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Erin Lash
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Mondelez’s Decision to Elevate Brand Spending Strikes Us As Prudent, Despite Near-Term Profit Hit

Closing the book on his first full year at the helm, Mondelez’s CEO Dirk Van de Put struck a conciliatory tone, calling out the progress made to date while emphasizing the need for further investments to ensure recent momentum persists. For the fourth quarter, organic sales popped 2.5% (generally in line with the 2.4% mark etched for the full year), with growth balanced between price (up 1.5%) as well as the combination of higher volumes and favorable mix (1%). We view this growth even more favo...
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Mondelez International Inc. Class A

Mondelez International sells food and beverage products. The company makes and sells primarily snacks, including biscuits (cookies, crackers and salted snacks), chocolate, gum and candy, as well as various cheese and grocery and powdered beverage products. The company's portfolio includes snack brands such as Cadbury, Milka and Toblerone chocolate; Oreo, belVita and LU biscuits; Halls candy; Trident gum and Tang powdered beverages. The company's operations and management structure are organized into four operating segments: Latin America; Asia, Middle East and Africa; Europe; and North America. The company sells its products to supermarket chains, wholesalers, supercenters, value stores and other retail food outlets.

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Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Erin Lash

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