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Oil-Dri Corp of America (ODC -2.49%)
Q4 2020 Earnings Call
Oct 14, 2020, 10:00 a.m. ET

Contents:

  • Prepared Remarks
  • Questions and Answers
  • Call Participants

Prepared Remarks:


Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to the fourth quarter 2020 investor teleconference. [Operator instructions] I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Dan Jaffee, president and CEO of Oil-Dri Corporation. Please go ahead, sir.

Dan Jaffee -- President and Chief Executive Officer

Great. Thank you, and welcome, everybody, to our fourth-quarter and fiscal year-end teleconference for Oil-Dri Corporation of America. This is actually our completion of 80th fiscal year. Joining me today will be our CFO, Susan Kreh; our chief operating officer, Molly VandenHeuvel; our vice president and general manager of our consumer products division, Jessica Moskowitz; the president of Amlan International, Flemming Mahs; our VP and general counsel, Laura Scheland; and as always, our manager of investor relations, Leslie Garber, who will walk us through the safe harbor provisions.

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Leslie Garber -- Manager of Investor Relations

Thank you, Dan, and welcome, everyone. On today's call, comments may contain forward-looking statements regarding the company's performance in future periods. Actual results in those periods may materially differ. In our press release and our SEC filings, we highlight a number of important risk factors, trends, and uncertainties that may affect our future performance.

We ask that you review and consider those factors in evaluating the company's comments and in evaluating any investment in Oil-Dri stock. Thank you for joining us. Dan?

Dan Jaffee -- President and Chief Executive Officer

Thank you, Leslie. I'd like to turn it over to Susan to go through our financial results for the quarter and fiscal year. Susan?

Susan Kreh -- Chief Financial Officer

Thank you, Dan. Fiscal 2020 was a record year for Oil-Dri, both for net sales and net income. Consolidated net sales for the year of $283 million reflect a 2% increase over the prior year. This growth was primarily due to increased demand for our cat litter and animal health products.

Total annual cat litter sales within the U.S. and Canada increased by 9% compared to the prior year. In addition, our co-packaging coarse cat litter business, which is reported in our business to business products group, also grew 6% over the prior year. In addition to growth in cat litter, our full-year sales of animal health products increased 12% versus the prior year, driven primarily by growth in Latin America, Mexico, Africa, and Asia, excluding China.

On the flip side and to a lesser extent, demand, and thus revenues, in our agricultural, fluids purification, industrial, and sports products were all negatively impacted by COVID-19. And while revenue grew by 2%, annual consolidated gross profit increased 16%, with margins improving from 24% in the past year to 27% in fiscal 2020. Now for those of you who follow us on a regular basis, you might recall that in some of our businesses, freight is a prepay and add, and therefore, we use gross profit per ton as our key metric to manage the business. And in fiscal 2020, we set a new record, increasing our gross profit per ton by 15% over the prior year.

This improvement was driven by lower natural gas in freight and wares housing costs, which were offset by slightly higher packaging and nonfuel manufacturing costs. Also called out separately in our financials and included in our operating results was a pre-tax gain of $13 million associated with the fourth quarter confidential intellectual property licensing agreement. Our selling, general, and administrative costs for the last 12-month period increased 16% over the prior year, primarily due to higher advertising spending of $3 million, higher compensation that was driven by higher year-over-year bonus costs of $6 million and higher benefits costs. These higher expenses were partially offset by lower legal costs, lower deferred compensation costs, and a curtailment gain related to freezing our supplemental executive retirement plan.

Our full-year net income attributed to Oil-Dri reached a record high of $19 million, reflecting a 50% increase over the prior year. We ended fiscal 2020 with cash and cash equivalents of $41 million. We also have approximately $10 million of debt. Therefore, we are in a really strong liquidity position, and that is after we made $8 million of voluntary contributions to our defined benefit pension plan and after executing share repurchases of $5.5 million.

So now that we reviewed our record-breaking year, let's shift to our fourth-quarter results. Our fourth quarter was coming off an incredibly strong third quarter that benefited from pantry loading of cat litter. Our fourth-quarter consolidated net sales declined by 8% compared to last year, while our gross margins remained relatively flat. Weaker demand for products within all areas of our business, except for our animal health products, resulted in this decrease.

