Additional Definitions
Emerging markets consist of the Latin America region in its entirety; the Asia, Middle East and Africa region excluding Australia, New Zealand and Japan; and the following countries from the Europe region: Russia, Ukraine, Türkiye, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, the Baltics and the East Adriatic countries.
Developed markets include the entire North America region, the Europe region excluding the countries included in the emerging markets definition, and Australia, New Zealand and Japan from the Asia, Middle East and Africa region.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains a number of forward-looking statements. Words, and variations of words, such as “will,” “may,” “expect,” “would,” “could,” “might,” “intend,” “plan,” “believe,” “likely,” “estimate,” “anticipate,” “objective,” “predict,” “project,” “seek,” “aim,” “potential,” “outlook” and similar expressions are intended to identify our forward-looking statements, including but not limited to statements about: the impact on our business of the war in Ukraine and current and future sanctions imposed by governments or other authorities, including the impact on matters such as costs, markets, the global economic environment, availability of commodities, demand, supplying our Ukraine business’s customers and consumers, impairments, continuation of and our ability to control our operating activities and businesses in Russia and Ukraine, and our operating results; the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and related disruptions on our business including consumer demand, costs, product mix, our strategic initiatives, our and our partners’ global supply chains, operations, technology and assets, and our financial performance; price volatility, inflation and pricing actions; our future performance, including our future revenue and earnings growth; our strategy to accelerate consumer-centric growth, drive operational excellence, create a winning growth culture and scale sustainable snacking; plans to reshape our portfolio and extend our leadership positions in chocolate and biscuits as well as baked snacks; plans to further enable our growth by investing in our strong and inclusive talent, brand portfolio and digital technologies and skills, as well as our sales and marketing capabilities; plans to divest our developed market gum and global Halls candy businesses; anticipated closing of planned acquisitions of Clif Bar and Ricolino; our leadership position in snacking; volatility in global consumer, commodity, transportation, labor, currency and capital markets; the cost environment, including higher labor, customer service, commodity, operating, transportation and other costs; factors affecting costs and measures we are taking to address increased costs; supply, transportation and labor disruptions and constraints; consumer behavior, consumption and demand trends and our business in developed and emerging markets, our channels, our brands and our categories; our tax rate, tax positions, tax proceedings, tax liabilities, valuation allowances and the impact on us of potential U.S. and global tax reform; advertising and promotion bans and restrictions in the U.K.; the costs of, timing of expenditures under and completion of our restructuring program; consumer snacking behaviors; commodity prices, supply and availability; our investments and our ownership interests in those investments, including JDE Peet’s and KDP; innovation; political, business and economic conditions and volatility; currency exchange rates, controls and restrictions, volatility in foreign currencies and the effect of currency translation on our results of operations; the application of highly inflationary accounting for our subsidiaries in Argentina and Türkiye and the potential for and impacts from currency devaluation in other countries; the outcome and effects on us of legal proceedings and government investigations; the estimated value of goodwill and intangible assets; amortization expense for intangible assets; impairment of goodwill and intangible assets and our projections of operating results and other factors that may affect our impairment testing; our accounting estimates and judgments and the impact of new accounting pronouncements; pension expenses, contributions and assumptions; our ability to prevent and respond to cybersecurity breaches and disruptions; our liquidity, funding sources and uses of funding, including debt issuances and our use of commercial paper and international credit lines; our capital structure, credit availability and our ability to raise capital, and the impact of market disruptions on us, our counterparties and our business partners; the planned phase out of London Interbank Offered Rates and transition to other interest rate benchmarks; our risk management program, including the use of financial instruments and the impacts and effectiveness of our hedging activities; working capital; capital expenditures and funding; funding of debt maturities, acquisitions and other obligations; share repurchases; dividends; long-term value for our shareholders; guarantees; the characterization of 2022 distributions as dividends; compliance with our debt covenants; and our contractual and other obligations.