Operator
Welcome to the Green Landscaping Group Q2 presentation 2026. For the first part of the presentation, participants will be in listen-only mode.
During the questions and answers session, participants are able to ask questions by dialing pound key 5 on their telephone keypad. Now I will hand the conference over to the speakers.
Please begin your meeting.
Tomas Bergström
Good morning and welcome everyone to this conference call regarding Green Landscaping's report for the second quarter of 2026. My name is Tomas Bergström and I am chairing the Green board of directors since May of this year, and around the microphone this morning is also Johan Nordström, Marcus Holmström, and Clein Johansson Ullenvik?]
. I'd like to start by repeating yesterday's factual information when we announced that the board and Johan have agreed that Johan will step down as CEO, effective today.
At the same time, we have agreed with Clein, who is a director of the board, to step in as acting CEO, also effective today, while we initiate a recruitment process and search for a new long-term leader of the group. While decisions and discussions like these are not easy, we are confident that we have an excellent interim solution in Clein, and that the company will be in good hands with him, the rest of the management team, all the strong leaders in the group, and also with active support from the board.
We will, and have in fact already started to work as a team with a high degree of energy and determination. You can never be certain, but I do not believe this transition will slow down the continued development of the group.
It is important to say that we see no overall change to the strategy of being a home for entrepreneurs and of becoming a European champion when it comes to urban outdoor landscaping and maintenance in order to create greener, safer, climate-ready, and nicer cities and villages where people want to live and work. With that said, we obviously have ideas on how we can develop and strengthen the group over time.
During the Q&A session, I am happy to take any questions on the announced leadership change. Before we go into the report, followed by a brief introduction by Clein and finally the Q&A session, I would also on behalf of the whole board like to thank Johan for his efforts and contributions to the group.
During 11 years, he has been instrumental in building up the group of today, and he has navigated the company through both good and more challenging times. I am looking forward to another type of relationship with Johan as the third largest shareholder.
With that, I hand over to Johan and Marcus to go through the report, followed by an introduction by Clein and then a Q&A where we will jointly try to answer any questions you may have. Johan, over to you.
Johan Nordström
Thank you, Tomas. As always, let me put the financial report into a larger context to begin with.
For the last few years, we have actually faced, I would say, not significant, but we have faced market headwinds, particularly in Finland, Sweden, and Norway. As we now are reporting the second quarter of this year, we are kind of happy or pleased to see that we have returned to organic growth, and that is, in comparison to last year, I think we were at -9%, and this year we're reporting an overall organic growth of 6%.
That is on the positive side. When we are in discussions with the local managing directors of the companies, what we see or what they are reporting is that they actually see fewer bidders in the processes when they are bidding for new contracts, and also they're reporting stronger order books.
From that perspective, we can see that there's a slight relief in the market, but it's also too soon to say that it's an early sign of recovery, but it's too soon to say that we have reached a turning point. I think that's the main conclusion when we look upon.
The market is looking better, and we see early signs of recovery, and of course, the organic growth in the quarter is quite strong. In terms of financial performance, the overall financial performance in Norway and Sweden are not up to our expectations.
We have worked a long time on improving the situation in Sweden in particular. We see that they are improving, but not really at the pace that we would hope for.
Situation in Norway is slightly different. We had the market headwinds, and we had basically two companies where we communicated that we have difficulties with, and one of them is actually improving in a quite significant way.
That's on the upside in Norway. Then the other main part of this quarterly report, I would say, that is the development of other Europe.
That shows a continued strong performance. Also, I would like to highlight that we have the operation in Lithuania with Stebule, and their performance is quite important to the company.
They are having a high profit margin, and we have communicated that those contracts will be renegotiated during the second quarter of this year. We're very happy to report that we have re-won the majority of all those contracts, and we have re-won them at a profit margin that is higher than we previously have communicated.
That's a very positive development at the Stebule company in Lithuania. Let's move into the report.
Just a short introduction to who we are, and that is basically that we are Green Landscaping Group. We are operating in a very large and attractive market with structural growth, meaning that we are taking care of the urban environments in the cities.
