Investment AB Latour (publ) (LATO_B) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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WEBVTT 00:00:00.031 -- 00:00:05.040 Welcome to the presentation of Investments Abilator's interim report for the second quarter 00:00:05.040 -- 00:00:07.861 2025. The first 00:00:07.885 -- 00:00:12.813 part of the presentation will be in listen-only mode and will then open up for questions. 00:00:12.813 -- 00:00:19.465 To be able to ask a question, dial star 5 on your telephone keypad or use the chat window. 00:00:19.465 -- 00:00:26.193 I will now hand over to CEO Johan Hjartalsson and CFO Mikael Jonsson-Albrechtsson. 00:00:27.638 -- 00:00:30.259 Thank you, Katarina. 00:00:30.582 -- 00:00:35.409 Very welcome, everybody, to our presentation of the Q2 report 2025. 00:00:35.409 -- 00:00:41.317 And as Katarina said, I'm here with our new CFO, Mikael Jonsson-Abrexon. 00:00:41.317 -- 00:00:46.544 So very welcome, Mikael, to your first presentation for the Latour 00:00:46.544 -- 00:00:48.626 quarterly results. 00:00:48.626 -- 00:00:53.525 As you can see on the first slide, our overall group structure is unchanged. 00:00:53.525 -- 00:00:59.478 And despite the challenging business climate and unstable geopolitical situation, 00:00:59.478 -- 00:01:02.885 we see a continued good performance in our businesses. 00:01:02.885 -- 00:01:05.450 And we're very happy with that. 00:01:05.450 -- 00:01:10.822 The general demand is quite good in many of the markets that we operate on, but it varies 00:01:10.822 -- 00:01:13.505 between regions and industries. 00:01:13.505 -- 00:01:19.033 We grow organically during the quarter in both order intake and net sales. 00:01:19.033 -- 00:01:24.541 However, we had some headwind from negative currency effects that affected our gross 00:01:24.541 -- 00:01:26.964 margin slightly. 00:01:26.964 -- 00:01:32.592 Despite the short term external instability, ...