Storskogen Group AB (publ) (STOR_B) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Welcome to the Storskogen Q2 presentation for 2026. During the questions and answers session, participants are able to ask questions by dialing pound key five on their telephone keypad. Now I will hand the conference over to the CEO Krister Hansen and CFO Lina Glatter. Please go ahead. Welcome and thank you for joining us for the presentation of Storskogen's interim report for the second quarter of 2026. I'm Christer Hansson, CEO, and with me today is Lena Glader, our CFO. When we spoke after first quarter, my message was that this year would bring an increased focus on growth in its broadest sense, organic and acquired. The second quarter has moved us in that direction, which I'm pleased with. We delivered positive organic development, completed further acquisitions, and continue to build on a stable operational platform. Growth was also the theme when we gathered more than 100 of our group's business unit CEOs in Stockholm at the end of May for our Global CEO Days. Over two days, we discussed how growth is created in the businesses and how we as an owner support our CEOs in succeeding, including a half day on AI where the CEOs build practical solutions. The engagement was strong throughout, which says something about the ambition that exists across the group. I will shortly go through the quarter in more detail, including how our capacity for acquisition-driven growth develops going into the second half of the year and beyond. But before that, let's take a brief look at Storskogen. Storskogen is a diversified international business group with sales of approximately 33 billion SEK of the last year and adjusted EBITDA of about 3.1 billion SEK spread across our three business areas, services, trade and industry. At the end of Q2, the group consisted of 114 business un...