UniFirst Corporation (NYSE:UNF) Q4 2024 Earnings Conference Call October 23, 2024 9:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Steven Sintros - President & Chief Executive Officer
Shane O'Connor - Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer

Conference Call Participants

Ronan Kennedy - Barclays
Kartik Mehta - Northcoast Research
Luke McFadden - William Blair
Josh Chan - UBS
Andrew Steinerman - JPMorgan
Andrew Wittmann - Baird

Operator

Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Fourth Quarter 2024 UniFirst Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speakers' presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded.

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

Steven Sintros

Thank you, and good morning. I'm Steve Sintros, UniFirst 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 conference call to review our fourth quarter results for fiscal year 2024. This call will be on a listen-only mode until we complete our prepared remarks, but first, a 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.

I'm pleased to report that we closed the year with a strong fourth quarter that modestly exceeded our expectations in both top- and bottom-line performance. We accomplished a lot as a team in fiscal '24 that will help strengthen our company as we move forward, continuing to grow our company as well as advancing our technology and other organizational initiatives. I want to sincerely 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 universally recognized as the best service provider in the industry, all while living our mission of serving the people who do the hard work.