Q4 2022 TreeHouse Foods Inc Earnings Call
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Welcome to the Treehouse Foods fourth quarter 2022 conference call all participants will be in listen only mode.
After todays presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions to ask a question simply press star followed by the number one on your telephone keypad. If you would like to withdraw your question again Press Star. One. Please note. This event is being recorded.
At this time I would like to turn the call over to Treehouse foods for the reading of the Safe Harbor statement.
Good morning, and thank you for joining us today.
Earlier. This morning, we issued our earnings release and posted our earnings deck, both of which are available within the Investor Relations section of our website at Treehouse Dot com.
Before we begin we'd like to advise you that all forward looking statements made on today's call.
Tended to fall within the Safe Harbor provisions of the private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 995.
These statements are based on current expectations and projections and involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from our forward looking statements.
Information concerning those risks is contained in the company's filings with the SEC.
On October three 2022, we completed the divestiture of a significant portion of our meal preparation business.
Such will be discussing our results on an adjusted continuing operations basis.
Reconciliation of non-GAAP measures to their most direct comparable GAAP measures can be found in the release and the appendix of todays earnings deck.
With that let me now turn the call over to our CEO and President Mr. Steve Oakland.
Thank you Pete and thank you all for joining us today.
I am pleased to be here to report our progress on the strategic transformation of Treehouse.
Starting with our strong fourth quarter and continuing in our outlook for 2023 and beyond.
On slide three we've shared the key messages that I'd like you to takeaway from today's call.
First we've accomplished a great deal in 2022.
Reaching a major strategic milestone in early October by divesting a significant portion of our meal prep business.
I had a compelling valuation.
We reshaped our portfolio.
Sharpening our focus as a higher growth higher margin private label snacking and beverage business.
This will enable us to improve the consistency of our execution and our results.
Second our fourth quarter results are evidence of this improved execution as we outperformed the broader private label market in terms of unit growth across our core retail business.
Third our guidance for 2023.
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Including top line growth of 6% to 8% and.
And significant profit improvement with adjusted EBITDA expected to be in the range of $345 million to $365 million.
This represents a year over year growth rate of approximately 24% at the midpoint.
Fourth we have a clear purpose and strategic ambition to drive long term growth across private label snacking and beverages.
We believe that beginning in 2024.
We can grow revenue, 3% to 5% and.
And adjusted EBITDA, 8% to 10% on an annual basis.
Based on the portfolio as it's constructed today.
And deliver free cash flow of at least $200 million for the next three plus years.
We have the right team in place and our portfolio has never been better positioned to win and drive sustainable growth and shareholder value.
Let me now turn to slide four which summarizes our fourth quarter results.
Sales in the fourth quarter grew 22% to $996 million driven by pricing to recover inflation.
Adjusted EBITDA of.
$120 million was it.
At the top end of our guidance range.
Importantly, EBITDA margin of 12% represents a 320 basis point improvement on a sequential basis.
I am very proud of our strong finish to the year and I want to thank the entire Treehouse organization their hard work and dedication in making all of this happen.
Before I turn it over to Pat to give you more color on the quarter.
I wanted to spend a few minutes, putting our fourth quarter performance in context with the rest of the retail landscape.
As we all know over the past two years, we've seen unprecedented input cost escalation in pricing to recover that inflation.
During the fourth quarter.
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As everyone has had to recover higher input costs.
On slide five we've provided a look at how volumes are ferrying across the industry.
We use measured channel data to give you an apples to apples comparison.
You can see total edible consumption on a unit basis declined over 3% as a result of high prices.
When you move to the right we've narrowed the data set to capture just those categories in which we operate.
Units for National brands shown by the wine colored bar declined 5%.
While private label in total indicated and goal out.
It performed and was slightly positive.
Treehouse, specifically did better than that in.
In the fourth quarter, our units grew almost three 5% within retail measured channels.
I'd like to point out that our unit growth for our core retail business was more than 3% in both measured and unmeasured channels.
Pat will take you through the sales walk in his comments.
The pressure on today's consumers significant <unk>.
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In the private label value proposition continues to gain momentum.
Supporting unit share gains, which we've now seen for the last 54 consecutive weeks.
We continue to invest in our business to support our customers and capturing that demand.
With that let me turn it over to Pat to take you through our fourth quarter and guidance.
