GXO Announces Pricing of $1.1 Billion Notes Offering - Seite 3

These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and assumptions that may cause 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 by such forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause or contribute to a material difference include, but are not limited to, the risks discussed in our filings with the SEC and the following: economic conditions generally; supply chain challenges, including labor shortages; competition and pricing pressures; GXO and/or Wincanton’s ability to align GXO and/or Wincanton’s investments in capital assets, including equipment, service centers and warehouses, to their respective customers’ demands; GXO and/or Wincanton’s ability to successfully integrate and realize anticipated benefits, synergies, cost savings and profit improvement opportunities with respect to acquired companies, including the acquisition of Wincanton; acquisitions may be unsuccessful or result in other risks or developments that adversely affect GXO and/or Wincanton’s financial condition and results; GXO and/or Wincanton’s ability to develop and implement suitable information technology systems and prevent failures in or breaches of such systems; GXO and/or Wincanton’s indebtedness; GXO and/or Wincanton’s ability to raise debt and equity capital; litigation; labor matters, including GXO and/or Wincanton’s ability to manage its subcontractors, and risks associated with labor disputes at GXO and/or Wincanton’s customers’ facilities and efforts by labor organizations to organize its employees; risks associated with defined benefit plans for GXO and/or Wincanton’s current and former employees; GXO and/or Wincanton’s ability to attract or retain necessary talent; the increased costs associated with labor; fluctuations in currency exchange rates; fluctuations in fixed and floating interest rates; fluctuations in customer confidence and spending; issues related to GXO and/or Wincanton’s intellectual property rights; governmental regulation, including environmental laws, trade compliance laws, as well as changes in international trade policies and tax regimes; governmental or political actions, including the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union; natural disasters, terrorist attacks or similar incidents; damage to GXO and/or Wincanton’s reputation; a material disruption of GXO and/or Wincanton’s operations; the inability to achieve the level of revenue growth, cash generation, cost savings, improvement in profitability and margins, fiscal discipline, or strengthening of competitiveness and operations anticipated or targeted; failure in properly handling the inventory of GXO and/or Wincanton’s customers; the impact of potential cyber-attacks and information technology or data security breaches; the inability to implement technology initiatives or business systems successfully; GXO and/or Wincanton’s ability to achieve Environmental, Social and Governance goals; a determination by the IRS that the distribution or certain related spin-off transactions should be treated as taxable transactions; the risk that the offering of the notes may not be completed in a timely manner or at all, which may adversely affect the price of GXO’s securities; and the risk that GXO will be unable to satisfy the conditions to the closing of the notes in the future. Other unknown or unpredictable factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements should therefore be construed in the light of such factors.