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100 2019 The annual report on the most valuable Australin brands January 2019 Contents.

About Brand Finance 4 Get in Touch 4 Request Your Brand Value Report 5 Foreword 6 Brand Value Analysis 8 Brand Strength Index Analysis 11 Sector Reputation Analysis 12 Brand Finance Australia 100 (AUD m) 14 Definitions 16 Brand Valuation Methodology 18 Market Research Methodology 19 Stakeholder Equity Measures 19 Consulting Services 20 Brand Evaluation Services 21 Communications Services 22 Brand Finance Network 24

Brand Finance Australia 100 January 2019 3 Request Your About Brand Finance. Brand Value Report.

Brand Finance is the world’s leading independent A Brand Value Report provides a complete Each report includes expert recommendations for growing brand valuation and strategy consultancy. breakdown of the assumptions, data sources, and brand value to drive business performance and offers a calculations used to arrive at your brand’s value. cost-effective way to gaining a better understanding of Brand Finance was set in 1996 with the aim of ‘bridging your position against competitors. the gap between marketing and finance’. For more than 20 years, we have helped companies and organisations of all types to connect their brands to the bottom line.

We pride ourselves on four key strengths: What is a Brand Value Report? What are the benefits of a Brand Value Report? ++Independence ++Transparency Brand Valuation Summary ++Technical Credibility ++Expertise + Internal understanding of brand + Brand value tracking We put thousands of the world’s biggest brands to the + Competitor benchmarking Insight test every year, evaluating which are the strongest and + Historical brand value most valuable. Brand Strength Index Brand Finance helped craft the internationally + Brand strength tracking recognised standard on Brand Valuation – ISO 10668, + Brand strength analysis and the recently approved standard on Brand Evaluation + Management KPIs Strategy – ISO 20671. + Competitor benchmarking

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4 Brand Finance Australia 100 January 2019 Brand Finance Australia 100 January 2019 5 Foreword. Rings What is the purpose of a strong brand: to attract customers, to build loyalty, to motivate staff? All true, but for a commercial brand at least, the first answer must always be ‘to make money’. Up Fourth Huge investments are made in the design, launch, and ongoing promotion of brands. Given their potential financial value, this makes sense. Unfortunately, most organisations fail to go beyond that, missing huge opportunities to effectively make use of what are often their most important assets. Monitoring of brand performance should be the next step, but is often sporadic. Where it does take place, it Consecutive frequently lacks financial rigour and is heavily reliant on qualitative measures, poorly understood by non-marketers.

Mark Crowe As a result, marketing teams struggle to communicate the value of their work and Year as Managing Director, boards then underestimate the significance of their brands to the business. Sceptical Brand Finance Australia finance teams, unconvinced by what they perceive as marketing mumbo jumbo, may fail to agree necessary investments. What marketing spend there is, can end up poorly directed as marketers are left to operate with insufficient financial guidance Australia’s or accountability. The end result can be a slow but steady downward spiral of poor communication, wasted resources, and a negative impact on the bottom line. Brand Finance bridges the gap between marketing and finance. Our teams have Most Valuable experience across a wide range of disciplines from market research and visual identity to tax and accounting. We understand the importance of design, advertising, and marketing, but we also believe that the ultimate and overriding purpose of brands is to make money. That is why we connect brands to the bottom line. Brand. By valuing brands, we provide a mutually intelligible language for marketing and finance teams. Marketers then have the ability to communicate the significance of what they do, and boards can use the information to chart a course that maximises ++ Telstra remains Australia’s most valuable brand profits. Without knowing the precise, financial value of an asset, how can you know if you are maximising your returns? If you are intending to license a brand, how can despite brand value dropping 7% you know you are getting a fair price? If you are intending to sell, how do you know what the right time is? How do you decide which brands to discontinue, whether to ++ Banks struggle to grow brand value in aftermath of rebrand and how to arrange your brand architecture? Brand Finance has conducted thousands of brand and branded business valuations to help answer these government pressures; worst hit questions. with brand value falling 28%

Brand Finance’s research revealed the compelling link between strong brands and + soars to become Australia’s strongest brand stock market performance. It was found that investing in highly-branded companies + would lead to a return almost double that of the average for the S&P 500 as a whole. with a score of 86.6 out of 100 and an AAA rating

Acknowledging and managing a company’s intangible assets taps into the hidden + Retail brands enjoy strong growth in face of online value that lies within it. The following report is a first step to understanding more + about brands, how to value them and how to use that information to benefit the competition with Woolworths' brand value up 23% business.

