Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (The)

Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Q3 2023 Scott's Miracle-Gro Company Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you need to press star 1-1 on your telephone. You will hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press star 1-1 again. Please be advised today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Amy DeLuca, lead investor relations, Scott's Miracle-Gro. Please go ahead.

Good morning. Thank you for joining us for Scott's Miracle-Gro's third quarter earnings call.

With me this morning are Chairman and CEO Jim Hagedorn, President and Chief Operating Officer Mike Lukemeyer, Matt Garth, our Chief Financial Officer, and Chris Hagedorn, Group President of Hawthorne. In a moment, Jim and Matt will share some prepared remarks, and then the operator will open the call to your questions. As always, we expect to make forward-looking statements, so please be aware that our actual results could differ materially from what we share today. Please refer to our Form 10-K, which is filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to familiarize yourself with the full range of risk factors that could impact our results. For further discussion after the call, you are invited to email or call me directly at 937-578-5621, and we'll work to set up some time as quickly as possible. Lastly, please note that today's call is being recorded. An archived version of the call will be published on our website at investor.scotts.com. With that, let's get started. I'll turn the call over to Jim Hagedorn to begin. Jim?