The Coca-Cola System is fully activated to meet the demands,

It’s not an indicator one way or another. That’s a question that obviously keeps arising. When the time comes, there will be internal candidates, there will be external candidates. It will be based on how...

This business is finally starting to believe that it can win again.

We’ve arrested the decline, and we’re making progress.

Global macro-economic trends for many of these countries remain favorable.

This quarter we made further progress toward achieving consistent top-line growth in our business. It completes a transition year in which the company delivered solid unit case volume growth that was well balanced between carbonated...

I am working on stabilizing the business and regenerating growth. We’re in a great industry with high margin and we have the knowledge and the expertise. For now we’re focused on getting our own house...

There is still growth in carbonated soft drinks.

I believe that we are at the end of the beginning [of the changes we’ve implemented]. But rebuilding brand equity takes time. There are no quick fixes,

We continue to see improvement in our execution across the globe. Most importantly, it brings to an end our transition year.

There will be a period in the middle where people will say it’s not happening quick enough, … But I’m comfortable with that; I’m here for the long term.

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We have a long way to go in mastering that art, … As we identified the fact we were under pricing, the pendulum swung too far over to only improve price. The pendulum should be...

I’m not happy about it at all. I don’t believe we performed as well as we could. With just a two percent increase in worldwide unit volume growth last year, it’s hard to deny that,

Not everyone in this room is going to agree with everyone’s views.

We have a very positive outlook about Coke Zero.

An effective volume and value growth strategy is critical to the success of our system, … While this strategy is working in some regions, in other key regions we still have much work to do....

Our results in the quarter reflect solid performance in many markets, but we are experiencing challenging conditions in several key countries, including Germany, Mexico and the Philippines,

We’re looking at where we are most profitable and then expand our offerings there.

strong performance in Latin America, central and eastern Europe and northern Asia, as well as stabilization from an increasingly focused North America.

It’s not an indicator one way or another.

We continue to see good results in many markets, including Latin America, Africa, Russia, Turkey, central Europe, Japan and China and stabilization in an increasingly focused North America,

Our primary focus is to make progress in our flagship North America market where we’ve lost a small percentage of volume market share.

I am satisfied with our progress to date and believe that our 18-to-24-month turnaround is on track,