Jakob Rubai
Head of Investor Relations and Corporate Communications
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Electrolux Professional AB (publ) (EPRO_B) Q1 2026 Earnings Call
Electrolux Professional AB (publ) (STO: EPRO_B) Q1 2026 earnings conference call, held 2026-04-28. Replay captured from the company's public earnings webcast.
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WEBVTT 00:00:01.060 -- 00:00:06.468 Good morning and welcome to Electrax Professional Group Q1 result presentation. 00:00:06.468 -- 00:00:11.215 My name is Jakob Rubai. I'm heading up Investor Relations and Corporate Communications. 00:00:11.215 -- 00:00:16.723 And with me, as always, I have Alberto Zanatta, CEO, and Fabio Sarpilon, CFO. 00:00:16.723 -- 00:00:21.570 And let's get started immediately. Alberto, please, I hand over to you. 00:00:21.570 -- 00:00:25.876 Thank you, Jakob. Good morning to everybody. 00:00:25.876 -- 00:00:28.881 Q1, we closed Q1 00:00:28.881 -- 00:00:34.181 with challenging results. We reported declining sales and declining 00:00:34.181 -- 00:00:38.843 profitability compared to Q1 of last year. 00:00:40.107 -- 00:00:42.670 Looking into the results, 00:00:42.670 -- 00:00:45.173 not everything was negative. 00:00:45.173 -- 00:00:46.794 Indeed, 00:00:46.794 -- 00:00:51.860 we had a very good performance in Europe, in food Europe in particular, 00:00:51.860 -- 00:00:56.405 where we continued to grow sales and profitability 00:00:56.405 -- 00:00:59.306 along the trend, 00:00:59.388 -- 00:01:04.776 the last year trend. In the quarter, we also finally 00:01:04.776 -- 00:01:08.739 reported a change in trend in Japan. 00:01:09.243 -- 00:01:13.546 Japan market was challenging all along 2025, 00:01:13.810 -- 00:01:15.673 and in the quarter, 00:01:15.673 -- 00:01:20.680 growth, slight growth was back, both in laundry and in 00:01:20.680 -- 00:01:22.844 food and beverage. 00:01:22.844 -- 00:01:28.052 The performance in Asia-Pac, not impacted yet by the Middle East 00:01:28.052 -- 00:01:30.052 crisis, 00:01:30.255 -- 00:01:36.499 was We reported declining sales, but just because of a comparison with 00:01:36.499 -- 00:01:42.825 the previous year quarter w...