Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results
to differ materially
from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited
to, operating in a highly competitive industry; changes in the retail landscape or the loss of key retail customers; the Company's ability
to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the impacts of the Company's international operations; the Company's ability
to leverage its brand value; the Company's ability
to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability
to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's ability
to realize the anticipated benefits
from its cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; the execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; tax law changes or interpretations; legal
claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability
claims; unanticipated business disruptions; the Company's ability
to complete or realize the benefits
from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the United
States and in various other nations in which we operate; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives we use; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation of data or breaches of security; the Company's ability
to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which we or the Company's customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability
to pay such indebtedness; the Company's ownership structure; the impact of future sales of its common stock in the public markets; the Company's ability
to continue
to pay a regular dividend; changes in laws and regulations; restatements of the Company's consolidated financial statements; and other factors.
If this aspect
differed in kind in the case of Jesus
from every other member of the species man, then in the present
state of our knowledge it would seem impossible rightly
to describe Jesus as a man.17 It may be the case that most Christians (and most Christian theologians) in most centuries have accepted this
claim: but most have not shared either our modern sensitivity
to the difference between history and mythology or our concern for the principles of logic.