Andrew Lazar
Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division

Everyone, find our seats, we’ll kick off our next fireside. I’d like to welcome back to our conference, The J.M. Smucker Company. With us today are CEO, President and Chairman of the Board, Mark Smucker; along with CFO, Tucker Marshall, who now also serves as EVP of the Frozen Handheld and Spreads and Sweet Baked Snacks segments. Mark and Tucker are going to go through some brief prepared remarks, and then we’ll sit down for some questions.

Mark, over to you. Thanks for being here.

Mark Smucker
CEO, President & Chairman

Thank you, Andrew. It’s great to be back. I think this might be my 10th or 11th. And honestly, just appreciate the opportunity to be here with all of you today. Tucker and I, as Andrew said, will provide some brief comments, and then we’ll reserve the remainder of our time for questions.

But as always, please note that certain information provided today is forward-looking based on current views and assumptions. Also, we use non-GAAP results for the purpose of evaluating performance internally. Details for both items can be found in the slides for today’s presentation available on our Investor Relations website. So with that, let’s get started.

My commentary today will center on 2 key points. First, our focused strategy and differentiated portfolio continue to deliver results. We remain focused on our strategic priorities of driving organic volume growth across our key platforms, improving profitability and accelerating earnings growth