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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-Q
(Mark One)
 QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the quarterly period ended JuneSeptember 30, 2019
OR
 TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the transition period from                to                
Commission file number 1-16483
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Mondelēz International, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Mondelez International, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as registered with the SEC)
Virginia52-2284372
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
   
Three Parkway North, 
Deerfield,Illinois60015
(Address of principal executive offices)(Zip Code)
(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:
Tile of each class 
Trading
Symbol(s)
 Name of each exchange on which registered
Class A Common Stock, no par value MDLZ The Nasdaq Global Select Market
2.375% Notes due 2021 MDLZ21 The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC
1.000% Notes due 2022 MDLZ22 The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC
1.625% Notes due 2023 MDLZ23 The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC
1.625% Notes due 2027 MDLZ27 The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC
2.375% Notes due 2035 MDLZ35 The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC
4.500% Notes due 2035 MDLZ35A The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC
3.875% Notes due 2045 MDLZ45 The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC
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  T    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  T    No  ¨



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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.
Large accelerated filerT  Accelerated filer  
Non-accelerated filer  Smaller reporting company 
  Emerging growth company 
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  T

At July 26,October 25, 2019, there were 1,442,150,5011,439,824,371 shares of the registrant’s Class A Common Stock outstanding.
 



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PART I - FINANCIAL INFORMATION 
   
Item 1.Financial Statements (Unaudited) 
   
 
   
 
   
 
   
 
   
 
   
 
   
Item 2.
   
Item 3.
   
Item 4.
   
PART II -OTHER INFORMATION 
   
Item 1.
   
Item 1A.
   
Item 2.
   
Item 6.
   

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.




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PART I – FINANCIAL INFORMATION

Item 1. Financial Statements
Mondelēz International, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Earnings
(in millions of U.S. dollars, except per share data)
(Unaudited)
For the Three Months Ended
June 30,
 For the Six Months Ended
June 30,
For the Three Months Ended
September 30,
 For the Nine Months Ended
September 30,
2019 2018 2019 20182019 2018 2019 2018
Net revenues$6,062
 $6,112
 $12,600
 $12,877
$6,355
 $6,288
 $18,955
 $19,165
Cost of sales3,593
 3,572
 7,538
 7,488
3,839
 3,874
 11,377
 11,362
Gross profit2,469
 2,540
 5,062
 5,389
2,516
 2,414
 7,578
 7,803
Selling, general and administrative expenses1,427
 1,904
 2,920
 3,431
1,466
 1,508
 4,386
 4,939
Asset impairment and exit costs15
 111
 35
 165
134
 125
 169
 290
Net gain on divestiture(41) 
 (41) 
(3) 
 (44) 
Amortization of intangibles43
 44
 87
 88
43
 44
 130
 132
Operating income1,025
 481
 2,061
 1,705
876
 737
 2,937
 2,442
Benefit plan non-service income(12) (15) (29) (28)(13) (19) (42) (47)
Interest and other expense, net101
 248
 181
 328
205
 86
 386
 414
Earnings before income taxes936
 248
 1,909
 1,405
684
 670
 2,593
 2,075
Provision for income taxes(216) (15) (405) (352)
Net loss on equity method investment transactions(25) 
 (2) 
Benefit/(provision) for income taxes633
 (310) 228
 (662)
Net gain/(loss) on equity method
investment transactions

 757
 (2) 757
Equity method investment net earnings113
 87
 226
 319
111
 80
��337
 399
Net earnings808
 320
 1,728
 1,372
1,428
 1,197
 3,156
 2,569
Noncontrolling interest earnings(1) (2) (7) (8)(5) (3) (12) (11)
Net earnings attributable to
Mondelēz International
$807
 $318
 $1,721
 $1,364
$1,423
 $1,194
 $3,144
 $2,558
Per share data:              
Basic earnings per share attributable to
Mondelēz International
$0.56
 $0.22
 $1.19
 $0.92
$0.98
 $0.81
 $2.17
 $1.73
Diluted earnings per share attributable to
Mondelēz International
$0.55
 $0.21
 $1.18
 $0.91
$0.98
 $0.81
 $2.15
 $1.72

See accompanying notes to the condensed consolidated financial statements.


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Mondelēz International, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Earnings
(in millions of U.S. dollars)
(Unaudited)
For the Three Months Ended
June 30,
 For the Six Months Ended
June 30,
For the Three Months Ended
September 30,
 For the Nine Months Ended
September 30,
2019 2018 2019 20182019 2018 2019 2018
Net earnings$808
 $320
 $1,728
 $1,372
$1,428
 $1,197
 $3,156
 $2,569
Other comprehensive earnings/(losses), net of tax:              
Currency translation adjustment(33) (876) 157
 (666)(314) (193) (157) (859)
Pension and other benefit plans54
 169
 64
 163
86
 46
 150
 209
Derivative cash flow hedges(62) 26
 (131) (20)43
 25
 (88) 5
Total other comprehensive earnings/(losses)(41) (681) 90
 (523)(185) (122) (95) (645)
Comprehensive earnings/(losses)767
 (361) 1,818
 849
1,243
 1,075
 3,061
 1,924
less: Comprehensive earnings/(losses) attributable to noncontrolling interests3
 (10) 8
 11
(4) 
 4
 11
Comprehensive earnings/(losses) attributable to Mondelēz International$764
 $(351) $1,810
 $838
$1,247
 $1,075
 $3,057
 $1,913

See accompanying notes to the condensed consolidated financial statements.


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Mondelēz International, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets
(in millions of U.S. dollars, except share data)
(Unaudited)
June 30,
2019
 December 31,
2018
September 30,
2019
 December 31,
2018
ASSETS      
Cash and cash equivalents$1,248
 $1,100
$1,537
 $1,100
Trade receivables (net of allowances of $38 at June 30, 2019
and $40 at December 31, 2018)
2,179
 2,262
Other receivables (net of allowances of $49 at June 30, 2019
and $47 at December 31, 2018)
712
 744
Trade receivables (net of allowances of $39 at September 30, 2019
and $40 at December 31, 2018)
2,492
 2,262
Other receivables (net of allowances of $48 at September 30, 2019
and $47 at December 31, 2018)
683
 744
Inventories, net2,731
 2,592
2,742
 2,592
Other current assets966
 906
1,176
 906
Total current assets7,836
 7,604
8,630
 7,604
Property, plant and equipment, net8,550
 8,482
8,316
 8,482
Operating lease right of use assets637
 
596
 
Goodwill20,701
 20,725
20,465
 20,725
Intangible assets, net17,943
 18,002
17,642
 18,002
Prepaid pension assets136
 132
136
 132
Deferred income taxes263
 255
696
 255
Equity method investments7,095
 7,123
7,040
 7,123
Other assets412
 406
374
 406
TOTAL ASSETS$63,573
 $62,729
$63,895
 $62,729
LIABILITIES      
Short-term borrowings$3,780
 $3,192
$3,253
 $3,192
Current portion of long-term debt3,675
 2,648
3,674
 2,648
Accounts payable5,312
 5,794
5,322
 5,794
Accrued marketing1,638
 1,756
1,745
 1,756
Accrued employment costs611
 701
646
 701
Other current liabilities2,782
 2,646
2,480
 2,646
Total current liabilities17,798
 16,737
17,120
 16,737
Long-term debt11,764
 12,532
12,593
 12,532
Long-term operating lease liabilities447
 
429
 
Deferred income taxes3,591
 3,552
3,232
 3,552
Accrued pension costs1,057
 1,221
947
 1,221
Accrued postretirement health care costs355
 351
355
 351
Other liabilities2,387
 2,623
2,345
 2,623
TOTAL LIABILITIES37,399
 37,016
37,021
 37,016
Commitments and Contingencies (Note 13)

 


 

EQUITY      
Common Stock, no par value (5,000,000,000 shares authorized and
1,996,537,778 shares issued at June 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018)

 
Common Stock, no par value (5,000,000,000 shares authorized and
1,996,537,778 shares issued at September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018)

 
Additional paid-in capital31,970
 31,961
31,998
 31,961
Retained earnings25,348
 24,491
26,345
 24,491
Accumulated other comprehensive losses(10,541) (10,630)(10,717) (10,630)
Treasury stock, at cost (554,035,528 shares at June 30, 2019 and
545,537,923 shares at December 31, 2018)
(20,684) (20,185)
Treasury stock, at cost (555,861,683 shares at September 30, 2019 and
545,537,923 shares at December 31, 2018)
(20,820) (20,185)
Total Mondelēz International Shareholders’ Equity26,093
 25,637
26,806
 25,637
Noncontrolling interest81
 76
68
 76
TOTAL EQUITY26,174
 25,713
26,874
 25,713
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND EQUITY$63,573
 $62,729
$63,895
 $62,729
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Mondelēz International, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Equity
(in millions of U.S. dollars, except per share data)
(Unaudited)
Mondelēz International Shareholders’ Equity    Mondelēz International Shareholders’ Equity    
Common
Stock
 
Additional
Paid-in
Capital
 
Retained
Earnings
 
Accumulated
Other
Comprehensive
Earnings/
(Losses)
 
Treasury
Stock
 
Non-controlling
Interest
 
Total
Equity
Common
Stock
 
Additional
Paid-in
Capital
 
Retained
Earnings
 
Accumulated
Other
Comprehensive
Earnings/
(Losses)
 
Treasury
Stock
 
Non-controlling
Interest
 
Total
Equity
Three Months Ended June 30, 2019             
Balances at April 1, 2019$
 $31,933
 $24,954
 $(10,498) $(20,561) $81
 $25,909
Three Months Ended September 30, 2019             
Balances at July 1, 2019$
 $31,970
 $25,348
 $(10,541) $(20,684) $81
 $26,174
Comprehensive earnings/(losses):             
Net earnings
 
 1,423
 
 
 5
 1,428
Other comprehensive earnings/(losses),
net of income taxes

 
 
 (176) 
 (9) (185)
Exercise of stock options and issuance of other stock awards
 28
 (15) 
 70
 
 83
Common Stock repurchased
 
 
 
 (206) 
 (206)
Cash dividends declared ($0.285 per share)
 
 (411) 
 
 
 (411)
Dividends paid on noncontrolling interest
and other activities

 
 
 
 
 (9) (9)
Balances at September 30, 2019$
 $31,998
 $26,345
 $(10,717) $(20,820) $68
 $26,874
Nine Months Ended September 30, 2019             
Balances at January 1, 2019$
 $31,961
 $24,491
 $(10,630) $(20,185) $76
 $25,713
Comprehensive earnings/(losses):             
Net earnings
 
 3,144
 
 
 12
 3,156
Other comprehensive earnings/(losses),
net of income taxes

 
 
 (87) 
 (8) (95)
Exercise of stock options and issuance of other stock awards
 37
 (126) 
 512
 
 423
Common Stock repurchased
 
 
 
 (1,147) 
 (1,147)
Cash dividends declared ($0.805 per share)
 
 (1,164) 
 
 
 (1,164)
Dividends paid on noncontrolling interest
and other activities

 
 
 
 
 (12) (12)
Balances at September 30, 2019$
 $31,998
 $26,345
 $(10,717) $(20,820) $68
 $26,874
Three Months Ended September 30, 2018             
Balances at July 1, 2018$
 $31,913
 $23,290
 $(10,523) $(19,489) $84
 $25,275
Comprehensive earnings/(losses):                          
Net earnings
 
 807
 
 
 1
 808

 
 1,194
 
 
 3
 1,197
Other comprehensive earnings/(losses),
net of income taxes

 
 
 (43) 
 2
 (41)
 
 
 (119) 
 (3) (122)
Exercise of stock options and issuance of other stock awards
 37
 (35) 
 153
 
 155

 19
 (30) 
 67
 
 56
Common Stock repurchased
 
 
 
 (276) 
 (276)
 
 
 
 (486) 
 (486)
Cash dividends declared ($0.26 per share)
 
 (378) 
 
 
 (378)
 
 (379) 
 
 
 (379)
Dividends paid on noncontrolling interest
and other activities

 
 
 
 
 (3) (3)
 
 
 
 
 (9) (9)
Balances at June 30, 2019$
 $31,970
 $25,348
 $(10,541) $(20,684) $81
 $26,174
Six Months Ended June 30, 2019             
Balances at January 1, 2019$
 $31,961
 $24,491
 $(10,630) $(20,185) $76
 $25,713
Comprehensive earnings/(losses):             
Net earnings
 
 1,721
 
 
 7
 1,728
Other comprehensive earnings/(losses),
net of income taxes

 
 
 89
 
 1
 90
Exercise of stock options and issuance of other stock awards
 9
 (111) 
 442
 
 340
Common Stock repurchased
 
 
 
 (941) 
 (941)
Cash dividends declared ($0.52 per share)
 
 (753) 
 
 
 (753)
Dividends paid on noncontrolling interest
and other activities

 
 
 
 
 (3) (3)
Balances at June 30, 2019$
 $31,970
 $25,348
 $(10,541) $(20,684) $81
 $26,174
Three Months Ended June 30, 2018             
Balances at April 1, 2018$
 $31,876
 $23,305
 $(9,854) $(18,881) $98
 $26,544
Comprehensive earnings/(losses):             
Net earnings
 
 318
 
 
 2
 320
Other comprehensive earnings/(losses),
net of income taxes

 
 
 (669) 
 (12) (681)
Exercise of stock options and issuance of other stock awards
 37
 (9) 
 42
 
 70
Common Stock repurchased
 
 
 
 (650) 
 (650)
Cash dividends declared ($0.22 per share)
 
 (324) 
 
 
 (324)
Dividends paid on noncontrolling interest
and other activities

 
 
 
 
 (4) (4)
Balances at June 30, 2018$
 $31,913
 $23,290
 $(10,523) $(19,489) $84
 $25,275
Six Months Ended June 30, 2018             
Balances at September 30, 2018$
 $31,932
 $24,075
 $(10,642) $(19,908) $75
 $25,532
Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018             
Balances at January 1, 2018$
 $31,915
 $22,631
 $(9,997) $(18,555) $80
 $26,074
$
 $31,915
 $22,631
 $(9,997) $(18,555) $80
 $26,074
Comprehensive earnings/(losses):                          
Net earnings
 
 1,364
 
 
 8
 1,372

 
 2,558
 
 
 11
 2,569
Other comprehensive earnings/(losses),
net of income taxes

 
 
 (526) 
 3
 (523)
 
 
 (645) 
 
 (645)
Exercise of stock options and issuance of other stock awards
 (2) (60) 
 216
 
 154

 17
 (90) 
 283
 
 210
Common Stock repurchased
 
 
 
 (1,150) 
 (1,150)
 
 
 
 (1,636) 
 (1,636)
Cash dividends declared ($0.44 per share)
 
 (651) 
 
 
 (651)
Cash dividends declared ($0.70 per share)
 
 (1,030)��
 
 
 (1,030)
Dividends paid on noncontrolling interest
and other activities

 
 6
 
 
 (7) (1)
 
 6
 
 
 (16) (10)
Balances at June 30, 2018$
 $31,913
 $23,290
 $(10,523) $(19,489) $84
 $25,275
Balances at September 30, 2018$
 $31,932
 $24,075
 $(10,642) $(19,908) $75
 $25,532


See accompanying notes to the condensed consolidated financial statements.

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Mondelēz International, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
(in millions of U.S. dollars)
(Unaudited)
For the Six Months Ended
June 30,
For the Nine Months Ended
September 30,
2019 20182019 2018
CASH PROVIDED BY/(USED IN) OPERATING ACTIVITIES      
Net earnings$1,728
 $1,372
$3,156
 $2,569
Adjustments to reconcile net earnings to operating cash flows:      
Depreciation and amortization517
 407
777
 613
Stock-based compensation expense71
 67
101
 92
U.S. tax reform transition tax2
 86
2
 89
Deferred income tax provision/(benefit)36
 (15)(738) 179
Asset impairments and accelerated depreciation4
 43
103
 120
Loss on early extinguishment of debt
 140

 140
Net gain on divestiture(41) 
(44) 
Net loss on equity method investment transactions2
 
Net loss/(gain) on equity method investment transactions2
 (757)
Equity method investment net earnings(226) (319)(337) (399)
Distributions from equity method investments188
 151
217
 151
Other non-cash items, net(46) 366
70
 344
Change in assets and liabilities, net of acquisitions and divestitures:      
Receivables, net135
 112
(217) (230)
Inventories, net(145) (240)(219) (431)
Accounts payable(430) (325)(259) (143)
Other current assets(20) (41)(113) 41
Other current liabilities(638) (481)(499) (320)
Change in pension and postretirement assets and liabilities, net(91) (141)(120) (173)
Net cash provided by operating activities1,046
 1,182
1,882
 1,885
CASH PROVIDED BY/(USED IN) INVESTING ACTIVITIES      
Capital expenditures(465) (532)(686) (810)
Acquisition, net of cash received
 (528)(284) (528)
Proceeds from divestiture, net of disbursements163
 
166
 
Proceeds from sale of property, plant and equipment and other35
 19
69
 136
Net cash used in investing activities(267) (1,041)(735) (1,202)
CASH PROVIDED BY/(USED IN) FINANCING ACTIVITIES      
Issuances of commercial paper, maturities greater than 90 days809
 1,315
809
 2,433
Repayments of commercial paper, maturities greater than 90 days(2,169) (1,020)(2,367) (1,494)
Net issuances of other short-term borrowings1,958
 298
1,637
 403
Long-term debt proceeds597
 2,948
1,596
 2,948
Long-term debt repaid(409) (1,442)(415) (1,821)
Repurchase of Common Stock(940) (1,177)(1,143) (1,650)
Dividends paid(756) (657)(1,131) (980)
Other271
 124
328
 154
Net cash (used in)/provided by financing activities(639) 389
Net cash used in financing activities(686) (7)
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents8
 (45)(24) (64)
Cash and cash equivalents:      
Increase148
 485
437
 612
Balance at beginning of period1,100
 761
1,100
 761
Balance at end of period$1,248
 $1,246
$1,537
 $1,373

See accompanying notes to the condensed consolidated financial statements.

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Mondelēz International, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
(Unaudited)
Note 1. Basis of Presentation

Our interim condensed consolidated financial statements are unaudited. Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in annual financial statements prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) have been omitted. It is management’s opinion that these financial statements include all normal and recurring adjustments necessary for a fair presentation of our results of operations, financial position and cash flows. Results of operations for any interim period are not necessarily indicative of future or annual results. For a complete set of consolidated financial statements and related notes, refer to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018.

Principles of Consolidation:
The condensed consolidated financial statements include Mondelēz International, Inc. as well as our wholly owned and majority owned subsidiaries, except our Venezuelan subsidiaries that were deconsolidated in 2015. All intercompany transactions are eliminated. The noncontrolling interest represents the noncontrolling investors' interests in the results of subsidiaries that we control and consolidate. We account for investments over which we exercise significant influence under the equity method of accounting. Investments over which we do not have significant influence or control are not material and are carried at cost as there is no readily determinable fair value for the equity interests.

Currency Translation and Highly Inflationary Accounting:
We translate the results of operations of our subsidiaries from multiple currencies using average exchange rates during each period and translate balance sheet accounts using exchange rates at the end of each period. We record currency translation adjustments as a component of equity (except for highly inflationary currencies) and realized exchange gains and losses on transactions in earnings.

Highly inflationary accounting is triggered when a country’s three-year cumulative inflation rate exceeds 100%. It requires the remeasurement of financial statements of subsidiaries in the country from the functional currency of the subsidiary to our U.S. dollar reporting currency, with currency remeasurement gains or losses recorded in earnings. As discussed below, beginning on July 1, 2018, we began to apply highly inflationary accounting for our operations in Argentina.

Argentina. During the second quarter of 2018, primarily based on published estimates that indicated that Argentina's three-year cumulative inflation rate exceeded 100%, we concluded that Argentina became a highly inflationary economy for accounting purposes. As of July 1, 2018, we began to apply highly inflationary accounting for our Argentinian subsidiaries and changed their functional currency from the Argentinian peso to the U.S. dollar. On July 1, 2018, both monetary and non-monetary assets and liabilities denominated in Argentinian pesos were remeasured into U.S. dollars using the exchange rate as of the balance sheet date, with remeasurement and other transaction gains and losses recorded in net earnings. As of JuneSeptember 30, 2019, our Argentinian operations had $12$2 million of Argentinian peso denominated net monetary liabilities.assets. Our Argentinian operations contributed $99$98 million, or 1.6%1.5% of consolidated net revenues in the three months and $199$297 million, or 1.6%, of consolidated net revenues in the sixnine months ended JuneSeptember 30, 2019. WeWithin selling, general and administrative expenses, we recorded a remeasurement gain of $1 million during the three months ended June 30, 2019 and a remeasurement loss of $1 million during the sixthree months and $2 million during the nine months ended JuneSeptember 30, 2019 within selling, generalas well as a remeasurement loss of $13 million during the three and administrative expensesnine months ended September 30, 2018 related to the revaluation of the Argentinian peso denominated net monetary assets.position over these periods.

Brexit. In the sixnine months ended JuneSeptember 30, 2019, we generated 8.4% of our consolidated net revenues in the United Kingdom. We continue to monitor developments related to the U.K. planned exit from the European Union ("Brexit"),. The European Union approved an extension of the Brexit deadline for which has been extended through OctoberJanuary 31, 2019.2020. We continue to take protective measures in response to the potential impacts on our results of operations and financial condition. Following the Brexit vote in June 2016, there was significant volatility in the global stock markets and currency exchange rates. The value of the British pound sterling relative to the U.S. dollar declined significantly and negatively affected our translated results reported in U.S. dollars. If the ultimate terms of the United Kingdom’s separation from the European Union negatively impact the U.K. economy or result in disruptions to sales or our supply chain, the impact to our results of operations and financial condition could be material. We have taken measures to increase our resources in customer service & logistics together with increasing our inventory levels of

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imported raw materials, packaging and finished goods in the United Kingdom to help us manage through the Brexit transition and the inherent risks.

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Other Countries. SinceAs we sell our products in over 150 countries and have operations in over 80 countries, we monitor economic and currency-related risks and seek to take protective measures in response to these exposures. Some of the countries in which we do business have recently experienced periods of significant economic uncertainty and exchange rate volatility, including Brazil, China, Mexico, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa and Pakistan. We continue to monitor operations, currencies and net monetary exposures in these countries. At this time, we do not anticipate that these countries are at risk of becoming highly inflationary countries.

Transfers of Financial Assets:
We account for transfers of financial assets, such as uncommitted revolving non-recourse accounts receivable factoring arrangements, when we have surrendered control over the related assets. Determining whether control has transferred requires an evaluation of relevant legal considerations, an assessment of the nature and extent of our continuing involvement with the assets transferred and any other relevant considerations. We use receivable factoring arrangements periodically when circumstances are favorable to manage liquidity. We have non-recourse factoring arrangements in which we sell eligible trade receivables primarily to banks in exchange for cash. We may then continue to collect the receivables sold, acting solely as a collecting agent on behalf of the banks. The outstanding principal amount of receivables under these arrangements amounted to $712$745 million as of JuneSeptember 30, 2019 and $819 million as of December 31, 2018. The incremental cost of factoring receivables under this arrangement was not material for all periods presented. The proceeds from the sales of receivables are included in cash from operating activities in the condensed consolidated statements of cash flows.

Leases:
We determine whether a contract is or contains a lease at contract inception. On January 1, 2019, we began to record operating leases on our condensed consolidated balance sheet. We elected not to recognize right-of-use ("ROU") assets and lease liabilities for short-term operating leases with terms of 12 months or less. Long-term operating lease ROU assets and long-term operating lease liabilities are presented separately and operating lease liabilities payable in the next twelve months are recorded in other current liabilities. Finance lease ROU assets continue to be presented in property, plant and equipment and the related finance lease liabilities continue to be presented in the current portion of long-term debt and long-term debt.

Lease ROU assets represent our right to use an underlying asset for the lease term and lease liabilities represent our obligation to make lease payments arising from the lease. ROU assets are recognized at commencement date at the value of the lease liability, adjusted for any prepayments, lease incentives received and initial direct costs incurred. Lease liabilities are recognized at commencement date based on the present value of remaining lease payments over the lease term. The non-recurring fair value measurement is classified as Level 3 as no fair value inputs are observable. As the rate implicit in the lease is not readily determinable in most of our leases, we use our country-specific incremental borrowing rate based on the lease term using information available at commencement date in determining the present value of lease payments. Our lease terms may include options to extend or terminate the lease when it is reasonably certain that we will exercise that option. Many of our leases contain non-lease components (e.g. product costs, common-area or other maintenance costs) that relate to the lease components of the agreement. Non-lease components and the lease components to which they relate are accounted for as a single lease component as we have elected to combine lease and non-lease components for all classes of underlying assets.

Amortization of ROU lease assets is calculated on a straight-line basis over the lease term with the expense recorded in cost of sales or selling, general and administrative expenses depending on the nature of the leased item. Interest expense is recorded over the lease term and is recorded in interest expense (based on a front-loaded interest expense pattern) for finance leases and is recorded in cost of sales or selling, general and administrative expenses (on a straight-line basis) for operating leases. All operating lease cash payments and interest on finance leases are recorded within cash flows from operating activities and all finance lease principal payments are recorded within cash flows from financing activities in the condensed consolidated statements of cash flows.


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New Accounting Pronouncements:
In August 2018, the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") issued an Accounting Standards Update ("ASU") that aligns the requirements for capitalizing implementation costs incurred in a hosting arrangement that is a service contract with the requirements for capitalizing implementation costs for internal-use software. This ASU is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019, with early adoption permitted. We are currently assessing theexpect to adopt this ASU on January 1, 2020. This ASU is not expected to have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements.


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In August 2018, the FASB issued an ASU that modifies the disclosure requirements for employers that sponsor defined benefit pension or other postretirement plans. The ASU is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019, with early adoption permitted. We expect to adopt this ASU on January 1, 2020. The new standard may impact our disclosures and is not expected to have an impact on our consolidated financial statements.

In August 2018, the FASB issued an ASU that modifies the disclosure requirements on fair value measurements. The ASU is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019, with early adoption permitted. We expect to adopt this ASU on January 1, 2020. The new standard may impact our disclosures and is not expected to have an impact on our consolidated financial statements.

In February 2018, the FASB issued an ASU that permits entities to elect a reclassification from accumulated other comprehensive income to retained earnings for stranded tax effects resulting from the 2017 enactment of U.S. tax reform legislation. The ASU is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, with early adoption permitted. We did not elect to reclassify these stranded tax effects from U.S. tax reform when we adopted this ASU in the first quarter of 2019. As such, this ASU did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements. Our policy is to release stranded tax effects from accumulated other comprehensive income under the portfolio method rather than on an individual item by item basis.

In June 2016, the FASB issued an ASU on the measurement of credit losses on financial instruments. This ASU requires entities to measure the impairment of certain financial instruments, including trade receivables, based on expected losses rather than incurred losses. This ASU is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019, with early adoption permitted for financial statement periods beginning after December 15, 2018. We are currently assessing the guidance.expect to adopt this ASU on January 1, 2020. This ASU is not expected to have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements.

In February 2016, the FASB issued an ASU on lease accounting to increase transparency and comparability among organizations by requiring the recognition of ROU assets and lease liabilities on the balance sheet and disclosing key information about leasing arrangements. The ASU revises existing U.S. GAAP and outlines a new model for lessors and lessees to use in accounting for lease contracts. The guidance requires lessees to recognize a ROU asset and a lease liability on the balance sheet for all leases, with the exception of short-term leases. In the statement of earnings, lessees will classify leases as either operating or financing. In July 2018, the FASB issued an ASU that allows for an alternative transition approach, which does not require adjustments to comparative prior-period amounts. The ASU is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, with early adoption permitted. We adopted the new standard on January 1, 2019. We elected to apply the package of practical expedients that allowed us not to reassess the lease classification and initial direct costs for expired or existing leases or whether expired or existing contracts contain leases. We elected not to separate non-lease components from lease components and to account for both as a single lease component by class of the underlying asset.

The impact of adopting the standard included the initial recognition as of January 1, 2019, of $710 million of lease related assets and $730 million of lease related liabilities on our condensed consolidated balance sheet. The transition method we elected for adoption requires a cumulative effect adjustment to retained earnings as of January 1, 2019, which was not material.

Reclassifications:
Certain amounts previously reported have been reclassified to conform to current-year presentation. During the third quarter of 2018, in connection with the Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. transaction, we changed our accounting principle to reflect our share of Keurig Green Mountain Inc.’s historical results and Keurig Dr Pepper Inc.'s ongoing results on a one-quarter lag basis while we continue to record dividends when cash is received. This change was applied retrospectively to all periods presented. Refer to Note 7, Equity Method Investments, for more information.

Note 2. Divestitures and Acquisitions

On July 16, 2019, we acquired a majority interest in a U.S. refrigerated nutrition bar company, Perfect Snacks, within our North America segment for $284 million cash paid, net of cash received, and expanded our position in broader snacking. We are working to complete the valuation work and have recorded a preliminary purchase price allocation of $31 million to definite-lived intangible assets, $107 million to indefinite-lived intangible assets, $150 million to goodwill, $1 million to property, plant and equipment, $12 million to inventory, $8 million to accounts receivable, $13 million to current liabilities, $3 million to deferred tax liabilities and $9 million to other liabilities. The

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acquisition added incremental net revenues of $26 million and an immaterial amount of incremental operating income during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019.

On May 28, 2019, we completed the sale of most of our cheese business in the Middle East and Africa to Arla Foods of Denmark. WeThrough September 30, 2019, we received cash proceeds of $158$161 million and divested $19 million of current assets and $96 million of non-current assets. We also paid $2 million of transaction costs and recorded a net pre-tax gain of $41$44 million on the sale. We also incurred divestiture-related costs of $11 million in the three months and $10 million in the six months ended June 30, 2019.


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On June 7, 2018, we acquired a U.S. premium biscuit company, Tate’s Bake Shop, within our North America segment for $527and extended our premium biscuit offering. During the second quarter of 2018, we paid $528 million, cash paid, net of cash received, and extended our premium biscuit offerings. We accounted forduring the transaction as a business combination. Assecond quarter of June 30, 2019, we finalized ourthe purchase price allocation and there were no significant changes to the net assets previously recorded.at $527 million. The final purchase price allocation included $45 million to definite-lived intangible assets, $205 million to indefinite-lived intangible assets, $297 million to goodwill, $16 million to property, plant and equipment, $5 million to inventory, $9 million to accounts receivable, $7 million to current liabilities and $43 million to deferred tax liabilities. TheThrough the one-year anniversary of the acquisition, Tate's added incremental net revenues of $35 million and an immaterial amount of incremental operating income of $4 million in 2019 through the anniversary of the acquisition date.income.

Note 3. Inventories

Inventories consisted of the following:
As of June 30,
2019
 As of December 31,
2018
As of September 30,
2019
 As of December 31,
2018
(in millions)(in millions)
Raw materials$722
 $726
$700
 $726
Finished product2,129
 1,987
2,150
 1,987
2,851
 2,713
2,850
 2,713
Inventory reserves(120) (121)(108) (121)
Inventories, net$2,731
 $2,592
$2,742
 $2,592


Note 4. Property, Plant and Equipment

Property, plant and equipment consisted of the following:
As of June 30,
2019
 As of December 31,
2018
As of September 30,
2019
 As of December 31,
2018
(in millions)(in millions)
Land and land improvements$422
 $424
$405
 $424
Buildings and building improvements3,017
 2,984
2,953
 2,984
Machinery and equipment10,918
 10,943
10,822
 10,943
Construction in progress854
 894
788
 894
15,211
 15,245
14,968
 15,245
Accumulated depreciation(6,661) (6,763)(6,652) (6,763)
Property, plant and equipment, net$8,550
 $8,482
$8,316
 $8,482


For the sixnine months ended JuneSeptember 30, 2019, capital expenditures of $465$686 million excluded $217$203 million of accrued capital expenditures remaining unpaid at JuneSeptember 30, 2019 and included payment for $331 million of capital expenditures that were accrued and unpaid at December 31, 2018. For the sixnine months ended JuneSeptember 30, 2018, capital expenditures of $532$810 million excluded $268$249 million of accrued capital expenditures remaining unpaid at JuneSeptember 30, 2018 and included payment for $357 million of capital expenditures that were accrued and unpaid at December 31, 2017.


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In connection with our restructuring program, we recorded non-cash property, plant and equipment write-downs (including accelerated depreciation and asset impairments) in the condensed consolidated statements of earnings within asset impairment and exit costs and within the segment results as follows (refer to Note 8, Restructuring Program).
For the Three Months Ended
June 30,
 For the Six Months Ended
June 30,
For the Three Months Ended
September 30,
 For the Nine Months Ended
September 30,
2019 2018 2019 20182019 2018 2019 2018
(in millions)(in millions)
Latin America$
 $6
 $1
 $14
$1
 $4
 $1
 $18
AMEA(3) 4
 (2) 8
(5) (4) (7) 4
Europe1
 1
 2
 6
42
 9
 45
 15
North America1
 2
 4
 8
1
 (4) 5
 5
Non-cash property, plant and equipment write-downs$(1) $13
 $5
 $36
$39
 $5
 $44
 $42


Note 5. Leases

We have operating and finance leases for manufacturing and distribution facilities, vehicles, equipment and office space. Our leases have remaining lease terms of 1 to 910 years, some of which include options to extend the leases for up to 6 years. We assume the majority of our termination options will not be exercised when determining the lease term of our leases. We do not include significant restrictions or covenants in our lease agreements, and residual value guarantees are generally not included within our operating leases, with the exception of some fleet leases. Some of our leasing arrangements require variable payments that are dependent on usage or output or may vary for other reasons, such as product costs, insurance and tax payments. These variable payment leases are not included in our recorded lease assets and liabilities and are expensed as incurred. Certain leases are tied to a variable index or rate and are included in our lease assets and liabilities based on the indices or rates as of lease commencement.

The components of lease costs were as follows:
For the Three Months Ended
June 30, 2019
 For the Six Months Ended
June 30, 2019
For the Three Months Ended
September 30, 2019
 For the Nine Months Ended
September 30, 2019
(in millions)(in millions)
Operating lease cost$56
 $115
$53
 $168
      
Finance lease cost:      
Amortization of right-of-use assets6
 10
8
 18
Interest on lease liabilities
 1
1
 2
      
Short-term lease cost11
 20
8
 28
Variable lease cost105
 205
114
 319
      
Sublease income(1) (2)(1) (3)
      
Total lease cost$177
 $349
$183
 $532


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Supplemental cash flow information related to leases was as follows:
For the Six Months Ended
June 30, 2019
For the Nine Months Ended
September 30, 2019
(in millions)(in millions)
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities:  
Operating cash flows from operating leases$(135)$(187)
Operating cash flows from finance leases(1)(2)
Financing cash flows from finance leases(9)(15)
  
Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for lease obligations:  
Operating leases$78
$91
Finance leases17
48


Supplemental balance sheet information related to leases was as follows:
As of June 30, 2019As of September 30, 2019
(in millions)(in millions)
Operating Leases:  
Operating lease right-of-use assets, net of amortization$637
$596
  
Other current liabilities$197
$173
Operating lease liabilities447
429
Total operating lease liabilities$644
$602
  
Finance Leases:  
Finance leases, net of amortization (within property, plant & equipment)$58
$79
  
Other current liabilities$21
$24
Other long-term liabilities40
58
Total finance lease liabilities$61
$82
  
Weighted Average Remaining Lease Term  
Operating leases5.0 years
5.4 years
Finance leases3.1 years
4.6 years
  
Weighted Average Discount Rate  
Operating leases3.5%3.5%
Finance leases4.8%4.2%



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Future lease payments under non-cancelable leases under prior lease accounting rules (ASC 840) and under the new lease accounting rules (ASC 842) that went into effect on January 1, 2019 were as follows:
As of June 30, 2019 
As of December 31,
2018
As of September 30, 2019 
As of December 31,
2018
ASC 842 ASC 840ASC 842 ASC 840
Operating Leases Finance Leases Operating LeasesOperating Leases Finance Leases Operating Leases
(in millions)(in millions)
Year Ending December 31:          
2019 (excluding the six months ended June 30, 2019)$113
 $13
  
2019 (excluding the nine months ended September 30, 2019)$43
 $7
  
2019    $208
    $208
2020193
 23
 165
191
 29
 165
2021137
 18
 114
139
 24
 114
202296
 7
 79
99
 12
 79
202363
 2
 57
69
 7
 57
Thereafter120
 1
 157
150
 11
 157
Total future undiscounted lease payments$722
 $64
 $780
$691
 $90
 $780
Less imputed interest(78) (3)  (89) (8)  
Total reported lease liability$644
 $61
  $602
 $82
  


In 2020, we expect to record a $46$44 million operating lease liability for a 15 year lease that has not yet commenced.

Note 6. Goodwill and Intangible Assets

Goodwill by segment was:
As of June 30,
2019
 As of December 31,
2018
As of September 30,
2019
 As of December 31,
2018
(in millions)(in millions)
Latin America$833
 $823
$792
 $823
AMEA3,169
 3,210
3,098
 3,210
Europe7,499
 7,519
7,234
 7,519
North America9,200
 9,173
9,341
 9,173
Goodwill$20,701
 $20,725
$20,465
 $20,725


Intangible assets consisted of the following:
As of June 30,
2019
 As of December 31,
2018
As of September 30,
2019
 As of December 31,
2018
(in millions)(in millions)
Non-amortizable intangible assets$17,229
 $17,201
$16,958
 $17,201
Amortizable intangible assets2,331
 2,328
2,311
 2,328
19,560
 19,529
19,269
 19,529
Accumulated amortization(1,617) (1,527)(1,627) (1,527)
Intangible assets, net$17,943
 $18,002
$17,642
 $18,002


Non-amortizable intangible assets consist principally of brand names purchased through our acquisitions of Nabisco Holdings Corp., the Spanish and Portuguese operations of United Biscuits, the global LU biscuit business of Groupe Danone S.A. and Cadbury Limited. Amortizable intangible assets consist primarily of trademarks,brands, customer-related intangibles, process technology, licenses and non-compete agreements.

Amortization expense for intangible assets was $43 million for the three months and $87$130 million for the sixnine months ended JuneSeptember 30, 2019 and $44 million for the three months and $88$132 million for the sixnine months ended JuneSeptember 30, 2018.

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approximately $170 million for the next two years and approximately $85 million in years three to five (reflecting JuneSeptember 30, 2019 exchange rates).

Changes in goodwill and intangible assets consisted of:
Goodwill 
Intangible
Assets, at cost
Goodwill 
Intangible
Assets, at cost
(in millions)(in millions)
Balance at January 1, 2019$20,725
 $19,529
$20,725
 $19,529
Currency20
 31
(366) (341)
Divestitures(43) 
Divestiture(43) 
Acquisition(1) 
149
 138
Balance at June 30, 2019$20,701
 $19,560
Asset impairments
 (57)
Balance at September 30, 2019$20,465
 $19,269


Changes to goodwill and intangibles were:
Divestiture – During the second quarter of 2019, we divested the net assets of most of our cheese business in the Middle East and Africa to Arla Foods of Denmark resulting in a goodwill decrease of $43 million. See Note 2, Divestitures and Acquisitions, for additional information.
Acquisition – In connection with the acquisition of a majority interest in Perfect Snacks during the third quarter of 2019, we recorded a preliminary purchase price allocation of $150 million to goodwill and $138 million to intangible assets. In the second quarter of 2019, we also finalized the purchase price allocation for the 2018 acquisition of Tate's Bake Shop, resulting in a $1 million adjustment to goodwill. See Note 2, Divestitures and Acquisitions, for additional information.
Asset impairments – During the third quarter of 2019, we recorded $57 million of intangible asset impairments related to our annual testing of non-amortizable intangible assets as described further below.

Our annual impairment assessment test for goodwill and non-amortizable intangible assets was performed as of July 1, 2019. As part of our goodwill quantitative annual impairment testing, we compare a reporting unit's estimated fair value with its carrying value to evaluate the risk of potential goodwill impairment. We estimate a reporting unit's fair value using a discounted cash flow method that incorporates planned growth rates, market-based discount rates and estimates of residual value. This year, for our Europe and North America reporting units, we used a market based, weighted-average cost of capital of 5.9% to discount the projected cash flows of those operations. For our Latin America and AMEA reporting units, we used a risk-rated discount rate of 8.9%. Estimating the fair value of individual reporting units requires us to make assumptions and estimates regarding our future plans and industry and economic conditions, and our actual results and conditions may differ over time. If the carrying value of a reporting unit's net assets exceeds its fair value, we would record an impairment based on the difference between the carrying value and fair value of the reporting unit.

In 2019, there were 0 goodwill impairments and each of our reporting units had sufficient fair value in excess of its carrying value. While all reporting units passed our annual impairment testing, if planned business performance expectations are not met or specific valuation factors outside of our control, such as discount rates, change significantly, then the estimated fair values of a reporting unit or reporting units might decline and lead to a goodwill impairment in the future.

During our 20182019 annual testing of non-amortizable intangible assets, we recorded $68$57 million of impairment charges in the third quarter of 20182019 related to five trademarks.9 brands. The impairments arose due to lower than expected brand earnings growth. We recorded charges related to gum, chocolate, biscuits and candy trademarksbrands of $45$39 million in Europe, $14$15 million in North AmericaAMEA and $9$3 million in AMEA.Latin America. The impairment charges were calculated as the excess of the carrying value over the estimated fair value of the intangible assets on a global basis and were recorded within asset impairment and exit costs. We use several accepted valuation methods, including relief of royalty, excess earnings and excess margin, that utilize estimates of future sales, earnings growth rates, royalty rates and discount rates in determining a brand's global fair value. We also identified seven14 brands, including the five9 impaired trademarks,brands, with $536$619 million of aggregate book value as of JuneSeptember 30, 2019, that each had a fair value in excess of book value of 10% or less. We believe our current plans for each of these brands will allow them to continue to not be impaired, but if the product linebrand earnings expectations are not met or specific valuation factors outside of our control, such as discount rates, change significantly, then a brand or brands could become impaired in the future.

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Note 7. Equity Method Investments

Our investments accounted for under the equity method of accounting totaled $7,095$7,040 million as of JuneSeptember 30, 2019 and $7,123 million as of December 31, 2018. Our largest investments are in Jacobs Douwe Egberts (“JDE”) and Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. (NYSE: "KDP”).

JDE:
As of JuneSeptember 30, 2019, we held a 26.5% voting interest, a 26.4% ownership interest and a 26.2%26.3% profit and dividend sharing interest in JDE. We recorded equity earnings of $53$49 million in the secondthird quarter of 2019 and $42$38 million in the secondthird quarter of 2018 and $103$152 million in the first sixnine months of 2019 and $88$126 million in the first sixnine months of 2018. We also recorded $73 million of cash dividends received during the first quarter of 2019 and $73 million of cash dividends received during the first quarter of 2018.

JDE / Keurig Exchange:
On March 7, 2016, we exchanged a portion of our 43.5% JDE equity interest for a new equity interest in Keurig Green Mountain, Inc. ("Keurig"). Following the transaction, our JDE equity interest became 26.5% and our new Keurig equity interest was 24.2%. During the first quarter of 2016, we recorded the difference between the $2.0 billion fair value of Keurig and our basis in the exchanged JDE shares as a gain of $43 million. In the second quarter of 2019, we determined an adjustment to accumulated other comprehensive losses related to our JDE investment was required, which reduced our previously reported gain by $29 million. We recorded the adjustment in the netas a loss on equity method transactions in the second quarter.

Keurig Dr Pepper Transaction:
On July 9, 2018, Keurig closed on its definitive merger agreement with Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc., and formed Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. (NYSE: "KDP"), a publicly traded company. Following the close of the transaction, our 24.2% investment in Keurig together with our shareholder loan receivable became a 13.8% investment in KDP. During the third quarter of 2018, we recorded a preliminary pre-tax gain of $778$757 million reported as a gain on equity method transaction and $192$184 million of deferred tax expense reported in the provision for income taxes (or $586$573 million after-tax gain) related to the change in our ownership interest.interest while KDP finalized the valuation for the transaction. During our fourth quarter of 2018, KDP finalized its opening balance sheet and we increased our pre-tax gain by $21 million (or $13 million after-tax) to $778 million (or $586 million after-tax) while recording $8 million of deferred tax expense related to the increase for a total deferred tax expense of $192 million for 2018.

We hold two2 director positions on the KDP board as well as additional governance rights. As we continue to have significant influence, we continue to account for our investment in KDP under the equity method, resulting in recognizing our share of their earnings within our earnings and our share of their dividends within our cash flows.


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In connection with this transaction, during the third quarter of 2018, we changed our accounting principle to reflect our share of Keurig's historical and KDP's ongoing earnings on a one-quarter lag basis while we continue to record dividends when cash is received. We determined a lag was preferable as it enables us to continue to report our quarterly and annual results on a timely basis and to record our share of KDP’s ongoing results once KDP has publicly reported its results. This change in accounting principle was applied retrospectively to all periods. While our operating income did not change, equity method investment net earnings, net earnings and earnings per share have been adjusted to reflect the lag across all reported periods.

The following tables show the primary line items on the condensed consolidated statements of earnings and comprehensive earnings that changed as a result of the lag. The condensed consolidated statements of cash flow and equity were also updated to reflect these changes.
 For the Three Months Ended
June 30, 2018
 For the Six Months Ended
June 30, 2018
 As Reported As Adjusted As Reported As Adjusted
 (in millions)
Statements of Earnings       
Provision for income taxes$(14) $(15) $(321) $(352)
Equity method investment net earnings91
 87
 185
 319
Net earnings325
 320
 1,269
 1,372
Net earnings attributable to
   Mondelēz International
323
 318
 1,261
 1,364
Earnings per share attributable to
   Mondelēz International:
       
Basic EPS$0.22
 $0.22
 $0.85
 $0.92
Diluted EPS$0.22
 $0.21
 $0.84
 $0.91
        
Statements of Other Comprehensive Earnings       
Currency translation adjustment$(874) $(876) $(667) $(666)
Total other comprehensive earnings/(losses)(680) (681) (525) (523)
Comprehensive earnings attributable to
   Mondelēz International
(345) (351) 733
 838


As of JuneSeptember 30, 2019, we held a 13.6% ownership interest in KDP. Our ownership interest in KDP may change over time due to stock-based compensation arrangements and other transactions by KDP. During the first quarter of 2019, we recognized a $23 million pre-tax gain related to the impact of a KDP acquisition that decreased our ownership interest from 13.8% to 13.6%. As of JuneSeptember 30, 2019, based on KDP's closing stock price, the fair value of our ownership interest in KDP was $5.5$5.2 billion, which exceeded the carrying value of our KDP investment.

We recorded equity earnings and cash dividends of $35$44 million and $28$29 million in the secondthird quarter of 2019 and equity earnings shareholder loan interest and cash dividends of $16 million, $6 million and $2$21 million in the secondthird quarter of 2018. We recorded equity earnings and cash dividends of $72$116 million and $57$86 million in the first sixnine months of 2019 and equity earnings, shareholder loan interest and cash dividends of $170$191 million, $12 million and $5 million in the first sixnine months of 2018.



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Note 8. Restructuring Program

On May 6, 2014, our Board of Directors approved a $3.5 billion 2014-2018 restructuring program and up to $2.2 billion of capital expenditures. On August 31, 2016, our Board of Directors approved a $600 million reallocation between restructuring program cash costs and capital expenditures so the $5.7 billion program consisted of approximately $4.1 billion of restructuring program charges ($3.1 billion cash costs and $1.0 billion non-cash costs) and up to $1.6 billion of capital expenditures. On September 6, 2018, our Board of Directors approved an extension of the restructuring program through 2022, an increase of $1.3 billion in the program charges and an increase of $700 million in capital expenditures. The total $7.7 billion program now consists of $5.4 billion of program charges ($4.1 billion of cash costs and $1.3 billion of non-cash costs) and total capital expenditures of $2.3 billion to be incurred over the life of the program. The current restructuring program, as increased and extended by these

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actions, is now called the Simplify to Grow Program.

The primary objective of the Simplify to Grow Program is to reduce our operating cost structure in both our supply chain and overhead costs. The program covers severance as well as asset disposals and other manufacturing and procurement-related one-time costs. Since inception, we have incurred total restructuring and related implementation charges of $4.1$4.2 billion related to the Simplify to Grow Program. We expect to incur the program charges by year-end 2022.

Restructuring Costs:
The Simplify to Grow Program liability activity for the sixnine months ended JuneSeptember 30, 2019 was:
Severance
and related
costs
 
Asset
Write-downs
 Total
Severance
and related
costs
 
Asset
Write-downs
 Total
(in millions)(in millions)
Liability balance, January 1, 2019$373
 $
 $373
$373
 $
 $373
Charges (1)
35
 5
 40
73
 44
 117
Cash spent(89) 
 (89)(124) 
 (124)
Non-cash settlements/adjustments (2)
(30) (5) (35)(32) (44) (76)
Currency(1) 
 (1)(12) 
 (12)
Liability balance, June 30, 2019$288
 $
 $288
Liability balance, September 30, 2019$278
 $
 $278


(1)Includes settlement losses of $5$7 million recorded within benefit plan non-service income on our condensed consolidated statements of earnings.
(2)We adopted the new ASU on lease accounting ASU as of January 1, 2019. The ASU requires recording onerous lease liabilities netted with right of use assets. Therefore, during the first quarter of 2019, we reclassified onerous lease liabilities that totaled $23 million as of March 31, 2019, from accrued liabilities and other accrued liabilities to operating lease right of use assets.

We recorded restructuring charges of $20$77 million in the secondthird quarter of 2019 and $112$56 million in the secondthird quarter of 2018 and $40$117 million in the first sixnine months of 2019 and $164$220 million in the first sixnine months of 2018 within asset impairment and exit costs and benefit plan non-service income. We spent $36$35 million in the secondthird quarter of 2019 and $82$70 million in the secondthird quarter of 2018 and $89$124 million in the first sixnine months of 2019 and $161$232 million in the first sixnine months of 2018 in cash severance and related costs. We also recognized non-cash pension settlement losses (See(refer to Note 11, Benefit Plans), non-cash asset write-downs (including accelerated depreciation and asset impairments) and other non-cash adjustments (including a transfer of onerous lease liabilities to operating lease ROU assets during the first quarter of 2019) totaling $6$41 million in the secondthird quarter of 2019 and $14$9 million in the secondthird quarter of 2018 and $35$76 million in the first sixnine months of 2019 and $39$48 million in the first sixnine months of 2018. At JuneSeptember 30, 2019, $248$246 million of our net restructuring liability was recorded within other current liabilities and $40$32 million was recorded within other long-term liabilities.


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Implementation Costs:
Implementation costs are directly attributable to restructuring activities; however, they do not qualify for special accounting treatment as exit or disposal activities. We believe the disclosure of implementation costs provides readers of our financial statements with more information on the total costs of our Simplify to Grow Program. Implementation costs primarily relate to reorganizing our operations and facilities in connection with our supply chain reinvention program and other identified productivity and cost saving initiatives. The costs include incremental expenses related to the closure of facilities, costs to terminate certain contracts and the simplification of our information systems. Within our continuing results of operations, we recorded implementation costs of $68$75 million in the secondthird quarter of 2019 and $70$83 million in the secondthird quarter of 2018 and $118$193 million in the first sixnine months of 2019 and $132$215 million in the first sixnine months of 2018. We recorded these costs within cost of sales and general corporate expense within selling, general and administrative expenses.


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Restructuring and Implementation Costs:
During the three and sixnine months ended JuneSeptember 30, 2019 and JuneSeptember 30, 2018, and since inception of the Simplify to Grow Program, we recorded the following restructuring and implementation costs within segment operating income and earnings before income taxes:
Latin
America
 AMEA Europe 
North
America (1)
 
Corporate (2)
 Total
Latin
America
 AMEA Europe 
North
America (1)
 
Corporate (2)
 Total
(in millions)(in millions)
For the Three Months Ended June 30, 2019           
For the Three Months Ended September 30, 2019           
Restructuring Costs$7
 $3
 $11
 $
 $(1) $20
$3
 $(3) $73
 $1
 $3
 $77
Implementation Costs13
 6
 17
 9
 23
 68
8
 9
 27
 9
 22
 75
Total$20
 $9
 $28
 $9
 $22
 $88
$11
 $6
 $100
 $10
 $25
 $152
For the Three Months Ended June 30, 2018           
For the Three Months Ended September 30, 2018           
Restructuring Costs$12
 $17
 $63
 $14
 $6
 $112
$11
 $27
 $26
 $(9) $1
 $56
Implementation Costs15
 8
 13
 21
 13
 70
16
 8
 16
 23
 20
 83
Total$27
 $25
 $76
 $35
 $19
 $182
$27
 $35
 $42
 $14
 $21
 $139
For the Six Months Ended June 30, 2019           
For the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2019           
Restructuring Costs$7
 $9
 $11
 $6
 $7
 $40
$10
 $6
 $84
 $7
 $10
 $117
Implementation Costs28
 13
 28
 13
 36
 118
36
 22
 55
 22
 58
 193
Total$35
 $22
 $39
 $19
 $43
 $158
$46
 $28
 $139
 $29
 $68
 $310
For the Six Months Ended June 30, 2018           
For the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018           
Restructuring Costs$36
 $23
 $70
 $26
 $9
 $164
$47
 $50
 $96
 $17
 $10
 $220
Implementation Costs30
 20
 29
 38
 15
 132
46
 28
 45
 61
 35
 215
Total$66
 $43
 $99
 $64
 $24
 $296
$93
 $78
 $141
 $78
 $45
 $435
Total Project (3)
                      
Restructuring Costs$500
 $526
 $982
 $459
 $123
 $2,590
$503
 $523
 $1,055
 $460
 $126
 $2,667
Implementation Costs247
 181
 373
 345
 314
 1,460
255
 190
 400
 354
 336
 1,535
Total$747
 $707
 $1,355
 $804
 $437
 $4,050
$758
 $713
 $1,455
 $814
 $462
 $4,202

(1)During 2019 and 2018, our North America region implementation costs included incremental costs that we incurred related to renegotiating collective bargaining agreements that expired in February 2016 for eight U.S. facilities and related to executing business continuity plans for the North America business.
(2)The Corporate column includes minor adjustments for pension settlement losses and rounding.
(3)Includes all charges recorded since program inception on May 6, 2014 through JuneSeptember 30, 2019.
 


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Note 9. Debt and Borrowing Arrangements

Short-Term Borrowings:
Our short-term borrowings and related weighted-average interest rates consisted of:
As of June 30, 2019 As of December 31, 2018As of September 30, 2019 As of December 31, 2018
Amount
Outstanding
 
Weighted-
Average Rate
 
Amount
Outstanding
 
Weighted-
Average Rate
Amount
Outstanding
 
Weighted-
Average Rate
 
Amount
Outstanding
 
Weighted-
Average Rate
(in millions)   (in millions)  (in millions)   (in millions)  
Commercial paper$3,543
 2.6% $3,054
 2.9%$3,080
 2.3% $3,054
 2.9%
Bank loans237
 14.4% 138
 10.5%173
 9.8% 138
 10.5%
Total short-term borrowings$3,780
   $3,192
  $3,253
   $3,192
  


As of JuneSeptember 30, 2019, commercial paper issued and outstanding had between 1 and 5972 days remaining to maturity. Commercial paper borrowings increased since year end primarily as a result of issuances to finance share repurchases during the year, dividend payments and the payment of long termlong-term debt maturities.

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Some of our international subsidiaries maintain primarily uncommitted credit lines to meet short-term working capital needs. Collectively, these credit lines amounted to $1.7$1.6 billion at JuneSeptember 30, 2019 and $1.7 billion at December 31, 2018. Borrowings on these lines were $237$173 million at JuneSeptember 30, 2019 and $138 million at December 31, 2018.

Borrowing Arrangements:
On September 13, 2019, Mondelez International Holdings Netherlands B.V. ("MIHNBV"), a wholly owned Dutch subsidiary of Mondelēz International, Inc., entered into a term loan agreement pursuant to which MIHNBV may incur up to $500 million of term loans with a three-year term and $500 million of term loans with a five-year term. Proceeds from the term loan may be used for general corporate purposes, including repayment of debt. As of September 30, 2019, 0 amounts were drawn on the term loans. On October 25, 2019, we fully drew on the term loans and received proceeds of $1.0 billion. We also entered into cross-currency swaps, serving as cash flow hedges, so that the U.S. dollar-denominated debt payments will effectively be paid in euros over the life of the debt.

On February 27, 2019, to supplement our commercial paper program, we entered into a $1.5 billion revolving credit agreement for a 364-day senior unsecured credit facility that is scheduled to expire on February 26, 2020. The agreement replaces our previous credit agreement that matured on February 27, 2019 and includes the same terms and conditions as our existing $4.5 billion multi-year credit facility discussed below. As of JuneSeptember 30, 2019, no0 amounts were drawn on the facility.

On February 27, 2019, we entered into a $4.5 billion multi-year senior unsecured revolving credit facility for general corporate purposes, including working capital needs, and to support our commercial paper program. This agreement replacesreplaced our $4.5 billion amended and restated five-year revolving credit agreement, dated as of October 14, 2016. The revolving credit agreement is scheduled to expire on February 27, 2024. The revolving credit agreement includes a covenant that we maintain a minimum shareholders' equity of at least $24.6 billion, excluding accumulated other comprehensive earnings/(losses), the cumulative effects of any changes in accounting principles and earnings/(losses) recognized in connection with the ongoing application of any mark-to-market accounting for pensions and other retirement plans. At JuneSeptember 30, 2019, we complied with this covenant as our shareholders' equity, as defined by the covenant, was $36.6$37.5 billion. The revolving credit facility also contains customary representations, covenants and events toof default. There are no credit rating triggers, provisions or other financial covenants that could require us to post collateral as security. As of JuneSeptember 30, 2019, no0 amounts were drawn on the facility.

Long-Term Debt:
On October 2, 2019, MIHNBV issued €500 million of 0.875% euro-denominated notes guaranteed by Mondelēz International, Inc. that mature on October 1, 2031. We received €491 million (or $538 million) of proceeds, net of discounts and associated financing costs. The proceeds are earmarked for general corporate purposes, including repayment of debt. This debt transaction, including the receipt of proceeds, was recorded during the fourth quarter of 2019.


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On September 19, 2019, MIHNBV issued $1.0 billion of U.S. dollar-denominated notes guaranteed by Mondelēz International, Inc. and consisting of $500 million 2.125% notes that mature on September 19, 2022 and $500 million 2.25% notes that mature on September 19, 2024. We received $997 million of proceeds, net of discounts and associated financing costs. The proceeds are earmarked for general corporate purposes, including repayment of debt. We recorded approximately $4 million of deferred financing costs and discounts, which will be amortized into interest expense over the life of the notes. In connection with this debt issuance, we entered into cross-currency swaps, serving as cash flow hedges, so that the U.S. dollar-denominated debt payments will effectively be paid in euros over the life of the debt.

On February 13, 2019, we issued $600 million of 3.625% U.S. dollar-denominated fixed-rate notes that are scheduled to mature February 13, 2026. We received $595 million of net proceeds of $595 million that were used to repay outstanding commercial paper borrowings and other debt. We recorded approximately $5 million of discounts and deferred financing costs, which will be amortized into interest expense over the life of the notes.

On February 1, 2019, $400 million of our U.S. dollar variable rate notes matured. The notes and accrued interest to date were paid with the issuance of commercial paper and cash on hand.

Our weighted-average interest rate on our total debt was 2.4%2.2% as of JuneSeptember 30, 2019, 2.3% as of December 31, 2018 and 2.1% as of December 31, 2017.

Fair Value of Our Debt:
The fair value of our short-term borrowings at JuneSeptember 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018 reflects current market interest rates and approximates the amounts we have recorded on our condensed consolidated balance sheets. The fair value of our long-term debt was determined using quoted prices in active markets (Level 1 valuation data) for the publicly traded debt obligations. At JuneSeptember 30, 2019, the aggregate fair value of our total debt was $20,009$20,527 million and its carrying value was $19,219$19,520 million. At December 31, 2018, the aggregate fair value of our total debt was $18,650 million and its carrying value was $18,372 million.

Interest and Other Expense, net:
Interest and other expense, net consisted of:
For the Three Months Ended
June 30,
 For the Six Months Ended
June 30,
For the Three Months Ended
September 30,
 For the Nine Months Ended
September 30,
2019 2018 2019 20182019 2018 2019 2018
(in millions)(in millions)
Interest expense, debt$127
 $115
 $250
 $217
$121
 $117
 $371
 $334
Loss on debt extinguishment
 140
 
 140

 
 
 140
Loss/(gain) related to interest rate swaps
 5
 
 (9)111
 (1) 111
 (10)
Other (income)/expense, net(26) (12) (69) (20)(27) (30) (96) (50)
Interest and other expense, net$101
 $248
 $181
 $328
$205
 $86
 $386
 $414



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Other income includes amounts related to our net investment hedge derivative contracts that are excluded from hedge effectiveness and totaled $34 million and $67$101 million for the three and sixnine months ended JuneSeptember 30, 2019 and $33$34 million and $50$84 million for the three and sixnine months ended JuneSeptember 30, 2018.


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Note 10. Financial Instruments

Fair Value of Derivative Instruments:
Derivative instruments were recorded at fair value in the condensed consolidated balance sheets as follows:
As of June 30, 2019 As of December 31, 2018As of September 30, 2019 As of December 31, 2018
Asset
Derivatives
 
Liability
Derivatives
 
Asset
Derivatives
 
Liability
Derivatives
Asset
Derivatives
 
Liability
Derivatives
 
Asset
Derivatives
 
Liability
Derivatives
(in millions)(in millions)
Derivatives designated as
accounting hedges:
              
Interest rate contracts$16
 $453
 $17
 $355
$51
 $153
 $17
 $355
Net investment hedge derivative contracts (1)
434
 10
 337
 28
574
 2
 337
 28
$450
 $463
 $354
 $383
$625
 $155
 $354
 $383
Derivatives not designated as
accounting hedges:
              
Currency exchange contracts$40
 $54
 $72
 $37
$102
 $50
 $72
 $37
Commodity contracts223
 170
 191
 210
249
 208
 191
 210
$263
 $224
 $263
 $247
$351
 $258
 $263
 $247
Total fair value$713
 $687
 $617
 $630
$976
 $413
 $617
 $630

(1)
Net investment hedge contracts consist of cross-currency interest rate swaps and forward contracts. We also designate some of our non-U.S. dollar denominated debt to hedge a portion of our net investments in our non-U.S. operations. This debt is not reflected in the table above, but is included in long-term debt discussed in Note 9, Debt and Borrowing Arrangements. Both net investment hedge derivative contracts and non-U.S. dollar denominated debt acting as net investment hedges are also disclosed in the Derivative Volume table and the Hedges of Net Investments in International Operations section appearing later in this footnote.

Derivatives designated as accounting hedges include cash flow and net investment hedge derivative contracts. Our economic hedges are derivatives not designated as accounting hedges. We record derivative assets and liabilities on a gross basis on our condensed consolidated balance sheets. The fair value of our asset derivatives is recorded within other current assets and the fair value of our liability derivatives is recorded within other current liabilities.

The fair values (asset/(liability)) of our derivative instruments were determined using:
As of June 30, 2019As of September 30, 2019
Total
Fair Value of Net
Asset/(Liability)
 
Quoted Prices in
Active Markets
for Identical
Assets
(Level 1)
 
Significant
Other Observable
Inputs
(Level 2)
 
Significant
Unobservable
Inputs
(Level 3)
Total
Fair Value of Net
Asset/(Liability)
 
Quoted Prices in
Active Markets
for Identical
Assets
(Level 1)
 
Significant
Other Observable
Inputs
(Level 2)
 
Significant
Unobservable
Inputs
(Level 3)
(in millions)(in millions)
Currency exchange contracts$(14) $
 $(14) $
$52
 $
 $52
 $
Commodity contracts53
 37
 16
 
41
 19
 22
 
Interest rate contracts(437) 
 (437) 
(102) 
 (102) 
Net investment hedge contracts424
 
 424
 
572
 
 572
 
Total derivatives$26
 $37
 $(11) $
$563
 $19
 $544
 $

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 As of December 31, 2018
 
Total
Fair Value of Net
Asset/(Liability)
 
Quoted Prices in
Active Markets
for Identical
Assets
(Level 1)
 
Significant
Other Observable
Inputs
(Level 2)
 
Significant
Unobservable
Inputs
(Level 3)
 (in millions)
Currency exchange contracts$35
 $
 $35
 $
Commodity contracts(19) (1) (18) 
Interest rate contracts(338) 
 (338) 
Net investment hedge contracts309
 
 309
 
Total derivatives$(13) $(1) $(12) $


Level 1 financial assets and liabilities consist of exchange-traded commodity futures and listed options. The fair value of these instruments is determined based on quoted market prices on commodity exchanges.

Level 2 financial assets and liabilities consist primarily of over-the-counter (“OTC”) currency exchange forwards, options and swaps; commodity forwards and options; and interest rate swaps. Our currency exchange contracts are valued using an income approach based on observable market forward rates less the contract rate multiplied by the notional amount. Commodity derivatives are valued using an income approach based on the observable market commodity index prices less the contract rate multiplied by the notional amount or based on pricing models that rely on market observable inputs such as commodity prices. Our calculation of the fair value of interest rate swaps is derived from a discounted cash flow analysis based on the terms of the contract and the observable market interest rate curve. Our calculation of the fair value of financial instruments takes into consideration the risk of nonperformance, including counterparty credit risk. Our OTC derivative transactions are governed by International Swap Dealers Association agreements and other standard industry contracts. Under these agreements, we do not post nor require collateral from our counterparties. The majority of our derivative contracts do not have a legal right of set-off. We manage the credit risk in connection with these and all our derivatives by entering into transactions with counterparties with investment grade credit ratings, limiting the amount of exposure with each counterparty and monitoring the financial condition of our counterparties.

Derivative Volume:
The notional values of our hedging instruments were:
Notional AmountNotional Amount
As of June 30, 2019 As of December 31, 2018As of September 30, 2019 As of December 31, 2018
(in millions)(in millions)
Currency exchange contracts:      
Intercompany loans and forecasted interest payments$3,707
 $3,239
$4,695
 $3,239
Forecasted transactions2,732
 2,396
3,976
 2,396
Commodity contracts587
 393
45
 393
Interest rate contracts7,661
 8,679
6,500
 8,679
Net investment hedges:      
Net investment hedge derivative contracts6,931
 6,678
6,651
 6,678
Non-U.S. dollar debt designated as net investment hedges      
Euro notes3,485
 3,514
3,340
 3,514
British pound sterling notes334
 336
324
 336
Swiss franc notes1,434
 1,424
1,403
 1,424
Canadian dollar notes458
 440
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 440



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Cash Flow Hedges:
Cash flow hedge activity, net of taxes, within accumulated other comprehensive earnings/(losses) included:
For the Three Months Ended
June 30,
 For the Six Months Ended
June 30,
For the Three Months Ended
September 30,
 For the Nine Months Ended
September 30,
2019 2018 2019 20182019 2018 2019 2018
(in millions)(in millions)
Accumulated (loss)/gain at beginning of period$(236) $(159) $(167) $(113)$(298) $(133) $(167) $(113)
Transfer of realized losses/(gains)
in fair value to earnings
12
 5
 12
 (9)111
 
 123
 (9)
Unrealized (loss)/gain in fair value(74) 21
 (143) (11)(68) 25
 (211) 14
Accumulated (loss)/gain at end of period$(298) $(133) $(298) $(133)$(255) $(108) $(255) $(108)


After-tax gains/(losses) reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive earnings/(losses) into net earnings were:
 For the Three Months Ended
June 30,
 For the Six Months Ended
June 30,
 2019 2018 2019 2018
 (in millions)
Interest rate contracts$(12) $(5) $(12) $9
 For the Three Months Ended
September 30,
 For the Nine Months Ended
September 30,
 2019 2018 2019 2018
 (in millions)
Interest rate contracts$(111) $
 $(123) $9

Within interest and other expense, net, we recognized a loss of $111 million in the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019 and gains of $1 million in the three months and $10 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2018 related to certain forward-starting interest rate swaps for which the planned timing and currency of the related forecasted debt was changed. We also recognized a loss of $12 million in the three and six months ended June 30,second quarter of 2019 in the net loss on equity method investment transactions. Refer to Note 7, Equity Method Investments - JDE / Keurig Exchange. We recognized a loss of $5 million in the three months and a gain of $9 million in the six months ended June 30, 2018 in interest and other expense, net related to certain forward-starting interest rate swaps for which the planned timing of the related forecasted debt was changed.

After-tax gains/(losses) recognized in other comprehensive earnings/(losses) were:
For the Three Months Ended
June 30,
 For the Six Months Ended
June 30,
For the Three Months Ended
September 30,
 For the Nine Months Ended
September 30,
2019 2018 2019 20182019 2018 2019 2018
(in millions)(in millions)
Currency exchange contracts –
forecasted transactions
$3
 $
 $3
 $
$
 $
 $3
 $
Interest rate contracts(77) 21
 (146) (11)(68) 25
 (214) 14
Total$(74) $21
 $(143) $(11)$(68) $25
 $(211) $14


We record pre-tax (i) gains or losses reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive earnings/(losses) into earnings, (ii) gains or losses on ineffectiveness and (iii) gains or losses on amounts excluded from effectiveness testing in:
cost of sales for currency exchange contracts related to forecasted transactions;
cost of sales for commodity contracts; and
interest and other expense, net for interest rate contracts and currency exchange contracts related to intercompany loans.

Based on current market conditions, we would expect to transfer losses of $89$6 million (net of taxes) for interest rate cash flow hedges to earnings during the next 12 months.

Cash Flow Hedge Coverage:
As of JuneSeptember 30, 2019, our longest dated cash flow hedges were interest rate swaps that hedge forecasted interest rate payments over the next 4 years and 411 months.


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Hedges of Net Investments in International Operations:

Net investment hedge ("NIH") derivative contracts:
We enter into cross-currency interest rate swaps and forwards to hedge certain investments in our non-U.S. operations against movements in exchange rates. The aggregate notional value as of JuneSeptember 30, 2019 was $6.9$6.7 billion. The after-tax unrealized gain/(loss) on theseimpacts of the net investment hedge derivative contracts was recorded in the cumulative translation adjustment section ofon other comprehensive incomeearnings and was $60 million for the three months and $74 million for the six months ended June 30, 2019 and $276 million for the three months and $265 million for the six months ended June 30, 2018. In addition, the after-tax realized gain/(loss) on net investment hedge contracts settled in the current period recorded in the cumulative translation adjustment section of other comprehensive income was $(7) million for the three months ended June 30, 2019. There were no after-tax gains/(losses) reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive earnings/(losses) into net earnings in the three and six months ended June 30, 2019 and June 30, 2018. We elected to record changes in the fair value of amounts excluded from the assessment of effectiveness in net earnings. Amounts excluded from the assessment of hedge effectiveness were $34 million for the three months and $67 million for the six months ended June 30, 2019 and $33 million for the three months and $50 million for the six months ended June 30, 2018 and were recorded as income in interest and other expense, net. The cash flows from these contracts are reported as other investing activities in the condensed consolidated statement of cash flows.follows:

 For the Three Months Ended
September 30,
 For the Nine Months Ended
September 30,
 2019 2018 2019 2018
 (in millions)
After-tax gain/(loss) on NIH contracts(1)
$193
 $22
 $260
 $281

(1)Amounts recorded for unsettled and settled NIH derivative contracts are recorded in the cumulative translation adjustment within other comprehensive earnings. The cash flows from the settled contracts are reported within other investing activities in the condensed consolidated statement of cash flows.
 For the Three Months Ended
September 30,
 For the Nine Months Ended
September 30,
 2019 2018 2019 2018
 (in millions)
Amounts excluded from the assessment of
   hedge effectiveness(1)
$34
 $34
 $101
 $84

(1)We elected to record changes in the fair value of amounts excluded from the assessment of effectiveness in net earnings within interest and other expense, net.

Non-U.S. dollar debt designated as net investment hedges:
After-tax gains/(losses) related to hedges of net investments in international operations in the form of euro, British pound sterling, Swiss franc and Canadian dollar-denominated debt were recorded within the cumulative translation adjustment section of other comprehensive income and were:
For the Three Months Ended
June 30,
 For the Six Months Ended
June 30,
For the Three Months Ended
September 30,
 For the Nine Months Ended
September 30,
2019 2018 2019 20182019 2018 2019 2018
(in millions)(in millions)
Euro notes$(36) $151
 $22
 $76
$111
 $18
 $133
 $94
British pound sterling notes7
 21
 1
 8
8
 5
 9
 13
Swiss franc notes(21) 42
 (8) 16
24
 (10) 16
 6
Canadian notes(7) 6
 (14) 4
4
 (6) (10) (2)


Economic Hedges:
Pre-tax gains/(losses) recorded in net earnings for economic hedges were:
 For the Three Months Ended
September 30,
 For the Nine Months Ended
September 30,
 
Location of
Gain/(Loss)
Recognized
in Earnings
 2019 2018 2019 2018 
 (in millions)  
Currency exchange contracts:         
Intercompany loans and
   forecasted interest payments
$60
 $16
 $71
 $30
 Interest and other expense, net
Forecasted transactions50
 53
 30
 118
 Cost of sales
Forecasted transactions(1) (1) (2) (6) Interest and other expense, net
Forecasted transactions(1) 2
 (6) (2) Selling, general and administrative expenses
Commodity contracts(38) (123) 28
 (22) Cost of sales
Total$70
 $(53) $121
 $118
  
 For the Three Months Ended
June 30,
 For the Six Months Ended
June 30,
 
Location of
Gain/(Loss)
Recognized
in Earnings
 2019 2018 2019 2018 
 (in millions)  
Currency exchange contracts:         
Intercompany loans and
   forecasted interest payments
$(50) $7
 $11
 $14
 Interest and other expense, net
Forecasted transactions(25) 72
 (20) 65
 Cost of sales
Forecasted transactions(1) 
 (1) (5) Interest and other expense, net
Forecasted transactions(5) (1) (5) (4) Selling, general and administrative expenses
Commodity contracts52
 (48) 66
 101
 Cost of sales
Total$(29) $30
 $51
 $171
  


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Note 11. Benefit Plans

Pension Plans

Components of Net Periodic Pension Cost:
Net periodic pension cost consisted of the following:
U.S. Plans Non-U.S. PlansU.S. Plans Non-U.S. Plans
For the Three Months Ended
June 30,
 For the Three Months Ended
June 30,
For the Three Months Ended
September 30,
 For the Three Months Ended
September 30,
2019 2018 2019 20182019 2018 2019 2018
(in millions)(in millions)
Service cost$9
 $10
 $30
 $37
$10
 $11
 $30
 $36
Interest cost15
 15
 51
 50
15
 16
 49
 49
Expected return on plan assets(22) (22) (101) (114)(22) (22) (99) (110)
Amortization:              
Net loss from experience differences5
 9
 37
 42
9
 6
 36
 40
Prior service cost/(benefit)1
 
 (1) (1)
 
 (2) (1)
Settlement losses and other expenses (1)
4
 8
 3
 
5
 4
 
 
Net periodic pension cost$12
 $20
 $19
 $14
$17
 $15
 $14
 $14
              
U.S. Plans Non-U.S. PlansU.S. Plans Non-U.S. Plans
For the Six Months Ended
June 30,
 For the Six Months Ended
June 30,
For the Nine Months Ended
September 30,
 For the Nine Months Ended
September 30,
2019 2018 2019 20182019 2018 2019 2018
(in millions)(in millions)
Service cost$18
 $22
 $61
 $75
$28
 $33
 $91
 $111
Interest cost31
 30
 102
 102
46
 46
 151
 151
Expected return on plan assets(44) (44) (204) (231)(66) (66) (303) (341)
Amortization:              
Net loss from experience differences10
 20
 75
 84
19
 26
 111
 124
Prior service cost/(credit)1
 1
 (3) (1)1
 1
 (5) (2)
Settlement losses and other expenses (1)
8
 15
 3
 
13
 19
 3
 
Net periodic pension cost$24
 $44
 $34
 $29
$41
 $59
 $48
 $43


(1)In connection with our Simplify to Grow Program, settlement losses and other expenses were $5$2 million for the three months and six$7 million for the nine months ended JuneSeptember 30, 2019 and $3 million for the three and sixnine months ended JuneSeptember 30, 2018. These losses were recorded within benefit plan non-service income on our condensed consolidated statements of earnings.

Employer Contributions:
During the sixnine months ended JuneSeptember 30, 2019, we contributed $4$5 million to our U.S. pension plans and $131$185 million to our non-U.S. pension plans, including $74$104 million to plans in the United Kingdom and Ireland. We make contributions to our pension plans in accordance with local funding arrangements and statutory minimum funding requirements. Discretionary contributions are made to the extent that they are tax deductible and do not generate an excise tax liability.

As of JuneSeptember 30, 2019, over the remainder of 2019, we plan to make further contributions of approximately $1 million to our U.S. plans and approximately $101$51 million to our non-U.S. plans. Our actual contributions may be different due to many factors, including changes in tax and other benefit laws, significant differences between expected and actual pension asset performance or interest rates.


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Multiemployer Pension Plans:
The most individually significant multiemployer plan we participated in prior to the second quarter of 2018 was the Bakery and Confectionery Union and Industry International Pension Fund (the "Fund"). Our obligation to contribute to the Fund arose with respect to 8 collective bargaining agreements covering most of our employees represented by

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the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco and Grain Millers Union. All of those collective bargaining agreements expired in 2016 and we continued to contribute to the Fund through 2018.

During 2018, we executed a complete withdrawal from the Fund and recorded an estimate of thea $429 million estimated withdrawal liability. On July 11, 2019, we received aan undiscounted withdrawal liability assessment from the Fund totaling $526 million and requiring pro-rata monthly payments over 20 years. To meet this obligation, we will begin payments during the second half of 2019. Within selling, generalyears and administrative expenses, we recorded a $35 million ($26 million net of tax)final adjustment in the three months ended June 30, 2019 and a $408 million ($305 million net of tax) estimated charge in the three months ended June 30, 2018, related to the discountedreduce our withdrawal liability. Asliability as of June 30, 2019. We began making monthly payments during the third quarter. As of September 30, 2019, the remaining discounted withdrawal liability was $396$394 million, with $22$14 million recorded in other current liabilities and $374$380 million recorded in long-term other liabilities.

Postretirement Benefit Plans

Net periodic postretirement health care benefit consisted of the following:
For the Three Months Ended
June 30,
 For the Six Months Ended
June 30,
For the Three Months Ended
September 30,
 For the Nine Months Ended
September 30,
2019 2018 2019 20182019 2018 2019 2018
(in millions)(in millions)
Service cost$2
 $1
 $3
 $3
$1
 $1
 $4
 $4
Interest cost3
 3
 7
 7
4
 4
 11
 11
Amortization:              
Net loss from experience differences1
 3
 3
 7
2
 4
 5
 11
Prior service credit(9) (9) (19) (19)(10) (10) (29) (29)
Net periodic postretirement health care benefit$(3) $(2) $(6) $(2)$(3) $(1) $(9) $(3)


Postemployment Benefit Plans

Net periodic postemployment cost consisted of the following:
For the Three Months Ended
June 30,
 For the Six Months Ended
June 30,
For the Three Months Ended
September 30,
 For the Nine Months Ended
September 30,
2019 2018 2019 20182019 2018 2019 2018
(in millions)(in millions)
Service cost$2
 $1
 $3
 $3
$1
 $1
 $4
 $4
Interest cost1
 1
 2
 2
1
 2
 3
 4
Amortization of net gains
 
 (1) (1)(1) (1) (2) (2)
Net periodic postemployment cost$3
 $2
 $4
 $4
$1
 $2
 $5
 $6



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Note 12. Stock Plans

Stock Options:
Stock option activity is reflected below:
Shares Subject
to Option
 
Weighted-
Average
Exercise or
Grant Price
Per Share
 
Average
Remaining
Contractual
Term
 
Aggregate
Intrinsic
Value
Shares Subject
to Option
 
Weighted-
Average
Exercise or
Grant Price
Per Share
 
Average
Remaining
Contractual
Term
 
Aggregate
Intrinsic
Value
Balance at January 1, 201943,818,830
 $32.36 5 years $371 million43,818,830
 $32.36 5 years $371 million
Annual grant to eligible employees4,793,570
 47.72  4,793,570
 47.72  
Additional options issued60,030
 51.25  60,030
 51.25  
Total options granted4,853,600
 47.76  4,853,600
 47.76  
Options exercised (1)
(10,842,077) 27.03 $235 million(13,011,929) 27.46 $290 million
Options canceled(697,437) 40.51  (1,080,142) 42.01  
Balance at June 30, 201937,132,916
 35.78 6 years $673 million
Balance at September 30, 201934,580,359
 36.07 6 years $666 million

(1)Cash received from options exercised was $118$56 million in the three months and $293$349 million in the sixnine months ended JuneSeptember 30, 2019. The actual tax benefit realized and recorded in the provision for income taxes for the tax deductions from the option exercises totaled $13$8 million in the three months and $29$37 million in the sixnine months ended JuneSeptember 30, 2019.

Performance Share Units and Other Stock-Based Awards:
Our performance share unit, deferred stock unit and historically granted restricted stock activity is reflected below:
Number
of Shares
 Grant Date 
Weighted-Average
Fair Value
Per Share (3)
 
Weighted-Average
Aggregate
Fair Value (3)
Number
of Shares
 Grant Date 
Weighted-Average
Fair Value
Per Share (3)
 
Weighted-Average
Aggregate
Fair Value (3)
Balance at January 1, 20196,559,010
   $42.19  6,559,010
   $42.19  
Annual grant to eligible employees:  
Feb 22, 2019
    
Feb 22, 2019
  
Performance share units891,210
 57.91  891,210
 57.91  
Deferred stock units666,880
 47.72  666,880
 47.72  
Additional shares granted (1)
115,353
 Various 55.04  120,083
 Various 55.05  
Total shares granted1,673,443
 53.65 $90 million1,678,173
 53.65 $90 million
Vested (2)
(1,614,690) 36.61 $59 million(1,679,731) 36.90 $62 million
Forfeited (2)
(356,333) 44.36  (633,821) 45.86  
Balance at June 30, 20196,261,430
 46.56  
Balance at September 30, 20195,923,631
 46.54  

(1)Includes performance share units and deferred stock units.
(2)Includes performance share units, deferred stock units and historically granted restricted stock. The actual tax benefit/(expense) realized and recorded in the provision for income taxes for the tax deductions from the shares vested totaled less than $1 million in the three months and $2 million in the sixnine months ended JuneSeptember 30, 2019.
(3)The grant date fair value of performance share units is determined based on the Monte Carlo simulation model for the market-based total shareholder return component and the closing market price of the Company’s stock on the grant date for performance-based components. The Monte Carlo simulation model incorporates the probability of achieving the total shareholder return market condition. Compensation expense is recognized using the grant date fair values regardless of whether the market condition is achieved, so long as the requisite service has been provided.


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Share Repurchase Program:
Between 2013 and 2017, our Board of Directors authorized the repurchase of a total of $13.7 billion of our Common Stock through December 31, 2018. On January 31, 2018, our Finance Committee, with authorization delegated from our Board of Directors, approved an increase of $6.0 billion in the share repurchase program, raising the authorization to $19.7 billion of Common Stock repurchases, and extended the program through December 31, 2020. Repurchases under the program are determined by management and are wholly discretionary. Prior to January 1, 2019, we had repurchased $15.0 billion of Common Stock pursuant to this authorization. During the sixnine months ended JuneSeptember 30, 2019, we repurchased approximately 2124 million shares of Common Stock at an average cost of $45.84$47.21 per share, or an aggregate cost of approximately $1.0$1.2 billion, all of which was paid during the period except for approximately $1$5 million settled in JulyOctober 2019. All share repurchases were funded through available cash and commercial paper issuances. As of JuneSeptember 30, 2019, we have $3.7$3.5 billion in remaining share repurchase capacity.

Note 13. Commitments and Contingencies

Legal Proceedings:
We routinely are involved in legal proceedings, claims and governmental inspections or investigations (“Legal Matters”) arising in the ordinary course of our business.

In February 2013 and March 2014, Cadbury India Limited (now known as Mondelez India Foods Private Limited), a subsidiary of Mondelēz International, and other parties received show cause notices from the Indian Central Excise Authority (the “Excise Authority”) calling upon the parties to demonstrate why the Excise Authority should not collect a total of 3.7 billion Indian rupees ($5453 million as of JuneSeptember 30, 2019) of unpaid excise tax and an equivalent amount of penalties, as well as interest, related to production at the same Indian facility. We contested these demands for unpaid excise taxes, penalties and interest. On March 27, 2015, after several hearings, the Commissioner of the Excise Authority (the "Commissioner") issued an order denying the excise exemption that we claimed for the Indian facility for these periods and confirming the Excise Authority’s demands for total taxes and penalties in the amount of 5.8 billion Indian rupees ($8582 million as of JuneSeptember 30, 2019) plus accrued interest. We have appealed this order. In addition, the Excise Authority issued additional show cause notices in February 2015, December 2015 and October 2017 on the same issue but covering the periods January-October 2014, November 2014-September 2015 and October 2015-June 2017, respectively. These three notices added a total of 4.9 billion Indian rupees ($7069 million as of JuneSeptember 30, 2019) of allegedly unpaid excise taxes subject to penalties up to an equivalent amount plus accrued interest. On May 25, 2019, the Commissioner issued an order denying the excise exemption that we claimed for the Indian facility for these three periods and confirming the Excise Authority’s demands for total taxes and penalties in the amount of 9.3 billion Indian rupees ($135132 million as of JuneSeptember 30, 2019) plus accrued interest. We plan to appealhave appealed this order. Interest will continue to accrue until the matters are resolved. With the implementation of the Goods and Services Tax in India in July 2017, we will not receive any further show cause notices for additional amounts on this issue. We believe that the decision to claim the excise tax benefit is valid and we are continuing to contest the show cause notices through the administrative and judicial process. As part of a continuing appeals process, we may be required to deposit an amount up to the equivalent of the total demand for unpaid excise taxes under the five5 show cause notices, which will be repaid if the proceedings conclude in our favor. We do not expect to be required to make any such deposit before 2020.

On April 1, 2015, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC") filed a complaint against Kraft Foods Group and Mondelēz Global LLC (“Mondelēz Global”) in the U.S. District Court (the "Court") for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division (the “CFTC action”) following its investigation of activities related to the trading of December 2011 wheat futures contracts that occurred prior to the spin-off of Kraft Foods Group. The complaint alleges that Kraft Foods Group and Mondelēz Global (1) manipulated or attempted to manipulate the wheat markets during the fall of 2011; (2) violated position limit levels for wheat futures and (3) engaged in non-competitive trades by trading both sides of exchange-for-physical Chicago Board of Trade wheat contracts. The CFTC seeks civil monetary penalties of either triple the monetary gain for each violation of the Commodity Exchange Act (the “Act”) or $1 million for each violation of Section 6(c)(1), 6(c)(3) or 9(a)(2) of the Act and $140,000 for each additional violation of the Act, plus post-judgment interest; an order of permanent injunction prohibiting Kraft Foods Group and Mondelēz Global from violating specified provisions of the Act; disgorgement of profits; and costs and fees. The parties reached anOn

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August 15, 2019, the Court approved a settlement agreement in principle to resolvebetween the CFTC action and were instructedMondelēz Global. The terms of the settlement, which are available in the Court’s docket, had an immaterial impact on our financial position, results of operations and cash flows. On October 23, 2019, following a ruling by the United States Court to submitof Appeals for the Seventh Circuit concerning post-settlement activities, the Court vacated the settlement agreement and reinstated all pending motions that the Court had previously mooted as a proposed consent order reflecting theirresult of the settlement.The Court scheduled oral argument on these pending motions for November 20, 2019, unless the parties renegotiate the settlement agreement prior to May 28, 2019. On May 28, 2019, the Court held a hearing and entered an order continuing the matter until July 30, 2019. On July 30, 2019, the Court continued the status hearing until August 13, 2019.this scheduled oral argument. Additionally, several class action complaints were filed against Kraft Foods Group and Mondelēz Global in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois by investors in wheat

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futures and options on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated. The complaints make similar allegations as those made in the CFTC action, and the plaintiffs are seeking class action certification; monetary damages, interest and unjust enrichment; costs and fees; and injunctive, declaratory and other unspecified relief. In June 2015, these suits were consolidated in the Northern District of Illinois. We are contesting the plaintiffs' request for class certification. It is not possible to predict the outcome of these matters; however, based on our Separation and Distribution Agreement with Kraft Foods Group dated as of September 27, 2012, we expect to bear any monetary penalties or other payments in connection with the CFTC action. Although the CFTC action and the class action complaints involve the same alleged conduct, a resolution or decision with respect to one of the matters may not be dispositive as to the outcome of the other matter.

On August 21, 2018, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (“VDEQ”) issued a Notice of Violation (“NOV”) to Mondelēz Global. In the NOV, the VDEQ alleges that in our Richmond bakery, one operating line did not have the proper minimum temperature on its pollution control equipment and that the bakery failed to provide certain observation and training records. The VDEQ indicated that the alleged violations may lead to a fine and/or injunctive relief. We are working with the VDEQ to reach a resolution of this matter, and we do not expect this matter to have a material effect on our financial results.

We are a party to various legal proceedings incidental to our business, including those noted above in this section. We record provisions in the consolidated financial statements for pending litigation when we determine that an unfavorable outcome is probable and the amount of the loss can be reasonably estimated. For matters that are reasonably possible to result in an unfavorable outcome, management is unable to estimate the possible loss or range of loss or such amounts have been determined to be immaterial. At present we believe that the ultimate outcome of these proceedings, individually and in the aggregate, will not materially harm our financial position, results of operations or cash flows. However, legal proceedings and government investigations are subject to inherent uncertainties, and unfavorable rulings or other events could occur. Unfavorable resolutions could involve substantial monetary damages. In addition, in matters for which conduct remedies are sought, unfavorable resolutions could include an injunction or other order prohibiting us from selling one or more products at all or in particular ways, precluding particular business practices or requiring other remedies. An unfavorable outcome might result in a material adverse impact on our business, results of operations or financial position.

Third-Party Guarantees:
We enter into third-party guarantees primarily to cover long-term obligations of our vendors. As part of these transactions, we guarantee that third parties will make contractual payments or achieve performance measures. At JuneSeptember 30, 2019, we had no material third-party guarantees recorded on our condensed consolidated balance sheet.

Tax Matters:
We are a party to various tax matter proceedings incidental to our business. These proceedings are subject to inherent uncertainties, and unfavorable outcomes could subject us to additional tax liabilities and could materially adversely impact our business, results of operations or financial position.

A tax indemnification matter related to our 2007 acquisition of the LU biscuit business was closed during the quarter ended June 30, 2018. The closure had no impact on net earnings, however, it did result in a $15 million tax benefit that was fully offset by an $11 million expense in selling, general and administrative expenses and a $4 million expense in interest and other expense, net.


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Note 14. Reclassifications from Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income

The following table summarizes the changes in the accumulated balances of each component of accumulated other comprehensive earnings/(losses) attributable to Mondelēz International. Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive earnings/(losses) to net earnings (net of tax) were net losses of $59$143 million in the secondthird quarter of 2019 and $45$39 million in the secondthird quarter of 2018 and $88$231 million in the first sixnine months of 2019 and $72$111 million in the first sixnine months of 2018.
For the Three Months Ended
June 30,
 For the Six Months Ended
June 30,
For the Three Months Ended
September 30,
 For the Nine Months Ended
September 30,
2019 2018 2019 20182019 2018 2019 2018
(in millions)(in millions)
Currency Translation Adjustments:              
Balance at beginning of period$(8,412) $(7,545) $(8,603) $(7,740)$(8,447) $(8,409) $(8,603) $(7,740)
Currency translation adjustments(32) (720) 136
 (557)(283) (189) (147) (746)
Reclassification to earnings related to:       
Equity method investment transaction
 6
 
 6
Tax (expense)/benefit(1) (156) 21
 (109)(31) (10) (10) (119)
Other comprehensive earnings/(losses)(33) (876) 157
 (666)(314) (193) (157) (859)
Less: (earnings)/loss attributable to
noncontrolling interests
(2) 12
 (1) (3)
Less: other comprehensive (earnings)/loss attributable to
noncontrolling interests
9
 3
 8
 
Balance at end of period(8,447) (8,409) (8,447) (8,409)(8,752) (8,599) (8,752) (8,599)
Pension and Other Benefit Plans:              
Balance at beginning of period$(1,850) $(2,150) $(1,860) $(2,144)$(1,796) $(1,981) $(1,860) $(2,144)
Net actuarial gain/(loss) arising during period1
 38
 (23) 45
(1) 1
 (24) 46
Tax (expense)/benefit on net actuarial gain/(loss)1
 (9) 7
 (9)
 
 7
 (9)
Losses/(gains) reclassified into net earnings:              
Amortization of experience losses
and prior service costs (1)
34
 44
 66
 91
34
 38
 100
 129
Settlement losses and other expenses (1)
24
 8
 28
 15
5
 4
 33
 19
Tax expense/(benefit) on reclassifications (2)
(11) (12) (18) (25)(7) (9) (25) (34)
Currency impact5
 100
 4
 46
55
 12
 59
 58
Other comprehensive earnings/(losses)54
 169
 64
 163
86
 46
 150
 209
Balance at end of period(1,796) (1,981) (1,796) (1,981)(1,710) (1,935) (1,710) (1,935)
Derivative Cash Flow Hedges:              
Balance at beginning of period$(236) $(159) $(167) $(113)$(298) $(133) $(167) $(113)
Net derivative gains/(losses)(86) 17
 (163) (12)(64) 30
 (227) 17
Tax (expense)/benefit on net derivative gain/(loss)11
 (4) 19
 (4)7
 (5) 26
 (8)
Losses/(gains) reclassified into net earnings:              
Interest rate contracts (3)
12
 7
 12
 (11)111
 
 123
 (11)
Tax expense/(benefit) on reclassifications (2)

 (2) 
 2

 
 
 2
Currency impact1
 8
 1
 5
(11) 
 (10) 5
Other comprehensive earnings/(losses)(62) 26
 (131) (20)43
 25
 (88) 5
Balance at end of period(298) (133) (298) (133)(255) (108) (255) (108)
Accumulated other comprehensive income
attributable to Mondelēz International:
              
Balance at beginning of period$(10,498) $(9,854) $(10,630) $(9,997)$(10,541) $(10,523) $(10,630) $(9,997)
Total other comprehensive earnings/(losses)(41) (681) 90
 (523)(185) (122) (95) (645)
Less: (earnings)/loss attributable to
noncontrolling interests
(2) 12
 (1) (3)
Less: other comprehensive (earnings)/loss attributable to
noncontrolling interests
9
 3
 8
 
Other comprehensive earnings/(losses) attributable to
Mondelēz International
(43) (669) 89
 (526)(176) (119) (87) (645)
Balance at end of period$(10,541) $(10,523) $(10,541) $(10,523)$(10,717) $(10,642) $(10,717) $(10,642)

(1)
These reclassified losses are included in the components of net periodic benefit costs disclosed in Note 11, Benefit Plans, and net loss on equity method investment transactions.
(2)Taxes reclassified to earnings are recorded within the provision for income taxes.
(3)These reclassified gains or losses are recorded within interest and other expense, net and net loss on equity method investment transactions.


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Note 15. Income Taxes

On August 6, 2019, Switzerland published changes to its Federal tax law in the Official Federal Collection of Laws. On September 27, 2019, the Zurich Canton published their decision on the September 1, 2019 Zurich Canton public vote regarding the Cantonal changes associated with the Swiss Federal tax law change. The intent of these tax law changes was to replace certain preferential tax regimes with a new set of internationally accepted measures that are hereafter referred to as "Swiss tax reform". Based on these Federal/Cantonal events, it is our position that enactment of Swiss tax reform for U.S. GAAP purposes has been met as of September 30, 2019, and we recorded the impacts in the third quarter 2019. The net impact is a benefit of $767 million, which consists of a $769 million reduction in deferred tax expense from an allowed step-up of intangible assets for tax purposes (recorded net of valuation allowance) and remeasurement of our deferred tax balances, partially offset by a $2 million indirect tax impact in selling, general and administrative expenses. The future rate impacts of these Swiss tax reform law changes are effective starting January 1, 2020.

As of the secondthird quarter of 2019, our estimated annual effective tax rate, which excludes discrete tax impacts, was 25.5%25.4%. This rate reflected the impact of unfavorable foreign provisions under U.S. tax laws and our tax related to earnings from equity method investments (the earnings are reported separately on our statement of earnings and thus not included in earnings before income taxes), partially offset by favorable impacts from the mix of pre-tax income in various non-U.S. jurisdictions. Our 2019 secondthird quarter effective tax rate of 23.1%(92.5)% was significantly impacted by the $769 million net deferred tax benefit related to Swiss tax reform. Excluding this impact, our third quarter effective tax rate was 20.0% reflecting a discrete net tax benefit of $8$39 million. TheThis discrete net tax benefit primarily consisted of a $24$17 million net benefit from the release of uncertain tax positions due to the expirations of statutes of limitations and audit settlements in several jurisdictions partially offset by $15and a $12 million expense from U.S. state legislative changes.net benefit related to the release of valuation allowances in non-U.S. jurisdictions. Our effective tax rate for the sixnine months ended JuneSeptember 30, 2019 of 21.2%(8.8)% was favorablyalso impacted by the $769 million net deferred tax benefit related to Swiss tax reform. Excluding this impact, our effective tax rate for the nine months was 20.9%, which reflects discrete net tax benefits of $71 million,$110 million. The discrete net tax benefits were primarily driven by a $84$101 million net benefit from the release of liabilities for uncertain tax positions due to expirations of statutes of limitations and audit settlements in several jurisdictions.

As of the secondthird quarter of 2018, our estimated annual effective tax rate, which excluded discrete tax impacts, was 21.9%22.0%. This rate reflected our tax related to earnings from equity method investments (the earnings are reported separately on our statement of earnings and thus not included in earnings before income taxes), partially offset by favorable impacts from the mix of pre-tax income in various non-U.S. jurisdictions. Our 2018 secondthird quarter effective tax rate of 6.0%46.3% was unusually high due to $184 million of deferred tax expense related to the $757 million gain on the KDP transaction reported as a gain on equity method transactions. Excluding this impact, our third quarter effective tax rate was 18.6%, which was favorably impacted by a discrete net tax benefit of $32$19 million. The discrete net tax benefit primarily consisted of a $27$26 million net benefit from the release of uncertain tax positions due to expirations of statutes of limitations and audit settlements in several jurisdictions. Our effective tax rate for the sixnine months ended JuneSeptember 30, 2018 of 25.1%31.9% and was also unusually high as a result of the KDP transaction. Excluding this impact, our effective tax rate for the nine months was 23.0%, which was unfavorably impacted by net tax expense of $41$22 million from discrete one-time events. The discrete net tax expense primarily consisted of $86$89 million of additional U.S. tax reform transition tax liability recognized as an adjustment to the prior provisional estimate, offset by a $43$70 million net benefit from the release of uncertain tax positions due to expirations of statutes of limitations and audit settlements in various jurisdictions and a $22 million benefit from Argentinean refund claims.jurisdictions.


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Note 16. Earnings per Share

Basic and diluted earnings per share (“EPS”) were calculated as follows:
For the Three Months Ended
June 30,
 For the Six Months Ended
June 30,
For the Three Months Ended
September 30,
 For the Nine Months Ended
September 30,
2019 2018 2019 20182019 2018 2019 2018
(in millions, except per share data)(in millions, except per share data)
Net earnings$808
 $320
 $1,728
 $1,372
$1,428
 $1,197
 $3,156
 $2,569
Noncontrolling interest earnings(1) (2) (7) (8)(5) (3) (12) (11)
Net earnings attributable to Mondelēz International$807
 $318
 $1,721
 $1,364
$1,423
 $1,194
 $3,144
 $2,558
Weighted-average shares for basic EPS1,445
 1,475
 1,447
 1,482
1,445
 1,466
 1,446
 1,477
Plus incremental shares from assumed conversions
of stock options and long-term incentive plan shares
13
 13
 13
 14
13
 14
 13
 14
Weighted-average shares for diluted EPS1,458
 1,488
 1,460
 1,496
1,458
 1,480
 1,459
 1,491
Basic earnings per share attributable to
Mondelēz International
$0.56
 $0.22
 $1.19
 $0.92
$0.98
 $0.81
 $2.17
 $1.73
Diluted earnings per share attributable to
Mondelēz International
$0.55
 $0.21
 $1.18
 $0.91
$0.98
 $0.81
 $2.15
 $1.72


We exclude antidilutive Mondelēz International stock options from our calculation of weighted-average shares for diluted EPS. We excluded antidilutive stock options of 4.22.8 million in the secondthird quarter of 2019 and 12.712.2 million in the secondthird quarter of 2018 and 7.34.8 million in the first sixnine months of 2019 and 11.211.5 million in the first sixnine months of 2018.

Note 17. Segment Reporting

We manufacture and market primarily snack food products, including biscuits (cookies, crackers and salted snacks), chocolate, gum & candy and various cheese & grocery products, as well as powdered beverage products.


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We manage our global business and report operating results through geographic units. We manage our operations by region to leverage regional operating scale, manage different and changing business environments more effectively and pursue growth opportunities as they arise across our key markets. Our regional management teams have responsibility for the business, product categories and financial results in the regions.

Our operations and management structure are organized into four4 operating segments:
• Latin America
• AMEA
• Europe
• North America

We use segment operating income to evaluate segment performance and allocate resources. We believe it is appropriate to disclose this measure to help investors analyze segment performance and trends. Segment operating income excludes unrealized gains and losses on hedging activities (which are a component of cost of sales), general corporate expenses (which are a component of selling, general and administrative expenses) and, amortization of intangibles, gains and losses on divestitures and acquisition-related costs (which are a component of selling, general and administrative expenses) in all periods presented. We exclude these items from segment operating income in order to provide better transparency of our segment operating results. Furthermore, we centrally manage benefit plan non-service income and interest and other expense, net. Accordingly, we do not present these items by segment because they are excluded from the segment profitability measure that management reviews.


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Our segment net revenues and earnings were:
For the Three Months Ended
June 30,
 For the Six Months Ended
June 30,
For the Three Months Ended
September 30,
 For the Nine Months Ended
September 30,
2019 2018 2019 20182019 2018 2019 2018
(in millions)(in millions)
Net revenues:              
Latin America$737
 $774
 $1,537
 $1,665
$736
 $774
 $2,273
 $2,439
AMEA1,352
 1,360
 2,893
 2,902
1,419
 1,398
 4,312
 4,300
Europe2,247
 2,303
 4,798
 5,009
2,377
 2,361
 7,175
 7,370
North America1,726
 1,675
 3,372
 3,301
1,823
 1,755
 5,195
 5,056
Net revenues$6,062
 $6,112
 $12,600
 $12,877
$6,355
 $6,288
 $18,955
 $19,165

Earnings before income taxes:
              
Operating income:              
Latin America$68
 $92
 $166
 $218
$84
 $100
 $250
 $318
AMEA191
 177
 447
 405
188
 153
 635
 558
Europe408
 367
 908
 864
331
 381
 1,239
 1,245
North America407
 (95) 726
 180
370
 334
 1,096
 514
Unrealized gains on hedging activities
(mark-to-market impacts)
33
 88
 49
 294
Unrealized gains/(losses) on hedging activities
(mark-to-market impacts)
20
 (112) 69
 181
General corporate expenses(79) (91) (188) (155)(76) (74) (264) (228)
Amortization of intangibles(43) (44) (87) (88)(43) (44) (130) (132)
Net gain on divestitures41
 
 41
 
Net gain on divestiture3
 
 44
 
Acquisition-related costs(1) (13) (1) (13)(1) (1) (2) (14)
Operating income1,025
 481
 2,061
 1,705
876
 737
 2,937
 2,442
Benefit plan non-service income12
 15
 29
 28
13
 19
 42
 47
Interest and other expense, net(101) (248) (181) (328)(205) (86) (386) (414)
Earnings before income taxes$936
 $248
 $1,909
 $1,405
$684
 $670
 $2,593
 $2,075


Items impacting our segment operating results are discussed in Note 1, Basis of Presentation, Note 2, Divestitures and Acquisitions, Note 4, Property, Plant and Equipment, Note 6, Goodwill and Intangible Assets, and Note 8, Restructuring Program, and Note 13, Commitments and Contingencies. Also see Note 9, Debt and Borrowing

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Net revenues by product category were:

For the Three Months Ended June 30, 2019For the Three Months Ended September 30, 2019
Latin
America
 AMEA Europe 
North
America
 Total
Latin
America
 AMEA Europe 
North
America
 Total
(in millions)(in millions)
Biscuits$186
 $405
 $767
 $1,451
 $2,809
$186
 $495
 $752
 $1,514
 $2,947
Chocolate157
 438
 1,006
 42
 1,643
164
 526
 1,177
 61
 1,928
Gum & Candy209
 224
 181
 233
 847
212
 213
 165
 248
 838
Beverages108
 169
 20
 
 297
93
 103
 21
 
 217
Cheese & Grocery77
 116
 273
 
 466
81
 82
 262
 
 425
Total net revenues$737
 $1,352
 $2,247
 $1,726
 $6,062
$736
 $1,419
 $2,377
 $1,823
 $6,355
                  
For the Three Months Ended June 30, 2018For the Three Months Ended September 30, 2018
Latin
America
 AMEA Europe 
North
America
 Total
Latin
America
 AMEA Europe 
North
America
 Total
(in millions)(in millions)
Biscuits$192
 $387
 $810
 $1,403
 $2,792
$185
 $455
 $769
 $1,422
 $2,831
Chocolate161
 440
 1,003
 46
 1,650
169
 524
 1,142
 66
 1,901
Gum & Candy224
 236
 200
 226
 886
220
 207
 167
 267
 861
Beverages116
 173
 19
 
 308
117
 103
 19
 
 239
Cheese & Grocery81
 124
 271
 
 476
83
 109
 264
 
 456
Total net revenues$774
 $1,360
 $2,303
 $1,675
 $6,112
$774
 $1,398
 $2,361
 $1,755
 $6,288

For the Six Months Ended June 30, 2019For the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2019
Latin
America
 AMEA Europe 
North
America
 Total
Latin
America
 AMEA Europe 
North
America
 Total
(in millions)(in millions)
Biscuits$356
 $866
 $1,501
 $2,823
 $5,546
$542
 $1,361
 $2,253
 $4,337
 $8,493
Chocolate387
 995
 2,366
 101
 3,849
551
 1,521
 3,543
 162
 5,777
Gum & Candy409
 449
 354
 448
 1,660
621
 662
 519
 696
 2,498
Beverages231
 341
 46
 
 618
324
 444
 67
 
 835
Cheese & Grocery154
 242
 531
 
 927
235
 324
 793
 
 1,352
Total net revenues$1,537
 $2,893
 $4,798
 $3,372
 $12,600
$2,273
 $4,312
 $7,175
 $5,195
 $18,955
                  
For the Six Months Ended June 30, 2018For the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018
Latin
America
 AMEA Europe 
North
America
 Total
Latin
America
 AMEA Europe 
North
America
 Total
(in millions)(in millions)
Biscuits$375
 $829
 $1,605
 $2,736
 $5,545
$560
 $1,284
 $2,374
 $4,158
 $8,376
Chocolate404
 1,013
 2,426
 103
 3,946
573
 1,537
 3,568
 169
 5,847
Gum & Candy448
 471
 386
 462
 1,767
668
 678
 553
 729
 2,628
Beverages277
 345
 47
 
 669
394
 448
 66
 
 908
Cheese & Grocery161
 244
 545
 
 950
244
 353
 809
 
 1,406
Total net revenues$1,665
 $2,902
 $5,009
 $3,301
 $12,877
$2,439
 $4,300
 $7,370
 $5,056
 $19,165



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Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.

Description of the Company

We make and sell primarily snacks, including biscuits (cookies, crackers and salted snacks), chocolate, gum & candy as well as various cheese & grocery and powdered beverage products. We have operations in more than 80 countries and sell our products in over 150 countries.

We aim to be the global leader in snacking. Our strategy is to drive long-term growth by focusing on three strategic priorities: accelerating consumer-centric growth, driving operational excellence and creating a winning growth culture. We believe the successful implementation of our strategic priorities and our leveraging our strong foundation of iconic global and local brands, an attractive global footprint, and deep innovation, marketing and distribution capabilities 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

Swiss and U.S. Tax Reform

On August 6, 2019, Switzerland published changes to its Federal tax law in the Official Federal Collection of Laws. On September 27, 2019, the Zurich Canton published their decision on the September 1, 2019 Zurich Canton public vote regarding the Cantonal changes associated with the Swiss Federal tax law change. The intent of these tax law changes was to replace certain preferential tax regimes with a new set of internationally accepted measures that are hereafter referred to as “Swiss tax reform”. Based on these Federal / Cantonal events, it is our position that enactment of Swiss tax reform for U.S. GAAP purposes has been met as of September 30, 2019, and we recorded the impacts in the third quarter 2019. The net impact is a benefit of $767 million, which consists of a $769 million reduction in deferred tax expense from an allowed step-up of intangible assets for tax purposes and remeasurement of our deferred tax balances, partially offset by a $2 million indirect tax impact in selling, general and administrative expenses. The future rate impacts of these Swiss tax reform law changes are effective starting January 1, 2020.

On December 22, 2017, the United States enacted tax reform legislation that included a broad range of business tax provisions, including but not limited to a reduction in the U.S. federal tax rate from 35% to 21%, as well as provisions that limit or eliminate various deductions or credits. The legislation causes U.S. allocated expenses (e.g. interest and general administrative expenses) to be taxed and imposes a new tax on U.S. cross-border payments. Furthermore, the legislation includes a one-time transition tax on accumulated foreign earnings and profits. While clarifying guidance was issued by the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") during 2018, further tax legislative guidance is expected during 2019.

Our estimated annual effective tax rate for 2019 is 25.4%, which excludes discrete tax items such as the impacts of Swiss tax reform this year and expirations of statutes of limitations and audit settlements. Refer to Note 15, Income Taxes, for more information on our current year estimated annual effective tax rate and Swiss tax reform and to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018 for more information on the impact of U.S. tax reform.

Multiemployer Pension Plan Withdrawal

The most individually significant multiemployer plan we participated in prior to the second quarter of 2018 was the Bakery and Confectionery Union and Industry International Pension Fund (the "Fund"). Our obligation to contribute to the Fund arose with respect to 8 collective bargaining agreements covering most of our employees represented by the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco and Grain Millers Union. All of those collective bargaining agreements expired in 2016 and we continued to contribute to the Fund through 2018.

During 2018, we executed a complete withdrawal from the Fund and recorded an estimate of thea $429 million estimated withdrawal liability. On July 11, 2019, we received aan undiscounted withdrawal liability assessment from the Fund totaling $526 million and requiring pro-rata monthly payments over 20 years. To meet this obligation, we will begin payments during the second half of 2019. Within selling, generalyears and administrative expenses, we recorded a $35 million ($26 million net of tax)final adjustment in the three months ended June 30, 2019 and a $408 million ($305 million net of tax) estimated charge in the three months ended June 30, 2018, related to the discountedreduce our withdrawal liability which as of June 30, 2019. We began making monthly payments during the third quarter. As of September 30, 2019, the remaining discounted withdrawal liability was $396 million.$394 million, with $14 million recorded in other current liabilities and $380 million recorded in long-term other liabilities.

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Adoption of New Lease Accounting Standard

As further described in Note 1, Basis of Presentation, we adopted the new lease accounting standard on January 1, 2019. The impact of adopting the standard included the initial recognition as of January 1, 2019, of $710 million of lease-related assets and $730 million of lease-related liabilities on our condensed consolidated balance sheet. The transition method we elected for adoption requires a cumulative effect adjustment to retained earnings as of January 1, 2019, which was not material.

Keurig Dr Pepper Transaction

On July 9, 2018, Keurig Green Mountain, Inc. ("Keurig") closed on its definitive merger agreement with Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc., and formed Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. (NYSE: "KDP"), a publicly traded company. Following the close of the transaction, our 24.2% investment in Keurig together with our shareholder loan receivable became a 13.8% investment in KDP. During the fourththird quarter of 2018, KDP finalized its opening balance sheet and we recorded a preliminary pre-tax gain of $778$757 million reported as a gain on equity method transaction and $192$184 million of deferred tax expense reported in the provision for income taxes (or $586$573 million after-tax gain) related to the change in our ownership interest.interest while KDP finalized the valuation for the transaction. During our fourth quarter of 2018, KDP finalized its opening balance sheet and we increased our pre-tax gain by $21 million (or $13 million after-tax) to $778 million (or $586 million after-tax) while recording $8 million of deferred tax expense related to the increase for a total deferred tax expense of $192 million for 2018. Also, during the first quarter of 2019, we recognized a $23 million pre-tax gain related to the impact of a KDP acquisition that decreased our ownership interest from 13.8% to 13.6%. In connection with the KDP transaction in the third quarter of 2018, we changed our accounting principle to reflect our share of Keurig's historical and KDP's ongoing earnings on a one-quarter lag basis for all periods presented while we continue to record dividends when cash is received. We determined a lag was preferable as it enables us to continue to report our quarterly and annual results on a timely basis and to record our share of KDP’s ongoing results once KDP has publicly reported its results. This change in accounting principle was applied retrospectively to all periods. While our operating income did not change, equity method investment net earnings, net earnings and earnings per share have been adjusted to reflect the lag across all reported periods. Refer to Note 7, Equity Method Investments, for additional information.

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U.S. Tax Reform

On December 22, 2017, the United States enacted tax reform legislation that included a broad range of business tax provisions, including but not limited to a reduction in the U.S. federal tax rate from 35% to 21%, as well as provisions that limit or eliminate various deductions or credits. The legislation causes U.S. allocated expenses (e.g. interest and general administrative expenses) to be taxed and imposes a new tax on U.S. cross-border payments. Furthermore, the legislation includes a one-time transition tax on accumulated foreign earnings and profits. While clarifying guidance was issued by the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") during 2018, further tax legislative guidance is expected during 2019.

Our estimated annual effective tax rate for 2019 is 25.5%, which includes the new provisions of the legislation but excludes discrete tax items such as the impacts of expirations of statutes of limitations and audit settlements. Refer to Note 15, Income Taxes, for more information on our current year estimated annual effective tax rate and to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018 for more information on the impact of U.S. tax reform.transaction.

Summary of Results

Net revenues decreased 0.8%increased 1.1% to $6.1$6.4 billion in the secondthird quarter of 2019 and decreased 2.2%1.1% to $12.6$19.0 billion in the first sixnine months of 2019 as compared to the same periods in the prior year. During the secondthird quarter of 2019, net revenues were positively impacted by the impact of favorable volume/mix and higher net pricing, as well as our July 16, 2019 acquisition of a majority interest in a U.S. refrigerated nutrition bar company, Perfect Snacks. These favorable items were partially offset by unfavorable currency translation, as the U.S. dollar strengthened against several currencies in which we operate compared to exchange rates in the prior year, and the May 28, 2019 divestiture of most of our cheese business in the Middle East and Africa. During the first sixnine months of 2019, net revenues were negatively impacted by unfavorable currency translation, as the U.S. dollarsdollar strengthened against several currencies in which we operate compared to exchange rates in the prior year, and the May 28, 2019 divestiture of most of our cheese business in the Middle East and Africa. These unfavorable items were partially offset by the impact of higher net pricing and favorable volume/mix as well as our July 16, 2019 acquisition of Perfect Snacks and our June 7, 2018 acquisition of a U.S. premium biscuit company, Tate’s Bake Shop.

Organic Net Revenue, a non-GAAP financial measure, increased 4.6%4.2% to $6.4$6.5 billion in the secondthird quarter of 2019 and increased 4.1%4.2% to $13.3$19.9 billion in the first sixnine months of 2019 as compared to same periods in the prior year. During the secondthird quarter and the first sixnine months of 2019, Organic Net Revenue grew due to higher net pricing and favorable volume/mix. Refer to our Discussion and Analysis of Historical Results, including the Results of Operations by Reportable Segment for additional information. Organic Net Revenue is on a constant currency basis and excludes revenue from acquisitions and divestitures. We use Organic Net Revenue as it provides improved year-over-year comparability of our underlying operating results (see the definition of Organic Net Revenue and our reconciliation with net revenues within Non-GAAP Financial Measures appearing later in this section).

Diluted EPS attributable to Mondelēz International increased 161.9%21.0% to $0.55$0.98 in the secondthird quarter of 2019 and increased 29.7%25.0% to $1.18$2.15 in the first sixnine months of 2019 as compared to the same periods in the prior year. The diluted EPS increase in the secondthird quarter of 2019 was primarily driven by lapping the prior-year impact from pension participation changes, lapping the prior-year loss on debt extinguishment, lower Simplify to Grow program costs, a gain on a divestiture in the second quarter of 2019, an increase in equity method investment earnings, a benefit from current-year pension participation changes and operating gains, partially offset by unfavorableSwiss tax reform, favorable year-over-year change in mark-to-market impacts from currency and commodity derivatives, operating gains and an increase in equity method investment earnings, partially offset by lapping the prior-year gain on equity method investment transactions, a loss related to interest rate swaps and unfavorable currency translation. The diluted EPS increase during the first sixnine months of 2019 was primarily driven by the benefit from Swiss tax reform, lapping the prior-year impact from pension

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participation changes, lower Simplify to Grow program costs,operating gains, an increase in equity method investment earnings, lapping the prior-year loss on debt extinguishment, lapping the prior-year U.S. tax reform discrete net tax expense, operating gains, an increase in equity method investment earnings,lower Simplify to Grow program costs, fewer shares outstanding, a gain on divestiture and a benefit from current-year pension participation changes, partially offset by lapping the prior-year gain on equity method investment transactions, unfavorable currency translation, a loss related to interest rate swaps and unfavorable year-over-year change in mark-to-market impacts from currency and commodity derivatives and unfavorable currency translation.derivatives.

Adjusted EPS, a non-GAAP financial measure, increased 3.6% to $0.57 in the second quarter of 2019 and increased 4.3% to $1.22 in the first six months of 2019 as compared to the same periods in the prior year. On a constant currency basis, Adjusted EPS increased 9.1% to $0.60 in the second quarter of 2019 and increased 12.0% to $1.31 in the first six months of 2019 as compared to the same periods in the prior year. For the second quarter of 2019, an increase in equity method investment earnings, operating gains and lower shares outstanding were significant drivers of growth. For the first six months of 2019, operating gains, an increase in equity method investment earnings, fewer shares outstanding, lower taxes and lower interest drove the growth. Adjusted EPS and Adjusted EPS on a constant currency basis are non-GAAP financial measures. We use these measures as they provide improved year-over-year comparability

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Adjusted EPS, a non-GAAP financial measure, increased 3.2% to $0.64 in the third quarter of 2019 and increased 3.9% to $1.86 in the first nine months of 2019 as compared to the same periods in the prior year. On a constant currency basis, Adjusted EPS increased 9.7% to $0.68 in the third quarter of 2019 and increased 11.2% to $1.99 in the first nine months of 2019 as compared to the same periods in the prior year. For the third quarter of 2019 and the first nine months of 2019, operating gains, an increase in equity method investment earnings, fewer shares outstanding and lower taxes were significant drivers of growth. Adjusted EPS and Adjusted EPS on a constant currency basis are non-GAAP financial measures. We use these measures as they provide improved year-over-year comparability of our underlying results (see the definition of Adjusted EPS and our reconciliation with diluted EPS within Non-GAAP Financial Measures appearing later in this section).

Financial Outlook

We seek to achieve profitable, long-term growth and manage our business to attain this goal using our key operating metrics: Organic Net Revenue, Adjusted Operating Income and Adjusted EPS. We use these non-GAAP financial metrics and related computations, such as margins, internally to evaluate and manage our business and to plan and make near- and long-term operating and strategic decisions. As such, we believe these metrics are useful to investors as they provide supplemental information in addition to our U.S. GAAP financial results. We believe providing investors with the same financial information that we use internally ensures that investors have the same data to make comparisons of our historical operating results, identify trends in our underlying operating results and gain additional insight and transparency on how we evaluate our business. We believe our non-GAAP financial measures should always be considered in relation to our GAAP results, and we provided reconciliations between our GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures in Non-GAAP Financial Measures, which appears later in this section.

In addition to monitoring our key operating metrics, we monitor developments and trends that could impact our revenue and profitability objectives, similar to those we highlighted in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018 and discussed in ourthe footnotes to our financial statements.
Market conditions. Snack categories continued to grow in the secondthird quarter of 2019. Volatility in the global currency and commodity markets also continued.
Brexit. WeWe continue to monitor developments related to the U.K. planned exit from the European Union ("Brexit"),. The European Union approved an extension of the Brexit deadline for which has been extended through OctoberJanuary 31, 2019.2020. We continue to take protective measures in response to the potential impacts on our results of operations and financial condition. Our exposure to disruptions to our supply chain, the imposition of tariffs and currency devaluation in the United Kingdom could result in a material impact to our consolidated revenue, earnings and cash flow. In the sixnine months ended JuneSeptember 30, 2019, we generated 8.4% of our consolidated net revenues in the United Kingdom, and our supply chain in this market relies on imports of raw and packaging materials as well as finished goods. Following the Brexit vote in June 2016, there was significant volatility in the global stock markets and currency exchange rates. The value of the British pound sterling relative to the U.S. dollar declined significantly and negatively affected our translated results reported in U.S. dollars. The volatility in foreign currencies and other markets is expected to continue as the United Kingdom executes its exit from the European Union. If the U.K.'s membership in the European Union terminates without an agreement, there could be increased costs from re-imposition of tariffs on trade between the United Kingdom and European Union, shipping delays because of the need for customs inspections and procedures and shortages of certain goods. The United Kingdom will also need to negotiate its own tax and trade treaties with countries all over the world, which could take years to complete. If the ultimate terms of the U.K.’s separation from the European Union negatively impact the U.K. economy or result in disruptions to sales or our supply chain, the impact to our results of operations and financial condition could be material. We have taken measures to increase our resources in customer service & logistics together with increasing our inventory levels of imported raw materials, packaging and finished goods in the United Kingdom to help us manage through the Brexit transition and the inherent risks. Resulting impacts and market volatility can vary significantly depending on the final terms of the U.K.’s exit agreement from the European Union.

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Collective bargaining agreements. In the fourth quarter of 2018, we executed a complete withdrawal from the Fund and recorded an estimate of the withdrawal liability. On July 11, 2019, we received a withdrawal liability assessment from the Fund totaling $526 million and requiring pro-rata monthly payments over 20 years. To meet this obligation, we will beginbegan making payments during the second halfthird quarter of 2019. As of JuneSeptember 30, 2019, our discounted withdrawal liability was $396$394 million, with $22$14 million payable in the next twelve months.
U.S. and Swiss tax reform. WhileDuring the third quarter of 2019, Swiss Federal and Zurich Cantonal tax events drove our recognition of a $767 million Swiss tax reform net benefit to our results of operations. The future tax rate impacts of the Swiss tax reform law changes will become effective starting January 1, 2020 and are not expected to be material relative to the Company's overall results of operations. In the United States, while the 2017 U.S. tax reform reduced the U.S. corporate tax rate and included some beneficial provisions, other provisions have, and in the future will have, an adverse effect on our results. We continue to evaluate the impacts as additional guidance on implementing the legislation becomes available.
Argentina. As further discussed in Note 1, Basis of Presentation – Currency Translation and Highly Inflationary Accounting, on July 1, 2018, we began to apply highly inflationary accounting for our Argentinian subsidiaries. We recorded a remeasurement loss of $1$2 million during the sixnine months ended JuneSeptember 30, 2019 related to the revaluation of our Argentinian peso denominated net monetary position. The mix of monetary assets and liabilities and the exchange rate to convert Argentinian pesos to U.S. dollars could change over time, so it is difficult to predict the overall impact of the Argentina highly inflationary accounting on future net earnings.

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Discussion and Analysis of Historical Results

Items Affecting Comparability of Financial Results

The following table includes significant income or (expense) items that affected the comparability of our results of operations and our effective tax rates. Please refer to the notes to the condensed consolidated financial statements indicated below for more information. Refer also to the Consolidated Results of Operations – Net Earnings and Earnings per Share Attributable to Mondelēz International table for the after-tax per share impacts of these items.

  For the Three Months Ended
June 30,
 For the Six Months Ended
June 30,
  For the Three Months Ended
September 30,
 For the Nine Months Ended
September 30,
See Note 2019 2018 2019 2018See Note 2019 2018 2019 2018
  (in millions, except percentages)  (in millions, except percentages)
Net loss on equity method investment
transactions
Note 7 $(25) $
 $(2) $
Net gain/(loss) on equity method
investment transactions
Note 7 $
 $757
 $(2) $757
Simplify to Grow ProgramNote 8        Note 8        
Restructuring charges (20) (112) (40) (164) (77) (56) (117) (220)
Implementation charges (68) (70) (118) (132) (75) (83) (193) (215)
(Loss)/gain related to interest rate swapsNote 9 & 10 
 (5) 
 9
Note 9 & 10 (111) 1
 (111) 10
Loss on debt extinguishmentNote 9 
 (140) 
 (140)Note 9 
 
 
 (140)
Intangible asset impairment charges (57) (68) (57) (68)
Remeasurement of net monetary positionNote 1 1
 
 (1) 
Note 1 (1) (13) (2) (13)
CEO transition remuneration (1)
 (3) (10) (6) (14) (3) (4) (9) (18)
Acquisition and divestiture-related costs                
Acquisition-related costs (1) (13) (1) (13) (1) (1) (2) (14)
Acquisition integration costs 
 (2) 
 (3) 
 1
 
 (2)
Net gain on divestiture 41
 
 41
 
 3
 
 44
 
Divestiture-related costs (11) 
 (10) 3
 4
 
 (6) 3
Mark-to-market gains from derivativesNote 10 33
 88
 49
 294
Mark-to-market gains/(losses) from
derivatives
(2)
Note 10 18
 (113) 67
 180
Impact from resolution of tax mattersNote 13 
 (15) 
 (15)Note 13 
 
 
 (15)
Impact from pension participation
changes
Note 11 35
 (408) 35
 (408)Note 11 (3) (3) 32
 (411)
Equity method investee acquisition-
related and other adjustments (2)
 15
 7
 32
 (106)
Equity method investee acquisition-
related and other adjustments
(3)
 15
 20
 47
 (86)
Swiss tax reform net impactsNote 15 767
 
 767
 
U.S. tax reform discrete net tax impactsNote 15 (1) 2
 (2) (87)Note 15 
 (9) (2) (96)
Effective tax rateNote 15 23.1% 6.0% 21.2% 25.1%Note 15 (92.5)% 46.3% (8.8)% 31.9%
 
(1)
Please see the Non-GAAP Financial Measures section at the end of this item for additional information.
(2)Includes mark-to-market gains/(losses) from derivatives recorded in operating income and interest expense and other, net.
(3)Amount for the sixnine months ended JuneSeptember 30, 2018 primarily relates to a deferred tax benefit Keurig recorded as a result of U.S. tax reform.



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Consolidated Results of Operations

The following discussion compares our consolidated results of operations for the three and sixnine months ended JuneSeptember 30, 2019 and 2018.

Three Months Ended JuneSeptember 30:
For the Three Months Ended
June 30,
    For the Three Months Ended
September 30,
    
2019 2018 $ change % change2019 2018 $ change % change
(in millions, except per share data)  (in millions, except per share data)  
Net revenues$6,062
 $6,112
 $(50) (0.8)%$6,355
 $6,288
 $67
 1.1%
Operating income1,025
 481
 544
 113.1 %876
 737
 139
 18.9%
Net earnings attributable to
Mondelēz International
807
 318
 489
 153.8 %1,423
 1,194
 229
 19.2%
Diluted earnings per share attributable to
Mondelēz International
0.55
 0.21
 0.34
 161.9 %0.98
 0.81
 0.17
 21.0%

Net Revenues – Net revenues decreased $50increased $67 million (0.8%(1.1%) to $6,062$6,355 million in the secondthird quarter of 2019, and Organic Net Revenue (1) increased $278$266 million (4.6%(4.2%) to $6,358$6,525 million. Emerging markets net revenues decreasedincreased 1.6%, including an unfavorable currency impact, and emerging markets Organic Net Revenue increased 7.6%6.6% (1). The underlying changes in net revenues and Organic Net Revenue are detailed below:
 2019
Change in net revenues (by percentage point) 
Total change in net revenues(0.81.1)%
Add back the following items affecting comparability: 
Unfavorable currency5.53.2 pp
Impact of divestiture0.10.4 pp
Impact of acquisition(0.20.5)pp
Total change in Organic Net Revenue (1)
4.64.2 %
Higher net pricing3.02.1 pp
Favorable volume/mix1.62.1 pp
 
(1)
Please see the Non-GAAP Financial Measures section at the end of this item.

Net revenue decreaseincrease of 0.8%1.1% was driven by our underlying Organic Net Revenue growth of 4.2% and the impact of an acquisition, partially offset by unfavorable currency and the impact of a divestiture, partially offset by our underlying Organic Net Revenue growth of 4.6% and the impact of an acquisition. Unfavorable currency impacts decreased net revenues by $333 million, due primarily to the strength of the U.S. dollar relative to most currencies, including the Argentinian peso, euro, British sterling pound, Brazilian real, Chinese yuan, Australian dollar and Turkish lira. The impact of the divestiture of most of our cheese business in the Middle East and Africa on May 28, 2019 resulted in a year-over-year decline in net revenues of $10 million.divestiture. Our underlying Organic Net Revenue growth was driven by favorable volume/mix and higher net pricingpricing. Favorable volume/mix was reflected in Europe, AMEA and favorableNorth America, partially offset by unfavorable volume/mix.mix in Latin America. Net pricing was up, which includes the benefit of carryover pricing from 2018 as well as the effects of input cost-driven pricing actions taken during 2019. Higher net pricing was reflected in all regions. Favorable volume/mix was reflected in Europe and AMEA, partially offset by unfavorable volume/mix in North America and Latin America. The June 7, 2018July 16, 2019 acquisition of a majority interest in a U.S. premium biscuitrefrigerated nutrition bar company, Tate’s Bake Shop,Perfect Snacks, added net revenues of $15$26 million in the secondthird quarter of 2019. Refer to Note 2, Divestitures and Acquisitions, for additional information. Unfavorable currency impacts decreased net revenues by $196 million, due primarily to the strength of the U.S. dollar relative to most currencies, including the Argentinian peso, euro, British pound sterling, Australian dollar and Chinese yuan. The impact of the divestiture of most of our cheese business in the Middle East and Africa on May 28, 2019 resulted in a year-over-year decline in net revenues of $29 million in the third quarter of 2019.

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Operating Income – Operating income increased $544$139 million (113.1%(18.9%) to $1,025$876 million in the secondthird quarter of 2019, Adjusted Operating Income (1) decreased $8$3 million (0.8%(0.3%) to $1,008$1,065 million and Adjusted Operating Income on a constant currency basis (1) increased $41$46 million (4.0%(4.3%) to $1,057$1,114 million due to the following:
 
Operating
Income
 % Change
 (in millions)  
Operating Income for the Three Months Ended June 30, 2018$481
  
   Simplify to Grow Program (2)
179
  
   Mark-to-market gains from derivatives (3)
(88)  
   Acquisition integration costs (4)
2
  
   Acquisition-related costs (5)
13
  
   Operating income from divestiture (5)
(2)  
   Impact from pension participation changes (6)
408
  
   Impact from resolution of tax matters (7)
11
  
   CEO transition remuneration (1)
10
  
   Other/rounding2
  
Adjusted Operating Income (1) for the
   Three Months Ended June 30, 2018
$1,016
  
   Higher net pricing180
  
   Higher input costs(116)  
   Favorable volume/mix35
  
   Higher selling, general and administrative expenses(57)  
   Impact from acquisition (5)
1
  
   VAT-related expense(2)  
Total change in Adjusted Operating Income (constant currency) (1)
41
 4.0 %
Unfavorable currency translation(49)  
Total change in Adjusted Operating Income (1)
(8) (0.8)%
Adjusted Operating Income (1) for the
   Three Months Ended June 30, 2019
$1,008
  
   Simplify to Grow Program (2)
(83)  
   Mark-to-market gains from derivatives (3)
33
  
   Acquisition-related costs(1)  
   Divestiture-related costs (5)
(11)  
   Operating income from divestiture (5)
5
  
   Net gain on divestiture (5)
41
  
            Remeasurement of net monetary position (8)
1
  
   Impact from pension participation changes (6)
35
  
   CEO transition remuneration (1)
(3)  
Operating Income for the Three Months Ended June 30, 2019$1,025
 113.1 %
 
Operating
Income
 % Change
 (in millions)  
Operating Income for the Three Months Ended September 30, 2018$737
  
   Simplify to Grow Program (2)
139
  
   Intangible asset impairment charges (3)
68
  
   Mark-to-market losses from derivatives (4)
112
  
   Acquisition integration costs (5)
(1)  
   Acquisition-related costs (6)
1
  
   Operating income from divestiture (6)
(6)  
     ��      Remeasurement of net monetary position (7)
13
  
   CEO transition remuneration (1)
4
  
   Other/rounding1
  
Adjusted Operating Income (1) for the
   Three Months Ended September 30, 2018
$1,068
  
   Higher net pricing132
  
   Higher input costs(112)  
   Favorable volume/mix33
  
   Higher selling, general and administrative expenses(8)  
   Impact from acquisition (6)
1
  
Total change in Adjusted Operating Income (constant currency) (1)
46
 4.3 %
Unfavorable currency translation(49)  
Total change in Adjusted Operating Income (1)
(3) (0.3)%
Adjusted Operating Income (1) for the
   Three Months Ended September 30, 2019
$1,065
  
   Simplify to Grow Program (2)
(151)  
   Intangible asset impairment charges (3)
(57)  
   Mark-to-market gains from derivatives (4)
20
  
   Acquisition-related costs (6)
(1)  
   Divestiture-related costs (6)
4
  
   Net gain on divestiture (6)
3
  
            Remeasurement of net monetary position (7)
(1)  
   CEO transition remuneration (1)
(3)  
   Swiss tax reform impact (8)
(2)  
   Other/rounding(1)  
Operating Income for the Three Months Ended September 30, 2019$876
 18.9 %

(1)
Refer to the Non-GAAP Financial Measures section at the end of this item.
(2)
Refer to Note 8, Restructuring Program, for more information.
(3)
Refer to Note 6, Goodwill and Intangible Assets, for more information on intangible asset impairments.
(4)
Refer to Note 10, Financial Instruments, Note 17, Segment Reporting, and Non-GAAP Financial Measures section at the end of this item for more information on the unrealized gains/losses on commodity and forecasted currency transaction derivatives.
(4)(5)Refer to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018 for more information on the acquisition of a biscuit business in Vietnam.
(5)(6)
Refer to Note 2, Divestitures and Acquisitions, for more information on the July 16, 2019 acquisition of a majority interest in Perfect Snacks, the May 28, 2019 divestiture of most of our cheese business in the Middle East and Africa and the June 7, 2018 acquisition of Tate's Bake Shop.
(6)
Refer to Note 11, Benefit Plans, for more information.
(7)
Refer to Note 13, Commitments and Contingencies – Tax Matters, for more information.
(8)
Refer to Note 1, Basis of Presentation – Currency Translation and Highly Inflationary Accounting, for information on our application of highly inflationary accounting for Argentina.

(8)
Refer to Note 15, Income Taxes, for more information on Swiss tax reform.


During the secondthird quarter of 2019, we realized higher net pricing, which was partially offset by increased input costs. Higher net pricing, which included the carryover impact of pricing actions taken in 2018 as well as the effects of input cost-driven pricing actions taken during 2019, was reflected across all regions. The increase in input costs was driven by higher raw material costs, partially offset by lower manufacturing costs due to productivity efforts. Higher raw material costs were in part due to higher currency exchange transaction costs on imported materials as well as higher packaging, energy, dairy, grains and energycocoa costs. Favorable volume/mix was driven by Europe Latinand North America, and AMEA, which was partially offset by unfavorable volume/mix in North America.Latin America and AMEA.

Total selling, general and administrative expenses decreased $477$42 million from the secondthird quarter of 2018, due to a number of factors noted in the table above, including in part, the lapping of the prior-year impact from pension participation changes, favorable currency impact benefit from current-year pension participation changes,related to expenses, lower acquisition-related costs, lower CEO transition remuneration andremeasurement loss on net monetary position in Argentina, lower implementation costs incurred for the Simplify to Grow program and the reversal of divestiture-related costs due to accruals no longer needed, partially offset by the impact of an acquisition. Excluding these factors, selling, general and administrative expenses increased $57$8 million from the secondthird quarter of 2018. The increase was driven by higher advertising and consumer promotion costs, partially offset by lower overhead costs due to cost reduction efforts.incremental investments in route-to-market capabilities.

Unfavorable currency changes decreased operating income by $49 million due primarily to the strength of the U.S. dollar relative to most currencies, including the euro, Argentinian peso, euro and British pound sterling.

Operating income margin increased from 7.9%11.7% in the secondthird quarter of 2018 to 16.9%13.8% in the secondthird quarter of 2019. The increase in operating income margin was driven primarily by the lapping of the prior-year impact from pension participation changes, lower Simplify to Grow Program costs, a gain on divestiture, benefit from current-year pension participation changes and lower acquisition-related costs, partially offset by the year-over-year unfavorablefavorable change in mark-to-market gains/(losses) from currency and commodity hedging activities, lower remeasurement loss on net monetary position in Argentina and current-year divestiture-relatedlower intangible asset impairment charges, partially offset by lower Adjusted Operating Income margin and higher Simplify to Grow Program costs. Adjusted Operating Income margin fordecreased from 17.1% in the second quarter of 2019 was flat to the secondthird quarter of 2018 at 16.7%.to 16.8% in the third quarter of 2019. The decrease in Adjusted Operating Income margin was unchanged asdriven primarily by higher raw material costs, partially offset by higher net pricing, lower manufacturing costs and overhead leverage were offset by higher raw material costsselling, general and higher advertising and consumer promotion costs.administrative expense leverage.



Net Earnings and Earnings per Share Attributable to Mondelēz International – Net earnings attributable to Mondelēz International of $807$1,423 million increased by $489$229 million (153.8%(19.2%) in the secondthird quarter of 2019. Diluted EPS attributable to Mondelēz International was $0.55$0.98 in the secondthird quarter of 2019, up $0.34 (161.9%$0.17 (21.0%) from the secondthird quarter of 2018. Adjusted EPS (1) was $0.57$0.64 in the secondthird quarter of 2019, up $0.02 (3.6%(3.2%) from the secondthird quarter of 2018. Adjusted EPS on a constant currency basis (1) was $0.60$0.68 in the secondthird quarter of 2019, up $0.05 (9.1%$0.06 (9.7%) from the secondthird quarter of 2018.
 Diluted EPS
  
Diluted EPS Attributable to Mondelēz International for the
   Three Months Ended June 30, 2018
$0.21
   Simplify to Grow Program (2)
0.09
   Mark-to-market gains from derivatives (2)
(0.05)
   Acquisition integration costs (2)

   Acquisition-related costs (2)
0.01
   Net earnings from divestiture (2)

   Impact from pension participation changes (2)
0.20
   Impact from resolution of tax matters (2)

   CEO transition remuneration (2)
0.01
   Loss on debt extinguishment (3)
0.07
   Equity method investee acquisition-related and other adjustments (4)
0.01
Adjusted EPS (1) for the Three Months Ended June 30, 2018
$0.55
   Increase in operations0.02
   Increase in equity method investment net earnings0.03
   Changes in income taxes (5)
(0.01)
   Changes in shares outstanding (6)
0.01
Adjusted EPS (constant currency) (1) for the Three Months Ended June 30, 2019
$0.60
Unfavorable currency translation(0.03)
Adjusted EPS (1) for the Three Months Ended June 30, 2019
$0.57
   Simplify to Grow Program (2)
(0.05)
   Mark-to-market gains from derivatives (2)
0.02
   Acquisition-related costs (2)

   Divestiture-related costs (2)
(0.01)
   Net earnings from divestiture (2)

   Net gain on divestiture (2)
0.03
   Remeasurement of net monetary position (2)

   Impact from pension participation changes (2)
0.02
   CEO transition remuneration (2)

   Net loss on equity method investment transactions (7)
(0.02)
   Equity method investee acquisition-related and other adjustments (4)
(0.01)
Diluted EPS Attributable to Mondelēz International for the
   Three Months Ended June 30, 2019
$0.55
 Diluted EPS
  
Diluted EPS Attributable to Mondelēz International for the
   Three Months Ended September 30, 2018
$0.81
   Simplify to Grow Program (2)
0.07
   Intangible asset impairment charges (2)
0.03
   Mark-to-market losses from derivatives (2)
0.07
   Remeasurement of net monetary position (2)
0.01
   U.S. tax reform discrete net tax benefit (3)
0.01
   Gain on equity method investment transaction (4)
(0.39)
   Equity method investee acquisition-related and other adjustments (5)
0.01
Adjusted EPS (1) for the Three Months Ended September 30, 2018
$0.62
   Increase in operations0.02
   Increase in equity method investment net earnings0.02
   Changes in income taxes (3)
0.01
   Changes in shares outstanding (6)
0.01
Adjusted EPS (constant currency) (1) for the Three Months Ended September 30, 2019
$0.68
Unfavorable currency translation(0.04)
Adjusted EPS (1) for the Three Months Ended September 30, 2019
$0.64
   Simplify to Grow Program (2)
(0.08)
   Intangible asset impairment charges (2)
(0.03)
   Mark-to-market gains from derivatives (2)
0.01
   Loss related to interest rate swaps (7)
(0.08)
   Swiss tax reform net impacts (3)
0.53
   Equity method investee acquisition-related and other adjustments (5)
(0.01)
Diluted EPS Attributable to Mondelēz International for the
   Three Months Ended September 30, 2019
$0.98
(1)
Refer to the Non-GAAP Financial Measures section appearing later in this section.
(2)
See the Operating Income table above and the related footnotes for more information.
(3)
Refer to Note 9,15, DebtIncome Taxes, and Borrowing Arrangements,to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018 for more information on losses on debt extinguishment.the impact of the U.S. tax reform, Swiss tax reform and items affecting income taxes.
(4)
Refer to Note 7, Equity Method Investments, for more information on the gain on equity method investment transactions.
(5)Includes our proportionate share of unusual or infrequent items, such as acquisition and divestiture-related costs and restructuring program costs and discrete U.S. tax reform impacts recorded by our JDE and Keurig equity method investees.
(5)
Refer to Note 15, Income Taxes, for more information on the items affecting income taxes.
costs.
(6)
Refer to Note 12, Stock Plans, for more information on our equity compensation programs and share repurchase program and Note 16, Earnings per Share, for earnings per share weighted-average share information.
(7)
Refer to Note 7,10, Equity Method InvestmentsFinancial Instruments, for more information on the net loss on equity method investment transactions.our interest rate swaps that we no longer designate as cash flow hedges.




SixNine Months Ended JuneSeptember 30:
For the Six Months Ended
June 30,
    For the Nine Months Ended
September 30,
    
2019 2018 $ change % change2019 2018 $ change % change
(in millions, except per share data)  (in millions, except per share data)  
Net revenues$12,600
 $12,877
 $(277) (2.2)%$18,955
 $19,165
 $(210) (1.1)%
Operating income2,061
 1,705
 356
 20.9 %2,937
 2,442
 495
 20.3 %
Net earnings attributable to
Mondelēz International
1,721
 1,364
 357
 26.2 %3,144
 2,558
 586
 22.9 %
Diluted earnings per share attributable to
Mondelēz International
1.18
 0.91
 0.27
 29.7 %2.15
 1.72
 0.43
 25.0 %

Net Revenues – Net revenues decreased $277$210 million (2.2%(1.1%) to $12,600$18,955 million in the first sixnine months of 2019, and Organic Net Revenue (1) increased $527$793 million (4.1%(4.2%) to $13,341$19,866 million. Emerging markets net revenues decreased 2.4%1.1%, including an unfavorable currency impact, and emerging markets Organic Net Revenue increased 8.0%7.6% (1). The underlying changes in net revenues and Organic Net Revenue are detailed below:
 2019
Change in net revenues (by percentage point) 
Total change in net revenues(2.21.1)%
Add back the following items affecting comparability: 
Unfavorable currency6.55.4 pp
Impact of divestiture0.10.2 pp
Impact of acquisitionacquisitions(0.3)pp
Total change in Organic Net Revenue (1)
4.14.2 %
Higher net pricing2.52.3 pp
Favorable volume/mix1.61.9 pp
 
(1)
Please see the Non-GAAP Financial Measures section at the end of this item.

Net revenue decrease of 2.2%1.1% was driven by unfavorable currency and the impact of a divestiture, partially offset by our underlying Organic Net Revenue growth of 4.1%4.2% and the impact of an acquisition.acquisitions. Unfavorable currency impacts decreased net revenues by $831$1,027 million, due primarily to the strength of the U.S. dollar relative to most currencies, including the Argentinian peso, euro, British pound sterling, Brazilian real, British sterling pound, Australian dollar, Chinese yuan, Indian rupee and Russian ruble. The impact of the divestiture of most of our cheese business in the Middle East and Africa on May 28, 2019 resulted in a year-over-year decline in net revenues of $8$37 million. Our underlying Organic Net Revenue growth was driven by higher net pricing and favorable volume/mix. Net pricing was up, which includes the benefit of carryover pricing from 2018 as well as the effects of input cost-driven pricing actions taken during the first sixnine months of 2019. Higher net pricing was reflected in all regions. Favorable volume/mix was reflected in Europe and AMEA, partially offset by unfavorable volume/mix in NorthLatin America and LatinNorth America. The July 16, 2019 acquisition of a majority interest in Perfect Snacks added net revenues of $26 million and the June 7, 2018 acquisition of a U.S. premium biscuit company, Tate’s Bake Shop added incremental net revenues of $35 million in the first sixnine months of 2019. Refer to Note 2, Divestitures and Acquisitions, for additional information.

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Operating Income – Operating income increased $356$495 million (20.9%(20.3%) to $2,061$2,937 million in the first sixnine months of 2019,2019. Adjusted Operating Income (1) decreased $45$48 million (2.1%(1.5%) to $2,098$3,163 million and Adjusted Operating Income on a constant currency basis (1) increased $91$137 million (4.2%(4.3%) to $2,234$3,348 million due to the following:
 
Operating
Income
 % Change
 (in millions)  
Operating Income for the Six Months Ended June 30, 2018$1,705
  
   Simplify to Grow Program (2)
293
  
   Mark-to-market gains from derivatives (3)
(294)  
   Acquisition integration costs (4)
3
  
   Acquisition-related costs (5)
13
  
   Divestiture-related costs (5)
(3)  
   Operating income from divestiture (5)
(8)  
   Impact from pension participation changes (6)
408
  
   Impact from resolution of tax matters (7)
11
  
   CEO transition remuneration (1)
14
  
   Other/rounding1
  
Adjusted Operating Income (1) for the
   Six Months Ended June 30, 2018
$2,143
  
   Higher net pricing316
  
   Higher input costs(172)  
   Favorable volume/mix71
  
   Higher selling, general and administrative expenses(95)  
   Impact from acquisition (5)
4
  
   VAT-related settlements(32)  
   Other
(1)  
Total change in Adjusted Operating Income (constant currency) (1)
91
 4.2 %
Unfavorable currency translation(136)  
Total change in Adjusted Operating Income (1)
(45) (2.1)%
Adjusted Operating Income (1) for the
   Six Months Ended June 30, 2019
$2,098
  
   Simplify to Grow Program (2)
(153)  
   Mark-to-market gains from derivatives (3)
49
  
   Acquisition-related costs(1)  
   Divestiture-related costs (5)
(10)  
   Operating income from divestiture (5)
9
  
   Net gain on divestiture (5)
41
  
            Remeasurement of net monetary position (8)
(1)  
   Impact from pension participation changes (6)
35
  
   CEO transition remuneration(6)  
Operating Income for the Six Months Ended June 30, 2019$2,061
 20.9 %
 
Operating
Income
 % Change
 (in millions)  
Operating Income for the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018$2,442
  
   Simplify to Grow Program (2)
432
  
   Intangible asset impairment charges (3)
68
  
   Mark-to-market gains from derivatives (4)
(181)  
   Acquisition integration costs (5)
2
  
   Acquisition-related costs (6)
14
  
   Divestiture-related costs (6)
(3)  
   Operating income from divestiture (6)
(14)  
            Remeasurement of net monetary position (7)
13
  
   Impact from pension participation changes (8)
408
  
   Impact from resolution of tax matters (9)
11
  
   CEO transition remuneration (1)
18
  
   Other/rounding1
  
Adjusted Operating Income (1) for the
   Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018
$3,211
  
   Higher net pricing448
  
   Higher input costs(284)  
   Favorable volume/mix104
  
   Higher selling, general and administrative expenses(106)  
   Impact from acquisitions (6)
5
  
   VAT-related settlements(32)  
   Other
2
  
Total change in Adjusted Operating Income (constant currency) (1)
137
 4.3 %
Unfavorable currency translation(185)  
Total change in Adjusted Operating Income (1)
(48) (1.5)%
Adjusted Operating Income (1) for the
   Nine Months Ended September 30, 2019
$3,163
  
   Simplify to Grow Program (2)
(304)  
   Intangible asset impairment charges (3)
(57)  
   Mark-to-market gains from derivatives (4)
69
  
   Acquisition-related costs (6)
(2)  
   Divestiture-related costs (6)
(6)  
   Operating income from divestiture (6)
9
  
   Net gain on divestiture (6)
44
  
            Remeasurement of net monetary position (7)
(2)  
   Impact from pension participation changes (8)
35
  
   CEO transition remuneration (1)
(9)  
   Swiss tax reform impact (10)
(2)  
   Other/rounding(1)  
Operating Income for the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2019$2,937
 20.3 %

(1)
Refer to the Non-GAAP Financial Measures section at the end of this item.
(2)
Refer to Note 8, Restructuring Program, for more information.
(3)
Refer to Note 6, Goodwill and Intangible Assets, for more information on intangible asset impairments.

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(4)
Refer to Note 10, Financial Instruments, Note 17, Segment Reporting, and Non-GAAP Financial Measures section at the end of this item for more information on the unrealized gains/losses on commodity and forecasted currency transaction derivatives.
(4)(5)Refer to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018 for more information on the acquisition of a biscuit business in Vietnam.
(5)(6)
Refer to Note 2, Divestitures and Acquisitions, for more information on the July 16, 2019 acquisition of a majority interest in Perfect Snacks, the May 28, 2019 divestiture of most of our cheese business in the Middle East and Africa and the June 7, 2018 acquisition of Tate's Bake Shop.
(6)
Refer to Note 11, Benefit Plans, for more information.
(7)
Refer to Note 13, Commitments and Contingencies – Tax Matters, for more information.
(8)
Refer to Note 1, Basis of Presentation – Currency Translation and Highly Inflationary Accounting, for information on our application of highly inflationary accounting for Argentina.

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(8)
Refer to Note 11, Benefit Plans, for more information.
(9)
Refer to Note 13, Commitments and Contingencies – Tax Matters, for more information.
(10)
Refer to Note 15, Income Taxes, for more information on Swiss tax reform.

During the first sixnine months of 2019, we realized higher net pricing, which was partially offset by increased input costs. Higher net pricing, which included the carryover impact of pricing actions taken in 2018 as well as the effects of input cost-driven pricing actions taken during the first sixnine months of 2019, was reflected across all regions. The increase in input costs was driven by higher raw material costs, partially offset by lower manufacturing costs due to productivity efforts. Higher raw material costs were in part due to higher currency exchange transaction costs on imported materials, as well as higher packaging, energy, dairy, grains and oils costs, partially offset by lower costs for sugar cocoa and nuts.cocoa. Favorable volume/mix was driven by Europe and AMEA, which was partially offset by unfavorable volume/mix in NorthLatin America and LatinNorth America.

Total selling, general and administrative expenses decreased $511$553 million from the first sixnine months of 2018, due to a number of factors noted in the table above, including in part, the lapping of the prior-year impact from pension participation changes, favorable currency impact, the benefit from current-year pension participation changes, lower implementation costs incurred for the Simplify to Grow program, lower acquisition-related costs, the lapping of a prior-year expense from the resolution of a tax matter, lower remeasurement loss on net monetary position in Argentina and lower CEO transition remuneration. These decreases were partially offset by the lapping of a benefit from a prior-year value-added tax (“VAT”) related settlement, higher divestiture-related costs,the impact of acquisitions, a VAT cost settlement in 2019 and the impact of an acquisition.higher divestiture-related costs. Excluding these factors, selling, general and administrative expenses increased $95$106 million from the first sixnine months of 2018. The increase was driven primarily by higher overheads reflecting route-to-market investments and higher advertising and consumer promotion costs, partially offset by lower overhead costs due to productivity efforts.costs.

We recorded an expense of $11 million from a VAT-related settlement in Latin America in the first sixnine months of 2019 and a benefit of $21 million from a VAT-related settlement in Latin America in the first sixnine months of 2018. FavorableUnfavorable currency changes decreased operating income by $136$185 million due primarily to the strength of the U.S. dollar relative to most currencies, including the euro, Argentinian peso, British pound sterling, Brazilian real, Australian dollar, Chinese yuan and Indian rupee.

Operating income margin increased from 13.2%12.7% in the first sixnine months of 2018 to 16.4%15.5% in the first sixnine months of 2019. The increase in operating income margin was driven primarily by the lapping of the prior-year impact from pension participation changes, lower Simplify to Grow Program costs, a gain on divestiture, the benefit from current-year pension participation changes, and lower acquisition-related costs and the lapping of a prior-year expense from the resolution of a tax matter, partially offset by the year-over-year unfavorable change in mark-to-market gains/(losses) from currency and commodity hedging activities and higher divestiture-related costs.activities. Adjusted Operating Income margin decreased from 16.8% for first six months of 2019 was flat to the first sixnine months of 2018 atto 16.7%. for first nine months of 2019. The decrease in Adjusted Operating Income margin was unchanged as higher pricing, lower manufacturing costs and overhead leverage were offsetdriven primarily by higher raw material costs, mostly offset by higher pricing and higher advertising and consumer promotionlower manufacturing costs.



Net Earnings and Earnings per Share Attributable to Mondelēz International – Net earnings attributable to Mondelēz International of $1,721$3,144 million increased by $357$586 million (26.2%(22.9%) in the first sixnine months of 2019. Diluted EPS attributable to Mondelēz International was $1.18$2.15 in the first sixnine months of 2019, up $0.27 (29.7%$0.43 (25.0%) from the first sixnine months of 2018. Adjusted EPS (1) was $1.22$1.86 in the first sixnine months of 2019, up $0.05 (4.3%$0.07 (3.9%) from the first sixnine months of 2018. Adjusted EPS on a constant currency basis (1) was $1.31$1.99 in the first sixnine months of 2019, up $0.14 (12.0%$0.20 (11.2%) from the first sixnine months of 2018.
Diluted EPSDiluted EPS
  
Diluted EPS Attributable to Mondelēz International for the
Six Months Ended June 30, 2018
$0.91
Diluted EPS Attributable to Mondelēz International for the
Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018
$1.72
Simplify to Grow Program (2)
0.15
0.22
Intangible asset impairment charges (2)
0.03
Mark-to-market gains from derivatives (2)
(0.17)(0.10)
Acquisition integration costs (2)

Acquisition-related costs (2)
0.01
0.01
Divestiture-related costs (2)

Net earnings from divestiture (2)
(0.01)(0.01)
Remeasurement of net monetary position (2)
0.01
Impact from pension participation changes (2)
0.20
0.21
Impact from resolution of tax matters (2)

CEO transition remuneration (2)
0.01
0.01
Gain related to interest rate swaps (3)
(0.01)(0.01)
Loss on debt extinguishment (4)
0.07
0.07
U.S. tax reform discrete net tax expense (5)
0.06
0.06
Gain on equity method investment transaction (6)
(0.39)
Equity method investee acquisition-related and other adjustments (6)(7)
(0.05)(0.04)
Adjusted EPS (1) for the Six Months Ended June 30, 2018
$1.17
Adjusted EPS (1) for the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018
$1.79
Increase in operations0.06
0.09
Increase in equity method investment net earnings0.04
0.06
VAT-related settlements(0.01)(0.01)
Changes in interest and other expense, net (7)
0.01
Changes in income taxes (8)
0.01
Changes in shares outstanding (9)
0.03
Adjusted EPS (constant currency) (1) for the Six Months Ended June 30, 2019
$1.31
Changes in income taxes (5)
0.02
Changes in shares outstanding (8)
0.04
Adjusted EPS (constant currency) (1) for the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2019
$1.99
Unfavorable currency translation(0.09)(0.13)
Adjusted EPS (1) for the Six Months Ended June 30, 2019
$1.22
Adjusted EPS (1) for the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2019
$1.86
Simplify to Grow Program (2)
(0.08)(0.17)
Intangible asset impairment charges (2)
(0.03)
Mark-to-market gains from derivatives (2)
0.03
0.04
Acquisition-related costs (2)

Divestiture-related costs (2)
(0.01)(0.01)
Net earnings from divestiture (2)
0.01
0.01
Net gain on divestiture (2)
0.03
0.03
Remeasurement of net monetary position (2)

Impact from pension participation changes (2)
0.02
0.02
CEO transition remuneration (2)
(0.01)(0.01)
Net loss on equity method investment transactions (10)
(0.01)
Loss related to interest rate swaps (3)
(0.08)
Swiss tax reform net impacts (5)
0.53
Net loss on equity method investment transactions (6)
(0.01)
Equity method investee acquisition-related and other adjustments (6)(7)
(0.02)(0.03)
Diluted EPS Attributable to Mondelēz International for the
Six Months Ended June 30, 2019
$1.18
Diluted EPS Attributable to Mondelēz International for the
Nine Months Ended September 30, 2019
$2.15
(1)
Refer to the Non-GAAP Financial Measures section appearing later in this section.
(2)
See the Operating Income table above and the related footnotes for more information.
(3)
Refer to Note 10, Financial Instruments, for information on our interest rate swaps that we no longer designate as cash flow hedges.
(4)
Refer to Note 9, Debt and Borrowing Arrangements, for more information on lossesthe loss on debt extinguishment.


(5)
Refer to Note 15, Income Taxes, and to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018 for more information on the impact of the U.S. tax reform.reform, Swiss tax reform and items affecting income taxes.


(6)
Refer to Note 7, Equity Method Investments, for more information on the net gain and loss on equity method investment transactions.
(7)Includes our proportionate share of unusual or infrequent items, such as acquisition and divestiture-related costs, restructuring program costs and discrete U.S. tax reform impacts recorded by our JDE and KDP or Keurig equity method investees.
(7)Excludes the currency impact on interest expense related to our non-U.S. dollar-denominated debt, which is included in currency translation.
(8)
Refer to Note 15, Income Taxes, for more information on the items affecting income taxes.
(9)
Refer to Note 12, Stock Plans, for more information on our equity compensation programs and share repurchase program and Note 16, Earnings per Share, for earnings per share weighted-average share information.
(10)
Refer to Note 7, Equity Method Investments, for more information on the net loss on equity method investment transactions.



Results of Operations by Reportable Segment

Our operations and management structure are organized into four operating segments:
Latin America
AMEA
Europe
North America

We manage our operations by region to leverage regional operating scale, manage different and changing business environments more effectively and pursue growth opportunities as they arise across our key markets. Our regional management teams have responsibility for the business, product categories and financial results in the regions.

We use segment operating income to evaluate segment performance and allocate resources. We believe it is appropriate to disclose this measure to help investors analyze segment performance and trends. See Note 17, Segment Reporting, for additional information on our segments and Items Affecting Comparability of Financial Results earlier in this section for items affecting our segment operating results.

Our segment net revenues and earnings were:
For the Three Months Ended
June 30,
 For the Six Months Ended
June 30,
For the Three Months Ended
September 30,
 For the Nine Months Ended
September 30,
2019 2018 2019 20182019 2018 2019 2018
(in millions)(in millions)
Net revenues:              
Latin America$737
 $774
 $1,537
 $1,665
$736
 $774
 $2,273
 $2,439
AMEA1,352
 1,360
 2,893
 2,902
1,419
 1,398
 4,312
 4,300
Europe2,247
 2,303
 4,798
 5,009
2,377
 2,361
 7,175
 7,370
North America1,726
 1,675
 3,372
 3,301
1,823
 1,755
 5,195
 5,056
Net revenues$6,062
 $6,112
 $12,600
 $12,877
$6,355
 $6,288
 $18,955
 $19,165

Earnings before income taxes:
              
Operating income:              
Latin America$68
 $92
 $166
 $218
$84
 $100
 $250
 $318
AMEA191
 177
 447
 405
188
 153
 635
 558
Europe408
 367
 908
 864
331
 381
 1,239
 1,245
North America407
 (95) 726
 180
370
 334
 1,096
 514
Unrealized gains on hedging activities
(mark-to-market impacts)
33
 88
 49
 294
Unrealized gains/(losses) on hedging activities
(mark-to-market impacts)
20
 (112) 69
 181
General corporate expenses(79) (91) (188) (155)(76) (74) (264) (228)
Amortization of intangibles(43) (44) (87) (88)(43) (44) (130) (132)
Net gain on divestitures41
 
 41
 
Net gain on divestiture3
 
 44
 
Acquisition-related costs(1) (13) (1) (13)(1) (1) (2) (14)
Operating income1,025
 481
 2,061
 1,705
876
 737
 2,937
 2,442
Benefit plan non-service income12
 15
 29
 28
13
 19
 42
 47
Interest and other expense, net(101) (248) (181) (328)(205) (86) (386) (414)
Earnings before income taxes$936
 $248
 $1,909
 $1,405
$684
 $670
 $2,593
 $2,075




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Latin America
For the Three Months Ended
June 30,
    For the Three Months Ended
September 30,
    
2019 2018 $ change % change2019 2018 $ change % change
(in millions)  (in millions)  
Net revenues$737
 $774
 $(37) (4.8)%$736
 $774
 $(38) (4.9)%
Segment operating income68
 92
 (24) (26.1)%84
 100
 (16) (16.0)%
              
For the Six Months Ended
June 30,
    For the Nine Months Ended
September 30,
    
2019 2018 $ change % change2019 2018 $ change % change
(in millions)  (in millions)  
Net revenues$1,537
 $1,665
 $(128) (7.7)%$2,273
 $2,439
 $(166) (6.8)%
Segment operating income166
 218
 (52) (23.9)%250
 318
 (68) (21.4)%

Three Months Ended JuneSeptember 30:

Net revenues decreased $37$38 million (4.8%(4.9%), due to unfavorable currency (15.7(9.2 pp) and unfavorable volume/mix (0.6(4.6 pp), partially offset by higher net pricing (11.5(8.9 pp). Unfavorable currency impacts were due primarily to the strength of the U.S. dollar relative to most currencies in the region, including the Argentinian peso, Mexican peso and Brazilian real. Unfavorable volume/mix was due to the impact of pricing-related elasticity, partially offset by lapping the negative impact of the last year's Brazil trucking strike. Unfavorable volume/mixand was driven by declines in refreshment beverages, chocolate, candy and cheese & grocery, partially offset by gains in chocolate, gum, biscuits and refreshment beverages.gum. Higher net pricing was reflected across all categories, driven primarily by Argentina Brazil and Mexico.Brazil.

Segment operating income decreased $24$16 million (26.1%(16.0%), primarily due to higher raw material costs, higher advertising and consumer promotion costs, unfavorable currency and higher manufacturing costs.unfavorable volume/mix. These unfavorable items were partially offset by higher net pricing, favorable volume/mix, lower other selling, general and administrative expenses and lower costs incurred for the Simplify to Grow Program.Program, lower remeasurement loss on net monetary position in Argentina and lower advertising and consumer promotion costs.

SixNine Months Ended JuneSeptember 30:

Net revenues decreased $128$166 million (7.7%(6.8%), due to unfavorable currency (17.2(14.7 pp) and unfavorable volume/mix (1.1(2.1 pp), partially offset by higher net pricing (10.6(10.0 pp). Unfavorable currency impacts were due primarily to the strength of the U.S. dollar relative to most currencies in the region including the Argentinian peso, Brazilian real and Brazilian real.Mexico peso. Unfavorable volume/mix was due to the impact of pricing-related elasticity, partially offset by lapping the negative impact of last year's Brazil trucking strike. Unfavorable volume/mixand was driven by declines in candy, refreshment beverages, candy, cheese & grocery and gum, partially offset by gains in chocolate and biscuits. Higher net pricing was reflected across all categories, driven primarily by Argentina, Brazil and Mexico.

Segment operating income decreased $52$68 million (23.9%(21.4%), primarily due to higher raw material costs, unfavorable currency, higher advertising and consumer promotion costs, higher other selling, general and administrative expenses (including lapping the benefit from a VAT-related settlement in 2018 and the expense of a VAT-related settlement in 2019), unfavorable volume/mix and higher manufacturing costs and unfavorable volume/mix.costs. These unfavorable items were partially offset by higher net pricing, and lower costs incurred for the Simplify to Grow Program.Program and lower remeasurement loss on net monetary position in Argentina.


