“On the second half, like other business, we expect modest acceleration in grooming.”

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“lastly, how should we think about this segment for the second in terms of whether it's innovation and whether the business can accelerate? Thank you. Andre Schulten: Good morning, Bonnie. Think you answered the first part of the question. I think the margin component and the bottom line component is an outcome of the top line. It's obviously a high-margin business. And so if the volume's slowing, that translates into the bottom line slowing, specifically since we don't curtail the investment in the business. Superiority investment across grooming is very important. The timing of the grooming business is heavily related to initiative timing. So year over year, the phasing of Braun initiative, female grooming, and male grooming initiatives is a driver in the quarterly profile that you see. On the second half, like other business, we expect modest acceleration in grooming. Related mostly to The US, And I think the biggest opportunity for our grooming business has continued activation of the portfolio in The U. S. And quality of execution in US stores, and that's what the team is entirely focused on. Shailesh Jejurikar: Just to add maybe a couple of points, Bonnie, to that. One is we see within grooming, a huge opportunity in continuing to drive Venus. That has upside in pretty much every region In many regions, that's growing in the tens and twenties percent growth. So we see a lot of upside on the female grooming side. We see a lot more on appliances as well. And then we are working on innovation, which will have which comes in the in calendar '26, which hope which should further drive category growth. And probably the last point I would make is in US, we”