Jim Snee | Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer |
Jim Sheehan | Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer |
Nathan Annis | Director, Investor Relations |
Akshay Jagdale | Jefferies |
Ken Zaslow | BMO Capital Markets |
Eric Larson | Buckingham Research Group |
Rupesh Parikh | Oppenheimer |
Michael Lavery | Piper Jaffray |
Jeremy Scott | Mizuho |
Adam Samuelson | Goldman Sachs |
Robert Moskow | Credit Suisse |
Heather Jones | Vertical Group |
Farha Aslam | Stephens |
Good morning ladies and gentlemen and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Hormel Foods third quarter 2018 earnings release conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode.
As a reminder, this conference is being recorded Thursday, August 23, 2018. I would like to turn the conference over to Nathan Annis, Director of Investor Relations.