Paul Polman
Management
Well, good morning, everybody, and welcome to Unilever’s Full Year and Fourth Quarter Results presentation. We certainly appreciate once more the interest that you’re showing in Unilever at this time, and certainly, the time you take out of your busy schedules to be with us. I’m joined this morning by Jean-Marc Huet, who is obviously as you know our Chief Financial Officer; James Allison, our Head of Investor Relations and M&A. Also in the audience today with us are Mike Polk, who is the President of the Categories; Genevieve Berger, who is the Chief R&D Officer; Pier Luigi Sigismondi, who is our Chief Supply Chain Officer; Dave Lewis, President of the Americas; and Tonia Lovell, who is our Chief Legal Officer. I would also like to make a particular mention today of Jan Zijderveld, our newly appointed President of Western Europe. Some of you, I believe, have met Jan in Singapore last November. Until recently, he was the Executive Vice President of our Southeast Asia and Oscillation businesses. Under his leadership actually, our businesses there have performed extremely strongly growing at the 10% plus mark in 2010 in as you know highly competitive market conditions. I’m certainly confident that Jan will make a great addition to the Unilever Executive team. Jan actually replaces Doug Baillie, who has been appointed Chief HR Officer in succession of Sandy Ogg. Doug has done a remarkable job steering our tough European business to strong results in extremely challenging conditions once more. In fact, under his leadership, we started to grow share again in Western Europe after many years of decline. I’m convinced that he will bring to HR his considerable business experience and passionate focus on the consumer and customer as well as a deep commitment to develop our people and our organization. In…