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6 Brand Finance Australia 100 January 2019 Brand Finance Australia 100 January 2019 7 Brand Value Analysis.

Brand Value Analysis.

Banks tarnished by government Top 10 Most Valuable Brands pressures 0 1 Commonwealth (brand value marginally up to 1 2019: $10.6 billion) remains Australia’s most valuable banking $14,681m -7.3% brand, ahead of the other big banks, with ANZ (brand 2018: $15,836m value down 13% to $9.1 billion), nab (brand value up 4% to $8.6 billion) and (brand value down 2% 2 4 to $7.3 billion) enduring mixed years. 2 2019: $11,204m +23.1% Retail brands enjoy strong growth 2018: $9,099m

Near the top of the ranking, Woolworths and Coles 2 5 both achieved steady brand value growth. Across the 3 board, the brand value of other retailers also grew 2019: $10,958m +30.9% strongly, with Bunnings (up 33% to $2.0 billion), 2018: $8,371m Westfield (up 30% to $2.0 billion), Kmart (up 35% to $1.5 billion) JB Hi-Fi (up 14% to $1.4 billion) and 1 2 Telstra dials up brand value (up 34% to $1.2 billion) all recording 4 solid results. Despite significant fears a year ago, the 2019: $10,558m +0.1% Telstra remains Australia’s most valuable brand Telstra remains Australia’s most arrival of Amazon into the broader Australian retail 2018: $10,548m despite its brand value subsiding 7% to $14.7 billion. valuable brand, with its key market has not yet harmed the value of Australian Woolworths (brand value up 23% to $11.2 billion) retail brands. 1 3 and Coles (brand value up 31% to $11.0 billion) both customer segments delivering high 5 jumped two places to 2nd and 3rd, respectively. The quality and reliable operations right 2019: $9,108m -13.3% 2018: $10,502m two Australian retail giants have grown their brand across its entire portfolio of values strongly this year despite the threat of online competition from Amazon. telecommunications services. Brand Value over Time 6 0 6 Telstra continues to face domestic 2019: $8,606m Telstra’s fall in brand value was primarily driven 200 +3.9% challenges from a variety of 2018: $8,286m by a decrease in brand strength as the telco giant continues to face many challenger brands in its competitors in its core services, key service areas of mobile, internet and landline putting downward pressure on its 7 2 8 telecommunications. Despite this fall in brand 150 2019: $8,267m strength, it remains Australia’s 5th strongest brand, overall brand value. Looking ahead, +27.2% 2018: $6,499m and clearly continues as Australia’s dominant Telstra’s leadership will need to telecommunications carrier. On the other hand, Optus ensure that they are able to leverage 1 7 (brand value up 6% to $5.3 billion) increased its brand 100 8 strength this year, overtaking Telstra to become the its strong existing brand strength to AUD bn AUD 2019: $7,260m -2.3% country’s strongest telecommunications brand, and ensure that it does not merely 2018: $7,428m Australia’s 4th strongest brand overall. become a dumb pipe to carry smart services: this offers Telstra the 50 0 Elsewhere, mining giant BHP (brand value up 27% to 9 9 $8.3 billion) continues to derive strong results from their 0 opportunity to grow commercial 2019: $5,333m +6.1% major 2017 re-branding exercise, remaining Australia’s revenue by extracting greater value 2018: $5,025m most valuable business-to-business brand. BHP’s corporate leadership has invested significant effort from online supply chains. 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 0 in charting out a forward-looking brand vision based 10 10 around growth and security, despite the risk of global Mark Crowe ● Telstra ● Woolwoths ● Coles 2019: $4,650m +17.7% financial challenges. Managing Director, Brand Finance Australia ● Commonwealth Bank ● ANZ 2018: $3,952m

8 Brand Finance Australia 100 January 2019 Brand Finance Australia 100 January 2019 9 Brand Value Analysis.

Brand Strength Analysis.

