The Kraft Heinz Company (KHC) Presents at twenty third annual dbAccess Global Consumer Conference Transcript

Stephen Robert Powers
Deutsche Bank AG, Research Division

Okay. Welcome back, everybody. Thanks for joining us, and thank you to the Kraft Heinz Company for being with us today. For the first time as Chief Executive Officer of Kraft Heinz, Steve Cahillane is with us today as well as Andre Maciel, Executive Vice President and Global Chief Financial Officer. So thank you both for joining us.

Steven Cahillane
CEO & Director

Thanks for having us.

Stephen Robert Powers
Deutsche Bank AG, Research Division

All right. So we’re going to use the balance of our time today for Q&A. And I thought, Steve, we would just start with you, and I really just get you to describe the updated Kraft Heinz story because I think a lot is underway, and I think investors are curious as to what’s changing — what’s changing for the better.

Steven Cahillane
CEO & Director

Well, again, thanks for having me, and thank you all for your interest. I’d start by saying I joined Kraft Heinz in January, and I joined because I wanted to join. I mean I really saw the opportunity in front of us as being one that was real, it was tangible. It was exciting, and it was executable. And I draw a lot of parallels towards 2017 when I joined the Kellogg Company, and I joined there because I really wanted to. I saw the same opportunity.

So what we have at Kraft Heinz is we have some of the most iconic brands that I’ve