J. van der Lof
Chairman of the Government Board & CEO
Good morning, everybody, right here within the Okura Resort and likewise everybody within the webcast collaborating. At this time, we’re presenting our annual outcomes 2025. And earlier than I’m going into that, I would prefer to level out to the cautionary observe relating to the forward-looking statements. After which I instantly bounce into the important thing messages for H2 or for the entire 12 months, after all, and beginning with the truth that H2 was considerably higher than H1. That can also be what we guided for. And it was, after all, additionally back-end loaded with the stress and the drive to have — to ship an excellent end in This fall. And really, we’re proud that we delivered such a robust results of round EUR 70 million EBITA. It’s not working right here that the slides transfer ahead.
So once I look then into Automation, Automation had a robust efficiency, particularly within the Good Imaginative and prescient. Good Imaginative and prescient had a considerable progress within the profitability, pushed by a really robust growth of recent finish markets that we delivered. And what we additionally noticed is that the innovation stage was actually excessive, above 30%, so above common on, as an example, the Good Imaginative and prescient actions. What we see is that particularly additionally the demand in sensible software program did