Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Aedifica Half year 2026 Results Conference Call. [Operator Instructions]
Now I will hand the conference over to the speakers. Please go ahead.
Stefaan Gielens
MD, CEO, Executive Director & Executive Manager
Thank you. Good morning, and welcome to this very first half year webcast for the combined and new Aedifica Group. As usual, we will walk you through a couple of highlights, financials that will be presented by the CFO. I will dive into the portfolio and hopefully tackle some of the key messages, and then we will switch to the outlook and end with a Q&A.
Now this being said before Ingrid will start presenting the results for the first half year, perhaps looking at some of the highlights of the first 6 months of the year. And no surprise, of course, a lot of attention went to completing the offer on the Cofinimmo shares and having the merger done by the 1st of July. These are things that you know, may be zooming in into the integration and the synergies, which probably will be the main attention points. At this point in time, I think there, the message is very clear. We are well on track in terms of integration. So ExCom and the Board of Directors are in place. Countries have been appointed now for all of