerate this transformation. In established markets in 2014, we have strengthened our existing business through both investment and greater efficiency. Our orthopedic reconstruction business improved, as we said it would, and our advanced wound bioactives achieved mid-teen growth; again, as we said it would. We also pioneered a new commercial solution for orthopedic…