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Caleres Inc (CAL -2.23%)
Q1Â 2020 Earnings Call
Jun 4, 2020, 4:30 p.m. ET
Contents:
- Prepared Remarks
- Questions and Answers
- Call Participants
Prepared Remarks:
Operator
Good afternoon and welcome to the Caleres First Quarter Earnings Conference Call. My name is Erica, and I will be your conference coordinator. [Operator Instructions] At this time, I would like to turn the call over to Logan Bonacorsi, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead ma'am.
Logan Bonacorsi -- Vice President of Investor Relations
Good afternoon. I would like to thank you for joining our first quarter 2020 earnings call and webcast. A press release with detailed financial tables, as well as our quarterly slide presentation are available at caleres.com.
Please be aware that today's discussion contains forward-looking statements, which are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially due to various risk factors, including but not limited to, the factors disclosed in the Company's Form 10-K and other filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Please refer to today's press release and our SEC filings for more information on risk factors and other factors, which could impact forward-looking statements. Copies of these reports are available online. The Company undertakes no obligation to update any information discussed in this call at any time.
Joining me on the call today is Diane Sullivan, CEO, President and Chairman; Ken Hannah, Senior Vice President and CFO. We will begin the call with brief prepared remarks, and thereafter, we will be happy to take your questions.
I would now like to turn the call over to Diane. Diane?
Diane Sullivan -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board
Thanks Logan, and good afternoon, everyone. Before we begin, I think it's important to acknowledge the profound changes that have occurred in the world and in the marketplace in the third short months since our last earnings call on March 12. The acceleration of the COVID-19 pandemic launched the world into unfamiliar territory causing extreme economic disruption and uncertainty. These changes have had varying degrees of effects on people, regions and businesses, from the way we interact with one another, to the way we work.
More recently, we have seen a period of social unrest in the United States as horrible acts of brutality have highlighted the racial injustice that persists, which has led to protests across the country. As we stand against the injustice so many are speaking out against, it is also my sincerest hope that you, your families and your loved ones remain healthy and safe during this time period.
I would also like to take a moment to recognize and acknowledge all of our Caleres associates around the world for their drive, focus and dedication during this very challenging period in our history. From the outset, our people adapted seamlessly, shifting to new ways of performing their daily jobs, while at the same time, supporting the broader effort of manufacturing much needed supply for the healthcare community, and of course, taking the required yet sometimes difficult steps to ensure the Company is well positioned for the future.
As you well know, the first quarter for us began in a much different manner than it ended. We started fiscal year 2020 with a strong foundation grounded by our strategic priorities, supported by our financial flexibility and well positioned for growth. As we discussed in early March, we were seeing good momentum in our Famous Footwear business, which continued to benefit from strong performances from its premium and iconic brands, growth in the kids category, and improved consumer engagement and retention in our rewards program. And while we were managing through supply chain challenges in the brand portfolio, we were encouraged by the trends and outlook for 2020.
As the health crisis accelerated in early March, we immediately shifted enacting a two-pronged approach of safeguarding our people, our customers and our communities, while at the same time, taking action to protect the long-term viability of our business. By March 19, we had temporarily closed our entire fleet of retail stores and shifted our focus to the e-commerce portion of our business that would remain operational during this time period. In addition, we established a virtual workplace and empowered the vast majority of our associates to work from home during this period.
At the same time, we took aggressive action to ensure that the organization was equipped to weather the severe economic shutdown and emerge ready to compete as the economy recovered. We moved very quickly to limit our cash outflows, proactively working with our partners to significantly reduce inventory receipts, to extend payment terms, to scale back all non-essential operating expenses and reduce our planned capital expenditures.
In addition, as our stores were closing, we proactively drew down approximately $168 million from our revolving credit facility. We subsequently boosted our liquidity position by exercising a portion of the accordion feature, thus increasing the borrowing capacity under that facility.
We also made difficult decisions regarding our workforce. We permanently eliminated certain positions, furloughed others and implemented Companywide salary reductions for the remaining associates in order to preserve essential liquidity during the most severe stages of the economic shutdown.
Now, looking at the first quarter, as expected, our results were materially impacted by COVID-19. Our business was on track as we entered the crisis with comparable store sales at Famous Footwear up nearly 13% year-over-year and positive signs and improvement in our wholesale business. However, in mid-March, stores were closed and wholesale customers halted deliveries and delayed or canceled orders as they grappled with their own store closures and deterioration in consumer demand. And while we had made significant progress in recent periods expanding our e-commerce business, it was only able to replace a small portion of the sales lost from our entire store fleet and our partner stores being closed for the back half of the quarter.
So, despite these significant headwinds, we responded with speed and agility, leveraging our omni-channel capabilities and leaning into our enhanced digital business to connect and serve our consumers. During the period of store closures, we experienced triple-digit increase in our Famous Footwear e-commerce business as their top brands in sport and casual product offerings resonated with consumers who required more casual styles to fit their new stay-at-home reality.
