Q2 2021 Krispy Kreme Inc Earnings Call

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Thank you for standing by and welcome to Krispy Kreme second quarter 2021 earnings Conference call. At this time all participants are in a listen only mode. After the speaker presentation. There will be a question and answer session to ask a question. During the session you will need to press star one on your Touchtone telephone please be advised that.

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Thank you operator good morning.

And welcome to Chris between Q2 2021 earnings call. Thank you for joining us today.

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<unk> prepared remarks, CEO, Mike <unk>, CFO and C O O, Josh Charlesworth, and Chief Accounting Officer, Joey Prewitt, well take your questions and now Mike will provide an update on crystal claims business.

Welcome everyone and thank you for joining today's call.

We're excited to share our progress for the second quarter of 2021.

Which was the first in a return to the public market.

And one of the strongest quarters in our 84 year history.

Q2s results demonstrate the effectiveness of our global transformation and our continued progress towards becoming the most luxury <unk> brand in the world.

Our business is strong healthy and expanding <unk>.

Direct result of the foundational work, we've done to set our omnichannel strategy and deploy our hub and spoke model.

We believe that our sustained growth in Q2 shows the resilience of our approach as well as the ability.

The ability to adapt to evolving operating environment.

Over our five year transformation journey.

This be cream has evolved into a truly global business with significant growth opportunities still to come.

We've made investments and now own and operate our businesses in the UK and Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand Mexico.

And the recently acquired business in Japan.

With partners executing the Omnichannel strategy in the remaining international markets.

The success of Krispy Kreme brand in our Omnichannel strategy around the world highlights the global opportunity ahead.

We're in early days of our international growth story, and we plan to both grow and our current geographic base and expand into new markets.

Our focus on driving a high quality doughnut experience, while growing our brand around innovation and celebratory occasion has taught us how to build a successful global business enabling.

Enabling us to drive faster growth and stronger performance.

In addition to our global story, we see significant growth in the U S, where we now control 48 of the 50 top markets. We continue to build our omni channel approach.

This quarter that approach in all our core markets allowed us to grow net revenue, 43% to $349 million year over year.

Organic revenue grew positive, 23%, which represents one of the best quarters on record.

We believe that organic growth is a fundamental indicator of the health of our business.

To put this in perspective on a two year stacked basis, our organic revenues have grown 16% since 2019.

Concerning the strength of our performance compared to pre COVID-19 results make no mistake.

This growth is due to the success of our Omnichannel strategy and our increasing ability to reach customers wherever they are located.

As we further implement our hub and spoke model, we see material gains and profitability most notably our adjusted EBITDA grew 78% in Q2 to $52.4 million and our adjusted net income grew 254% to $20.25 million.

Jos will help unpack these numbers in more detail as we explain what is driving our results on an operational and segment level.

It is important to note that this growth was ultimately driven by fundamental improvements in the business.

As we are now lapping the impact of COVID-19 in many of our key markets.

When we set out our transformation journey, we focused on three primary growth levers to drive our expansion, we believe together they drive sustainable value creation and set us on a path to becoming the most luxury <unk> brand in the world. These growth levers our first.

Increasing purchase frequency by giving consumers more reason to buy our <unk> through new platforms and channels.

Increasing availability by providing consumers with more convenient ways to buyers to retreat.

Third increasing profitability by implementing a hub and spoke business model that allows us to efficiently supply our expanding points of access with high quality Sweet treats.

Explain those in a bit more detail.

First.

Increasing purchase frequency.

When a consumer chooses to indulge in a sweet treat we want them to choose krispy kreme or insomnia cookies.

Building out our e-commerce capability as a primary means for driving frequency and in the first half of the year.

19% of our global retail sales were from ecommerce.

The proportion we expect to keep growing.

The power of E Commerce is clear.

In the full year 2020, 82% of U S e-commerce delivery transactions, where incremental sales and E. Commerce transaction values have increase as we expand our offerings into new areas like catering gifting and dark kitchen expansion.

We've also increased purchase frequency through product innovation.

By constantly evolving our core offering and regularly introducing new products, we provide customers with more reasons to choose Christopher cream more often.

Our occasions based innovation, which focuses on holiday and major celebratory moments.

Creates a steady drumbeat of reason for consumers to purchase donuts and shareable formats of a dozen or more.

Our brand.

Powered by highly efficient marketing that keeps krispy kreme top of mind by heavily heavily leveraging social media, we can increase our cultural relevance and keep emotionally connected to consumers at low cost.

In addition, a formal marketing activities.

We also engage our passionate consumers through memorable cultural and community Shareable moments.

Our acts of Joy.

Which few love for our brand year to date, we have generated more than $16.3 billion media impressions largely driven by the success of our vaccine program and innovative product rollouts.

Our second driver expanding availability is focused on building new ways for consumers to access our sweet treats.

Notably immediately after our Q2 close and for the first time ever 100% of our Donuts served in the U S and Canada were delivered fresh no matter, where they were purchased.

Creating more ways for consumers to engage with Krispy kreme is fundamental to our growth story, whether they access through our shops E. Commerce are delivered fresh daily cabinets are branded sweet treat line.

In the first half of 2021, we added 1300, new global points of access.

The majority in the form of new DSD doors, as we complete the transformation of that business in the U S and Canada.

We remain committed to expanding consumer access to our sweet treats for consumers and we plan to add approximately 800 to 1000 points of access per year globally, as we continue to execute our transformation.

Further since we launched our branded sweet treat line last year and 4700 Walmart stores. We have expanded this consumer packaged good offering to several new U S retailers, including Albertsons one of the largest grocery chains in America with multiple banners.

While early in its evolution, we believe the sweet treat line is scalable and will allow us to push towards wide distribution through grocery stores and convenience stores.

Our third growth driver is increasing profitability.

Over the past two years, we have strategically acquired franchisees, allowing us to take control of operations and drive efficiencies.

As of the end of Q2, we can tell and operate 85% of the system in the U S and Canada and 73% globally.

To continue driving margins and profitability, we are expanding our hub and spoke manufacturing and distribution model.

Which enables us to efficiently execute our omni channel strategy, while increasing operating leverage and improving our bottom line.

And deploying our hub and spoke model may invest in a limited set of fresh donuts manufacturing hubs, primarily our hotline theater shops.

And use those hubs to supply additional points of access.

Each new point of access within the hub and spoke network Leverages, an investment already made in our manufacturing hub, increasing efficiencies as new spokes or added.

We believe that this model is vital to continued profitability and margin growth and you can see this demonstrated clearly in the Q2 performance of our international segment, where the hub and spoke model is more mature.

In the near term, we expect a further deploying our hub and spoke model in the U S. We'll incur some additional costs in the form of labor and training and route expansion costs, which we view as investments in considerable growth to come.

Finally, I must highlight that insomnia cookies was a key component of our outstanding Q2 growth.

A proven winner and has clearly grown beyond its college campus origins.

The second quarter saw insomnia continue to deliver and digital innovation, new product development and operations excellence, including the opening of the 200 Cookie shop in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

Overall.

Our Omnichannel strategy is working and our global expansion continues to capture more and more of a worldwide market opportunity. We are implementing our hub and spoke model globally and are seeing significant growth and increasing profitability as a result with that I'll turn it over to John for a deeper dive into our performance and some operational developments.

In the second quarter.

Okay.

Thanks, Mike and Hello, everyone.

As Mike said, we are pleased to report an excellent Q2 with net revenue growth of 43% organic revenue growth of 23% and adjusted EBITDA growth of 78%.

Although our operations in several markets were impacted by Covid last year. Our strong performance. This quarter also reflects the underlying strength of our omnichannel business with revenue growth of 50% and adjusted EBITDA growth of 65% when compared to Q2 2019.

The difference between the quarters, 43% revenue growth and 23% organic sales growth is explained mostly by franchisee acquisitions made in the last 12 months. These.

These include Japan, which we successfully integrated in December 2020, as well as franchisees in 12 U S cities, including San Francisco, and Miami, which we acquired in Q1.

We make no franchisee acquisitions in Q2.

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All our business segments saw positive organic growth in the quarter with the international segment comprised of our fully owned and operated businesses in the UK, and Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, and Mexico, leading the way with 126% growth.

At the height of Covid restrictions last year, approximately 30% of our shops around the world closed.

However demand for our sweet treats remains strong and we were able to quickly we open in the back half of 2020.

While we are lapping the effects of Covid explains much of the international segment's Q2 growth. We are very pleased to see that these businesses, where our signature hub and spoke operating model is most mature have come back stronger than ever.

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You can auto market, which makes the majority of its sales outside the brick and mortar doughnut charts delivered Q2 net revenue growth of 37% versus 2019.

Points of access to fresh donuts have increased by over 40% in the last 12 months in the UK and Ireland, driven mostly by additional delivered French daily doors at leading National supermarket, Tesco Sainsbury Sonesta.

UK and Ireland spokes to hub announced 70 full and sales per hub of $7.6 million.

Explaining why the UK achieved EBITDA margin in excess of 30% in Q2.

The International segment helped drive overall consolidated adjusted EBITDA margin up 300 basis points versus last year to 14, 7% year to date.

Higher than we expected at this point in the year.

