Central Garden & Pet Company (CENT) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Welcome to Central Garden and PEDS Fiscal 2025 Second Quarter Earnings Call. My name is Zico and I will be your conference operator for today. At this time, all participants are in listen-only mode. Following the prepared remarks, we will hold a question and answer session and instructions will be given at that time. If you require operator assistance at any point during the call, please press star followed by zero on your touch-tone phone. As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded. I will now turn the call over to Frederic Edelman, Vice President, Investor Relations. Please proceed. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining Central's second quarter fiscal 2025 earnings call. Joining me today are Nico Lahanas, Chief Executive Officer, Brad Smith, Chief Financial Officer, Joan Hansen, President, Pet Consumer Products, and JD Walker, President of Garden Consumer Products. Nico will start by sharing today's key takeaways, followed by Brad, who will provide a more in-depth discussion of our results. After their prepared remarks, JD and John will join us for the Q&A session. Before we begin, I would like to remind everyone that all forward-looking statements made during this call are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from what those forward-looking statements express or imply today. A detailed description of Central's risk factors can be found in our annual reports filed with the SEC. Please note that Central undertakes no obligation to publicly update forward-looking statements to reflect new information, future events or other developments. Our press release and related materials, including gap reconciliation for the non-gap measures discussed...