Mercedes Benz Group Ag (MBGAF) Q4 2024 Earnings Call

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and a warm welcome to our Capital Market Day Mastering Transformation. We will kick today off with our annual results conference for 2024. We're very happy to have you here with us today. And I would like to introduce myself. I am Christina Schenk. I'm the head of investor relations and treasury. Good morning, everybody. My name is Willem Schmelten. I'm heading corporate communications. Also warm welcome from my side. We start today with the annual results conference for the like approximately first 30 minutes, followed by the capital market day mastering transformation, providing a comprehensive update on where we are standing and where we are intending to go for analysts, for investors and for the media. So in total, our presentations will last for roughly two hours. You can follow our stream with simultaneous translation into Chinese and German. For those of you in the room, you can access the translation function as well. Channel one for German, channel two for English, and channel three for Chinese. And both Q&A sessions after the CMD will be broadcasted on our website, so you can also join digitally. The event ends around noon today, and we will now start with the annual results conference hosted by our CEO, Ola Kelenius, followed by our CFO, Harald Wilhelm. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and hello to everybody that is watching this Annual Results Conference and Capital Markets Day on the stream. And again, welcome. We would like to start by sharing the numbers of 2024, but then spend more time today talking about the future of this company, what's happening in the industry and what is Mercedes-Benz doing to propel itself into a prosperous future. That is what today is all about. But let's start and look at the numbers f...