Sep 06, 2023 / 03:15PM GMT
Lauren Rae Lieberman - Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division - MD & Senior Research Analyst
Okay. We're going to get started. So we've got Molson Coors Beverage Company, with Gavin Hattersley, President and CEO; and Tracey Joubert, the company's CFO. So thank you both for joining us at the conference. And I hope we won't have any fire alarms. There was a false alarm last year, so (inaudible) to the hotel, let's keep it together this year.
Questions and Answers:
Lauren Rae Lieberman - Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division - MD & Senior Research AnalystSo I'd love to just jump right in. Exciting times at the company, a lot of very positive developments. So I guess, to start, it would be helpful to just hear your perspective on the health of the -- your U.S. beer category overall. Industry-wide shipments have been more challenging year-to-date and since this has kind of -- even in the last month or 2, maybe, faltered a bit further versus a historical cadence for kind of like a plus 1 to minus 1 type range. So I guess, what would you say then maybe is