Byggmax Group AB (publ) (BMAX) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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Hello and welcome everyone to the Big Macs Group Interim Report Q2 2025. My name is Becky and I'll be your operator today. During the presentation, you can register a question by pressing star followed by 1 on your keypad. If you change your mind, please press star followed by 2. I will now hand over to your host, Carl Sandlin, CEO, to begin. Please go ahead. Thank you. Thank you very much. And again, a very warm welcome to this conference call where we will present the Q2 report for 2025 for Big Max Group. As you heard, I'm Carl Sandlund, the CEO, and with me is, again, our CFO. As usual, we have a presentation available on our website, and we try to guide you to the correct page in that presentation during the call. And I begin with a brief bit of update, and then you will hear from Elena and more Q2 financial. And once we're finished, we'll open up for your questions. So let's start and move to take number two in the presentation on our website. As you know, the second quarter marks the beginning of our high season. And those familiar with that know that the underlying demand patterns mean that sales in the second and third boards are significantly higher than in the first and fourth. And throughout this period here, we have placed strong efforts on preparing for this high season across all parts of the group. And we are now seeing the results from this. The ramp-up from low to high season was well executed, and our operational performance during the quarter has been strong. Our life-for-life sales is 7.3% higher than last year, and the sales development was quite similar in Sweden and in the rest of Norway. But changes in currency change rates impact sales increase outside of Sweden. So total sales increased by 5.6%. We see that several of our prioritized categor...