Then, of course, we have talked a lot about the strategy, how we work, what does it mean to be a decentralized company. It really means that we are operating in six countries with 60 entities, and each and one are led by their own local managing directors.
That means they are able to change with the market, they are close to the customers, and that has proven to be a very effective strategy both when times are good or when times are bad. That's effective one.
Also, of course, we are a serial acquirer, as we are investing in other entities and have done so quite successfully over the last few years. In terms of the long-term performance, so, as I mentioned, the last few years, we have seen a negative organic growth, and we have had acquired growth, so that means that the total growth over the last few years have been kind of flat, even though we are seeing, as was mentioned, early signs of market recovery with high performance in terms of revenue in the second quarter of this year.
Profit-wise, as we have held, I would say, kind of firm in terms of revenue, the price pressure, in particular in Norway, and to a large extent also in Sweden, have meant that we are filling up the order books, we're having the work, but we are doing that at significantly lower profit margins than we did before. I don't really see this being a structural change as I heard about Norway.
As the Norway market would recover, we do expect the companies in Norway to recover to previous or healthier profit margin than we see today. It's not a structural change in the marketplace, according to my opinion.
That's about that one. Then to sum up the second quarter: as I did mention, we had an organic growth of a fairly high 6%, and we had a total growth of 15%, so that's a really strong number.
Then, of course, profit-wise, we are at 130 million, and that compared to a year ago, that's a decrease of 10%, but nonetheless, we see strong performance in other Europe, and yeah. Then, of course, if you look upon the cash flow, we had a very high focus for the last 5, 6 weeks on the cash flow generating, as that has been weak for the last few quarters.
I think, typically the second quarter is a quarter where we tie up capital because we are starting up all the new projects, there is high revenue, and typically that means we have a negative cash flow. This year, we were able to have a fairly good release, and that means we had a -7 million SEK compared to -78 million the comparable period last year.
Then, of course, in terms of the leverage, we are 3.4%—that's 3.4 times, and that's a fairly high number. We are really not happy with that one, and we are focusing on making sure that that one will come down as we move into the following quarter.
With that, next slide. Then, if we look upon Sweden: as we have been communicated that we have, for a year and a half, been focusing heavily on improving the financial performance in Sweden, meaning that we have divested or closed a couple of companies, and that means we have a decrease of 2% on revenue, while organic growth was actually 4%.
We see organic growth in the remaining entities, while the divested or closed entities are contributing negatively. Then, of course, we came in at an EBITA by 26 million, and that gives us a margin at 4%.
We are at the tail end, I would say, of what we refer to as a turnaround of Swedish entities, and those are, at large, progressing according to plan, and will be finalized more or less during the third quarter this year. Norway: as we can see for the second quarter, we are reporting an increase of 9% organically, and that's a very high number for us.
The market, again, is early signs, we're not saying we're at a turning point, but they did really a good work on keeping up their revenue. Then, in terms of profitability, they achieved 29 million and a margin of 4.1%, which of course was to some extent expected, but it was significantly lower than previous year.
What we have been reporting is that we have continued challenging market conditions, but we actually do see early signs of improvement. Then other Europe: and there we have a very healthy increase of 55%, it's a quicker growing, and that's where we have been spending time and effort in terms of the acquiring companies and adding those to the group.
We also saw a significant increase of EBITA to 85 million, and that gave us a very healthy margin of close to 17% EBITA margin. On the average, it's a strong performance across all the companies in that region.
I did mention the, I would say, not extraordinary, but the very good achievement of Stebule, who re-won the contracts at very healthy profit margins. By that, I think I hand over to Marcus, our CFO.
Marcus Holmström
Thank you, Johan. I will cover the main financials as usual.
The second quarter showed strong net sales growth of 15%, totaling at 1.8 billion, bringing our rolling 12 months sales to 6.6 billion, a total growth on rolling 12 months now at 8%. As said, we're very pleased to see the organic growth in the quarter, 6%, positive for second consecutive quarter, and we have organic growth in all segments.
