“Excluding the impact from 6 extra days in the quarter and the timing of concentrate shipments, organic revenue growth is on track with our full year guidance.”

In context

“rating landscape before diving into our business performance. Then I will share how we are getting closer to consumers by operating with both granularity and scale. Finally, John will discuss our financial results and 2026 guidance. During the quarter, the external environment differed greatly across our market. While many consumers remain resilient, others are under pressure due to persistent inflation, greater macroeconomic uncertainty and volatility driven by the conflict in the Middle East. Against this backdrop, we are operating in an expanding industry. We harness the power of our brands and our unmatched system reached to deliver 3% volume growth, and we grew volume across all segments. We also extended our streak of gaining overall value share for the past 20 consecutive quarters. Excluding the impact from 6 extra days in the quarter and the timing of concentrate shipments, organic revenue growth is on track with our full year guidance. We also expanded comparable operating margin, which contributed to double-digit comparable earnings per share growth. We are always pushing ourselves to do even better and focusing on getting more for more markets and more from our brands to drive balanced growth. Starting with North America. While we benefited from cycling an easier comparison versus the prior year we delivered solid performance. We gained both volume and value share and grew volume, revenue and profit. The softness in price/mix can be attributed to Easter timing, coupled with unfavorable category mix from packaged water and constrained production capacity for Topo Chico and Felli. We had broad-based strength across our total beverage portfolio. a straight mark Coca-Cola, Fanta, Prescot Body Arbor Powerade the sunny smar”