Burcon Nutrascience Corporation (BU) Q1 2027 Earnings Call

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Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for participating in today's conference call to discuss Bercom's Nutrascience Corporation fiscal 2027 first quarter conference call. Joining us today are Kip Underwood, Bercom's chief executive officer, and Alex Varty, the company's intern chief financial officer. Following their presentation, we will open up the call for questions. To join the question queue, you may press star then one on your telephone keypad. Thank you, Nikosha. and good morning, good afternoon, good evening and thank you to all of those who have joined the call today. For today's call, we would like everyone to walk away with three takeaways. The first is there's a convergence of things right now that mean present tremendous opportunity for Bercon. Consumers are seeking more protein. Food companies need innovation to deliver against that consumer need and Burkhart's proven technology enables food companies to deliver against that need. We solve food companies' problems. Second, simply put, we are executing our plan. We are producing and selling day by day, week by week against our expectations. And third, we are investing in our future. We see demand, customer demand coming down the pike and we are going to invest to be ready to meet those future customers' expectations. are safe harbor statement. I mentioned the market, the protein market specifically. You cannot watch television, stream a show, walk through a grocery store right now and not see that protein is everywhere. Not too long ago, protein was niche. Now it is a mainstream consumer sought after benefit. 30 years ago, People who sought after protein were motivated. They were athletes. They were willing to make tradeoffs. Today's consumers will not make that tradeoff. They want higher protein, lowe...