CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding our operations, expected financial condition, results of operation, effective tax rate, cash flow, leverage, liquidity, business strategy, competitive position, demand for our services in international operations, acquisition opportunities and impact of acquisitions, capital allocation and dividends, growth opportunities, spending, capital expenditures and investments, competition and market forecasts, industry trends, our human capital resources, and other business matters that are based on our current expectations, assumptions, and projections with respect to the future, and are not a guarantee of performance.
In this report when we use words such as “may,” “believe,” “plan,” “will,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “project,” “would,” “could,” “target,” or similar expressions, or when we discuss our strategy, plans, goals, initiatives, or objectives, we are making forward-looking statements. Unless otherwise indicated or except where the context otherwise requires, the terms “TTEC,” “the Company,” “we,” “us” and “our” and other similar terms in this report refer to TTEC Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries.
We caution you not to rely unduly on any forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements, and you should review and consider carefully the risks, uncertainties and other factors that affect our business and may cause such differences as outlined in Part II. Item 1A Risk Factors of this report and Item 1A. Risk Factors in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023. Important factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those indicated in the forward looking statements include, among others, risks related to our business operations, our strategy and our industry, including risks related to our strategic execution in a competitive market, our ability to innovate and introduce technologies that are sufficiently disruptive to allow us to maintain and grow our market share such as the effective adoption of artificial intelligence into our solutions, revenue risks specific to client concentration in our TTEC Engage business segment and risks related to the product reliability of the technology partners and client transition from on premises to public cloud and SaaS information technology solutions in our TTEC Digital business segment, risks specific to remote work environment, risks related to the challenges inherent in demand and delivery center capacity forecasting, risks specific to labor costs and retention, risks related to operations controls and employees engaging in fraud, long sales cycles and lead time to revenue, risks specific to potential geographic and other expansions, risks that may arise in connection with events outside of our control such as macroeconomic conditions, geopolitical tensions, and outbreaks of infectious diseases, risks of M&A activity including our ability to identify, acquire and properly integrate acquired businesses in accordance with our strategy; risks related to our use of technology, including risk that could arise due to disruption to our information technology systems, cybersecurity events and unauthorized data access, our reliance on communication and utility services provided to third parties, risks specific to rapid adoption of AI/GenAI technologies, and the growing reliance on third parties for data, cloud and SaaS services; risks of our financial operations, including ineffective cost-management strategies, our leverage and debt service obligations, risks specific to financial and operating restrictions built into our credit facility, changes in the cost or availability of labor, telecommunication services, and other operational necessities that we cannot pass on to our clients, risks related to foreign currency exchange, changes in income tax rates and laws, and other laws and regulations relevant to our business, interpretations of transfer pricing arrangements, uncertainties tied to goodwill, assets and strategic investments’ impairments; risks specific to our contracting practices and laws and regulations that impact our business, including uncertainty and inconsistency in privacy and data protection laws, the high cost of compliance with such laws, the high cost and reputational damage of wage and hour class action lawsuits, contract terms that lead to volatility in revenue and profitability, the efforts by clients to transfer contractually cybersecurity, data privacy and emerging technology risks to service providers and our inability to always control or mitigate them, uncertainty in AI/GenAI regulatory environments, risks specific to IP protection and infringement, and our ability to timely secure and maintain licenses needed to support certain regulated lines of business; risks specific to operations outside of the U.S. and in jurisdictions where we have limited experience; risks related to the ownership of our common stock, including risks inherent in our capital structure, our controlling shareholder risk, risks related to the price and trading volumes of our common stock being affected by factors that we cannot fully impact or control, risks inherent in our dividend