Heineken Holding (HEINY) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

Investor webinar replay

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Good morning and afternoon everyone from Amsterdam. Thank you for joining us for today's live webcast of our 2025 half-year results. Your host will be our CEO, Dol van den Brugt, and our CFO, Harald van den Brugt. Following the presentation, we will be happy to take your questions. The presentation includes forward-looking statements and expectations based on management's current views and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. And it is possible that the actual results may differ materially. For more information, please refer to the disclaimer on the first page of this presentation. I will now turn the call over to Dol. Thank you, Tristan. Welcome everyone. We delivered a solid first half of the year in a turbulent world whilst progressing on our multi-year strategy Evergreen 25. We will update our progression on Evergreen at our upcoming CME in October. But before we delve into the results, let's start with a brief reminder of our strategy which continues to shape our business and how we think about this going forward. Our ambition is to deliver superior balance growth to consistently create long-term value. We'll do this with a clear focus on five strategic priorities embedded in the business as indicated on the left. These priorities propel the flying wheel of our growth algorithm with at the top first and foremost growth. We are targeting superior and balanced growth, both volume and value growth. Growth enables gains in productivity and this in turn fuels resources for investing in further growth and profitability. This half year we continue to deliver on our green diamond. We deliver top-line growth, continuous productivity, initiated our 1.5 billion share by that program and make progress against our ambitions on sustainability and responsibility....