Harley-Davidson, Inc.

Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Harley-Davidson 2021 Second Quarter Investor Analyst Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. To ask a question during the session, you will need to press star 1 on your telephone. Please be advised that this 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, Shannon Burns, Manager, Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Good morning, everyone. You can access the slides supporting this call at investor.harleydavidson.com. Click the earnings materials box in the center of the page. Our comments will include forward-looking statements that are subject to risks that could cause actual results to be materially different. Those risks include, among others, matters we have noted in our latest earnings release and filings with the SEC. Carly Davidson disclaims any obligation to update information in this call. Joining me this morning are CEO Jochen Zeitz, CFO Gina Getter, and Chief Commercial Officer Adela Sullivan will also be joining for Q&A. Jochen, let's get started.

Thank you, Shannon, and good morning. As always, I would like to welcome our shareholders, the financial community, dealers, employees, and all our valued stakeholders, and even our competition who are joining us today. We delivered a solid performance in the second quarter and first half of this year. I'm pleased with the pace of improvements we've seen, with today's numbers reflecting the execution of our hardwire strategy as demonstrated by the positive financial results, despite significant supply chain challenges. As a company, we continue to manage through the impacts of COVID-19 with the extraordinary efforts of our global team, keeping employee safety and community well-being a priority. The supply chain and logistics challenges linked to the pandemic, faced by our industry and many others, continue to impact the sector, with our teams managing the effects of disruption to ensure that we are able to continue building and delivering iconic Harley-Davidson products to the world. We are seeing the initial proof points of our hardwire execution and the positive impact of this strategy on our results, particularly in the strategically important North America region. While the pandemic and the related supply chain complications continue to impact our international business with certain regions at different stages of post-pandemic recovery, we can see that consumer excitement and optimism is returning, and we are encouraged by these signs of positivity in the market. I also want to note our continued fight against the proposed EU tariffs that we discussed at the last quarter. We continue to pursue all remedies to the additional EU tariffs. We believe these tariffs relate to a trade dispute not of our making, and that it is unfair for our business to be targeted as part of this dispute. The initial outcomes of the trade talks at the G7 meeting are encouraging, and we remain hopeful for resolution. I will talk more about our delivery against the hard wire later in today's presentation. But first, I'll let Gina provide more details on the financial performance of the quarter and first half of the year. Gina?