Martin Barrington | Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer |
William Gifford | Chief Financial Officer |
Bill Marshall | Vice President, Investor Relations |
Chris Growe | Stifel |
Judy Hong | Goldman Sachs |
Adam Spielman | Citigroup |
Bonnie Herzog | Wells Fargo |
Vivien Azer | Cowen & Co. |
Russ Miller | RBC Capital Markets |
Matthew Grainger | Morgan Stanley |
Michael Lavery | Piper Jaffray |
Priya Ohri-Gupta | Barclays |
Good day and welcome to the Altria Group 2017 fourth quarter and full year earnings conference call. Today’s call is scheduled to last about one hour, including remarks by Altria’s management and a question and answer session. In order to ask a question, please press star followed by the number one on your touchtone phone at any time. Representatives of the investment community and media on the call will be able to ask questions following the conclusion of the prepared remarks. I would now like to turn the call over to Mr.