Good morning, everyone, and welcome to FEMSA's conference call. As a reminder, today's conference is being recorded, and all participants are in a listen-only mode. At the request of the company, we will open the conference up for questions and answers after the presentation. During this conference call, management may discuss certain forward-looking statements concerning FEMSA's future performance and should be considered as good faith estimates made by the company. These forward-looking statements reflect management expectations and are based upon current available data. Actual results are subject to future events and uncertainties, which can materially impact the company's actual performance. At this time, I will now turn the conference over to Mr. Javier Astaburuaga, FEMSA's Chief Financial Officer.

Thank you very much. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to FEMSA's fourth quarter 2009 earnings conference call. Juan Fonseca and Genaro Estrada joining me today. Let me begin by saying how encouraged we are by our fourth quarter and full year results, as well as the strategic transaction that we are in the process of completing involving FEMSA Cerveza and Heineken. Our people across all areas and all businesses made the best of a very complex year. And we are convinced that there are exciting developments for our company going forward. In terms of the results, we continued to trend the trends in previous quarters and closed an extremely challenging 2009 on a very solid note. During the fourth quarter, Coca-Cola FEMSA again delivered strong numbers, driven by solid volume growth in sparkling beverages in our Mexican operations and still beverages across our markets. Meanwhile, FEMSA Comercio once more delivered margin expansion at both the gross and operating levels, as we continued to improve our competition position. At FEMSA Cerveza, we again know the resilient consumer trends in Mexico, as volumes grew slightly in the face of good pricing and a still depressed economic environment. On that front, we continued to see a difference in the performance between the still sluggish manufacturing heavy Northern Mexican markets and the Central Mexican markets. Meanwhile, we successfully continued implementing our expense containment initiatives across our beer operations, and we are reaping the results as operating expenses continued to be well under control. In terms of FEMSA’s consolidated results, operating income increased 21.5% during the fourth quarter. And below the operating line, we had two big favorable effects. The first being the favorable comparison against the quarter that was greatly impacted by volatility in foreign exchange a year ago. And the second one, the one-time…

Thank you, Mr. Astaburuaga. (Operator instructions) Our first question comes from Bob Ford, Bank of America/Merrill Lynch. Please state your question. Bob Ford – Bank of America/Merrill Lynch: Hey, good day, everybody. And congratulations on the quarter, Javier. I had a question below the operating line, and that is just on the taxes, I just want to better understand this tax benefit for the Brazilian MSD. It looks like you have a deferred tax benefit of about 4.7 billion, but the actual income tax is 4.3 billion. So the cash paid from a cash flow perspective doubled year-on-year, but it’s been offset by this 4.7 billion deferred income tax credit, of which about 2.1 billion appears to be related to Brazil. So there is a portion that’s outside of that. And then I was wondering from a cash perspective, if you had to pay something that’s in this 4.3 billion peso number to settle your outstanding tax liabilities in the Brazilian beer business. Thank you.

Hi, Bob, thanks. Let me go quickly through these. First, there was not a big payment. When we decided to go into the amnesty, we took the alternative that implies the ability to defer the payments on time. So that’s first part of the question. So there’s really not big amount of cash flow in both year. Second one, the income tax that we are presenting in the P&L of about 1.8 billion pesos, it’s pretty much a consequence of the incremental profit for the quarter as opposed to the fourth quarter of 2008 when we saw a severe loss from the (inaudible) trade point of view. So we are taking the -- I mean, we are recording both the effect of the income tax for the quarter as an effect of where you will describe as well as the deferred income tax as a consequence of the treatment of deferred taxes on a customary fashion. So all in all, the benefit that we are putting on the P&L of about 2 billion pesos is pretty much the effect on the income tax cancellation on the contingencies we have registered since 2006 when we bought the business, according and pretty much consistent with the caution policy of the company regarding these things. We acquired the business. We had to, on our books, already (inaudible) things in liability, tax liability four years ago. So in the end, now we were able to basically reduce that liability and of course we are now showing the benefit on the P&L. Bob Ford – Bank of America/Merrill Lynch: And then with respect to those payments going forward, it just brings up a couple questions. So you know the informatory mistral [ph] that you filed in Mexico shows that you have a deferred income tax credit of 4.7 billion pesos and an actual tax payment of 4.3 billion. Without that deferral, you would have reported a net loss for the period, right? So I’m just trying to understand the rest of the deferred tax credit. And then if you could, please, the payment that you settled with the Brazilian tax authorities, does that remain attached to Kaiser or will you be making those payments in future periods?

