UCBJF - UCB SA (UCBJF) Q2 2024 Earnings Call Transcript
2024-07-26 15:28:05 ET
UCB SA (UCBJF)
Q2 2024 Earnings Conference Call
July 25, 2024, 8:00 am ET
Company Participants
Antje Witte - Head, IR
Jean-Christophe Tellier - CEO
Sandrine Dufour - CFO
Emmanuel Caeymaex - CCO
Iris Loew-Friedrich - CMO
Conference Call Participants
Xian Deng - UBS
Brian Balchin - Jefferies
Stacy Ku - Cowen
Peter Verdult - Citi
Thomas Vranken - KBC
Yifeng Liu - HSBC
Presentation
Antje Witte
Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Welcome to the UCB Half Year 2024 Capital Market call. My name is Antje Witte. I'm the Head of Investor Relations at UCB.
Before I introduce you to the agenda and hand over to the speakers today, I'd like to make some remarks. This video conference is being recorded. You can find the presentation in our download center on the website if you dial-in by phone. The presentation and the following Q&A session are intended for institutional capital market participants. If you're not, please disconnect now.
This presentation and the following Q&A session are covered by the disclaimer and Safe Harbor statement, as stated on Slide 2 of the slide deck. Please read this carefully.
With this, I'd like you to introduce to our speakers today: our CEO, Jean-Christophe Tellier, Emmanuel Caeymaex, Chief Commercial Officer, our CFO, Sandrine Dufour, and our Chief Medical Officer, Iris Low- Friedrich, who will join for the Q&A session.
Jean-Christophe, over to you, please.
Jean-Christophe Tellier
Thank you, Antje. And, from my side also, a warm welcome to all of you. Thank you for joining us today for our, presentation of the half year results.
As you have seen in the press release this morning, we are pleased with the results that we have been able to deliver during the first half. It demonstrates a strong start into a decade of growth. And you will see in the next slide that when you look at where we were a year ago, that is in the middle of the of this slide. A year ago, I was telling you that we were at an inflection point, and then we were entering into this phase of growth. So, I'm very pleased to report that we are now in this period of growth....
UCB SA (UCBJF) Q2 2024 Earnings Call Transcript