And to support our -- the growth in our digital business, we effectively utilized our expansive network of temporarily closed stores as sourcing points for delivery and adapted our buy online, pick up in store capability to include a contactless curbside pickup option at certain locations. Currently, we are offering this service at approximately 375 locations across the Famous Footwear fleet with the expectation that we will expand to more than 600 stores in the next couple of weeks.
Now, I'd like to spend a few minutes talking about our experience with our store reopenings to date. As previously announced, in early May, we began welcoming back our furloughed store associates, with nearly 95% of our store managers returning to lead this effort, and initiated our first stage of in-store service. To date, we have successfully resolved in-store operations at 553 Famous Footwear locations, representing approximately 60% of the store fleet, and 33 Allen Edmonds and 36 Naturalizer locations. We expect to have nearly 85% of our stores open by late June, with the remaining stores primarily located in the regions heavily impacted by COVID-19 reopening when it is safe to do so.
Looking at the current period, the phased restart has gone smoothly. We are taking advantage of our expanded capabilities and complementary mix of services and are seeing sales at the newly reopened Famous Footwear stores coming in well above last year's levels. While it is too soon to call a trend, we are encouraged and believe this positive response is due to the fact that our Famous stores have great brands, offer a great value and are known for always having styles that are currently experiencing a heightened demand. In addition, the majority of our stores are off-mall and ideally situated for physical distancing, which provides our consumers with the level of comfort, safety and experience she prefers.
Our branded portfolio stores that have reopened are experiencing sales trends above our internal expectations, and our wholesale partners have begun to reopen their locations and place some new orders for delivery. We are working closely with our key retail partners to ensure we are liquidating spring inventory very aggressively and that we are set up well for fall.
In addition, looking at the first few weeks of the second quarter, our e-commerce businesses have continued to outpace our expectations even as stores have reopened with strong increases at both Famous Footwear and our branded e-commerce sites. During the first several weeks of May, our Famous Footwear e-commerce sales have increased more than 200% with our internal branded sites up nearly 40% compared to last year. Notably, quarter-to-date, we have seen improved traffic and conversion rates at key branded sites in our portfolio.
But before I hand the call over to Ken for a deeper dive on our results, I want to share why I am confident in our future and our ability to move through this crisis and emerge even stronger. First, we have the capabilities to capitalize on consumers' increasing preference to transact digitally, having made critical investments in our digital and fulfillment capabilities platforms. Second, we are known for iconic brands that consumers trust, whether owned or sold through Famous Footwear. Consumers now, more than ever before, are searching for brands that they know and trust to give them the style fit and value they desire, and we are capitalizing on this across our portfolio of brands. Third, we possess a diversified offering of lifestyle brands, deeply rooted in comfort, casual and athletic. This is very much aligned with the categories desired most by our customers and provides strategic and comprehensive access to a large and growing component of the footwear market. And finally, we have a strong capital structure that gives us the ability to invest in innovation and drive our long-term strategy, while returning value to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases.
As I reflect on this extraordinary period in our history, I believe we've managed through the early stages of this crisis effectively, aggressively cutting costs and preserving cash. While we are encouraged by the early signs of improvement, consumer demand is hard to predict, and there is still a great deal of uncertainty in the broader economy. However, we are resilient and resourceful, and we possess the sought-after brands and businesses known for comfort, fit and style.
As we progressed through the year, we will continue to be laser focused on protecting our people, maintaining a strong balance sheet, tightly managing supply and demand, while also strengthening the business through the advancement of our long-term strategic objectives, so we are well prepared to capitalize on the rebound when it comes.
When we entered the pandemic, my message to the Company was that we would operate with a sense of urgency, with compassion and with our eyes wide open to the reality of the changing environment. We will continue to operate this way as we move from protect and prepare to begin to restart and rebound, accelerating our decision making, product development, innovation and communication.
And with that, I'd like to now turn the call over to Ken for a financial review. Ken?
Kenneth H. Hannah -- Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
Thank you, Diane, and good afternoon, everyone. I would like to echo Diane's sentiment and thank our team for their commitment to our business during this tumultuous period. I'm very proud of our organization's ability to adapt swiftly, work efficiently and focus on strengthening the business for the rebound.
Early in the quarter, we quickly shifted our priorities to ensure we have the financial flexibility to navigate through a prolonged crisis. We took a series of deliberate steps to reduce cost and preserve cash, while at the same time, putting a comprehensive action plan in place to evolve our strategy to position our company to maximize sales and profitability as the business resumed. We immediately preserved cash, aligning our workforce and related expenses to meet the needs of a significantly lower demand environment. We reduced inventory levels aggressively by reducing or delaying product receipts and extending payment terms. We began negotiations to modify leases, including the deferral and abatement of certain lease payments and eliminated or deferred all non-essential capital projects, leading to a 40% reduction in our planned 2020 capital expenditure budget. We strengthened our financial flexibility by exercising a portion of the accordion feature on our asset-based revolving credit facility, increasing the borrowing capacity to $600 million. Combined, our efforts enabled us to end the quarter with $187.7 million in cash, slightly above the levels when stores closed in mid-March.
