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Lifetime Brands (LCUT 0.60%)
Q4 2020 Earnings Call
Mar 10, 2021, 11:00 a.m. ET

Contents:

  • Prepared Remarks
  • Questions and Answers
  • Call Participants

Prepared Remarks:


Operator

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Lifetime Brands' fourth quarter and full-year 2020 earnings conference call. [Operator instructions] I would now like to introduce your host for today's conference, Andrew Squire. Mr. Squire, you may begin.

Andrew Squire -- Head of Investor Relations

Thank you. Good morning, and thank you for joining Lifetime Brands' fourth-quarter 2020 earnings call. With us today from management are Rob Kay, chief executive officer; and Larry Winoker, chief financial officer. Before we begin the call, I'd like to remind you that our remarks this morning may contain forward-looking statements that relate to the future performance of the company.

And these statements are intended to qualify for the safe harbor liability established by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. Any such statements are not guarantees of future performance and factors that could influence our results are highlighted in today's press release and others are contained in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Our remarks this morning and in today's press release also contain non-GAAP financial measures within the meaning of Regulation G promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Included in such release is a reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to the comparable financial measures calculated in accordance with GAAP.

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With that introduction, I'd like to turn the call over to Rob Kay. Please go ahead, Rob.

Rob Kay -- Chief Executive Officer

Thank you. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us today to discuss Lifetime Brands' fourth quarter and full-year 2020 financial results. We are very pleased with our performance in the fourth quarter, which marks another quarter driving significant value for our stakeholders. Our results this quarter reflect the continued strong demand for our products and our ability to outperform in the majority of our categories in both pure play and omnichannel e-commerce, combined with robust demand in many brick-and-mortar channels and market share gains in many of our categories.

On a consolidated basis, we also delivered growth for the full-year 2020, with a very strong fourth quarter capping strong revenue and earnings performance for the full year. This was achieved notwithstanding the negative contribution of our International business for the first three quarters of the year and the decline in our commercial foodservice business due to the impacts from the COVID pandemic. Despite the many external challenges we all faced, this was a truly transformative year for Lifetime Brands, and I'm incredibly proud of the entire team's performance whose execution on the opportunities and challenges we face, drove our strong performance. Throughout 2020, our core U.S.

business showed strength and, in fact, has now delivered its sixth consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth, achieving 10.7% growth in the fourth quarter. Similar to prior quarters in 2020, we experienced very strong demand in our kitchenware, cutlery and measurement products. The combination of market share gains and robust demand produced strong growth that, in many cases, exceeded the underlying growth in our markets. For example, at our largest customer, Walmart, we grew revenues year over year, 34% in stores and 76% on walmart.com, both levels which exceeded overall category growth at Walmart.

Moreover, in the fourth quarter, we saw ongoing strong performance across most of our channels, and we continue to capture revenue streams through participation across the spectrum of shopping channels available to the consumer. Thanks to the investments we've made as part of our Lifetime 2.0 strategy, we were able to further expand our e-commerce capabilities, enhancing our competitive advantage and capabilities to address increased demand and gain market share. Similarly, in 2020, we also saw meaningful growth with omnichannel retailers, thanks to our drop shipment capabilities, which gave us a competitive advantage and enabled us to meet increased demand and gain market share in that fast-growing channel as well. For the fourth quarter, our e-commerce revenues grew 41.6% and represented 23.4% of our total revenues.

Turning to our International business. We achieved meaningful progress in the International business during the fourth quarter. While our International business faced many COVID-19-related challenges in the first half of 2020, our turnaround plan successfully stabilized the operational issues that we began facing in the third quarter of 2019, driven by our newly launched business model and despite store closures throughout Europe toward the end of the year, our International business grew 3.3% in the fourth quarter, marking its return to growth. Further, we are starting to see results from the strategy that we launched in 2020 of utilizing direct in-country managers and other strategic initiatives, including in China, where we launched four of our brands direct-to-consumer in the e-commerce channel.

And as I mentioned on last quarter's call, we were also excited to launch a line of popular KitchenAid kitchen tools and bakeware internationally this year with a full product rollout in 2021. As for our foodservice initiative, we remain confident that this channel will provide long-term growth opportunities for Lifetime. As previously discussed, the result of COVID-19 regulations, which have impacted operations in restaurants, hotels and other foodservice businesses, has caused a delay in our ability to meaningfully penetrate this market. That said, our Mikasa Hospitality business recognized some sales in 2020, particularly as we're getting picked up by foodservice distributors and this, combined with meaningful interest and dialogue from many industry participants, is a good sign for the future prospects of the business.

