Mercedes Benz Group Ag

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and a warm welcome to our Capital Market Day Mastering Transformation. We will kick today off with our annual results conference for 2024. We're very happy to have you here with us today. And I would like to introduce myself. I am Christina Schenk. I'm the head of investor relations and treasury.

Good morning, everybody. My name is Willem Schmelten. I'm heading corporate communications. Also warm welcome from my side. We start today with the annual results conference for the like approximately first 30 minutes, followed by the capital market day mastering transformation, providing a comprehensive update on where we are standing and where we are intending to go for analysts, for investors and for the media.

So in total, our presentations will last for roughly two hours. You can follow our stream with simultaneous translation into Chinese and German. For those of you in the room, you can access the translation function as well. Channel one for German, channel two for English, and channel three for Chinese.