The $13 million resulting from the confidential intellectual property license agreement mentioned earlier helped consolidated net income attributed to Oil-Dri reached a quarterly record high of $6 million, reflecting a 55% increase over the prior year. Now during the quarter, we made specific investment decisions based on our strong cash position as well as the strong income that resulted from the confidential licensing agreement as well as the fact that our plants were slowing down a bit, following the high levels of production that were required to support unprecedented third-quarter demand. We invested an incremental and pull-forward maintenance and capital for our facilities. We also invested in advertising for our consumer business to stimulate demand for fiscal year 2021, and we invested in some technology initiatives to provide future efficiencies in our plants and our back-office functions.

Now let's talk a bit about the fourth-quarter results of our product group. Our business to business products group's fourth-quarter revenues decreased 5% compared to last year. Sales of our agricultural products declined by 10% versus the prior year as a result of COVID-19-related demand delays from a particular large customer as well as a shift in timing of order for our Verge product. Sales of our fluid purification products also declined this quarter by 6% compared to the fourth quarter in the prior year, mainly due to the improved quality of edible oil in North America, thus resulting in reduced need of our bleaching clay.

COVID-19 has adversely impacted the timing of product testing at edible oil plants and has also resulted in decreased demand for products that are used to process jet fuel since air travel has significantly decreased. Sales from co-packaging coarse cat litter declined by 8% in the fourth quarter compared to the prior year, which can be attributed pantry unloading by consumers. These decreases in revenue were partially offset by year-over-year sales increase of 8% in animal health products. These increases were primarily in Mexico due to higher customer demand and the sale of animal health-related equipment.

Operating income in the B2B group declined 26% in the fourth quarter versus the same period last year, where lower sales and unfavorable product mix were offset partially by a reduction in SG&A expenses over the previous year's fourth quarter. Now let's talk a little bit about our retail and wholesale products group, where revenues decreased by 9% in the fourth quarter compared to the same period in fiscal 2019. While sales of our cat litter items grew significantly in the third quarter due to the COVID-19 pantry loading, they leveled off in the fourth quarter as a result of decreased demand from consumers who had already stocked up on our products. But when you look at the net sales for the third and fourth quarter combined, that reflects an increase of 7% over the same six months of the prior year, representing ongoing growth momentum in our cat litter business.

In the fourth quarter, demand for private-label scoopable products increased, including lightweight litter. When compared to the same quarter last year, the sales of private-label coarse litter declined. Our industrial and sports products included in this products group were hit hard during the fourth quarter as these markets continue to be negatively impacted by COVID-19. Decreased demand and the national shutdown of sports field continued to cause weak sales.

Operating income for the retail and wholesale products group was $500,000 in the fourth quarter, reflecting a 74% decrease compared to last year. This decline can be attributed to lower sales and the $3 million higher advertising spending that I mentioned earlier when discussing specific investments in our business. Our targeted digital media campaign will continue into fiscal year 2021, and we currently expect advertising costs for fiscal 2021 to be comparable to fiscal 2020. In order to position ourselves well for potential opportunistic acquisitions, during the fourth quarter, Oil-Dri entered into an amended and restated note purchase and private shelf agreement.

The company issued $10 million of notes payable over a 10-year term as part of the $75 million private placement shelf arrangement that provides Oil-Dri the ability to quickly issue additional note financing in the future to grow our business, if needed. And with that, Dan, I'll hand the discussion back over to you.

Dan Jaffee -- President and Chief Executive Officer

Great. Thank you. Great recap, Susan, of a great year, so it did make it fun. [Operator instructions] So let's go ahead and open the line.

Questions & Answers:


Operator

Thank you. [Operator instructions] Our first question comes from Ethan Starr, who's a private investor. Your line is now open.

Unknown speaker

Good morning. You've been hiring more people for Amlan, and you increased your ownership in the Mexican subsidiary over last year. So, I'm wondering, what are the prospects for Amlan over the next year, particularly with regards to Varium? And has Varium been licensed in more countries and U.S. states?

Dan Jaffee -- President and Chief Executive Officer

OK. Flemming, why don't you handle that question?

Flemming Mahs -- President, Amlan International

Sure. Thanks for asking. This is exciting ground for us, and we are moving quickly with the investment to move Varium and our new portfolio into markets that we have not addressed in the past. And we see good opportunity for growth, absolutely.

