Mondelez International 10-Q 2022-09-30

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-Q

(Mark One)

For the quarterly period ended September 30, 2022

OR

For the transition period from to

Commission file number 1-16483

Mondelēz International, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code) (847) 943-4000

Not Applicable

(Former name, former address and former fiscal year, if changed since last report)

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes x No ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§ 232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). Yes x No ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes ☐ No x

At October 28, 2022, there were 1,365,618,508 shares of the registrant’s Class A Common Stock outstanding.

Mondelēz International, Inc.

Table of Contents

In this report, for all periods presented, “we,” “us,” “our,” “the Company” and “Mondelēz International” refer to Mondelēz International, Inc. and subsidiaries. References to “Common Stock” refer to our Class A Common Stock.

PART I – FINANCIAL INFORMATION

Mondelēz International, Inc. and Subsidiaries

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Earnings

(in millions of U.S. dollars, except per share data)

(Unaudited)

See accompanying notes to the condensed consolidated financial statements.

Mondelēz International, Inc. and Subsidiaries

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Earnings

(in millions of U.S. dollars)

(Unaudited)

See accompanying notes to the condensed consolidated financial statements.

Mondelēz International, Inc. and Subsidiaries

Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets

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Description of the Company

We make and sell primarily snacks, including biscuits, chocolate, gum & candy as well as various cheese & grocery and powdered beverage products around the world.

We aim to be the global leader in snacking. In May 2022, we announced the evolution of our strategy to drive long-term growth by focusing on four strategic pillars and priorities: accelerating consumer-centric growth, driving operational excellence, creating a winning growth culture and scaling sustainable snacking. We also announced our plans to reshape our portfolio, with a focus on extending our leadership positions in chocolate and biscuits as well as baked snacks. We seek to further enable our growth by investing in our strong and inclusive talent, brand portfolio and digital technologies and skills, as well as our sales and marketing capabilities. We believe the successful implementation of our strategic priorities and leveraging of our strong foundation of iconic global and local brands, an attractive global footprint, our market leadership in developed and emerging markets, our deep innovation, marketing and distribution capabilities, and our efficiency and sustainability efforts, will drive top- and bottom-line growth, enabling us to continue to create long-term value for our shareholders.

Recent Developments and Significant Items Affecting Comparability

War in Ukraine

In February 2022, Russia began a military invasion of Ukraine. For the safety of our employees, we stopped production and closed our facilities in Ukraine. We are providing all of our employees with compensation and with help in securing shelter in neighboring countries. We have also made cash and in-kind donations to several humanitarian aid organizations in the region.

In March 2022, our two Ukrainian manufacturing facilities in Trostyanets and Vyshhorod were significantly damaged. In connection with the damage to these plants and impairment of other assets, primarily inventory, other plant, property and equipment, as well as increased allowances on our receivables, during the first quarter of 2022, we recorded $143 million of charges directly incurred as a result of the war in Ukraine, including an accrual for continued compensation for our employees in Ukraine (see Note 1, Basis of Presentation, to the condensed consolidated financial statements, and refer to Items Affecting Comparability of Financial Results for additional information). We have increased operations and continue to provide resources in other primarily European manufacturing and distribution facilities to seek to continue supplying our Ukraine business's customers and consumers across Europe.

During the second and third quarters of 2022, the war continued through parts of Ukraine. We continue to make targeted repairs on both our plants. We relaunched our systems and implemented additional safety and security measures. In late June, we partially reopened the Vyshhorod plant and restarted limited potato chip production. During the second and third quarters of 2022, we reversed approximately $15 million and $7 million, respectively, of previously recorded charges primarily as a result of higher than expected collection of trade receivables and inventory recoveries.

As a food company, we continue to work to support the continuity of food supply and provide packaged foods to consumers. We have discontinued new capital investments and suspended our advertising spending in Russia, but as a food company with more than 2,500 employees in Russia, we have not ceased operations given we believe we play a role in the continuity of the food supply. We are required to comply with applicable international sanctions and other measures that have been or may be imposed on Russian entities. We continue to evaluate the situation in Ukraine and Russia and our ability to control our operating activities and businesses on an ongoing basis, and we continue to consolidate both our Ukrainian and Russian subsidiaries. Prior to the onset of the war, Ukraine generated 0.5% and Russia generated 2.9% of 2021 consolidated net revenues. During the nine months ended September 30, 2022, Ukraine generated 0.3% and Russia generated 3.6% of consolidated net revenue. Our Russian business has grown as a result of the recent strengthening of the Russian ruble versus the U.S. dollar and increased demand for packaged foods. The war has not had a material impact on our Russian business through the first nine months of 2022.

