ZEAL Network SE

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to today's earnings call of the ZL Network SE following the publication of the half-year figures of 2024 earlier this morning. I'm delighted to welcome the CEO, Dr. Helmut Becker, as well as the CFO, Sebastian Bielski, who will speak in a moment and guide us through the presentation and the results. After the presentation, we will move over to our Q&A session in which you will be allowed to place your questions directly via audio line to the management. So I would say let's jump straight into the numbers. So Mr. Bielski, the stage is yours.

Thank you very much and good morning to everybody and welcome to the earnings call for the first half of 2024 for Zeal Network. I hope that you can all see the presentation, but if homepage. The agenda for today is as follows. Helmut will give a short summary, then I will guide you through the financials. Helmut and I will give an update on progress and on our guidance, and Helmut will close the presentation with some key takeaways. Over to you, Helmut.

Thank you, Sebastian. Good morning from my side. Let me summarize the first We acquired an unprecedented number of new customers in the first half of 2024. This was driven by a very good jackpot environment as well as marketing improvements that we have systematically implemented over the last 12 months. The volumes as well as the continued strong efficiency are a result of those improvements. We've grown revenues by 40% year on year. This is a result of strong billings growth combined with a margin expansion to 13.6%. Our EBITDA grew by 46% at an even higher rate than revenues and billings. And finally, as announced previously, we've just launched our new charity lottery, a dream house raffle in August. Back to you, Sebastian.