Arca Continental, S.A.B. de C.V. (EMBVF) Q4 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

2025-02-12 13:49:03 ET

Arca Continental, S.A.B. de C.V. (EMBVF)

Q4 2024 Results Conference Call

February 12, 2025 11:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Melanie Carpenter - Ideal Advisors

Arturo Gutierrez - Chief Executive Officer

Emilio Marcos - Chief Financial Officer

Jesús Garcia - Chief Planning Officer

Conference Call Participants

Ben Theurer - Barclays

Rodrigo Alcantara - UBS

Felipe Ucros - Scotiabank

Alvaro Garcia - BTG

Fernando Olvera - Bank of America

Henrique Morello - Morgan Stanley

Carlos Laboy - HSBC

Lucas Ferreira - JPMorgan

Antonio Hernandez - Actinver

Thiago Bortoluci - Goldman Sachs

Renata Cabral - Citigroup

Presentation

Operator

Good day, everyone, and welcome to today's Arca Continental Fourth Quarter 2024 Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen only mode. Later, you will have the opportunity to ask questions during the Q&A session. [Operator Instructions] Please note that this call may be recorded. [Operator Instructions].

It is now my pleasure to turn the conference over to Melanie Carpenter of Ideal Advisors. Please go ahead.

Melanie Carpenter

Good morning, everyone. Thanks for joining the senior management team of Arca Continental to review the results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2024. The earnings release went out this morning, and it's available on the company website at arcacontal.com in the Investor Relations section.

It's now my pleasure to introduce our speakers. Joining us from Monterrey is the CEO, Mr. Arturo Gutierrez the CFO, Mr. Emilio Marcos and the Executive Director of Planning, Jesus Garcia. They're going to be making some forward looking statements, and we just ask that you refer to the disclaimer and the conditions surrounding those statements in the earnings release for guidance.

And with that, I'm going to go ahead and turn the call over to the CEO, Mr. Arturo Gutierrez, who is going to begin the presentation. So please go ahead, Arturo.

Arturo Gutierrez

Thank you, Melanie, and good morning, everyone. Thanks for joining us this morning. Let me start by saying that we are very pleased with our performance to close out 2024. We ended the year on a strong positive note. Our track record of steady revenue and earnings growth extended into the fourth quarter and full year with sequential improvements in operating performance, top line growth acceleration and margin expansion.

By staying market focused and maintaining operational flexibility, we successfully navigated an increasingly competitive landscape, sustained our profitability and grew our market share. In 2024, we continue to invest in strengthening our capabilities at the point of sale, in production, distribution and throughout the entire value chain. We have significantly reduced shortages by adding new production lines, opening warehouses and distribution centers and deploying state of the art logistics technology. Moreover, we have made significant strides in our digital initiatives with 67% of our traditional trade volume in Latin America now being ordered through TUALI, our second generation B2B application....

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