Vimian Group AB (publ) (VIMIAN) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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Thank you very much and good morning, everybody. It's not ordinary that a chairman takes the start of the meeting, but as I'm sure you are aware, we had a press release last night where we announced that there has been a decision by the board to make some changes to the leadership of the VIMEN group. So Patrick Ericsson, who has served for the last one and a half year as CEO, is leaving his role. And as you heard in the announcement, we have announced that Karl-Johan Zetterberg will take over as interim CEO. So I wanted to introduce this and set the scene for before I hand over to Karl-Johan to more go through the actual numbers of our performance in the second quarter. What it comes down to is not anything wrong specifically or one thing that has done. Patrick has not done anything incorrect or there is nothing strange going on. But as you are all aware, the most important task for a board is to ensure that it has the right leadership in place and have the confidence in the CEO to be the right person to drive the strategic movement of a company for the coming years. And in an overarching total picture, we have decided that this was the right thing to do for the company. every ceo has a combination of factors and com competences and patrick came in and did a lot of good things in terms of professionalizing the company in follow-up and various key performance indicators etc and have implemented a number of positive things so first and foremost i really want to thank him for his contribution during this period. Patrick is also a very likeable person and has been appreciated by his colleagues in the team and by us on the board. And I personally wish him all the best going forward. That being said, we were convinced that we needed a leadership that could balance that str...