Universal Corporation (UVV) Q1 2025 Earnings Call

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Good day, everyone, and welcome to today's Universal Corporation first quarter fiscal year 2025 earnings call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode, but later you will have the opportunity to ask questions during the question and answer session. You may register to ask a question at any time by pressing the star and 1 on your telephone keypad. Please note this session is being recorded. I'll be standing by should you need any assistance, and it is now my pleasure to turn the floor over to Jennifer Rowe. Please go ahead. Thank you, Jim. Thank you for joining us. George Freeman, our Chairman, President, and CEO, Ayrton Henshke, our Chief Operating Officer, and Johan Kroener, our Chief Financial Officer, are here with me today and will join me in answering questions after these brief remarks. This call is being webcast live and will be available on our website and on telephone taped replay. It will remain on our website through November 7, 2024. Other than the replay, we have not authorized and disclaimed responsibility for any recording, replay, or distribution of any transcription of this call. This call is copyrighted and may not be used without our permission. Before I begin to discuss our results, I caution you that we will be making forward-looking statements that are based on our current knowledge and some assumptions about the future and are representative as of today only. Actual results could differ materially from projected or estimated results. and we assume no obligation to update any forward-looking statements. For information on some of the factors that can affect our estimates, I urge you to read our 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2024. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, customer mandated timing of shipme...