Hain Celestial (HAIN) 29 Aug 192019 Q4 Earnings call transcript

Greetings. Welcome to Hain Celestial's Fourth Quarter Fiscal Year 2019 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions]. Please note, this conference is being recorded.

I will now turn the conference over to Katie Turner. you. Thank

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next with question from Robinson SunTrust is Chappell Humphrey. Our Bill

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along? other to part look total just would sell a Was And urgency make you really so sense of Tilda I'm to sell as just real business? growth not understand, -- -- the right businesses or the if came of there price did to trying being sense and

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it. And on clarification. then Got one followup just

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question next with Jaffray. Lavery is Michael Piper from Our

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Yes.

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from question John with Wells is Baumgartner Our next Fargo.

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question Our with ISI. is Evercore next from Palmer David

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Yes.

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I and the for remarks. conference Ladies to of gentlemen, management end closing session. back we turn have like our to would over question-and-answer reached the

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