You'll find that the rest of our typical macro slides on shelf prices price gaps and shopper basket or in the appendix of our deck today.
I'll come back at the end to share with you how we're going to build on the progress we've made and how that translates into long term outlook the business.
And then we will open the call up to your questions.
Pat.
Thanks, Steve and good morning, everyone.
Want to first Echo my appreciation to the Treehouse team this past year.
Went through a great deal of change.
And I'm proud of the company we are today.
I'll start on slide six and as Steve noted earlier.
Third quarter revenue grew 22%.
Pricing to recover inflation accelerated further in Q4 and was up 24, 6%.
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Volume and mix declined two 2% in the quarter.
On slide seven we've provided a look at our case volume by channel.
As Steve noted earlier.
Our core retail grocery business in both measured and unmeasured channels, we delivered 3% volume growth as.
As a reminder, the retail grocery business represents approximately 80% of our annual revenue.
It's also worth noting.
Our volume growth would have been higher had we not faced lingering supply chain and surface constraints and about half of our categories.
Additionally, our retail growth was offset primarily by the exit of certain co pack and food away from home.
Leading the pickle business that we discussed last quarter.
Turning to slide eight and our profit drivers.
Fourth quarter, adjusted EBITDA totaled $120 million, which was at the top of our guidance range.
Adjusted EBITDA margin was 12% representing a sequential improvement of 320 basis points.
Volume and mix, including absorption declined $5 million in the quarter.
Pricing net of commodities was positive once again contributing $90 million versus last year, which demonstrates that our efforts to recover inflation continue to be realized.
We have seen a number of the traded commodities begin to come down, but I want to highlight two things.
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Commodities remain at historically elevated levels.
Second.
Only about half of our basket of inputs are considered tradable.
Our non tradable cost basket is comprised of hundreds of inputs.
Anything from labels and specialty packaging to food chemicals, and <unk>, we continue to see meaningful inflation in this area.
Some of the inflation, we're seeing in our non traded inputs is offsetting deflation and the traded commodity.
As a result, we are still taking some pricing currently.
But it's much more surgical in nature.
The last bar represents operations, which declined $35 million in the fourth quarter as we continued to mitigate supply chain disruption and invest into player retention.
Our focus on <unk>, our Treehouse management operating system is ongoing.
As well as our efforts around labor stability and line reliability.
In the fourth quarter, we continued to make progress on our service levels across the network and delivered more than 100 basis points improvement sequentially with about half of our categories in your target service levels.
Slide nine demonstrates both the progress we've made.
Paying down debt over the last three years, including a significant reduction to Q4, when we use the divestiture proceeds to pay down $500 million in October .
We ended the year with covenant leverage of three two times in line with our range of three to three five times.
And liquidity of more than $500 million.
Turning now to our 2023 guidance on slide 10.
We expect to grow sales by 6% to 8% through 2023 driven by pricing.
As we lap the actions we took to recover inflation last year.
The impact of the pricing will be most prominent in the first half of the year.
Youll recall that pricing to recover inflation was affected in late March July and late September of 2022.
Our guidance assumes that volumes will be flat this year.
As I mentioned about half of our categories are back to target levels of service.
We continue to face constraints in certain categories like cookies, Kremer and single serve beverages.
We are working diligently to resolve our supply chain challenges and by the end of this year, we expect most of our categories to be very close to our target service level of 98%.
Adjusted EBITDA is projected to be between $345 million to $365 million.
Which at the midpoint represents a year over year increase of 24%.
The key drivers are pricing and supply chain initiatives as we continue to drive key months and continuous improvement.
We expect net interest to be between 20 and $25 million in 2023.
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Interest expense will be very similar to 2022 between 65 and $70 million.
Recall that the financial statements. We provided back in November were recast to remove the impact of the divested business and factor in the use of cash proceeds to reduce debt.
Capex is estimated to be about $130 million in 2023.
This year approximately half of our spending will be focused on growth and supply chain initiatives.
In areas, such as capacity expansion and innovation capability.
The other half will be focused on infrastructure and maintenance.
In total our 2023 spending is anticipated to be at the high end of our long term range of three to three 5% of sales as we have a number of locations that require upgrades and investments in equipment that will ultimately improve line reliability and efficiency.
Specific to the first quarter, we are guiding to growth of 9% to 12% on the top line.
