InterContinental Hotels Group PLC (IHG) Q4 2024 Earnings Call

Investor webinar replay

Replay transcript excerpt

Hello and welcome to IHG's 2024 Full Year Results presentation. I'm Stuart Ford, Senior Vice President and Head of Investor Relations at IHG Hotels and Resorts. And shortly you'll be hearing from Ellie Maloof, our Chief Executive Officer, and Michael Glover, our Chief Financial Officer. Before we proceed, I'm obliged to remind all viewers and listeners that the company may make certain forward-looking statements as defined under U.S. law. Please refer to the accompanying four-year results announcement and the company's SEC filings for factors that could lead actual results to differ materially from those expressed in or implied by any such forward-looking statements. In addition, the presentation will refer to certain non-GAAP financial measures. Once again, please refer to the accompanying four-year results announcement and the company's SEC filings for reconciliations of these measures to the most directly comparable line items within the financial results. The results released, together with the usual supplementary data pack, as well as the presentation slides accompanying this webcast, can all be downloaded from the Results and Presentations section under the Investors tab on ihgplc.com. I would also draw your attention to the two additional announcements that accompanied the 2024 full year results. Those were the announcement launching a new $900 million buyback program for 2025 and the announcement regarding our acquisition of the Ruby Urban Lifestyle brand. Both of those are summarized within the results announcement itself and with further details within their own individual announcements. Now over to the 2024 highlights reel and followed by Ellie. Hello and welcome to ISG's 2024 full-year results presentation. I'm Elie Malouf, Chief Executive Officer of ISG ...