Dan Jaffee -- President and Chief Executive Officer

With regards -- let me just -- with regards to Mexico, Susan, I don't think we increased our ownership during the year. It might have just gotten more transparent, but our ownership in Mexico stayed the same in fiscal '20. Susan, is that correct?

Susan Kreh -- Chief Financial Officer

No. We did move up from 51% to 78% during this fiscal year.

Dan Jaffee -- President and Chief Executive Officer

Oh, all right. So, then I stand corrected. Ethan, once again, you're ahead of me on the curve.

Unknown speaker

Well, it was in the K.

Dan Jaffee -- President and Chief Executive Officer

Oh, I do remember that move. OK. No. Now I was forgetting that secondary move.

Yes. It's there. You're right.

Unknown speaker

OK. Any other color on this?

Dan Jaffee -- President and Chief Executive Officer

I mean, Susan, I don't know if you want to add any color to it. It was a matter of consolidating ownership and taking out some of the lesser players so that we could have a greater influence on that business.

Unknown speaker

Well, OK. Any more licenses for Varium in other countries and states?

Flemming Mahs -- President, Amlan International

We're continuing to add more licenses in more countries.

Unknown speaker

OK.

Flemming Mahs -- President, Amlan International

And we're continuing to add more support to really put promotion. As you've seen on the marketing side, there's been a lot more activity than in the past, and that will also continue.

Unknown speaker

OK. Thanks. I'll go back in the queue.

Dan Jaffee -- President and Chief Executive Officer

Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. [Operator instructions] Our next question comes from Robert Smith of Center for Perfo. Your line is now open.

Robert Smith -- Center for the Performing Arts

All right.

Dan Jaffee -- President and Chief Executive Officer

Good morning.

Robert Smith -- Center for the Performing Arts

Good morning. Perfo, the Center for Performance Investing. It's long. Yeah, so, alongside Ethan's query, what are the principal objectives in animal health for this current year? I mean, do you have some targets that you're working against as far as the progress you're going to make?

Dan Jaffee -- President and Chief Executive Officer

Very much so. Yes. I mean -- and Flemming can embellish on what I'm going to say. But as we're bringing on new people, salespeople, tech service, support team, we've got a metric of revenue per headcount that we're start trying to achieve so that we make sure that we are getting the bang for our buck that we're expecting.

And then as we achieve those, we're then going to roll on more people and keep the snowball rolling. But we're absolutely measuring our progress as we go. Flemming, anything you want to add to that?

Flemming Mahs -- President, Amlan International

No. I mean, the opportunity is still, you know, material and very exciting, and so we're continuing to execute and expand our presence. I mean, we've seen in the past where we are present with people, we do a lot better than normally go through a third party. So that's a key to growth, to have a presence and build our brand.

Robert Smith -- Center for the Performing Arts

What do you principally have to overcome to move this along more quickly, in your opinion? What are the major things that you have to get over?

Flemming Mahs -- President, Amlan International

Probably education. You know that we have been a small player in the past and present in the distribution channel primarily. And now we're moving into the key accounts in the industry and getting our presence and brand awareness and our scientific information in front of them, so they can make a – you know, they always make a very educated decision but get to know us and building those relationships.

Robert Smith -- Center for the Performing Arts

And in the commentary, there was a reference to Mexico, an equipment in Mexico. What is the equipment?

Flemming Mahs -- President, Amlan International

It's primarily swine -- artificial insemination and swine farm equipment.

Robert Smith -- Center for the Performing Arts

Thank you. I'll get back in the queue.

Dan Jaffee -- President and Chief Executive Officer

Thank you, Bob.

Operator

Thank you. And our next question comes from [ Ethan Starr ] as a private investor. Your line is now open.

Unknown speaker

Yes. It's really nice you got a $13 million onetime payment in the fourth quarter. But as an investor, no matter how you sugarcoat it in the press release, the bottom line is you lost money on an operating basis. And I'm just trying to understand why SG&A increased so much in the fourth quarter over last year.

And I hope it's not a trend.

Dan Jaffee -- President and Chief Executive Officer

No.

Susan Kreh -- Chief Financial Officer

I can jump in.

Dan Jaffee -- President and Chief Executive Officer

OK. You go ahead, Susan.

