Q1 2019 Getinge AB Earnings Call Transcript
Welcome to the Getinge AB Audiocast with Teleconference Q1 2019. (Operator Instructions) Just to remind you, this conference call is being recorded.
Today, I am pleased to present Mattias Perjos, CEO; and Lars Sandström, CFO. Gentlemen, please begin.
Thank you very much, and welcome to today's phone conference. With me, I have our CFO, Lars Sandström, who will support me in the call and also present the detailed financials in a moment.
So we can move directly over to Page #2, please. So I want to start by going over the key takeaways from the first quarter of 2019. And on -- from a top line perspective, our organic sales increased by 6% and the order intake rose by 7.6% organically, meaning that we are growing quicker than the market, which is positive. And all our markets -- all our major markets performed strongly. Particularly, I would single out Asia Pacific with China growing over 20% organically, which is really, really good.
Based on the high order intake and the
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