Looking to the consolidated P&L product and distribution costs declined 380 basis points makes mostly due to the international segment's rebound. We are also lapping startup expenses incurred in launching the U S branded sweet treats business last year.

We do see significant commodity cost pressure, particularly from edible oils. However in Q2, we continued to benefit from full contracts insulating us from this effect.

Moving forward, we will use pricing to compensate for this headwind.

Operating expenses Rose 270 basis points, largely due to the acquisition and conversion of franchisees, which at their operating cost to our P&L.

Our existing control businesses saw some increased costs with occupancy lease expenses rising on the exploration of temporary savings arrangements negotiated with landlords during the height of Covid.

We also saw U S cost rise as we invest in deploying the hub and spoke system that.

SG&A rose 50 basis points inflated by IPO related expenses of $6.7 million. Excluding these we haven't seen a 140 basis point reduction in SG&A, reflecting the benefits of scale from our revenue growth.

On the bottom line, we saw a 15 million GAAP net loss.

Driven by multiple one time items, including interest related to our short term dividend recap loans and related party interest.

One time income tax adjustments, such as nondeductible public company executive compensation, and the announced corporate tax rate increase in the UK without these one time items GAAP net income would be positive.

Adjusted net income, which also adds back stock based comp acquisition amortization and other non recurring expenses was up to $25 million.

Before reviewing the performance of our business segments individually I wanted to update you on our consolidated net debt and leverage position as we've made a few significant cash and debt movements early in Q3.

These include the proceeds from our IPO and the repayment of a $500 million.

As of August eight we have $118.7 million of cash and net debt of $646 million.

Now with all IPO related transaction is complete.

Total net leverage stands at three six times using our Q2 trailing adjusted EBITDA, which is in line with our expectation going into the IPO process.

Turning to our results at the segment level in the U S and Canada, where our deployment of the hub and spoke model is ongoing we delivered our eighth consecutive quarter of positive organic sales growth.

Net revenue grew in line with expectations rising, 25% to $231 million from $184 million the previous year on a combination of franchisee acquisitions and organic growth of three 9%.

In turn driven by delivered fresh daily Donuts sold in grocery and convenience stores are new branded sweet treats line and insomnia cookies.

Notably the segments to your organic growth stack is now 14, 3% with sales proving resilient last year. Despite COVID-19.

DFT does not exceed <unk> thousand compared to just 2000 in Q2 2020. We have also seen average weekly sales per door increased more than 30% over this time, reflecting the success of our transition to any fresh donuts at a price consistent with menus at <unk> shops.

Excluding the impact of exiting our legacy wholesale business the U S and Canada segment would've recognized organic sales growth of nearly 19%.

Highlighting the underlying performance of the business and bolstering our confidence in organic growth acceleration for the segment going forward.

Looking to profitability U S and Canada, adjusted EBITDA grew to $28 million from $27.6 million the previous year with DFT efficiencies, improving New York traffic and insomnia cookies, all contributing to the bottom line.

U S and Canada EBITDA margin this quarter was 12, 2% in line with the prior quarter's 12, 4%.

This result reflects both efficiencies from implementing a hub and spoke model and the fact that we are still early in its deployment in the segment.

We continue to invest in the new operating model, we hired more crispy cream is than ever before this past quarter as we integrated newly acquired shops.

Added hub-and-spoke routes are.

I made the transition to DFT in major markets, including Dallas, Houston and San Francisco.

A temporary increase in training costs and associated overtime.

Increased wage inflation pressures are impacting short term margin growth. However, however, we expect to mitigate these increases as well as commodity inflation with a price increase in September.

We are aware that compared to Q2 2020, EBITDA margin has declined from that quarter's $15 zero percent.

That was the highest the company has seen in recent years and is partly explained by a reduction in labor costs at the time as sales shifted to pick up and drive through while our shop lobbies were closed in the face of Covid safety measures.

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Turning to our CPG offering a branded sweet treats line gained momentum in the quarter as we brought to market three new varieties small bites keelan coolers and chocolate crews.

The range is expanding.

With our launch customer Walmart undertaking a shelf reset to give us more space and Albertsons one of the largest grocery chains in the U S, becoming our second largest customer.

Today. The line is already available at approximately 6300 locations across the U S across 17 different retailers.

To feed our branded sweet treats expansion, we undertook during Q2 and investment in three new production lines across our factory network, which will increase capacity by over 200%.

By leveraging existing infrastructure.

We will require less than $2 million in capital investments to do so.

We expect branded sweet treats to be profitable by the end of 2021 and overall in the U S and Canada, we expect to see branded Sweet treats the New York market and the whole system at launch to see margin improvements over time as we continue to deploy the hub and spoke model.

Moving to the international segment.

We grew net revenue, 159% to $89 million from $34 million. The prior year with organic revenue growth of 126% year over year, driven by increased foot traffic and in shop dining.

Following the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions.

We grew international points of access by 600 versus the same quarter last year.

In this segment to 28% organic growth versus Q2, 2019, and demonstrating the strength of the Omnichannel strategy.

In addition E Commerce is now well established in the segment, representing 15% of Q2 retail sales.

Looking to profitability International's Q2, adjusted EBITDA grew to $24 million from $1.6 million.

Driven by strong revenue growth and Covid recovery.

Profitability continued to benefit from the robustness of our hub and spoke model, which is most mature in this segment.

Overall international markets rebounded to match or exceed their performance prior to the pandemic and we expect this segment to continue to contribute to strong EBITDA performance in the future.

Now turning to the market development segment.

Net revenue grew to $29 million from $26 million year over year with 17% organic growth driven by.

Overseas franchise markets.

Despite continued COVID-19 restrictions in certain segment markets, we continued to see growth with revenue exceeding pre pandemic levels. Further we saw the addition of 92 new points of access across the segment as well as strong E Commerce performance.

And our newly acquired Japan business E Commerce, and our recently launched DSD program continued to drive growth.

Even despite government and post state of emergency measures.

Overall performance in this segment resulted in market developments, adjusted EBITDA growing to $10 million from $8 million, representing 25% year on year growth.

Looking forward, we expect the segment to continue to deliver strong organic growth as we have more points of access the world across the world, including our upcoming new market entry in Egypt.

As Mike explained a hub and spoke operating model is key to the execution of our Omnichannel strategy.

And as referred to earlier when discussing the UK and Ireland, we track three metrics to measure progress in the implementation of the hub and spoke model.

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Spokes per hub and.

And sales per hub and spokes.

As of the end of Q2, we have 9575 points of access.

And the 70% gain over this time last year.

These points of access include 7849, DFT does with 5067 in the U S and Canada 2264 in the international segment and 519 in market development.

This represents a global net increase of one to 261 doors from the end of 2020.

Year to date, we have added 930 DFT doors in the U S with the largest gains in Dallas, Chicago and Houston.

And brick and mortar we now have 1726, Krispy kreme and Sony cookies branded shops and increase of 39 since the beginning of the year.

We see significant white space opportunity to continue to grow up points of access with the potential to add more than 2900 points of access within the U S and Canada segment and an additional 2800 points of access in the international segment.

700 of these rest in the top U S markets, which are New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, San Francisco, Houston, Washington, DC, Atlanta and Boston.

We expand into these white spaces, we are aiming for an annual global development goal of 800 to 1000 new points of access.

Looking to hubs as of Q2, we have 413 production facilities around the world an increase of five since this quarter last year.

Our strategy is to selectively add around 10, new production hub for yet.

Much of our focus is on leveraging capacity at our existing hubs by adding new points of access to that and we have increased the number of hubs with folks in the U S and Canada segment to 114 from 88, one year ago.

Mostly by converting legacy Hotlines daily shops.

With the additional points of access we have increased average folks per hub in the U S and Canada segment to <unk> 45 from 37% and in the International segment to 71 from 65% since the end of 2020.

International's higher average reflects the high proportion of off premise DSD sales in that segment.

International's trailing 12 month sales per hub reached $8 million in Q2 up from $6.4 million in the full year 2020.

In the U S and Canada segment average sales per hub reached $3.6 million up from $3 <unk> and the full year of 2020 and up from $3.2 million at the beginning of our transformation in 2019.

Turning to our expectations for the rest of the year and beyond based on the great progress through the first half of the year. We are confident in our ability to continue our momentum and deliver strong growth in 2021.

Effectiveness, we are issuing full year 2021 guidance of net revenue of 134 billion to $1.38 billion.

Growth of 19, 4% to 23% organic revenue growth of 10% to 12%.

Adjusted EBITDA of $178 million to $185 million or.

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Adjusted net income of $62 million to $68 million or growth of 46, 4% to 66%.

Q3, which is typically a seasonally softer quarter is expected to see increased pressure from wage and commodities inflation, especially in the US However, helped by our September price increase we remain confident in our ability to deliver on this full year guidance.

Further looking beyond this year. We're also also issuing our long term outlook for organic revenue growth of 9% to 11% adjusted EBITDA growth of 12% to 14% and adjusted net income growth of 18% to 22% per year.

Without the U S legacy wholesale business to lap in 2022, the current momentum in our business means that we expect to exceed this long term outlook next year.

In addition, we expect total net leverage to be under three in the next 12 months.

