François-Xavier Roger, Chief Financial Officer, Nestlé SA Steffen
NESTLÉ S.A. 2015 HALF YEAR RESULTS CONFERENCE CALL TRANSCRIPT 13th August 2015, 08:30 CET Speakers: François-Xavier Roger, Chief Financial Officer, Nestlé S.A. Steffen Kindler, Head of Nestlé Investor Relations, Nestlé S.A. This transcript may have been edited for clarity, and the spoken version is the valid record. This document is subject to the same terms and conditions found at http://www.nestle.com/Footer/Pages/TC.aspx. Nestlé 2015 Half Year Results Thursday, 13th August 2015 Steffen Kindler, Head of Nestlé Investor Relations, Nestlé S.A. Slide: Title slide Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Nestlé’s half year results conference and webcast. My name is Steffen Kindler, I am the Head of Investor Relations and I am here with François Roger, the Nestlé CFO. As usual, we will start the call with a presentation and then open up for Q&A. Slide: Disclaimer I will take the safe harbour statement as read. With that, I now hand over to François Roger François-Xavier Roger, Chief Financial Officer, Nestlé S.A. Slide: Introduction slide Good morning everyone. Before I start, let me introduce myself. I’m François-Xavier Roger, Nestlé’s Chief Financial Officer since July 1st this year. It is my pleasure and privilege to be presenting to you, for my first time, Nestlé's half year results, followed by Q&A. Slide: Highlights: Solid performance even under difficult circumstances In the first half of the year, we had solid results, in spite of difficult circumstances. We reached sales of CHF 42.8 billion, with organic growth of 4.5%.
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