HAIN - Earnings call transcript Q3 2020 | The Hain Celestial Group, Inc.

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Operator

Good day, and welcome to the Hain Celestial Third Quarter 2020 Earnings Conference Call. Today's conference is being recorded. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Casey Turner, ICR. Please go ahead.

Casey Turner

Thank you. you Year us XXXX thank Third Hain and Fiscal Quarter Earnings morning, for on joining Celestial's Good Conference Call.

today Javier President call Executive the are President Schiller, On and Officer; and Chief Idrovo, and Vice Executive Financial Officer. Mark Chief

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Mark Schiller

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now I turn will the call to Mark. back

Mark Schiller

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Operator

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David Palmer

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Mark Schiller

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David Palmer

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Mark Schiller

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David Palmer

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Operator

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Mark Schiller

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Operator

you. now Bernstein. the Howard question take from Thank we Alexia next from

Alexia Howard

Great. Good everyone. morning,

Mark Schiller

morning. Good

Javier Idrovo

Good morning.

Alexia Howard

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Mark Schiller

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the I so good supply. ability And pretty feel to about

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Alexia Howard

on. very you I pass thank Great, much. will it

Operator

Sandler. question you. Lavery take the We Mr. Thank now from Piper Mike next from

Michael Lavery

you. Thank Good morning.

Mark Schiller

morning. Good

Javier Idrovo

morning. Good

Michael Lavery

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that planned your Or Just us far differently any picking think gone moves And that thinking? the you differently have be? some that is then, as still think portfolio current might how progress than about be environment or anything up you do that may now? there away since is in

Mark Schiller

Yes.

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continue they we the we within there. already And of to also described. what top-line are they grew in are Bigger already marketing. but Get brands The So invest

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brands XX% margin steady in the EBITDA those well. done plus very are we But as on

to So way be in America. North our would where well on we we said are we

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in And middle honestly, P&L. we of room more have the the a lot

still can XX% go the are We see shipped have plus some that numbers But it things trucks we don't amazing probably that in out. have doing you we we and got. our of

up fill what placing structure. part in in we can can If doing the bracket we a a which more are this can we road is lot efficiency on if our trucks fewer in cost pandemic, trucks, of place, lot standard get with get we

made So we there's lot runway. a have But more improvements. huge

on line, I the on the P&L. and get middle the And so I'm we bullish of confident bullish will top there. And I'm feel

terms Day, of there in three timeline Investor are time. we was original halfway Our years from

journey. about are We into XX-months the

will I early. think is we year intact. the And there journey a hopefully get little three

Michael Lavery

be what adapt the might necessary. seen and and in your typically just follow-up what some And how consumer able your of of thinking helpful. the behaves past is on the about you've stress to ways if adjust is and really there any That economic you some just

Mark Schiller

the recession? over Adapt you. to how behaving Got the consumers

I tell etcetera. free, tend would products, consumer. So appeal We afterwards thing first many gluten the organic more to to type you we because is non-GMO, have

be are of massive workers unemployment target. our and So when less that hear income tend we lower you the to experiencing, Those about

are little think I a So we bit insulated in that regard.

the people market's future. secure And affluent more long about okay. are As they the their income their feel too like stock not worried to as doing

one So, insulated. I are we hand, on the relatively think

at least we in Europe, private say label. of would our have in I businesses thing XX% second The

of will of down. the beneficiary it our lower income is a actually consumers trade we business a there. Because be So significant part who

say price is I we have all exhaustive will. our done The where of U.S. that if we have that of third to point a And thing you the premium is an review would we think products here in

price at and sizes point. looking are We alternatives

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If get So more more pay going $X pay more $X strapped, four ounces, would rather cash they are five ounces for you can the to or consumers it. but you less.

that in point. getting already we competitive a are of price process So more opening downsizing to the and offering

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relatively be of And I be feel compete we well to should and well. in weather so, we we pretty recession that the like able are positioned position will in all categories to

Michael Lavery

Thank you. Very helpful.

Operator

Rob question now We Dickerson from the take from you. Thank next Jefferies.

Unidentified Analyst

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give COVID-XX by co-manufacturing because have you some quarter peers. of much in the a was leverage. as the partially impacted public mix only attributed to pandemic? not different maybe that your So maybe related company And Is that operating you also

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Mark Schiller

Yes.

take second the So first. let me one

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going robust well before have initiatives had we a So of set COVID. productivity

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there's a incentive So fill up no to for truck. people

are that. We on working

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Unidentified Analyst

much the for detail. Thank very you

Operator

We question form you. SunTrust. Chappell our next from take now Thank Bill

Unidentified Analyst

the actually Hope is for for staying Thanks questions. it well. Bill. [Indiscernible] taking Hi, everyone on

a had the business. on quick European Just one

you as Thank that starting you restrictions. lockdown look you you in seeing of service U.S. there, early noted back may trends saw guys able to prepare shipping on saw come out as of you've early trends, business. anything kind in early food part of You Any wondering to business. that some to U.S. Europe on I if Europe. to the was use destock social consumers reads Anything be you. the starts