Reported EBITA amounted to 130 compared to 145 last year. The profitability in Sweden and Norway is at a low level, but the trend is moving in the right direction, and we're seeing that the actions implemented are yielding positively.
However, the market headwind is negatively impacting. Segment Other Europe continues the positive development, and we see good sign of positive development in all regions.
The EBITA margin in the quarter came in at 7%; for rolling 12 months, the EBITA margin is at 6.3%, and we're not satisfied with the overall outcome and are strongly focused to return to positive EBITA growth in Sweden and Norway. I will go through more details around cash flow in the next coming slides, but cash flow from operating activities came in at -7, which was an improvement compared to last year, and financial leverage came in at 3.4.
We are very pleased, from a market perspective, to see that the order backlog is increasing in the quarter to 8.0 billion. However, it's important to know that we shouldn't use the order backlog as a short-term indicator, but in long term, it's very positive to see the growth.
As Johan mentioned, we're particularly pleased with the order intake in Lithuania in the quarter. Earnings per share in Q2 came in at 1.29, which was an increase compared to last year, which was largely driven by an reversal of revaluation of future earnout liabilities of 27 million reported in the financial net of our P&L.
This, I also want to highlight in regards to that revaluation, the acquisitions continue to perform well in line with our investment case. However, with a shorter remaining part of the earnout period, we no longer expect them to reach the maximum level of the earnout conditions.
Looking at cash flow, second quarter is typically a quarter where we build working capital, and as we also deliver strong organic growth, we're extra pleased to see that cash flow is improving in the quarter. We're having operation cash flow at -7 compared to -77 last year.
The improvements reflect the strong focus we have had on working capital management and cash flow generation across the group for many quarters now, and it's a sign that our improvement measures are starting to yield results. We have had continuous efforts focusing on improved timely invoicing, timely collections, and improving our commercial conditions in the operation of contracts.
As a portfolio, we see improvement in large portion of our entities, and we're staying close to the ones that not yet achieved the progress as we have expected. This effort will continue with high focus in the third quarter.
Looking at the cash flow bridge in the quarter: cash flow from operating activities, as said, -7 million; then we had total earnout payments of -20 from financing or for investment activities; we also had capex and other lease amortization totaling at -83; we did not repurchase any shares in the quarter, totaling the total free cash flow at -110 million in the quarter. Having the negative total cash flow in the quarter, financial leverage came in at 3.4x, which is above our financial target.
Our ambition is to return to target, driven by improved operational cash flow and earnings. However, I would like to underline that we maintain headroom to meet our financial covenants in our funding agreements, and the key priority for us going forward is to improve our cash flow generation.
Looking at the loan maturity profile, we did a lot of actions in this area during last year. We secured and broadened our financing base with having refinancing our bank debt, which is financed through SEB, DNB, and SEK, and we also last year issued our first bond.
We have a well-balanced loan portfolio with additional options to extend the bank financing 1+1 year in addition to the timeframe we're seeing on the slide. Per quarter end, we had cash and cash equivalent amounting to 483 million and unutilized credit facilities amounting to 342.
On our financial targets, we are closing into our growth target, rolling 12 months at 8% compared to the target of 10%; EBITA margin below at 6.3%, and we're putting significant effort and focus to improve the organic margin development in Sweden and Norway; financial leverage at 3.4, as said, it remains above target, and it's a key focus for us to strengthen our operational cash flow and prioritize to reduce our indebtedness. Finally, we have also a fourth financial target in terms of dividend, and at an Annual General Meeting in May 2026, the shareholders decided that no dividend should be distributed for fiscal year 2025, which is in line with the decisions from previous years.
With that said, I want to hand back to you, Johan.
Johan Nordström
Thank you very much. I really don't have much to add to it, but before we open up for the Q&A session, we hand over to Mr.
Clein Johansson.
Clein Johansson Ullenvik
Hello everybody, Clein Johansson Ullenvik?] here.
