Q1 2022 Krispy Kreme Inc Earnings Call
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Good morning, and welcome to Crispy Creams first quarter 2022 earnings call. Thank you for joining US today, our first quarter earnings release and accompanying earnings presentation deck are available on the Investor Relations portion of our website at investors Dr. Christie.
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Joining me on the call. This morning is Mike <unk>, President and Chief Executive Officer, Josh Charles Horn, Chief operating and financial Officer, and Joey Chief Accounting Officer.
After prepared remarks by micro Josh there will be a question and answer session.
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These factors and other risks and uncertainties are described in detail in the company's registration statement on form S. One forward looking statements made today speak only as of today. The company assumes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward looking statement, except as may be required by law.
Additionally, today's call will include certain non-GAAP financial measures a reconciliation between non-GAAP financial measures and the closest GAAP measures can be found on the company's first quarter earnings press release, and our Form 10-Q, which will be furnished shortly to the SEC and available at investors <unk> Krispy Kreme dot com with that I'll turn the call over to Mike.
Good morning, and thank you everyone for joining us today, we're pleased to share our first quarter 2022 results as we built on strong momentum established in 2021.
I want to start today's call by thanking our amazing group of Crispy Creamers are.
Team members.
For their continued hard work to create moments of joy for our customers, especially while navigating significant uncertainty across the world.
Our people continue to be at the forefront of delivering on our mission of becoming the world's most loved suite three brand.
We have accelerated investments in our talent to ensure we continue to attract engage and retain our most vital assets.
<unk> already seen improvements across the key people measures to start the year.
The purpose of our company is to touch and enhance the lives of others are going to join that as crispy cream.
Last quarter, we discussed a strong positive impact crispy creamers have had on the community in 2021.
We continue those efforts this year, including our blood donation campaign in conjunction with the Red Cross in January to help save lives.
Another Great example of this year include celebrating international Women's day across the globe with our here from Hurricane pain, which put the spotlight on talented female illustrators globally and encourage our customers to share their own voice as well as donating product and proceeds to women based organizations.
This campaign spark social conversations across the world with a theme of celebrating the special women in each of our lives.
Both of these campaigns perfectly highlight our key brand value of joy generosity in connection with our consumers, which we know will drive strong brand love.
We are proud to be a global company operating in more than 30 countries and campaigns like these highlight the good we can do and how we can really drive genuine consumer connections with our brand in an impactful way.
Turning to our performance the continued progress on our long term strategy was well apparent in the first quarter with organic revenue up 15% driven by strong performance across all three segments.
Our organic growth was led by fresh donuts through our Omnichannel model.
This growth was driven by engaging and Buzzworthy season on limited time offerings are <unk> such.
Such as our successful Twix Donut campaign in the U S and in nearly 2000 point increase in our points of access from a year prior to.
The increase in price points of access to 11000 globally, including 600, new points in the first quarter alone.
So how we can leverage the economies of scale of our 415 production hubs to delivery fresh Donuts every day.
Our strong revenue growth in the quarter led to an increase in adjusted EBITDA over the prior year to $48 9 million with consolidated margins in excess of 13% as we expanded margins in the U S and Canada and market development segments.
And excluding a one time benefit in the previous year, our international segment as well.
These resorts results were in the face of macro issues, such as supply chain disruption omicron inflationary pressure and the warranty and training.
These troubling times for all of US we are doing our part to help our communities with Axa Joy like.
Like beat the pump promotion in the U S.
The selling original glazed donut for the price of it.
Gallon of gas on Wednesdays.
This promotion increased our transactions in the middle where you can generated several billion media impressions.
We have and will continue to successfully navigate these challenges what is a constantly changing environment through our omnichannel model and the dedication agility and hard work of our crispy creamers.
Our biggest growth opportunity is getting to more than 50000 fresh global points of access.
Largely driven by low capital delivered fresh daily or DFT doors.
I wanted to spend a little bit of time. This morning doing a deeper dive on our DSD strategy.
DFT is the delivery of fresh donuts to grocery and convenience stores from one of our production hubs and Krispy kreme branded merchandising units.
Allowing us to leverage the fixed cost of our production facilities and ensure our.
Customers receive a fresh donuts daily in a convenient location too that we.