Now, moving onto a review of our first quarter financials, our GAAP results included $7.65 per share in charges and were primarily a result of the unfavorable business climate, our lower stock price and market cap during the period. The majority of the charges are non-cash and were triggered by the impact of COVID-19 on our business, which caused us to reassess the carrying value of the assets on our balance sheet. These costs include $5.66 per share in non-cash goodwill and intangible asset impairment charges; $1.90 per share related to COVID-19 expenses, including factory order cancellations, lease impairment charges, inventory markdowns, customer credit losses, employee severance, among others; $0.06 per share related to fair value adjustment of our Blowfish purchase obligation; and $0.03 per share in brand exit costs associated with our decision to not renew the Fergie license. You can find our GAAP results and a reconciliation table of our GAAP results to adjusted in our press release.
In total, for the first quarter, our net sales were $397.2 million compared to $677.8 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2019. Famous Footwear total sales were $191.3 million, down 45.7% from the first quarter of fiscal 2019. Same-store sales rose at Famous Footwear 12.8% through mid-March and were up 12.6% for the entire quarter, driven by strength in e-commerce. As a reminder, our comparable store sales calculation removes closed stores from both periods. Our branded portfolio sales were $217.2 million, a decrease of 36.3% for the quarter, impacted by wholesale cancellations and branded store closures during the final seven weeks of the first quarter.
Our adjusted gross margin was 39.5% compared to an adjusted gross margin of 42.3% in the first quarter of fiscal 2019. The 280 basis point decline was driven by a larger mix of e-commerce sales at Famous Footwear and the resulting shipping costs associated with that business. This activity, along with a delay in cancellation of inventory receipts, enabled us to end the quarter with inventory down 9.7% versus Q1 last year.
Famous Footwear had an adjusted gross profit margin of 39.2%, which compares to an adjusted gross margin of 43.4% in the 2019 first quarter. Again, the margin decline was driven by higher shipping costs associated with the larger mix of e-commerce-related business in the quarter. Our branded portfolio had an adjusted gross margin of 38% compared to an adjusted gross margin of 39.3% in the fiscal 2019 first quarter, driven by the promotional nature of retail selling post store closures.
Our consolidated SG&A expense was $225.2 million, representing a decline of approximately $37 million compared to the first quarter of last year. This reflected lower corporate and store payroll expense, as well as the initial benefits of expense reductions. While we worked with landlord to defer certain payments, we expensed the full amount of rent in accordance with GAAP, irrespective of the payment schedules. Our lower sales and gross margin were more than offset improvements in SG&A and led to an adjusted operating loss of $68.3 million. This compares to adjusted operating income of $24.9 million in the fiscal 2019 first quarter. At Famous Footwear, the adjusted operating loss was $45.6 million, and at Brand Portfolio, the operating loss was $10.1 million.
The Company's adjusted net loss was $50.4 million, or a loss of $1.30 per diluted share. This compares to adjusted net income of $15 million, or $0.36 per diluted share last year.
Now, turning to the balance sheet, we ended the first quarter with $187.7 million in cash and approximately $438.5 million of borrowings under our revolving credit facility. As a reminder, we exercised a portion of our accordion, which increased our capacity from $500 million to $600 million, and we have no significant debt maturities until 2023. As I mentioned earlier, our inventory at quarter-end was down 9.7% and included a 3.8% decline at Famous Footwear and an 18% decline at the Brand Portfolio. And looking ahead, we will maintain stringent control on the flow of inventory to ensure alignment with our demand.
Net cash provided by operating activities was $728,000 with capital expenditures totaling $4.5 million. During the quarter, we returned approximately $16 million to shareholders through share buybacks and dividends, investing $12.9 million in cash to fund the repurchase of 1.5 million shares of our common stock and $2.8 million to fund our quarterly dividend. While we considered it prudent to shore up liquidity and protect our cash position to ensure that we were positioned to withstand even a protracted market disruption, we expect to turn our focus to debt reduction. We expect deleveraging to be the most value-creating use of cash in future periods, given the volatility in the marketplace. At the same time, we anticipate complementing our debt reduction efforts with the continuation of our long-standing quarterly dividend and opportunistically repurchasing shares.