I know some of you in this call, but just briefly, my background is ABB, 12 years, starting as a trainee, ending as the last 3 years of that period as managing director in the ABB Group, then moving forward to Ahlsell for 7 years, Monier, CEO 5 years, roofing products, and then 2013 up until a month ago, Svedol/Alligo, where I had the huge joy to be part of the team building Alligo in an public environment since 2020. I love this type of business.
My parents used to say that I sat in an excavator, not operating it, they say I operated it, I strongly do not believe that, but I sat in an excavator before I could walk. I grew up in this type of business, and I really, really love it.
I will approach this period with great carefully and respectfully and to learn to know the team better. That's me.
Tomas Bergström
Thank you, Clein. Then we'll open up for Q&A.
Please go ahead.
Operator
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The next question comes from Jonny Jin from SEB. Please go ahead.
Jonny Jin
Yes, good morning everyone. Hope you can hear me.
I want to start with a question on organic growth and yeah, in relation to your profitability because I know that organic growth is positive, which is good, but it looks like incremental margin is still negative here. Can you elaborate what sort of entities are actually growing and sort of give more elaboration on the growth?
Is this sort of a mix effect or yeah, how comes the margin is continue to go down as you grow? That's my first question.
Johan Nordström
It's Johan here, good morning, Jonny. What we see, as is mentioned, is that there are fewer bidders in the marketplace and there are actually more orders to bid on, and we have been able to build up the order books.
I think that's a general trend we see in the marketplace. However, the price picture is still under pressure and has been for a while going back.
This is just a consequence of a market that has been shrinking for some time, and then you have to make sure that you are competitive in the marketplace, and in particular in Norway and to, I would say, also largest entity in Sweden. That means that in this situation when you have an increased competitive situation and the market is shrinking, then you have to fight for the orders.
It doesn't mean that you have a bad company performance. It's only that you have to keep the engine running at the company level.
That's a situation we have had. My personal thinking is really that as we are in a situation where the market has returned to positive growth, we see that there are fewer bidders, and we see from our companies internally within the group that the order books for the coming 6 months are healthier than they were a year ago.
My expectation is that we will see an increased profit margins at which you can win the contracts moving into the future. That's not the point we are.
What the point of time we are right now is that the market seems to be recovering, but the prices have not yet recovered.
Jonny Jin
I understand. I just want to, yeah, understand a little bit better if there were any unusual mix effect or such because I know that the market is still tough and there is a price pressure and such, but there's also an option to walk away from unprofitable business if it's too, yeah, fierce price competition,
Johan Nordström
so— We are not talking about unprofitable business. We're talking about where you have profit margins, you're still making money.
The difference is if you can win a quotation at 10% or 12% or 2%. When you have had
Jonny Jin
fierce
Johan Nordström
competition, in particular in Norway, I would say the entrepreneurs in Norway have done a very great job on defending the market positions. We have to understand that we have had a record high level of bankruptcies in Norway while we are keeping and standing our ground in a good way.
They have done actually a good work, but they can't win at the previous profits levels they have had. As the market is coming back into shape and becomes bigger, then of course our expectation is that they will start to increase the prices on the bidding process, and by that, the prices in the market at which you can win a new contract will increase as well.
We haven't seen that one happening yet.
Jonny Jin
Understood. Speaking of Norway, then, I know that you said that in your previous calls that you had some internal execution challenges, yeah, converting sales into profit and such.
Can you maybe, yeah, elaborate a little bit more there, an update how this is progressing, would you say? Do you feel that, yeah, you're happy with internal organization you want now or are you still sort of working it out on internal execution side?
Johan Nordström
As we said, we have had two things going on in Norway. The one thing is a market situation where you have had a very challenging market situation, and also we have had two companies where we basically have communicated where we say that these companies do have operational issues above and beyond what goes on in the marketplace.
We have to keep in mind that we have, I think it's 12 companies in Norway, and we have really good companies in Norway to begin with, from that perspective, Norway is and has been a very good market for us. Then we did encounter two challenging situation in two of the companies, and we are kind of pleased to see that one of those companies are actually progressing above our expectation in terms of performance.
That's really good to see. Then it's not saying they're going to have additional difficulties, but right now, they are actually improving above our expectations.
