BillerudKorsnäs AB (publ) (BILL) Q1 2025 Earnings Call

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good day and thank you for standing by welcome to the billerwood q1 report 2025 webcast and conference call at this time all participants are in the listen only mode after the speaker's presentation there'll be a question and answer session to ask a question during the session you will need to press star one and one on your telephone you will then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised to withdraw your question please press star one and one again please be advised that today's conference is being recorded I would now like to hand the conference over to your first speaker today, Lena Schattauer, Head of Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Thank you. Hello and welcome to Billerud's Q1 2025 presentation. And thanks for joining us this morning. Billerud's President and CEO, Iva Vattne, and our CFO, André Kress, will hold the presentation. And after that, they will take questions from the conference call. So by that, I would like to hand over to you, Ivar. Please go ahead. Thank you, Lena. And good morning, everyone. And thanks for listening in this Tuesday. I'm excited to present the Q1 results, which we think represent an encouraging start of 2025 for Billrude. And we certainly have plenty of results we feel good about. So let's get into it, please. And next slide. 2025 is the first year of our way forward strategy. Hence, I'm excited to see so many of our outspoken priorities already going into the right direction. Recorded net sales growth, 7% versus a year ago, with positive growth figures coming from both regions and almost all categories. We make a significant profitability improvement, EBITDA up 19%, and EBITDA up 42% versus a year ago with a margin uplift of two percentage points. Region North America continues to impress us and come in yet again...