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Thank you. Good morning to all of you, and thank you very much for joining this call to present Maison du Monde Full Year 2022 results. I am Carole Alexandre, Head of Investor Relations. I am with our CEO, Julie Valbaume, and our CFO, Régis Mathieu, who will be making today's presentation. It will be followed by a Q&A session. François Melchior de Polignac, Deputy CEO, is also with us and will say a few words about his first weeks at the company. You have no doubt seen the press release we issued this morning. The conference call slide can be downloaded from and viewed on our website, corporate.mesondumont.com. This call is also being audio webcast and a replay will be available on our website later today. All listeners are reminded to read the forward-looking disclaimer on the slide too. I will now turn the call over to Julie Valbon. Thank you, Carole.

Good morning, everyone. I hope you are all doing well. I am pleased to hold this financial results review with you today for the last time before I hand over to François Melchior de Polignac in a few days. And before I walk you through our presentation, I'd like to give the mic to François Melchior so that he can introduce himself and share his first impressions of Maison du Monde.

Good morning, everyone. And of course, thank you, Julie, for your warm welcome to Maison du Monde since end January. After these few weeks in the company, I'm sure you're all very eager to hear more about my views on our roadmap. But I am first going to complete my diagnosis before coming back to you in May with greater clarity on Maison du Monde's 2023 priorities and roadmap. What I would like to do today is to briefly introduce myself to you and share with you my first impressions. I've worked 22 years at Carrefour after previous experiences at L'Oréal and at the Boston Consulting Group. At Carrefour, I held a number of positions both at headquarters and country level. On the functional side, these range from M&A associate to leader of cost reduction or FNCG global initiatives, or more recently, group executive in charge of merchandise and procurement. On the operational and general management side, I've notably been in charge of Carrefour supermarket business unit in Poland and CEO of Romania and Belgium. In my last position at Carrefour, I was executive director in charge of Belgium, Romania, and Poland. I'm not saying this to share my resume, but because I feel it gives you a hint of the kind of experiences and know-how I will bring to Maison du Monde from March the 15th. Now about Maison du Monde. Julie told you about the company's many strengths, and I can only agree, this is what attracted me to the company. I have spent my first few weeks meeting our teams across all our markets in Europe, in stores, in our main distribution center, and at headquarters. I was able to appreciate their skills, professionalism, strong commitment to the group's values and raison d'être, and their determination to deliver the company's business and financial agenda. These first weeks have confirmed my enthusiasm for the company's potential and my confidence that Maison du Monde has many strong assets on which to build. They notably include its strong omnichannel model, its ability to develop new avenues of growth, such as the marketplace or B2B, a brand that has strong recognition and enthusiastic followers on social media, and last but not least, highly engaged teams. Over the next few weeks, I will work with the teams and I will further listen to our customers to adapt our roadmap for the year wherever necessary. I very much look forward to our next meeting in May to get a chance to share this and more with you. For now, I will leave you with Julie and Regis to discuss the company's 2022 performance and the current trading. Thank you to all of you for your attention and I look forward to my future exchanges with you And I will be happy to answer a few questions in the Q&A.