Nathan Annis | Director, IR |
Jim Snee | Chairman of the Board, President & CEO |
Jim Sheehan | SVP & CFO |
Michael Lavery | Piper Jaffray |
Eric Larson | Buckingham Research Group |
Heather Jones | Vertical Group |
Adam Samuelson | Goldman Sachs |
Thomas Palmer | JP Morgan |
Robert Moscow | Credit Suisse |
Jeremy Scott | Mizuho |
Benjamin Theurer | Barclays |
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Hormel Foods First Quarter 2019 Earnings Release Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode.
As a reminder, this conference is being recorded Thursday, February 21, 2019. I'd now like to turn the conference over to Nathan Annis, Director of Investor Relations.