Susan Kreh -- Chief Financial Officer

Well, I would say that what you said is true, Ethan. But what -- the reason I was trying to highlight the investments that we made, those were significant. They were about $6 million worth. We wouldn't have done those had we not had that $13 million or maybe likely would not have done that.

It was opportunistic for us. The other thing we have in the fourth quarter is the bonus is significantly higher than it was last year.

Unknown speaker

OK. Well, how much of that was like the investments for the future, like the maintenance and advertising? And how much was the bonus accrual?

Susan Kreh -- Chief Financial Officer

They were each about $6 million.

Unknown speaker

Oh, so $6 million in investment, $6 million in bonus accrual?

Susan Kreh -- Chief Financial Officer

Yes.

Unknown speaker

OK. So, the bonus accrual alone, now -- was the -- does the $13 million onetime payment affect the bonus accrual?

Susan Kreh -- Chief Financial Officer

Yes, it does.

Unknown speaker

Oh, OK.

Dan Jaffee -- President and Chief Executive Officer

Yes. We were a double bonus before that as well. I mean, we had already maxed out through the third quarter. So yes, it affected it, but it really, ultimately, went back to the shareholders because we -- our bonus program caps out at double bonus, and we were a double bonus through three quarters.

Unknown speaker

No. The first three quarters were great. Go ahead, yes.

Susan Kreh -- Chief Financial Officer

No. I was just going to say, last year, we didn't pay a full bonus because, as you recall, the first two quarters of fiscal '19 were a real struggle as we went live on our JDE ERP.

Unknown speaker

Sure. But, you know, I really would appreciate it. I don't know. Maybe perhaps you didn't know the full extent of the bonus accrual when you had the last conference call.

But, you know, you specifically mentioned in the last conference call that the $13 million had already been received, yet you didn't mention – you know, make any mention of the huge increase in SG&A, which would have been appreciated had you known about it then.

Dan Jaffee -- President and Chief Executive Officer

Duly noted.

Unknown speaker

OK. I'll go back in the queue.

Operator

Thank you. And our next question comes from John Bair of Ascend Wealth Advisors. Your line is now open.

John Bair -- Ascend Wealth Advisors -- Analyst

Hi, there. Can you speak at all to the trends you're seeing right now with regards to consumer destocking? Has that kind of stabilized out? Are you starting to see a more normalized trend in that? And I also was kind of interested. In your press release, you said there was an increase in coarse, was it -- co-packaged coarse cat litter business was up. And is that trend -- I mean, that kind of goes counter to what we've been seeing over the past couple of years, so I'm kind of curious where that plays out or how that plays out.

Dan Jaffee -- President and Chief Executive Officer

Sure. I'll let Jessica take the destocking and restocking question, and then I'll close with the co-pack answer.

Jessica Moskowitz -- Vice President and General Manager of our Consumer Products

Yeah. Thank you for the question. So, we have seen things start to normalize again as it relates to the loading and then deloading from COVID. Obviously can't predict -- don't have a crystal ball to predict that.

We do expect to see potentially some additional loading again around the holidays as well. But I would say, in general, we have seen things start to stabilize in terms of the – you know, the big swings, up and down, from an inventory loading perspective.

John Bair -- Ascend Wealth Advisors -- Analyst

OK.

Dan Jaffee -- President and Chief Executive Officer

Yeah. And on the co-pack business, our major partner there has done a good job of getting -- offsetting the U.S. decline in coarse cat litter as scoopable cat litters become the cat litter of choice for consumers. They've done a good job of offsetting that with international business, and so we've benefited from that.

So that really was the key driver there.

John Bair -- Ascend Wealth Advisors -- Analyst

So, are you shipping that internationally? Or is that internationally sourced, the [Inaudible]?

Dan Jaffee -- President and Chief Executive Officer

No. It's all coming out -- we make 100% of it. It's all coming out of our Georgia facility.

John Bair -- Ascend Wealth Advisors -- Analyst

OK. And then they ship it? I mean, how do you -- do you bury those costs? Or how does that...

Dan Jaffee -- President and Chief Executive Officer

No, that's -- we make the product available to them on an FOB basis, and they handle all shipping, whether it's domestic or international.