And adjusted EBITDA margin improvement of 300, Q4 hundred 50 basis points on a year over year basis.
With that I'll turn it back to Steve for closing comments Steve.
Thanks Pat.
We begin 2023.
We continue to see a macro environment that supports private label growth.
That coupled with our improving service levels and our investments in capacity support our guidance for growth both short term and long term.
I am excited about the direction, we're heading and our journey as a more focused private label snack and beverage company.
Last fall, we shared with you our new purpose statement.
On slide 11.
To engage and delight one customer at a time.
Our strategic ambition is profitable growth driven by leadership and consumer trending categories.
Beyond the 2023 guidance Pat discussed earlier, we believe that over the next three years plus.
We can deliver annual growth of.
3% to 5% in revenue.
8% to 10% and adjusted EBITDA.
And free cash flow of at least $200 million.
We're confident we can deliver that level of growth.
We have a clear purpose ambition and strategy.
Cash to a solid portfolio of categories.
Those of you who have followed the company for some time.
For the last several years, we've rallied around operational and commercial excellence portfolio optimization and people and talent.
These tenants continue to ring true to our priorities and as a new Treehouse, we've sharpened and refined our strategic growth pillars to better reflect how we will engage and delight our stakeholders.
As the supply chain for our retail partners, our resources support the nation's biggest and best retailer brands.
Leveraging our work and operational excellence, we are now building a world class supply chain.
This requires investments in talent and technology.
It includes an ongoing commitment to T Mos and continuous improvement.
Applied to both manufacturing and to our distribution network with.
With a greater customer centricity in mind.
The sale of a significant portion of the <unk> <unk>.
Enabled us to better optimize our portfolio and strengthen our balance sheet.
Today, we are a higher growth higher margin business focused on private label snacking and beverages we.
We will drive profitable growth through category leadership and investment in capabilities.
We've talked in the past about how we outperform in categories, where we have competitive advantage.
Defined by a leadership position.
And having depth.
Depth can mean different things in different categories.
But it is essentially having the right capabilities capacity and geographical reach to drive mutually profitable growth for our customers and for Treehouse.
We're at a pivot point in our strategic journey.
Rather than prioritize free cash flow to pay down debt.
As we have for the last several years.
Today, our balance sheet is strong.
We will generate healthy free cash flow to invest in our business and build our capabilities, which will be key to our success.
Which leads me to a strategic customer partnerships.
We've come a long way toward driving commercial excellence since I first arrived.
Today, we are building on our collaborative efforts and taking it to the next level for key customers with whom we have strong alignment and growth prospects.
Going beyond simply the fundamentals to create a more true partnership.
Joint business planning innovation solutions leadership engagement and long term agreements are all part of this journey.
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People and talent continue to be the heart of our organization.
We strive to be a talent leader.
And to be seen as the employer of choice in the markets in which we operate.
We're doing that by better defining career paths, harmonizing and modernizing targets and rewards and through employee engagement.
I am confident that we have the right team priorities and investments in place.
And we're in the right categories to drive sustainable revenue and profitability growth.
And long term value creation for our stakeholders.
With that let's open the call up to your questions.
Operator.
We will now begin the question and answer session I would like to remind everyone in order to ask a question press star followed by the number one on your telephone keypad.
Your first question comes from the line of Andrew Lazar from Barclays. Your line is open.
Great. Good morning, everybody good morning, Andrew.
To start off I think on the third quarter call Steve <unk>.
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Impacts right between where you would end up this year or where you would end up 22, EBITDA and what you see as sort of your normalized EBITDA range going forward one was <unk> in the moment some of the supply chain disruption.
<unk> has now been positive for two quarters in a row.
<unk> is catching up obviously, making really good progress there. So I guess my question is how much of the I think it was $40 million in supply chain impacts.
Do you think you can recover.
In 23, specifically, but kind of underpins your sort of guidance range and then I've just got a follow up.
Sure sure.
I think you've seen Penang be positive for the last like I say two quarters and I would expect that the first half of this year right. I mean, most of the pricing we will start to lap it as we get into the back half of the year.
With regard to two.
So exactly how much of the supply chain recovery I don't think we've given that exact number.
No we have not I think what we're trying to suggest is we've got about half of our plants that are operating at a normalized level of service and we expect that that remaining half will improve over the course of the year.
We exited.
2022, with about 90, 394% service in the fourth quarter, we expect that to continue to move up as.
