Terrence Moorehead
Analyst
Thank you, Nate, and good afternoon, everyone. And thank you for joining us for today’s call. Our Chief Financial Officer, Joe Baty, is unable to join us today. So I have with me our Corporate Controller, Jon Lanoy. It’s my pleasure to join you today for my first quarterly conference call as Chief Executive Officer. I’ve only had a few weeks on the ground, but my initial priorities have focused on understanding the business, our people, the processes and capabilities, all of which have made Nature’s Sunshine a great company for the last 45 years. There’s a lot to absorb, and we’ve developed a very rigorous onboarding progress – process to help move things forward. And from there, we’ll shift gears to focus on building a strong team, creating a strategic roadmap, ensuring up our operational discipline in an effort to drive growth, improve profitability and enhance shareholder value. So I look forward to sharing our progress with you over the coming quarters. Let me begin today with a brief overview of our third quarter results, and then I’ll turn the call over to Jon to walk you through the results in greater detail. For the third quarter, we reported a modest decline in net sales of 0.4% on a local currency basis and earnings per share of $0.08 per diluted share. Our sales performance continues to reflect strong growth in Synergy Asia Pacific, NSP Russia, Central and Eastern Europe and China. This growth was offset by declines in NSP America and in Synergy in Europe and America. Strong sales momentum in South Korea, which increased 27% during the third quarter, continues to drive Synergy Asia Pacific. In China, the third quarter growth of 19% is compared with our initial launch, following the receipt of our business license and the significant ramp-up of our business a year ago. We continue to be optimistic about our long-term growth opportunities in China, and I recently returned from the market where I was able to see our operations and meet our local team. As I mentioned, there’s still tremendous potential in that market. Net sales in NSP Americas remain below prior year, and the team is still in the process of strengthening our positioning in that market. There has been a lot of effort in this much more mature segment of the company over the last year to improve customer service and engage our distributor base, and we look for additional opportunities to strengthen our business in the U.S. and across the Americas. Now let me turn the call over to Jon to walk you through our results in greater detail. Jon?