Even though the pandemic slowed our progress, we are optimistic in the power and the potential of Mikasa Hospitality for the front of the house foodservice market and remain confident that this initiative represents a growth opportunity of approximately $100 million or more over the next five years. As for headwinds in the fourth quarter, similar to the previous months, we continue to face some shipping challenges, both related to inbound ocean freight and outbound domestic freight availability. These headwinds caused shipping delays and cancellations, which slightly slowed our growth for the quarter. While we expect these challenges to remain for the first half of 2021, we believe we will remain capable of overcoming these obstacles and have taken steps to keep a strong fulfillment capability to meet equally strong demand.

While 2020 challenged us all in many ways, the year provided a good opportunity to demonstrate the capabilities of the Lifetime Brands and how our team is well equipped to quickly and efficiently pivot in response to external events. It also provides an opportunity to showcase the capabilities we have built and the strategy we have implemented with our Lifetime 2.0 initiative. In the face of much global economic uncertainty, the Lifetime Brands' team diligently executed and delivered significant growth while making meaningful progress on our Lifetime 2.0 strategic plan. Successfully accomplishing the priorities laid out when we launched our new strategy back in 2018.

As a result, we generated $77.3 million in adjusted EBITDA in 2020, an increase of approximately 21% over 2019. And while we've delivered strong top line growth, we've also remained focused on disciplined cost control, which has contributed to making our company a leaner organization. Of note, the strategies which we have employed as part of Lifetime 2.0 has resulted in greater market share, a leaner, more profitable organization and momentum that we have been demonstrating since the first half -- the last half of 2019. To that point, the pandemic has reinforced the importance of disciplined financial management.

Throughout 2020, we managed to maintain adequate liquidity inventory levels and accelerated our supply chain, thanks in part to our flexible balance sheet. On the combination of generating cash flow from operations and a more disciplined approach to managing the balance sheet has created substantial cash flow that we have used to deleverage Lifetime to our target levels. All of these factors should lead to a strong first half of 2021 for Lifetime. We've started the year consistent with the second half of the successful 2020, and we expect this momentum to drive our performance as we continue to capitalize on the groundwork we have put in place.

In line with our historical practice, we intend to resume guidance in the first quarter, barring any unforeseen circumstances. Already in 2021, we have reinforced our consumer penetration strategy with a strategic acquisition of Year & Day, a development stage online table top platform focused on millennials, which is an underrepresentative age group in our current Dinnerware offering. This acquisition is an example of our ability to incubate digitally native brands with significant growth potentials by leveraging our scale, infrastructure and global footprint. The brand's founder will be joining us, and it will operate under her leadership as a separate business unit within Lifetime.

We expect the transaction to be accretive by 2022. And although not initially material to our business, we think it's a good example of how we can take advantage of our unique capabilities to support brands with significant potential for growth. Looking ahead, we continue to invest in brands and products that we believe will drive growth and profitability. I would like to emphasize that core to our 2021 strategy is investment in future growth initiatives.

In addition to Year & Day, other investments for 2021 include the expansion of our KitchenAid line across multiple categories and into new international markets. We're excited about some new product launches in our profitable Rabbit line of bar and wine tools. And we will also be launching a new celebrity-backed Lifestyle brand in partnership with Walmart, which is expected to be available in approximately 2,000 stores next year. As we invest in new product launches for the future, we are also investing in additional talent and people to be in a good position to capitalize on those opportunities.

Given our success achieving our Lifetime 2.0 objectives, we are moving forward with the next phase of our strategic plan, which will drive continued growth and profitability on top of the strong foundation that our team has built. We plan to do so by remaining focused on our core business and capitalizing on opportunities to expand into adjacent product categories that fit our core competencies in channel management, product design and innovation. We also plan to leverage our strong financial foundation to maintain our prudent capital allocation strategy. With significant cash flow and a strong balance sheet, we are well positioned to continue our dividend and pursue a disciplined M&A strategy that will drive incremental growth with a focus on growth, margin expansion and strategic long-term value creation for Lifetime Brands.

With that, I'll now turn the call over to Larry.

Larry Winoker -- Chief Financial Officer

Thanks, Rob. As we reported this morning, the net income for the fourth quarter of 2020 was $15.2 million or $0.70 per diluted share versus a loss of 14.5 million or $0.70 per diluted share in the 2019 quarter. 2019 quarter included a noncash charge of 33.2 million related to the impairment of the U.S. segment's goodwill.