Brand Value Change 2018-2019 (%) Qantas soars to become Australia’s Top 10 Strongest Brands strongest brand EnergyAustralia 95.3% 2 3 In addition to calculating brand value, Brand Finance 1 74.9% also determines the relative strength of brands 2019: 86.6 68.3% +3.2 .Com through a balanced scorecard of metrics evaluating 2018: 83.4 Asaleo Care Ltd 65.8% marketing investment, stakeholder equity, and business Tabcorp 61.8% performance. Alongside revenue forecasts, the brand 2 2 5 Bendigo Bank 59.9% strength index (BSI) is a crucial driver of brand value. 2019: 84.2 Santos 52.3% +1.6 According to these criteria, Qantas (brand value up 2018: 82.6 UGL 48.9% 45% to $3.8 billion) improved its BSI to 86.6, achieving CSL 46.8% a brand rating upgrade from AAA- to AAA to become 3 2 13 Jacob's Creek 45.8% Australia’s strongest brand. This reflects the high- 2019: 83.7 -9.7% Ltd regard that Australians have for the Qantas brand as +5.8 it continues to lead the Australian aviation industry, on 2018: 77.9 -12.0% TPG Telecom both domestic and international routes. Meanwhile, last -12.2% QBE year’s strongest brand, Commonwealth Bank, fell to 0 4 -12.6% Origin seventh, with its brand rating shifting from AAA to AA+. 4 2019: 83.3 -13.3% ANZ +0.2 2018: 83.0 -13.5% Spotless -21.7% Qantas’ brand performance 1 2 -28.3% Commonwealth Bank of Australia is quite exceptional given 5 -29.1% AMP 2019: 82.0 -3.4 that enterprise value has 2018: 85.4 -30.4% CIMIC Group decreased by 8%. This result highlights the importance of 6 2 14 Brand Value by Sector 2019: 81.0 +3.5 the iconic brand to the 2018: 77.4 company as it deals with 1 increasing competition on its 7 1 Brand Value 2019: 79.1 -7.2 Sector (AUD bn) % of total domestic and international 2018: 86.3 ● Banking 45.2 27.3% routes. Brands in the airline 2 20 ● Retail 35.8 21.6% sector have been to the fore 8 ● Telecoms 21.1 12.7% 2019: 79.0 +3.6 in Australian aviation with 2018: 75.4 ● Mining, Iron & Steel 14.7 8.9% both Jetstar (28%) and ● Insurance 6.6 4.0% 9 1 6 ● Airlines 5.4 3.2% Virgin Australia (16%) also 2019: 78.6 -3.5 ● Others 37.0 22.3% recording strong increases 2018: 82.1 Total 165.9 100.0% in value. 10 2 11 Mark Crowe 2019: 78.6 -0.3 Managing Director, Brand Finance Australia 2018: 78.9

10 Brand Finance Australia 100 January 2019 Brand Finance Australia 100 January 2019 11 Sector Reputation Analysis.

Sector Reputation Analysis.

How brand reputation matters Sectors Ranked by Reputation How Sectors Score Across the Ten Metrics Tech brands resilient to reputation challenges Comparing brand reputation across sectors is a MEASURE TOP SECTOR valuable process. Brand categories are converging in 1 Australians continue to hold the tech sector in high many different ways, with new technologies disrupting regard despite scandals tarnishing reputation of some many categories. No banking, utility or oil and gas Airlines 6.9/10 industry giants. The sector ranks joint-third out of the brand should take comfort in being the ‘best of a bad Reputation sectors covered in Brand Finance research, with a bunch’ – a poor reputation across the entire sector score of 7.0 out of 10 globally and 6.6 in Australia. AIRLINES leaves brands vulnerable to challenges. 2= Brands such as Google and Apple get high marks for Banks struggle under weight of being innovative, as expected – but more remarkable Auto 6.8/10 Consideration is the continued trust consumers have in most tech conversion TECH brands. The mistrust that consumers have developed Banking brands have struggled to earn the respect of towards Facebook, Huawei and Uber has not eroded consumers, taking the bottom places globally and in 2= the reputation of the sector as a whole. Australia (reputation scores 6.2 and 5.5 respectively). Scores are lower than in 2017 suggesting that the Beers 6.8/10 Innovation Auto brands keep up in the race Royal Commission on banking malpractice has hit TECH banks’ reputation somewhat. Auto is another sector facing disruption by new 4 technologies, but here the brands appear more The banking sector generally appears vulnerable to resilient. Brand reputation is high, and auto brands also Quality encroachment – while tech brands enjoy significantly /10 generally rate high for being innovative. Auto brands Tech 6.6 AUTO higher scores for reputation, innovation, and closeness. can thrive if they continue to innovate and utilise new technologies to their advantage.