We provide more information on risks related to the war in Ukraine in our Financial Outlook and Commodity Trends section, Item 3, Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk and under Item 1A, Risk Factors.

COVID-19 and Inflationary Cost Environment

In the third year of the COVID-19 global pandemic, our main priority remains the safety of our employees as well as continuing to help maintain the global food supply. During the pandemic, we experienced an overall increase in demand and revenue growth as consumers increased their food purchases for in-home consumption in many markets, while parts of our business were negatively affected by related lockdowns and restrictions. In late 2021, global supply chain, transportation and labor issues escalated and we experienced significantly higher operating costs, including higher overall raw material, transportation, labor and energy costs that have continued to rise in 2022.

During the first nine months of 2022, our net revenues continued to increase with growth of 8.3% and Organic Net Revenue growth of 11.2%, compared to the first nine months of 2021. Throughout 2022, we continued to see increased demand primarily for our snack category products and revenue growth in both our emerging and developed markets relative to the first nine months of 2021. We continued to also experience significantly higher operating costs. See additional details on our results in our Discussion and Analysis of Historical Results.

During the pandemic and the related inflationary environment, we continued to closely monitor our cash position and cash flows and worked to increase our access to financing. As of September 30, 2022, our liquidity remains strong. During the first nine months of 2022, we funded our acquisitions of Chipita and Clif Bar (see additional information below) and also issued $2.5 billion of new long-term debt in order to refinance approximately $2 billion of tendered and redeemed debt (refer to Note 8, Debt and Borrowing Arrangements for details) ahead of the rising interest rate environment. We generated $2.5 billion of cash from operations during the first nine months of 2022, ending the quarter with cash and cash equivalents of $2.2 billion as of September 30, 2022. We also had $9 billion of unused credit facilities available as of September 30, 2022 as well as ongoing access to financing markets as evidenced by the incremental term loan facility we entered into and announced on July 11, 2022. Our JDE Peet's and KDP equity method investments also give us additional financial flexibility.

We will continue to proactively manage our business in response to the evolving global economic environment and related uncertainty and business risks while also prioritizing and supporting our employees and customers. We continue to take steps to mitigate impacts to our supply chain, operations, technology and assets. We intend to continue to execute on our new strategic and operating plans as the situation evolves. We seek to further our strategic priorities and position the Company to withstand the current uncertainties and emerge stronger.

Acquisitions and Divestitures

During the second quarter of 2022, we announced our intention to divest our developed market gum and global Halls candy businesses. Refer to Financial Outlook below for additional details.

On November 1, 2022, we completed our acquisition of Ricolino, a confectionery business loca

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As we operate globally, we are primarily exposed to currency exchange rate, commodity price and interest rate market risks. We monitor and manage these exposures as part of our overall risk management program. Our risk management program focuses on the unpredictability of financial markets and seeks to reduce the potentially adverse effects that the volatility of these markets may have on our operating results.

The COVID-19 pandemic and related global response significantly impacted economic activity and markets around the world. National and local governments imposed preventative or protective restrictions on travel and business operations and advised or required citizens to remain at home. Temporary closures of businesses were ordered and numerous other businesses temporarily closed voluntarily. The impact of the global pandemic and response as well as the war in Ukraine has had a material unfavorable impact on global and local markets, including commodity, currency and capital markets. These markets are likely to continue to remain volatile while these situations continue. An economic or credit crisis could occur and impair credit availability and our ability to raise capital when needed. A disruption in the financial markets may have a negative effect on our derivative counterparties and could impair our banking or other business partners, on whom we rely for access to capital and as counterparties for a number of our derivative contracts. We work to mitigate these risks and we largely employ existing strategies that are described below to mitigate currency, commodity and interest rate market risks.

We principally utilize derivative instruments to reduce significant, unanticipated earnings fluctuations that may arise from volatility in currency exchange rates, commodity prices and interest rates. For additional information on our derivative activity and the types of derivative instruments we use to hedge our currency exchange, commodity price and interest rate exposures, see Note 9, Financial Instruments.

