Multiplan Empen Unsp/Adr

Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the earnings call the third quarter of 2023 from Multiplan. We have here with us today the executive directors of the company. We inform you that the presentation of the results can be accessed for a download at the website ri.multiplan.com.br backslash en backslash before starting. Let us mention that forward-looking statements that are done during this earnings call regarding the business perspectives of the company projections and operational goals and financial goals are based on beliefs and premises of the Board of Directors of Multiplan and based on information that is available to the company. Any forward-looking statement is not a guarantee of performance. It involves risks, uncertainty, and premises. These are based on forward-looking statements and depend on circumstances that may materialize or not. Investors should understand that general economic conditions, industry conditions and other operational factors may affect the results of the company and may lead to results that differ materially to those expressed in the forward-looking statements. Now, I would like to give the floor to Eduardo Perez, CEO of the company. He will start the presentation.

Mr. Perez, the floor is yours. Hello. Welcome.

I would like to thank everyone that is listening to us. It is a great pleasure to be with you here today and to share with you the results, the exceptional results unprecedented in the history of this company. I would like to highlight a few points that are very important and then really bring the attention to our performance this year and this quarter. The third quarter of 2023. Let's talk about sales. They've been growing in an accelerated fashion and overcoming our expectations. We grew in the quarter 8%, we grew in the year 9.5%. earnings are our earnings is 718 million until September and that is almost the earnings of last year all the year last year so 700 facing 445 million I remember the name the number off the top of my head but the important thing is that year on year we already produced the net earnings of last year and we still have the best quarter yet to come. So this is great news. The performance for the earnings over the last 12 months, our earnings reached 957 million. So we are here Empen Unsp & Adr and this is for the first time in the company and we got 500 stores rented sublet it so we are talking about 80,000 square meters of the ABL well the we have over 80,000 It's almost a bar of shopping of new stores. This brings vigor, new options for the people that visit our shopping malls. We've done over 800 events and this is a very important data. So we can analyze how we operate and how we make the shopping mall profitable. The pandemic has turned us into something more efficacious.