IMCD N.V. (IMCDY) Q4 2023 Earnings Call

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Hello and welcome to IAMCD and the full year of 23 results. My name is Alicia and I will be your coordinator for today's event. Please note, this call is being recorded and for the duration of the call, your lines will be on listen only. However, you will have the opportunity to ask questions at the end of the call. This can be done by pressing star one on your telephone keypad to register your question. If you require assistance at any point, please press star zero and you will be connected to an operator. I will now hand you over to Valerie Diel-Brown, CEO, and Hans Kuhlman, CFO, Head of Investors Related. Sorry, CFO. Thank you. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the first IMCD Analyst Call since I started as CEO of IMCD on the 1st of January. As used from the past, I'm here with my colleague Hans Kuhlman, the CFO of IMCD, who will lead you through the detailed financial results after my preliminary remarks. And then we are open to answer your questions. Let me start by sharing with you what pleasure it is for me to be with you today and to be part of this exciting company, which I had the honor to accompany in the past years as supervisory board member before joining the management board in October and then becoming the CEO two months ago. Based on my 27 years of working within the specialty chemicals industry, first with the Unilever Quest International Division, which eventually became Giverdan, Then with DSM, and later at the clarion carport of SK Capital, Acroma, and the CEO of Cap Group, I could and can strongly see the benefits that IMCD brings every day to its suppliers and customers, and I look very much forward to developing this further. But let's for the moment focus on 2023. This has been a year of solidifying the strong growth we saw in 2022, and ...