Yes. Those -- the amnesty is to Kaiser, the net effect of the amnesty considering the assets that we are able to recover from that as opposed to the liabilities we will need to pay, we are pretty sure that is going to be not -- is not going to have any effect on a cash flow basis a long time. So there won’t be -- because we are now deciding to going to the amnesty program, as a matter of fact, we are now basically not only reducing the contingent liability now being now a liability, but also because of the way the amnesty works and because of the ways we have to settle those liabilities, we are comfortable that in terms of the net cash flow effect, that will be basically a wash between the liabilities and the assets that we have from a tax point of view. In terms of deferred tax comment you are making, I would -- can you clarify that again because I didn’t really get a good grab on what you were asking about. Bob Ford – Bank of America/Merrill Lynch: Yes, I don’t -- I don’t have a very good grab either, so I apologize. But it’s in the -- in the Bolsa statement or the informatory mistral, right? It shows that there is a total deferred tax credit of 4,651.1 million pesos in the period. Right? Part of that appears to be the tax benefit for the Brazilian amnesty, but in addition to that, there seems to be another 2.6 billion pesos that are domestic in nature. And it may be related to the change in the consolidation tax rules, and I was just trying to understand -- I want to confirm the number because it’s a breakout that you final with the authorities. It’s a little bit different than what’s on page seven of the press release. And --

No, no. Let me give you a very quick answer. Maybe -- we can maybe follow-up offline on this. But the consequences of the effect of the changes in the consolidation taxes in Mexico doesn’t really produce any material effect on the company. There are some effects, which are not material considering the size of the company. And I think that the rest are pretty much -- pretty straightforward things that again accounting-wise we need to record as deferred taxes. So I don’t think there is anything to worry about in terms of either a relation -- a big relation with tax amnesty or the changes from the consolidation tax regime in Mexico that has anything to do with the deferred tax number that you are mentioning. Bob Ford – Bank of America/Merrill Lynch: But it seems to be a 2 billion peso, at least taxable impact. Is that fair to say? Maybe not a material impact on earnings, but possibly cash flow?

No, there is not a 2 billion peso cash effect at all, as I explained. It’s all, I would say, accounting treatment. And because of the way we went to the amnesty, there is really not a cash effect in the short-term. And in the medium term, there is basically a wash between the liabilities we are going to have to settle and the assets from our tax are going to view that we have in Brazil. Bob Ford – Bank of America/Merrill Lynch: All right. Thank you.

Thank you, Bob.

Our next question comes from Lauren Torres with HSBC. Lauren Torres – HSBC: Yes. Hi, everyone. Over the last month or so, you’ve talked about or at least generally talked about the opportunities now that the Cerveza business is with Heineken around the opportunities for Coke FEMSA and the Comercio business. And I’m just wondering -- thinking about it over the last month or so, if you could be a little bit more specific regarding these opportunities. I’m sure if you could do that for Coke FEMSA, but maybe with the Comercio business, if you think about expansion plans, if you have a goal of store openings for this year, is that just Mexico or is there more opportunity outside of Mexico? As I said, any just general thoughts about how you think you could invest more behind these businesses.

