ACCO Brands Corporation (ACCO) CEO Boris Elisman on Q2 2019 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

ACCO Brands Corporation (NYSE:ACCO) Q2 2019 Results Earnings Conference Call July 31, 2019 8:30 AM ET

Company Participants

Christine Hanneman - Senior Director, IR
Boris Elisman - Chairman, President & CEO
Neal Fenwick - EVP & CFO

Conference Call Participants

William Chappell - SunTrust
Bradley Thomas - KeyBanc Capital Markets
Christopher McGinnis - Sidoti & Company
Kevin Steinke - Barrington Research
Hamed Khorsand - BWS Financial
Hale Holden - Barclays
Karru Martinson - Jefferies
Joe Gomes - NOBLE Capital

Operator

Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Second Quarter 2019 ACCO Brands Corporation Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this call is being recorded.

I would now like to introduce your host for today's conference, Christine Hanneman, Senior Director of Investor Relations. You may begin.

Christine Hanneman

Good morning, this is Kristine Heinemann, Senior Director of Investor Relations. Welcome to ACCO Brands second quarter 2019 conference call. Speaking on the call today are Boris Elisman, Chairman, President and Chief Executive officer of ACCO Brands Corporation; and Neal Fenwick, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

Slides that accompany this call have been posted to the Investor Relations section of accobrands.com. When speaking about quarterly results, we may refer to adjusted results. Adjusted results exclude transaction, integration and restructuring costs, and reflect an adjusted tax rate.

Schedules of adjusted results and other non-GAAP financial measures and a reconciliation of these measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures are in today’s earnings release and the slides that accompany this call. Due to the inherent difficulty in forecasting and quantifying certain amounts, we do not reconcile our forward-looking adjusted earnings per share, free cash flow, net leverage ratio or adjusted tax rate guidance.

Forward-looking statements made during the call are based on certain risks and uncertainties and our