Given the rapidly evolving nature of the COVID-19 pandemic and the recent nationwide protests, we continue to plan for multiple scenarios, while remaining intensely focused on the disciplined management of inventory and expense. However, due to the ongoing business disruption and substantial uncertainty, we're not providing guidance for fiscal 2020. In order to ensure Caleres is positioned to compete in this market landscape going forward, we must be agile, streamlined and ready to pivot in this dynamic environment. We believe the lessons learned, the progress that has been made and the plans we have in place will transform the way we operate going forward.
During the period of closures, we closely analyzed the expected performance of every store across the fleet and are accelerating the closure of approximately 160 brick and mortar locations across our specialty retail and Famous Footwear stores in 2020 and 2021. Going forward, we are monitoring traffic and profitability levels across our markets as our stores reopen, and we'll take actions to ensure that our fleet is right-sized for how this pandemic has accelerated the shift to digital. Additionally, we are constantly reviewing our portfolio of brands to align with changing consumer preferences and lifestyles and will eliminate those that aren't performing in this environment. To that end, we have made the decision to exit Fergie, as well as several private brands and certain lower-margin businesses in the portfolio. Given this, we have taken steps to align the size of the organization and our resources with the new level of consumer demand. These decisions, while difficult, allow us to focus our resources on the areas of the business that we expect will yield the highest return. We also expect to benefit from quicker decision making as we operate a leaner and more efficient organization.
Caleres has faced numerous challenges over its long and storied history. And while each instance has required a different approach, we have evolved, we have overcome and we have found new ways to create value for our shareholders. With that foundation and drive, we believe that we will come through this period a stronger, more successful company.
And with that, I'd like to turn the call over to the operator for questions.
Questions and Answers:
Operator
[Operator Instructions] And your first question comes from Rick Patel with Needham & Company.
Rick Patel -- Needham & Company -- Analyst
Thank you. Good afternoon, and hope everyone is well.
Kenneth H. Hannah -- Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
Hi, Rick.
Diane Sullivan -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board
Hi, Rick. Thank you very much. You as well.
Rick Patel -- Needham & Company -- Analyst
Thanks Diane. I have two questions related to the stores that have reopened so far. So, first, I appreciate it's all very fluid right now, but can you give us context on how much comps are up in those stores that have reopened? And second, can you talk about e-commerce in those markets where stores have reopened? Have you seen the strength in that channel continue? Or have you seen it decelerate with consumers increasingly [Technical Issues]?
Diane Sullivan -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board
Yeah, OK. Rick, here's what I would say that we've actually seen our -- both brick and mortar and our e-commerce business accelerate at Famous Footwear, that not only are we comping positively in brick and mortar in May, we also have a very, very strong performance in our e-commerce business as well. We have not seen that shift or decline yet.
Now, I'd say that again, you said it well, very fluid early days, and we only have roughly 60% of our fleets open. So we're cautious, but we like the early signs of what we're seeing now. As it gets later into June and once we open those last 10% of our stores in some of these markets that are harder hit, we'll have to see how it all -- it reveals itself. But so far, I think we feel pretty good about the work that the teams have done to this point in time. But as I said, we're staying very focused and knowing that this is a marathon and we've got to make sure we are really on this every day.
Rick Patel -- Needham & Company -- Analyst
I appreciate that. And can you tie that into how you're thinking about inventory? So I guess, as we think about this across Famous and the Brands, first on Famous, how are you approaching inventories for the fall? Any pockets that you're looking to invest in versus de-emphasize? And then, similarly for the Brand Portfolio, any color on the fall order book and how that would shape your inventory decisions for the fall?
Diane Sullivan -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board
Yeah, sure. On Famous Footwear, first, it would be exactly what you would expect it to be. I think this strengthened our -- in the performance categories and sport lifestyle and casual, and easy wearing footwear is where the market really is. And actually, a little bit more recently, we are seeing our ability to really sell some flat sandals. But going into fall, we're going to continue to support those iconic brands that have been doing so well for us up to this point in time and make sure we continue to invest there and basically not invest in more of the traditional casual and dress side of the equation. So the teams are looking at that every single week to make sure we're calibrating it correctly, and frankly, want to use this opportunity as a way to try to increase the turn as well at Famous. So, that would be the Famous story.
And then, on the Brand Portfolio side, that's -- we have a little less visibility right now on consumer demand because there is very few stores open. The -- I would say, the system is just starting to move. So we are taking a very conservative approach there because we have generally heard that most of the marketplace is thinking about planning the back half of their business down 30% to 40%. So we're making sure that we keep our inventories in line with that and that we're also pivoting where we need to on certain brands to make sure we're focused on the categories of business that we believe -- where we believe the consumer is going to be.
I think your last question, part of that was about the order book. Our order book, given that kind of initial look at the back half of being down potentially 30% to 40%, we'll see, our order book is in a good position to support that level of sales. So -- but again, very fluid, looking at it every day and reading and reacting.