In accordance with our dividend policy, we expect to pay an initial cash dividend of $3.05 per share for the quarter ending October three 2021.

Thereafter, we expect to maintain a stable quarterly dividend until we reach our long term net leverage policy.

With this I will now hand, it over to Mike for some closing remarks.

Thank you very much everyone. In summary, we're extremely confident about the long term runway to grow Krispy kreme on our journey to become the most loved <unk> brand in the world.

We are proud of the ongoing transformation in the U S and Canada as well as the outstanding performance in international in the quarter.

Most importantly I.

I want to thank our crispy creamers around the world for their continued hard work and always showing up.

We look forward to connecting with you all again soon and with that I'll hand, it over to the operator as we would be pleased to answer any questions. You may have thank you.

Thank you as a reminder to ask a question. Please press star one on your Touchtone telephone to withdraw your question press the pound key we ask that you. Please restrict yourself to one question. Please standby, while we compile the Q&A roster.

Our first question comes from the line.

John <unk> of <unk>.

J P. Morgan your question. Please alright. Thank you very much. The question is on the U S margins.

Especially relative to international up one I mean, I think the U S margins were a little bit below our expectations certainly.

The question that we're going to ask is when you think we could start to see margin growth again in the U S. You have a specific date in mind could that come in the fourth quarter.

With additional menu pricing that you've discussed and secondly, as part of the IPO closing the gap of margins between the U S and international will obviously be a huge opportunity on the income statement.

What's kind of your head around that thinking about the long term how close can those.

As you know get to do you have and do have a number in mind you have a timeframe in mind. Thank you.

Hey, John Thanks.

Thanks for the questions.

Yes, you are right. The first thing to highlight is that in the international businesses, where we have the mature hub and spoke model, we do drive very high margins and in Q2, we saw even higher margins with the additional points of access that we're able to generate during the COVID-19 disruption.

Implementing the same model in the U S and now we are indeed say seeing the same benefits as particularly as we add delivered fresh daily Donuts, which are now across all our channels in the U S. We're able to leverage the fixed cost back at the production hubs and drive up margins now what we're seeing right now is the.

Change is accelerating.

We're already at.

At the end of Q3 would already be at the end.

Year end goal for DFT doors of 5300, so in effect, what we're seeing is.

The transition moving even faster in the U S and that means we've hired more crispy cream is than ever before we actually hired 1700 people in quarter two alone so with this.

This level of change going accelerating even the transition to hub and spoke we've seen some additional implementation costs you can imagine more training costs more over time as we fill the vacancies.

And hence why the margin as you point out.

A little bit low in the U S, but actually when you exclude the branded Sweet treats line, which is a new business that we opened up last year the entry into New York, which just happened last year and of course, we.

We have reduced traffic is still in the city there.

The most recent acquisitions.

Sure.

Core fresh Donuts business is doing already in the U S over 15% EBITDA margin so.

We do have line of sight, and indeed, many ways greater confidence in our ability to drive.

EBITDA margin improvement towards those international levels now in Q3.

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We are seeing commodity cost pressure coming through a little more.

Wheat on edible oils on sugar markets rule coming strong, hence our decision to take a price increase in September towards the end of the quarter, though so youre right quarter. Four is when we will see in the U S. The benefits.

<unk>, both that price increase and the efficiencies from the hub and spoke model, which as I said is growing faster than even we expected you asked about long term, we don't expect to close the GAAP only.

The way to those international margins.

International businesses well.

The effects of the Greenfield with hub and spoke in mind, whereas in the U S. We have a legacy business that we're transitioning there will be production hubs hotline say the shops that we never add spokes to so there is some inherent inefficiency that we also as I mentioned, bringing on businesses like Brian to Sweet treats.

To become more profit over time, so the transition will be a multi year transition, but we will see 15% EBITDA margins in the U S. In the years to come.

Thank you. Our next question comes from John Glass of Morgan Stanley. Your line is open.

Yes.

Yes, hi.

This is Brian on for John.

I guess I'm, just curious on the international side of the business.

It seems like it was quite strong there curious if there was kind of perhaps more pent up demand and then you expected that drove some of that.

Perhaps in some of the individual countries.

The stronger than your expectations and are there any still lagging and I guess just also on opening new shops.

Are there any kind of puts and takes there any do you think that are that are moving faster than expected or any or there is still seeing some delays due to COVID-19.

Yes.

<unk> taken on your two questions. So our goal is going to be to open up between 25 new hubs.

And the global business right that includes the U S and international.

Youre seeing a focus on the international opening up this week, we actually opened up in Egypt, right, which was a population of $100 million in the city of Cairo and $20 million. So we can see opening up that hub there starts to really show how youre going to get the hub and spoke model working that's one of the goals in terms of international.

<unk> and <unk>.

And Josh alluded to it right. There is this business is starting to recover from Covid.

Starting to open up when you have the omni channel approach and the customer could use the business and where they wanted access but volume.

And the frequency of it as we also additionally, opening up new points of access you can see the improvement there both.

In our core.

In the U K, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, and Mexico as well.

Thank you. Our next question comes from Sergio Matsumoto.

Citi. Your line is open.

Yes.

Hi, good afternoon.

<unk> for your first quarter.

My question is on the September price hike.

If you could.

Give us some color on how what form this will take where the rate will increase so there will be a changing how that mix.

B would improve or maybe a more effective use of the promotions.

Give us some color on that would be great. Thanks.

Hi, Sergio you bet so.

Yes.

We are always pursuing positive mix opportunities.

Because we.

Continuously innovating with specialty donuts.

We tend to price at premium price points.

That is an ongoing part of our strategy.

As a fresh donuts provider, we're always in a position to do that people get excited about the innovations we bring to the marketplace.

More specifically in September what we're talking about is taking up menu prices for our call.

Doughnut business, our core dozens business.

It will vary across the country, depending on local market specifics, we're very thoughtful and targeted.

As to what is the appropriate price point for different regions different cities.

That price increase.

Is intended to cover the commodity inflation that I mentioned also we are seeing wage inflation typical that youre seeing across the industry and actually in line with our expectations. The commodities are a little bit higher.

And hence the need to lean in on pricing in September, but as a fresh one.

Only doughnut business.

Special occasion.

Purchase.

We have.

Plenty of ability to bring that pricing, we know people love.

Dozen donuts.

We have no concern about the ability for that to flow through to the bottom line yes.

One piece, which I think is important which gives you the ability of why we think we have pricing power right because as we started to discontinued the old wholesale program to the DSD program. We really introduced the exact same pricing structure that we actually have in our shops and we saw our customers in those locations actually accept.

It because it's a fresh product right. So as we continue to become.

Merchants and look at those different channels and how pricing can affect.

Each unique channel in its own right, we see the opportunity there is it dozens business. So you have the ability that it's still wants to be accessible alright, so thinking even September with thoughtful about how we think about the business, but you will see we do believe we will see that margin continue to flow through.

Thank you. Our next question comes from David Palmer of Evercore ISI. Your line is open.

Hi.

Any any.

Maybe you could save us millions in terms of EBITDA millions.

How much higher your costs are now versus where they were back in June I know for everybody.

Gone up but versus your own internal targets, how much of the adjusted and what are the biggest buckets of that and I have a quick follow up.

Hi, David.

So I mean, the biggest bucket of increased costs.

On the P&L.

As of course in all operating expenses.

It's.

Driven by the biggest parts of all of our P&L, which which are labor as I mentioned before we are investing in labor in line with the expansion.

The system in the U S. We're investing in labor with the investment.

In the growth across the world.

We have seen that increase in line with the market. We the next biggest area of increase would definitely be on the product side.

And we've seen that grow.

A bigger headwind than we expected.

But that's as much as I can give.

Okay.

With regard to the U S.

There are some markets that are already.

If you if you add back the overhead would be at least high teens, if not 20 <unk> in terms of EBITDA margin.

You've talked about.

Southern California in Atlanta.

When it comes to improving that U S margin.

From the 12% towards 15% plus and maybe we can be greedy and think about getting up towards some of your better markets.

What is your path to getting there is it I mean clearly the.

New York market, improving profitability on a rebound in perhaps rather quickly as that.

New York gets going again, but.

What is it.

You even talked about reinvesting behind the hub and spoke so I want to be realistic about the path to improving this margin and maybe you can walk us through how that will happen.

Sure thing so I mean, the first thing is golf and targets and Youre right. We have aspirations for high margins. The reason I gave some specific details earlier on the U K is because even in the most mature hub and spoke cities. There. We can get we can continuously add more points of access.

And drive even more efficiency. So I mean, the first thing to say is across the whole system, we are looking to leverage.

The Omnichannel model to bring more efficiency I mean, we talk a lot about hubs, where we have spokes and adding DSD leveraging the fixed costs. There, we're definitely doing that but even in hubs without books with E. Commerce now a permanent change a permanent addition to our channels.

We're able to drive efficiency by having those transactions, which are highly incremental on top flow through at higher average transaction values to the bottom line. So it's a system wide effort.

Now there is also a portfolio of cities you're absolutely right. We have some cities where the hub and spoke model is already a little more advanced.

Whether it be somewhere like Atlanta, which just reflects the history.

And the great heritage of the company somewhere like Tampa, where we acquired the franchise, we went from being low single digit margins too.

