Oesterreichische Post Ag (OERCF) Q1 2026 Earnings Call

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Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Welcome to today's earnings call of Austrian Post Q1 2026 results. I am your operator for today, and I would like to remind you that all participants will be in a listen-only mode during this conference. And the conference is being recorded. The presentation will be followed by a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, you may click on the Raise Your Hand button. We are looking forward to the presentation, and with having said this, I hand over to the Head of Investor Relations, Harald Hagenauer. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to this conference call of Austrian Post. Today, we would like to discuss our Q1 results. Here with me in the room is Walter Oblin, our CEO, and also our CFO, Barbara Boltisk-Eidensteiner. I would like to hand over to Walter to answer. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. It's a pleasure to have the opportunity to present to you our Q1 results. Let me start right away on page two. I think the summary is the environment continues to be quite challenging, both on a macroeconomic level as well as for the postal industry overall. Europe wide and also in Austria the market environment on the one hand provides some positive perspective as the longest recession after the Second World War is forecasted to be over at the same time geopolitical uncertainties and the Middle East conflict weighs on the macroeconomy and tariff measures and different Regulatory proposals both on the EU level as well as on a national level have the potential to disturb e-commerce markets the two mega trends dominating our industry for the last years are Continued to be present and continue to be to dominate our industry number one digitization of communication with declining letter mail...