Andrew Philip Witty
Management
Thank you very much, and thank you for joining us for this afternoon's call. I'm here with Simon Dingemans, who'll pick up on the detail of the quarter in just a few minutes. We'll make a few introductory comments. You will have seen from the quarter release that in the third quarter, turnover was down 3%, earnings per share up 5%, bringing year-to-date earnings per share to minus 2 at constant exchange rates. Clearly, the quarter helped by targeted expense reductions. We're on track for full year EPS to be broadly similar to last year at CER, excluding divestments. During the quarter, strong Emerging Markets, Japan and ViiV HIV growth, offset to some degree by the continued trend in the U.S. Just turning to the U.S. The trend we're seeing is driven by the impact on pricing of Advair and access limitations becoming more common in delaying product uptake in primary care. Pricing. The pricing effect has been a bit greater than we expected earlier in the year, driven by market changes and competitive dynamics. It does feel like a new reality in U.S. primary care, and as we look across other product launches and other product categories, Breo and Anoro launches benchmark well, but all launches appear to be, in primary care, much slower. Now obviously, this has had impact for us in 2014, but we've adjusted quickly to the situation, both in terms of how we're contracting and also in management of our SG&A line. We now have very good visibility for 2015, as we have signed the majority of contracts and won substantial access for Advair, Breo and Anoro, with the substantial majority of top plans already secured. In some cases, with exclusive positions for some of our products, i.e. with the beneficiary of class lockout contracts,…