Adjusted net income was 15.2 million for the 2020 quarter or $0.70 per diluted share as compared to an adjusted net income of 11.3 million or $0.54 per diluted share in 2019, a table which reconciles this non-GAAP measure to reported results was included in this morning's release. Income from operations was 24.4 million for the fourth quarter of 2020 as compared to a loss from operations of 15.5 million in the 2019 period. Excluding the noncash charge for goodwill impairment in 2019, income from operations would have been approximately 17.8 million. Adjusted EBITDA, a non-GAAP measure that is reconciled to our GAAP results in the release, was $77.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2020.

This represents a $4.6 million increase over 72.7 million for the trailing 12 months ended September 30th, 2020, and an increase of 13.2 million or 21% over the year ended December 31, 2019. Net sales in the fourth quarter were 249.2 million compared to $226.9 million for the 2019 quarter. In the U.S. segment, sales were up 21.4 million to 220.2 million.

The increase came from category growth and increased market share in the Kitchenware product category, led by tools and gadgets, cutlery, kitchen measurement and barware products. Category growth reflects continuation of consumers preparing more meals at home in addition to market share gains. Market share gains reflect the appeal of our products and brands and our ability to keep retailers in stock. Tableware was mixed at some retailers where we have a large presence in this category we opened slowly.

In home solutions, bath scales experienced significant growth, but it was offset by a decline for home decor, which did not anniversary a 2019 launch and for lifestyle products affected by the pandemic. Our development of a talented e-commerce team enabled us to address the accelerated opportunities in this channel as sales grew 41.6% in the quarter. International segment sales were up $900,000 to 29 million on a reported basis, $200,000 in constant U.S. dollars.

E-commerce sales grew significantly, but was largely offset by lower sales to national and independent retailers as Europe continued its lockdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Gross margin was 35.4% for the 2020 quarter versus 37% for 2019. For the U.S. segment, gross margin was 36.2% in the 2020 quarter versus 38.5% in 2019.

This was primarily due to channel shift. And in 2019, we realized the benefit from a tariff refund. For the 2020 full year, gross margin was up 20 basis points on a comparable basis, excluding the SKU rationalization charge recorded in the second quarter of 2019. For International, gross margin improved to 29.1% in the 2020 quarter from 26%, reflecting the benefit of the turnaround plan improvements, which included elimination of unprofitable SKUs, price adjustments for select offerings to increase margin and the introduction of new products with higher margins.

Distribution expense, as a percent of sales shipped from warehouses, was lowered by 60 basis points to 8.9% in the 2020 quarter. For the U.S. segment, distribution expenses, as a percentage of sales shipped from warehouses, was 8.4% and 8.3% for 2019 -- excuse me, 2020 and 2019 periods, respectively. The benefit of higher sales volume on fixed cost and fewer prepaid freight orders was offset by an increase in hourly wage rates and higher pieces of expense from increased drop shipment volume.

For the International segment, distribution expenses, excluding the 2019 relocation expenses were 12.1% versus -- and 17.1% for the 2020 and 2019 periods, respectively. This very large improvement was driven by the realization of the efficiencies of the new warehouse and the benefit of the turnaround plan. Selling, general and administrative expenses declined by 1.6 million to 41.6 million in 2020. U.S.

segment expenses declined by 1.5 million to 29.9 million in 2020. As a percentage of net sales, SG&A expenses declined to 13.6% from 15.8%. The improvement was primarily attributable to lower general ancillary expenses resulting from our cost reduction actions. This is partially offset by higher employee incentive compensation earned.

International segment expenses declined by 1.6 to 5.1 million in 2020. The decline reflected the benefit of the turnaround plan and cost savings initiatives implemented as part of this plan and supplemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Unallocated expenses increased 1.6 million to 6.7 million in 2020. This increase was mainly from higher incentive compensation earned.

Interest expense declined to 4.2 million in 2020 from 5.3 million, reflecting lower debt outstanding and lower interest rates. The effective tax rate for the 2020 period was 33.6%. The rate was higher than the statutory rate, primarily due to foreign taxes, including a U.K. valuation allowance, state taxes and certain nondeductible expenses.

