Fuchs SE

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

Yes, good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. This is Lutz Ackermann speaking. On behalf of FuxSE, I wish you a very warm welcome to today's conference call on the half-year figures. With me on the call today is our CEO, Stefan Fuchs, and for the first time, our CFO, Esma Saglik. As always, Stefan and Esma will run you through the presentation, which is then followed by a Q&A session. All the documents for this call today you can find on the homepage on the IR section Having said this, I would like to hand over to Stefan. Stefan, please go ahead.

Thank you very much, Lutz, and a very warm welcome from my side. You see here again our executive board. As you know, since March 7, we have two changes. And the second change will start tomorrow morning. So Mathieu Boulondé, as you all know, he's 42 years old. He's a chemist. He worked for 20 years in our industry. Tomorrow morning he will have his first workday here in Mannheim. He moved to the region with his entire family. We very much look forward to welcoming him and then there will be an orderly handover process from Sebastian to Matt. The other change is already three months with us, and it's a pleasure working with Esma, and also all of you might already know her and met her. It's good to say a few words to herself, and I hand over to Esma.