Kasey Jenkins | Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy and IR |
Lawrence Kurzius | Chairman, President and CEO |
Mike Smith | Executive Vice President and CFO |
Andrew Lazar | Barclays |
Alexia Howard | Bernstein |
Robert Moskow | Credit Suisse |
Adam Samuelson | Goldman Sachs |
Steve Powers | Deutsche Bank |
Chris Growe | Stifel |
Peter Galbo | Bank of America |
Good morning. This is Kasey Jenkins, Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Investor Relations. Thank you for joining today's first quarter earnings call. To accompany this call, we posted a set of slides at ir.mccormick.com.
We will begin with remarks from Lawrence Kurzius, Chairman, President and CEO; and Mike Smith, Executive Vice President and CFO, and we'll close with a question-and-answer session.