General Mills, Inc.

Greetings and welcome to the General Mills first quarter fiscal 2022 earnings conference call. During the presentation, all participants will be in a listen-only mode. Afterwards, we will conduct a question and answer session. At that time, if you have a question, please press the 1 followed by the 4 on your telephone. If at any time during a conference you need to reach an operator, please press star 0. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded today, Wednesday, September 22nd, 2021. It is now my pleasure to turn the conference over to Jeff Seaman, Vice President and Investor Relations. Please go ahead, sir.

Jeff Seaman Thank you, Frances, and good morning, everyone. I appreciate you joining us today for our Q&A session on first quarter results. I hope everyone had time to review the press release, listen to our prepared remarks, and view our presentation materials, which were made available this morning on our Investor Relations website. Please note that in our Q&A session, we may make forward-looking statements that are based on our current views and assumptions, including facts and assumptions related to the potential impact of the pandemic on our results in fiscal 22. Please refer to this morning's press release for factors that could impact forward-looking statements and for reconciliations of non-GAAP information, which may be discussed on today's call. And on the call with me this morning are Jeff Harmoning, our Chairman and CEO, Kofi Bruce, our CFO, and John Doody, Group President of our North America Retail segment. So let's go ahead and get to the first question. France, can you please get us started?

Absolutely. If you would like to register a question, please press the 1 followed by the 4 on your telephone. You will hear a three-tone prompt to acknowledge your request. If your question has been answered and you would like to withdraw your registration, please press the one followed by the three. And our first question will be from the line of Andrew Lazar with Barclays. Please go ahead.