That's really good. That goes back to the report we made in the third quarter of 2025 when we actually communicated that we had to do some write-offs.
That company is performing above our expectations at this point of time, and that's really good.
Marcus Holmström
Adding to that, Johan, if I may, also that we have now also completed the strengthening of the country platform in Norway in terms of leadership, where we have a new country manager and reinforced the capabilities in terms of supporting our entities out there, and with focus on strengthening governance and bringing our companies closer together. That's also something that has progressed really well in the quarter.
Johan Nordström
Yeah. Good point, Marcus.
Jonny Jin
Okay. That's good.
Then in Sweden, I want to ask about the margin there as well. I know that the market is tough as such, but focusing on what you can control on your internal side, margin is still down year-over-year here, and I know that you also shut down some unprofitable business.
Can you maybe shed some more comments on why the margin is down, or are you happy with this level given circumstances?
Johan Nordström
No, we are not happy with the performance, but we also have to keep in mind that we did a divestment of Jordelit in the beginning of this year, and the profile of the revenue of Jordelit is basically they are making money in the first half-year and then they actually losing money in the second half-year. That is impacting the numbers as you look upon them.
It's just for that one, we don't see any major difference compared to a year ago in the performance. We started, I think it was more than two years ago, in making, I would say, a significant effort and once and for all to improve the profitability in Sweden because we haven't been happy with that performance.
We have had companies who's making quite healthy margins, and then we have companies in Sweden who actually have been running losses. Then we said, as I mentioned two years ago, that enough is enough, let's do something about it.
The decision to divest Jordelit was one part of that plan in order to improve the situation in Sweden and return to, I would say, a normalized or decent profit margin because that's the goal here. The progress, I would say, on that project is pretty much according to plan.
We have closed down one company, we are in the process of shutting down another two companies, and that is progressing more or less according to plan. Also, those are the companies who actually tying up a bit of our working capital as well.
As we drive this projects to its closure, we are also expecting a significant cash release as that is being ended, I would say, or when we have reached the goal of improving that situation in Sweden.
Jonny Jin
Okay. I just will have one more in Sweden and Norway.
I know that you said that, yeah, you anticipate a gradual recovery from here the coming quarters and that you're happy with the intake here. In your sort of orders, do you have any visibility of sort of is it, yeah, margin in the order book, is that shifting in any clear direction or is it more— I think
Johan Nordström
the point you're making is that you have an order book and you have won the contracts at lower margins than you would be expecting. We don't see the margins being worse than we have had for the last year, I would say.
The point is really that yes, the market will recover. We see that the order books are at a healthy state, and that also means if we should fill up additional orders, then that should be at a higher profit margin.
I think that's the discussions we are with MDs at this point of time. In terms of seeing it won't be like you see a rapid improvement in profit margins.
In my opinion is that it would be a gradual improvement as we see the third and the fourth quarter coming into place. Yeah.
Jonny Jin
Okay. Just another question in Other Europe here.
I know that margin is good as you said. I want to make clear: is there any boost in the quarter from some sort of finalization of projects impacting positively timing-wise or I just want to understand how we should think about the Other Europe margin ahead as well, because—
Johan Nordström
No, we don't run that big of projects, we don't have any single one or two, three projects that would have that impact. We are running hundreds upon thousands, I would say, projects in each and one of the quarters.
If you just look upon the number of companies we have in that region and then any single companies are running 30, 40 projects simultaneously per month. No, we do not have that big projects that could have a negative or a positive effect that could impact even the segment.
For a single company, yes, but even at segment level, that would be evened out. Okay.
Jonny Jin
That's clear and perfect. I just want to make clear there.
Johan Nordström
Then
Jonny Jin
on the maintained contracts in Lithuania: when will that hit your numbers?
Marcus Holmström
They will start now in the third quarter.
Johan Nordström
Yes.
Marcus Holmström
That's the timeframe. Vast majority of it.
Johan Nordström
During the third— That's clear.
Jonny Jin
Just a question— Good. Then a quick one on cash flow.