Not surprisingly, due to the 5 Though weaker on measures such as innovation and Value quality, airline brands boast the highest scores for Royal Commission Utilities 6.2/10 AUTO reputation in Australia (6.9 out of 10). investigation and the resulting negative publicity, 6 Loyalty the reputation of banks has BEERS Oil & Gas 6.1/10 been eroded. Significant investment will be required 7 Trust to lift brand equity to try BEERS Insurance 6.0/10 restore public standing but Recommendation also ward off the threat of (NPS) 8 AUTO the tech sector’s Telecoms /10 increasing moves into 5.8 products. OVERALL BRAND EQUITY 9 AUTO Mark Crowe Managing Director, Brand Finance Australia Banking 5.5/10

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Top 100 Australian most valuable brands 1-50 Top 100 Australian most valuable brands 51-100 2019 Brand 2018 2019 2018 2019 Brand 2018 2019 2018 2019 2018 Brand Value Brand Brand Brand 2019 2018 Brand Value Brand Brand Brand Rank Rank Brand Sector Value Change Value Rating Rating Rank Rank Brand Sector Value Change Value Rating Rating

1 1 0 Telstra Telecoms $14,681 -7.3% $15,836 AAA- AAA 51 53 2 Real Estate 2 4 2 Woolworths Retail $11,204 +23.1% $9,099 AA+ AA+ 52 41 1 Target Retail 3 5 2 Coles Retail $10,958 +30.9% $8,371 AA+ AA+ 53 39 1 Colonial First State Banking 4 2 1 Commonwealth Bank Banking $10,558 +0.1% $10,548 AA+ AAA 54 66 2 Bendigo Bank Banking 5 3 1 ANZ Banking $9,108 -13.3% $10,502 AA+ AAA- 55 61 2 Banking 6 6 0 nab Banking $8,606 +3.9% $8,286 AA+ AAA- 56 60 2 Bluescope Steel Mining, Iron & Steel 7 8 2 BHP Mining, Iron & Steel $8,267 +27.2% $6,499 AA AA 57 - 3 Wesfarmers Retail 8 7 1 Westpac Banking $7,260 -2.3% $7,428 AA+ AAA- 58 55 1 iiNet Telecoms 9 9 0 Optus Telecoms $5,333 +6.1% $5,025 AAA- AAA- 59 58 1 Logistics 10 10 0 Mining, Iron & Steel $4,650 +17.7% $3,952 AA AA 60 59 1 Seven Media 11 11 0 Macquarie Banking 61 57 1 Tip Top Food 12 13 2 Qantas Airlines 62 65 2 Commercial Services 13 14 2 St.George Banking 63 56 1 David Jones Apparel 14 12 1 QBE Insurance 64 62 1 Cochlear Ltd Tech 15 15 0 Suncorp Insurance 65 63 1 Myer Retail 16 18 2 Bunnings Retail 66 77 2 Jacob's Creek Spirits 17 17 0 Westfield Retail 67 - 3 Goodman Real Estate 18 19 2 Woodside Oil & Gas 68 54 1 AMP Insurance 19 22 2 Devondale Food 69 67 1 Mining, Iron & Steel 20 25 2 Seek Tech 70 70 0 Priceline Retail 21 16 1 Healthcare 71 - 3 Alinta Energy Utilities 22 28 2 Kmart Retail 72 71 1 Rea Commercial Services 23 24 2 JB Hi-Fi Retail 73 79 2 Officeworks Retail 24 27 2 Crown Hotels 74 - 3 Real Estate 25 37 2 Amcor Commercial Services 75 64 1 Liquorland Retail 26 36 2 Tabcorp Leisure & Tourism 76 76 0 Dulux Retail 27 21 1 Computershare Tech 77 80 2 Airport Airports 28 26 1 AGL Utilities 78 88 2 Carsales.Com Tech 29 50 2 EnergyAustralia Utilities 79 68 1 TPG Telecom Telecoms 30 20 1 Origin Oil & Gas 80 - 3 Broadspectrum Engineering & Construction 31 34 2 Harvey Norman Retail 81 78 1 ASX Exchanges 32 31 1 Leisure & Tourism 82 83 2 NRMA Insurance 33 29 1 The Star Leisure & Tourism 83 87 2 Worleyparsons Engineering & Construction 34 30 1 Engineering & Construction 84 - 3 Real Estate 35 43 2 Santos Oil & Gas 85 72 1 Oil & Gas 36 32 1 Lend Lease Engineering & Construction 86 - 3 Real Estate 37 46 2 CSL Pharma 87 - 3 GPT Real Estate 38 35 1 Banking 88 97 2 Asaleo Care Ltd Cosmetics & Personal Care 39 38 1 CHEP Logistics 89 84 1 Chemicals 40 23 1 Leighton Engineering & Construction 90 81 1 Southern Cross Austereo Media 41 33 1 Pvt Ltd Insurance 91 86 1 RACV Insurance 42 47 2 Fortescue Mining, Iron & Steel 92 - 3 Jupiters Leisure & Tourism 43 48 2 Jetstar Airlines 93 93 0 UGL Engineering & Construction 44 42 1 Big W Retail 94 74 1 AAPT Telecoms 45 40 1 BT Financial Group Banking 95 73 1 Spotless Commercial Services 46 52 2 Reece Australia Retail 96 - 3 Monadelphous Engineering & Construction 47 44 1 IGA Retail 97 - 3 Lovisa Apparel 48 49 2 the Lott Leisure & Tourism 98 90 1 CGU Insurance 49 51 2 Virgin Australia Airlines 99 92 1 IFCO Logistics 50 45 1 Logistics 100 91 1 Fairfax Media

