“So we're confident, not just in the long term, but also in our ability to get back to growth as we come into Q2 and get out of some of the colder weather and the hurricane that was true in June.”

In context

“tly, whilst being known to be calm, I'm not wildly known to be patient. So the sooner the volume bounces back, the better. I think in the case of Mexico, clearly, the Q2 last year was the strongest quarter. It's worth being upfront and saying Q3 was the weaker quarter. So I think we're going into a cycling that should help us. We've got some strong plans for Mexico, for one example. On affordability, doubling down on refillables and some of the value offerings, also celebrating our hundredth anniversary in Mexico, which is really about emphasizing the long-standing economic impact, which is going back to some of the Hispanic issues that bled across the border in the first half. And we're pulling together some of the marketing activation and execution activation with our bottling partners. So we're confident, not just in the long term, but also in our ability to get back to growth as we come into Q2 and get out of some of the colder weather and the hurricane that was true in June. In the case of India, India as we've talked or both John and I have said in previous calls is never gonna be a straight line. And indeed Q2 was not. But we're very bullish on India overall. The Q2 did decline. There was, as I said, the conflict and the monsoon. But we have a lot of marketing campaigns focused on India. We have also just set up the first kind of refranchising piece with the Jubilant Group for the company-owned bottle that we have in, which is basically the bottom half of India. And that's up and running with a new CEO. And so we think that will bring some new energy and dynamism and focus and proactivity to the execution in the marketplace. So we think we've got a strong plan from a marketing innovation point of view. The local franchise bottlers were doing better than the”