Nielsen Holdings NV's CEO Discusses Q1 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

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And now to start the call, I’d like to introduce our CEO, David Calhoun.

David Calhoun



Hi. Good morning, everyone. We’ll start off with the big numbers in the first quarter. Revenue grew 3% on a reported basis, 4% in the constant currency basis, adjusted EBITDA grew 4% on a reported basis and 5% in the constant currency basis.

Net debt leverage of four times and we completed a secondary offering and guess everyone knows increasing our flow 34.5 million shares. With respect to business conditions, in light of what I consider to be the toughest comp we would face at least since I’ve been here and the pause related to, of course, the incorporation of Walmart data, I feel very good about the business and about the revenue performance. I consider both resilient and positive with respect to client points of view.

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