Earnings Call Excerpt
Brady Corporation (BRC)
F2Q09 Earnings Call
February 20, 2009 10:30 am ET
Executives
Barbara Bolens - Vice President, Treasurer & Director of Investor Relations
Frank M. Jaehnert - President, Chief Executive Officer, Director
Thomas Felmer - Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President
Matthew Williamson - Vice President, President - Brady Americas
Peter Sephton - Vice President, President - Brady Europe
Allan Klotsche - Vice President, President - Brady Asia-Pacific
Analysts
Charles D. Brady - BMO Capital Markets
Allison Poliniak - Wachovia Capital Markets
[Chris Waltzer] - Robert W. Baird
Anthony Kure - Keybanc Capital Markets
Ajit Pai - Thomas Weisel Partners
Presentation
Operator
Good day ladies and gentlemen. And welcome to the Q2 Fiscal 2009 Brady Corporation Earnings Conference Call. My name is Becky and I’ll be your coordinator for today. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. We will be facilitating a question-and- answer session towards the end of this conference. (Operator Instructions)
I would now like to turn the presentation over to your host for today’s call, Ms. Barbara Bolens, Director of Investor Relations. Please proceed.
Barbara Bolens
Thank you very much. We’re glad you could join us for our conference call this morning. During the call, you will hear from Frank Jaehnert, CEO, and then Tom Felmer, CFO, who will be presenting Brady’s quarterly financial review. Also joining us this morning; is Matt Williamson, President of Brady Americas, Peter Sephton, President of Brady Europe, and Allan Klotsche, President of Brady Asia-Pacific, who will all assist in providing the regional reports.
As usual after brief presentations by the team, we will open up the floor to questions. We encourage you to follow along with the slides located on the Internet as we will be referring to the individual slides as we proceed through the presentation. These slides can be found on our website at www.investor.bradycorp.com. You do have a couple of minutes to get to those while we go through our Safe Harbor statement and other usual information.
Please note that in this call, we may make comments about forward-looking information. Words such as expect, believe and anticipate are a few examples of words identifying our forward-looking statement. It is important to note that forward-looking information is subject to various risk factors and uncertainties, which could significantly impact expected results. Risk factors were noted in our news release this morning and in Brady’s 10-K filed with the SEC in September of 2008.
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