Alcadon Group AB (publ) (ALCA) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Good afternoon, and welcome to Alcadon Group's Presentation of the Second Quarter twenty twenty six. My name is Frederic Valentin. And my name is Adam Johnson. And the new as of this time is that we will actually try to speak English throughout the presentation. So bear with us on that. To start with, we thought we'd just give you an insight on how the quarter went from a macro perspective, then go through a little bit of financials as usual and then wrap up with the priorities and direction going forward. And as usual, feel free to put in any questions that you might have through the chat and we will address them at the end of the presentation. If we start with the Alcadon Group and what we are and what we do for those who are newcomers, but also for those of you who've been around for a while. Because during the quarter, we have actually refined how we describe ourselves, not the least given the fact that we have done an acquisition of a product company. So previously, we described ourselves as is seen on the left side of the page here as a group of European niche distributors within the network infrastructure niche. While we, as of this quarter and going forward, have decided to broaden that perspective a little bit and now try to describe the Alcadon Group as more of an owner company. Our mission is to acquire, own and develop leading companies and brands that offer system solutions products that support digitalization of society. That's a niche that we have been speaking about for a number of times and we will continue to do so. But now we also start to a little bit more show our intentions to become or at least take the first steps towards becoming a niche serial acquirer in this niche of digitalization of society. And today, we have a turnover of around SEK 1,...