Sendas Distribuidora S.A. (NYSE:ASAI) Q4 2022 Earnings Conference Call February 16, 2023 9:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Gabrielle Helu - Investor Relations Director

Belmiro de Gomes - Chief Executive Officer

Daniela Sabbag - Chief Financial Officer

Wlamir dos Anjos - Logistics and Commercial VP

Anderson Castilho - Operational VP

Conference Call Participants

Danniela Eiger - XP

Maria Clara - Itau

Marcella Recchia - Credit Suisse

Vinicius Strano - UBS

Vinicius Pretto - Bank of America

Ruben Couto - Santander

Irma Sgarz - Goldman Sachs

Andrew Ruben - Morgan Stanley

Operator

Good morning, everyone, and thank you so much for waiting. Welcome to the earnings call for the fourth of 2022 for Assai Atacadista.

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This earnings call is being recorded and will be provided on the company's IR website, ir.assai.com.br, where you can also find the earnings release.

During the presentation, all of the participants will have their mics off. Soon after, we'll begin the session with Q&A. [Operator Instructions]

The information in this earnings call and possible statements that could be made during the call regarding business perspectives, forecasts and operational targets and financial targets at Assai represent assumptions and beliefs of the company's management as well as information that's currently available.

Future statements are not a guarantee of performance. They involve risks and uncertainties and assumptions because they refer to future events and thus rely on circumstances that could or not occur. Investors, should understand that market conditions and other operational factors could affect the future performance of Assai and lead to results that different materially as those listed in future statements.

Now, I'll pass on the floor to Gabrielle Helu, she's the Investor Relations Director, Assai.

Gabrielle Helu

Hello. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for your participation in our earnings call for the fourth quarter of 2022.

We'd like to invite the management team to present themselves. So, we have Belmiro de Gomes; Daniela Sabbag, the CFO; Wlamir, VP for Logistics and Commercial VP; Anderson Castilho, Operational VP.

Before we begin the presentation, I'll pass the floor on to Belmiro for his initial remarks.

Belmiro de Gomes

Thank you, Gabi. Thank you, everyone, for your participation. I want to thank you all for your presence and especially thank all of the Assai team and our partners and suppliers. I want to thank the members of the Board. Due to the major efforts and work from our team and other people and other companies, suppliers, supporters, that led to the results that we have in the presentation and also the expectations we have across.