Jess Blomberg
Investor Relations
Replay available
Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE: HRL) Q2 2025 earnings conference call, held 2025-05-29. Replay captured from the company's public earnings webcast.

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Following the presentation, we will conduct a question and answer session. If at any time during this call you require immediate assistance, please press star zero for the operator. This call is being recorded on Thursday, May 29, 2025. And I would now like to turn the conference over to Ms. Jess Blomberg, Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Good morning. Welcome to the Hormel Foods Conference Call for the second quarter of fiscal 2025. We released results this morning before the market opened. If you did not receive a copy of the release, you can find it on our website, formalfoods.com, under the Investor section, along with our supplemental slide materials. On our call today is Jim Snee, President and Chief Executive Officer, Jacinthe Smiley, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, and John Gingo, Executive Vice President of the Retail segment. Jim and Jacinthe will review the company's fiscal 2025 second quarter results and provide a perspective on the remainder of the year. Then, John will join Jim and Jacinthe for the Q&A portion of the call. The line will be open for questions following the prepared remarks. As a courtesy to the other analysts, please limit yourself to one question with one follow-up. If you have additional questions, you are welcome to get back into the queue. At the conclusion of this morning's call, a webcast replay will be posted to our investor website and archived for one year. Before we get started this morning, I'd like to reference our safe harbor statements. Some of the comments we make today will be forward-looking and actual results may differ materially from those expressed in or implied by the statements we will be making. Please refer to our most recent annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q,...