Coca-Cola Enterprises (NYSE/Euronext Paris: CCE) will discuss its plans
and outlook with investors at the Consumer Analyst Group of Europe
(CAGE) Conference in London on March 18 at 11:15 a.m. EDT (3:15 p.m. in
London). The public can access the presentation through our website, www.cokecce.com.
John F. Brock, chairman and chief executive officer, and Bill Douglas,
executive vice president and chief financial officer, will deliver the
remarks.
In the presentation, CCE will affirm 2013 full-year guidance, including
earnings per diluted share growth of approximately 10 percent and net
sales and operating income growth in a mid-single-digit range. This
guidance is comparable and currency neutral. At recent rates, currency
translation would reduce full-year earnings per share by approximately 1
percent to 2 percent.
ABOUT CCE
Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc. (CCE) is the leading Western European
marketer, producer, and distributor of non-alcoholic ready-to-drink
beverages and one of the world’s largest independent Coca-Cola bottlers.
CCE is the sole licensed bottler for products of The Coca-Cola Company
in Belgium, continental France, Great Britain, Luxembourg, Monaco, the
Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden. We operate with a local focus and have
17 manufacturing sites across Europe, where we manufacture nearly 90
percent of our products in the markets in which they are consumed.
Corporate responsibility and sustainability is core to our business, and
we have been recognized by leading organizations in North America and
Europe for our progress in water use reduction, carbon footprint
reduction, and recycling initiatives. For more information about our
company, please visit our website at www.cokecce.com
and follow us on twitter at @cokecce.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
Included in this news release are forward-looking management comments
and other statements that reflect management’s current outlook for
future periods. As always, these expectations are based on currently
available competitive, financial, and economic data along with our
current operating plans and are subject to risks and uncertainties that
could cause actual results to differ materially from the results
contemplated by the forward-looking statements. The forward-looking
statements in this news release should be read in conjunction with the
risks and uncertainties discussed in our filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including our Form 10-K for the year
ended December 31, 2012 and other SEC filings.