Low 20% margins in less than 18 months by <unk>.

Improving operations, adding spokes and of course, establishing a full omnichannel business in that area and we will be doing that across the system, we made acquisitions.

End of last year, Dallas and Houston.

Which without spokes with some operating challenges have been loss, making New York, we entered last year.

In the midst of the pandemic, we have a lot of confidence that we are seeing the business strengthen but its still heavily diluted to the system as we wait for the full return of traffic and tourists. So it's a combination of efforts across the board.

And in targeted cities, where we can add particularly deliver fresh daily dose. That's why I talk a lot about the excitement we have right now.

With more DSD doors being added to the U S system than we even expected and looking at that North star of somewhere like the U K with our April <unk>, they've got the critical mass and the maturity of the hub and spoke model to drive extraordinary EBITDA margins, it's very exciting for us to see that but the implementation costs are real.

Hiring people, adding drivers.

Adding routes right now in this tight labor market.

Means that we have to have people working overtime. It means that we're training more people than ever before.

That's what we mean by those implementation costs.

Because it's a big transformation and change and we're in the part of the implementation of that once that settles the new labor management system demand planning systems that we've invested in will really start to help us leverage.

The efficiency in each of those cities, where we are adding these DFT doors right now through the implementation, it's natural that we need to invest to make sure. We're set up for long term profitable growth.

Thank you. Our next question comes from Brian Mullan of Deutsche Bank. Your line is open.

Hey, Thank you just a question on the DSD business in U S and Canada now.

Now over 5000, DSD doors today, it's growing quickly.

The same time, there is something like 150000 grocery and convenience stores across the two countries. So.

Question is when we think about the ultimate long term opportunity for DFT doors.

The relevant number of locations you actually think about internally.

Or might actually consider for cabinet, one day and I ask that understanding that not every single location is going to warrant one one of your cabinets. So just any help on how you think about the long term opportunity.

Directed this is for Mike you directed this is the U S and Canada, Alright, so with 300.

Current theater shops today.

Youre still only going to have a certain amount of route expansion that you have five we think the opportunity in the U S is about another 2800 to 3000 among doors cabinets that are there and its potential as you continue to open up the right hub and spoke so that scarcity matters. So when you're trying to do.

Do a model and Youre looking at 125000 locations.

We won't be in 125000 locations in fact from an ATV perspective, even long term you can see is somewhere in the range of probably being between five and 10% right scarcity is important to krispy kreme it'll be following along the hubs that we continue to build and do that exceptionally well, it's not every grocer and even the growth that we pick it.

Every one of their shops. So it's again that access because that's how you keep the Brian special Thats, how the merchandising and being a merchant really will work through.

Thank you. Our next question comes from Michael <unk> of Goldman Sachs. Your line is open.

Hi, This is Michael on for Jared Garber, just wanted to touch really quickly on the 30% year over year AWS growth average weekly sales growth in the <unk>.

In the <unk> and that was that was really impressive but definitely no far outpacing the organic revenue growth rates and talk a little bit about what maybe drove that maybe are those kind of lower open rates and then they ramp or are you guys, making larger cabinets DFT cabinet.

Versus back then just trying to figure out what was the key driver of that was thanks.

Hi, Yeah. Thanks, Michael So I think two main drivers all point to.

The first is we have.

As part of the transformation and learning from international being really focused on the high quality doors that might reference.

Of course, they need to be local to the donut shops of the doughnuts are fresh.

But they also need to have the right level of traffic and so we've been really thoughtful on those doors and have walked away from those versus past years, where the volume and the traffic doesn't warrant.

Our fresh Donuts cabinet and the second one is the nature of the product and the price point, we are now talking only 100% fresh donuts.

Would you believe it but a year ago.

38% of Donuts in the U S. We're not fresh daily now it's 100% we now sell them always at the same price point as you would get in your local Krispy Kreme doughnuts shelf. So that comparison reflects a combination of better quality doors.

There's less of them than we had in the old legacy wholesale business, but better doors that we will be more profitable than in the first thing that drives that profitability is having the higher price point and that is driving the weekly sales up and we're thrilled to see that across all of our customers.

Yeah.

One piece just to augment with Johnson, our ability to be doing the fresh.

The model for us as a system and that access point when we now start to have the DSD system and having the same donuts.

Donuts maker doesn't even know where the donuts going so that quality really matters and youll be able to get the right pricing structure.

Our customers will now say, it's krispy kreme and if I want a hot experience I can go to a theater or not I would get it to warrants I want it.

Thank you. Our next question comes from Jon Tower of Wells Fargo. Your line is open.

Great. Thanks for taking the question just I am curious to hear what Youre seeing from a competitive response in the Belgian treat category say, the grocery channel or at C stores. As you are rolling the DFT model out to more doors across especially the United States are you seeing really any competitive response.

Those channels specifically.

Yes.

Really specific where it doesn't.

Alright, so it's pretty unique.

Not a lot of direct competition thats doing a fresh dozens business across the U S. In particular as you called out when we focus again the brand tends to focus on occasions, and then make sure that the celebrating celebratory aspect of the brand is coming through so from that aspect we play in.

In a different place of where the consumer is looking at it so not we don't there's a space for the lower price point don't have a.

A lot of the grocery stores do there it's actually two different sets of how the consumers, making a decision.

Thank you. Our next question comes from Todd Brooks of CL, King and Associates. Your line is open.

Hey, Thanks for taking my question, if we could spend a minute on.

Branded sweet treats.

You talked about adding three new lines capacity up dramatically.

Doors up nicely. This year I think you said 6300 and getting to profitability by the end of 2021.

With that capacity that you're adding how do you see that business growing as you get towards the out years of 'twenty, two and 'twenty three.

I know you said you had three new skus to the offering but just if you could kind of qualitatively walk us through what you think Brian Sweet treats becomes for the business 'twenty two into 'twenty, three and how the profit drag mitigates as volumes rise.

Appreciate the question I'll start and then Josh will unpack a bit more so if you think about the business. We just talk about the scarcity value of the French telenet business and Thats really important for us as we build out the hub and spoke model as we launched branded sweet treat we saw that as a.

A different.

Point that the customer is looking for a different occasion and as we build that out we started with Wal Mart.

Opening up to Albertsons and looking at other brands in their banners were going to be very disciplined about this it really does matter how we build this business and while we see it as a really big potential because of the occasions different.

It's not about speed. It's we think about this brand very much as we think about our hotline.

Experience and how we're going to continue to build it and we will be able to match that potential we think its something thats pretty disruptive in the category.

So that from at least a branding perspective it competes against the occasion.

Krispy kreme against itself right, but it's a unique opportunity among new occasion usage different.

From how you see that coming through in our margins in that Justin.

Sure thing, Mike I'll add a couple of data points. So the investment in these production lines.

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A result of conversations with customers, both our launch customer Walmart and other customers in other channels.

And looking out over the next couple of years, what we need to deliver on that and hence I referenced.

Capacity increase of about 200% and Thats in line with how we would expect to incur.

Increase the business out to 2023 effectively.

Up to about a three fold increase in the business.

Which is exciting, but I would still give us probably only around about a 4% share of the enormous.

Sweet.

Snacks cat.

Category.

I do believe that with the strength of the Krispy Kreme brand that Mike talks about that there's room to grow faster than that and beyond that.

But right now we're focused on the product selection that we have adding the new flavors as I mentioned earlier.

And expanding only with the donut lines like snacks.

In terms of profitability you're right yes.

It has as we've been subscale.

And only just now started automating the process being actually a negative on our bottom line.

It will be dilutive.

We think next year is still but it quickly because fundamentally it is a premium priced proposition.

Be in line or even better than the over that timeframe from a margin point of view so.

We're excited to see the development of the business our customer Walmart on new customers are also excited to bring it to the market and so will we.

We'll keep investing behind it appropriately.

Thank you. Our next question comes from Jafar must start.

BNP Paribas your line is open.

Hi, good afternoon.

Just wanted to get an update on more medium term inflation assumptions. If that's okay. I think at the time of the IPO you were saying.

You were budgeting for your wages to increase towards $15 minimum by 2025 correct.

And you're also baking in 1% to 7% annual.

Station on the commodities side, so what what Youre seeing today are those still reasonable.

With just a keeper starts in 'twenty, one or are you budgeting for somebody a bit worse.

The reason for that.

Hi, and.

Thanks for staying with us today, so yes.

The.

Assumptions, you mentioned, which are the long term assumptions.

Are in line with our current expectations as well the IPO not being not long ago, we already could see the IP the wage pressure and to a certain extent the commodity pressure as well.

I must admit the commodity pressure in the short term has just been.

Quite extraordinary.

And so in the very short term, it's a little bit higher than we expected.

But the long term is in line with our expectations and so all our plans.

With the focus on specialty dozens maker.

Making sure that we only ever have.

Deliver fresh daily Donuts with their price point, the mass premium price point of branded Sweet treats and of course, all of our businesses across the world offering fresh doesn't we we know that we can cover those headwinds on cost investing in our crispy creamers, making sure we always have the best.

Quality ingredients and indeed, delivering on the bottom line because.

