Daimler Truck Holding AG (DTGHF) Q4 2024 Earnings Call

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. This is Christian Herrmann speaking. On behalf of Daimler Truck, I'd like to welcome you on both telephone and the internet to our annual results global conference call. We are very happy to have with us today Karin Radström, our CEO, and Eva Scherer, our CFO. Karin and Eva will begin with an introduction, directly followed by a Q&A session. The respective presentation can be found on the Daimler Truck IR website. On our request, this conference will be recorded. The replay of the conference call will also be available as an on-demand audio webcast in the investor relations section of the website. I would like to remind you that this telephone conference is governed by the safe harbor wording you will find in our published results documents. Please note, our presentation contains forward-looking statements that reflect management's current views with respect to future events. Such statements are subject to many risks and uncertainties. If the assumptions underlying any of these statements prove incorrect, then actual results might be materially different from those expressed or implied by such statements. Forward-looking statements speak only to the date on which they are made. With this, I would like to hand over to Karen. Thank you, Christian, and good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining our results call for the full year 2024. Before jumping into the numbers, I wanted to start with an update on my strategic priorities that I shared in our third quarter call in November. Regarding the succession for my previous role, I'm really happy that Achim Puchert has taken over as CEO of Mercedes-Benz Trucks on December 1st. Achim is a great leader and has built a great team in Brazil that has really turned around the business there. H...