Monster Beverage Corporation

Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to the Monster Beverage Company fourth quarter 2020 conference call. All participants will be in a listen-only mode. Should you need assistance, please see a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. To ask a question, you may press star and then one to join the question queue. At this time, I'd like to turn the conference call over to Mr. Rodney Sachs and Mr. Hilton Schlossberg, co-CEOs. Gentlemen, please proceed.

Thank you. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for attending this call. I'm Rodney Sachs. Hilton Schlossberg, our vice chairman and co-chief executive officer, is on the call. Tom Kelly, our chief financial officer. Tom will now read the cautionary announcement statement.

Before we begin, I would like to remind listeners that certain statements made during this call may constitute forward-looking statements within the meeting of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 as amended and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as amended and are based on currently available information regarding the expectations of management with respect to revenues, profitability, future business, future events, financial performance, and trends, as well as the future impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the company's business and operations. Management cautions that these statements are based on our current knowledge and expectations and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, many of which are outside the control of the company that may cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements made during this call. Please refer to our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our most recent annual report on Form 10-K, filed on February 28, 2020, and our most recently quarterly report on Form 10-Q, filed on November 6, 2020, including the sections contained therein entitled Risk Factors and Forward-Looking Statements. for a discussion on specific risk and uncertainties that may affect our performance. The company assumes no obligations to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. I would now like to hand the call over to Rodney Sachs.