K+S Aktiengesellschaft

gentlemen welcome to the analyst conference on full year 2022 we hope you had a chance to review our posted slides as well as the documents available on our website some technical notes please refer to our disclaimer on page 2 of the presentation then a note on data privacy The Teams session will be recorded, webcasted, and be available as replay on our homepage afterwards. People asking a question from the room or in the Teams session have to be aware that by speaking from the room or turning on their camera and microphone in Teams, they give consent to saving and replaying video and audio sequences. Now, I'd like to turn over to Dr. Lohr for the opening remarks.

Thank you, Julia. Welcome to our full year 2022 analyst conference. I would like to welcome my new colleague on the board of Executive Directors, Dr. Christian Meyer. Today is his first day as CFO at KplusS and Mr. Meyer already knows our company very well from a different perspective and he will introduce himself briefly after my opening remarks. We are both very much looking forward to working together. But first of all, take a look at our new image film. Don't worry, it's only one minute, but it's well worth watching. And please start the film.

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