Where we get the biggest benefit to the bottom line is the hub and spoke efficiencies coming through so these are all things that we are aware of we used to dealing with hence why our immediate decision to go to the September price increase.

And we.

We remain.

Confident in our expectations for 2021, and the long term algorithm as well.

Thank you that does conclude Q&A and today's conference call. Thank you for participating you may now disconnect.

Sure.

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<unk> prepared remarks, CEO, Mike <unk>, CFO and C O O, Josh Charles worth and Chief Accounting Officer, Joey Prewitt, well take your questions and now Mike will provide an update on Chrystie claims business.

Welcome everyone and thank you for joining today's call.

We're excited to share our progress for the second quarter of 2021.

Which was the first in a return to the public market.

And one of the strongest quarters in our 84 year history.

Q2s results demonstrate the effectiveness of our global transformation and our continued progress towards becoming the most loved suite tree brand in the world.

Our business is strong healthy and expanding <unk>.

Direct result of the foundational work, we've done to set our omnichannel strategy and deploy our hub and spoke model. We believe that our sustained growth in Q2 shows the resilience of our approach as well as the.

Ability to adapt to evolving operating environment.

Over our five year transformation journey Krispy Kreme has evolved into a truly global business with significant growth opportunities still to come.

We have made investments and now own and operate our businesses in the UK and Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand Mexico.

And the recently acquired business in Japan with.

With partners executing the Omnichannel strategy in the remaining international markets.

The success of Krispy Kreme brand in our Omnichannel strategy around the world highlights the global opportunity ahead.

We're in early days of our international growth story, and we plan to both growing our current geographic base and expand into new markets.

Our focus on driving a high quality doughnut experience, while growing our brand around innovation and celebratory occasion has taught us how to build a successful global business.

Enabling us to drive faster growth and stronger performance.

In addition to our global story, we see significant growth in the U S, where we now control 48 of the 50 top markets. We continue to build our omni channel approach.

This quarter that approach in all our core markets allowed us to grow net revenue, 43% to $349 million year over year.

Organic revenue grew positive, 23%, which represents one of the best quarters on record.

We believe that organic growth is a fundamental indicator of the health of our business.

To put this in perspective on a two year stacked basis, our organic revenues have grown 16% since 2019.

Demonstrating the strength of our performance compared to pre COVID-19 result make no mistake.

This growth is due to the success of our Omnichannel strategy and our increasing ability to reach customers wherever they are located.

As we further implement our hub and spoke model, we see material gains and profitability most notably our adjusted EBITDA grew 78% in Q2 to $52.4 million and our adjusted net income grew 254% to $20.25 million.

Jos will help unpack these numbers in more detail as we explain what is driving our results at an operational and segment level.

It is important to note that this growth was ultimately driven by fundamental improvements in the business.

As we are now lapping the impact of COVID-19 in many of our key markets.

When we set out our transformation journey, we focused on three primary growth levers to drive our expansion, we believe together they drive sustainable value creation and set us on a path to becoming the most of our <unk> brand in the world. These growth levers our first.

Increasing purchase frequency by giving consumers more reason to buy our <unk> through new platforms and channels.

Increasing availability by providing consumers with more convenient ways to buyers to retreat.

Third increasing profitability by implementing a hub and spoke business model that allows us to efficiently supply our expanding points of access with high quality Sweet treats.

Explain those in a bit more detail.

First.

Increasing purchase frequency.

When a consumer chooses to indulge in a sweet treat we want them to choose krispy kreme or insomnia cookies.

Building out our e-commerce capability as a primary means for driving frequency and in the first half of the year.

19% of our global retail sales were from ecommerce.

The proportion we expect to keep growing.

The power of E Commerce is clear.

In the full year 2020, 82% of USC ecommerce delivery transactions, where incremental sales and E. Commerce transaction values have increase as we expand our offerings into new areas like catering gifting and dark kitchen expansion.

We've also increased purchase frequency through product innovation.

By constantly evolving our core offering and regularly introducing new products, we provide customers with more reasons to choose Christopher cream more often.

Our occasions based innovation, which focuses on holiday and major celebratory moments.

Creates a steady drumbeat of reason for consumers to purchase donuts and shareable formats of a dozen or more.

Our brand.

Powered by highly efficient marketing that keeps krispy kreme top of mind by heavily heavily leveraging social media, we can increase our cultural relevance and keep emotionally connected to consumers at low cost.

In addition, a formal marketing activities.

We also engage our passionate consumers through memorable cultural and community Shareable moments.

Our acts of Joy.

Which few love for our brand year to date, we have generated more than $16.3 billion media impressions largely driven by the success of our vaccine program and innovative product rollouts.

Our second driver expanding availability is focus on building new ways for consumers to access our sweet treats.

Notably immediately after our Q2 close and for the first time ever 100% of our Donuts served in the U S and Canada were delivered fresh no matter, where they were purchased.

Creating more ways for consumers to engage with Krispy kreme is fundamental to our growth story, whether they access through our shops E. Commerce are delivered fresh daily cabinets are branded sweet treat line.

In the first half of 2021, we added 1300, new global points of access.

The majority in the form of new DSD doors, as we complete the transformation of that business in the U S and Canada.

We remain committed to expanding consumer access to our sweet treats for consumers and we plan to add approximately 800 to 1000 points of access per year globally, as we continue to execute our transformation.

Further since we launched our branded sweet treat line last year and 4700 Walmart stores. We have expanded this consumer packaged good offering to several new U S retailers, including Albertsons one of the largest grocery chains in America with multiple banners.

While early in its evolution, we believe the sweet treat line is scalable and will allow us to push towards wide distribution through grocery stores and convenience stores.

Our third growth driver is increasing profitability.

Over the past two years, we have strategically acquired franchisees, allowing us to take control of operations and drive efficiencies.

At the end of Q2, we can tell and operate 85% of the system in the U S and Canada and 73% globally.

To continue driving margins and profitability, we are expanding our hub and spoke manufacturing and distribution model.

Which enables us to efficiently execute our omni channel strategy, while increasing operating leverage and improving our bottom line.

And deploying our hub and spoke model may invest in aluminum set of fresh donuts manufacturing hubs, primarily our hotline theater shops.

And use those hubs to supply additional points of access.

Each new point of access within the hub and spoke network Leverages and investments already made in our manufacturing hub, increasing efficiencies as new spokes or added.

We believe that this model is vital to continued profitability and margin growth and you can see this demonstrated clearly in the Q2 performance of our international segment, where the hub and spoke model is more mature.

In the near term, we expect a further deploying our hub and spoke model in the U S. We'll incur some additional costs in the form of labor and training and route expansion costs, which we view as investments in considerable growth to come.

Finally, I must highlight that insomnia cookies was a key component of our outstanding Q2 growth a proven winner and has clearly grown beyond its college campus origins.

The second quarter saw insomnia continue to deliver and digital innovation, new product development and operations excellence, including the opening of the 200 Cookie shop in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

Overall.

Our Omnichannel strategy is working and our global expansion continues to capture more and more of a worldwide market opportunity. We are implementing our hub and spoke model globally and are seeing significant growth and increasing profitability as a result with that I'll turn it over to John for a deeper dive into our performance and some operational development.

In the second quarter.

Thanks, Mike and Hello, everyone.

As Mike said, we are pleased to report an excellent Q2 with net revenue growth of 43% organic revenue growth of 23% and adjusted EBITDA growth of 78%.

Our operations in several markets were impacted by Covid last year, our strong performance. This quarter also reflects the underlying strength of our omnichannel business with revenue growth of 50% and adjusted EBITDA growth of 65% when compared to Q2 2019.

The difference between the quarters, 43% revenue growth and 23% organic sales growth is explained mostly by franchisee acquisitions made in the last 12 months. These.

These include Japan, which we successfully integrated in December 2020, as well as franchisees in 12 U S cities, including San Francisco, and Miami, which we acquired in Q1.

We make no franchisee acquisitions in Q2.

All our business segments saw positive organic growth in the quarter with the international segment comprised of our fully owned and operated businesses in the UK and Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and Mexico, leading the way with 126% growth.

At the height of Covid restrictions last year, approximately 30% of our shops around the world closed.

Demand for our Sweet treats remains strong and we were able to quickly reopen in the back half of 2020.

While we are lapping the effects of Covid explains much of the international segment's Q2 growth. We are very pleased to see that these businesses, where our signature hub and spoke operating model is most mature have come back stronger than ever.

For example, the <unk>.

You can either market, which makes the majority of its sales outside the brick and mortar doughnut charts delivered Q2 net revenue growth of 37% versus 2019.

Points of access to fresh donuts have increased by over 40% in the last 12 months in the UK and Ireland, driven mostly by additional deliver French daily dose at leading national supermarket, Tesco Sainsbury Sonesta.

UK and Ireland spokes to hub I'll, now 74, and sales per hub of $7.6 million <unk>.

Explaining why the UK achieved EBITDA margin in excess of 30% in Q2.

The International segment helped drive overall consolidated adjusted EBITDA margin up 300 basis points versus last year to 14, 7% year to date.

Higher than we expected at this point in the year.

Looking to the consolidated P&L product and distribution costs declined 380 basis points makes mostly due to the international segment's rebound well.

Also lapping startup expenses incurred in launching the U S branded sweet treats business last year.