Kenneth H. Hannah -- Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
Yeah, Rick, I'll just add a little bit of color to Diane's comments. I know when we talk about comp stores and we only have 60% of our store base open, it's kind of hard to model that into what the second quarter might look like. And as we're looking at that -- your question on the order book, I think we're currently looking at when might those fall orders ship. And one of the things that we're working through right now is, it looks like everyone will try to extend the spring season as long as they can, which means that it will probably delay when we would ship for fall. So, normally on the Brand Portfolio, we're shipping at the end of July for the first part of fall. It looks like that is going to be shifted every bit of [Phonetic] 30 days out. So, as we look at the second quarter, we're not expecting the overall sales to be all that different than what we experienced in Q1. Obviously, with stores closed for the first couple of weeks of May and then now opening, while we get to 85% of our store fleet open, there's still a big number of those that are in places like New York and California that likely won't open until even further into the quarter.
Rick Patel -- Needham & Company -- Analyst
I appreciate it. Thanks very much.
Operator
Your next question is from Steven Marotta with CLK Associates.
Steven L. Marotta -- CL King & Associates -- Analyst
Good afternoon, Diane, Ken and Logan. I want to talk a little bit about back-to-school and how you're planning for it, specifically for Famous, from a buy standpoint, from an inventory standpoint, from a merchandising standpoint. I know you mentioned everyone is seemingly elongating spring. Do you think that will work for you for back-to-school? As an aside, and I think I'm hearing that it seems that kids are going to go back to school this fall. That was -- that's been up in the air a little bit. If you've heard anything different to that would be helpful. If you can just talk about the season, that would be great.
Diane Sullivan -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board
All right, Steve, no problem. I think everybody is really hoping that kids are going back to school for sure. That is what I've been hearing from everybody, beyond just the [Indecipherable] from a business perspective. But we think the best indication of how we're going to do back-to-school is really our trend right now because the segments of the business and the brands and everything that's driving our business currently, along with the strength in our kids business, we think is going to carry on nicely through the second quarter and into the third quarter. So I would say that first.
The second thing, in terms of county by county and school districts, we really haven't heard too much yet about what their status is. But our Famous store teams are monitoring that, and marketing teams, and we'll be managing that and adjusting that as we go forward. We've heard all sides of that, that some people are going back early and then skipping fall break and out at Thanksgiving. There's others that may go just on time or late. So it's very -- well, there's nothing definitive. It's all more anecdotal. And so, we're just going to continue to watch that and monitor and track that. We've -- we're encouraged. We believe we've got the right inventory levels to do the business that we'd like to do, and we think it's in the right brands and the right styles. So -- and the other thing, maybe the last point on Famous and back-to-school, I think the teams also did a really nice job of making sure, given this uncertainty of what -- was it going to be elongated, what were the weeks going to look like, that we really moved a lot of our media to digital because it was really hard to think about TV buying and without really knowing what that time frame was. So, we feel like we've got a terrific plan and we've got the right assortment. So looking forward to it actually. So, can't wait.
Steven L. Marotta -- CL King & Associates -- Analyst
Sure. Looking forward to anything in the future. You mentioned the curbside pickup option.
Diane Sullivan -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board
Yeah.
Steven L. Marotta -- CL King & Associates -- Analyst
And that was in about 300 stores. It's going to a couple of hundred more by the end of June. Can you talk a little bit about -- and I know this is impossible because you don't have full AURs at the moment. But what is that additive or at least what has that replaced? If you can quantify that in some manner, that would be really helpful.
Diane Sullivan -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board
Yeah, it's sort of hard to know whether it's additive. We believe obviously that given the fact that no stores were open, we had our store managers in those that offered curbside, so it really enhanced the ability as opposed to shipping. They could go to the store and pick it up. So, in some -- to some degree, it replaced what was our BOPIS program. We'll have to see as stores stay open and what that mix looks like, how many will come and do curbside versus go into the store versus have it shipped directly to their home. It's really, I would say, very difficult at this particular moment to really get a sense of whether or not what that's going to look like. But we, for sure, know that it's an important part of the mix of how consumers want to shop in the future and are going to make sure that we not only have it there in the stores we -- in the 600 or so that we'll have, but we will look to see in other places in our portfolio where else we would want to do that as well. So...
Steven L. Marotta -- CL King & Associates -- Analyst
Very helpful, thank you.
Diane Sullivan -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board
All right [Phonetic]. Thanks Steve.
Kenneth H. Hannah -- Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
Thanks Steve.
Operator
Your next question is from Chris Svezia with Wedbush.
Christopher Svezia -- Wedbush -- Analyst
Hi.
Kenneth H. Hannah -- Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
Hi, Chris.
Diane Sullivan -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board
Hi, Chris, how are you?
Christopher Svezia -- Wedbush -- Analyst
I'm good [Phonetic] guys. I'm well. How are you all? Hope you're doing good. So a couple of things. One, Ken, just go back and answering a previous question, you said sales not much different versus the first quarter. I just want to be clear, are you talking about total company sales?