As we start to do that we're still seeing some pockets of.
Labour challenges, a little bit of material availability in some some line things, which is why you're seeing us invest in capex, but we're pleased with the progress in service and we're pleased with the progress in margin that we saw I guess, we just haven't given an exact number but Andrew we do expect to make progress and I think if you worked through our our guidance Youll see that we have to make.
Address on that line in order to make the numbers. We've given you. So we feel good about ashwin.
And then.
I guess, how much I.
I guess, what's the magnitude even directionally of sort of net inflation that you're expecting in 2003 and how much of the.
The pricing that you need to sort of offset that is sort of incremental from here versus the benefit from carryover actions already taken.
Yes.
Expecting mid single digit inflation as we think about global experience in 2023, so nothing like what we saw over the last cycle.
We have some pricing in place and I think as we've described it there are pockets of some deflation in some pockets of inflation and so we'll continue to have those kind of very back based conversations by the customers to bring to them. The total basket of goods. So that they can understand what that looks like and then take pricing accordingly as necessary.
I think your question is how much more do we have to take a good piece of that was taken already in the.
The month of January and so much of that is already in.
Great. Thanks, so much.
Your next question comes from the line of Rob Moskow from Credit Suisse. Your line is open.
Hi, Thanks.
I was wondering if you are going through capacity constraints at a time when the private label industry probably has.
A golden opportunity to grow volume.
Im sure a lot of retailers want to give it more shelf space and consumers want to trade down to it.
Do you have a sense at retail.
What your volume growth could have been or could be this year. If you were fully up to speed and is there a risk of losing shelf space to your competitors, who might be a little farther along.
Rob.
Yes.
That said a minute ago about half of our categories were operating at the right service levels. So if you thought a point or two on half of our business is probably out there to get right.
Would be my guess.
My understanding and look I have the benefit of top to tops with virtually all of our customers our largest customers.
And I think we're performing as well or better than I think.
Take you back to slide five in our deck. When you look at where private label is in macro and how we're doing right. So I don't think were at risk of losing business for that reason right. So I think we're performing and we're leveraging our scale pretty well right now so if anything I think we're grabbing maybe a little bit of that in some of the dual supply.
Customers are offering us an extra division or two that kind of thing because I think we are actually recovering faster than some of our peer set.
I can tell you we have a full court press on I can tell you that we're doing everything we can to get ourselves in a position to take advantage of this opportunity and I think you're absolutely right. It's a great time for private label right and we're prioritizing everything a little bit of business, we lost Pat touched on it in his comments a little bit of business.
Our national branded co pack business, that's down we're trying to repurpose that that capacity as fast as we can to private label.
Okay.
And a follow up would be when you developed your long term plan.
3% to 5% top line and then the eight to 10 EBITDA margin.
Your capital investments like how much capacity are you going to add to your existing footprint to deliver that three to five.
And also.
Are there productivity targets like on a percent of Cogs basis that are.
That are helping you get all of that margin expansion. It's a lot of margin expansion in that guide.
Yes, I would say it is there is both of those Rob the capital that we've that we've guided to wolf will facilitate the capacity to meet that number we are balanced those two numbers. So we will have plenty of capacity to meet that growth rate.
And then the capital and the team us work.
We haven't talked a lot about <unk>, but Tim losses, and it's early early stages, but we've got a lot of success. So far so we're very confident in the margin expansion, we can get that without taking price to the customer I guess is that is the real answer there.
Okay.
Three to five is it mostly volume embedded in that assumption or do you also include like a 2% kind of run rate for inflation.
Yes, we will.
Cost savings initiatives in there to help offset inflation and that's I think how we've operated sort of pre the current environment.
That's how we tend to work with our customers to help us.
Historically, Rob I think what your question is historically those categories have grown at 3% to 5% and it's mostly volume driven a little bit of inflation.
Mostly volume thank you alright, thanks, guys.
Okay.
Your next question comes from the line of Bill Chapell from <unk> Securities. Your line is open.
Thanks, Good morning.
Morning Bill.
So I just wanted to kind of a follow up on pricing.
We've heard and I think everybody's heard.
Over the past few months as I guess, one retailer or a couple of retailers took pricing from the manufacturers, but didn't raise it at the store level just to kind of accelerate.
Some customer traffic accelerates private label share did you see that in any of your categories and if so is.
