Electrolux Professional AB (publ) (EPRO_B) Q4 2025 Earnings Call

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Good morning and welcome to Electrax Professional Group Q4 and full year result presentation. My name is Jakob Urberg. I'm heading up Investor Relations and Corporate Communication. And with me, as always, I have Fabio Sarpalon, our CFO, and Alberto Zanatta, our CEO. And I hand over to you, Alberto, please. Thank you Jacob and morning to everybody. And before starting the usual presentation, let me add a comment because I'm sure that you already saw the announcement that was posted yesterday night where it has been announced that Paolo Schira, the current president of the laundry business, is stepping up and has been appointed as my successor following the decision to retire. Everything has to come to an end and after the year that I spent in this company, I think it is the right time. to hand over the Baton. The Baton to a person that I've been working with for many, many years and that have been instrumental together with all the colleagues in the group management to build the company for what it is today. So I'm very happy that he's taking over this responsibility and confident that together with the team we will build an even stronger Electros professional organization. With this said, I would move on, and before commenting the quarter, let me spend a couple of words on the year, because clearly we close also the year, not only the Q4. And the year has been another year characterized by uncertainty and geopolitical and macroeconomical headwinds. They've been very significant, these headwinds, in particular for what currency and tariffs are concerned, but also for the indirect effect of currency and tariffs with the business in the US and in China. Despite all these headwinds, we have been able to deliver another year with a profitable growth. organic sales, we im...