Oil-Dri Corporation of America (NYSE:ODC) Q1 2024 Earnings Conference Call December 13, 2023 10:30 AM ET
Company Participants
Leslie Garber - Manager, IR
Laura Scheland - Chief Legal Officer, Vice President and General Manager, Consumer Products Division
Dan Jaffee - President & CEO
Susan Kreh - Chief Financial Officer
Aaron Christiansen - VP of Operations
Chris Lamson - Group VP of Retail & Wholesale
Wade Robey - VP of Ag & President of Amlan International
Bruce Patsey - Vice President of Fluids Purification Division
Conference Call Participants
Leslie Garber
Good morning and welcome to Oil-Dri Corporation of America's 2023 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. My name is Leslie Garber and I am the Director of Investor Relations at Oil Dri. We're conducting this meeting virtually, a format which enables greater stockholder attendance and participation, improved efficiency, and increases our ability to communicate with stockholders and reduces costs.
On your screen under meeting materials, you will find the meeting agenda, rules of contact, list of stockholders of record, and Oil-Dri's proxy statement and annual report. During the meeting today, we will be covering the election of directors and four other proposals. Next will be the business presentations and financial review followed by time for Q&A. We ask that you submit your questions online under the Ask a Question field on your screen. Only stockholders of record are able to ask questions during the meeting. Stockholders will also be able to vote online by clicking the Vote Here button on your screen.
Now it is my pleasure to introduce Laura Scheland, our Chief Legal Officer and the Vice President and General Manager of the Consumer Products Division. She will conduct a formal portion of today's meeting.
Laura Scheland
Good morning ladies and gentlemen. I now call the order of the 2023 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Oil-Dri Corporation of America to conduct the formal business set forth in the notice of meeting and proxy statement. Commencing on October 30, 2023, a notice regarding the availability of proxy materials or a copy of the proxy materials was mailed to all Oil-Dri stockholders of record as of the close of business on October 16th, 2023, which is the record date fixed by Oil-Dri's board of directors for the determination of stockholders entitled to notice of and to vote at this meeting.
Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc. has delivered an affidavit confirming the foregone. Oil-Dri has appointed Peter Sablich of CT Hagberg LLC to serve as the Inspector of Election for this meeting. He is present on the webcast and has taken the oath of office. As of October 16, 2023 the record date for this meeting, there were 5,108,734 shares of Oil-Dri's common stock and 2,170,415 shares of Oil-Dri's Class B stock outstanding. Holders of our common stock are entitled to one vote per share and holders of our Class B stock are entitled to 10 votes per share and generally vote together without regard to Class.