Bechtle Ag (BHTLF) Q4 2024 Earnings Call

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Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, here in Frankfurt. Welcome to everyone who's dialed in in the webcast or the telephone conference. I'm Martin Link. I'm here together with our CAO, Dr. Thomas Olemoz. And as you all know, we are presenting the figures for last year's fiscal year 2024 and outlook on the current business year. One little comment. We are at the Deutsche Börse for good reasons. Normally, we're elsewhere. In two weeks' time, we'd celebrate an anniversary that is 25 years at the stock exchange listing, that is. So, briefly, a word on the sequence. After the presentation of the Orlemans, we will first answer the questions raised here on site, then we'll go virtually to The non-speaking, non-German speakers and also any questions from participants online in German will be answered. Thank you very much, Mr. Link. That means it's my turn. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, from me as well, to our press and analyst conference for the financial year 2024 of Bechtle AG. And as Mr. Link has hinted at, I also assume that the question on everybody's mind will be the outlook on the coming year and not what happened last year. So I'm going to deliver some structural background that is relevant for the future. I am delighted that you have appeared in such large numbers and I also truly appreciate everyone connected online. As usual, today we're going to focus on figures and Bechtle's business. Gerhard Schick, one of Bechtle's founding members, was a man whose life was shaped by these two elements. Bechtle on the one hand and numbers on the other hand. As some of you may already know, we had to bid him farewell last week. I've already answered a few questions from people from the audience today. However, many of the values Mr. Schick embodied remain deeply ingrained in Bechtle...