Sure. Let me start with the second part of the question, Lauren, in terms of OXXO. Again, the year in 2010, we think in Mexico we might be, I would say, capable on this. All depends on, I would say, how well we will manage the pipeline of potential locations that which we can open and start. We feel good about that. So we are basically maintaining kind of an internal target of growing to something between 900 and 1,000 stores for the year. So pretty much consistent, I would say, with what happened in 2009. Under the same topic of OXXO going forward, in terms of geographic expansion, what we have been telling is that we are still only months, since we opened our stores in Columbia, we said since the beginning that we will open a small number of stores in order to precisely learn, adapt and remove the body proposition that we started before opening the stores, but we need really to be there and on getting touch with consumers in Columbia and to understand their habits and their patterns or behavior and what they pride the more (inaudible). We are still looking for next year in Columbia to, I would say, again expand the base of stores, but still with the invention of continued process of lowering and adapting the value proposition. We are not thinking of expanding in a significant way our presence in Columbia next year. And we are, I would say, in the early stages of basically operating the stores and that’s in a number of things very, very different things. We are basically using everything we know about OXXO and how it’s been so successful in Mexico, but basically we are challenging everything. And we are now down in Columbia and we…

Sure. I think you use the right words in terms of this is going to be still a challenging year. Even though GDP numbers can go between 3 and 4, I would say that still consumers are going to be impacted, because we are not being very sure on [ph]. I mean, you are going to see, I think, or we are expecting to see a little bit of a rebounding of the northern markets, which is going to be good for sure for our business, at least in beer, not necessarily in Coca-Cola because we are basically in Central Mexico. But I think that we need to bear in mind that when you combine still the level of the economic activity combined with the still very high unemployment rates, even considering a growth between 3% and 4%, consumers are going to be impacted because of taxes, because of services. And I would say that even though we are still looking at, I would say, signs of optimism and confidence for the longer term, I would say, the first and second quarter of the year are going to be by far the most challenging in terms of consumer purchasing disposable income in order to keep on, I would say, fuel into the month of our product. So I’m a little bit more bullish for the second half of the year than for the first one. And specifically for the first quarter, of course, while we take into account the price increase, we just have the consumers, and again what I just described, I think this is going to be by far the most challenging one. But as the year progresses, I feel much more optimistic about the potential growth for the full year. Lauren Torres – HSBC: Okay, great. Thank you.

Thank you.

Our next question comes from Alan Alanís with J.P. Morgan. Alan Alanís – J.P. Morgan: Hello, how are you, Javier Gerardo, Juan? My question has to do -- also with OXXO. Clearly this was a record year in terms of store openings, but I’m also seeing that there was a decline in the amount of CapEx. And I was wondering if you could help us understand this. I mean, what changed in terms of the investment per store, either is it an issue that has to do with other kinds of investments and has to do with not necessarily with store openings or we -- is it much cheaper to open OXXOs in the south -- central and south part of Mexico or the like? I would like to -- a better understanding of that, please, Javier.

Sure. Hi, Alan. Thank you for the question because I think it allows me to speak a little bit about also -- little bit of the next coming months for OXXO as well. The basic explanation behind such a large number of opening of new stores as opposed to the CapEx involved, it doesn’t really lie with the, I would say, amount involved in the opening of stores. We will measure those in pesos who were basically there. When you measure those in dollars, of course, it is more amount even though we have to pay higher prices for things such as cold chamber and things like that, which are pretty much (inaudible). But the total amount invested has not much to do with the clearance of -- either remodelizations [ph] of our existing stores or some infrastructure projects that we deferred during 2009 into 2010 basically because of again a very, very bullish approach in terms of opening up stores, but still at the same time I would say a cautious approach in terms of managing the cash flow of the business in a very uncertain environment, which was (inaudible) in 2009. So I would say that’s basically the main impact. So going forward, we should expect some of those investments that we referred to start appearing into 2010 and 2011. And I would say that that’s basically the explanation behind the performance of CapEx as opposed to opening up stores in 2009, Alan. Alan Alanís – J.P. Morgan: Okay. And if you could provide what number do you have in terms of CapEx for 2010 and then for OXXO, how should we be thinking about that?

$20 million to $30 million maybe. That’s kind of the going in [ph] approach. As I said, the more successful we are in finding opportunities to allocate capital in this business, we will take them. We are not hesitating. We are -- as you can see, hold down because we have -- I mean, we are not in that mood. But we are using the best of our efforts and capabilities in order to maximize the speed, but taking very good care of the quality of the opening of net new stores. So our going in [ph] position for the year would be $20 million to $30 million. Alan Alanís – J.P. Morgan: Thank you, Javier. Thanks.