We know that fresh Max as our customers tell us. This is the most important attribute when purchasing a sweet treat.
These points Abaxis typically cost between 2000 to 10000 Capex per merchandising unit.
Our capital light way to increase accessibility to consumers.
We've seen strong growth in DFT door, count and a 27% increase in sales for <unk> in the U S and Canada over the last year, but we still have significant room to grow.
We will achieve higher sales per door by focusing on premium rising our DFT options in the U S, including adding <unk> this year and upgrading our merchandising units with more menu choices and better displays. These.
These are improvements that will drive higher sales per door increased the bottom line and improve margins.
Similarly, as it looks.
Created this quarter in all of 2021, we continue to make great progress in expanding our global points of access in a capital efficient manner, both from our existing grocery and convenience customers as well as adding new customers. Likewise, we see significant opportunity for growth in both our existing markets and in markets, we do not.
They currently operate.
We have strong visibility to our pipeline of DFT expansion globally over the next few years and remain highly confident that we can deliver at least 10% increase in points of access each year.
Primarily through highly profitable capital like DFT doors.
Porting this expansion will be.
The addition of 10 to 15, new equity hubs added per year as well as five to 10, Frank franchise hubs each will be located and designed to maximize the hub and spoke system with 50 to 80 additional points of access for hub over time.
Each new hub investment has a goal of a three year total payback period.
In the U S and Canada segment, our performance was driven by the strength of our fresh business in insomnia cookies.
Organic revenue grew nine 7% in the first quarter, while total revenue grew 13, 8%.
Our DSD business continued to gain momentum as we added over 200 points of access during the quarter, bringing us to nearly 6000 locations in the U S and Canada, well on our way to exceeding 500 doors in 2022.
The increase in our points Abaxis is strong growth growth in revenue per DMT door allowed us to expand adjusted EBITDA margins by 90 basis points in the first quarter to 13, 3% even in this inflationary environment.
In Sanya cookies had another strong quarter growing.
Growing double digit organic growth revenue and adjusted EBITDA, We added seven new cookie shops during the quarter and with a strong pipeline. We are confident that we will add more than 30 shops. This year and delivered unit growth in the mid teens each year moving forward.
Finally in our brand new <unk> business quality package shelf stable donut bites and many crawlers, we continue our plans to expand points of distribution growing to 18000 points in the first quarter. We continue to invest in this great opportunity to drive future growth.
Our international segment delivered another quarter of strong performance.
Panic growth for the quarter was 36% with sales per hub up nearly 50% from a year ago with the same number of hubs showcasing our ability to increase revenue in a very capital efficient manner.
We saw strong performance across all of our international units, including 42% organic growth in Mexico from the prior year and we continue to see significant runway for growth across the entirety of our international segment.
Our market development segment also had a great started the year with organic growth of 10% and margins expanding nearly 200 basis points to 35%.
This was led by a robust performance in our franchise business as well as our equity owned Japan market, where we are implementing our omnichannel model with the expansion of e-commerce and the launch of deliberate breast daily.
Krispy Kreme is truly a global brand.
Roughly half of our system wide sales and adjusted EBITDA are outside the U S.
As you know our goal is to open at least three new countries per year going forward.
Last quarter, we announced signed agreements in Switzerland in Chile.
And we're pleased to announce two additional signed agreements to bring Krispy kreme to Costa Rica and Jordan on.
On average, we expect each new market entry.
Entry will provide 400 to 500 additional points of access.
With a proven model we are building a very strong pipeline for new market entries with both existing and new franchise partners as well as looking at equity Stakes in strategic markets.
We expect to be able to announce further country increase later this year as we continued our journey to become the most luxury treat brand in the world.
Turning to a few other drivers of our growth.
E Commerce is a core pillar of our Omnichannel strategy in the first quarter 17.
4% of our retail sales came from e-commerce up from less than 10% pre pandemic and 17, 2% for the full year 2021.
With a goal to achieve ecommerce penetration of over 25% globally long term.
We continue to strengthen our capabilities with our app in order to improve the user experience enhancing.
Our customer targeting a more than 10 million loyalty members, including this weekend and double doesn't promotions and we continue to expand accessibility with additional third party partners.
In addition to e-commerce innovation branding and marketing our key capabilities that drive our business segments and keep us relevant.
