Mar 08, 2022 / 03:30PM GMT
James Forristall Kayler - BofA Securities, Research Division - MD
All right. Good morning, everyone. For those of you who don't know me, I am James Kayler. I'm a research analyst in the higher research group at Bank of America. I am standing in for Bill Reuter today. So thank you all for joining us, and very happy to be hosting Central Garden here. We have the CFO, Niko Lahanas, and thank you for coming today.
Nicholas Lahanas - Central Garden & Pet Company - CFO
Thank you.
Questions and Answers:
James Forristall Kayler - BofA Securities, Research Division - MDSo we -- I have a whole set of questions here and there's -- there will be some time at the end for questions from the audience if they're interested. But maybe just jumping right in, the last 2-plus years have been a crazy time for the economy and for all sorts of businesses. And one of the interesting outcome I think has been that the pet ownership rate has increased meaningfully. I guess I wanted to start off just talking about your -- sort of your