Fuchs SE

Dear ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the First Quarter Results 2025 Analyst Conference Core of Fuchs SE. This conference will be recorded. As a reminder, all participants will be in a listen-only mode. After the presentation, there will be an opportunity for the analysts of Fuchs to ask questions. May I now hand over to Lutz Ackermann, Head of Investor Relations at Fuchs SE. who will start the meeting today. Please go ahead.

Yeah, hello, everybody. So this is Dr. Ackermann speaking. On behalf of Fuchs' ear, I wish you a very warm welcome to today's conference call on the Q1 figures. With me on the call today is Stefan Fuchs, our CEO, and Isabel Adet, our CFO. Stefan and Isabel will run you through the presentation in a second, and then we're going to have the Q&A session afterwards. All the documents you can find on the IR section of our homepage. Having said that, I would like to hand over to Stefan. Stefan, please go ahead.

Thank you very much, Lutz, and also a very warm welcome from my side. We are satisfied with our first quarter, which was in line with our planning and our expectations. I think the first good news is really the 5% sales growth, which also had a volume growth underneath, which was very important to us. From an EBIT standpoint, we had the best first quarter ever. It's a little bit under-proportionate compared to the sales course, but we really kept the number. And I think most important is that we have confirmed our outlook, which Isabelle will come to now.