Across all the consumer touch points in our Omnichannel model.
Innovation remains a significant driver of frequency as we create and introduce premium fresh and buzzworthy offerings to customers across our points Abaxis.
We had a highly successful seasonal activations across the globe during the quarter, including our lunar new year and Valentine's day campaigns.
We've continued our momentum on innovation and branding into the second quarter, including our successful hand cut hand rolled cinnamon rolls on Sunday and the introduction of our new cinnamon toast Crunch Donuts the product.
<unk> emotional storyline connection really matter for our customer.
All of these initiatives driven by innovation and premium amortization give us real pricing power.
Sometimes up to 50% more per individual item than our original glazed donut.
Continue to be scalable opportunities for our business and provide a notable offset to current inflationary pressures.
He is also a hit right in the sweet spot of gifting purchasing still affordable treats and larger quantities for sharing and celebrating as evidenced by the 13% increase in donuts sold this quarter compared to a year ago.
To wrap up.
I want to once again state how enthusiastic we are about the long term growth in our business.
Our ability to execute our omni channel model and ultimately expand to more than 50000 points of access globally in a very capital efficient manner, let.
Leveraging our innovation and <unk>.
<unk> connection with expanding points abaxis in our existing markets and opening 15 to 25, new hubs across the globe across the global system. Each year gives us strong confidence that we can achieve double digit organic revenue growth in 'twenty two and beyond.
I'll now turn it over to John to walk you through the Q1 financials and our 2022 outlook Josh.
Thanks, Mike and good morning, everyone.
In the first quarter of Krispy Kreme has once again shown that our beloved brand.
Only channel approach is not on the resilient in this turbulent macro environment that continues to thrive.
With net revenue growing 15, 8% year over year to $373 million.
Organic revenues growing 15, 7% and adjusted EBITDA, increasing five 4% to $48 $9 million or a margin of 13, 1%.
This performance reflects the effectiveness of our strategy to maximize sales from our production hubs, sending more fresh donuts shops by e-commerce and until local grocery and convenience stores.
This also helps us work through the disruption from moment chronic back in January with fresh Donuts always available even if we lost a few operating hours when Christy premiums fell sick.
During the quarter, we added 600 of these points of access across the world, mostly in the form of capital like DFT dose. We now have more than 11000 points of access and increase of nearly 2000 from a year ago.
Along with our successful brand activation initiatives around the world. This directly resulted in double digit sales, perhaps increases across all our business segments.
The resulting operating leverage explains a 90 basis point increase in first quarter U S and Canada segment EBITDA margin, but yet.
Total company adjusted EBITDA margin was 130 basis points lower than the same quarter last year due to the impact of public company costs, and we all say that the receipt of business interruption insurance payments in the UK, one year ago, Australia Hoffman and dose.
Nevertheless, a margin of 13, 1% is higher than we saw across the second half of 2021 and shows how the efficiencies of expanding our hub and spoke model plus the pricing. We took during the course of 2021 well enough to cover inflation.
In the first quarter GAAP net income $6 $5 million or <unk>, <unk> diluted EPS compared to a GAAP net loss of $400000 while negative three.
Starting to Etfs in the same period a year ago.
Adjusted net income for the quarter was $16 1 million and adjusted diluted EPS in the first quarter was a drop of <unk> largely due to the increased share count from the IPO.
Net leverage was three six times on a trailing 12 month basis at the end of the quarter.
Second decrease from a year ago.
In the U S and Canada business segment total revenues increased 13, 8% in the first quarter to 253 million votes on organic growth was nine 7%.
We saw growth across all channels for the first time, we were able to activate Valentine's day and St. Patrick's day across all our French stone of channels in the U S.
This meant a fresh specialty done sort of available during these weak simultaneously at our donut shops by E Commerce and local question convenient stores.
Adding to the overall success story this year as these seasonal events.
This contributed to a 27% year over year increase in sales per DSD dope.
Also added 207 DSD does in the first quarter, taking the total to 5000 and 411, representing a 15% increase year over year.
We expect to add at least 500 DFT does in the U S and Canada for the full year 2022.
Also in the first quarter, we brought the unique LCL experience Krispy Kreme doughnuts made <unk> havent stuffed with twix boats as.
