Ulrika Kolsrud
Chief Executive Officer
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Essity AB (publ) (ESSITY_A) Q1 2026 Earnings Call
Essity AB (publ) (STO: ESSITY_A) Q1 2026 earnings conference call, held 2026-04-23. Replay captured from the company's public earnings webcast.
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WEBVTT 00:00:00.031 -- 00:00:06.258 Good morning and welcome to Essity's presentation of the Q1 2026 results. 00:00:06.258 -- 00:00:10.723 Here to take us through the highlights of the quarter, we have our CEO Ulrika Kolsrud 00:00:10.723 -- 00:00:15.969 and our CFO Fredrik Rystedt. After their presentation, you have the opportunity 00:00:15.969 -- 00:00:21.836 to engage directly with us. To ask a question, please press star one. 00:00:21.836 -- 00:00:26.710 And I kindly remind you to just ask one question per call. 00:00:26.710 -- 00:00:33.626 Now, enough of me. Let's get started. Ulrika, please, take us through the quarter. 00:00:34.102 -- 00:00:40.689 Thank you, Sandra. And also from my side, welcome to this webcast. 00:00:40.872 -- 00:00:46.161 We started the year with organic sales growth coming from volume growth, and we continued 00:00:46.161 -- 00:00:51.168 to win the relative game, strengthening market shares in our branded business 00:00:51.168 -- 00:00:52.971 in retail. 00:00:52.971 -- 00:00:58.621 We furthermore strengthened our profit margins and delivered a strong cash flow. 00:00:58.621 -- 00:01:04.513 Then besides these solid results, we had three major events in the quarter. 00:01:04.513 -- 00:01:09.663 The decision to launch a new share buyback program of 3 billion SEK, well 00:01:09.663 -- 00:01:14.753 in line with our ambition to have share buybacks as a reoccurring part 00:01:14.753 -- 00:01:17.183 of our capital allocation. 00:01:17.183 -- 00:01:20.127 We also completed our 00:01:20.127 -- 00:01:25.313 feminine care acquisition in North America, now more than doubling 00:01:25.313 -- 00:01:30.920 our personal care sales in the US. And we have the organizational 00:01:30.920 -- 00:01:35.966 change, meaning that we now report in our four new busine...