Operator
Good day, and welcome to The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company s first-quarter 2021 earnings conference call. Today s conference is being recorded. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Jim King. Please go ahead.
Jim King
Chief Communications Officer and Executive Vice President
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to The Scotts Miracle-Gro first-quarter conference call. We re taking a slightly different approach this morning as we re managing this call remotely for the first time. In a moment, you ll hear prepared remarks from our chairman and chief executive officer, Jim Hagedorn; as well as our interim chief financial officer, Cory Miller. At the conclusion of those remarks, we ll go live to take your questions.