Hormel Foods' CEO Discusses Q4 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

Hormel Foods (HRL)

Q4 2011 Earnings Call

November 22, 2011 9:00 am ET

Executives

Kevin C. Jones - Director of Investor Relations

Jeffrey M. Ettinger - Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President

Jody H. Feragen - Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President and Director

Analysts

Ann H. Gurkin - Davenport & Company, LLC, Research Division

Jonathan P. Feeney - Janney Montgomery Scott LLC, Research Division

Kenneth B. Zaslow - BMO Capital Markets U.S.

Diane Geissler - Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc., Research Division

Jeffrey D. Farmer - Jefferies & Company, Inc., Research Division

Robert Moskow - Crédit Suisse AG, Research Division

Timothy S. Ramey - D.A. Davidson & Co., Research Division

Lindsay Mann - Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Research Division

Akshay S. Jagdale - KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc., Research Division

Christina McGlone - Deutsche Bank AG, Research Division

Farha Aslam - Stephens Inc., Research Division

Christine McCracken - Cleveland Research Company

Eric J. Larson - Ticonderoga Securities LLC, Research Division

Presentation

Operator

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Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to the Hormel Foods Fourth Quarter Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] This conference is being recorded today, Tuesday, November 22, 2011. I would now like to turn the conference over to Kevin Jones, Director of Investor Relations. Please go ahead, sir.

Kevin C. Jones

Thank you, Dale. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Hormel Foods conference call for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011. We released our results this morning before the market opened around 6:30 a.m. Eastern Time. If you did not receive a copy of the release, you can find it on our website at www.hormelfoods.com under the Investors section.