Kion Group Ag Unsp/Adr

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. My name is Emma, your chorus call operator. Welcome and thank you for joining Kion Group's Q2 2023 update call. Today's presenters will be Rob Smith, CEO of Kion Group, and Christian Hahn, CFO of Kion Group. Throughout today's recorded presentation, all participants are in a listen-only mode. The presentation will be followed by a question and answer session, and if you would like to ask a question, you may do so by pressing star followed by one on your telephone keypad. Please press the star key followed by zero if you need operator assistance. And I will now hand you over to Rob Smith, CEO of Keon Group. Please go ahead, sir.

Thank you, Emma. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to our Q2 update call. For today's call, please refer to our Q2 presentation on our IR website. I am pleased to share today's call with our new CFO, Christian Harm. Before I hand over to Christian to introduce himself, I'd like to thank Marcus Vossenberg for the good cooperation. Christian, over to you.

Thank you, Rob, for your kind words. And good afternoon and a very warm welcome to everyone on the phone line. I'm very pleased to co-host today's update call for Kion's quarter two 2023 results together with Rob. Actually, to me, that feels a bit like coming home because I've been in the background of these update calls many times when I was responsible for corporate strategy at Kion Group between 2012 and 2018. During that time, I was also part of the team that prepared the IPO in 2013 and the acquisition of Thematic in 2016. Since 2019, I then held several positions on the ITS side of our business, with my most recent role being the EVP Finance of ITS EMEA, the largest operating unit within Kion Group. Prior to that, prior to my strategy role, I was responsible for purchasing at Kion, as well as the former parent company, Linde AG, And before that, I worked for McKinsey in Europe and for Unilever in Austria. My educational background is finance and economics, and I was born in 1968 and grew up in Austria. I think that covers pretty much my background. I'm looking forward to meeting all of you in person at upcoming events, and I'm handing back to Rob to kick off the Q2 presentation now. Thank you, Christian.