Huber+Suhner AG (0QNH) Q4 2024 Earnings Call

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Welcome to the 2024 Half-Year Business Results presentation of Huber & Zuner Group Conference Call and Live Webcast. I am Alice, the Cover School Operator. I would like to remind you that all participants will be in listening only mode and the conference is being recorded. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session. You can register for questions at any time by pressing star and 1 on your telephone. Webcast viewers may submit their questions in writing by the relative field. For operator assistance, please press star and 0. The conference must not be recorded for publication or broadcast. At this time, it's my pleasure to hand over to Mr. Urs Huffer. See you. Please go ahead, sir. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I would like to welcome you to the presentation of Hubert Zuno's first semester result 2024. As in the past, we will have three sessions followed by a Q&A. I will introduce you in the first part of our presentation to to the figure and give you an overview then our CFO Ivo Wexler will take over from me and he will do a deep dive into the financial result after the first six months and I will conclude the presentation with an outlook and more details on how we see the markets developing and also how we see the business performing at the end of this year. When we have a look at the Figures overall, what sticks out is certainly that we have a strong upturn in demand and an order intake which grows versus last year by 14.9%. Consequently, we have a book-to-bill rate which is clearly above 1, and we have been able to add over 80 million of backlog in the first six months of this year. In order to understand the sales, I think it's important that we also highlight where we come from. And we have a closer look at how the last year has developed. We have ...