John Morikis | Chairman & CEO |
Al Mistysyn | CFO |
Jane Cronin | SVP, Corporate Controller |
Bob Wells | SVP, Corporate Communications |
Ghansham Panjabi | Baird |
Tom Narayan | RBC Capital Markets |
Steve Byrne | Bank of America/Merrill Lynch |
Christopher Parkinson | Credit Suisse |
Don Carson | Susquehanna |
Grace Chen | Morgan Stanley |
Kevin McCarthy | Vertical Research Partners |
Nishu Sood | Deutsche Bank |
Daniel Jester | Citigroup |
Robert Koort | Goldman Sachs |
Scott Mushkin | Wolfe Research |
Scott Rednor | Zelman & Associates |
Chuck Cerankosky | Northcoast Research |
Truman Patterson | Wells Fargo |
Dmitry Silversteyn | Longbow Research |
Michael Sison | KeyBanc |
Silke Kueck | JP Morgan |
Patrick Lambert | Raymond James |
John Roberts | UBS |
Good morning. Thank you for joining The Sherwin-Williams Company's review of Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2017 Results and Expectations for 2018. With us on today's call are John Morikis, Chairman, President and CEO; Al Mistysyn, Senior Vice President, Finance and CFO; Jane Cronin, Senior Vice President, Corporate Controller; and Bob Wells, Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications. This conference call is being webcast simultaneously in listen-only mode by Issuer Direct via the Internet at www.sherwin.com. An archived replay of this webcast will be available at www.sherwin.com beginning approximately two hours after this conference call concludes and will be available until Wednesday, February 14, 2018 at 5:00 PM Eastern time.