Polygiene Group AB (POLYG) Q4 2024 Earnings Call

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Good morning and welcome to PolyGene Group's presentation of the fourth quarter. I am Ulrika Bjork and I'm the CEO of Group. And I'm Niklas Bromstedt and I am the CFO. So we're going to introduce to you the fourth quarter from 2024 and I'm very happy to see how the company has performed during full 2024. So I will start to give you some highlights of the quarter and then Niklas will give you the financial performance. And then I will give you an update on PolyGene and AdMaster, some updates from the quarter and also where we are in the different segments. And then we're going to have a Q&A in the end as we normally do. So let's start with some highlights. As you know, 2024 has been a comeback year for the group. We have strong results and also the conclusion of the year, we ended up with a very strong growth, 45%. And we also have proven the scalability of the business. So we're delivering very good results overall in the year. We can also see that all the other key numbers has also been pointing at the right directions and we continue to improve on all areas. As a result of these good key numbers, the board has also decided to propose for the AGM a dividend and an update on the dividend policy. And the policy is actually a proposal to give back around 40% of the result after tax, which should amount to 0.05 SEC for 2024. And that will be decided on the AGM 8 May. We're also expanding our agent and distributor network, both in PolyGene and AdMaster. We have some new agents and distributors, and this is part of the future growth strategies to extend these networks. We also had some interesting breakthroughs in CentMaster, which I will come back to. And then also I will give you an update on the Shed Guard project that we now are in collaboration with the University of...