UniFirst Corporation (NYSE:UNF) Q1 2024 Earnings Conference Call January 3, 2024 9:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Steven Sintros - President and Chief Executive Officer

Shane O'Connor - Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Ronan Kennedy - Barclays

Andrew Wittmann - R.W. Baird

Joshua Chan - UBS

Luke McFadden - William Blair

Andrew Steinerman - J.P. Morgan

Kartik Mehta - Northcoast Research

Operator

Greetings, and welcome to the UniFirst Corporation First Quarter Earnings Call. During the presentation, all participants will be in a listen-only mode. Afterwards, we will conduct a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions]

I would now like to turn the conference over to Steven Sintros, President and Chief Executive Officer. Please go ahead.

Steven Sintros

Thank you, and good morning. I'm Steven Sintros, UniFirst’s President and Chief Executive Officer. Joining me today is Shane O'Connor, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. We'd like to welcome you to UniFirst Corporation's conference call to review our first quarter results for the fiscal year 2024. This call will be on a listen-only mode until we complete our prepared remarks, but first brief disclaimer.

This conference call may contain forward-looking statements that reflect the company's current views with respect to future events and financial performance. These forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties. The words anticipate, optimistic, believe, estimate, expect, intend, and similar expressions that indicate future events and trends identify forward-looking statements. Actual future results may differ materially from those anticipated, depending on a variety of risk factors. For more information, please refer to the discussion of these risk factors in our most recent Form 10-K and 10-Q filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

We're pleased with the results of our first quarter, which represent a solid start to our new fiscal year. I want to thank all of our team partners who continue to always deliver for each other and our customers as we strive towards our vision of being recognized as the best service provider in the industry. All while living our mission of serving the people who do the hard work. The people who do the hard work are the workforce that keeps our communities up and running. So many of them are our existing and prospective customers, as well as our own UniFirst team partners.

Our mission is to support those employees by providing the right products and services that allow them to do their job successfully and safely. Whether that means providing uniforms, work wear, facility service, first aid and safety, clean room or other products and services, our goal is to partner with our customers to ensure we have the right structure to ensure that we structure the right program, products, and services for their business and their teams.