Sgl Group Ord (SGLFF) Q4 2024 Earnings Call

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WEBVTT 00:00:00.031 -- 00:00:04.098 Good morning and a very warm welcome to our conference call today. 00:00:04.098 -- 00:00:05.581 Today 00:00:05.581 -- 00:00:10.811 we want to give you some more insights about our business development in 00:00:10.811 -- 00:00:13.756 the last year and our expectations 00:00:13.756 -- 00:00:16.601 about 2025. The 00:00:16.601 -- 00:00:21.751 call will be held by our new CEO, Andreas Klein, and our 00:00:21.751 -- 00:00:27.401 well-known CFO, Thomas De Pauls. Andreas Klein has been CEO 00:00:27.401 -- 00:00:32.688 since 1st of January this year, but he joined SGL 00:00:32.688 -- 00:00:37.735 in October 23 as head of our largest business unit, 00:00:37.735 -- 00:00:43.202 Graphite Solutions, and so you know the company, the structures, and our 00:00:43.202 -- 00:00:47.147 most important markets very well. So let's start. 00:00:47.147 -- 00:00:53.055 I hand over to Thomas Dippold, who will give you some more details about 00:00:53.055 -- 00:00:55.077 Cisco 2024. 00:00:55.077 -- 00:00:57.438 Thank you, Claudia. 00:00:57.641 -- 00:01:02.529 It's my privilege and my job to guide you through the figures of 2024. 00:01:02.529 -- 00:01:08.338 First of all, I think we can summarize the performance of the year 2024 00:01:08.338 -- 00:01:13.887 is we kept our guidance. I think that was quite a bit of a challenge. 00:01:13.887 -- 00:01:19.681 We precise our guidance throughout the year a little bit where we 00:01:19.681 -- 00:01:22.906 that we will land at the lower end of the guidance. 00:01:22.906 -- 00:01:24.728 And this is exactly what we have achieved. 00:01:24.728 -- 00:01:30.196 You can see it here on this page. We promised sales on the level of previous 00:01:30.196 -- 00:01:35.203 year. We almost reached that. We are 5.8% down compared 0...