Haleon plc

Restructuring costs are recognised and provided for, where appropriate, in respect of the direct expenditure of a business reorganisation where the plans are sufficiently detailed and well advanced, and where a valid expectation to those affected has been created by either starting to implement the restructuring plans or announcing its main features. Restructuring costs are those mainly related to specific Board-approved restructuring programmes, including integration costs following material acquisitions, which are structural in nature and significant in scale.

Restructuring costs include severance and other personnel costs, professional fees, impairments of assets and other related items.

Haleon may undertake restructuring programmes in response to changes in the Group’s trading environment and overall strategy or following significant acquisitions. Costs, both cash and non-cash, of these programmes are provided for as individual elements are approved and meet the accounting recognition criteria. As a result, charges may be incurred over a number of years following the initiation of a major restructuring programme.

Restructuring costs in 2024 and 2023 mainly relate to business transformation activities associated with our programme to increase productivity and agility. In 2022, restructuring costs mainly related to activities aiming to generate synergies from the integration of the Pfizer Group’s Consumer Healthcare business into the Group’s business, following the Pfizer Transaction completed on 31 July 2019. Refer to Note 21 ‘Provisions’ for further details about the Group’s restructuring provisions.

A breakdown of the restructuring costs is included below: