joining us is hugh johnston. we appreciate your time to talk about some of these numbers.arnings was $1.31. the street estimate was $1.19. how do those match up? >> yeah, we feel terrific about the quarter. the $1.31 does include a 7 cent gain, but even backing that out, it was a strong beat versus where the could not census had us. the reality of it is we feel great about the top line growth in particular. that's the sixth straight quarter of mid single digit top line growth. if you look at latin america with 12% growth, led by china in the 20s, india in the mid teens, pakistan in the 20s. all of the countries are really performing well for us. both in the snacks business and in the beverage business. bottom line on it is the portfolio is working really well. combine that with the strong productivity that we got, 110 basis points, portfolio is work and frankly management is relentlilerelent lessly focused on driving value. >> coca-cola's numbers were a little disappointing. and they said they had issues because it was such a cold wet spring around the globe and that that