Salzgitter Ag Akt Shs (SZGPF) Q4 2024 Earnings Call

Investor webinar replay

Replay transcript excerpt

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to our annual analyst conference. My name is Markus Heitler. I'm the head of Salzgitter AG's investor relations department. I'm here today with Gunnar Gröbler, our CEO, and Birgit Potrafki, our CFO. They will give you insights into the economical and political environment we are facing, as well as in the business development of the group and the strategy. And finally, we will dive into finance. After that, we will have the usual Q&A session. Just for transparency reason and as a last remark, the whole web conference will be shown on our website. So, just that you know what question to ask or not to ask. And with that, I'd like to hand over to you, Gunnar. Thank you very much, Markus. Warm welcome from our side to the annual analyst conference with the full year numbers of 2024. Prior to diving into the details, which Birgit will do, let me perhaps kick it off with some remarks on the overall environment and how we have performed through the year. Let me start with something that is very close to our heart as members of the board, but also to everybody in the company. which is occupational safety. As you can see, the long-term trend since 2018 is intact. We're reducing our LTIF. We're reducing or improving our operational and occupational safety. And we have again improved in 2024 vis-à-vis 2023. So that is a good sign. Our target, of course, remains zero accident. This is something we stand for. This is something that we also ask the team, the entire team to stand for and support both our colleagues, but also third parties working on site to really get to that target. So that remains an ambition that we have that remains a clear focus on our day-to-day work. So from there to the political and economic environment that we have, we have se...