Half Year 2019 Kingspan Group PLC Earnings Call Transcript
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Kingspan interim results 2019 conference call. My name is Charlotte, and I will be coordinating your call today. (Operator Instructions) I will now hand over to your host, Gene Murtagh, to begin. Gene, please go ahead.
Thank you, and good morning to our interim results call. We'll take you directly to Slide #14. I assume you've all got the deck there. It's titled 2019 H1 in Summary. And in summary, it was a decent first half for us, revenue up 12% to just over EUR 2.2 billion and trading profit ahead by EUR 230 million, which resulted in basic EPS up 16% to almost EUR 0.94. All of the businesses and most geographies performed well.
Just by product sector. Insulated Panels were up 14%, particularly strong in the Americas and in Southern Europe, weaker in Germany and predictably weaker in the U.K., which we'll cover off a little more in detail later.
The Boards businesses achieved growth of 5%. Again, strong volume growth in most markets,
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