Half Year 2019 Agfa Gevaert NV Earnings Call Transcript
Welcome to half year 2019 earnings call, and thank you for standing by. (Operator Instructions) Today's call is being recorded. If you have any objection, you may disconnect now.
I would now like to turn the call over to Christian Reinaudo, CEO of Agfa. Please go ahead.
Thank you, operator. Good morning, everyone. So we're going to present the Q2 results 2019, which we have seen good results for the quarter.
I think we have to read these results maybe in 2 ways. Tactically, that means on the short term, on the quarter itself, it has been a good quarter for different reasons. First of all, the top line growth that you have understood has been back for the first time since 2015 is the top line growth both for our IT health care activities but also for the other activities. Second, we see an improvement of our gross margin, and I will come back to that during my presentation. The cost OpEx in general terms are resisting pretty well in spite of the extra costs we have
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