UNLYF - Unilever PLC (UL) CEO Hein Schumacher presents at Deutsche Bank Global Consumer Conference 2024 (Transcript)
2024-06-07 03:38:06 ET
Unilever PLC (UL)
Deutsche Bank Global Consumer Conference 2024
June 04, 2024, 05:15 AM ET
Company Participants
Hein Schumacher - CEO
Fernando Fernandez - CFO
Conference Call Participants
Tom Sykes - Deutsche Bank
Presentation
Tom Sykes
Good morning, everybody, and welcome to this session with Unilever. I'm Tom Sykes, Head of the Consumer Staples Research Team in Europe. And it's my pleasure to offer a warm welcome to Hein Schumacher, Group CEO, and Fernando Fernandez, Group CFO. Over to you, guys.
Hein Schumacher
Good morning, everyone, and thank you, Tom, for that introduction. Hey, we're very happy to be here at this conference. I'm joined here today by Fernando Fernandez, our CFO. And I'll start off by giving a brief overview of our business, as well as a summary of my first year as CEO. And then we'll take you through our Growth Action Plan, which is an execution plan for stepping up our performance and to build a strong -- building, of course, on the strong fundamentals that the company has. Specifically, I'll talk about some actions that we are taking to drive faster growth and to sharpen the performance edge in the company. And then Fernando will cover the steps that we're taking to deliver an enhanced productivity. We'll sum up by showing how and why that we believe we are increasingly well positioned to deliver superior performance, and that is through a sustained volume growth, gross margin expansion and attractive capital returns....
Unilever PLC (UL) CEO Hein Schumacher presents at Deutsche Bank Global Consumer Conference 2024 (Transcript)