FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
G. WILLI-FOOD TO ANNOUNCE SECOND QUARTER 2012 FINANCIAL
RESULTS ON AUGUST 15
YAVNE, Israel – August 8, 2012 -- G. Willi-Food International Ltd. (NASDAQ: WILC) (the “Company” or “Willi Food”), a global food company specializing in the development, marketing and international distribution of kosher foods, on August 15, 2012 will report results for the second quarter and for the six months ended June 30, 2012.
The Company will host a conference call to discuss results on Wedensday, August 15, 2012 at 11:00 AM Eastern time. Interested parties may participate in the conference call by dialing 1-877-941-8416 (US), or 1-480-629-9808 (International), approximately 10 minutes prior to the scheduled start time. Interested parties can also listen via a live Internet webcast, which will be available on the day of the call through the following link:
http://public.viavid.com/index.php?id=101412
A replay of the conference call will be available for 14 days from 2:00 PM EST on August 15, 2012 through 11:59 PM EST on August 29, 2012 by dialing 1-877-870-5176 (US), or 1-858-384-5517 (International), access code 4558985. In addition, a recording of the call will be available via the following link for one year:
http://public.viavid.com/reports/eventparticipantreporttab.php?id=o5ajo5iZ
ABOUT G. WILLI-FOOD INTERNATIONAL LTD.
G. Willi-Food International Ltd. (http://www.willi-food.com) is an Israeli-based company specializing in high-quality, great-tasting kosher food products. Willi-Food is engaged directly and through its subsidiaries in the design, import, marketing and distribution of over 600 food products worldwide. As one of Israel's leading food importers, Willi-Food markets and sells its food products to over 1,500 customers in Israel and around the world including large retail and private supermarket chains, wholesalers and institutional consumers. The company's operating divisions include Willi-Food in Israel and Gold Frost, a wholly owned subsidiary who designs, develops and distributes branded kosher, dairy-food products.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 relating to future events or our future performance, such as statements regarding trends, demand for our products and expected sales, operating results, and earnings. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied in those forward-looking statements. These risks and other factors include but are not limited to: monetary risks including changes in marketable securities or changes in currency exchange rates- especially the NIS/U.S. Dollar exchange rate, payment default by any of our major clients, the loss of one of more of our key personnel, changes in laws and regulations, including those relating to the food distribution industry, and inability to meet and maintain regulatory qualifications and approvals for our products, termination of arrangements with our suppliers, in particular Arla Foods, loss of one or more of our principal clients, increase or decrease in global purchase prices of food products, increasing levels of competition in Israel and other markets in which we do business, changes in economic conditions in Israel, including in particular economic conditions in the Company's core markets, our inability to accurately predict consumption of our products, our inability to successfully integrate our recent acquisitions, insurance coverage not sufficient enough to cover losses of product liability claims and risks associated with product liability claims. We cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements. The matters discussed in this press release also involve risks and uncertainties summarized under the heading "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2011, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 30, 2012. These factors are updated from time to time through the filing of reports and registration statements with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We do not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this press release.
Company Contact:
G. Willi Food International Ltd.
Baruch Shusel, CFO
(+972) 8-932-1000
baruch@willi-food.co.il
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SOURCE: G. Willi-Food International Ltd.