We do see significant commodity cost pressure, particularly from edible oils. However in Q2, we continued to benefit from full contracts insulating us from this effect.

Moving forward, we will use pricing to compensate for this headwind.

Operating expenses Rose 270 basis points, largely due to the acquisition and conversion of franchisees, which at their operating cost to our P&L.

Our existing control businesses saw some increased costs with occupancy lease expenses rising on the expiration of temporary savings arrangements negotiated with landlords during the height of Covid.

We also saw U S cost rise as we invest in deploying the hub and spoke system that.

SG&A rose 50 basis points inflated by IPO related expenses of $6.7 million. Excluding these we haven't seen a 140 basis point reduction in SG&A, reflecting the benefits of scale from our revenue growth.

On the bottom line, we saw a 15 million GAAP net loss.

Driven by multiple one time items, including interest related to our short term dividend recap loans and related party interest.

One time income tax adjustments, such as nondeductible public company executive compensation, and the announced corporate tax rate increase in the UK without these one time items GAAP net income would be positive.

Adjusted net income, which also adds back stock based comp acquisition amortization and other nonrecurring expenses was up to $25 million.

Before reviewing the performance of our business segments individually I wanted to update you on our consolidated net debt and leverage position as we've made a few significant cash and debt movements early in Q3.

These include the proceeds from our IPO and the repayment of a $500 million alone.

As of August eight we have $118.7 million of cash and net debt of $646 million.

Now with all IPO related transaction is complete our total net leverage stands at three six times using our Q2 trailing adjusted EBITDA, which is in line with our expectation going into the IPO process.

Turning to our results at the segment level in the U S and Canada, where our deployment of the hub and spoke model is ongoing we delivered our eighth consecutive quarter of positive organic sales growth.

Net revenue grew in line with expectations rising, 25% to $231 million from $184 million the previous year on a combination of franchisee acquisitions and organic growth of three 9%.

In turn driven by delivered fresh daily Donuts sold in grocery and convenience stores are new branded sweet treats line and insomnia cookies.

Notably the segments to your organic growth stack is now 14, 3% with sales proving resilient last year. Despite COVID-19.

DFT does not exceed <unk>.

Compared to just 2000 in Q2 2020, we.

We've also seen average weekly sales per door increased more than 30% over this time, reflecting the success of our transition to only fresh donuts at a price consistent with many of our donut shops.

Excluding the impact of exiting our legacy wholesale business the U S and Canada segment would've recognized organic sales growth of nearly 19%.

Highlighting the underlying performance of the business and bolstering our confidence in organic growth acceleration for the segment going forward.

Looking to profitability U S and Canada, adjusted EBITDA grew to $28 million from $27.6 million the previous year with DSD efficiencies, improving New York traffic and insomnia cookies, all contributing to the bottom line.

U S and Canada EBITDA margin this quarter was 12, 2% in line with the prior quarter's 12, 4%.

This result reflects both efficiencies from implementing a hub and spoke model and the fact that we are still early in its deployment in the segment.

We continue to invest in the new operating model, we hired more crispy creamers than ever before this past quarter as we integrated newly acquired shops.

Added hub and spoke routes I.

I made the transition to DFT in major markets, including Dallas, Houston and San Francisco.

A temporary increase in training costs and associated overtime, plus increased wage inflation pressures are impacting short term margin growth. However, however, we expect to mitigate these increases as well as commodity inflation with a price increase in September.

We are aware that compared to Q2 2020, EBITDA margin has declined from that quarter's $15 zero percent.

That was the highest the company has seen in recent years and is partly explained by a reduction in labor costs at the time as sales shifted to pick up and drive through while our shop lobbies were closed in the face of Covid safety measures.

Turning to our CPG offering a branded sweet treats line gained momentum in the quarter as we brought to market three new varieties small bites key land coolers and chocolate coolers.

The range is expanding.

With our launch customer Walmart undertaking a shelf reset to give us more space and Albertsons one of the largest grocery chains in the U S, becoming our second largest customer.

Today. The line is already available at approximately 6300 locations across the U S across 17 different retailers.

To feed our branded sweet treats expansion.

We undertook during Q2 and investment in three new production lines across our factory network, which will increase capacity by over 200%.

By leveraging existing infrastructure, we will require less than $2 million in capital investments to do so.

We expect branded sweet treats to be profitable by the end of 2021 and overall in the U S and Canada, we expect to see branded Sweet treats the New York market and the whole system at launch to see margin improvements over time as we continue to deploy the hub and spoke model.

Moving to the international segment.

We grew net revenue, 159% to $89 million from $34 million. The prior year with organic revenue growth of 126% year over year, driven by increased foot traffic and in shop dining.

Following the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions.

We grew international points of access by 600 versus the same quarter last year.

In this segment to 28% organic growth versus Q2, 2019, and demonstrating the strength of the Omnichannel strategy in.

In addition E Commerce is now well established in the segment, representing 15% of Q2 retail sales.

Looking to profitability International's Q2, adjusted EBITDA grew to $24 million from $1.6 million.

Driven by strong revenue growth and Covid recovery.

Profitability continued to benefit from the robustness of our hub and spoke model, which is most mature in this segment.

Overall international markets rebounded to match or exceed their performance prior to the pandemic and we expect the segment to continue to contribute to strong EBITDA performance in the future.

Now turning to the market development segment.

Net revenue grew to $29 million from $26 million year over year with 17% organic growth driven by.

Overseas franchise markets.

Despite continued COVID-19 restrictions in certain segment markets, we continued to see growth with revenue exceeding pre pandemic levels. Further we saw the addition of 92 new points of access across the segment as well as strong E Commerce performance.

And our newly acquired Japan business E Commerce, and our recently launched DSD program continued to drive growth.

Even despite government and post state of emergency measures.

Overall performance in this segment resulted in market developments, adjusted EBITDA growing to $10 million from $8 million, representing 25% year on year growth.

Looking forward, we expect the segment to continue to deliver strong organic growth as we add more points of access the world across the world, including our upcoming new market entry in Egypt.

As Mike explained a hub and spoke operating model is key to the execution of our Omnichannel strategy.

And as referred to earlier when discussing the UK and Ireland, we track three metrics to measure progress in the implementation of the hub and spoke model.

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Spokes per hub and.

And sales per hub and spokes.

As of the end of Q2, we have 9575 points of access.

And the 70% gain over this time last year.

These points of access includes 7849, DSD dose with 5067 in the U S and Canada 2264 in the international segment and 519 in market development.

This represents a global net increase of 1000 to 261 doors from the end of 2020.

Year to date, we have added 930 DFT doors in the U S with the largest gains in Dallas, Chicago and Houston.

And brick and mortar we now have 1726, Krispy kreme and Sony cookies branded shops and increase of 39 since the beginning of the year.

We see significant white space opportunity to continue to grow up points of access with the potential to add more than 2900 points of access within the U S and Canada segment and an additional 2800 points of access in the international segment.

17, 100 of these rest of the top U S markets, which are New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, San Francisco, Houston, Washington, DC, Atlanta and Boston.

As we expand into these white spaces, we are aiming for an annual global development goal of 800 to 1000 new points of access.

Looking to hubs as of Q2, we have 413 production facilities around the world an increase of five since this quarter last year.

Our strategy is to selectively add around 10, new production hubs for yet.

Much of our focus is on leveraging capacity at our existing hubs by adding new points of access to that and we have increased the number of hubs with folks in the U S and Canada segment to 114 from 88, one year ago, mostly by converting legacy hotline daily shops.

With the additional points of access we have increased average folks per hub in the U S and Canada segment to 45 from 37% and in the International segment to 71 from 65% since the end of 2020.

International's higher average reflects the high proportion of off premise DSD sales in that segment.

International's trailing 12 month sales per hub reached $8 million in Q2 up from $6.4 million in the full year 2020.

In the U S and Canada segment average sales per hub reached $3.6 million up from $3.5 million in the full year of 2020 and up from $3.2 million at the beginning of our transformation in 2019.

Turning to our expectations for the rest of the year and beyond based on the great progress through the first half of the year. We are confident in our ability to continue our momentum and delivered strong growth in 2021, reflecting this we are issuing full year 2021 guidance of net revenue of $1.34 billion.

213.8 billion.

Or growth of 19, 4% to 23% organic revenue growth of 10% to 12%.

Adjusted EBITDA of $178 million to $185 million.

<unk> growth was 22, 4% to 27, 2%.

Adjusted net income of $62 million to $68 million or growth of 46, 4% to 66%.

Q3, which is typically a seasonally softer quarter is expected to see increased pressure from wage and commodities inflation, especially in the US However, helped by our September price increase we remain confident in our ability to deliver on this full year guidance.

Further looking beyond this year. We're also also issuing our long term outlook for organic revenue growth of 9% to 11% adjusted EBITDA growth of 12% to 14% and adjusted net income growth of 18% to 22% per year.

Without the U S legacy wholesale business to lap in 2022, the current momentum in our business means that we expect to exceed this long term outlook next year.

In addition, we expect total net leverage to be under three in the next 12 months.

In accordance with our dividend policy, we expect to pay an initial cash dividend of $3.05 per share for the quarter ending October three 2021.