Mark Schiller

open sticking They same this doing about so interesting like the kind Europe telling society. the countries with are But what's is thing. is so here of many stances it there. so and different water it early is many different to us Yes, that on

seeing are opening is But they doing we where are what gradually. they are

consumers We of seeing still going have public. out in fear are

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outside. seeing think people we are want that get to I

from park. it people those has the It eating like whether in So first a is to migrated their is comfortable are beaches, step it the still it leaving not eating for their rapidly they is old is behaviors point. the factor homes, is but away occasions whether homes. and in whether But get mountains flock home just

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So I error a think and it is trial process.

think I slowly. doing it everybody's

theaters see malls I and U.S. hear are are in and opening thing the and the here some like. to think states movie same I see going you when

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to steady is. going slow to I kind whatever normal is think so a progression of new be it And back the

Europe The got that and say we UK Austria of and is is Whereas, Germany other business. The I would ahead a much I us, UK you also thing as interesting think have know, here Europe. of huge behind is and us. is

So, lockdown. of bent we in have are ways They the they got and curve where midst They the trying the got the to business a pretty in go. in have big deaths. are to have They we UK bend got XX,XXX curve.

So think I a it UK. normal the to in will be bit returned slower little

Operator

from from the next Morningstar. take Rebecca now we Scheuneman question Okay,

Rebecca Scheuneman

Good morning. you the question. for Thank

pantry contributed us all, of get before sense of first love stacking with growth just much the the was the how mid-March quarter's before tracking began? surge to to where growth. So share a you Can I'd

Mark Schiller

Yes.

in opening double before as first were digits So a the the brands the afterwards. and quarter my specific happened. growing in in months But are guidance in top-line. say give half very ended we don't what we on did digits up Bigger we I the remarks two of high-single Get the low this over And

brands. Get the improves that of sense trend can put And virus you the some Better much similar math brands. how So to and a saw a we the on get general Bigger Get

direction. certainly weeks already was some right volumes So quarter three the the what that of moving the to added last a was in business

remember we trend to and have and were the we were very going brands on clear will the we end a tracking robust high-single Get Bigger call, the you last that earnings to quarter And are growth. in digit going on

So doing were we that.

other places mixed demand. places drop like private of huge we more mission an the increase a label, again some And case In like saw of in saw Europe, demand. bag in in in a we fruit,

basis was there. aggregate and definitely points unfavorable, here the So was favorable more it no in a but in improvement it Europe mixed a in on there say because some hundred would almost few total is bag were top-line. bit benefit a of little I were some of

go as though, add important April, would ahead that one in consumption to thing was into shipments I of note March. What we is

an in have surge such added consumption, because happened fourth we a there's was behavior couldn't so when to loading short And shelves. product period benefit so demand pantry up the on that, keep in time the catching massive that of quarter of shipments retailers

third-party goes little of to our because a distributors. much And we tend through longer bit supply chain volume have

robot So April is a month.

consumption was at off much quarter and We steady to it the continues before our than start virus. be a a are level in higher the to good

Rebecca Scheuneman

you. have suggest a to this environment be some second that Okay, initial benefits but data great that current any lasting. realized this obviously will And And to question opportunity great. do is early my Thank increase provides you this of or anything trial. purchase repeat I

Mark Schiller

is it data. early a give Yes, too repeat to you

tend oil purchase XX-days be spectrum in to Our cycles purchases. it be the something six XX-days like case could of months between

tell. So it is too early to

have What on of I has seen spectrum would increase oils tell the snacks Imagine most on in trial our soup. you as business soup we trial exceptional on cheese been robust business.

early. weather. mean soup the is I out cold And it of something coming we were like so take

is be So point. the yet. summer. just too in repeat don't will repeat the the long But It this evident very data be cycle purchases for fast we to have at

Rebecca Scheuneman

much. so thank Okay, you

Operator

questions there time. further looks this It you. Thank like at no are

call you. would over like I to turn So the to back

Mark Schiller

Yes.

work. all thanking employees the has hard by, end quite their of Let been again for me successful. just This here

quality of a think and the assess its organization I a ability to way respond. is good to crisis the

proud We are have very about of able been future. the we what I'm accomplish. optimistic to very

well are positioned We we playing are offense.

versus being We reacting. And very proactive. are thinking ahead

the think is bright. I very future So

And will I Thank later. all. appreciate you to everybody's talk support. And we you

Operator

does participation. for Thanks you. your concludes today's call. This conference Thank

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The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. (HAIN) 7 May 202020 Q3 Earnings call transcript