Andrew Philip Witty
Management
Thank you very much. Good afternoon, and welcome to today's call. I'd like to particularly welcome people joining us from the East Coast after what's been a very rough few days. And we hope very much that things settle back down and the disruption is resolved quickly. I'm actually speaking to you from our headquarters in Singapore. Simon Dingemans is joining us on the call from London. I'm in Singapore. I spend a lot of time in the emerging markets. It's one of our key areas in which we've chosen to invest aggressively over the last 4 years to help rebalance the group sales profile. And that's evident in this quarter with a very -- with a further strong performance in the region, helping offset some of the very obvious pressures we're facing in Western markets, particularly in Europe. Emerging market/Asia Pac sales grew 11% in Q3, which I think puts it very much at the top of the industry growth rate for emerging markets, and it's a clear acceleration compared with the early part of the year. Particularly strong performances in India, up 9%, China up 15%. And within the Chinese business, our Seretide business was up 46% for the quarter. I'm also encouraged by the continued strengthening of our business in the United States, while our reported sales were down in what is a noisy quarter with several discontinued or disposed products and some generics really hiding the underlying sales growth of 2%. Respiratory in particular performed well. Business up 7%. Advair was up 5% during the quarter. And that represents the fifth consecutive quarter where we've seen an improvement in the underlying performance of Advair, both as our shares hold well and the overall market starts to improve. Newer products in our specialty franchise has also continued…