I know that it improves year-over-year and it's some seasonality in this quarter, but given that you are coming from a sort of relatively higher working capital tie-up going forward, do you expect sort of a deviation from regular seasonality so that the cash flow can be better than what usually be going forward, or how should we think about the working capital release? When can that happen, the big swing?
Marcus Holmström
Good question, Jonny, and as said, it's encouraging to see the development here in Q2, but we have still more to achieve. In the total portfolio, we're seeing the shift that we are moving in the right direction, but we're still staying very close to the companies that haven't moved satisfactory to deliver the improvements we expect.
From a cyclical perspective, usually have a flat working capital development in Q3 and then positive cash flow in Q4, Q1. We are from a bigger perspective expecting that also for this year, but seeing that we can reap benefits from delivering on the actions we have put in place and putting in expectation, there are potential for us to deliver a bit stronger than usual seasonality here.
Jonny Jin
That's clear. Just one final from my side, and that's maybe to you, Tomas, representing the board here maybe: what sort of profile are you looking for in your next permanent CEO, and what sort of key metrics or characteristics do you want to see in your next CEO?
Tomas Bergström
Thank you, Jonny. I think that is to be discussed with the board, and we haven't exactly put down the specification yet.
On my wish list, there are of course a few things. I think one thing is a strategic mind, experience from a similar business model.
I think international experience is good. Needs to be a modern communicator, and the person should have a track record of capital allocation and shareholder value focus.
Those are a few things, but needs to be defined in more detail.
Jonny Jin
Understood. Then that was all for me.
Thank you very much, and wish you all the best, Johan, and have a great summer to you all.
Johan Nordström
Thank you.
Marcus Holmström
Thank you,
Tomas Bergström
Johnny. Bye-bye.
Operator
As a reminder, if you wish to ask a question, please dial pound key 5 on your telephone keypad. The next question comes from Carl Karl-Johan Bonnevier from DNB Carnegie.
Please go ahead.
Karl-Johan Bonnevier
Yes, good morning gentlemen. A lot of questions and a lot of answers already, it's good to see that most of my things on my list has gone by now.
Just a few more clarification if possible. Looking at Sweden and Norway, and when you say you are targeting a positive EBITA growth, I guess comparisons with last year are not easy, but at least going into the second half less demanding than you had in the first half.
Is that a good way of looking at it, that you are probably turning the tide already going into the second half?
Johan Nordström
Yeah. Yes.
Karl-Johan Bonnevier
I love short and straight answers. Yes, of course
Marcus Holmström
we're driving the actions to deliver organic improvement here, and as you are on it, We absorbed in our organic EBITA bigger write-downs, which Johan mentioned, also in one of our Norwegian companies during last year. That's for sure not expected in this half of the financial, but on top of that, the actions we're driving should also yield positively, and it comes to also the discontinuance business we had in Sweden that was loss-making last years and so on.
Yes, from that perspective, gradual improvement. Yeah.
Now,
Johan Nordström
as Marcus said there, we did encounter difficulties in the third quarter and fourth quarter last year, and that means that their comparable numbers are somewhat easier. Yes, our expectations are that we should perform above that level that we did last year.
Karl-Johan Bonnevier
Good to hear. Just on Lithuania and Other Europe: when you're looking at facing in now the new contract portfolio, do you see that, say, the Finnish-German operation can balance that headwind when you're looking at it and maybe keep a growth coming out of also the profitability in Other Europe in this kind of circumstances?
Johan Nordström
Can you rephrase the question so I clearly understand it?
Karl-Johan Bonnevier
No, looking at the headwind that is obviously now coming from Lithuania heading into new contract set-up, if you take the view of Other Europe, do you see that Germany and Finland can balance that kind of headwind, you still are staying in a positive momentum from an Other Europe perspective, to say, even though Lithuania is just going to be down?
Johan Nordström
What headwind are you referring to?
Karl-Johan Bonnevier
Profitability, looking at the absolute EBITA as we talked about in the Nordic operation, yes.
