Nathan Annis | Director of Investor Relations |
Jim Snee | Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer |
Jim Sheehan | SVP & Chief Financial Officer |
Michael Lavery | Piper Jaffray |
Ben Bienvenu | Stephens Incorporated |
Rupesh Parikh | Oppenheimer |
Adam Samuelson | Goldman Sachs |
Jeremy Scott | Mizuho |
Robert Moskow | Credit Suisse |
Ken Zaslow | Bank of Montreal |
Heather Jones | Heather Jones Research |
Eric Larson | Buckingham Research Group |
Thomas Palmer | JPMorgan |
Benjamin Theurer | Barclays |
Rebecca Scheuneman | Morningstar |
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Hormel Foods Second Quarter 2019 Earnings Release Conference. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode.
As a reminder, this conference is being recorded Thursday, May 23, 2019. I'd now like to turn the conference over to Nathan Annis, Director of Investor Relations.