Earnings Call Excerpt
TNS, Inc. (TNS)
Q4 2008 Earnings Call
March 2, 2009 5:00 pm ET
Executives
Jim McLaughlin – Assistant Corporate Secretary
Henry Graham - Chief Executive Officer
Dennis Randolph – Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Ray Low – President
Analysts
Gary Prestopino - Barrington Research Associates, Inc.
Franco Turrinelli - William Blair & Company
Tien-Tsin Huang – JP Morgan
Presentation
Operator
Welcome to the fourth quarter 2008 TNS Inc. earnings conference call. (Operator Instructions) I would now like to turn the call over to Mr. Jim McLaughlin, Executive Vice President and Corporate Secretary.
Jim McLaughlin
Good evening everyone. Thank you for joining us on this call to review TNS’ fourth quarter 2008 financial results and the proposed acquisition we announced today. I am Jim McLaughlin, TNS’ Corporate Secretary and General Counsel. This conference call and web cast are accompanied by a slide presentation that we invite you to access on TNS' website at www.TNSI.com. Leading today's call from TNS are our CEO, Henry Graham and Dennis Randolph, Executive Vice President and CFO.
Before turning the call over to Henry I will read the Safe Harbor Statement. The matters that we will be discussing today, other than historical information, consist of forward-looking statements. These statements relate to future events or our future financial performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements.
Although we believe that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements. We caution you not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements which reflect our analysis only and speak only as of today's date. We undertake no obligation to publicly update the forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.
Finally, we refer you to our form 10K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 16, 2007, which is available on our website, for additional information concerning factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements.
With that, I turn the call over to Henry Graham, CEO.
Henry Graham
Thank you Jim and thanks everyone for joining us this afternoon. In addition to our fourth quarter 2008 results which was the original purpose of this call, this afternoon we made another significant strategic announcement. TNS has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Communication Services Group from VeriSign. We will cover both on this call.
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