Jun 05, 2019 / 12:30PM GMT
Unidentified Analyst -
Hi, good morning. Sorry for the delay. Get ourselves rolling here in the second session. Anyways, good morning. Here at Jefferies Healthcare Conference. Appreciate your attendance and support. Our next company presenting is Charles River Laboratories. Here with me to participate in our fireside chat is David Smith, the company's Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.
Questions and Answers:
Unidentified Analyst -So David, I'm going to start, kind of like I always start -- like to start at the top line and the income statement, talk about demand a little bit. Can you -- we've heard the management, yourself and Jim Foster, the CEO, talk about the strength of the demand environment. Could you kind of put some color around that and maybe walk us through demand, in general, and how it varies, if at all, across the 3 segments?
David Ross Smith - Charles River Laboratories International, Inc. - Corporate Executive VP & CFO
So the demand is extremely good at the moment, which is characterized