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Squawk on the Street

Squawk on the Street+ Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey 2/11/25

Squawk on the Street

CNBC

News, Business, Investing

4.1567 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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James Quincey, Coca-Cola CEO, discusses the company’s earnings beat, U.S. growth and the state of the consumer. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

Let's get to one of the big earnings movers of the day.

0:02.2

Coca-Cola shares are rallying after comfortably beating estimates.

0:06.2

Joining us exclusively is Coca-Cola chairman and CEO James Quincy.

0:10.7

And James, what stood out here is the growth from pricing, from volumes,

0:14.9

and across the board at a time where other consumer staple companies especially

0:19.6

are just not seeing that.

0:21.0

So what's working for you right now?

0:23.3

Look, I think we've been building momentum over a good number of years, and you're seeing

0:27.2

that come through in the fourth quarter and for the full year of 2024.

0:30.8

And it's across the line.

0:32.2

It's the right level of marketing, the right level of innovation, execution commercially

0:37.4

with our partners,

0:38.3

putting the right packs and prices and commercial execution out there. So it's not a silver

0:43.1

bullet. It's the sum of lots of hard work across a lot of levers, and it's turning into

0:47.5

good momentum in the fourth quarter and for the full year in 2024. Yeah, talk about what you see

0:53.1

coming down the pike, especially in the U.S.

0:55.4

market, where there has been a little bit more concerned lately, McDonald's, for instance,

0:59.6

weaker U.S. numbers. I guess they are more exposed to the low-income consumer. But what do you

1:05.7

see? Yeah, look, in the U.S., in North America, probably also quite similar to Western Europe,

1:11.6

we've seen the lower income consumers remain a bit under pressure from a disposable income

1:16.8

point of view, and so we've had to really double down on some of our affordability options

1:22.9

with packaging choices.

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