Brady Corporation

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to the Brady Corporation Fiscal Year 2020 Annual Shareholders Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. To ask a question during the session, you'll need to press star 1 on your telephone. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. If you require any further assistance, please press star 0. I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Ann Thornton, Chief Accounting Officer. Please go ahead, ma'am.

Thank you. Good morning, and welcome to the Brady Corporation Fiscal Year 2020 Annual Shareholders Meeting. Thank you for joining us today. I'm Anne Thornton, Brady's Chief Accounting Officer and Director of Investor Relations. The slides for this morning's call are located on our website at www.bradycorp.com slash investors. We will begin our prepared remarks on slide number three. Please note that during this call, we may make comments about forward-looking information, words such as expect, will, may, believe, forecast, and anticipate are just a few examples of words identifying a forward-looking statement. It's important to note that forward-looking information is subject to various risk factors and uncertainties, which could significantly impact expected results. You can read about these risk factors in more detail in our 2020 Form 10-K, which was filed with the SEC in September of this year. Also, please note that this teleconference is copyrighted by Brady Corporation and may not be rebroadcast without the consent of Brady. Moving to the agenda, on slide number three, we will first announce the results of the election of Brady's board of directors. Next, Brady's president and CEO, Michael Nauman, will provide the president's report, and then we will open it up to a Q&A session where Michael Nauman and Erin Pierce, Brady's CFO, will be available to answer questions. Today's presentation is being broadcast live on the internet and will be available on our website for replay, so your participation in the Q&A session will constitute your consent to being recorded. Let's now turn to slide number four for the election of the Board of Directors. I'd like to introduce Mr. Conrad Goodkind, the Chair of Brady's Board of Directors, for the results of the election of the Board of Directors. Conrad?

Thank you, Anne, and good morning to everyone. Thank you for joining us this morning. I am Conrad Goodkind, Chair of the Brady Board of Directors. I'd like to briefly give you an introduction to each of are directors who are standing for re-election today. First, in alphabetical order, Pat Allender. Mr. Allender is the retired Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Danaher Corporation. Gary Balkema. Gary is the retired President of Bayer Healthcare LLC and Worldwide Consumer Care Division. David Bem, I should say Dr. David Bem. He's a PhD doctorate, as are other three doctors who I'll introduce later on. David is Vice President, Science and Technology, and the Chief Technology Officer of PPG Industries. Dr. Elizabeth Bruno. is the president of Brady Educational Foundation and formerly on the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is also the granddaughter of William H. Brady, Jr., the company's founder. Nancy Gioia. Nancy is the retired director of global electrical connectivity and user experience at Ford Motor Company. Myself, Conrad Goodkind. I'm a retired partner at the law firm Quarles and Brady, where I specialized prior to retirement in corporate and securities law. Dr. Frank Harris. Frank is the founder of several technology-based companies, including Akron Polymer Systems, where he currently serves as chair of the board. Prior to that, Frank was a Professor of Polymer Science at the University of Akron. Bradley Richardson is the recently retired Executive Vice President and CFO of Aviant Corporation, which was previously known as Poly One Corporation. Dr. Michelle Williams is the Global Group President of Altaglass International, a subsidiary of Arkema SA. And last and most important, J. Michael Nauman, Brady's president and chief executive officer. Now, turning to slide five for the results of the election, I'm pleased to report that the holders of 100% of the class B voting common stock have voted in favor of the election of each of the director nominees, and therefore they are reelected for a one-year term. At this point, I'll turn the meeting back to Michael Nauman for a brief update on Brady. Michael?