Essity AB (publ) at Barclays Global Consumer Staples Conference (Virtual) Transcript

Sep 10, 2020 / NTS GMT
Iain Edward Simpson - Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division - Analyst

Essity has had an eventful year with COVID-19 driving significant swings in demand for many of its products as consumers stockpiled ahead of lockdown. Despite top line volatility, margins have been impressively resilient as the company adapted to a rapidly changing landscape.

We're delighted to be joined by CFO, Fredrik Rystedt, who's going to tell us more about the business. Over to you, Fredrik.

Carl Fredrik Stenson Rystedt - Essity AB(publ)-CFO&Executive VP

Yes. Thanks, Iain. I will talk a little bit about the volatile year and COVID, of course, but I'll also focus a little bit on the perhaps more important long-term strategy and the activities we're driving.

So let me just start by saying Essity, for those of you who are not so familiar, it's actually a new company in the sense that we were created 3 years ago. But of course, we have a much, much longer history than that.

The name Essity comes from the 2 words,

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