Lifco AB (publ) (LIFCO_B) Q1 2025 Earnings Call

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WEBVTT 00:00:00.031 -- 00:00:05.199 2025. For the first part of the conference call, the participants will be in listen-only 00:00:05.199 -- 00:00:09.927 mode. During the questions and answers session, participants are able to ask questions 00:00:09.927 -- 00:00:13.653 by dialing pound five on their telephone keypad. 00:00:13.653 -- 00:00:18.761 Now I will hand the conference over to CEO Per Waldemarsson and CFO Therese Hoffman. 00:00:18.761 -- 00:00:21.242 Please go ahead. 00:00:23.082 -- 00:00:25.706 Thank you and good morning everyone. 00:00:25.706 -- 00:00:31.294 We can move directly into page number two in our investor presentation 00:00:31.294 -- 00:00:37.383 where we look at the group's overall financial performance in the first quarter. 00:00:37.383 -- 00:00:42.411 And it was overall on the group level a mixed quarter with mixed 00:00:42.411 -- 00:00:46.918 outcome in various parts of LIFCO. But overall on the high level, solid performance for 00:00:46.918 -- 00:00:49.442 the group. We had a 15% 00:00:49.442 -- 00:00:51.449 growth in sales. 00:00:51.449 -- 00:00:56.118 driven by around 8% organic growth, 00:00:56.118 -- 00:01:00.646 particularly strong growth in sales into solutions, which we'll come back to in the next 00:01:00.646 -- 00:01:06.337 slide. We have also strong growth in acquisitions of 8% in sales. 00:01:06.337 -- 00:01:11.166 If we go further down and look at the EBITDA, we grew that with 17%, 00:01:11.166 -- 00:01:15.547 and we had slightly higher EBITDA margin compared to the previous year. 00:01:15.547 -- 00:01:21.435 And this EBITDA margin is driven by very strong performance and demolition tools, 00:01:21.435 -- 00:01:25.461 and offset by slightly lower margin in system solutions. 00:01:25.461 -- 00:01:29.587 And the profit before tax gre...