Azelis Group Nv (AZLGF) Q3 2025 Earnings Call

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Good morning and welcome to Zalos' nine-month trading update call. As usual, we have Anna, Group CEO, and Thais, Group CFO, with us. Anna will give a high-level overview of our performance and a few words on the outlook at the end of the presentation. Thais will walk us through the numbers. We will take questions after the presentation, but until then, you will be on listen-only mode. We would like to remind you that the presentation and Q&A may contain forward-looking statements that are subject to risk. Now let me hand you over to Anna. Thanks, Ben, and good morning, and thank you for joining us today. I will go off script a bit here and open the call by addressing our announcement regarding our Group CFO. As you have read, after 10 years of service, Thijs has decided that it's time for him to move on and get cracking with new challenges outside of Azelis. Thijs started at Azelis three years after I did, And I was then CEO of EMEA, and he decided to fill in the open EMEA CFO position at Interim, next to his group role. Originally for a short time, but he continued in this role until I moved to the group CEO position. So we have worked together very closely for 10 years. When he joined Azelis, we had an EBITDA of 90 million, leverage of almost 7 million, and a disjointed finance organization that shared only the Azelis name and not much else. He came from a Kashi APEC finance leadership role in a big international chemical company. He must have been tempted to turn around and catch the next flight back to Singapore. But for some reasons, he stayed and took on the challenge. And I'm very glad he did. One of the milestones in his finance leadership journey was obviously leading the IPO of Azelis in 2021. I'm also grateful for Thijs for helping me with my transition in...