Darling Ingredients Inc. (NYSE:DAR) Q3 2023 Earnings Conference Call November 8, 2023 9:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Suann Guthrie - Senior Vice President-Investor Relations, Sustainability & Communications

Randall C. Stuewe - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

Brad Phillips - Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer

Bob Day - Executive Vice President-Strategy

Matt Jansen - Chief Operating Officer-North America

Conference Call Participants

Manav Gupta - UBS

Adam Samuelson - Goldman Sachs

Derrick Whitfield - Stifel

Dushyant Ailani - Jefferies

Paul Cheng - Scotiabank

Andrew Strelzik - BMO

Sam Margolin - Wolfe Research

Ben Bienvenu - Stephens

Matthew Blair - TPH

Jason Gabelman - Cowen

Operator

Good morning and welcome to the Darling Ingredients Inc. Conference Call to discuss the company's Third Quarter 2023 Results. After the speaker's prepared remarks, there will be a question-and-answer period and instructions to ask a question will be given at that time. Today's call is being recorded.

I would now like to turn the call over to Mr. Suann Guthrie. Please go ahead.

Suann Guthrie

Good morning. Thank you for joining the Darling Ingredients third quarter 2023 earnings call. Here with me today are Mr. Randall C. Stuewe, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; Mr. Brad Phillips, Chief Financial Officer; Mr. Bob Day, Chief Strategy Officer; and Mr. Matt Jansen, Chief Operating Officer of North America.

Our third quarter 2023 earnings news release and slide presentation are available on the Investor Relations page under Events and Presentations tab on our corporate website and will be joined by a transcript of this call once it is available.

During this call, we will be making forward-looking statements which are predictions projections or other statements about future events. These statements are based on current expectations and assumptions that are subject to risks and uncertainties. Actual results could materially differ because of factors discussed in yesterday's press release and the comments made during this conference call and in the Risk Factors section of our Form 10-K, 10-Q and other reported filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We do not undertake any duty to update any forward-looking statements.

Now I will hand the call over to Randy.

Randall C. Stuewe

Thanks, Suann and good morning, everyone and thanks for joining us for our third quarter earnings call. Darling's global ingredients platform delivered as predicted and DGD faced some headwinds and operational challenges during the quarter. Overall, we feel good about the momentum we are carrying into fourth quarter and 2024.