SPEAKER: Management of Hindustan Unilever Limited.
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March Quarter and Full Year 2012-13 Conference Call 29th April 2013
Moderator:
Good day, ladies and gentlemen. I am Sourodip Sarkar, the moderator of this call. Thank you for standing by and welcome to the Hindustan Unilever Limited March Quarter and full-year 2012 and 2013 Earnings Call. For the duration of presentation, all participants’ line will be in the listeningonly mode; and we will have a Q&A session after the presentation. I would like to now hand over the conference to Mr. Dinesh Thapar, General Manger, Investor Relations. Over to you, sir. Thank you, Sourodip. Good evening and welcome to the March Quarter 2013 Results Conference Call of Hindustan Unilever Limited. As always, we have this evening with us Mr. Nitin Paranjpe, CEO and Mr. R. Sridhar, CFO on the call from the HUL end. As a customary we will start the presentation from Sridhar where he shares aspects of our performance in March Quarter, and then hand over to Nitin for him to share his perspectives on the business performance. Before we start the presentation and I hand over to Sridhar, I would like to draw your attention to the safe harbour statement included in the presentation for good orders sake. With that, thank you. And over to you, Sridhar. Thank you, Dinesh. And welcome everyone to our results call for March Quarter as well as the financial year which ended 31st of March. Before I move forward, just to set the strategy, as you know, the strategy of the company is enshrined in what we call Compass which is the strategic framework. Our business philosophy, business model is outlined in the sustainable living plan, and our goals remain unchanged which is about delivering growth that is Competitive, Consistent, Profitable and Responsive. So no change in our strategy, no change in the goals that we are trying to deliver.