Operator
Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to the FY ‘14 third quarter earnings results and first 6 months of FY ‘14 conference call. [Operator Instructions] Your host today is Laurans Mendelson, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of HEICO Corporation. Certain statements made in this call will constitute forward-looking statements which are subject to risks, uncertainties and contingencies. HEICO's actual results may differ materially from those expressed in or implied by those forward-looking statements as a result of factors including, but not limited to lower demand for commercial air travel or airline fleet change or airline purchasing decisions which could cause lower demand for our goods and services, product development or products, specification cost and requirements which could cause an increase to our cost to complete contracts, governmental and regulatory demands, export policies and restrictions, reductions in defense, space or Homeland Security spending by US and/or foreign customers or competition from existing and new competitors which could reduce our sales, our ability to introduce new products and product pricing levels which could reduce our sales or sales growth, product development difficulty which could increase our product development costs and delay sales, our ability to make acquisitions and achieve operating synergies from acquired business, customer credit risk, interest and income tax rates and economic conditions within and outside of the aviation and space, medical, telecommunications and electronic industries which could negatively impact our costs and revenues, defense budget cuts which is could reduce our defense-related revenue. Those listening to this call are encouraged to review all of HEICO's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission including but not limited to the filings on Form 10-K, Form 10-Q, and Form 8-K. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, further events or otherwise except to the extent required by applicable law. Thank you. I will now turn the conference over to Mr. Mendelson. Please go ahead.