Mercedes Benz Group Ag

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I warmly welcome you from the Kalbenz Arena in Stuttgart to the annual results conference 2020 of Daimler. My name is Steffen Hoffmann and I'm head of investor relations. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year is different than usual. We had to do without the traditional get together on the evening before with you and our board members. as well as the usual physical conferences with analysts and investors, as well as media representatives here in Stuttgart.

Good morning also from my side. A warm welcome to our video stream from the Annual Results Conference 2020. My name is Jörg Hove. I'm Head of Global Communications at Daimler AG. As Daimler AG, we are presenting our business results for the first time jointly to you, ladies and gentlemen, the press, as well as the analysts and investors. We want to provide you with the key figures of the past financial year, our outlook for the current year, and the strategic plans at Daimler. After the presentation, I will host a short deep dive regarding some important topics with our three executives. In total, our presentations will take about an hour and will be broadcasted live via video webcast on the Internet. You can follow our stream with simultaneous translation into German and Chinese.

Of course, our executives will be available for your questions. Therefore, there are two consecutive conference calls, one for analysts and investors from 10.15 a.m. to 11.15 a.m.