Michael Roman

“We entered a strategic partnership with Microsoft, who will become the first hyperscaler to deploy our patented expanded beam optics or EBO technology in the Azure data centers. This is a powerful proof point of how we're applying 3M's innovation to one of the fastest-growing markets in the world. Our connectors instal...”

— From 3M Company Q2 2026 Earnings Call | Operational Restructuring Efficiencies Expand Operating Margin, i101 (July 21, 2026)

“Given our strong first half performance, we're raising our guidance for the year for sales, EPS, and free cash flow. Our results today exceeded our expectations, demonstrate the progress we're making to build a higher performing company, and continue to give us confidence we're on the right path forward.”

— From 3M Company Q2 2026 Earnings Call | Operational Restructuring Efficiencies Expand Operating Margin, i101 (July 21, 2026)

“We had EPS that beat our guidance and beat consensus.”

— From 3M CEO on earnings: We expect a successful 2024, CNBCTelevision (January 23, 2024)

“We reduced our debt by $2 billion, so a strong performance and we carried that momentum into 2024.”

— From 3M CEO on earnings: We expect a successful 2024, CNBCTelevision (January 23, 2024)

“We're on track to spin out our health care business in the first half of '24 and continue to make progress in reducing risk and uncertainty related to legal matters.”

— From 3M CEO on earnings: We expect a successful 2024, CNBCTelevision (January 23, 2024)

“The timing of the spin has an impact on how you would separate the two companies.”

— From 3M CEO on earnings: We expect a successful 2024, CNBCTelevision (January 23, 2024)

“2022 was an important year for us — we made decisions to allocate capital to priorities in growth, productivity and sustainability, and we completed the vestiture of our food safety business and announced a spin of our healthcare business (a little over $8 billion in revenue).”

— From 2023 Regional Economic Conditions Conference, Minneapolis Fed (January 17, 2023)

“We manufacture most of what we sell in the regions of the world — Asia, Europe, Latin America and the U.S. — and as an exception the U.S. is a net exporter for us: we export about $5 billion worth of goods out of U.S. factories.”

— From 2023 Regional Economic Conditions Conference, Minneapolis Fed (January 17, 2023)

“The biggest supply-chain challenge was disruption in raw materials that persisted through the year, so we chartered aircraft to serve time-sensitive customers, set up a new East Coast distribution center and invested considerable resources to adjust our supply chains.”

— From 2023 Regional Economic Conditions Conference, Minneapolis Fed (January 17, 2023)

“We told investors we'd plan for $350–$450 million of inflation headwinds, but it ended up being close to double that as inflation broadened into services and third‑party manufacturing; we managed it with productivity initiatives, dual‑sourcing and pricing actions.”

— From 2023 Regional Economic Conditions Conference, Minneapolis Fed (January 17, 2023)

“We have 80 manufacturing sites in 29 states and a little over half our employees are in factories; facing increased competition for labor, we broadened recruiting, changed compensation and implemented a "work your way" program to give our workforce flexibility.”

— From 2023 Regional Economic Conditions Conference, Minneapolis Fed (January 17, 2023)

“The price changes we've implemented to manage inflation have been accepted in the marketplace, though pricing dynamics differ by segment — retail, healthcare contracts, OEM channels and B2B distribution each behave differently.”

— From 2023 Regional Economic Conditions Conference, Minneapolis Fed (January 17, 2023)

“We exited our operations in Russia as one of the decisions we took in response to the geopolitics we faced.”

— From 2023 Regional Economic Conditions Conference, Minneapolis Fed (January 17, 2023)

“At the end of the year we announced we will exit the manufacturing of our fluorochemical portfolio by the end of 2025 — an important decision for the future of 3M.”

— From 2023 Regional Economic Conditions Conference, Minneapolis Fed (January 17, 2023)

“University relationships matter: we have our largest R&D headcount in Minnesota at our headquarters, we still do a significant portion of our research and development here, and I serve on the Board of Trustees at the University of Minnesota.”

— From 2023 Regional Economic Conditions Conference, Minneapolis Fed (January 17, 2023)