John Bair -- Ascend Wealth Advisors -- Analyst

OK. OK, well, I've got another question, but I'll pop back in.

Dan Jaffee -- President and Chief Executive Officer

You can ask it. You can -- I mean, Ethan has already gotten a couple in. Ask your question, then probably Bob will have a question.

John Bair -- Ascend Wealth Advisors -- Analyst

Great. It's a fairly quick one. Just kind of curious on what you're seeing trend-wise with orders for product coming through sources such as, say, Amazon online or Chewy or that kind of demand. Have you -- can you tell us anything about that?

Dan Jaffee -- President and Chief Executive Officer

Sure. I'm going to let Jessica answer that, but I'm first going to give you my 50,000-foot view on e-commerce as it relates to cat litter. If you think about e-commerce, it makes the most sense for things where freight is a very small percentage of the delivered cost of goods. There's a reason why big-box stores and grocery stores have been able to be very competitive on bulky, low-priced items because they can buy in full truckloads, and then their distribution model allows the consumer to benefit from that.

When you decide to buy one bag of cat litter and have it stuck in a box and, you know, overnighted to you, the cost of that is greater per unit than putting it in a truckload and sending it to a distribution center and putting it on a store shelf. So ultimately, somebody has to bear that cost in the equation. It either has to be the manufacturer, the "e-tailer," the Amazon or Chewy, or the consumer. The consumer has to say, "I'm willing to pay an extra 30%, 40% for my litter because I don't want to be carrying it home." So just recognize that while e-commerce is having a major impact, and it's currently having a major impact in cat litter as well.

It's because someone in that equation is making the decision to participate to that extent. So, I'm just going to leave it there. It just doesn't -- it will never be as competitive from a cost-per-unit standpoint as the full truckload brick-and-mortar model. Now having said that, especially during COVID, it's been going crazy.

And I'll turn it over to Jessica.

John Bair -- Ascend Wealth Advisors -- Analyst

OK.

Jessica Moskowitz -- Vice President and General Manager of our Consumer Products

Yeah. Just to echo Dan's comments, we have continued to see an increase in e-commerce, you know, again, driven partially by COVID and partially by kind of a long-term consumer trend airing toward – you know, airing toward buying online.

John Bair -- Ascend Wealth Advisors -- Analyst

No. I would think, certainly, within urban areas, you would be seeing -- and I don't know if you're able to determine that or not. But within urban areas, I would imagine home delivery through one of those e-tailers would make a lot more sense than outside, just, you know -- so anyways. OK.

Very good.

Operator

Thank you. And your next question is a follow-up question from Robert Smith of Center for Performance. Your line is now open.

Robert Smith -- Center for the Performing Arts

Yeah. So maybe you could say something about the opportunities for animal health here in this country.

Dan Jaffee -- President and Chief Executive Officer

All right. Flemming, I'll let you field that.

Flemming Mahs -- President, Amlan International

Yeah. I mean, it's an untapped market for Amlan and Oil-Dri, and the product fits well. We know there's a lot of emphasis in the market for antibiotic alternatives, antibiotic-free production. No antibiotics ever is something, I think, Tyson is even talking, saying their 60% of their production is no antibiotics ever.

And so our product positioning is well fit. We are just needing the feet on the ground to really get our positioning in place with – you know, U.S., 80% of poultry production is probably 10 accounts or less. So, we are just getting the people in place to move forward, and it's a great opportunity.

Robert Smith -- Center for the Performing Arts

So, is there any particular regulatory matters that has to be overcome?

Flemming Mahs -- President, Amlan International

No.

Robert Smith -- Center for the Performing Arts

Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. And our next question comes from Joseph Gabelli of GAMCO Investors. Your line is now open.

Joseph Gabelli -- GAMCO Investors -- Analyst

Hi, guys. Thanks for taking the question. Could you just discuss what drove you to buy back some stock in July? And maybe update us on your thinking and strategy around share repurchases going forward?

Dan Jaffee -- President and Chief Executive Officer

Sure. Susan?

Susan Kreh -- Chief Financial Officer

Sure. Our thinking around the share repurchases in July were just our cash position. And honestly, we're not making anything on our cash. It's basically sitting in the bank.

So, we did an evaluation around what good buyback share price points were. And because the stock price was under what the evaluation said, we decided to go ahead and buy some back.