Kenneth H. Hannah -- Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
Total company.
Christopher Svezia -- Wedbush -- Analyst
Okay. You're talking about percentage, correct?
Kenneth H. Hannah -- Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
Yeah.
Christopher Svezia -- Wedbush -- Analyst
Okay. Second, just on the -- when you talk about, Diane, the Famous Footwear comp being positive, you are just talking about those stores that are open obviously, correct?
Diane Sullivan -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board
Yes, of course. Yeah.
Christopher Svezia -- Wedbush -- Analyst
Okay.
Diane Sullivan -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board
So, that would be the 60% that are open now. Right.
Christopher Svezia -- Wedbush -- Analyst
Right. Fair to say -- I know you're not going to give a percentage, but that it's notably in excess of how you're trending prior to Famous Footwear closing, so 13% [Phonetic] plus, is that fair?
Diane Sullivan -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board
It's trending more than Q1 was.
Christopher Svezia -- Wedbush -- Analyst
Okay. What percentage Famous is now -- or what percentage of Famous is e-com? What was it last year, just so I have a sense of the base?
Diane Sullivan -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board
Right. Last year, it was -- I think the full year, we were at about 10% or so. And then, first quarter this year -- and of course, it's kind of funky in the sense that we don't have stores open the full time and all of that. So it's going to look a little bit higher, but it's about 28% of our of our business in this first quarter. So it's pretty substantial.
Christopher Svezia -- Wedbush -- Analyst
Okay. And you said, in the second quarter, it accelerated. You're up north of 200% in May, correct, on e-com, Famous?
Diane Sullivan -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board
Yes. Yes, we did.
Christopher Svezia -- Wedbush -- Analyst
Okay. And on the branded portfolio side, what -- similar question. Just remind us, Ken, what percentage is e-commerce, your company-owned website e-commerce and how much is retail e-com [Indecipherable]?
Diane Sullivan -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board
Yeah. So, I would say, our e-commerce-related businesses are about 36% in the quarter for our Brand Portfolio. And in the -- since the end of the quarter, we have seen our business on all of those accelerate as well, whether it's our branded dot-com sites, our wholesale drop ship portion of our business. The sort of other e-com businesses, like for example, what we sell through Amazon, some of those, because they were focused on essential services, it's taken a little bit of time to ramp up. But we're seeing all good things in our branded sites as well. Our measure of kind of success there is not only just that pure volume, but also what's happening with the consumer. And we've seen significant increase in new consumers. We've certainly seen our revenue -- our traffic is up, but our revenue really has been driven quite a bit by really conversion, improvement in conversion, and fairly small decreases in order value because very early on in the Brand Portfolio, they were sensitive to too much discounting when really the customer wasn't going to be there to respond. So -- and again, every other -- every brand sort of has a different story, but those would be the general themes for the total Brand Portfolio.
Christopher Svezia -- Wedbush -- Analyst
Okay. And on the margin, just on the branded portfolio, how are those conversations going with margin support? I know, obviously, there has been shift in timing of deliveries, etc., as they kind of manage through inventory. Obviously, you don't want they fall product anytime soon. I'm just curious how those conversations are going. Is there potentially more intense margin pressure on branded portfolio Q2 as you clean that out relative to Q1? Or just how we should think about it?
Diane Sullivan -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board
Yeah. I think given obviously the -- you can imagine the huge moves of inventory of cancellations and push-outs, and you name it, that really all of those conversations have been had as it relates to the first half, and we believe we've accurately reflected what we need to in our work on Q1 and the reserves that we've taken. It's going to be an ongoing thing, Chris, as you can imagine, to make sure we continue to liquidate the inventory that we need to over the next month or two. But again, everybody is trying to do the best they can to work together to get to the other side of this. So I think we've got it fairly accurately reflected in our Q1 results.
Christopher Svezia -- Wedbush -- Analyst
Okay. Just two final ones for me. Just on -- Ken, just on the $262 million impairment, what was that for? Is that for Allen Edmonds and Vionic? And then lastly, just on SG&A expenses, just broadly, how we should think about those? If you're making some assumptions about branded portfolio order book to be down 30% plus in the back half, just how you're managing that SG&A bucket as we move forward?
Kenneth H. Hannah -- Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
Yes, I'll start with the impairment. So, one of the things that we had to do -- we did all of our impairment testing in the fourth quarter, and obviously, everything passed. We had no impairments. As we were operating in Q1 with the stock price where it was trading and obviously the book value of the Company was setting quite a bit higher than the market cap based on where the stock was trading, and so we had to go through and do another impairment test in Q1. And so, we wrote down the Company's goodwill that it was carrying on the balance sheet for what was left of Vionic and Allen Edmonds. We also had to go through and look at the indefinite-lived intangibles, so the trade names associated with both Allen Edmonds, and we looked at Via Spiga, Franco Sarto, all of them. And so those that were indefinite lived, based on the shutdown and the reduction in sales and earnings there, we had to write those down. So, that was just part of a test that was required as we closed out the first quarter.
