ANNUAL REPORT 2020

INTRODUCTION OF THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Dear Shareholders, The year 2020 will undoubtedly go down in the history of Slovakia, Europe and the world. Everyone had to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. It is unbelievable how the world has had to cope with the pandemic, how little it has learned from it, and how hard it has affected large, medium and small businesses, self-employed persons and citizens of all countries. For me personally, it was startling that no one in Slovakia understood that people sent to quarantine needed to be given preventive medicines to alleviate the disease. Ing. Vladimír SOTÁK Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer