Avolta Ag Unsp/Adr (DUFRY) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to the Abolta Healthier Results 2026 conference call and live webcast. I am Valentina, the call-on-call operator. I would like to remind you that all participants will be in listen-only mode and the conference is being recorded. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session. You can register for questions at any time by pressing star and 1 on your telephone. Webcast viewers may submit their questions or comments in writing via the relative field. For operator assistance, please press star and zero. The conference must not be recorded for publication or broadcast. At this time, it's my pleasure to hand over to Mr. Xavier Rossinyol, CEO of Abolta. Please go ahead. Thank you very much, operator. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Welcome to this first half 2026 results presentations for Abolta. I'm Xavier Rossinyol, and I'm joined here with our Group C FO, and Yves Gerster. I'm going to go straight to page number four, where we have the highlights of this first quarter, first half of 2026. We have reported an organic growth of 3.7%. If we discount the effect of the Middle East crisis, this organic growth would have been 5.2%. We have reported an EBITDA margin of 9.1%, slightly Thank you very much. Thank you. but a very strong performance on quarter two, where we generated 370 million Swiss francs. We remain very focused on our capital allocation policy, focusing first on growth, organic growth, like the big contracts we signed in Pudong, Shanghai, and the several terminals we won in GfK. and not only that, we also announced in the last few months Riga expansion in Saudi Arabia. We are also doing, as it is in our capital allocation policy, some selective, highly accretive, small and medium-sized acquisitions like the activities...