And your second question was on SG&A. So in the first quarter, we were down $37 million year-over-year. As we get a full quarter of the actions that we have taken, we expect that to be closer to $50 million in the second quarter year-over-year. And then, I would tell you that as we look at the back half, obviously, how that unfolds will determine what those expenses look like. So if we see demand that's going to be a little bit stronger than what we're assuming, then we'll be able to continue to book those savings. If we see it drop, we'll have to actually take another look at it. So we're really focused right now on the second quarter.
Christopher Svezia -- Wedbush -- Analyst
Got it. Okay. I'll drop out. Thank you very much, and all the best.
Kenneth H. Hannah -- Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
Thanks Chris.
Diane Sullivan -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board
Thank you, Chris. Appreciate it.
Operator
Our next question is from Sam Poser with Susquehanna.
Sam Poser -- Susquehanna Financial Group -- Analyst
Good afternoon. Hope everybody is great and safe and healthy and everything. And thank you for taking my questions. I've got a few follow-ups, and the first one is going to be about the comp store sales. Ken, can you tell us what the comp store sales were sort of on a kind of -- because if we model off of the negative 12%, and we don't know exactly how many are plus 12%. We don't know how many stores are closed, next year, we can't do it. So, can you tell us sort of what the all stores, stores that were open last year, including the store closure, comp was? And then also tell us how you're doing sort of -- with 50%, 60% of your stores closed, are you comping down 40% instead of down -- I'm sorry, are you coming down 30% instead of down 40% and that sort of where that 12% is? But if you could give us some color on sort of the all-in comp, so we can actually appropriately model next year and have a feel for what's happening versus the stores were open last year, that would be great. Thank you.
Kenneth H. Hannah -- Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
All right. So, let me try to answer your question just based on our total sales. So, when we look at our total sales at Famous Footwear, when we -- whether the store is open or not, right, we had the first two weeks with very few stores open. And so, there were zero sales coming out of those stores.
Sam Poser -- Susquehanna Financial Group -- Analyst
In Q1, let's start in Q1 where we were. You did $191 million in Q1. And your total sales in Q1 were down -- in Famous were down whatever they were down. What -- they were down 45.7%. Can we assume that you comped down in that range? Is it a 50% comp down for the quarter? Or is it a 38% come down? What's the real comp with using that $191,252,000?
Kenneth H. Hannah -- Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
So e-commerce was -- we said was up 70% in total for the quarter, right? So, in terms of -- when we look at the -- as a total -- trying to decouple that and I'm not even sure...
Sam Poser -- Susquehanna Financial Group -- Analyst
You don't have to decouple it. Shoe Carnival, for instance, last quarter comped down. Whatever they comped down included all those stores, including the stores that were closed. Quarter-to-date, they are up low-single digits and they had 80% of their stores open, but they were comping up low-single digits, including the stores that were still close. So as an all-in thing, how do you just take -- and including e-commerce, how do you take where you are right now and where you were in Q1 on a comp basis saying, OK, last year we had 900 [Phonetic] however many stores you had. This year, we have this many stores. That many stores are in the comp base. This is what we did, regardless of the stores were closed or not. What would that comp be, including e-commerce?
Kenneth H. Hannah -- Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
Well, we'll take it offline, Sam. I don't even know how to answer your question. We don't look at the business that way. And so, I honestly don't even know how to answer your question.
Sam Poser -- Susquehanna Financial Group -- Analyst
All right. How many stores did you close during the quarter? And how many stores you plan to close in Q2? How many are going to be closed permanently, like you're closing permanently, aren't going to reopen, that are not going to be there anymore?
Kenneth H. Hannah -- Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
In the quarter?
Sam Poser -- Susquehanna Financial Group -- Analyst
In 1Q. How many stores that you decided to close aren't going to reopen?
Kenneth H. Hannah -- Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
Yeah. We have -- if you go to the total number of stores that we operated, forget whether they're open or not, if you go to the schedule number 5, that is -- that was attached to the results, we operated 934 stores this year and 985 stores last year. So I think that's what...
Sam Poser -- Susquehanna Financial Group -- Analyst
So you closed 15 stores in the quarter because you had 949 at the end of Q4.
Kenneth H. Hannah -- Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
That's right. So there was 15 stores that were closed as part of outside of the shutdown associated with COVID.
Sam Poser -- Susquehanna Financial Group -- Analyst
And do you plan to open any stores at Famous this year?
Kenneth H. Hannah -- Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
We've got somewhere around 14 that are on the schedule for the back half. Nothing really in the first half.
