Central Garden & Pet Co Annual Shareholders Meeting Transcript

Feb 11, 2026 / 06:30PM GMT

Release Date Price: $37.34 (-1.05%)

Transcript 10-Q

William E. Brown

Central Garden & Pet Co - Chairman of the Board

Good morning. It is now 10:30 AM. Thank you for attending our 2026 Annual Meeting. I am Will Brown, and I am presiding as the Chairman of the meeting. Apur Patel, who is our Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary, will act as secretary of the meeting. Nicholas Lahanas, our CEO, and Brad Smith, our CFO, are here with us today.

I would now like to introduce Nicho, who will introduce the other directors and our independent auditor. Nicho ?

Nicholas Lahanas

Central Garden & Pet Co - Chief Executive Officer, Director

Thank you, Will. The Board of Directors is attending our Annual Shareholders Meeting today. Apart from Will and me, the directors are Courtnee Chun; Brendan Dougher; Randal Lewis, Chris Metz; Sonny Pennington; John Ranelli and Beth Springer, our Lead Independent Director.

Deloitte is our independent auditor. I'd like to introduce Nathan Mitchell, a partner of Deloitte, who's on the call today and will be available to respond to appropriate questions later

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