Sep 09, 2021 / 02:00PM GMT
Daniel Louis Leonard - Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division - Senior Analyst
Great. Well, welcome, everybody, to the Charles River Labs fireside chat. With us today, we have David Smith, CFO. If you have questions, please e-mail them to me at [email protected] or use the question tab in your conference portal.
Questions and Answers:
Daniel Louis Leonard - Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division - Senior AnalystSo with that, let's kick things off. Well, welcome, David. And the first question is the typical question. Can you offer us an update on the business environment? How things are trending compared to the conditions you contemplated in your upsized revenue guidance for 2021?
David Ross Smith - Charles River Laboratories International, Inc. - Corporate Executive VP & CFO
Yes, sure. So the latest guidance we gave was 13% to 15% organic sales growth, which is actually up from the 9% to 11% that we started the year with. And even when you back out COVID, we're nicely into double