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The Coca-Cola Company (KO)

Q1 2014 Earnings Call· Tue, Apr 15, 2014

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Management

Okay. As you are taking your seat, just two quick housekeeping items. First, if there are some items from the room drop that you'd like to leave behind for the hotel staff, if you could just leave a pleasant note next to -- leave a note next time in your room that way that will identified and the staff can take them away. And then, second, just in terms of the -- this presentation, after the prepared remarks, we are going to stay in this room for Q&A. So that the webcast will end at the end of the prepared remarks and then we will stay in this room for Q&A. Now, before we get started our final -- with our final presenter of the week, The Coca-Cola Company. I would like you to join me in thanking them for their generous support supplying beverages and for bringing the Share a Coke experience to the conference this week. It is an exciting and incredibly busy time at Coke as the company pushes forward on its 2020 Vision. I want to thank Coke’s Chairman and CEO, Muhtar Kent for coming in and spending time with us today along with his management team. Muhtar, I am going to turn it over to you.

Muhtar Kent

CEO

Good morning. Thank you, Brian, for that very kind introduction and once again good morning, ladies and gentlemen. It's great to be back here at CAGNY in sunny, Boca Raton given the inclements in weather conditions up in the Northeast. I expect most of you will stay here for the weekend, so I'm the one I guess between you and the beach. So we will try to keep the program going. I'm pleased -- very pleased to be joined this morning by several members of my senior management team, of course starting with Gary Fayard, our Chief Financial Officer. As most of you know, Gary is elected to retire in this coming May after 20 outstanding years of leadership at The Coca-Cola Company, 14 of which were as CFO, Gary Fayard. Kathy Waller who is also joining us this morning will assume the title and succeed Gary as Chief Financial Officer from her current role in our company as Vice President of Finance and Controller. Kathy is a great leader and 20 -- brings 25 years of company experiencing and Kathy, where are you? Right there, Kathy. And then joining us also Sandy Douglas, President of Coca-Cola North America; Irial Finan, President of our Bottling Investments Group; Ahmet Bozer, President of Coca-Cola International; and Jackson Kelly, our Chief Investment -- Investor Relations Officer, so that’s my team here. I have invited Irial, Ahmet and Sandy to join us today since time was limited in last Tuesday’s earnings call and some of you may have questions that we will -- we were not able to cover. So we will have all the Q&A after my prepared remarks. Let me, here is clicker, let me just start by asking to join me for a little speed reading, okay. I'm sure you've read…