Earnings Call Excerpt
Intrepid Potash Inc. (IPI)
Q4 2008 Earnings Call
March 6 2009 11:00 am ET
Executives
David Honeyfield – Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
Bob Jornayvaz – Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
R.L. Moore – SVP of Marketing and Sales
Hugh Harvey – Executive Vice President of Technology
William Kent – Director of Investor Relations
Analysts
Steve Byrne – Merrill Lynch
Don Carson – UBS
Joseph Gomes – Oppenheimer & Co.
Christopher Willis – Impala Asset Management
Mark Gulley – Soleil Securities
Robert Koort – Goldman Sachs
Vincent Andrews – Morgan Stanley
Fai Lee – RBC Capital Markets
Jason Votruba – UMB
David Silver – UBS
Presentation
Operator
Welcome to the fourth quarter and year end 2008 earnings conference call. (Operator Instructions) At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to William Kent, Director of Investor Relations. Sir, please go ahead.
William Kent
Thank you all for joining us for Intrepid Potash’s fourth quarter and year end 2008 earnings conference call. I’d like to start by introducing today’s participants from the company. We have with us, Bob Jornayvaz the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Hugh Harvey Chief Technology Officer, David Honeyfield Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, and R.L. Moore Senior Vice President of Marketing and Sales.
I would also like to remind everyone that statements made in this call, which express the belief, expectation or intention, as well as those that are not historical facts, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the United States securities laws. A number of assumptions, which we believe are reasonable or made in connection with the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from our expectations.
For material information with respect to the risks, uncertainties and factors which could cause our actual results to differ from our forward-looking statements, we direct you to our news release issued last night and the risk factors described in our filings with the SEC. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by such factors.
The news release, which is posted on our website, includes a reconciliation of certain non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures. All reference to tons are short tons of 2000 pounds. As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded today Friday, March 6, 2009 at 9:00 am mountain time.
I will now turn the call over to Bob Jornayvaz.
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