L'Air Liquide S.A. (AIQUF) Full Year 2022 Earnings Call Transcript

L'Air Liquide S.A. Full Year 2022 Earnings Conference Call February 16, 2023 4:30 AM ET

Company Participants

Aude Rodriguez - Head of Investor Relations
Francois Jackow - Chief Executive Officer
Jerome Pelletan - Chief Financial Officer
Pascal Vinet - Senior Vice President

Conference Call Participants

Andrew Stott - UBS Investment Bank
Alexander Jones - Bank of America
Laurent Favre - Exane BNP Paribas
Chetan Udeshi - JP Morgan
Peter Clark - Societe Generale

Operator

Good morning ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the L'Air Liquide 2022 Results Conference Call. All participants are currently in listen-mode only until we conduct the question-and-answer session, an instruction will be given at that time. I will now hand over L'Air Liquide team. Please begin your meeting. I will be standing by.

Aude Rodriguez

Good morning, everyone. This is Aude Rodriguez, Head of Investor Relations. Thank you very much for attending the call today. Francois Jackow and Jerome Pelletan will present the full year 2022 performance. For the Q&A session, they will be joined today by Mike Graff on the phone from the US and Pascal Vinet, Senior VP In Charge of Europe Industries and Africa Middle-East is in the room with us in Paris. In the agenda, our next announcement is on April 27 for our first quarter review.

Let me now hand you over to Francois.

Francois Jackow

Thank you, Aude, and good morning, everyone. It is my pleasure to be with you today to share the highlights of 2022 which was another very good year for L'Air Liquide.

So what are key takeaways of 2022? First, a strong performance, the increased attention and discipline that we have put on bottom line contributions is paying off. We were able to adapt quickly to unprecedented situations in terms of pacing agility, strict cost control, rigorous synergy management, to name but a