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Definitions.

Brand Value Brand Strength

+ Enterprise Value Brand Strength is the efficacy of a brand’s Each brand is assigned a Brand Strength Index The value of the entire enterprise, made performance on intangible measures, relative to its (BSI) score out of 100, which feeds into the brand up of multiple branded businesses. competitors. value calculation. Based on the score, each brand [Commonwealth Bank] is assigned a corresponding rating up to AAA+ in a Where a company has a purely mono- Ente In order to determine the strength of a brand, we look format similar to a credit rating. rpris branded architecture, the ‘enterprise value’ e V at Marketing Investment, Stakeholder Equity, and the alu is the same as ‘branded business value’. e impact of those on Business Performance. Analysing the three brand strength measures helps + Branded Business Value inform managers of a brand’s potential for future success. Bra nded The value of a single branded business Bu si operating under the subject brand. ne ss [Bankwest] V A brand should be viewed in the context of Marketing Widely recognised factors deployed by marketers to create brand loyalty and B a the business in which it operates. Brand rand lu Investment market share. C e Finance always conducts a branded on tr business valuation as part of any brand ib u valuation. We evaluate the full brand value t io chain in order to understand the links n between marketing investment, brand- Stakeholder Perceptions of the brand among different stakeholder groups, with customers tracking data, and stakeholder behaviour. Equity being the most important.

+ Brand Contribution Brand The overall uplift in shareholder value Value that the business derives from owning Business Quantitative market and financial measures representing the success of the the brand rather than operating a Brand Strength Index Performance brand in achieving price and volume premium. [Bankwest] generic brand.

