V.F. Corporation

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining us and welcome to the VF Corporation first quarter 2027 earnings call. After today's prepared remarks, we will host a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please raise your hand. If you have dialed into today's call, please press star 9 to raise your hand and star 6 to unmute. I will now hand the conference over to Allegra Perry, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us on VF Corporation's first quarter fiscal 2027 conference call. On our call today, we will make forward-looking statements. These statements are based on current expectations and are subject to uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. These uncertainties are detailed in documents filed regularly with the SEC. Unless we say otherwise, amounts that are referred to on today's call are all on an adjusted constant dollar, continuing operations, and excluding Dickey's basis, which we've defined in the presentation that we posted this morning on our investor relations website. We use those lead numbers in our discussion as we believe they more accurately represent the true operational performance and underlying results of our business. We may also refer to reported amounts which are in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Reconciliations of GAAP measures to adjusted amounts are found in the supplemental financial tables included in the presentation where we identify and qualify all excluded items and provide management's view of why this information is useful to investors. Before we proceed, I want to highlight that scripted remarks have been posted at the start of the earnings call for ease of reference during the call. The scripted remarks will be removed after the earnings transcript is made available on our investor relations website. Joining me on today's call are VF's President and Chief Executive Officer Bracken Darrell, Chief Financial Officer Paul Vogel, and Chief Operating Officer Abhishek Dalmia. Following our prepared remarks, we'll open the call for your questions. I'll now hand it over to Bracken.

Thank you, Allegra. Hello, everyone, and thank you for joining us. Before we get into our call for the quarter, let me talk about our CFO transition. As you know, if you read our release this morning, Paul Vogel will be stepping down and Abhishek Dalmia will be taking on the newly combined role of Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer. Let me start with Paul. I'm so thankful to Paul for being my partner these past two years. He's played a key role in dramatically improving our balance sheet, lowering our cost base, and returning us to growth. Paul should be very proud of his accomplishments, and I know he is. He's also been a good friend and partner to me and the entire team, and we're going to all miss him. Paul, I know you want to say a few words.