Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize N.V. (OTCQX:ADRNY) Q3 2024 Earnings Conference Call November 6, 2024 4:00 AM ET

Company Participants

JP O'Meara - Senior Vice President & Head of Investor Relations

Frans Muller - President & Chief Executive Officer

Jolanda Poots-Bijl - Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Robert Jan Vos - ABN-Amro ODDO BHF

William Woods - Bernstein

Sreedhar Mahamkali - UBS

Maxime Stranart - ING Bank

Rob Joyce - BNP Paribas

Mathew Cummings - Barclays

Borja Olcese - JPMorgan

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, good morning and welcome to the Analyst Conference Call on the Third Quarter 2024 Results of Ahold Delhaize. Please note that this call is being webcast and recorded. Please note that in today's call forward-looking statements may be made. All statements other than statements of historical facts may be forward-looking statements.

Such statements may involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, performance or events to differ materially from those included in the statements. Such risks and uncertainties are discussed in the interim report third quarter 2024 and also in Ahold Delhaize's public filings and other disclosures. Ahold Delhaize's disclosures are available on aholddelhaize.com.

Forward-looking statements reflect the current views of Ahold Delhaize's management and assumptions based on information currently available to Ahold Delhaize management. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made and Ahold Delhaize does not assume any obligation to update such statements except as required by law.

The introduction will be followed by a Q&A session. Any views expressed by those asking questions are not necessarily the views of Ahold Delhaize. At this time, I would like to hand the call over to JP O'Meara, Senior Vice President, Head of Investor Relations. Please go ahead JP.

JP O'Meara

Thank you very much, Sharon, and good morning everyone from Zaandam. I'm