Q3 2019 Earnings Call
The question answer session. If you have a question. Please press Star then one on your Touchtone phone. Please note that this conference is being recorded I will now turn the call over to J.T., Rick Treasurer, and Vice President of Investor Relations you may begin.
Thank you Paula and good morning, everyone.
Third quarter results released yesterday evening, the earnings release, and our quarterly slide presentation is posted in the Investor section of flowers Foods website, our 10-Q filed with the FCC yesterday evening as well before we begin please be aware that our discussion today may include forward looking statements about our company's performance although it.
We believe those statements to be reasonable they are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. In addition to matters will discuss during the call important factors relating to flowers foods business are fully detailed and our SEC filings.
With that I'll make some introductions participating on the call today, we have Rals Mullen flowers foods, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Steve Kinsey, Our rights for our executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Ralph I'll turn the call over to you.
Thanks, Jamie good morning, and welcome to our third quarter call.
We're very happy today reported record sales ahead of our forecasts and reiterate our outlook for fiscal 2019.
Adjusted EPS.
Regarding our four strategic pillars, focusing our brands prioritizing margin pursuing smart M&A and developing our team.
We're pleased to see good momentum and several other.
We continue to make nice progress growing our portfolio of top brands, the dk being candid acquisitions have been resounding successes.
And although it's harder to see from a quantitative standpoint, we're doing some great things, where the development of our team.
But as we said in yesterdays release, we're still facing some margin headwinds.
Now for five months, the CEO I've had the opportunity to assess where we are and what we need to do to improve our profitability, while maintaining the great topline momentum we've enjoyed this year.
And I'm looking forward to sharing that with you on the call today.