Many of our non-U.S. subsidiaries operate in functional currencies other than the U.S. dollar. Fluctuations in currency exchange rates create volatility in our reported results as we translate the balance sheets, operating results and cash flows of these subsidiaries into the U.S. dollar for consolidated reporting purposes. The translation of non-U.S. dollar denominated balance sheets and statements of earnings of our subsidiaries into the U.S. dollar for consolidated reporting generally results in a cumulative translation adjustment to other comprehensive income within equity. A stronger U.S. dollar relative to other functional currencies adversely affects our consolidated earnings and net assets while a weaker U.S. dollar benefits our consolidated earnings and net assets. While we hedge significant forecasted currency exchange transactions as well as certain net assets of non-U.S. operations and other currency impacts, we cannot fully predict or eliminate volatility arising from changes in currency exchange rates on our consolidated financial results. See Consolidated Results of Operations and Results of Operations by Reportable Segment under Discussion and Analysis of Historical Results for currency exchange effects on our financial results during the nine months ended September 30, 2022. Throughout our discussion and analysis of results, we isolate currency impacts and supplementally provide net revenues, operating income and diluted earnings per share on a constant currency basis. For additional information on the impact of currency policies, recent currency devaluations and highly inflationary accounting on our financial condition and results of operations, also see Note 1, Basis of Presentation – Currency Translation and Highly Inflationary Accounting, including our discussion of Türkiye becoming a highly inflationary economy on April 1, 2022 and the related currency remeasurement impacts.

We also continually monitor the market for commodities that we use in our products. Input costs may fluctuate widely due to international demand, weather conditions, government policy and regulation and unforeseen conditions such as the current COVID-19 global pandemic and war in Ukraine. Refer to Recent Developments and Significant Items Affecting Comparability and Financial Outlook above for updates on recent supply chain, transportation, labor and other disruptions that are increasing operating costs and impacting our results. To manage input cost volatility and inflation, we enter into forward purchase agreements and other derivative financial instruments. We also pursue productivity and cost saving measures and take pricing actions when necessary to mitigate the impact of higher input costs on earnings.

We regularly evaluate our variable and fixed-rate debt as well as current and expected interest rates in the markets in which we raise capital. Our primary exposures include movements in U.S. Treasury rates, corporate credit spreads and commercial paper rates. We periodically use interest rate swaps and forward interest rate contracts to achieve a desired proportion of variable versus fixed rate debt based on current and projected market conditions. For more information on our 2022 debt activity, see Note 8, Debt and Borrowing Arrangements.

See Note 9, Financial Instruments, for more information on our 2022 derivative activity. For additional information on our hedging strategies, policies and practices on an ongoing basis, also refer to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021.

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

We have established disclosure controls and procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the rules and forms of the SEC, and such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) and Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”), as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. Management, together with our CEO and CFO, evaluated the effectiveness of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures as of September 30, 2022. Based on this evaluation, the CEO and CFO concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of September 30, 2022.

Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

Management, together with our CEO and CFO, evaluated the changes in our internal control over financial reporting during the quarter ended September 30, 2022. There were no material changes in our internal control over financial reporting during the quarter ended September 30, 2022, that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

PART II – OTHER INFORMATION

Item 1. Legal Proceedings.

Information regarding legal proceedings is available in Note 12, Commitments and Contingencies, to the condensed consolidated financial statements in this report.

There were no material changes to the risk factors disclosed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2022.

Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds.

Our stock repurchase activity for each of the three months in the quarter ended September 30, 2022 was:

(1)The total number of shares purchased (and the average price paid per share) reflects: (i) shares purchased pursuant to the repurchase program described in (2) below; and (ii) shares tendered to us by employees who used shares to exercise options and to pay the related taxes for grants of deferred stock that vested, totaling 2,994 shares, 3,085 shares and 4,128 shares for the fiscal months of July, August and September 2022, respectively.

(2)Dollar values stated in millions. As of September 30, 2022, our Board of Directors has authorized the repurchase up to $23.7 billion of our Common Stock through December 31, 2023. Since the program inception on March 12, 2013 through September 30, 2022, we have repurchased $21.9 billion, and as of September 30, 2202, we had approximately $1.8 billion share repurchase authorization remaining. See related information in Note 11, Stock Plans.

Signature

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.