Republic Services' CEO Discusses Q4 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

Republic Services (RSG)

Q4 2011 Earnings Call

February 09, 2012 5:00 pm ET

Executives

Edward A. Lang - Senior Vice President and Treasurer

Donald W. Slager - Chief Executive Officer, President and Director

Tod C. Holmes - Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President

Analysts

Hamzah Mazari - Crédit Suisse AG, Research Division

Corey Greendale - First Analysis Securities Corporation, Research Division

Scott J. Levine - JP Morgan Chase & Co, Research Division

Vance Edelson - Morgan Stanley, Research Division

Michael E. Hoffman - Wunderlich Securities Inc., Research Division

William H. Fisher - Raymond James & Associates, Inc., Research Division

Albert Leo Kaschalk - Wedbush Securities Inc., Research Division

Barbara Noverini - Morningstar Inc., Research Division

Presentation

Operator

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Good afternoon, and welcome to the Fourth Quarter 2011 Call for Investors in Republic Services. Republic Services is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol RSG. Your host for today's call are Don Slager, President and CEO; Tod Holmes, CFO; and Ed Lang, Republic's Senior Vice President and Treasurer. Today's call is being recorded. [Operator Instructions] It is now my pleasure to turn the call over to Mr. Lang. Good afternoon, Mr. Lang.

Edward A. Lang

Thank you, Holly. Welcome, good afternoon and thank you for joining us. This is Ed Lang, and I would like to welcome everyone to Republic Services' Fourth Quarter 2011 Conference Call. Don Slager, our CEO, and Tod Holmes, our CFO, are joining me as we discuss our fourth quarter and full year performance.

Before we get started, I would like to take a moment to remind everyone that some of the information that we discuss on today's call contains forward-looking statements, which involve risks and uncertainties and may be materially different from actual results. Our SEC filings discuss factors that would cause actual results to differ materially from expectations.