The brand values contained in our league tables are those of the potentially transferable brand assets only, making Marketing Investment ‘brand contribution’ a wider concept. An • A brand that has high Marketing Investment but low Stakeholder Equity may be on a assessment of overall ‘brand contribution’ to path to growth. This high investment is likely to lead to future performance in Stakeholder a business provides additional insights to Equity which would in turn lead to better Business Performance in the future. help optimise performance. • However, high Marketing Investment over an extended period with little improvement in Investment Stakeholder Equity would imply that the brand is unable to shape customers’ preference. + Brand Value The value of the trade mark and Stakeholder Equity associated marketing IP within the • The same is true for Stakeholder Equity. If a company has high Stakeholder Equity, it is branded business. Equity likely that Business Performance will improve in the future. [Bankwest] • However, if the brand’s poor Business Performance persists, it would suggest that the Brand Finance helped to craft the brand is inefficient compared to its competitors in transferring stakeholder sentiment internationally recognised standard on to a volume or price premium. Brand Valuation – ISO 10668. It defines Performance brand as a marketing-related intangible asset including, but not limited to, names, Business Performance terms, signs, symbols, logos, and designs, • Finally, if a brand has a strong Business Performance but scores poorly on Stakeholder intended to identify goods, services or Equity, it would imply that, in the future, the brand’s ability to drive value will diminish. entities, creating distinctive images and • However, if it is able to sustain these higher outputs, it shows that the brand is associations in the minds of stakeholders, particularly efficient at creating value from sentiment compared to its competitors. thereby generating economic benefits.

16 Brand Finance Australia 100 January 2019 Brand Finance Australia 100 January 2019 17 Brand Valuation Methodology. Market Research Methodology.

Brand Finance calculates the values of the Brand Finance conducted original market research in 10 sectors across 31 markets with a sample brands in its league tables using the Royalty size of over 50,000 adults, representative of each country’s internet population aged 18+. Surveys Relief approach – a brand valuation method were conducted online during Autumn 2018. compliant with the industry standards set in Brand Strength ISO 10668. Index (BSI) Brand strength This involves estimating the likely future revenues that Banking Tech are attributable to a brand by calculating a royalty rate expressed as a BSI score out of 100. that would be charged for its use, to arrive at a ‘brand Telecoms Auto value’ understood as a net economic benefit that a licensor would achieve by licensing the brand in the Insurance Hotels open market. Utilities Beers The steps in this process are as follows: Brand Airlines Oil & Gas 1 Calculate brand strength using a balanced scorecard Royalty Rate of metrics assessing Marketing Investment, Stakeholder Equity, and Business Performance. Brand BSI score applied to an strength is expressed as a Brand Strength Index (BSI) appropriate sector score on a scale of 0 to 100. royalty range. 2 Determine royalty range for each industry, reflecting the importance of brand to purchasing decisions. In luxury, the maximum percentage is high, in extractive Stakeholder Equity Measures. industry, where goods are often commoditised, it is lower. This is done by reviewing comparable licensing agreements sourced from Brand Finance’s extensive Key metrics Brand converison funnel database. Brand Revenues + Reputation + Emotional Fit The brand conversion funnel is a way of summarising 3 Calculate royalty rate. The BSI score is applied to the Royalty rate applied to + Innovation + Recommendation the likely strength of a brand to convert to purchase. royalty range to arrive at a royalty rate. For example, if forecast revenues to + Trust + Quality etc. the royalty range in a sector is 0-5% and a brand has derive brand value. a BSI score of 80 out of 100, then an appropriate royalty rate for the use of this brand in the given sector Awareness will be 4%. Knowledge that your brand exists 4 Determine brand-specific revenues by estimating a proportion of parent company revenues attributable Familiarity to a brand. Brand Value Depth of knowledge of the brand 5 Determine forecast revenues using a function of Post-tax brand historic revenues, equity analyst forecasts, and revenues discounted to economic growth rates. a net present value (NPV) Consideration which equals the brand 6 Apply the royalty rate to the forecast revenues to Narrowing down market to candidate brand set value. derive brand revenues. 7 Brand revenues are discounted post-tax to a net Preference present value which equals the brand value. Category users’ brand preference

Disclaimer Loyalty Brand Finance has produced this study with an independent and unbiased analysis. The values derived and opinions produced in this study are based only on publicly available information and certain assumptions that Brand Finance used where such data was deficient or unclear. Brand Finance accepts no responsibility and will not be liable in the event that the publicly available Intention to repeat purchase information relied upon is subsequently found to be inaccurate. The opinions and financial analysis expressed in the report are not to be construed as providing investment or business advice. Brand Finance does not intend the report to be relied upon for any reason and excludes all liability to any body, government or organisation.

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