| Brief Excerpt: | ...Unidentified Participant Joining us now is Amin Khoury, CEO, and Tom McCaffrey, CFO of BE Aerospace. Guys, thanks a lot for taking the time. Amin, maybe just have you kick off with a quick introduction to the Company, where you've come over the past decade -- a lot has happened -- and where we are today. Amin Khoury - BE Aerospace, Inc. - Chairman and CEO Maybe a few minutes of history is not a bad thing. I founded the Company 22 years ago in 1987, and in the initial phase, through the late '90s, I would say, the Company was really in an acquisition mode. We were acquiring and rolling up businesses that manufactured seating for aircraft passenger cabins or ovens or coffeemakers or water boilers or chillers or lighting products, various things for furnishing the passenger cabins of both commercial airliners and business jets. And in 2001, we made an acquisition of a company in the distribution business, basically a company distributing seals and bearings and hardware and so forth to our...
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