Suman Mookerji
Senior VP, CFO, Controller & Treasurer
Thank you. Well, Ron, appreciate your saving the best for the last, right? I know you guys have been through three days of the conference. But we have an exciting story at Ducommun, and I’m really happy to be able to share that with you. As Ron said, I’ll just quickly go through a few slides so that for those of you who are new to the story, you have an overview of the company and what we do and what, kind of, the key investment thesis is for the business.
So our disclosures. For those of you that don’t know, we are the longest operating company in California. We’ve been in business for 176 years. We started back in 1849, even before the state of California was formed. We did a bunch of things. We weren’t in commercial aerospace then, of course, but got into that in the 1920s and ’30s supplying metals into the industry as it was really born at that time.
And then we moved out of being a distributor of metals in the ’80s and started getting into both aerostructures and into various other components for the aerospace industry through the ’90s and 2000s through a series of acquisitions. In 2017 is when the current management team came on board. So Steve Oswald, who’s our Chairman, President, and CEO, came on board then, and we embarked on a new journey then.
It was kind of a sleepy small cap company prior to that, viewed
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