Whirlpool Corporation

Your Director of Investor Relations, Corey Thomas.

Thank you, and welcome to our first quarter conference call. Joining me today are Mark Pitzer, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Jim Peters, our Chief Financial Officer, and Joe Liatini, our Chief Operating Officer. Our remarks today track with a presentation available in the investor section of our website at warpoolcorp.com. Before we begin, I want to remind you that as we conduct this call, we'll be making forward-looking statements to assist you in better understanding Whirlpool Corporation's future expectations. Our actual results could differ materially from these statements due to many factors discussed in our latest 10-K, 10-Q, and other peer ad reports. We also want to remind you that today's presentation includes non-GAAP measures. These measures are important indicators of our operations as they exclude items that may not be indicative of results from our ongoing business operations. We also think the adjusted measures will provide you with a better baseline for analyzing trends in our ongoing business operations. Additionally, price increases or pricing actions referenced throughout this call reflect previously announced cost-based price increases. Listeners are directed to the supplemental information package posted on the Investor Relations section of our website for the reconciliation of non-GAAP items to the most directly comparable GAAP measures. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Following our prepared remarks, the call will be open for analyst questions. As a reminder, we ask that participants ask no more than two questions. With that, I'll turn the call over to Mark.

Thanks, Corey. Good morning, everyone. It is my pleasure to discuss the results of our first quarter today and to provide... Turning to our business, over the quarter, we worked relentlessly to deliver strong results despite rising cost inflation, supply chain disruption, and higher levels of volatility.