Sam Poser -- Susquehanna Financial Group -- Analyst
Okay. And at Famous, within the e-commerce platform, how many new customers never shopped at Famous online before, new to you? Can you give us some idea of what -- like how many you've got, what percentage of your customers were new to Famous, never shopped there before? And could you sign them up?
Diane Sullivan -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board
Yeah, it actually was pretty interesting, Sam. It was close to half of the people that were shopped that came in were new, and about half were repeat, which was rather interesting, quite a bit high.
Sam Poser -- Susquehanna Financial Group -- Analyst
And did you sign all those folks up for the loyalty program? Or how many of those you think are going to stay?
Diane Sullivan -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board
I'm sure we did.
Sam Poser -- Susquehanna Financial Group -- Analyst
And then also lastly, to what degree are you narrowing the assortment at Famous? And are you going to need to use Famous to help move product you wouldn't have otherwise thought you would need to use Famous for from the Brand Portfolio?
Diane Sullivan -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board
Yeah, I would say we're going to narrow the assortment a little bit, some of the extraneous brands that really are in the casual and dress side of the equation where we don't really need to carry those. So I think men's dress is like a -- are really a right area for us to do a little bit more of an edit there. So I think we're looking at that. We're making sure that we've got the right inventory position against some of the -- obviously the big drivers, so we're doing that. And actually, as a matter of fact, we did have a special section on the Famous Footwear site where we have been clearing some of our Brand Portfolio goods as well, and it's been -- actually it's been doing -- we wanted to try. There's been a lot of different things across the Company, and I'm -- I know that's true with many others as well. People taking this moment to look at new ways of accessing customers and liquidating goods. And even curbside, that was a great thing that the team did very, very quickly and got that up and running. So, trying to -- a lot of new and different things in this current environment. And we're going to continue to try to figure out if they work or they don't. And if they do, we'll continue them. If they don't, we won't. So yes, we did. Not very material.
Sam Poser -- Susquehanna Financial Group -- Analyst
Thank you. Just trying to just -- OK, thank you so much and good luck. And stay safe.
Kenneth H. Hannah -- Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
Thank you and appreciate it.
Operator
Your next question is from Laura Champine with Loop Capital.
Laura Champine -- Loop Capital -- Analyst
Hi, thanks for taking my question. It's really just some clarifications. So, Ken, certainly heard your comments that you expect branded portfolio down 30% to 4% in the back, or that's what you're planning for. I take it that's not what you would plan for Famous Footwear. And then clarification for the current quarter. You commented that sales could end up about in the same ballpark as the year-on-year decline in Q1. Was that comment directed at Brand Portfolio? Or was that consolidated?
Kenneth H. Hannah -- Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
No, all in.
Laura Champine -- Loop Capital -- Analyst
And the down 30% to 40% for the back half, is that branded portfolio? Or is that all in?
Kenneth H. Hannah -- Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
That was branded portfolio that Diane was referring to.
Diane Sullivan -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board
I had talked about that, Laura, as the way we were seeing most of our retail partners planning fall. That's kind of what they've been thinking about in the last couple of weeks. As we see more of these stores reopening and get a better sense of how the business is going to respond, that might be something that gets adjusted. But it is one of those things that we're managing day to day, week to week. But that's -- we're taking a fairly conservative approach on that.
Laura Champine -- Loop Capital -- Analyst
Got it. And then, when we look at the store closures that you mentioned are accelerating, are they accelerating to the extent that they are stores that just will not reopen? Or maybe you can frame up for us what it means for them to be accelerating.
Kenneth H. Hannah -- Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
Yeah. So, when we looked at over the next two years through the end of 2021, we had identified about 160 stores that we would accelerate. Some of those are stores that were closed as part of COVID that -- where we won't reopen after things would return to normal. So we would go ahead and leave those stores closed. A number of them were on month-to-month basis. And then there is a big number of those that are in the Brand Portfolio tied to Naturalizer that we went through and made final decisions on when we would actually close those over the next two years.
Laura Champine -- Loop Capital -- Analyst
Got it. Thank you.
Kenneth H. Hannah -- Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
Thanks Laura.
Diane Sullivan -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board
Thanks Laura.
Operator
There are no further questions in queue at this time. I will turn the call back over to you Ms. Sullivan for any closing remarks.
Diane Sullivan -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board
Yes, I would like to thank everyone for their interest in Caleres, and we look forward to seeing everybody on our next conference call. Thank you, and be safe.
Operator
[Operator Closing Remarks]
Duration: 55 minutes
Call participants:
Logan Bonacorsi -- Vice President of Investor Relations
Diane Sullivan -- Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board
Kenneth H. Hannah -- Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
Rick Patel -- Needham & Company -- Analyst
Steven L. Marotta -- CL King & Associates -- Analyst
Christopher Svezia -- Wedbush -- Analyst
Sam Poser -- Susquehanna Financial Group -- Analyst
Laura Champine -- Loop Capital -- Analyst