As well as the return of our beloved cinnamon roll with cinnamon Rolls Sunday.
These are important performance not just because of the additional excitement they bring to the brand, but because the specialty donuts. They are priced at a significant premium to our original place.
E Commerce revenue in the US and Canada grew to 810, 6% of retail sales in the quarter, reflecting the benefits of integration of third party Aggregators, which network alongside all.
E Commerce platform.
All these factors combined to increase revenue hub in the U S and Canada to $4 $3 million on a trailing 12 month basis in the first quarter.
Compared to $4 million for 2021, and $3 6 million a year ago.
Hubs and spokes in the U S and Canada was flat at 125.
In previous earnings calls I've shown page former franchise city markets, which following our acquisition have seen profitability guidance. Following the introduction of the fresh hub and spoke model.
Tom I wanted to give the example of a long time company owned market in Nashville.
That we converted from the legacy wholesale business in late 2020, so it isn't a good fresh dating which led to a 200 basis point increase in local EBITDA margins to 24% in the first quarter.
Adjusted EBITDA for the total U S and Canada segment in the first quarter increased 22% to $34 million.
With margins expanding 90 basis points to 13, 3%.
The increase in EBITDA and margins was driven by strong revenue growth and a fresh start up business as reflected in sales by hub growing 19% year over year.
Pricing taken during the course of 2021 offset wage and commodity inflation in the quarter.
We did not take further pricing of <unk> in the first quarter.
Our digital first in Soviet cookies business overcame disruption earlier in the quarter from both omnicom and weather events in the northeast to deliver double digit revenue growth, which marked with margins again in line with the average for the U S and Canada segment.
We opened seven new cookie shops in the first quarter.
217 in total across the U S.
We remain excited about the long term potential of this rapidly growing brand with plans to double the number of cookie shops in the next five years just in the U S.
We're also developing plans for international expansion in the coming years.
As Mike indicated we continued to grow our presence without startup brightness sweet treats.
Additionally, we are improving our manufacturing and distribution capabilities and have sold our service level issues from last year, delivering a fulfillment rate, 98% by the end of the first quarter.
Brian It's sweet treats remains on track to be profitable by the middle of this year.
Moving onto our international segment net revenue grew 31% in the first quarter to $87 million and organic revenue increased 36%.
Revenue growth was strong across all the international second countries with Valentine specialty Donuts original 19 across the world.
We have the launch of our first if he can done in the U K and had several successful brand partnerships, including a Hershey has done in Australia and <unk> rollout.
In the U K.
It's worth noting that foreign currency exchange did have a negative four 4% revenue impact on our international growth during the quarter. So our results would have been even stronger.
International points of access expanded by more than 300 in the first quarter alone we were able to pull forward some points into the first quarter and by more than 500, new points over the last year.
The increase allowed us to leverage our 37 international hubs to grow international sales, but hub to $9 $7 million up from $9 1 million at the end of 2021, and $6 5 million a year ago.
International adjusted EBITDA for the first quarter grew 12, 4% to $17 million led by a 55% increase in Mexico.
<unk> declined to 19, 8% down 330 basis points compared to a year ago, but excluding the previously mentioned business interruption reimbursement claim from last year International margins would've expanded by 190 basis points in the quarter.
Now to our third business segment market development, which is made up of our franchise business around the world and the equity in Japan market.
Total revenues in the first quarter decreased one 9% to $32 million.
Due to franchise acquisitions as well as the negative three 5% impact from foreign currency exchange.
Organic revenue growth from Bakken development, plus nine 5%.
Adjusted EBITDA in the first quarter for market development increased three 6% to $11 3 million with margins expanding 190 basis points to 35%.
Overall, we continue to be very optimistic about our growth potential which is reflected by our reaffirmed 2022 outlook. As a reminder, in 2022, we expect revenue growth between 11, and 13% and organic growth between 10, and 12% with over 1000 more points of access.
And last year.
We expect all three reporting segments contribute to this Greg and after the strong stance, but yet we now expect to be.
Top end of this range.
We continue to expect adjusted EBITDA to grow Boston.
Up 12% to 16% to between 210 $219 million.
We are pleased to be able to maintain this guidance range. Despite an estimated $3 million incremental impact from foreign exchange rates for the full year compared to our earlier estimates even at the time of elevated in place.