Thereafter, we expect to maintain a stable quarterly dividend until we reach our long term net leverage policy of too.

With this I will now hand, it over to Mike for some closing remarks.

Thank you very much everyone. In summary, we're extremely confident about the long term runway to grow Krispy kreme on our journey to become the most loved sweet treat brand in the world.

We are proud of the ongoing transformation in the U S and Canada as well as the outstanding performance in international in the quarter.

Most importantly, I want to thank our crispy creamers around the world for their continued hard work and always showing up.

We look forward to connecting with you all again soon and with that I'll hand, it over to the operator as we would be pleased to answer any questions. You may have thank you.

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Our first question comes from the line.

Oh, John <unk> of <unk>.

J P. Morgan your question. Please alright. Thank you very much. The question is on the U S margins.

Especially relative to international up one I mean, I think the U S margins were a little bit below our expectations than certainly I mean, the question that we're going to ask is when you think we could start to see margin growth again in the U S. You have a specific date in mind could that come in the fourth quarter with with additional menu pricing that you have.

Discussed and secondly, as part of the IPO closing the gap of margins between the U S and international will obviously be a huge opportunity on the income statement.

Kind of your head around that thinking about the long term how close can those.

As you know get to do you have and do have a number in mind do you have a timeframe in mind. Thank you.

Hey, John Thanks.

Thanks for the questions.

Yes, you are right. The first thing to highlight is that in the international businesses, where we have the mature hub and spoke model, we do drive very high margins and in Q2, we saw even higher margins with the additional points of access that we're able to generate during the COVID-19 disruption.

Implementing the same model in the U S and now we are indeed say seeing the same benefits as particularly as we add delivered fresh daily Donuts, which now across all our channels in the U S. We're able to leverage the fixed cost back at the production hubs and drive up margins now.

What we're seeing right now is the change is accelerating.

Already at.

At the end of Q3 would already be at the end our year end goal for DFT doors of 5300. So in effect, what we're seeing is.

The transition moving even faster in the U S and that means we've hired more crispy cream is than ever before actually hired 1700 people in quarter two alone. So with this level of change going accelerating even the transition to hub and spoke we've seen some additional implementation costs.

<unk> more training costs more over time as we fill the vacancies.

And hence why the margin as you point out.

Little bit lower.

In the U S, but actually when you exclude the branded Sweet treats line, which is a new business that we opened up last year the entry into New York, which just happened last year and of course.

We have reduced traffic still in the city there.

The most recent acquisitions.

Sure.

Core fresh Donuts business is doing already in the U S over 15% EBITDA margin so.

We do have line of sight, and indeed, many ways greater confidence in our ability to drive.

EBITDA margin improvement towards those international levels now in Q3.

<unk>.

We are seeing commodity cost pressure coming through a little more.

Wheat on edible oils on sugar the market, so coming strong hence our decision to take a price increase in September towards the end of the quarter. So youre right quarter. Four is when we will see in the U S. The benefits.

<unk>, both that price increase and the efficiencies from the hub and spoke model, which as I said is growing faster than even we expected you asked about long term, we don't expect to close the GAAP all the way to those international margins.

International businesses were built effectively greenfield with hub and spoke in mind, whereas in the U S. We have a legacy business that we're transitioning there will be production hubs hotline say the shops that we never adds folks too. So there is some inherent inefficiency that we also as I.

Mentioned, bringing on businesses like Brian Sweet treats to become more profit over time. So the transition will be a multiyear transition, but we will see a 15% EBITDA margins in the U S. In the years to come.

Thank you. Our next question comes from John Glass of Morgan Stanley. Your line is open.

Yes.

Yes, hi this.

This is Brian on for John.

I guess I'm, just curious on the international side of the business.

It seems like it was quite strong there curious if there was kind of perhaps more pent up demand and then.

And you expected that drove some of that.

Perhaps in some of the individual countries whats been stronger than your expectations or are there any still lagging and I guess this also on opening new shops.

Are there any kind of puts and takes there any do you think that are that are moving faster than expected or any or there is still seeing some delays due to COVID-19.

Yes.

Taken on your two questions. So our goal is going to be to open up between 25 new hubs.

And the global business that includes the U S and international.

Youre seeing.

Focus on the international market opening up this week, we actually opened up in Egypt, right, which was a population of $100 million in the city of Cairo and $20 million. So we can see opening up that hub there starts to really show how youre going to get the hub and spoke model working that's one of the goals in terms of international.

And Josh alluded to it right. There is as business is starting to recover from Covid.

Starting to open up when you have the omni channel approach and the customer could use the business and where they wanted access the volume.

And the frequency of it as we also additionally, opening up new points of access you can see the improvement there both in our core.

In the U K, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, and Mexico as well.

Thank you. Our next question comes from Sergio Matsumoto with Citi. Your line is open.

Yes.

Hi, good afternoon, congratulations for your fourth quarter.

My question is on the September price hike.

If you could give us some color on how.

What form this will take where the rates will increase so there'll be a changing how that mix will.

We'll improve or maybe.

A more effective use of the promotions can you give us some color on that would be great. Thanks.

Hi, Sergio you bet so yeah.

Yes.

We are always pursuing positive mix opportunities.

Because we continue.

Continuously innovating with specialty donuts.

We tend to price at premium price points.

That is an ongoing part of our strategy is.

As a fresh donut provider, we're always in a position to do that people get excited about the innovations we bring to the marketplace.

More specifically in September what we're talking about is taking up menu prices for our call.

Donuts business, our core dozens business.

It will vary across the country, depending on local market specifics, we're very thoughtful and targeted.

As to what is the appropriate price point for different regions different cities.

That price increase.

Is intended to cover the commodity inflation that I mentioned also we are seeing wage inflation typical that youre seeing across the industry and actually in line with our expectations. The commodities are a little bit higher.

And hence the need to lean in on pricing in September, but as a fresh only doughnut business.

Special occasion.

Purchase.

We have.

Plenty of ability to bring that pricing, we know people love.

It doesn't donuts and so we have no concern about the ability for that to flow through to the bottom line yes.

One piece, which I think is important which gives you the ability of why we think we have pricing power right because as we started to discontinued the old wholesale program to the DSD program. We really introduced the exact same pricing structure that we actually have in our shops and we saw our customers in those locations actually accept.

It because it's a fresh product right. So as we continue to become a mine.

Our merchants and look at those different channels and how pricing can affect.

Each unique channel in its own right and while we see the opportunity there. It isn't doesn't business. So you have the ability that it's still wants to be accessible alright, so thinking even September with thoughtful about how we think about the business, but you will see we do believe we will see that margin continue to flow through.

Thank you. Our next question comes from David Palmer of Evercore ISI. Your line is open.

Hi.

Any any.

Maybe you could save us millions in terms of EBITDA millions.

How much higher your costs are now versus where they were back in June I know for everybody.

Gone up but versus your own internal targets, how much of the adjusted and what are the biggest buckets of that and I have a quick follow up.

Hi, David.

So I mean, the biggest bucket of increased costs.

On the P&L.

As of course in all operating expenses.

It's.

Driven by the biggest parts of all of our P&L, which which are labor as I mentioned before we are investing in labor in line with the expansion.

The system in the U S. We're investing in labor with the investment.

In the growth across the world.

We have seen that increase in line with the market. We have the next biggest area of <unk>.

Increase would definitely be on the product side.

And we've seen that grow grow.

A bigger headwind than we expected.

That's as much as I can give.

Okay, and with regard to the U S.

There are some markets that are already.

If you if you add back the overhead would be at least high teens, if not 20 <unk> in terms of EBITDA margin.

You've talked about southern.

Southern California in Atlanta.

When it comes to improving that U S margin.

From the 12% towards 15% plus and maybe we can be greedy and think about getting up towards some of your better markets.

What is your path to getting there is it I mean, clearly the new York market improving profitability on a rebound in perhaps rather quickly as that New York gets going again, but.

What is it.

You even talked about reinvesting behind the hub and spoke so I want to be realistic about the path to improving this margin and maybe you can walk us through how that will happen.

Sure thing so I mean, the first thing is Gulf targets and Youre right. We have aspirations for high margins. The reason I gave some specific details earlier on the U K is because even in the most mature hub and spoke cities. There. We can get we can continuously add more points of <unk>.

This and drive even more efficiency. So I mean, the first thing to say is across the whole system, we are looking to leverage.

The Omnichannel model to bring more efficiency I mean, we talk a lot about hubs, where we have spokes and adding DSD leveraging the fixed costs. There, we definitely doing that but even in hubs without folks with E Commerce now.

<unk> change a permanent addition to our channels, we're able to drive efficiency by having those transactions, which are highly incremental on top flow through at higher average transaction values to the bottom line. So it's a system wide effort.

Now there is also a portfolio of cities you're absolutely right. We have some cities where the hub and spoke model is already a little more advanced.

Whether it be somewhere like Atlanta, which just reflects the history.

The great heritage of the company somewhere like Tampa, where we acquired the franchise.

Being low single digit margins too.

Low 20% margins in less than 18 months by <unk>.

Improving operations, adding spokes and of course, establishing a full omnichannel business in that area and we will be doing that across the system. We made acquisitions at the end of last year, Dallas and Houston.

