Adidas Ag Ord

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the ADIDAS AGQ2-2026 conference call and live webcast. I am Moira, the chorus call operator. I would like to remind you that all participants will be in listen-only mode and the conference has been recorded. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session. You can register for questions at any time by pressing star and 1 on your telephone. For operator assistance, please press star and 0. The conference must not be recorded for publication or broadcast. At this time, it's my pleasure to hand over to Sebastian Steffen, head of investor relations. Please go ahead.

Thanks very much, Maura. And hello, everyone. Good evening, good afternoon, and good morning, wherever you're joining us today. Welcome to our Q2 2026 results conference call. Our presenters today are our CEO, Bjorn Gulden, and our CFO, Harm Ohlmeyer. Before Bjorn and Harm will take you through the key developments of the second quarter and share their expectations, let me just quickly remind you that you limit your initial questions to two during the Q&A session to allow as many people as possible to ask their questions. and now without any further ado, over to you Bjorn.

Thanks Seb and hello everybody. Yeah, you have seen our announcement. We have seen the reaction. I'm sure we will have a lot of interesting questions. But before we go into the update of the business, you have also seen the other announcement that says that Harm that decided not to extend his contract when it goes out in March 28th have now announced that he will leave and that we have found you know a successor together in Birgit and I think before I go into that in detail I think I hand over to you Harm so you can say a couple of words.