Operator
Operator
Good morning, and welcome, everyone, to FEMSA Second Quarter 2013 Earnings Results Conference Call. Today's conference is being recorded. [Operator Instructions] 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 Javier Astaburuaga, FEMSA's CFO. Please go ahead, sir. Javier Gerardo Astaburuaga Sanjinés: Thank you. Thank you, and good morning, everyone. Welcome to FEMSA's Second Quarter 2013 Results Earnings Conference Call. Juan Fonseca and José Castro are with us today as well. As is customary on our calls, today we will focus on the consolidated figures for FEMSA, and on FEMSA Comercio's results, since many of you probably had the opportunity to participate in Coca-Cola FEMSA's conference call yesterday. As you have also, no doubt, seen our detailed results, we will use this opportunity to share some of what we see as highlights and main trends in our business. Let me start by making some comments on the macroeconomic environment in our key Mexico market. The year began with very upbeat expectations driven by optimism regarding the new administration and its objective, to implement much-needed structural reforms and an improving picture from manufacturing and general economic activity. As the months have passed in anticipation of such broad and deep policy changes, what we have seen is some degrees of uncertainty and cautiousness taking hold of businesses and investors and trickling down to consumers, resulting in much lower GDP growth than originally expected for the year, and particularly for this start of the year.…