Which without spokes with some operating challenges have been loss, making New York, we entered last year.

In the midst of the pandemic.

We have a lot of confidence that we are seeing the business strengthen but it is still heavily diluted to the system as we wait for the full return of traffic and tourists. So it's a combination of efforts across the board.

And in targeted cities, where we can add particularly deliver fresh steady dose that's why I talk a lot about the excitement we have right now.

With more DSD doors being added to the system than we even expected and looking at that North star of somewhere like the U K with our April when they've got a critical mass and the maturity of the hub and spoke model to drive extraordinary EBITDA margins, it's very exciting for us to see that but the implementation costs are real.

Hiring people, adding drivers.

Adding routes right now in this tight labor market.

Means that we have to have people working overtime. It means that we're training more people than ever before.

That's what we mean by those implementation costs.

Because it's a big transformation and change million part of the implementation of that once that settles the new labor management systems demand planning systems that we've invested in will really start to help us leverage.

The efficiency in each of those cities, where we are adding these DSD doors right now through the implementation, it's natural that we need to invest to make sure. We're set up for long term profitable growth.

Thank you. Our next question comes from Brian Mullan of Deutsche Bank. Your line is open.

Hi, Thank you just a question on the DSD business in the U S and Canada, there's now over 5000 DSD doors today its growing quickly at.

At the same time, there is something like 150000 grocery and convenience stores across the two countries. So our question is when we think about the ultimate long term opportunity for DFT doors whats, what's the relevant number of locations you actually think about internally.

Or might actually consider for cabinet, one day and I ask that understanding that not every single location is going to warrant them. One on one of your cabinets. So just any help on how you think about the long term opportunity.

Directed this is Mike you directed this is the U S and Canada, Alright, so with 300.

Current theater shops today.

You're still only going to have a certain amount of route expansion that you have are up five we think the opportunity in the U S is about another 2800 to 3000, a month doors cabinets that are there and the potential as you continue to open up the right hub and spoke so that scarcity matters. So when you're trying to do a model.

When youre looking at 125000 locations.

We won't be in 125000 locations in fact from an ATV perspective, even long term you could see us somewhere in the range of probably being between five and 10% right scarcity is important to krispy kreme it'll be following along the hubs that we continue to build and do that exceptionally well, it's not every grocer and even the growth that we have tickets.

Every one of their shops. So it's again that access because that's how you keep the Brian special Thats, how the merchandising and being a merchant really will work through.

Thank you. Our next question comes from Michael <unk> of Goldman Sachs. Your line is open.

Hi, This is Michael on for Jared Garber, just wanted to touch really quickly on the 30% year over year AWS growth average weekly sales growth in the.

On the DSD that was that was really impressive but definitely no far outpacing the organic revenue growth rate can you talk a little bit about what maybe drove that maybe are those kind of lower open rates and then they ramp or are you guys, making larger cabinets DFT cabinet.

Back then just trying to figure out.

What was the key driver of that was.

Hi, yes, thanks, Oswald So I think two main drivers all point to.

The first is we have.

As part of the transformation and learning from international being really focused on the high quality doors that Mike referenced.

Of course, they need to be local to the donut shop. So the doughnuts are fresh.

But they also need to have the right level of traffic and so we have been really thoughtful on those doors and have walked away from those versus past years, where the volume and the traffic doesn't warrant.

Our fresh Donuts cabinet and the second one is the nature of the product and the price point, we are now talking only 100% fresh donuts.

Would you believe about a year ago.

38% of our donuts in the U S. We're not fresh daily now it's 100%.

We now sell them always at the same price point as you would get in your local Krispy Kreme doughnuts shops. So that comparison reflects a combination of better quality doors, there's less of them than we had in the old legacy wholesale business, but the embedded doors that we will be more.

Profitable than in the first thing that drives our profitability is having the higher price point and that is driving the weekly sales up and we're thrilled to see that across all of our customers.

It's a one one piece just to augment Johnson, our ability to be doing this fresh.

Matters for us in the system and that access point when we now start to have the DSD system and having the same donuts.

Our donuts maker doesn't even know where the donuts going so that quality really matters and youll be able to get the right pricing structure.

Our customers will now say, it's krispy kreme and if I want a hard experience I can go to a theater or not I get it towards unwanted.

Thank you. Our next question comes from Jon Tower of Wells Fargo. Your line is open.

Great. Thanks for taking the question just I am curious to hear what Youre seeing from a competitive response in the Belgian treat category say, the grocery channel or at C stores as Youre rolling the DFT model out to more doors across especially in the United States are you seeing really any competitive response.

Those channels specifically.

Yes.

Really specific worth thousands business right.

Alright, so it's pretty unique there's not a lot of direct competition, that's doing a fresh dozens business across the U S. In particular as you called out.

When we focus again the brand tends to focus on occasions, and then make sure that the celebrating celebratory aspect of the Brian is coming through so from that aspect. We play in a different place of where the consumer is looking at it so not we don't there's a space for the lower price point.

The grocery stores do theres actually two different sets of how the consumers, making a decision.

Thank you. Our next question comes from Todd Brooks of CL, King and Associates. Your line is open.

Hey, Thanks for taking my question, if we could spend a minute on.

Branded sweet treats and you talked about adding three new lines of capacity up dramatically.

Doors up nicely. This year I think you said 60 to 300 and getting to profitability by the end of 2021.

I guess with that capacity that youre, adding how do you see that business growing as you get towards the out years of 'twenty, two and 'twenty three.

I know you said you added three new skus to the offering but just if you could kind of qualitatively walk us through what you think Brian Sweet treats becomes for the business.

223, and how the profit drag mitigates as volumes rise.

So appreciate the question I'll start and then Josh will unpack a bit more so if you think about the business. We just talk about the scarcity value of the <unk> business and that's really important for us as we build out the hub and spoke model as we launched branded III treat we saw that as a different.

Point that the customers looking for a different location and as we build that out we started with Walmart for now.

Opening up to Albertsons and looking at other brands in their banners were going to be very disciplined about this it really does matter how we build this business and while we see it as a really big potential because of the occasions different it's.

It's not about speed. It's we think about this brand very much as we think about our hotline.

Experience and how we're going to continue to build it and we will be able to match that potential we think its something thats pretty disruptive in the category.

So that from at least a branding perspective it competes against the occasion.

Krispy kreme against itself right, but it's a unique opportunity among new occasion usage different.

From how you see that coming through in our margins in that Josh.

Sure thing, Mike I'll add a couple of data points. So the investment in these production lines.

<unk>.

As a result of conversations with customers, both our launch customer Walmart and other customers in other channels.

And looking out over the next couple of years, what we need to deliver on that and hence I referenced.

Capacity increase of about 200% and Thats in line with how we would expect to incur.

Increase the business out to 2023 effectively.

Up to about a three fold increase in the business.

Which is exciting, but I would still give us probably only around about a 4% share of the enormous.

Sweet.

<unk> cat.

Category.

I do believe that with the strength of the Krispy Kreme brand that Mike talks about that there's room to grow faster than that and.

And beyond that.

But right now we're focused on the product selection that we have adding the new flavors as I mentioned earlier.

And expanding only with the donut likes like snacks.

In terms of profitability you're right yes.

It has as we've been subscale.

And only just now started automating the process been actually a negative on our bottom line.

It will be dilutive.

We think next year is still.

But it quickly because fundamentally it is a premium priced proposition.

Be in line or even better over that timeframe from a margin point of view so.

We're excited to see the development of the business.

<unk> Walmart on new customers are also excited to bring it to the market and so we'll we'll keep investing behind it appropriately.

Thank you. Our next question comes from Joe Farm Historic.

BNP Paribas your line is open.

Hi, good afternoon.

Just wanted to get an update on more medium term inflation assumptions. If that's okay. I think at the time at the IPO you were saying.

You are budgeting for your wages to increase towards $15 minimum by 2025 correct.

And you're also baking in 1% to 7% annual inflation on the commodities side. So what youre seeing today are those still reasonable.

Just a cheaper starts in for the 'twenty one or are you now also budgeting for somebody a bit worse medium term is there any reason for that.

Hi.

Thanks for staying with us today, so yes.

The.

Assumptions, you mentioned, which are the long term assumptions.

Are in line with our current expectations as well the IPO not being not long ago, we already could see the IP the wage pressure and to a certain extent the commodity pressure as well.

I must admit the commodity pressure in the short term has just been.

Quite extraordinary and so in the very short term, it's a little bit higher than we expected.

But the long term is in line with our expectations and so all our plans.

With the focus on specialty dozens maker.

Making sure that we only ever have.

Delivered fresh daily Donuts with that price point, the mass premium price point of brand, new Sweet treats and of course, all of our businesses across the world offering fresh doesn't.

We know that we can cover those headwinds on cost investing in our crispy creamers, making sure. We always have the best quality ingredients and indeed delivering on the bottom line because.

Where we get the biggest benefit to the bottom line is the hub and spoke efficiencies coming through so these are all things that we are aware of we used to dealing with hence why our immediate decision to go to a September price increase.

And.

We remain.

Confident in our expectations.

For 2021, and the long term algorithm as well.

Thank you that does conclude Q&A and today's conference call. Thank you for participating you may now disconnect.