Heineken Holding (HEINY) Q4 2024 Earnings Call

Investor webinar replay

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Good afternoon, everybody, from Amsterdam. Thank you for joining us for today's live webcast of our 2024 full-year results. Your hosts will be Dol van den Beek, our CEO, and Harold van den Boek, our CFO. 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 Dolf. Dolf? Thank you, Tristan. Welcome, everyone. Last year, we delivered a solid year, demonstrating momentum and progress on our multi-year strategy, Evergreen. Before we delve into the results, let's start with a brief reminder of our strategy, which continues to shape our business. Our ambition is to deliver superior balance growth to consistently create long-term value. We do this with a clear focus on five strategic priorities embedded in the business as indicated on the left. These priorities propel the flywheel of our growth algorithm. We've had to top first and foremost growth. We're 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 to improve profitability. And this year, that certainly has delivered the balance embodied in our Green Diamond. We delivered growth, balance between volume and value, continuous productivity, better capital efficiency, and made progress against our ambitions on sustainability and responsibility. Let's take a closer look at our key highlights of the year. First and foremost, we achieved broa...