Thanks.

Our next question comes from Margaret Kalvar with Harding Loevner. Margaret Kalvar – Harding Loevner: Yes, good afternoon. I wanted to just get an update on your hedge positions in terms of your commodities. And how will that change on the beer side when Heineken takes over? Do they have a similar hedging strategy or will we see some different approaches out of them?

Hi, Margaret. This is Juan. Margaret Kalvar – Harding Loevner: Hi.

In terms of the hedges that are in place this year, we have a lower percentage of our aluminum needs hedged, but it’s still about two-thirds. When you combine Mexico and Brazil, I hope in Mexico really where the hedges are continuing to be in place have to do with Mexican aluminum or Mexican need for aluminum. I’m sure it’s about two-thirds of our needs are still hedged through this year. The hedge is tapered off, and in 2011 basically -- by the second half of 2011, we have no more hedges. That’s really the big one. We have some for natural gas that are less relevant. FX is another biggie because it’s actually working in the opposite direction. FX, we did have hedges in place in 2009 for a good chunk of our requirements. I mean, we do have a bit of a natural hedge through our exports and through some of the sales of the packaging operations. And that obviously remains in place. But we also have some forwards, a significant amount of forwards in 2009, which we don’t have for 2010. So really the important method here is that the beer business will face some effects, headwinds, because we will be purchasing dollars at roughly 13, which is more or less the spot today, versus a level close to 11, which is what we were buying dollars last year. That’s where we stand today. Obviously, once Heineken takes over the operation, we can’t speak on their behalf. They will have their own policies and their own views on managing the risk going forward, but that is what is in place today. Margaret Kalvar – Harding Loevner: Okay, thanks. And could you just update me on the sugar and sweetener from the Coke FEMSA side as well?

Yes, I think – (inaudible) if you are on the line and you can take that question, it’s not we can obviously make some comments.

In the store front, certainly we were already paying somewhat international price. Prices are continental. Probably Mexico is a place where we are going to be facing the highest inquiries. However given that, we’re going to end up using a mix of fructose, HFCS and sweetener. Probably the impact at the end of 2010 will be more in the range of 25%. We do expect with the depreciation of the local currencies to offset part of that. They are an important market in Brazil. In Brazil, we have hedges in place to hedge 50% overnight [ph] at significantly lower prices in the current market now. So certainly we will face pressures in the store front, but you’d likely that with depreciation of local currencies, we cannot state that. Margaret Kalvar – Harding Loevner: Okay, thanks very much.

Our next question comes from Lore Serra with Morgan Stanley. Lore Serra – Morgan Stanley: I have actually two questions if that’s okay. Thank you in advance. One is just quickly on the beer company, it looks like domestic pricing weakened a couple of percentage points sequentially. I wonder if you could talk about why that was the case. There is a little bit more price-based competition that you saw in the fourth quarter. And then on OXXO, I wondered if you could talk to two issues. One is, when you look at the trends in sales in 2009 on a same-store basis, did you see a significant difference between, let’s say, the north versus the center sort of to understand your comments about how beer was tough in the north versus the center. I just want to understand the gap you saw in same-store sales growth. And if I look at the same-store sales for OXXO in the fourth quarter, it looks like it declined to me. And I’m looking at it on an absolute basis, 3.4% versus some of the adjusted numbers you were presenting earlier in the year, which were more than in the mid to upper sort of single digits. So I wonder if you could just comment on sort of what you see as sort of organic growth at OXXO. Do you agree with that? It looks like it slowed in the fourth quarter, and if that has any implications for ’10? I’m sorry, there’s a lot of questions.