The effective tax rate for 2019 was 27%. The rate was lower than the statutory rate, primarily due to state taxes and a decrease in nondeductible expenses, offset by foreign taxes and R&D credits. Looking at liquidity. As of December 31, 2020, our liquidity was $156 million, which was comprised of $36 million of cash plus availability under our revolving credit facility.

This was a $29.7 million increase from year-end 2019 achieved through improved operating results, including top line growth and cost reduction actions taken by the company. And at December 31, 2020, our net debt was 253.9 million and the net debt-to-EBITDA ratio was 3.3 times. Our accounts receivable at year-end 2020 increased significantly over the comparable period in the prior year. This reflects higher sales volume in the 2020 quarter, particularly in November and December.

As is typical for us, cash flow is strong in the first quarter of the calendar year, which follows our peak selling period. As of February 28, 2021, our net debt was further reduced to 226.3 million, a decline of approximately $28 million from December 31, with a corresponding increase in liquidity. Assuming our adjusted EBITDA was unchanged from full-year 2020, the net debt-to-EBITDA leverage ratio at the end of February 2021 would have improved to 2.9 times. This concludes our prepared comments.

Operator, please open the line for questions.

Questions & Answers:


Operator

[Operator instructions] Your first question comes from the line of Linda Bolton-Weiser from D.A. Davidson.

Linda Bolton-Weiser -- D.A. Davidson -- Analyst

Hi. How are you? So you talked about the fact that your foodservice business was impacted by the pandemic in 2020, is there any way to size that business for us? And I know that you're really just starting, but is there any way to give us some impression? Is it just really tiny revenue in 2020 or is it 5% of revenue? Is there any way to size it for us?

Rob Kay -- Chief Executive Officer

So just to back up a second, we've been in the foodservice business in back of the house, so in the kitchen for 15 years plus. And that business is approximately a $20 million business for us, which is all U.S.-based and was meaningfully down this year. Mikasa Hospitality, which represents the big initiative, and I think is where most of your question is geared toward, we had de minimis sales of less than seven figures. But we are, as I mentioned, having meaningful dive and part of that is things were just shut down, right? So people weren't ordering new plates in Dinnerware and the like and cutlery and so forth.

That is starting to pick up, and we are actually now in some major distributors, we're in their catalogs, it's a two-step distribution process in foodservice. So as people reopen, we have share that we'll be utilized and result in revenues in 2021, most in the second half, and we're starting to see some now.

Linda Bolton-Weiser -- D.A. Davidson -- Analyst

That's helpful. And then I think that investors are looking at companies who were affected by the pandemic, either positively or negatively. And then looking at comparisons going forward, for revenue growth. I guess one could argue that you've maybe been helped by the pandemic in some ways because you're selling kitchen goods and people are cooking more at home.

Do you think there's been any unusual benefit that you've had that will be hard to lap those comparisons or are you changing your business enough so that you can still grow against growth when we get up against those comparisons?

Rob Kay -- Chief Executive Officer

Yes. That's basically everyone's question, right? We were a beneficiary of more people working from home and the demand for our products and home products. We also, though, as a result of what we've been doing, and I think we accelerated that in the conditions of the pandemic to noticeably increase our market share. And if you look at NPD data, in many categories, we increased our market share.

So that's a sustainable advantage, and we think we can continue on that. And there were a lot of headwinds that we faced in 2020 that won't be there, and that's also why we've invested significantly in inventory and supply chain. And we're realizing a lot of things going on in implementing our plan, we started investing heavily in 2020, but 2021 is going to be a significant investment year for us to grow for the future. So net, we believe we won't get lapped by some extraordinary tailwinds.

We'll give more guidance in the first quarter. But we think this is sustainable and the first quarter, so far, is very strong to support that, as well as our order book. So the market shares, new product introductions, other initiatives like Year & Day, which will start really paying off in 2022. New products such as the Walmart, celebrity-backed brand that we'll announce -- we'll launch.

we mentioned that last call, we'll launch this year, but we'll get the full benefit also next year. So second half of this year, next year. There's a lot of things going on, which will give us ongoing financial momentum in 2021. But again, it will be an invest year so that we grow in 2022 and beyond.

So we're not expecting to grow 21% in 2021 again.

Linda Bolton-Weiser -- D.A. Davidson -- Analyst

OK. And then your cash flow in 2020 benefited from working capital improvement, is it fair to say that cash flow will be a little less robust in 2021?

Larry Winoker -- Chief Financial Officer

Let's defer that until we give our guidance in the first quarter.

