Company: CL
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000021665-25-000008
Chunk: 79

Company: COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 79
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 results of operations, cash flows and financial condition, as well as require resources to rebuild our reputation.

We face various risks related to pandemics, epidemics or other widespread public health concerns, which may have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, cash flows and financial condition.

We face various risks related to pandemics, epidemics or other widespread public health concerns. A pandemic, epidemic or other widespread health concern could have, and COVID-19 has had a variety of impacts on our business, results of operations, cash flows and financial condition, including:

•our ability to continue to maintain and support the health, safety and well-being of our employees, including key employees;

•disruptions to our global supply chain, including transportation and logistics challenges;

•a decrease in our workforce or in the efficiency of such workforce;

•volatility in the demand for and availability of our products;

•changes in purchasing patterns of our consumers;

•significant volatility in demand for certain of our products, which may require us to increase our production capacity or acquire additional capacity at an additional cost and expense;

•failure of third parties on which we rely to meet their obligations to us, or significant disruptions in their ability to do so, which may be caused by their own financial or operational difficulties;

•significant changes in the economic and political conditions of the markets in which we operate;

•disruptions and volatility in the global capital markets, including rising interest rates, which may increase the cost of capital and adversely impact our access to capital; and/or

•volatility in foreign exchange rates and increases in the cost and availability of raw and packaging materials and transportation and logistics costs.

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Our success depends upon our ability to recruit, attract and retain key employees and the succession of senior management.

Our success largely depends on the performance of our management team and other key employees. If we are unable to recruit, attract and retain talented, highly qualified senior management and other key people, our business, results of operations, cash flows and financial condition could be adversely affected. Successfully executing organizational change, including management transitions at leadership levels of the Company and succession plans for senior management, is critical to our business success. While we follow a disciplined, ongoing succession planning process and have succession plans in place for senior management and other key executives, these do not guarantee that the services of qualified senior executives will continue to be available to us at particular moments in time. Further, changes in immigration laws and government policies have made, in certain circumstances, and may continue to make it more difficult