Bayer Aktiengesellschaft (OTCPK:BAYZF) Q4 2019 Earnings Conference Call February 27, 2020 4:00 AM ET
Company Participants
Michael Preuss - Head of Communications
Werner Baumann - Chief Executive Officer & Labor Director, AG
Wolfgang Nickl - Chief Financial Officer
Stefan Oelrich - Head of Pharmaceuticals Division
Conference Call Participants
Hendrik Geisler - Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger
Michael Preuss
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to our Financial News Conference. Financial news conference here at the Baykomm in Leverkusen, and to follow the news conference please choose channel number two on your translation device.
Wonderful that you're here in Leverkusen this morning. Thank you for coming, and also against the backdrop around the coronavirus. As you may have heard there is a suspected case here in Leverkusen. One of our employees here may be infected with the virus, but I've just heard good news that this has not been confirmed. The employee has not been confirmed as suffering from the coronavirus. Nonetheless, I hope that she gets well real soon.
Now nonetheless, we've discussed this intensely also considering corona and we thought about whether this should be a live news conference or should it be a webcast. We decided that since the assessment of the authorities is as it is we decided to have a live news conference. We also have journalists who are not with us here in person. They're following us by webcast and they will also be able to ask questions by webcast. So I'd like to welcome them here as well too.
Irrespective of all of this, this news conference is taking place for the first time in this room in the Baykomm and I hope that you feel at home here. And we also want to have this event without any interruptions so I would like to ask you to
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