Akzo Nobel N.V. (AKZOY) Q1 2026 Earnings Call April 22, 2026 3:00 AM EDT
Company Participants
Jan Willem Enhus
Gregoire Poux-Guillaume – CEO & Chairman of the Management Board
Maarten de Vries – Member of Management Board
Conference Call Participants
Thomas Wrigglesworth – Morgan Stanley, Research Division
Laurent Favre – BNP Paribas, Research Division
Matthew Yates – BofA Securities, Research Division
Katie Richards – Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division
Tony Jones – Rothschild & Co Redburn, Research Division
Chetan Udeshi – JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division
Georgina Iwamoto – Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division
Sebastian Bray – Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co. KG, Research Division
Presentation
Operator
Hello, and welcome to the Akzo Nobel Q1 Results 2026 Earnings Call. My name is Alex. I’ll be coordinating today’s call. [Operator Instructions] I will now hand it over to Jan Willem to begin. Please go ahead.
Jan Willem Enhus
Good morning, and welcome to Akzo Nobel’s investor update for the first quarter of 2026. I’m Jan Willem Enhus, Head of Investor Relations. Today, our CEO, Gregoire Poux-Guillaume; and CFO, Maarten de Vries, will take you through our results. We’ll refer to the presentation, which you can follow by webcast or download from our website at akzonobel.com.
A replay of the webcast will also be made available following the event. There will be a Q&A session after the presentation. For additional information, please contact our Investor Relations team.
Before we start, a reminder of our forward-looking statements disclaimer on Slide 2. Please note, this also applies to the conference call and answers to your questions.
I’ll now hand over to Greg, who will start on Slide 3 of the presentation.
Gregoire Poux-Guillaume
CEO & Chairman of the Management Board
Thanks, Jan Willem. Good morning to everyone on the call. In Q1, we delivered a clear beat with EBITDA of EUR 345