While the environment has changed we're still highly confident in our guidance. We are seeing significant inflation in our key ingredients and input costs, but have contracts and rates already locked in nearly all of them for the remainder of the year and have now also started securing positions into 2023.
Plus more than 70% about debt has a fixed interest rate.
As I mentioned last quarter.
Growth in the second half the year will be higher than earlier in the year and we expect adjusted EBITDA each quarter sequentially will be higher than the preceding quarter.
The operating leverage from our fresh hub and spoke model is proven and our pricing actions have been successful.
We will take further pricing as needed while selectively using discounts and promotions without over 10 million loyalty customers still 90% of <unk> sales are made at the full menu price.
We continue to expect an income tax rate between 23, and 25% and adjusted net income diluted a 65% to $69 million, an increase of 18% to 24% with adjusted diluted EPS of <unk> 38 to 41.
Excluding share count impact from the IPO adjusted EPS growth will be similar to adjusted net income growth.
After spending $25 million on Capex in the first quarter for the full year, we still expect to spend between $115 $120 million or less than 8% of revenue, including investing in approximately 15 production hubs and most of the 30 some shops.
Overtime, we expect Capex as a percentage of revenue to reduced 6% and we expect a rolling three year return on invested capital to be over 20% by the end of 2025, a key priority for crispy cream.
We continue to be well on our way towards our long term goal of two times net leverage and we continue to expect free cash flow conversion for 2020 to over 20%.
Lastly, we remain confident in our long term growth algorithm of 9% to 11% annual organic revenue growth.
14% annual adjusted EBITDA growth and 18% to 22% annual adjusted diluted net income growth.
Operator, we can open the call up now to Q&A.
Thank you.
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Our first question is from Sarah Senatore with Bank of America. Your line is open.
Hi, Good morning. This is Katherine Griffin on for Sarah Thanks for taking the question.
So first I just wanted to make I appreciate kind of the download on the DFT door strategy, but I wanted to just kind of drill down specifically into first quarter. It was pretty significant year over year growth in sales per access point. There. So is that the kind of growth. We should expect going forward or were there was there anything unique.
And the kind of doors that you opened this quarter that would suggest maybe the year over year growth does not.
Apples to apples I think any any color there would be helpful.
Yes, I think so thank you for the question.
If you look about the growth that we had in the first quarter over 600 doors.
And then again at 27% growth that we had.
You'll see a mix of that from me that the new door growth and then the existing door growth thats coming in so it's just as we add new customers as we expand more routes not just in the U S. But also in international and you'll see the mix in terms of the number of growth, maybe you're thinking about quarter by quarter. Some of that you get frontloaded it a little bit from the.
The last thing I was thinking about Q4, there is some pruning of doors that tends to happen at the backend of the year. So then it gets a little bit frontloaded in the first quarter. So you anticipate again, the 10% that we said year over year is what we still target for the back end of the year.
Great and then just I wanted to follow up on on the <unk>. So I think at the last time, we spoke back.
Back in March we heard a little bit about some of the innovation being done on digital are such that you can direct customers.
Location to the clothes that either do you have any door access point, where you can you can get those premium products. So I'm curious if there's anything.
That's been helping helping drive the L. T O success in terms of like the digital side or whether it's app, whether it's loyalty.
No I understand like it's definitely innovation in premium innovation, that's driving that but I'm curious if there is sort of a keystone digital or loyalty.
So that you can couple it to sort of optimize growth there.
So I'll break it down into a couple of things there is a lot of questions as you kind of prose. There. So one of the first things that we tried to do in innovation when we come up with something pretty unique and differentiated as social media strategy that really push right. So you get these impressions that you get out then you get the brand awareness remember, we don't spend and we're not a heavy.
Spending on the marketing side right. So we use the power of the brand and its uniqueness in products, whether it's a twist on it that was in the middle of the donuts or even as you just saw it today, we launched in the U S. Honeybee line, right, where you're trying to get something pretty unique from a new flavor profile social media and how we play that is really where you get the expansion.
From ecommerce and pieces, what youll see as we connect that either through the delivery.
Can link on innovation and then make sure that there is an opportunity for everybody to see that.
