IMCD N.V. (IMCDY) Q1 2025 Earnings Call

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Hello and welcome to the IMCD Q1 2025 Analyst Call. Please note, this conference is being recorded and for the duration of the call, your lines will be listened only. However, you will have the opportunity to ask questions at the end of the call. This can be done by pressing star 1 on your telephone keypad to register your question. If you require assistance at any point, please press star 0 and you will be connected to an operator. I will now hand you over to your host, Marcus Jordan, CEO, to begin today's conference. Please go ahead, sir. Thank you, Adip. Good morning to you all, and a warm welcome to our Q1 2025 analyst call. I'm Marcus Jordan, and I'm very pleased to be here today with our CFO, Hans Koymans, for the Q1 2025 trading update, which we published in a press release earlier this morning, and our Head of Investor Relations, Tosca Hopeland, who will help us from a time management perspective as we have a hard stop at 10 a.m. Dutch time as we have our AGM later this morning. As you saw this week, we announced that IMCD and Valerie D. Lebrun have agreed that Valerie will step down as CEO and a member of the management board for personal reasons. I would like to thank Valerie for her contribution to the company and for our time working together, both in her role as a member of the supervisory board and member of the management board. I and everybody at IMCD wish her all the very success for the future. On a personal note, I'm very excited that as of yesterday, I took over the role of CEO. As many of you know, I've been with the company for over 26 years in a variety of roles, most recently leading the development of the Americas region for almost seven years, and then a COO and member of the management board for the last three years. I very much look forwar...