ZEAL Network SE

Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to this call. I do hope you have access to or can see our presentation. If not, it's accessible on our web page as normal. Today, we will talk about the preliminary result for 2022. We will then provide a business outlook and finishing off with presenting our guidance for the year, followed by our dividend proposal as already announced on Friday evening. With this, I want Helmut to take us through the highlights of the year.

Thank you, Jonas, and welcome to our webcast.

Despite the macroeconomic headwinds and the uncertainty for consumers that we saw last year, we look back at a successful year. We reached our ambitious growth objectives. We've successfully invested into efficient customer acquisition. We expanded our online market share to 41%, demonstrating the strong value proposition that we offer. We won the BAT case and give back 56 million euros to our shareholders in form of a special dividend. We're expecting continued business expansion, both in our core brokerage business and in our games business going forward. We were able to extend our broker license until 2029, providing the solid and predictable foundation for our business going forward. And we've continued to manage our cost rigorously. And thanks to this, we've been able to grow EBITDA by 14% year over year. Back to you, Jonas.