No, that’s okay, Lore. We can take all of them. First one being most of the impact is coming from chips in mix, in which we made some tactical pricing with the leader of court [ph] in some geography, in which the gaps against the competitor were, I would say, not the right ones we think. So most of the sequential evolution of pricing is having to do with that. And I would say the smaller competitors as well is still a geographic effect, which is negative to us in terms of our higher price markets growing at much more smaller rate than the other ones, particularly in the fourth quarter that’s had an impact. Going to OXXO, I would say that yes, we are seeing some differences in ingredients. I would say that not particularly changing a lot in the fourth quarter as opposed to the previous quarters, but if you look at the performance of the beer business as a good proxy of the differences of growth in the different regions for OXXO, you wouldn’t be too far away from the reality of the business. So yes, same-store sales in some of the regions in which unemployment and the depressed economic activity hit the most, which is basically the northern part of Mexico, also had the tougher year, but again, not particularly different or something like a trend in the fourth quarter that tells us that there is something going on which is going to be significantly different from what the full performance of the year was. Same-store sales for OXXO are still performing well ahead of what the benchmark in Mexico, which is (inaudible) the rest of the supermarkets in Mexico, are performing. Still for the fourth quarter, we were, I would say, pretty much with the same gap as difference of percentage points on our side against them. And I would say that going forward, we are still confident. If you look at same-store sales in real terms in 2009, what the story was in 2009 as opposed to previous years in which we had severe contractions going back all the way again to the 1995 (inaudible) crisis and then looking again at early 2000s. And we feel that same-store -- I mean, we think that same-store sales stood up very, very firmly, and we are still optimistic about being able to keep on growing that in the low-single digits going forward into 2010.

Yes. Let me just make one additional clarification, Lore. If we look at the same-store sales data as reported for the four quarters of 2009, we have down 1.8 in the first quarter, up 0.5 and up 2.9 and now up 3.4. So the trend has clearly been a positive one. What we did not provide you this quarter, and maybe that’s the number that you have in your mind, is if we exclude the effect for the shift to driven by the electronic recharges, we had been providing what the average ticket would have been, kind of in a range. And we didn’t do that this quarter because the effect of the shift to electronic recharges by now has become much smaller than it was in the past. But the 3.4, it should be comparing against the numbers I just gave you. They were still a smaller sect. So in other words, the ticket would again have been in the low-to-mid singles. Let’s say, in the low-singles, higher than what you’re seeing in the press release if we made the numbers comparable for the electronic recharges. But we just decided we’re not going to continue to provide that because it’s just becoming very, very small going forward. I don’t know if that was clear. Lore Serra – Morgan Stanley: Sure. That’s fine, thanks.

Our next question comes from Sohel Amir with Lucite Research. Sohel Amir – Lucite Research: Good afternoon. My question was more with regards to OXXO. And I know you've spoken a lot about it, but I was just interested in getting sense on both the Heineken deal, what the outlook is likely to be for OXXO. I know you are very conservative in terms of building it out. But it also seems to me that to Coke FEMSA, you have an understanding of some aspects of the retail markets in various Latin countries. And I was wondering if you want to use that or to what extent could you use that information and that market know-how to rollout the OXXO chain in a number of the Latin countries? And also finally, would you consider buying any existing store franchises in Latin America?

That we'll be interested in acquiring, Sohel? Sohel Amir – Lucite Research: Yes.

Okay. On the first part, it obviously helps having the presence in certain geographies when you are entering a country from a number of dimensions. Of course, we are very, very careful about not sharing any confidential information. There's collaboration. We think this is a win-win proposition for both companies. So I would say that OXXO relates, I would say, with Coca-Cola FEMSA as one of its more important suppliers, but as well as part of the company. Of course, there's a number of, I would say, support in terms of entering a new geography, such as with the case of Colombia. So of course, when we decide in terms of which geographies are the more appealing, the component of being present or not with our Coca-Cola operations is one of them. But again, I would say doing this in a very transparent and of course (inaudible) basis. And on the second one, we have been very successful on, I would say, growing the business organically. It really doesn't show in the numbers of OXXO in terms of some of the -- I mean, at some points of time, even in Mexico, we have been, I would say, buying some very, very small chains, local, not even regional, stores pretty much based on the location. So we cannot rule out that we will also look at some opportunities in which we might be able to tap opportunities of acquiring some small franchises. So far, we have not been in the need of doing so. But we think that is something that we cannot rule out going forward. Sohel Amir – Lucite Research: Right. And just finally in terms of margins, I mean they've been increasing. And it seems that you have operating levels at this point in time, so. In just Mexico, do you -- is there a level at which you think is -- at this point, margins are going to stabilize? Or what's your outlook there?

