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Toro Company CEO Discusses F2Q12 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

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Toro Company (TTC)

F2Q12 Earnings Call

May 24, 2012 11:00 AM ET

Executives



Kurt Svendsen - Managing Director of Corporate Communications and IR

Mike Hoffman - Chairman and CEO

Renee Peterson - CFO

Analysts



Eric Bosshard - Cleveland Research

Michael Worley

Josh - Raymond James

Leah Villalobos - Longbow Research

Robert Kosowsky - Sidoti & Company

Jim Barrett - CL King & Associates



Presentation



Operator

Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to The Toro Company Second Quarter Earnings Conference Call. My name is Clarissa and I will be your coordinator for today.

At this time, all participants are in listen-only mode. We will be facilitating a question-and-answer session towards the end of today’s conference. (Operator Instructions). As a reminder, this conference is being recorded for replay purposes.

I would now like to turn the presentation over to your host for today’s conference, Mr. Kurt Svendsen, Managing Director of Corporate Communications and Investor Relations for The Toro Company. Please proceed, Mr. Svendsen.

Kurt Svendsen

Thank you and good morning. Joining me this morning for our second quarter earnings call are Mike Hoffman, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; Renee Peterson, Chief Financial Officer; Tom Larson, Vice President and Treasurer; and Blake Grams, Vice President and Controller.

We begin with our customary forward-looking statement policy. During this call we will make certain forward-looking statements which are intended to assist you in understanding the company’s results. You are all aware of the inherent difficulties, risks and uncertainties in making predictive statements. Safe Harbor portion of the Company’s earnings release, as well as SEC filings detail some of the important risk factors that may cause actual results to differ from those in our predictions.

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