Paul Rothamel - President and Chief Executive Officer
Analyst
Thank you, Mark and good morning everyone. I’ll keep my comments very brief this afternoon as Mark has already covered our financial performance, key trends, and initiatives progress. Today, we are a leading worldwide storefront provider with over 1300 corporate locations in three countries and another 1000 plus locations in more than 20 countries operated by our strategic affiliates. Through these storefronts, we deliver very products and services that we believe met our customers’ needs for immediate cash. The difference today in going forward is that we are growing other channels to complement that storefront business and provide the service and convenience that the customers demanding. For example, in the United States, we are now selling and lending online in very material ways. In Mexico, we are buying, selling, and lending declines home, place of work, and our own convenient stores and offices to Empeño Fácil and Crediamigo. In the United Kingdom, we retail and lend in stores and online to our affiliates in Cash Genie. Our intention with these and other similar investments is to position the company in a flexible way to solve our customer’s immediate cash needs in store, in home, online, or any combination. We are customer-driven and our customers will choose the channel, product, and time to meet their needs. This strategic evolution in the company to a multi-channel, multi-service, multi-national provider cost money and takes time, there is no way around it, particularly when you are focused on where the customer’s expectations are headed, now where they have been or are today. We expect to see continued consolidation of our industry and intend to be one of the largest and most diversified providers for decades to come. Over the last several years, we have moved EZCORP significantly forward with more and more revenue and profit coming from these new channels, new geographies, and new what we call, second generation products. Our core business is benefiting us well from these innovations and we expect those benefits to become larger as our revenues outrun our initial investment costs. We intend to continue full speed down the pathway of chosen. We believe that we will deliver on our customer-driven strategy and the customer will choose us first in the marketplace for years to come. And that will drive superior shareholder value over the long-term. And with that, we’ll take questions.