Marcus Holmström
Carl Johan, is it referring to the margins in our really defended contracts in Lithuania
Karl-Johan Bonnevier
in— No, I'm trying to grasp the impact on, say, the total Other European operation of that kind of conversion that you will have in profitability, because I guess you are still seeing absolute profit growth coming out of the German operation, given the acquisitions that are coming in still having a positive contribution. If that is then on the similar magnitude as maybe the headwind we're going to see then from slower profitability coming out of the Lithuanian operation.
Johan Nordström
Sorry to say, we haven't made that analysis. What we have been communicating is that the re-won contracts in Lithuania will have a profit margin, would you say, being at a large percentage above what we see in that region at this point of time.
That's what we have been communicating, and that would give you some guidance in terms of what type of profit margins are we looking for in Lithuania. When you refer to the headwind, we, yes, of course in absolute terms, that should mean to some extent that the profit margin in Lithuania would come down, but they will come down at a significantly higher level than compared to the company or to the segment Other Europe as it is.
Those profit margins are quite high.
Marcus Holmström
The outcome for us here in the second quarter was positively in terms of the magnitude of what level these contracts were re-won at. Then on top of that, yes, we still have benefits from the completed acquisitions in Germany that will also drive an absolute EBITA growth in Other Europe.
Karl-Johan Bonnevier
Just trying to bridge the gap between the different components here, we get to some sort of total kind of reasoning around it.
Johan Nordström
Yeah.
Karl-Johan Bonnevier
No, very fair.
Johan Nordström
We just haven't done that analysis. I understand the question here, and that is that if it would be a slightly lower contribution from Lithuania in absolute terms, but also you will probably see a slight growth in revenue in Lithuania as well.
Let's come back to that questions in the third quarter.
Karl-Johan Bonnevier
Sounds fair. Tomas, maybe turning to you and Clein, when you see the situation that we now ended up in, and I know there's a lot of actions going on across the company, how are you setting the agenda for yourself and Clein in this kind of transition periods before you find a long-term solution?
Tomas Bergström
As I said in my introduction, I don't see this at all slowing down the development of the group. We have an excellent interim solution in Clein.
There are a lot of efforts and actions ongoing, as Johan and Marcus has described. We have very strong leaders in the country platforms, it will be business as usual.
Clein will come in, and we will have an active board trying to lay a very good foundation for a new long-term leader. I think, as I said, the strategy overall, there's no change to that.
I'm sure Clein, after a few weeks on the job, will have some ideas. I do have some ideas, and we'll come back to those.
There are many things to develop, as always, in any company, and it's a continuous evolution. I think, strengthening the size of the group and leveraging the competitiveness of being 60 companies in six countries, that's a key priority going forward.
Karl-Johan Bonnevier
Sounds very logical. Listening to your reasoning before, it sounds more that you're looking for a new external candidate for the position rather than an internal one.
Tomas Bergström
We'll run an open process, external candidates and also internal if there are candidates. We'll do this thoroughly and in a good, structured way.
We will take our time, and whether it takes 3 months, 9 months, or 12 months, we are confident that we have a good solution in place and that we will not lose any pace at all in developing the company.
Karl-Johan Bonnevier
Sounds very prudent. Thank you very much.
Good luck out there, Johan, and I hope you are an active shareholder in the company going forward. Good to hear you on the call today, Clein.
I would have expected you to be in another call if we go back just one quarter, so. All the best out there.
Tomas Bergström
Take care, Carl
Marcus Holmström
Johan.
Johan Nordström
Thank you.
Karl-Johan Bonnevier
Thank you.
Tomas Bergström
Thank you.
Operator
There are no more questions at this time. I hand the conference back to the speakers for any closing comments.
Tomas Bergström
Thank you all for listening in the middle of July to this Q2 report and to the information also that we announced last night. On a final note, I'd like again to extend a thank you to Johan for his 11 years with the company.
I wish Clein good luck in his new position, and looking forward to contribute and develop Green Landscaping Group going forward. Thank you very much.
Marcus Holmström
Thank you all.
Johan Nordström
Thank you.
Clein Johansson Ullenvik
Thank you.
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