I think you referenced and geo fencing or something like that when we were talking about the dark shops, which allows us to add a location and launches a delivery.
Zone into a market. So that gives you more access to customers. So that's how you can see the expansion of that and that's how innovation can get to customers. Our number one challenge that we have and crispy creams, we really like our 415 hubs that produce our donut shops, it's about getting access to the customers and you.
The DFT methodologies as well as unlocking in e-commerce.
Mike do anything all that to that is on the LTE oz specifically using loyalty.
We do communicate to all loyalty customers and given the opportunity.
To get a free LTE when they come in with the Covid and what have you into the store. So thats one way that we leverage the loyalty program to make sure that LT is top of mind and bring them in just one more time.
Thanks. Thank you that's really helpful and congrats on the quarter.
I appreciate it thank you.
Thank you. Our next question comes from John <unk> with Jpmorgan. Your line is open.
Hi, Thank you I'm just looking at you know in the U S. I think it was 50 411 DFT.
Once a distribution I mean, it got me thinking.
As you you talked about expanding 10 to 15 equity stores I think that was in the U S.
Where do you expect those stores to be meaning will they be in completely Greenfield markets. For example, like new England or Minneapolis to that I guess, it's like pop into memory.
Or do you have an opportunity to locate those stores, where the DFT market will be completely new in other words the DFT.
Outlets that those new stores would serve would be truly incremental crispy cream versus those that are necessarily pulled out of existing outlets. Thanks.
Good morning, John .
Thank the way that we've thought about this when we took control of the system.
We finally took control of some of the largest market. So when we're doing 10 to 15, new equity hubs right. So equity hubs that we're talking about that would be equities across the international markets, where were equity owners as well as the U S.
The prioritization that we'll continue to look for those hubs will be in those new markets potentially when you win some incremental among new DSD tours right. So you will be expanding in the U S. You'll start to get to that 50 to 75.
Since of access as you open up the hub and in due time it starts to get its points of access.
But you continue to look at the base of hubs today, and you'll continue to fine tune and add more houses we think that the route becomes more interesting you can see dark shops will add on to the existing base and you can look at continuing to look at either fresh ups. Another piece that will drive the business deeper so it's about leveraging so I'll wait there'll be more new growth on the.
DSD as we open up hubs, but also continued.
Really leverage our existing pumps to see how we can continue to driving the points of access.
Understood and the DFT strategy, it's really just a couple of years old and you obviously made that transition very quickly and broadly across the U S.
You know I guess, the intelligence of measuring profitability on the D up door changed or improved.
As you think about the overall DFT opportunity now in the U S. There are probably some locations where you didn't expect to be profitable and you are maybe other locations you thought it would be good and aren't yet.
I guess, the overall intelligence of mapping out DFT in the U S. Changing now that you have.
A decent body of Ah I guess experience with you, which I guess on a post COVID-19 world actually pretty short amount of experience you know.
As you think about mapping out the future.
Sure Hi, John This is Josh.
Yeah, you're right, it's 85 year old system that we're transforming here.
Nevertheless, recent times of course, being acquiring franchise shops, and all sorts of different situations.
In key cities, but not always set up.
This strategy. So a lot of the focus has been converting on adjusting those shops, and then engaging the local customers in the new DSD program.
We have in during the course of that.
It is important to.
To have grocery stores convenient stores that have high traffic. The locally located it's important for us to then manage the rounds. So that drivers can really efficiently get to them. This is all expertise we've been building.
<unk> been adding route management software, we've been adding demand planning capabilities and labor management capabilities in our humps to not only make sure that the drive throughs working well the e-commerce integrations working well indeed that we get the doughnuts, how quickly and efficiently. So all of that is a learning journey and definitely.
We are finding some of the oldest stores.
Need need adjustment, maybe modeling and even need the space adjusting to make sure that it works effectively and efficiently.
We're seeing a whole range of performance, but overall, 3% to 400 basis point increase in margins when we deployed the DSD program.
And we now have cities as I mentioned in today's call and Nashville, previously time for Albuquerque, and others, where we're already over 20% local EBITDA margin I'm rivaling those international one.
I mean to deploy all these operational best practices, we've learned from the international folks and then we learn as we go as you say.
Just to augment.
Got it.
