Ahold Delhaize Automated Facilities Development Overview
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assumptions and expectations of our future financial and operating performance and growth plans, taking into account the information currently available to us. These
statements are not statements of historical fact. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause our actual results to differ materially from the
expectations of future results we express or imply in any forward-looking statements, and you should not place undue reliance on such statements. Factors that could contribute
to these differences include the following: the impact of supply chain disruptions, including, among other, the impact of labor availability, raw material availability, manufacturing
and food production and transportation; uncertainties and risks related to public health crises, including the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic; adverse economic or real estate
developments in our geographic markets or the temperature-controlled warehouse industry; general economic conditions; risks associated with the ownership of real estate and
temperature-controlled warehouses in particular; acquisition risks, including the failure to identify or complete attractive acquisitions or the failure of acquisitions to perform in
accordance with projections and to realize anticipated cost savings and revenue improvements; our failure to realize the intended benefits from our recent acquisitions, and
including synergies, or disruptions to our plans and operations or unknown or contingent liabilities related to our recent acquisitions; risks related to expansions of existing
properties and developments of new properties, including failure to meet budgeted or stabilized returns within expected time frames, or at all, in respect thereof; a failure of our
information technology systems, systems conversions and integrations, cybersecurity attacks or a breach of our information security systems, networks or processes could cause
business disruptions or loss of confidential information; risks related to privacy and data security concerns, and data collection and transfer restrictions and related foreign
regulations; defaults or non-renewals of significant customer contracts, including as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic; uncertainty of revenues, given the nature of our
customer contracts; increased interest rates and operating costs, including as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic; our failure to obtain necessary outside financing; risks
related to, or restrictions contained in, our debt financings; decreased storage rates or increased vacancy rates; risks related to current and potential international operations and
properties; difficulties in expanding our operations into new markets, including international markets; risks related to the partial ownership of properties, including as a result of
our lack of control over such investments and the failure of such entities to perform in accordance with projections; our failure to maintain our status as a REIT; possible
environmental liabilities, including costs, fines or penalties that may be incurred due to necessary remediation of contamination of properties presently or previously owned by
us; financial market fluctuations; actions by our competitors and their increasing ability to compete with us; geopolitical conflicts, such as the on-going conflict between Russia
and Ukraine; inflation and rising interest rates; labor and power costs; labor shortages; changes in applicable governmental regulations and tax legislation, including in the
international markets; additional risks with respect to the addition of European operations and properties; changes in real estate and zoning laws and increases in real property
tax rates; our relationship with our associates; the occurrence of any work stoppages or any disputes under our collective bargaining agreements and employment related
litigation; liabilities as a result of our participation in multi-employer pension plans; uninsured losses or losses in excess of our insurance coverage; the potential liabilities, costs
and regulatory impacts associated with our in-house trucking services and the potential disruptions associated with the use of third-party trucking service providers to provide
transportation services to our customers; the cost and time requirements as a result of our operation as a publicly traded REIT; changes in foreign currency exchange rates; the
impact of anti-takeover provisions in our constituent documents and under Maryland law, which could make an acquisition of us more difficult, limit attempts by our shareholders
to replace our trustees and affect the price of our common shares of beneficial interest, $0.01 par value per share; the potential dilutive effect of our common share offerings.
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such forward-looking statements. Examples of forward-looking statements included in this document include, among others, statements about our expected expansion and
development pipeline and our targeted return on invested capital on expansion and development opportunities. We qualify any forward-looking statements entirely by these
cautionary factors. Other risks, uncertainties and factors, including those discussed under "Risk Factors" in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
2022, our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2023, and our other reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, could cause our actual
results to differ materially from those projected in any forward-looking statements we make. We assume no obligation to update or revise these forward-looking statements for
any reason, or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available
in the future.
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