Heineken N.V. (HEINY) CEO Dolf van den Brink Q2 2020 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Aug. 3, 2020 10:52 PM ET | About: Heineken N.V. (HEINY), HINKF
Heineken N.V. (OTCQX:HEINY) Q2 2020 Earnings Conference Call August 3, 2020 ET
Company Participants
Dolf van den Brink - Chief Executive Officer
Laurence Debroux - Chief Financial Officer
Jose Federico Castillo - Head of Investor Relations
Conference Call Participants
Trevor Stirling - Bernstein
Edward Mundy - Jefferies
Simon Hales - Citi
Pinar Ergun - Morgan Stanley
Tristan van Strien - Redburn Partners
Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, hello and welcome to the Heineken N.V 2020 Half Year Results. My name is Maxine and I'll be coordinating the call today. [Operator Instructions]
I will now hand over host of Heineken to begin. Please go ahead when you're ready.
Jose Federico Castillo
Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us for our 2020 Half Year Results conference call. Today's call will be hosted by Dolf van den Brink, our CEO; and Laurence Debroux, our CFO. Following the presentation on our results, we will be happy to take your questions. Some of the information provided during today's call contains statements of future expectations and other forward-looking statements. These expectations are based on management's current views and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainty. It is possible that the actual results may differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statement.
With that, I would like to hand the call over to Dolf.
Dolf van den Brink
Thank you, Federico, and welcome, everyone. Today is my first time speaking to us the new CEO of Heineken. And on behalf of all of us at Heineken, I truly hope you and your families are all well and safe.
Following in the footsteps of Jean-François, I would like to start by paying tribute to him. Jean-François has made countless contributions during his 15 years as our CEO, making Heineken proud and independent brewer it is today. He's not only an incredible leader, but also a very special person. I want to thank him for his many contributions and personally, for his support, especially, over the transition. I feel humbled and honored to have assumed this responsibility. It feels like yesterday that I started at Heineken as a commercial management trainee, here in the Netherlands.
In these 22 years, Heineken took me and my family, on an incredible journey all over the world, living and working in all four of our regions. I've enjoyed working in all those different places and these experiences have shaped me into the person and the leader I am today. I'm now very happy to have returned home. My new role started in the midst of a crisis, unlike any other we have faced in our lifetimes.
Having witnessed this pandemic and its effects from the very start in Asia, it's clear to me how much our lives and livelihoods are being impacted. Our first priority has been and continues to be the health and safety of all our people, our families and our communities. I'm so proud and impressed by how all at Heineken have taken care of each other, and of our customers, suppliers and local communities and we all adapted to new ways of working. We have supported local communities and frontline medical facilities with donations worth €23 million, including water, non-alcoholic beverages and hand sanitizer.
Throughout, our Heineken values have been our guiding stars like never before. We know that for Heineken to do well, our communities and the environment around us need to do well too. And that's why supporting our customers is and will remain one of our key focus areas. In this Slide, you see just a small selection of the right range of initiatives to support our customers. We provide advice and tools to safely reopen, helping them set up home delivery and online businesses and in some cases, providing some financial support, for instance, by waiving rental payments, where lease agreements are involved.