Aalberts Indus Nv Ord (AALBF) Q4 2024 Earnings Call

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for joining us today. It's my pleasure to welcome you to Albert's full year presentation for the year 2024, live in our headquarter in Utrecht. My name is Rutger Rauker, Director, Investor Relations. This past year, we delivered again a resilient performance despite challenging ad markets. We look forward to share with you today our progress made. Stefan will kick off the presentation with key highlights and an update on our operational developments. This will be followed by Arno, who will share our financial development, highlighting how our strategy has translated into a solid financial performance. Stefan will then give you an update on the strategic actions as shared last December during our Capital Markets Day. After the presentation, we will give you the opportunity to engage directly with us in the Q&A session. Your questions and feedback are very important to us, and we encourage you to participate. Later today, we will make both the presentation and the recording of this webcast available on the website. Please welcome Stefan Simonetta to begin our presentation. Good morning, everyone. Let's start this webcast and show you first the key highlight of the year. 2024 has been a challenging year, but we are delivering a solid and resilient performance. First of all, we are reporting more than 3.1 billion euro revenue. And due to all the macroadmin and market headwinds and also some uncertainty in the geopolitical situation, we are reporting a 3.4% organic decline. Thanks to the great work from all our team, we managed to improve our added value and are delivering a solid EBITDA margin of 15% before exceptionals. We are continuing our journey, taking action to manage the short and the long term but also continuing to ...