“We expect that gradually to be better, and also the lapping effect will help us over the year.”

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“fidence there. The biscuit category is soft. We expect that the volume decline that you see in the category of 4% will ease, but we are not exactly counting on volume growth in North America. Then in Europe, what I expect there is that the first of all, in our other categories, we had a pretty good year already in 2025. We expect that to continue, and I'm talking about biscuits, cakes, and pastries and meals. And in chocolate, the price increase as we discussed, is going to ease. In fact, we are readjusting some of our pricing in certain markets. So all that, we expect also will have a positive effect of volumes as compared to 2025. So hopefully, that gives you an idea where the volume growth is going to come from. The phasing during the year is as these different activities come to bear. We expect that gradually to be better, and also the lapping effect will help us over the year. Chris Carey: That's great. And I know it's been broached a bit, but just to confirm, as we get into 2027 and really I'm asking just because it was included in the prepared remarks. You give us a sense of the investments that will have been lapped going into 2027. Should we expect the media investment to be done in 2026, the rebasing of media, the rebasing of comp, the investments into channel expansion strategies such that going into 2027, we're really just thinking about an improved complexion of the top line gross margins, getting a bit more life against a lower cocoa, you know, price and more operating leverage to SG and A? Or is there multiyear investments that will be continuing to come into the model as we get into 2027? I realize we may get more information on this at CAGNY, but, a”