Thank you, Rob. Good morning and thanks for joining our call. Joining me today are Interim President and CEO, Tom Schievelbein; and CFO, Joe Dziedzic. As Rob mentioned, our press release was issued before the market opened this morning. We also filed an 8-K that includes the release and slides we’re going to cover on today’s call.
For those of you listening by phone, the release and slides are available on our website at brinks.com. As most of you are aware, we report results on both the GAAP and non-GAAP basis. Our comments this morning will focus primarily on the non-GAAP results, which we believe make it easier for investors to assess operating performance between 2 period.
On a non-GAAP basis, earnings came in at $0.56 per share versus a very strong $0.80 last year. Revenue for the quarter grew 13% to $997 million. Organic revenue growth which excludes acquisitions, dispositions and currency items was 9% for the quarter.
The total segment margin was 7.4%, which includes North America at 2.6% and international operations at 8.9% both well off of year ago levels. As we noted on our call in October, and in today’s press release, the year ago results were boosted by exceptionally lower security costs.
In 2011, these costs were significantly higher, but were also more in line with historical norms. The higher security costs combined with continued weakness in North America and Europe were the major drivers of the profit decline, which more than offset another strong performance in Latin America.
The non-GAAP results exclude certain items related to time and expenses, income taxes, asset sales, acquisitions and dispositions. The non-GAAP results also adjust the tax rate to our full year rate of 38.6%. Summary reconciliation of non-GAAP to GAAP EPS is provided on page 4 of the press release, and a detailed reconciliation of other measures is provided beginning on page 15 of the release.
In addition, page 7 provides the summary of selected results and outlook items that should help in forecasting 2012 results. It includes our latest revenue and segment margin guidance along with estimated non-segment expense, interest expense, tax rate, non-controlling interest, capital expenditures, capital leases, and depreciation and amortization.
I’ll now turn the call over to Tom.