Operator

Welcome to Lifco Q1 Report for 2026. [Operator Instructions] Now I will hand the conference over to CEO, Per Waldemarson; and CFO, Therese Hoffman. Please go ahead.

Per Waldemarson
CEO, President & Director

Thank you, and good morning, and welcome to the Lifco Q1 conference call. We can start with moving in directly into slide or Page #2 in our investor presentation and take a look at the overall performance in the quarter. And if we look at Lifco overall, we are presenting a stable quarter with 4% growth in sales, 6% growth in EBITA and 8% growth in net profit.

In the quarter, acquisition contributed with around 8% to our sales growth. We had a negative effect from exchange rates of around 5%. And organically, we grew with around 1% in the quarter. I think here talking about organic growth, we should also take into consideration the record high sales we had in quarter 1 2025 that we now had to meet, and we could not meet those numbers. And that has to be taken into consideration that we are having a decline in our sales in the Contract Manufacturing, which basically means that many companies in our industrial side had a better start to 2026 than the start we had in 2025.

We will come back to that a little bit more later. And we can then move into Page #3 and look into the different areas. If we start with the Dental field, we had overall a stable development in