Dan Jaffee -- President and Chief Executive Officer

You know [Inaudible]. A big part of that calculation is voiding the dividend or retiring it, not paying the dividend on those shares. And when you're paying almost a 3% dividend and earning nothing on your money, you can definitely benefit from share buyback. And it benefits the shareholders.

What's your perspective on share repurchase? Joe, that was a question for you.

Joseph Gabelli -- GAMCO Investors -- Analyst

Well, obviously, it's another tool for capital allocation, depending on where you can get returns and where you think the stock is worth relative to where it's trading.

Dan Jaffee -- President and Chief Executive Officer

Yeah, we tried to -- rather than do a special dividend when we got that big influx of the onetime licensing, we said, "Let's -- this is the way of sort of returning some value to the shareholders and -- through a share repurchase." So that was part of the overall equation.

Robert Smith -- Center for the Performing Arts

Great. Thank you.

Operator

Thank you. And our final question comes from Ethan Starr, a private investor.

Unknown speaker

Yes. Do you -- what's the potential for growth in both the branded and private-label cat litter markets? You know, what -- are you still adding more accounts there? And how is that going, more SKUs in various accounts and new accounts?

Dan Jaffee -- President and Chief Executive Officer

Yeah. Jessica, I mean, one, you can certainly talk about because it's out there, and it's public. The blue jug at Walmart, which we're seeing some good results from and any private-label lightweights that we've -- you know, that business is continuing to grow.

Jessica Moskowitz -- Vice President and General Manager of our Consumer Products

Yeah. So, Ethan, I would just say we do continue to see both growth organically of our existing SKUs as well as kind of creation and expansion of new SKUs and new customer acquisition. So, we – you know, as we have successes with customers and key customers, obviously, those become great data points to go out and expand the business. And private-label lightweight has been, you know, very successful, both, you know, on the private-label side as well as the branded side, and really leveraging the trends that we're seeing in lightweight.

So excited to continue to see growth, and again, both through organic growth as well as customer acquisition.

Dan Jaffee -- President and Chief Executive Officer

And Ethan, I'll add, just to expand the question and I'll have to wrap up. Into all of North America, we're seeing even more rapid growth on private-label lightweight, north of the border in Canada, for two major reasons. Number one, private label has always been about 20% of the category in the United States with 80% being branded sales. Canada, being more like Europe.

It's more like 40% private label and 60% brand, so you've got a more developed market. You have a consumer more attuned to private label and buying their cat litter that way. So that's been good for us. And then about a year ago, and I've mentioned this before, you know, our largest competitor, Nestlé Purina, went all lightweight in Canada.

And so, they sell only lightweight offerings. They have 17 lightweight SKUs in Loblaws and Walmart Canada and no heavyweight SKUs, zero. And so they've clearly educated the consumer on the benefits of lightweight, and they can buy a brand or they can get a national brand equivalent made by us in the private label, in the own brands. So, we're seeing great results north of the border.

And we obviously hope that trend will make its way down to the United States, and that will be all good for Oil-Dri. So, thank you, all, for your focus and attention and your loyalty. We had a great fiscal '20. I want to thank our frontline workers for making it possible.

You know, they came in every day. And Molly and Aaron Christiansen and their team kept them safe and healthy, exercising really strict social distancing, wearing masks, three-times-daily cleaning, everything we got to do, keep COVID out of our facilities. As far as we know, no COVID emanated from our facilities. We did have a few teammates, and not many, who did contract COVID, but all the tracing pointed to spots outside Oil-Dri.

And because of their work, we were able to deliver a record year. And we look forward to, you know, continued momentum into fiscal '21. So, we'll be back to you in 90 days or so. Thank you very much.

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes today's conference call. Thank you for participating. You may now disconnect.

Duration: 33 minutes

Call participants:

Dan Jaffee -- President and Chief Executive Officer

Leslie Garber -- Manager of Investor Relations

Susan Kreh -- Chief Financial Officer

Unknown speaker

Flemming Mahs -- President, Amlan International

Robert Smith -- Center for the Performing Arts

John Bair -- Ascend Wealth Advisors -- Analyst

Jessica Moskowitz -- Vice President and General Manager of our Consumer Products

Joseph Gabelli -- GAMCO Investors -- Analyst

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