Rusta AB (publ) (RUSTA) Q3 2025 Earnings Call

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Good morning and welcome to the presentation of Rusta's third quarter results. Today presenting will be myself, Göran Westerberg, CEO of Rusta, and I'm here together with Sofie Malmunger, our CFO. As usual, we will run through the business update and explain what has happened. We will take a deeper dive together with Sofie on the financial performance, and then we will end up with both the summary and an outlook of where we think we are heading and then open up at the end for questions and answers. All right. First, starting with the business update. As usual, we'll start by looking at the store network. After all, that's the most important part of our operations. We have today 232 store locations and during the quarter we opened one new store in Finland. But there's a couple of things that have happened here that I would like to underline. One is that we once again are at an all time high when it comes to store pipeline. So we're now up to 50 signed stores that we have clear in the pipeline. So this will go a long way to support our growth targets. And because of that, we're also taking the opportunity to upgrade our guidance for store openings in the coming three years. And as you know, we've had a number of 50 to 80 stores in the coming three years rolling. And now we're upgrading for the coming three years. We're extending it basically for the coming three years from 65 to 80 new stores. And we feel very comfortable with that guidance. I would also like to underline that one of the new stores that have been signed during the latest period is one new store in Germany and I will circle back to that store location in Germany towards the end of the presentation. Looking at the results for the third quarter, which is one of our most important quarters containing, of c...