Columbia Sportswear Company

Greetings and welcome to Columbia Sportswear Company's fourth quarter and fiscal year 2018 financial results conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. If anyone should require operator assistance during the conference, please press star zero on your telephone keypad. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to your host. Andrew Burns, Director of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Good afternoon and thanks for joining us to discuss Columbia Sportswear Company's fourth quarter results in 2019 Outlook. In addition to the earnings release, we furnished an 8K containing a detailed CFO commentary explaining our 2018 results and the assumptions behind our 2019 Outlook. This CFO commentary is also available on our Investor Relations website, investor.columbia.com. With me today on the call are Chairman of the Board, Gert Boyle, President and Chief Executive Officer, Tim Boyle, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Tom Cusick, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Jim Swanson, and Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, Peter Bracken. Gert will start us off by covering the Safe Harbor Reminder.

Good afternoon. This conference call will contain forward-looking statements regarding Columbia's business opportunities and anticipated results of operations. Please bear in mind that forward-looking information is subject to many risks and uncertainties and actual results may differ materially from what is projected. Many of these risks and uncertainties are described in Columbia's annual report on Form 10-K and subsequent filing with the SEC. Forward-looking statements in this conference call are based on our current expectations and beliefs, and we do not undertake any of your duties to update any of the forward-looking statements after the date of this conference call to conform the forward-looking statement to actual results or to changes in our expectations.