Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing-by. Welcome to Suburban Propane Partners LP Fiscal 2018 Full Year Conference Call. At this time, all participant lines are in a listen-only mode. Later there will be an opportunity for your questions and instructions will be given at that time. As a reminder, today's conference call is being recorded. I'd now like to start the conference off with the Safe Harbor statement. This conference call contains forward looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as amended, relating to the Partnership's future business expectations and predictions and financial condition and results of operations. These forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties. The partnership has listed some of the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed in such forward-looking statements, which are referred to as cautionary statements in its earnings press release, which can be viewed on the Company's website. All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to the partnership or persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in the entirety by such cautionary statements. And with that, I'd like to turn the conference over to the Vice President and Treasurer, Davin D'Ambrosio. Please go ahead.

Thank you, Lea, and good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us this morning for our fourth quarter and fiscal 2018 full year earnings conference call. Joining me this morning are Mike Stivala, our President and Chief Executive Officer; Mike Kuglin, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer; and Steve Boyd, our Chief Operating Officer. This morning we will review our fourth quarter and fiscal 2018 full year financial results, along with our current outlook for our business. As usual, once we've concluded our prepared remarks, we will open the session to questions. Our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 29, 2018 which contains additional disclosure regarding forward-looking statements and risk factors will be filed this this Wednesday, November 21. Copies may be obtained by contacting the Partnership or the SEC. Certain non-GAAP measures will be discussed on this call. We have provided a description of those measures, as well as a discussion of why we believe this information to be useful, in our Form 8-K which was furnished to the SEC this morning. The Form 8-K is available through a link in our Investor Relations section of our website at suburbanpropane.com. At this point, I'd like to turn the call over to Mike Stivala for some opening remarks. Mike.

Great. Thanks Davin and thank you all for joining us this morning. Well, coming off back to back record warm winters in fiscal year 2016 and 2017, it was great to see operation challenged by a more seasonable weather pattern this past year. Coming into fiscal 2018 we had adapted our business plans to meet customer demand expectations under a weather pattern more reflective of the 10-year average heating degree days, which is roughly 7% warmer than the traditional 30-year average. We had also set ourselves on a path to restore our balance sheet strength to best position our business for long-term profitable growth. I'm extremely pleased to report that fiscal 2018 was a very successful year for Suburban Propane. Customer demand was in line with our expectations. Our operations personnel did an outstanding job managing margins and expenses. We reported a significant improvement in earnings and cash flows, and we put the excess cash flow to work investing in strategic growth opportunities and reducing debt. For the year, adjusted EBITDA of $283 million was $40 million or 16.5% ahead of the prior year. As a result, our financial metrics continued to get stronger. Our consolidated leverage ratio was 4.36 times at the end of fiscal 2018 and that's down from 5.14 times at last year and trending towards our target range of below 4 times. Our distribution coverage was above $1.3 times for the year. We also invested about $15 million to acquire two propane businesses in strategic markets in California and Florida, and expanded our delivery radius by investing in several new market expansions. So, we made significant strides towards our stated goals and are very well positioned heading into fiscal 2019. A little later, I will provide some closing remarks. However at this point, I'll turn it over to Mike Kuglin to discuss our full year and fourth quarter results in more detail. Mike?

Thanks Mike and good morning everyone. I'll start by focusing on our full year results and give little color on the fourth quarter in my remarks. I'd also like to point out that fiscal 2018 included the typical 52 weeks operations compared to the 53 weeks in the prior year. While the extra week of operations at fiscal 2017 had a positive impact on vines and margins, the bottom-line effect was not material to the fiscal year, but did have somewhat of an impact on Q4 activities. To be consistent with previous reporting, I'm excluding the impact of unrealized non-cash mark-to-market adjustments on derivative instruments used in risk management activities, which resulted in an unrealized gain of $300,000 for fiscal 2018, compared to unrealized gain of $6.3 million in the prior year. Additionally, fiscal 2018 include a loss of $4.8 million on the sale of certain assets and operations in non-strategic market in the propane segment. Net income and EBITDA for the prior year included a $6.1 million pension settlement charge and the loss of debt extinguishment of $1.6 million. Excluding these items, net income for fiscal 2018 improved by $41.7 million, or $0.67 per common unit compared to the prior year. Adjusted EBITDA for fiscal 2018 amounted to $283 million, an increase of $40 million or 16.5% compared to the prior year. Our results for the year benefited from higher volume sold, solid margin management and ongoing focus on achieving operating efficiencies and cost savings. In fact, we met the higher customer demand with just a modest increase in total expenses. Retail propane gallons sold in fiscal 2018 were 440 million gallons, an increase of 19.2 million gallons or 4.6% compared to the prior year. Sales of fuel oil and other refined fuels of 31 million gallons were essentially…

Great, thanks, Mike. As announced in our October 25th press release, our Board of Supervisors declared our quarterly distribution of $0.60 per common unit in respect of the fourth quarter of fiscal 2018, which equates to an annualized rate of 2.40 per common unit. That quarterly distribution was paid on November 13 to our unit holders of record as of November 6. In closing, let me reiterate that fiscal 2018 was a great year for Suburban Propane. We are very proud of how we have navigated our business through three very different weather scenarios over the past three fiscal years and how we are continuing to adapt our business plans, both operationally and from a financial perspective to the weather driven demand circumstances, all the while maintaining our focus on delivering outstanding service to the communities we serve and executing on our customer base growth and retention initiatives in support of our long-term growth plans. We have made excellent progress on restoring our balance sheet strength and have great momentum coming into a new heating season in fiscal 2019. Finally, I'm extremely proud of the more than 3,200 employees of Suburban Propane carrying out their commitment to outstanding service to our customers, executing on our growth plans and supporting the communities in which they live and work. In particular, I want to acknowledge the efforts of our customer service teams in the Southeast for their outstanding performance, preparing for and in the aftermath of the two devastating hurricanes that hit that region and our operations in California that have dealt with so many wildfires this year. Our thoughts and prayers are with the communities affected. And as always, we appreciate your support and attention this morning. I would now like to open the call to questions. Lea, would you help them with that.

And after allowing a few moments, we have no questions. You may continue.

Well great. I hope everybody has terrific holiday season. We look forward to speaking with you again in early February after we have a chance see to how the heating season is beginning to shape up. And thank you Lea, for your assistance today. And thank you all.

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