Debra Crew
Management
Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining our Results Presentation for Fiscal '24. It was a challenging year for both our industry and Diageo as we navigated a volatile operating environment across the globe. It was a year of compounding impacts with inflation and a cautious consumer environment persisting following the extraordinary growth through COVID-19 and the related waves of value chain disruption. I believe these challenges are temporary and the consumer environment will recover over time. At Diageo, we are focused on what we can control. We've navigated volatility before, and we will do it again. And we manage this business with a long-term view. We will continue to invest in our fantastic portfolio of brands and diversified footprint to maintain our position as an industry leader in total beverage alcohol, which continues to be an attractive sector with a long runway for growth. We're focused on driving operational excellence with our amazing brands to ensure Diageo is resilient and well positioned to grow when the consumer environment recovers. Today, I will share the details of our fiscal '24 performance and the deliberate actions we are taking to improve our near-term execution. There are five actions I want to highlight. First, we have met our commitment announced at our interim results to improve the inventory position in LAC by the end of this fiscal. In addition, we have validated the robustness of our systems across all markets and are confident that inventories are at appropriate levels for the current consumer environment in our other four regions. Second, we are strengthening our consumer insights. By the end of this calendar year, we will have completed the rollout of our proprietary consumer choice framework across markets covering a significant portion of our net sales, deepening our understanding of consumer motivations and…