GreenTree Hospitality Group Ltd (NYSE:GHG) Q2 2023 Earnings Conference Call September 18, 2023 9:00 PM ET
Company Participants
Rene Vanguestaine - Christensen & Associates
Alex Xu - Founder, Chairman & CEO
Megan Huang - VP, Sales and Marketing
Selina Yang - CFO
Conference Call Participants
Operator
Hello, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by for GreenTree's First Half 2023 Earnings Conference Call. At this time all participants are in listen-only mode. [Operator Instructions].
As a reminder, today's conference call is being recorded. I would now like to turn the meeting over to your host for today's call, Mr. Rene Vanguestaine of Christensen, GreenTree's Investor Relations firm. Please proceed, Rene.
Rene Vanguestaine
Thank you, Ashley. Hello, everyone. And thank you for joining us. GreenTree’s earnings release was distributed earlier today and is available on our IR website at ir.998.com. As well as on PR Newswire services. As a reminder, we also posted a PowerPoint presentation that accompanies our comments to the same IR website.
On the call from GreenTree are Mr. Alex Xu, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; Ms. Selina Yang, Chief Financial Officer; Ms. Megan Huang, Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Mr. Bill Ju [ph], Financial Director of the Restaurant Business. Mr. Xu [ph] will present the company's performance overview of the first half of 2023, followed by Ms. Wang and Mr. Ju, who will discuss business operations. And Ms. Yang and Mr. Xu will then discuss financials and guidance. They will all be available to answer your questions during the Q&A session which follows.
Before we begin, I'd like to remind you that this conference call contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. As a mandate and as defined in the U.S Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as may, will, expect, anticipate, aims, future, intends, plans, believes, estimates, continue, target is or are likely to going forward, confident outlook and similar statements.
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