Hopefully, no. Hopefully we can keep on growing them as much as we can. But I would say that if you look at the numbers, we are now getting to, I would say, very, very good numbers as compared with any retailer that is present in this kind of format. So I would say it will be challenging and more tougher going forward than it has been in the past, on one side. On the second side, I think that also in the past, I would say, at least in the last year, some of the margin expansion was due -- as I said at some point at the conference that in 2009, some of the, for example, remodelization of fixing stores that we deferred for 2009 to 2010, that's got an impact in terms of the margin expansion for the year. So next year, we'll have pressure on that side. Number two, also during 2009, we had a huge benefit of electricity utility bills coming down. Now they are moving in the opposite direction this year. But also, during the year, we made a lot of cost containment efforts and efficiency programs for the stores. And we were very successful on that. So that will help in terms of now providing a lower base, and of course, some of those benefits rolling into 2010. But the programs for 2010 now with this more efficient and lower cost base is going to present also challenge to continue, I would say, expanding margins through operating efficiency. So all in all, I think we've done a good job so far. Going forward, it is hard to think that the margins can keep on expanding at the pace that they have been doing in the past. But of course, we will still try to keep expanding those, even though at a moderate pace going forward. Sohel Amir – Lucite Research: Okay. Thank you very much.

Thank you.

(Operator instructions) Our next question comes from José Yordán, Deutsche Bank Securities. José Yordán – Deutsche Bank Securities: Hi. Good afternoon, everyone. Javier, over time, FEMSA many years ago had the problem of having some of the assets that were inside of FMX undervalued. I mean, over the last four or five years, that's been a relatively minor problem, especially with the, let's say, expansion in the market's perception of the value of OXXO, et cetera. But now that you're back to basically being a holding company for two big blocks of shares plus a retail operation, I'm starting to feel that there's -- that the market is going to go back to the sort of conglomerate discount or whatever it used to be called, or holding company discount. I guess my question is, what are you prepared to do, if anything, if this is something that becomes pervasive and that is not just a question of the short-term uncertainty regarding the deal with Heineken, et cetera? What happens if a year or two from now this big discount is still persisting? What can you -- or what are you prepared to do?

Yes. Thanks for the questions again. I think that I would start by saying that we are conscious about the phenomena you are describing. As we said when we did the (inaudible) transaction with Heineken that we will look at every single alternative that is at hand in terms of how to grow our businesses and to create value going forward, including a review of the corporate structure of the company going forward. We said also as well that we are still comfortable with, I would say, the benefit of this structure so far. And with that speaking about having Coca-Cola FEMSA listed and not basically considering in short-term, the potential floating of OXXO or the sorts. And going back to your question, I would say that in the short-term, I would say the market reaction to the new FEMSA, if you want to call it that way, is still something to be seen. I think this -- I would say, this new version of FEMSA needs to -- I would say that we need to give a little bit more time for the market. We think that we were, I would say, braving off and responsibly not to do the right thing with the beer transaction being, again, that asset basically the foundation of the company. But I would say, the shareholders, Board, and management being very conscious about that. This is one of the best things for all shareholders in terms of value creation. And I think that we will use that as our, I would say, credentials to really communicate to the market that, again, we will look at very closely what the perception of the market is regarding the structure of the company and the businesses that composed. We still do believe that putting those businesses…

Thank you.

With no further questions, I will now turn the conference back to Mr. Javier Astaburuaga.

Thank you very much. Thank you very much for your participation, everyone, today. And just finally, I would like to remind you that we will be presenting at CAGNY next Tuesday afternoon. Both Carlos Salazar and I will be talking about basically what we discussed today as well as (inaudible) for FEMSA -- Coca-Cola FEMSA announcement. And our presentation will be available via live webcast through our Investor Relations website. Thank you very much and have a great weekend. Bye now.

This concludes our conference for today. Thank you all for participating, and have a nice day. All parties may now disconnect.