Symrise Ag Ord (SYIEF) Q3 2024 Earnings Call

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Trading Update January-September 2024 conference call. I am George, the chorus call operator. I would like to remind you that all participants will be least anonymous and the conference is being recorded. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session. You can register for questions at any time by pressing star and 1 on your telephone. For operator assistance, please press star and 0. The conference must not be recorded for publication or broadcast. At this time, it's my pleasure to hand over to Dr. Jean-Yves Parizeau, CEO. Please go ahead. Thank you very much. Good talk. Good morning, all of you, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to our nine-month call this morning, and thank you all for joining Olaf and me. We wanted to use this occasion to give you a brief update on our nine-month number. which will give you an idea of our trading statements at this time. While we do not usually do these calls for our first or third quarter numbers, we decided with Olaf to make an exception this time because we wanted to concentrate on all your questions about these numbers. After my remarks, Olaf will give you an overview of our price, volume, and hyperinflation-related pricing performance. Then we'll open the floor for questions afterwards. Now, in first nine months, we're once again strong ones. No surprise there. Solid top line growth. We grouped sales up to 11.1% organically to 3.8 billion million at the end of September. For the third quarter, that comes out as a plus of 10.2%. SEMRISE also continues to perform strongly on the bottom line. Again, no surprise there. As usual, in our nine-month performance, we are not reporting detailed EBITDA numbers for the period, but let me assure you that we are not deviating from our profitable growth...