Jeff Harkins | VP, IR & Strategic Planning |
Chris Brickman | President & CEO |
Aaron Alt | SVP & CFO |
Karru Martinson | Jeffries |
Ross Collins | Cowen & Company |
Olivia Tong | Bank of America Merrill Lynch |
Lauren Frasch | Wells Fargo Securities |
Carla Casella | J.P. Morgan |
William Reuter | Bank of America Merrill Lynch |
At this time all lines are in a listen-only mode and later we will conduct a question-and-answer session | instructions will be given at that time. [Operator Instructions]. As a reminder - today's conference is being recorded. |
I would now turn the call over to your host Mr. Jeff Harkins. Please go ahead. |
Thank you, good morning everyone and welcome to the Sally Beauty Holdings First Quarter Earnings Conference Call.
Before we begin, I want to point out to you that we have made a supplemental slide presentation available for today's call that can be viewed from the link provided at our investor site at sallybeautyholdings.com/investorrelations.
In addition, I'd like to remind you that certain comments, including matters such as forecasted financial information, contracts or business and trend information made during this call may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
Many of these forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of words such as believe, project, expect, can, may, estimate, should, plan, target, intend, could, will, would, anticipate, potential, confident, optimistic and similar words or phrases. These statements are subject to a number of factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from expectations.