ITAB Shop Concept AB (publ) (ITAB) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Welcome to ITAB Group Q2 Report 2026 presentation. During the Q&A session, participants are able to ask questions by dialing pound key 5 on their telephone keypad. Now I will hand the conference over to the speakers, President and CEO Bjorn Borgman and CFO Andreas Helmarsson. Please go ahead. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining and welcome to this Q2 call. We will color a little bit outside of the lines today since this is my first quarter. We will start with a short introduction and then my take on Q2. I will then leave for our CFO Andreas to give more context. This will clearly be the meaty part of the presentation. And then we're going to wrap up with a short summary of the first impressions and priority going forward after being with the business for the first two months. But let's get this show on the road. Introduction. Why did I get the board's confidence to lead the ITAB group? This is at least my take. I'm coming from a similar role with HL Display. I've been with that business for 11 years, the last six as CEO. The HL business is very similar to ITAB when it comes to its customer base, geographies, and also the business model running. So a lot of things for me are very similar in ITAB as they were in HL. The track record in HL was strong. We delivered the last eight years with consecutive years with profit growth. And then we've had a successful acquisition journey as well. of 12 add-on acquisitions. So I think that mirrors quite well what ITAB was looking for. Before this, I spent 12 years with a company called Rekid within the FMCD business. So delivering things to grocery retailers, primarily in Europe and North America. So in total, 23 years of grocery retail experience, which is a core business for ITAB. So I think this gives a little bit of ...