PepsiCo, Inc.

Good morning and welcome to PepsiCo's 2021 first quarter earnings question and answer session. Your lines have been placed on listen only until it is your turn to ask the question. In order to ask the question or make a comment, please press star followed by one on your touchtone phone at any time. You may remove yourself from the queue by pressing the pound key. Today's call is being recorded and will be archived at www.substitco.com. It is now my pleasure to introduce Mr. Ravi Pomnani, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations. Mr. Pomnani, you may begin.

Thank you, Operator. Good morning, everyone. I hope everyone has had the chance this morning to review our press release and prepared remarks, both of which are available on our website. Before we begin, please take note of our cautionary statements. We may make forward-looking statements on today's call, including about our business plans, 2021 outlook, and the potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business. Forward-looking statements inherently involve risks and uncertainties and only reflect our view as of today, and we are under no obligation to update. When discussing our results, we may refer to non-GAAP measures, which exclude certain items from reported results. Please refer to today's earnings release in 10Q available on pepsico.com for definitions and reconciliations of non-GAAP measures and additional information regarding our results, including a discussion of factors that could cause actual results to materially differ from forward-looking statements. Joining me today are PepsiCo's Chairman and CEO, Ramon LaGuardia, and PepsiCo's Vice Chairman and CFO, Hugh Johnson. We ask that you please limit yourself to one question. And with that, I will turn it over to the operator for the first question.

Thank you. As a reminder, if you would like to ask a question, please press star, then the number 1 on your telephone keypad. Our first question comes from the line of Dara Mosinian of Morgan Stanley.