Yes, Thats important John is if you take the base that you talked about them on instead of just pruning doors right. There's still an opportunity to start to get into the single serve I'd imagine in the Covid World right. It got pretty selective on what you could do as you get into merchandising in a different way.
It completely takes your base and moves us to a different way of how the consumer is going to actually engage with your brand. So getting into that single uses becomes an opportunity to capture so there's a lot still to do in the existing base beyond just opening up the new DSD doors you have two strategies that you are actually doing and exactly what John is talking about how do you Max.
<unk> profitability as Youre going through this as you get more occasions as you start to get into the single base. It opens up different platforms different customer base et cetera.
Yes, definitely I think the smallest one I've seen in my local stores six and yes to your point.
They're meant to be a daily that's not always not for everyday a single use occasion, maybe some days it is but that's another topic, but I guess, how as you hopefully you got that Joe So as I talked about it.
Like the potential of DFT again that fit that 50 411, I mean are you prepared to talk about what that white spaces in the U S. Again, I mean is that you know.
Fewer more profitable doors is it more doors I mean, I'm, just really trying to just push about what you're kind of thinking in this post COVID-19 world. As you you know how the experience set how that number may be evolving in terms of your ultimate target.
Yes.
<unk> believes that there's 10000.
D point of Axis opportunity largely DSD in North America.
Opportunity versus the five 5000 duals, we have today, we have mapped out with the U S and now being Canada, which we control as well.
City by major city customer by customer the opportunity based on either way, we have hubs today or where we see hub opportunity and it's actually pretty even when you look at going from a 5000 10000, where that opportunity is about half of it is in new cities versus cities that were already distributing DSD.
About half of it is new customers versus existing customers.
Right now.
We are continuously.
Adding largely with the existing hubs that we have adjusting those to maximize the capacity we have but indeed as I mentioned, we'll be adding seven to 10 hubs in North America.
Our year over the next CEO is to go after the Minneapolis.
Boston is this world. Most recently, we opened up the first time, Colorado Springs Tucson. So we are bringing these donuts and indeed the DSD.
Swiftly through across the system. So yeah, we have a clear line of sight to that confidence obviously is high given the momentum we've had over the last two years in transforming from the old legacy wholesale business.
Thanks for the time.
You bet.
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Our next question comes from Bill Chappell with <unk> Securities. Your line is open.
Hey, Good morning, guys. This is Steve and Lyne go on for Bill Chappell.
I wanted to circle back to Labor I was wondering if you guys could provide us some additional color on the labor market as you expand your distribution points.
Given the backdrop of the consumer environment have you seen more or less improvements and access to labor and labor sorry, any color there would be great. Thank you so much.
Yes, so from a labor perspective.
We'll continue to be able to really like about the brand.
The cultures were still able to attract.
Plenty of labor to come into our business, among we're averaging about bringing bringing about 500, new crispy creamers into the business in the U S to give you an example.
And we don't see we havent seen any material chat.
Talents to labor it could be little pockets.
Somewhere in the United States, where it might be some opportunity, but it's really about the culture that they want to come into the business. We are a growth system. So people continue to look for growth on the opportunities.
They see what's happening with.
The logistics opportunity as you start to get into the delivery system to the DFT doors et cetera from a driver's standpoint, everybody is really concerned about that but it's on average we're talking about 4% to six drivers per shop amongst so thats not an overwhelming number for us to do we continue to be.
Competitive.
Every market ever going to be and we will do that against making sure that that's not the barrier and the benefits and actually it's really about helping our crispy creamers hit their dreams and goals and growth will differentiate companies.
Yeah.
Great. Thank you very much.
Thank you and I'm currently showing no further questions I would like to turn the call back over to Mike <unk> for closing remarks.
Yes, Thank you everybody for being on the call.
I can't say enough about what our crispy creamers due on a daily basis to make this brand amazing and be able to accomplish that the purpose of the company is to touch enhanced labs about their suite enjoyed its crispy cream. They looked at every single day.
When we can do that really well and drive our culture.
We can become the most light sweet treat brand in the world until December type of performance.
We lay out in front of us. So thank you for participating in our call today, and we look forward to.
Two new chats and growth and Christopher Greene.
This concludes today's conference call. Thank you for participating you may now disconnect.
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