Is that now.
Our reverse as we move into 2023.
I would say in a macro bill it's hard to say each individual item in each individual retailer theres, a couple of especially the hard discounters.
And some of the large mass customers have been really aggressive on private label. There is no question.
But I think most of our pricing has been pass through.
The gaps remain healthy, but most of our pricing has been pass through I mean, there is an occasional market on occasional item that someone gets hot but I wouldn't say that's the norm I think it's the exception.
Got it and then second one on.
<unk> commentary on the supply levels.
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Little surprised you said they wouldn't you expect them to be back to normal by the end of the year.
I think thats still 10 months away.
So I mean is there any major obstacle roadblocks on that happening sooner or maybe give a little more color of why it would take that long for everything to be back to normal.
Yes, and maybe the context for that was we wouldn't expect every single plant I don't think that that means when you think about the fact, we've got half of our plans today we've got.
Sort of glide path in place across all of those plants and there is a handful that are challenge, where we're putting in a little bit more capital are a little bit more repairs and maintenance over the course of the year.
Let's get us to those glide paths and stabilizing some of the market. So from a labor perspective, so I don't think that means.
As a totality with sort of weighed out to an improved much improved service level, but it will take us probably the better part of the year to get everything.
And we hold ourselves to $98, one which is a pretty aggressive target and private label. So I think theres a couple of places one place we do want to touch on.
No our topline number wasn't quite what we had hoped it was going to be I think it was solid at 22%, but not what we'd hoped.
We had a couple of weather events in the fourth quarter, obviously, we had a hurricane which affects our peripheral business and some of our other things, but we also we have a <unk>.
Facility and above at a Buffalo suburb of Tunnel, London, New York.
Community got hit with five and six feet of snow, we have damage in that facility that we couldnt get fixed that with lingered into the end of the month of January for Us and so we've got a few things that we've got to get.
We've got to get to and we are in the midst of that but there were a couple of things outside our control that hit us that maybe softened our sales number it was not demand driven there was plenty of demand in the quarter. We just had a couple of categories that mother nature gotten way out.
Yes.
Got it.
Do you think you could be in the 70% 80% of your business is at the service levels you want maybe by mid year is that because that really I think thats very comfortable yes. We will just have one or two we think that will linger into the back half because we've got a we've got to do some.
Physical investment in the structures right.
Got it thanks, so much.
Your next question comes from the line of Chris Growe from Stifel. Your line is open.
Hi, Good morning, Good morning, Chris Hi, just a quick question for you on.
The volume I guess just to understand if we look ahead as we look ahead.
Should private label retail volumes be growing would you expect in 2023 away from home and co man to still be down for the year, you've got some lapping issues in there just want to get a sense of how that composition might break out.
Yes, Chris I think we've talked a little bit about the pickle business in particular, we will lap that for a couple more quarters I do think youll see that.
At least through the first half and then I do think we saw just some general food away from home softness in a few categories as folks have changed some of their consumption from that perspective. So.
That was maybe less significant than the business that we exited but we did see a little bit of that and so we are anticipating that to continue for a little bit.
Yes, and Chris Arkoma and volume like most is branded in some cases super premium brands, which.
Which are getting hit pretty hard.
I would say, though if we guided our units to flat. If you go back to slide I think it's slide five in our deck.
Suggests that our core retail business has to grow nicely right low single digits in order for that to happen. So we expect our our core retail business to grow this year nicely in units and that will be leveraged <unk> thats why we can guide that kind of margin performance that we're guiding.
Okay.
And then just a final question if I could then with the balance sheet now in a much better place youre holding in holding that notes that makes it could make the balance sheet look even better.
You are quickly in a better position. So when you talk about investing in the business, Steve or improving capabilities. How much of that is an internal comment how much of that is an ability to acquire now if that is an opportunity to help kind of fast forward some of that action.
Chris. Thank you yeah, we feel really good about the opportunities in our business right and so I think first of all we've looked internally and we think theres an opportunity to invest in capability internally and I think Rob asked the question on capacity for the future for to fund all this growth to fund the growth. We are missing right now so I think it will focus internally.
We have the chance to buy that capacity and I would say assets capabilities. We would do that if that can accelerate the path right I think.
<unk> for us would be capability, driven not necessarily new businesses.
Not not adjacencies those things that we've done in the past it would all be about we think we're in a great group of categories, we just need to be able to sell more.
