North West Company Inc. (The)

All participants, please stand by. Your meeting is ready to begin. Please be advised that this conference call is being recorded. Welcome to the Northwest Company, Inc. Fourth Quarter Results Conference Call. I would now like to turn the meeting over to Mr. Edward Kennedy, President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Kennedy, please go ahead.

Thank you and welcome everyone to our Q4 end-of-year conference call for fiscal 2020. Joining me today from Northwest, It's Amanda Sutton, our VP Legal and General Counsel, John King, our Chief Financial Officer, Alex Yeo, President of our Canadian Retail Group, Anne McConnell, President of our International Retail Group, and Sandy Riley is here with us, who's the Chairman of the Northwest Company. I'm going to start the meeting by asking Amanda to read our disclosure transcript.

Thank you, Edward. Before we begin, I remind you that certain information presented today may constitute forward-looking statements. Such statements reflect Northwest's current expectations, estimates, projections, and assumptions. These forward-looking statements are not guaranteed for future performance and are subject to certain risks which could cause actual performance and financial results in the future to vary materially for those contemplated in the forward-looking statements. For additional information on these risks, please see Northwest's Annual Information Forum and its MD&A under the heading Risk Factors.