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AMEA
For the Three Months Ended
June 30,
    For the Three Months Ended
September 30,
    
2019 2018 $ change % change2019 2018 $ change % change
(in millions)  (in millions)  
Net revenues$1,352
 $1,360
 $(8) (0.6)%$1,419
 $1,398
 $21
 1.5%
Segment operating income191
 177
 14
 7.9 %188
 153
 35
 22.9%
          
For the Six Months Ended
June 30,
    For the Nine Months Ended
September 30,
    
2019 2018 $ change % change2019 2018 $ change % change
(in millions)  (in millions)  
Net revenues$2,893
 $2,902
 $(9) (0.3)%$4,312
 $4,300
 $12
 0.3%
Segment operating income447
 405
 42
 10.4 %635
 558
 77
 13.8%

Three Months Ended JuneSeptember 30:

Net revenues decreased $8increased $21 million (0.6%(1.5%), due to unfavorable currency (4.5favorable volume/mix (3.6 pp) and higher net pricing (1.7 pp), partially offset by the impact of a divestiture (0.8(2.2 pp), and unfavorable currency (1.6 pp). Favorable volume/mix was driven by gains in biscuits, chocolate, gum and cheese & grocery, partially offset by favorable volume/mix (2.8 pp)declines in refreshment beverages and highercandy. Higher net pricing (1.9 pp). Unfavorable currency impacts were due primarily to the strength of the U.S. dollar relative to most currencies in the region, including the Chinese yuan, Australian dollar, South African rand and Indian rupee.was reflected across all categories except cheese & grocery. The divestiture of most of our cheese business in the Middle East and Africa on May 28, 2019, resulted in a year-over-year decline in net revenues of $10$29 million for the secondthird quarter of 2019. Favorable volume/mix was driven by gainsUnfavorable currency impacts were due primarily to the strength of the U.S. dollar relative to most currencies in biscuitsthe region, including the Australian dollar, Chinese yuan and chocolate, partially offset by declines in refreshment beverages, candy, gum and cheese & grocery. Higher net pricing was reflected across all categories.South African rand.

Segment operating income increased $14$35 million (7.9%(22.9%), primarily due to higher net pricing, lower manufacturing costs, lower costs incurred for the Simplify to Grow Program and favorable volume/mix.higher net pricing. These favorable items were partially offset by higher advertising and consumer promotion costs, higher raw material costs, higher other selling, general and administrative expenses, unfavorable currencyvolume/mix, higher intangible asset impairment charges, the impact of the divestiture and divestiture-related costs incurred.unfavorable currency.

SixNine Months Ended JuneSeptember 30:

Net revenues decreased $9increased $12 million (0.3%), due to favorable volume/mix (3.9 pp) and higher net pricing (1.5 pp), mostly offset by unfavorable currency (5.5(4.2 pp) and the impact of a divestiture (0.3(0.9 pp), mostly offset by favorable. Favorable volume/mix (4.1 pp)was driven by gains across all categories except candy and higherrefreshment beverages. Higher net pricing (1.4 pp).was reflected across all categories. Unfavorable currency impacts were due to the strength of the U.S. dollar relative to several currencies in the region, including the Australian dollar, Chinese yuan, Indian rupee and South African rand. The divestiture of most of our cheese business in the Middle East and Africa on May 28, 2019, resulted in a year-over-year decline in net revenues of $8 million for the first six months of 2019. Favorable volume/mix was driven by gains across all categories except candy. Higher net pricing was reflected across all categories.$37 million.

Segment operating income increased $42$77 million (10.4%(13.8%), primarily due to lower manufacturing costs, favorable volume/mix, higher net pricing, lower costs incurred for the Simplify to Grow Program and lower other selling, general and administrative expenses.favorable volume/mix. These favorable items were partially offset by higher raw material costs, unfavorable currency, higher advertising and consumer promotion costs, unfavorable currencyhigher other selling, general and administrative expenses, higher intangible asset impairment charges, divestiture-related costs incurred.incurred in 2019 and the impact of the divestiture.


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Europe
For the Three Months Ended
June 30,
    For the Three Months Ended
September 30,
    
2019 2018 $ change % change2019 2018 $ change % change
(in millions)  (in millions)  
Net revenues$2,247
 $2,303
 $(56) (2.4)%$2,377
 $2,361
 $16
 0.7 %
Segment operating income408
 367
 41
 11.2 %331
 381
 (50) (13.1)%
              
          
For the Six Months Ended
June 30,
    For the Nine Months Ended
September 30,
    
2019 2018 $ change % change2019 2018 $ change % change
(in millions)  (in millions)  
Net revenues$4,798
 $5,009
 $(211) (4.2)%$7,175
 $7,370
 $(195) (2.6)%
Segment operating income908
 864
 44
 5.1 %1,239
 1,245
 (6) (0.5)%

Three Months Ended JuneSeptember 30:

Net revenues decreased $56increased $16 million (2.4%(0.7%), due to unfavorable currency (6.3 pp), partially offset by favorable volume/mix (3.6(4.7 pp) and higher net pricing (0.3 pp), partially offset by unfavorable currency (4.3 pp). Favorable volume/mix was driven by gains in all categories except gum. Higher net pricing was reflected in chocolate, gum and candy, mostly offset by lower net pricing in biscuits, refreshment beverages and cheese & grocery. Unfavorable currency impacts reflected the strength of the U.S. dollar relative to most currencies in the region, including the euro and British pound sterling, Turkish lira and Russian ruble. Favorable volume/mix was driven by gains in chocolate, cheese & grocery, refreshment beverages and biscuits, mostly offset by declines in gum and candy. Higher net pricing was reflected in all categories except chocolate and cheese & grocery.sterling.

Segment operating income increased $41decreased $50 million (11.2%(13.1%), primarily due to lowerhigher costs incurred for the Simplify to Grow Program, higher raw material costs, unfavorable currency and higher advertising and consumer promotion costs. These unfavorable items were partially offset by favorable volume/mix, lower manufacturing costs, lower other selling, general and administrative expenses, and higher net pricing. These favorable items were partially offset by unfavorable currency, higher advertising and consumer promotionpricing, lower manufacturing costs and higher raw material costs.lower intangible asset impairment charges.

SixNine Months Ended JuneSeptember 30:

Net revenues decreased $211$195 million (4.2%(2.6%), due to unfavorable currency (7.5(6.4 pp), partially offset by favorable volume/mix (3.1(3.6 pp) and higher net pricing (0.2 pp). Unfavorable currency impacts reflected the strength of the U.S. dollar relative to most currencies in the region, primarily the euro, British pound sterling, Russian ruble and Turkish lira. Favorable volume/mix was driven by gains across all categories except gum. Higher net pricing was driven by gum, candy and candy,chocolate, mostly offset by lower net pricing in biscuits, chocolate, cheese & grocery and refreshment beverages.

Segment operating income increased $44decreased $6 million (5.1%(0.5%), primarily due to unfavorable currency, higher raw material costs and higher advertising and consumer promotion costs. These unfavorable items were partially offset by favorable volume/mix, lower costs incurred for the Simplify to Grow Program, lower manufacturing costs, higher net pricing, lower other selling, general and administrative expenses and higher pricing. These favorable items were partially offset by unfavorable currency, higher advertising and consumer promotion costs and higher raw material costs.lower intangible asset impairment charges.


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North America
For the Three Months Ended
June 30,
    For the Three Months Ended
September 30,
    
2019 2018 $ change % change2019 2018 $ change % change
(in millions)  (in millions)  
Net revenues$1,726
 $1,675
 $51
 3.0%$1,823
 $1,755
 $68
 3.9%
Segment operating income407
 (95) 502
 528.4%370
 334
 36
 10.8%
              
          
For the Six Months Ended
June 30,
    For the Nine Months Ended
September 30,
    
2019 2018 $ change % change2019 2018 $ change % change
(in millions)  (in millions)  
Net revenues$3,372
 $3,301
 $71
 2.2%$5,195
 $5,056
 $139
 2.7%
Segment operating income726
 180
 546
 303.3%1,096
 514
 582
 113.2%

Three Months Ended JuneSeptember 30:

Net revenues increased $51$68 million (3.0%(3.9%), due to higher net pricing (3.5(1.9 pp) and, the impact of an acquisition (0.9(1.4 pp), partially offset by unfavorable and favorable volume/mix (1.0 pp) and unfavorable currency (0.4(0.6 pp). Higher net pricing was reflected in biscuits, candy and gum, partially offset by lower net pricing in chocolate. The July 16, 2019 acquisition of a majority interest in Perfect Snacks added net revenues of $26 million in the third quarter of 2019. Favorable volume/mix was driven by a gain in biscuits, mostly offset by declines in gum, candy and chocolate.

Segment operating income increased $36 million (10.8%), primarily due to higher net pricing, lapping prior -year intangible asset impairment charges, favorable volume/mix and lower manufacturing costs. These favorable items were partially offset by higher raw material costs and higher other selling, general and administrative expenses.

Nine Months Ended September 30:

Net revenues increased $139 million (2.7%), due to higher net pricing (2.5 pp) and the impact of acquisitions (1.2 pp), partially offset by unfavorable volume/mix (0.7 pp) and unfavorable currency (0.3 pp). Higher net pricing was reflected across all categories except chocolate. The July 16, 2019 acquisition of a majority interest in Perfect Snacks added net revenues of $26 million and the June 7, 2018 acquisition of a U.S. premium biscuit company, Tate’s Bake Shop added incremental net revenues of $15$35 million in the second quarterfirst nine months of 2018.2019. Unfavorable volume/mix was driven by declines across all categories except candy.biscuits. Unfavorable currency impact was due to the strength of the U.S. dollar relative to the Canadian dollar.

Segment operating income increased $502$582 million (528.4%), primarily due to lapping prior-year pension participation changes, higher net pricing, benefit from current-year pension participation changes, lower costs incurred for the Simplify to Grow Program and lower manufacturing costs. These favorable items were partially offset by higher raw material costs, higher advertising and promotion costs and unfavorable volume/mix.

Six Months Ended June 30:

Net revenues increased $71 million (2.2%), due to higher net pricing (2.8 pp) and the impact of an acquisition (1.1 pp), partially offset by unfavorable volume/mix (1.3 pp) and unfavorable currency (0.4 pp). Higher net pricing was reflected across all categories. The June 7, 2018 acquisition of a U.S. premium biscuit company, Tate’s Bake Shop, added incremental net revenues of $35 million in the first six months of 2019. Unfavorable volume/mix was driven by declines across all categories. Unfavorable currency impact was due to the strength of the U.S. dollar relative to the Canadian dollar.

Segment operating income increased $546 million (303.3%(113.2%), primarily due to lapping prior-year pension participation changes, higher net pricing, lower costs incurred for the Simplify to Grow Program, benefit from current-year pension participation changes, lower manufacturing costs, lapping prior-year intangible asset impairment charges, lower advertising and promotion costs and the impact from the acquisitionacquisitions of Perfect Snacks and Tate's Bake Shop. These favorable items were partially offset by unfavorable volume/mix, higher raw material costs, higher other selling, general and higher advertisingadministrative expenses and promotion costs.unfavorable volume/mix.

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Liquidity and Capital Resources

We believe that cash from operations, our revolving credit facilities, short-term borrowings and our authorized long-term financing will provide sufficient liquidity for our working capital needs, planned capital expenditures and future payments of our U.S. tax reform transition tax liability, contractual and benefit plan obligations, share repurchases and quarterly dividends. We continue to utilize our commercial paper program, international credit lines and long-term debt issuances for our funding requirements. We also use intercompany loans with our international subsidiaries to improve financial flexibility. Overall, we do not expect any negative effects to our funding sources that would have a material effect on our liquidity.

Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities:
Net cash provided by operating activities was $1,046$1,882 million in the first sixnine months of 2019 and $1,182$1,885 million in the first sixnine months of 2018. The small decrease in net cash provided by operating activities was due primarily to increased working capital requirements including higher tax payments, partially offset by higher earnings, increased distributions from equity method investments and lower pension contributions.

Net Cash Used in Investing Activities:
Net cash used in investing activities was $267$735 million in the first sixnine months of 2019 and $1,041$1,202 million in the first sixnine months of 2018. The decrease in net cash used in investing activities compared to the first six months of 2018 primarily relates to lapping the 2018 cash payment to acquire the Tate's Bake Shop business, in the second quarter of 2018,2019 cash proceeds primarily from the divestiture of primarily our cheese business in the Middle East and Africa and lower capital expenditures, and increasedpartially offset by lower cash received as a result of the settlement and replacement of several net investment hedge derivative contracts. We continue to make capital expenditures primarily to modernize manufacturing facilities and support new product and productivity initiatives. We expect 2019 capital expenditures to be up to $1.0$0.9 billion, including capital expenditures in connection with our Simplify to Grow Program. We expect to continue to fund these expenditures from operations.

Net Cash (Used in)/Provided byUsed in Financing Activities:
Net cash used in financing activities was $639$686 million in the first sixnine months of 2019 and net cash provided by financing activities was $389$7 million in the first sixnine months of 2018. The decreaseincrease in cash used in financing activities was primarily due to lower net debt issuances and higher dividends paid in the first sixnine months of 2019, partially offset by lower share repurchases.

Debt:
From time to time we refinance long-term and short-term debt. Refer to Note 9, Debt and Borrowing Arrangements, for details of our debt activity during the first sixnine months of 2019. The nature and amount of our long-term and short-term debt and the proportionate amount of each varies as a result of current and expected business requirements, market conditions and other factors. Due to seasonality, in the first and second quarters of the year, our working capital requirements grow, increasing the need for short-term financing. The second half of the year typically generates higher cash flows. As such, we may issue commercial paper or secure other forms of financing throughout the year to meet short-term working capital needs.

During 2016, one of our subsidiaries, Mondelez International Holdings Netherlands B.V. (“MIHN”), issued debt totaling $4.5 billion. The operations held by MIHN generated approximately 73.0%72.6% (or $9.2$13.8 billion) of the $12.6$19.0 billion of consolidated net revenue in the sixnine months ended JuneSeptember 30, 2019. The operations held by MIHN represented approximately 84.4%83.6% (or $22.1$22.5 billion) of the $26.2$26.9 billion of net assets as of JuneSeptember 30, 2019 and 80.5% (or $20.7 billion) of the $25.7 billion of net assets as of December 31, 2018.

On February 1, 2019, our Board of Directors approved a new $5.0 billion long-term financing authority to replace the prior authority. As of JuneSeptember 30, 2019, we had $4.4$3.4 billion of long-term financing authority remaining.

In the next 12 months, we expect approximately $3.7 billion of long-term debt will mature as follows: $2.3 billion in October 2019, $427 million in February 2020, $230$226 million in March 2020 and $750 million in May 2020. We expect to fund these repayments with a combination of cash from operations, short-term debt, including issuance of commercial paper, and long-term debt.

Our total debt was $19.2$19.5 billion at JuneSeptember 30, 2019 and $18.4 billion at December 31, 2018. Our debt-to-capitalization ratio was 0.42 at JuneSeptember 30, 2019 and 0.42 at December 31, 2018. At JuneSeptember 30, 2019, the weighted-average term of our outstanding long-term debt was 5.55.1 years. Our average daily commercial paper borrowings outstanding were $4.2 billion in the first sixnine months of 2019 and $4.6 billion in the first sixnine months of 2018. We had commercial paper outstanding totaling $3.5$3.1 billion as of JuneSeptember 30, 2019 and $3.1 billion as of December 31, 2018. We expect to continue to use commercial paper to finance various short-term financing needs. We continue to comply with our debt covenants. Refer to Note 9, Debt and Borrowing Arrangements, for more information..

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Commodity Trends

We regularly monitor worldwide supply, commodity cost and currency trends so we can cost-effectively secure ingredients, packaging and fuel required for production. During the first sixnine months of 2019, the primary drivers of the increase in our aggregate commodity costs were higher currency exchange transaction costs on imported materials, as well as increased costs for packaging, energy, dairy, grains and oils, partially offset by lower costs for sugar cocoa and nuts.cocoa.

A number of external factors such as weather conditions, commodity market conditions, currency fluctuations and the effects of governmental agricultural or other programs affect the cost and availability of raw materials and agricultural materials used in our products. We address higher commodity costs and currency impacts primarily through hedging, higher pricing and manufacturing and overhead cost control. We use hedging techniques to limit the impact of fluctuations in the cost of our principal raw materials; however, we may not be able to fully hedge against commodity cost changes, such as dairy, where there is a limited ability to hedge, and our hedging strategies may not protect us from increases in specific raw material costs. Due to competitive or market conditions, planned trade or promotional incentives, fluctuations in currency exchange rates or other factors, our pricing actions may also lag commodity cost changes temporarily.

We expect price volatility and a slightly higher aggregate cost environment to continue in the remainder of 2019. While the costs of our principal raw materials fluctuate, we believe there will continue to be an adequate supply of the raw materials we use and that they will generally remain available from numerous sources.

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements and Aggregate Contractual Obligations

See Note 11, Benefit Plans, for an update on our withdrawal liability related to the Bakery and Confectionery Union and Industry International Pension Fund multiemployer pension plan, Note 5, Leases, for information on operating lease obligations recorded on our condensed consolidated balance sheet as of January 1, 2019 as a result of our adopting the new lease accounting standard and Note 9, Debt and Borrowing Arrangements, for information on debt transactions during 2019. Also see Note 13, Commitments and Contingencies, for a discussion of guarantees. There were no other material developments or changes to our off-balance sheet arrangements and aggregate contractual obligations disclosed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018. We expect to have sufficient cash from operating activities and access to capital markets to fund our obligations.

Equity and Dividends

Stock Plans and Share Repurchases:
See Note 12, Stock Plans, for more information on our stock plans, grant activity and share repurchase program for the sixnine months ended JuneSeptember 30, 2019.

We intend to continue to use a portion of our cash for share repurchases. Between 2013 and 2017, our Board of Directors authorized the repurchase of a total of $13.7 billion of our Common Stock through December 31, 2018. On January 31, 2018, our Finance Committee, with authorization delegated from our Board of Directors, approved an increase of $6.0 billion in the share repurchase program, raising the authorization to $19.7 billion of Common Stock repurchases, and extended the program through December 31, 2020.

We repurchased shares at an aggregate cost of $16.0$16.2 billion, at a weighted-average cost of $39.68$39.86 per share, through JuneSeptember 30, 2019 ($1.01.2 billion in the first sixnine months of 2019, $2.0 billion in 2018, $2.2 billion in 2017, $2.6 billion in 2016, $3.6 billion in 2015, $1.9 billion in 2014 and $2.7 billion in 2013). The number of shares that we ultimately repurchase under our share repurchase program may vary depending on numerous factors, including share price and other market conditions, our ongoing capital allocation planning, levels of cash and debt balances, other demands for cash, such as acquisition activity, general economic or business conditions and Board and management discretion. Additionally, our share repurchase activity during any particular period may fluctuate. We may accelerate, suspend, delay or discontinue our share repurchase program at any time, without notice.


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Dividends:
We paid dividends of $756$1,131 million in the first sixnine months of 2019 and $657$980 million in the first sixnine months of 2018. On July 30, 2019, the Finance Committee, with authorization delegated from our Board of Directors, declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.285 per share of Class A Common Stock, an increase of 10 percent, which would be $1.14 per common share on an annualized basis. This dividend is payable on October 14, 2019, to shareholders of record as of September 30, 2019. The second quarter 2019 dividend was paid on July 12, 2019, to shareholders of record as of June 28,October 14, 2019. The declaration of dividends is subject to the discretion of our Board of Directors and depends on various factors, including our net earnings, financial condition, cash requirements, future prospects and other factors that our Board of Directors deems relevant to its analysis and decision making.

We anticipate that the 2019 distributions will be characterized as dividends under U.S. federal income tax rules. The final determination will be made on an IRS Form 1099–DIV issued in early 2020.

Significant Accounting Estimates

We prepare our condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP. The preparation of these financial statements requires the use of estimates, judgments and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the periods presented. Actual results could differ from those estimates and assumptions. Our significant accounting policies are described in Note 1 to our consolidated financial statements in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018. Our significant accounting estimates are described in Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018. See Note 1, Basis of Presentation, for a discussion of the impact of new accounting standards.

New Accounting Guidance:
See Note 1, Basis of Presentation, for a discussion of new accounting standards.

Contingencies:
See Note 13, Commitments and Contingencies, and Part II, Item 1. Legal Proceedings, for a discussion of contingencies.

Forward-Looking Statements
This report contains a number of forward-looking statements. Words, and variations of words, such as “will,” “may,” “expect,” “would,” “could,” “might,” “intend,” “plan,” “believe,” “estimate,” “anticipate,” “predict,” “seek,” "potential," “outlook” and similar expressions are intended to identify our forward-looking statements, including but not limited to statements about: our future performance, including our future revenue and earnings growth; our strategy to accelerate consumer-centric growth, drive operational excellence and create a winning growth culture; price volatility and pricing actions; the cost environment and measures to address increased costs; our tax rate, tax positions, tax proceedings, transition tax liability and the impact of U.S. and Swiss tax reform on our results; the U.K.'s planned exit from the European Union and its impact on our results, including if the United Kingdom exits the European Union without an agreement; the costs of, timing of expenditures under and completion of our restructuring program; commodity prices and supply; our investments; political and economic conditions and volatility; currency exchange rates, controls and restrictions; the application of highly inflationary accounting for our Argentinian subsidiaries and the potential for and impacts from currency devaluation in other countries; our ownership interest in Keurig Dr Pepper; operating lease liability; the outcome and effects on us of legal proceedings and government investigations; the estimated value of goodwill and intangible assets; amortization expense for intangible assets; impairment of goodwill and intangible assets and our projections of operating results and other factors that may affect our impairment testing; our accounting estimates and judgments and the impact of new accounting pronouncements; pension expenses, contributions and assumptions; our liability related to our withdrawal from the Bakery and Confectionery Union and Industry International Pension Fund; our liquidity, funding sources and uses of funding, including our use of commercial paper; the planned phase out of London Interbank Offered Rates; our risk management program, including the use of financial instruments and the impacts and effectiveness of our hedging activities; working capital; capital expenditures and funding; share repurchases; dividends; long-term value for our shareholders; the characterization of 2019 distributions as dividends; and our contractual obligations.

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These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond our control. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in our forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, risks from operating globally including in emerging markets; changes in currency exchange rates, controls and restrictions; continued volatility of commodity and other input costs; weakness in economic conditions; weakness in consumer spending; pricing actions; tax matters including changes in tax rates and laws, disagreements with taxing authorities and imposition of new taxes; use of information technology and third party service providers; unanticipated disruptions to our business, such as the malware incident, cyberattacks or other security breaches; competition; protection of our reputation and brand image; our ability to innovate and differentiate our products; the restructuring program and our other transformation initiatives not yielding the anticipated benefits; changes in the assumptions on which the restructuring program is based; management of our workforce; consolidation of retail customers and competition with retailer and other economy brands; changes in our relationships with suppliers or customers; legal, regulatory, tax or benefit law changes, claims or actions; strategic transactions; significant changes in valuation factors that may adversely affect our impairment testing of goodwill and intangible assets; perceived or actual product quality issues or product recalls; failure to maintain effective internal control over financial reporting; volatility of and access to capital or other markets; pension costs; the expected discontinuance of London Interbank Offered Rates and transition to any other interest rate benchmark; and our ability to protect our intellectual property and intangible assets. We disclaim and do not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement in this report except as required by applicable law or regulation.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

We use non-GAAP financial information and believe it is useful to investors as it provides additional information to facilitate comparisons of historical operating results, identify trends in our underlying operating results and provide additional insight and transparency on how we evaluate our business. We use non-GAAP financial measures to budget, make operating and strategic decisions and evaluate our performance. We have detailed the non-GAAP adjustments that we make in our non-GAAP definitions below. The adjustments generally fall within the following categories: acquisition & divestiture activities, gains and losses on intangible asset sales and non-cash impairments, major program restructuring activities, constant currency and related adjustments, major program financing and hedging activities and other major items affecting comparability of operating results. We believe the non-GAAP measures should always be considered along with the related U.S. GAAP financial measures. We have provided the reconciliations between the GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures below, and we also discuss our underlying GAAP results throughout our Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations in this Form 10-Q.

Our primary non-GAAP financial measures are listed below and reflect how we evaluate our current and prior-year operating results. As new events or circumstances arise, these definitions could change. When our definitions change, we provide the updated definitions and present the related non-GAAP historical results on a comparable basis (1).

“Organic Net Revenue” is defined as net revenues excluding the impacts of acquisitions, divestitures (2) and currency rate fluctuations (3). We also evaluate Organic Net Revenue growth from emerging and developed markets. Our emerging markets include our Latin America region in its entirety; the AMEA region, excluding Australia, New Zealand and Japan; and the following countries from the Europe region: Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Georgia, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, the Baltics and the East Adriatic countries. Our developed markets include the entire North America region, the Europe region excluding the countries included in the emerging markets definition, and Australia, New Zealand and Japan from the AMEA region.

“Adjusted Operating Income” is defined as operating income excluding the impacts of the Simplify to Grow Program (4); gains or losses (including non-cash impairment charges) on goodwill and intangible assets; divestiture (2) or acquisition gains or losses and related divestiture (2), acquisition and integration costs (2); the operating results of divestitures (2); remeasurement of net monetary position (5); mark-to-market impacts from commodity and forecasted currency transaction derivative contracts (6); impact from resolution of tax matters (7); CEO transition remuneration (8); impact from pension participation changes (9); Swiss tax reform impacts (10); and incremental expenses related to the 2017 malware incident. We also present “Adjusted Operating Income margin,” which is subject to the same adjustments as Adjusted Operating Income. We also evaluate growth in our Adjusted Operating Income on a constant currency basis (3).


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“Adjusted EPS” is defined as diluted EPS attributable to Mondelēz International from continuing operations excluding the impacts of the items listed in the Adjusted Operating Income definition as well as losses on debt extinguishment and related expenses; gain on equity method investment transactions; net earnings from divestitures (2); gains or losses on interest rate swaps no longer designated as accounting cash flow hedges due to changed financing and hedging plans and U.S. and Swiss tax reform discrete impacts (10). Similarly, within Adjusted EPS, our equity method investment net earnings exclude our proportionate share of our investees’ unusual or infrequent items (11). We also evaluate growth in our Adjusted EPS on a constant currency basis (3).