The demand is there. So if the assets are there will we will use M&A to do it and Theres. A couple of places I think you may see us do that.
Okay. Thank.
Thank you for the color then thanks.
Your next question comes from the line of Connor <unk> from consumer Edge Research. Your line is open.
Hey, guys. Good morning, Thanks for the question good morning Carter.
So in the slide I think slide 15, where you feel that the price gaps versus national brand.
It looks like the price gap expanded somewhat in November , but then contracted again in December and Thats, roughly where it was that last year.
Just kind of curious how that looks in January so in the IRI data that we see it seems as if private label pricing is running somewhat ahead, Brandon on the year over year basis, and look to your categories and so that also would seem to imply a narrowing price gap and I guess just is there any concern that the narrowing price gaps may lead to moderating private label share gain.
I'd say a couple of things, let me step back and talk about December for us to have the kind of fourth quarter. We added in a good solid December December is a very much a national brand month, and like you say it fell back to where it normally is when people entertained for the holidays people lean in right. So it is not uncommon.
For the month of December specifically in November for Thanksgiving.
Stronger branded shares right. So if you go back and look at our business over time, you'll see that right.
So we performed as we expected we would perform over the holidays and had a good solid fourth quarter.
I would suggest that our volume trends and we obviously have access to many of our retailers daily scanner data right and weekly scanner data.
Our volumes are not slowing down based on the price gap, so that has not impacted our demand signal yet.
Okay, that's great.
And then just one quick follow up on service levels also.
Our call service levels last quarter, we're around about 93% and I think you guys quantified about 96% in October and so with the 100 basis point sequential increase.
Number of sequentially, increasing to 94% and switch so it sounds like service levels worsened from November and December that right.
Yes, I think we had a solid month.
In October and we did we did sort of land at about 94% I think some of the things that Steve described earlier in terms of some of the weather events and alike are probably what dampened that a bit as we sort of exited the year.
Okay perfect. Thanks for the color guys I appreciate it thank you.
Your next question comes from the line of Rob Dickerson from Jefferies. Your line is open.
Great. Thanks, so much.
Quick questions I guess first question kind of more broadly speaking just given kind of the macro backdrop and where the consumer is and all the pricing taken especially on the branded side I do.
As a sense here right I mean, the operating environment.
Obviously in a great spot for you on the private label side, but let's just say, we don't really see a lot of branded deflation.
But would you say that.
Over the next three years, just given youre guiding at this point.
That you believe that maybe we're entering some sort of beneficial cycle that could be a little longer term, just given kind of where the price deltas are and given the elevated absolute prices all the branded side. That's the first question.
Rob I would say, we guided based on a much more historic level I think you're right. These are these are different times right. The absolute price gap, we're looking at percentage price gaps with that absolute Penny gap is high.
So if that when things normalize.
Would that drive more private label.
Adoption, we will see.
I've said this a number of times I think private labels position that I had a conversation on Friday, frankly, with one of our largest customers and they're convinced that they are private label assortment quality.
Presentations the best it's ever been so.
I think time will tell right.
So if we can get back to historic growth rates, we build a hell of a treehouse right. If it gets better and that that'd be great, but I don't think we need that to happen for us to execute the way we've got it.
Okay fair enough.
And then just on the longer term plan.
Asleep ongoing implied margin expansion year over year.
I think I heard you say earlier.
Kind of ongoing productivity measures, obviously pricing catches up this year.
And then supply chain improvements.
At the same time, if youre looking forward I guess this is implied through at least 2026.
So you definitely have some sense of conviction on your ability to continue to increase those margins is there anything else in there is this.
Is there a mix impact do you kind of have visibility or maybe some of the forthcoming innovation.
Because if we assume it is mostly volume driven.
Kind of in the out year, then it would seem like Theres got to be some mixed component and maybe some volume leverage as well.
And then a quick follow up.
Yes, Rob this is Pat I think theirs is.
We think about Steve laid out the elements of our strategy and strategic customer partnerships in and trying to grow with those those customers in our growing private label.
Is the crux of the strategy and so I think as you grow with those who are growing faster than private label that I think that probably naturally improve share mix, a little bit, but I do think a lot of that has to do with the <unk>.
The volume growth and trying to grow.
Overall with the historical rates of the categories and then trying to improve our supply chain with the investments that we've put into place.
