Central Garden & Pet Company (NASDAQ:CENT) Q1 2023 Earnings Conference Call January 31, 2023 4:30 PM ET
Company Participants
Friederike Edelmann – Vice President-Investor Relations
Tim Cofer – Chief Executive Officer
Niko Lahanas – Chief Financial Officer
J.D. Walker – President, Garden Consumer Products
John Hanson – President, Pet Consumer Products
Conference Call Participants
Bill Chappell – Truist Securities
Stefanos Crist – CJS Securities
Taylor Zick – KeyBanc Capital Markets
Andrea Teixeira – JPMorgan
Carla Casella – JPMorgan
Hale Holden – Barclays
Karru Martinson – Jefferies
Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Welcome to Central Garden & Pet’s First Quarter Fiscal 2023 Earnings Call. My name is Shamali and I will be your conference operator for today. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later, we will conduct a question-and-answer session. Instructions will be given at that time. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded.
I would now like to turn the call over to Friederike Edelmann, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.
Friederike Edelmann
Thank you, Shamali. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us. With me on the call today are Tim Cofer, Chief Executive Officer; Niko Lahanas, Chief Financial Officer; J.D. Walker, President, Garden Consumer Products; and John Hanson, President, Pet Consumer Products. As usual Tim will provide a business update, and Niko will discuss results for our first quarter ended December 24, 2022 in more detail. After the prepared remarks, J.D. and John will join us for the Q&A.
Our press release and related materials are available at ir.central.com, and contains the GAAP to non-GAAP reconciliation for the non-GAAP measures discussed on this call. Lastly unless otherwise stated all growth comparisons made during this call are against the same period in the prior year. Before I turn the call over to Tim, I would like to remind you that statements made during this call, which are not historical facts, including the potential impact of COVID-19 on our business, earnings per share and other guidance for fiscal 2023, expectations for new capital investments, product launches and future acquisitions are forward-looking statements subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those implied by forward-looking statements. These risks and others are described in Central’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on November 22, 2022. Central undertakes no obligation to publicly update these forward-looking statements to reflect new information, subsequent events or otherwise.