(1)When items no longer impact our current or future presentation of non-GAAP operating results, we remove these items from our non-GAAP definitions. During the third quarter of 2019, we added to the non-GAAP definitions the exclusion of the impact from Swiss tax reform as described in footnote (10) below.
(2)
Divestitures include completed sales of businesses and exits of major product lines upon completion of a sale or licensing agreement. See Note 2, Divestitures and Acquisitions, for information on divestitures and acquisitions impacting the comparability of our results.
(3)Constant currency operating results are calculated by dividing or multiplying, as appropriate, the current-period local currency operating results by the currency exchange rates used to translate the financial statements in the comparable prior-year period to determine what the current-period U.S. dollar operating results would have been if the currency exchange rate had not changed from the comparable prior-year period.
(4)Non-GAAP adjustments related to the Simplify to Grow Program reflect costs incurred that relate to the objectives of our program to transform our supply chain network and organizational structure. Costs that do not meet the program objectives are not reflected in the non-GAAP adjustments.
(5)
During the third quarter of 2018, as we began to apply highly inflationary accounting for Argentina (refer to Note 1, Basis of Presentation), we excluded the remeasurement gains or losses related to remeasuring net monetary assets or liabilities in Argentina during the period to be consistent with our prior accounting for these remeasurement gains/losses for Venezuela when it was subject to highly inflationary accounting prior to 2016.
(6)During the third quarter of 2016, we began to exclude unrealized gains and losses (mark-to-market impacts) from outstanding commodity and forecasted currency transaction derivatives from our non-GAAP earnings measures until such time that the related exposures impact our operating results. Since we purchase commodity and forecasted currency transaction contracts to mitigate price volatility primarily for inventory requirements in future periods, we made this adjustment to remove the volatility of these future inventory purchases on current operating results to facilitate comparisons of our underlying operating performance across periods. We also discontinued designating commodity and forecasted currency transaction derivatives for hedge accounting treatment. To facilitate comparisons of our underlying operating results, we have recast all historical non-GAAP earnings measures to exclude the mark-to-market impacts.
(7)
See Note 13, Commitments and Contingencies – Tax Matters, and our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018 for additional information.
(8)On November 20, 2017, Dirk Van de Put succeeded Irene Rosenfeld as CEO of Mondelēz International in advance of her retirement at the end of March 2018. In order to incent Mr. Van de Put to join us, we provided him compensation with a total combined target value of $42.5 million to make him whole for incentive awards he forfeited or grants that were not made to him when he left his former employer. The compensation we granted took the form of cash, deferred stock units, performance share units and stock options. In connection with Irene Rosenfeld’s retirement, we made her outstanding grants of performance share units for the 2016-2018 and 2017-2019 performance cycles eligible for continued vesting and approved a $0.5 million salary for her service as Chairman from January through March 2018. We refer to these elements of Mr. Van de Put’s and Ms. Rosenfeld’s compensation arrangements together as “CEO transition remuneration.” We are excluding amounts we expense as CEO transition remuneration from our non-GAAP results because those amounts are not part of our regular compensation program and are incremental to amounts we would have incurred as ongoing CEO compensation. As a result, in 2017, we excluded amounts expensed for the cash payment to Mr. Van de Put and partial vesting of his equity grants. In 2018, we excluded amounts paid for Ms. Rosenfeld’s service as Chairman and partial vesting of Mr. Van de Put’s and Ms. Rosenfeld’s equity grants. In 2019, we excluded amounts related to the partial vesting of Mr. Van de Put’s equity grants.
(9)
The impact from pension participation changes represents the charges incurred when employee groups are withdrawn from multiemployer pension plans and other changes in employee group pension plan participation. We exclude these charges from our non-GAAP results because those amounts do not reflect our ongoing pension obligations. See Note 11, Benefit Plans, for more information on the multiemployer pension plan withdrawal.
(10)
We exclude the impact of the 2019 Swiss tax reform and 2017 U.S. tax reform. During the third quarter of 2019, Swiss Federal and Zurich Cantonal tax events drove our recognition of a Swiss tax reform net benefit to our results of operations. On December 22, 2017, the United States enacted tax reform legislation that included a broad range of business tax provisions. We exclude the discrete U.S.these tax reform impacts from our Adjusted EPS as they do not reflect our ongoing tax obligations under U.S.the new tax reform.reforms. Refer to Note 15, Income Taxes, for more information on our current year estimated annual effective tax rate and Swiss tax reform and to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018 for additional information.more information on the impact of U.S. tax reform.
(11)We have excluded our proportionate share of our equity method investees’ unusual or infrequent items such as acquisition and divestiture related costs, restructuring program costs and discrete U.S. tax reform impacts, in order to provide investors with a comparable view of our performance across periods. Although we have shareholder rights and board representation commensurate with our ownership interests in our equity method investees and review the underlying operating results and unusual or infrequent items with them each reporting period, we do not have direct control over their operations or resulting revenue and expenses. Our use of equity method investment net earnings on an adjusted basis is not intended to imply that we have any such control. Our GAAP “diluted EPS attributable to Mondelēz International from continuing operations” includes all of the investees’ unusual and infrequent items.


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We believe that the presentation of these non-GAAP financial measures, when considered together with our U.S. GAAP financial measures and the reconciliations to the corresponding U.S. GAAP financial measures, provides you with a more complete understanding of the factors and trends affecting our business than could be obtained absent these disclosures. Because non-GAAP financial measures vary among companies, the non-GAAP financial measures presented in this report may not be comparable to similarly titled measures used by other companies. Our use of these non-GAAP financial measures is not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for any

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U.S. GAAP financial measure. A limitation of these non-GAAP financial measures is they exclude items detailed below that have an impact on our U.S. GAAP reported results. The best way this limitation can be addressed is by evaluating our non-GAAP financial measures in combination with our U.S. GAAP reported results and carefully evaluating the following tables that reconcile U.S. GAAP reported figures to the non-GAAP financial measures in this Form 10-Q.

Organic Net Revenue:
Applying the definition of “Organic Net Revenue,” the adjustments made to “net revenues” (the most comparable U.S. GAAP financial measure) were to exclude the impact of currency, an acquisitionacquisitions and a divestiture. We believe that Organic Net Revenue reflects the underlying growth from the ongoing activities of our business and provides improved comparability of results. We also evaluate our Organic Net Revenue growth from emerging markets, and these underlying measures are also reconciled to U.S. GAAP below.
For the Three Months Ended June 30, 2019 For the Three Months Ended June 30, 2018For the Three Months Ended September 30, 2019 For the Three Months Ended September 30, 2018
Emerging
Markets
 
Developed
Markets
 Total 
Emerging
Markets
 
Developed
Markets
 Total
Emerging
Markets
 
Developed
Markets
 Total 
Emerging
Markets
 
Developed
Markets
 Total
(in millions) (in millions)(in millions) (in millions)
Net Revenue$2,272
 $3,790
 $6,062
 $2,309
 $3,803
 $6,112
$2,363
 $3,992
 $6,355
 $2,325
 $3,963
 $6,288
Impact of currency200
 133
 333
 
 
 
85
 111
 196
 
 
 
Impact of acquisition
 (15) (15) 
 
 
Impact of acquisitions
 (26) (26) 
 
 
Impact of divestiture(22) 
 (22) (32) 
 (32)
 
 
 (29) 
 (29)
Organic Net Revenue$2,450
 $3,908
 $6,358
 $2,277
 $3,803
 $6,080
$2,448
 $4,077
 $6,525
 $2,296
 $3,963
 $6,259

For the Six Months Ended June 30, 2019 For the Six Months Ended June 30, 2018For the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2019 For the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2018
Emerging
Markets
 Developed
Markets
 Total Emerging
Markets
 Developed
Markets
 TotalEmerging
Markets
 Developed
Markets
 Total Emerging
Markets
 Developed
Markets
 Total
(in millions) (in millions)(in millions) (in millions)
Net Revenue$4,774
 $7,826
 $12,600
 $4,893
 $7,984
 $12,877
$7,137
 $11,818
 $18,955
 $7,218
 $11,947
 $19,165
Impact of currency499
 332
 831
 
 
 
584
 443
 1,027
 
 
 
Impact of acquisition
 (35) (35) 
 
 
Impact of acquisitions
 (61) (61) 
 
 
Impact of divestiture(55) 
 (55) (63) 
 (63)(55) 
 (55) (92) 
 (92)
Organic Net Revenue$5,218
 $8,123
 $13,341
 $4,830
 $7,984
 $12,814
$7,666
 $12,200
 $19,866
 $7,126
 $11,947
 $19,073


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Adjusted Operating Income:
Applying the definition of “Adjusted Operating Income,” the adjustments made to “operating income” (the most comparable U.S. GAAP financial measure) were to exclude Simplify to Grow Program; intangible asset impairment charges; mark-to-market impacts from commodity and forecasted currency transaction derivative contracts; acquisition integration costs; acquisition and divestiture-related costs; operating income from a divestiture; gain from a divestiture; the remeasurement of net monetary position; impact from pension participation changes; impact from the resolution of tax matters; Swiss tax reform impact and CEO transition remuneration. We also evaluate Adjusted Operating Income on a constant currency basis. We believe these measures provide improved comparability of underlying operating results.
 For the Three Months Ended
June 30,
    
 2019 2018 $ Change % Change
 (in millions)  
Operating Income$1,025
 $481
 $544
 113.1 %
Simplify to Grow Program (1)
83
 179
 (96)  
Mark-to-market gains from derivatives (2)
(33) (88) 55
  
Acquisition integration costs (3)

 2
 (2)  
Acquisition-related costs (4)
1
 13
 (12)  
Divestiture-related costs (4)
11
 
 11
  
Operating income from divestiture (4)
(5) (2) (3)  
Net gain on divestiture (4)
(41) 
 (41)  
Remeasurement of net monetary position (5)
(1) 
 (1)  
Impact from pension participation changes (6)
(35) 408
 (443)  
Impact from resolution of tax matters (7)

 11
 (11)  
CEO transition remuneration (8)
3
 10
 (7)  
Other/rounding
 2
 (2)  
Adjusted Operating Income$1,008
 $1,016
 $(8) (0.8)%
Unfavorable currency translation49
 
 49
  
Adjusted Operating Income (constant currency)$1,057
 $1,016
 $41
 4.0 %
 For the Three Months Ended
September 30,
    
 2019 2018 $ Change % Change
 (in millions)  
Operating Income$876
 $737
 $139
 18.9 %
Simplify to Grow Program (1)
151
 139
 12
  
Intangible asset impairment charges (2)
57
 68
 (11)  
Mark-to-market (gains)/losses from derivatives (3)
(20) 112
 (132)  
Acquisition integration costs (4)

 (1) 1
  
Acquisition-related costs (5)
1
 1
 
  
Divestiture-related costs (5)
(4) 
 (4)  
Operating income from divestiture (5)

 (6) 6
  
Net gain on divestiture (5)
(3) 
 (3)  
Remeasurement of net monetary position (6)
1
 13
 (12)  
Swiss tax reform impact (7)
2
 
 2
  
CEO transition remuneration (8)
3
 4
 (1)  
Other/rounding1
 1
 
  
Adjusted Operating Income$1,065
 $1,068
 $(3) (0.3)%
Unfavorable currency translation49
 
 49
  
Adjusted Operating Income (constant currency)$1,114
 $1,068
 $46
 4.3 %

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 For the Six Months Ended
June 30,
    
 2019 2018 $ Change % Change
 (in millions)  
Operating Income$2,061
 $1,705
 $356
 20.9 %
Simplify to Grow Program (1)
153
 293
 (140)  
Mark-to-market gains from derivatives (2)
(49) (294) 245
  
Acquisition integration costs (3)

 3
 (3)  
Acquisition-related costs (4)
1
 13
 (12)  
Divestiture-related costs (4)
10
 (3) 13
  
Operating income from divestiture (4)
(9) (8) (1)  
Net gain on divestiture (4)
(41) 
 (41)  
Remeasurement of net monetary position (5)
1
 
 1
  
Impact from pension participation changes (6)
(35) 408
 (443)  
Impact from resolution of tax matters (7)

 11
 (11)  
CEO transition remuneration (8)
6
 14
 (8)  
Other/rounding
 1
 (1)  
Adjusted Operating Income$2,098
 $2,143
 $(45) (2.1)%
Unfavorable currency translation136
 
 136
  
Adjusted Operating Income (constant currency)$2,234
 $2,143
 $91
 4.2 %
 For the Nine Months Ended
September 30,
    
 2019 2018 $ Change % Change
 (in millions)  
Operating Income$2,937
 $2,442
 $495
 20.3 %
Simplify to Grow Program (1)
304
 432
 (128)  
Intangible asset impairment charges (2)
57
 68
 (11)  
Mark-to-market gains from derivatives (3)
(69) (181) 112
  
Acquisition integration costs (4)

 2
 (2)  
Acquisition-related costs (5)
2
 14
 (12)  
Divestiture-related costs (5)
6
 (3) 9
  
Operating income from divestiture (5)
(9) (14) 5
  
Net gain on divestiture (5)
(44) 
 (44)  
Remeasurement of net monetary position (6)
2
 13
 (11)  
Impact from pension participation changes (9)
(35) 408
 (443)  
Impact from resolution of tax matters (10)

 11
 (11)  
Swiss tax reform impact (7)
2
 
 2
  
CEO transition remuneration (8)
9
 18
 (9)  
Other/rounding1
 1
 
  
Adjusted Operating Income$3,163
 $3,211
 $(48) (1.5)%
Unfavorable currency translation185
 
 185
  
Adjusted Operating Income (constant currency)$3,348
 $3,211
 $137
 4.3 %
 
(1)
Refer to Note 8, Restructuring Program, for more information.
(2)
Refer to Note 6, Goodwill and Intangible Assets, for more information on intangible asset impairments.
(3)
Refer to Note 10, Financial Instruments, Note 17, Segment Reporting, and Non-GAAP Financial Measures section for more information on the unrealized gains/losses on commodity and forecasted currency transaction derivatives.
(3)(4)Refer to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018 for more information on the acquisition of a biscuit business in Vietnam.
(4)(5)
Refer to Note 2, Divestitures and Acquisitions, for more information on the May 28, 2019 divestiture of most of our cheese business in the Middle East and Africa and the June 7, 2018 acquisition of Tate's Bake Shop.
(5)(6)
Refer to Note 1, Basis of Presentation – Currency Translation and Highly Inflationary Accounting, for information on our application of highly inflationary accounting for Argentina.
(6)
Refer to Note 11, Benefit Plans, for more information.
(7)
Refer to Note 13,15, Commitments and Contingencies – Tax MattersIncome Taxes, for more information.information on Swiss tax reform.
(8)
Refer to the Non-GAAP Financial Measures definition and related table notes.
(9)
Refer to Note 11, Benefit Plans, for more information.
(10)
Refer to Note 13, Commitments and Contingencies – Tax Matters, for more information.



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Adjusted EPS:
Applying the definition of “Adjusted EPS,” (1) the adjustments made to “diluted EPS attributable to Mondelēz International” (the most comparable U.S. GAAP financial measure) were to exclude the impacts of the items listed in the Adjusted Operating Income tables above as well as a net gaingains/(losses) related to interest rate swaps; loss on debt extinguishment; theSwiss tax reform impact, U.S. tax reform discrete impacts; net losstax impact; net gains/losses on equity method investment transactions; and our proportionate share of unusual or infrequent items recorded by our JDE and Keurig equity method investees. We also evaluate Adjusted EPS on a constant currency basis. We believe Adjusted EPS provides improved comparability of underlying operating results.
 For the Three Months Ended
June 30,
    
 2019 2018 $ Change % Change
Diluted EPS attributable to Mondelēz International$0.55
 $0.21
 $0.34
 161.9%
Simplify to Grow Program (2)
0.05
 0.09
 (0.04)  
Mark-to-market gains from derivatives (2)
(0.02) (0.05) 0.03
  
Acquisition integration costs (2)

 
 
  
Acquisition-related costs (2)

 0.01
 (0.01)  
Divestiture-related costs (2)
0.01
 
 0.01
  
Net earnings from divestiture (2)

 
 
  
Net gain on divestiture (2)
(0.03) 
 (0.03)  
Remeasurement of net monetary position (2)

 
 
  
Impact from pension participation changes (2)
(0.02) 0.20
 (0.22)  
Impact from resolution of tax matters (2)

 
 
  
CEO transition remuneration (2)

 0.01
 (0.01)  
Loss on debt extinguishment (3)

 0.07
 (0.07)  
Net loss on equity method investment
   transactions (4)
0.02
 
 0.02
  
Equity method investee acquisition-related and
other adjustments
(5)
0.01
 0.01
 
  
Other/rounding
 
 
  
Adjusted EPS$0.57
 $0.55
 $0.02
 3.6%
Unfavorable currency translation0.03
 
 0.03
  
Adjusted EPS (constant currency)$0.60
 $0.55
 $0.05
 9.1%
 For the Three Months Ended
September 30,
    
 2019 2018 $ Change % Change
Diluted EPS attributable to Mondelēz International$0.98
 $0.81
 $0.17
 21.0%
Simplify to Grow Program (2)
0.08
 0.07
 0.01
  
Intangible asset impairment charges (2)
0.03
 0.03
 
  
Mark-to-market (gains)/losses from derivatives (2)
(0.01) 0.07
 (0.08)  
Remeasurement of net monetary position (2)

 0.01
 (0.01)  
Loss related to interest rate swaps (3)
0.08
 
 0.08
  
Swiss tax reform net impacts (4)
(0.53) 
 (0.53)  
U.S. tax reform discrete net tax expense (4)

 0.01
 (0.01)  
Gain on equity method investment
   transactions (5)

 (0.39) 0.39
  
Equity method investee acquisition-related and
other adjustments
(6)
0.01
 0.01
 
  
Adjusted EPS$0.64
 $0.62
 $0.02
 3.2%
Unfavorable currency translation0.04
 
 0.04
  
Adjusted EPS (constant currency)$0.68
 $0.62
 $0.06
 9.7%

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For the Six Months Ended
June 30,
    For the Nine Months Ended
September 30,
    
2019 2018 $ Change % Change2019 2018 $ Change % Change
Diluted EPS attributable to Mondelēz International$1.18
 $0.91
 $0.27
 29.7%$2.15
 $1.72
 $0.43
 25.0%
Simplify to Grow Program (2)
0.08
 0.15
 (0.07)  0.17
 0.22
 (0.05)  
Intangible asset impairment charges (2)
0.03
 0.03
 
  
Mark-to-market gains from derivatives (2)
(0.03) (0.17) 0.14
  (0.04) (0.10) 0.06
  
Acquisition integration costs (2)

 
 
  
Acquisition-related costs (2)

 0.01
 (0.01)  
 0.01
 (0.01)  
Divestiture-related costs (2)
0.01
 
 0.01
  0.01
 
 0.01
  
Net earnings from divestiture (2)
(0.01) (0.01) 
  (0.01) (0.01) 
  
Net gain on divestiture (2)
(0.03) 
 (0.03)  (0.03) 
 (0.03)  
Remeasurement of net monetary position (2)

 
 
  
 0.01
 (0.01)  
Impact from pension participation changes (2)
(0.02) 0.20
 (0.22)  (0.02) 0.21
 (0.23)  
Impact from resolution of tax matters (2)

 
 
  
CEO transition remuneration (2)
0.01
 0.01
 
  0.01
 0.01
 
  
Net gain related to interest rate swaps (6)

 (0.01) 0.01
  
Loss on debt extinguishment (3)

 0.07
 (0.07)  
Net loss/(gain) related to interest rate swaps (3)
0.08
 (0.01) 0.09
  
Loss on debt extinguishment (7)

 0.07
 (0.07)  
Swiss tax reform net impacts (4)
(0.53) 
 (0.53)  
U.S. tax reform discrete net tax expense (7)(4)

 0.06
 (0.06)  
 0.06
 (0.06)  
Net loss on equity method investment
transactions (4)
0.01
 
 0.01
  
Net gains and losses on equity method
investment transactions (5)
0.01
 (0.39) 0.40
  
Equity method investee acquisition-related and
other adjustments (5)(6)
0.02
 (0.05) 0.07
  0.03
 (0.04) 0.07
  
Other/rounding
 
 
  
Adjusted EPS$1.22
 $1.17
 $0.05
 4.3%$1.86
 $1.79
 $0.07
 3.9%
Unfavorable currency translation0.09
 
 0.09
  0.13
 
 0.13
  
Adjusted EPS (constant currency)$1.31
 $1.17
 $0.14
 12.0%$1.99
 $1.79
 $0.20
 11.2%
 
(1)The tax expense/(benefit) of each of the pre-tax items excluded from our GAAP results was computed based on the facts and tax assumptions associated with each item, and such impacts have also been excluded from Adjusted EPS.
For the three months ended JuneSeptember 30, 2019, taxes for the: Simplify to Grow Program were $(19)$(29) million, intangible asset impairment charges were $(14) million, mark-to-market gains from derivatives were $3$8 million, divestiture-related costsloss related to interest rate swaps were $(1) million, net gain on divestiturezero, Swiss tax reform were $3 million, impact from pension participation changes were $9 million, net loss on equity method investment transactions were $2$(769) million and equity method investee and other adjustments were $(3) million.
For the three months ended JuneSeptember 30, 2018, taxes for the: Simplify to Grow Program were $(47)$(34) million, intangible asset impairment charges were $(16) million, mark-to-market gainslosses from derivatives were $14$(12) million, acquisition-related costsU.S. tax reform were $(3)$9 million, impact from pension participation changesgain on equity method investment transaction were $(103) million, CEO transition remuneration were $(2) million, loss on debt extinguishment were $(35)$184 million and equity method investee and other adjustments were $(1)$(2) million.
For the sixnine months ended JuneSeptember 30, 2019, taxes for the: Simplify to Grow Program were $(38)$(67) million, intangible asset impairment charges were $(14) million, mark-to-market gains from derivatives were $6 million, divestiture-related costs were $(1)$14 million, net earnings from divestiture were zero, net gain on divestiture were $3 million, impact from pension participation changes were $9 million, CEO transition remuneration were zero, net gain related to interest rate swaps were zero, Swiss tax reform were $(769) million, net loss on equity method investment transactions were $7$6 million and equity method investee and other adjustments were $(7)$(10) million.
For the sixnine months ended JuneSeptember 30, 2018, taxes for the: Simplify to Grow Program were $(77)$(111) million, intangible asset impairment charges were $(16) million, mark-to-market gains from derivatives were $39$27 million, acquisition-related costs were $(3) million, net earnings from divestiture were $1 million, impact from pension participation changes were $(103)$(104) million, CEO transition remuneration were $(3)$(4) million, net gain related to interest rate swaps were $2 million, loss on debt extinguishment were $(35) million, U.S. tax reform were $87$96 million, gain on equity method investment transaction were $184 million and equity method investee and other adjustments were $26$24 million.
(2)
See the Adjusted Operating Income table above and the related footnotes for more information.
(3)
Refer to Note 9,10, Debt and Borrowing ArrangementsFinancial Instruments, for more information on losses on debt extinguishment.our interest rate swaps that we no longer designate as cash flow hedges.
(4)
Refer to Note 15, Income Taxes, and to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018 for more information on the impact of Swiss and U.S. tax reform.
(5)
Refer to Note 7, Equity Method Investments, for more information on the net loss on equity method investment transactions.
(5)(6)Includes our proportionate share of unusual or infrequent items, such as acquisition and divestiture-related costs, restructuring program costs and discrete U.S. tax reform impacts recorded by our JDE and KDP or Keurig equity method investees.
(6)
Refer to Note 10, Financial Instruments, for information on our interest rate swaps that we no longer designate as cash flow hedges.
(7)
Refer to Note 15,9, Income TaxesDebt and Borrowing Arrangements, and to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018 for more information on the impact of U.S. tax reform.loss on debt extinguishment.


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Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk.

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. 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 10, 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 sixnine months ended JuneSeptember 30, 2019. For additional information on highly inflationary country currencies and the impact of currency policies and recent currency volatility on our financial condition and results of operations, also see Note 1, Basis of Presentation – Currency Translation and Highly Inflationary Accounting.

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. To manage input cost volatility, 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, commercial paper rates as well as limited debt tied to London Interbank Offered Rates (“LIBOR”). The
Financial Conduct Authority in the United Kingdom plans to phase out LIBOR by the end of 2021. We do not
anticipate a significant impact to our financial position from the planned phase out of LIBOR given our current mix of
variable and fixed-rate debt. 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. Our weighted-average interest rate on our total debt was 2.4%2.2% as of JuneSeptember 30, 2019, 2.3% as of December 31, 2018 and 2.1% as of December 31, 2017. For more information on our 2019 debt activity, see Note 9, Debt and Borrowing Arrangements.

See Note 10, Financial Instruments, for more information on our 2019 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, 2018.


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Item 4. Controls and Procedures.

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 JuneSeptember 30, 2019. Based on this evaluation, the CEO and CFO concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of JuneSeptember 30, 2019.

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 JuneSeptember 30, 2019. We continued to work with outsourced partners to further simplify and standardize processes and focus on scalable, transactional processes this quarter. We also transitioned some of our order-to-cash processes in China to our outsourced partner. Pursuant to our service agreements, the controls previously established around these accounting functions will be maintained by our outsourced partners or by us, and they are subject to management’s internal control testing. There were no other changes in our internal control over financial reporting during the quarter ended JuneSeptember 30, 2019, that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.


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PART II – OTHER INFORMATION
Item 1. Legal Proceedings.

Information regarding legal proceedings is available in Note 13, Commitments and Contingencies, to the condensed consolidated financial statements in this report.

Item 1A. Risk Factors.

There were no material changes to the risk factors disclosed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018.

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

Our stock repurchase activity for each of the three months in the quarter ended JuneSeptember 30, 2019 was:
 Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
Period
Total
Number
of Shares
Purchased (1)
 
Average
Price Paid
per Share (1)
 
Total Number of
Shares Purchased
as Part of Publicly
Announced Plans
or Programs (2)
 
Approximate Dollar Value of Shares That May Yet Be Purchased Under the Plans or Programs (2)(3)
April 1-30, 20194,328,978
 $49.99
 4,327,747
 $3,768
May 1-31, 2019929,566
 51.62
 924,270
 3,720
June 1-30, 2019211,724
 52.86
 199,280
 3,709
For the Quarter Ended June 30, 20195,470,268
 50.38
 5,451,297
  
 Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
Period
Total
Number
of Shares
Purchased (1)
 
Average
Price Paid
per Share (1)
 
Total Number of
Shares Purchased
as Part of Publicly
Announced Plans
or Programs (2)
 
Approximate Dollar Value of Shares That May Yet Be Purchased Under the Plans or Programs (2)(3)
July 1-31, 2019873,244
 $54.80
 862,624
 $3,662
August 1-31, 20191,967,830
 54.21
 1,963,235
 3,556
September 1-30, 2019975,500
 55.08
 971,974
 3,502
For the Quarter Ended September 30, 20193,816,574
 54.56
 3,797,833
  
 
(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 restricted and deferred stock that vested, totaling 1,23110,620 shares, 5,2964,595 shares and 12,4443,526 shares for the fiscal months of April, MayJuly, August and JuneSeptember 2019, respectively.
(2)
Our Board of Directors has authorized the repurchase of $19.7 billion of our Common Stock through December 31, 2020. Specifically, on March 12, 2013, our Board of Directors authorized the repurchase of up to the lesser of 40 million shares or $1.2 billion of our Common Stock through March 12, 2016. On August 6, 2013, our Audit Committee, with authorization delegated from our Board of Directors, increased the repurchase program capacity to $6.0 billion of Common Stock repurchases and extended the expiration date to December 31, 2016. On December 3, 2013, our Board of Directors approved an increase of $1.7 billion to the program related to a new accelerated share repurchase program, which concluded in May 2014. On July 29, 2015, our Finance Committee, with authorization delegated from our Board of Directors, approved a $6.0 billion increase that raised the repurchase program capacity to $13.7 billion and extended the program through December 31, 2018. On January 31, 2018, our Finance Committee, with authorization delegated from our Board of Directors, approved an increase of $6.0 billion in the share repurchase program, raising the authorization to $19.7 billion of Common Stock repurchases, and extended the program through December 31, 2020. See related information in Note 12, Stock Plans.
(3)Dollar values stated in millions.

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Item 6. Exhibits.
 
Exhibit
Number
 Description
4.1The Registrant agrees to furnish to the SEC upon request copies of any instruments defining the rights of holders of long-term debt of the Registrant and its consolidated subsidiaries that does not exceed 10 percent of the total assets of the Registrant and its consolidated subsidiaries.
4.2
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101.1101 
The following materials from Mondelēz International’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended JuneSeptember 30, 2019 are formatted in iXBRL (Inline eXtensible Business Reporting Language): (i) the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Earnings, (ii) the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Earnings, (iii) the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets, (iv) the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Equity, (v) the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows and (vi) Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.
104 The cover page from Mondelēz International’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended JuneSeptember 30, 2019, formatted in iXBRL.Inline XBRL (included as Exhibit 101).
   
  +    Indicates a management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement.
*    Certain schedules and exhibits have been omitted pursuant to Item 601(a)(5) of Regulation S-K. A copy of any omitted schedule or exhibit will be furnished supplementally to the SEC upon request.




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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.
 
 
MONDELĒZ INTERNATIONAL, INC.
 
By: /s/ LUCA ZARAMELLA
Luca Zaramella
Executive Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer
(Duly Authorized Officer)
July 30,
October 29, 2019


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