And the range of Capex that we think is necessary to do that.
Okay cool.
And then just quickly.
I know you guide to EBITDA, but same time, you are investing a little bit on the capital side.
Do you have a forecast.
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We view.
I don't think we put that.
We put that out we will have to probably follow up with you on the exact number.
Okay.
Okay.
Great. Thanks, Rob.
Yes.
And your next question comes from the line of Carla Casella from Jpmorgan. Your line is open.
Taking the question.
My next.
Question is on the EBITDA add backs that you have for the.
That covenant and adjusted can you give us the basis for that the 65 million dollar one.
Okay.
So youre talking about in the appendix.
Exactly.
Our covenant debt to EBITDA looks like it's over $400 million, whereas we calculate $300 million selling rather.
I'm wondering what the difference is it go forward cost savings or.
Yes, I think the footnote down there has a lot of the <unk> transaction related costs that are being added back or within that category.
There are allowable under the credit agreement.
Okay.
Your $300 million EBITDA has some other noncash charges that you haven't added back as well I think theres, another $44 million or those charges.
Just won't recur or they were.
They're not allowed to.
Thank you.
I don't understand why you don't add the macro in your and your EBITDA adjustments.
No those are there other sort of noncash write offs as defined in the credit agreement.
Things like inventory write offs and other elements that as defined or part of it the covenant calculation.
Okay, and then you've got a $427 million note receivable on the balance sheet. When do you expect to monetize that and have you thought about what how you would allocate the proceeds.
Yes, we don't have an expectation of when to monetize that I think given the dislocation in the credit markets.
Having that probably speculate a bit about.
Winelands intent in terms of when they may choose to refinance I don't think Barnabas session to just sort of guesstimate, one that might be but we're really happy with the return that that provides and to be able to go <unk>.
Reinvest some of that interest back into the business and so we'll continue to carry that right now we feel good about the direction of the business on the inland side as well.
So I do think capital allocation is a great question right.
When I arrived.
To prioritize paying down debt right now.
Now have our balance sheet in a really good place, where we can have a much more balanced capital allocation strategy, we will maintain a very strong balance sheet, where theyre now we'll continue that but we can also now invest in our in our business that will be our primary look as how can we get because we think the returns of our business are so strong.
And then what are the other opportunities can we can we return some capital to shareholders and what else can we do with it but we now have a much more balanced opportunity than we've had in the past, where we really wanted to get our our debt structure right and our balance sheet right and having the transaction allowed us to make a big step change there so.
That's why we feel better about the growth numbers that we're able to talk about today because.
Because we can invest to drive them.
That's great Super helpful. Thank you.
Circling back to the DNA question from earlier.
We think that'll be about $145 to $1 15.
And your next question comes from the line of William Reuter from Bank of America. Your line is open.
Good morning.
Earlier, when you were talking about.
Half of your Capex is going to be.
For driving capacity expansion and better innovation for your customers I think you made.
Made some reference to potentially purchasing capacity.
I guess is that.
That on the radar in terms of other facilities for sale that may allow you to.
I guess more aggressively grow that would speed up your ability to grow the top line.
I think there will be some stuff available yes.
But what has to be right and we're incredibly.
Careful there and it has to meet the right category or the right location and the right capabilities. So.
There may be some opportunities for some very small purchases and there may be some I don't think anything will be huge but there may be some some other opportunities out there.
Well those things those things happen when they happen we can't we can't speculate on exact timing.
Got it.
And then in terms of the TSA agreement.
I guess I.
Is the expectation that this is still going to wind down over a year and clearly youre going to have.
Some excess costs.
Are your operations when Youre not receiving some of those revenues are you pretty comfortable that you'll be able to decrease those cost in line with the reduction in funds that are going to be.
Provided to you from an invest industrial.
Yes, I think thats right. So there is there is those services are some of the back office services, you would expect under a TSA in and we expect to be able to wind those down and we know the winland business is going to need some folks where we're providing TSA services as well so that theres, probably a mutual beneficial solution there.
That makes sense alright, great Thats all for me. Thank you.
Okay.
And this concludes our question and answer session I would like to turn the conference back over to Steve Oakland for some closing remarks.
I just wanted to say thank you for everyone for joining us today, and we look forward to seeing you in person soon thank you. So much have a great day.
This concludes today's conference call you may now disconnect.
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