Rob Kay -- Chief Executive Officer

We probably will have a little incremental -- not tremendously, but little incremental capex in 2021. We'll also have more cash with lower debt levels, right? There are some good gives and puts, which Larry will elaborate on in our guidance.

Larry Winoker -- Chief Financial Officer

I will add, and I think we spoke about it. There were some deferrals we were able to take advantage of related to pandemic, things like deferring some employee payroll taxes, as well as in the U.K. deferring payment of VAT tax. So -- and also, we negotiated some rent.

So some of that -- a lot of that will begin to -- have to get paid in '21, and it's actually some into 2022.

Linda Bolton-Weiser -- D.A. Davidson -- Analyst

OK. Thank you very much.

Larry Winoker -- Chief Financial Officer

You're welcome.

Rob Kay -- Chief Executive Officer

Thank you, Linda. I guess we'll see you tomorrow.

Linda Bolton-Weiser -- D.A. Davidson -- Analyst

Yes.

Operator

Thank you. Your next question comes from Brian Nagel from Oppenheimer.

Brian Nagel -- Oppenheimer & Co. Inc -- Analyst

Hi, good morning. Thanks for taking my questions. So a couple here. First off, with regard, you called out in your prepared comments, just the shipping issues, and we're hearing this from a lot of companies across the consumer landscape.

So I guess the question I have is, until these, sort of say, naturally abate, are there levers you can pull to help the company contend with them better or is it just a matter of basically accepting these disruptions in the nearer term?

Rob Kay -- Chief Executive Officer

Yes, that's a great question. I mean, we're doing everything we can. And I think an organization like us versus a lot of our competition, they can't do anything. So there's two shipping issues in terms of two general buckets: one is freight in, getting things in from overseas, really Asia, where there's an availability and a price in terms of container costs coming out of it; and the second is freight out.

So -- but if you look at Walmart and Amazon, I mean they've had major issues getting enough truckers to move things around, and they have a little bit more weight than us. But we have been doing things to mitigate and also working with our customers, as well as shippers on the freight in side of things. We accelerated a lot of inventory into the fourth quarter and first quarter to meet what we saw very strong demands. And that supersedes the availability of containers because we worked -- and we do have a tremendous weight with our third-party factories because we control a lot of those factories.

And therefore, we can get our goods made quicker and then we ship, for instance, a lot pre-Chinese New Year -- Lunar New Year, which just passed. And it's an investment in inventory, we have the balance sheet to do that. And we brought things in faster. So there are things you can do, but a lot of it is beyond your control.

And we've been facing this for six months. It will continue. Fortunately, it's a quality problem that part of it is our demand is also very strong.

Brian Nagel -- Oppenheimer & Co. Inc -- Analyst

Got it. That's really helpful. And then the second question I wanted to ask, it's somewhat of a follow-up to the prior question, but I agree with your comment. I mean, we're all looking at this to see how demand trends or what could or might shift as the COVID headwinds pass.

So Rob, you're recognizing that it's extraordinarily fluid and I apologize for it being a relatively near-term question. But as some markets have started to open up more, certain parts within the United States, are you seeing any early indications of demand trends for your products beginning to change?

Rob Kay -- Chief Executive Officer

No. Except on the foodservice side, where we're seeing demand increase. The -- in Europe, we -- there was a tremendous lockdown starting in last December, and that had a negative impact. The lockdown hasn't really been as extensive, and we haven't seen that in the United States.

But we haven't seen that, and there's -- it's not worthwhile getting into a debate in terms of the sustainability of the move toward home cooking, which we believe in, and there's been a lot of data, which you can review on your own. But if you look at a lot of categories, if you look at cookware, for example, people -- it benefited tremendously, right? You go into many retailers and you couldn't find cookware on the shelves. But you're not going to buy another set of pots and pans next year. Our goods are renewable.

And people use them and replace them to a different ticket item, and so we think that's sustainable. We're not relying on that as I explained in Linda's question, and there's a lot we're doing that is plus one for 2021 and beyond.

Brian Nagel -- Oppenheimer & Co. Inc -- Analyst

Right. I appreciate all the color. Thank you.

Operator

[Operator instructions] Your next question comes from the line of Anthony Lebiedzinski from Sidoti & Company.

Anthony Lebiedzinski -- Sidoti & Company -- Analyst

Good morning and thank you for taking the question. So we're hearing from more companies about they're seeing inflation. Just wondering if you could comment on that, are you seeing that? And kind of what's your outlook for that as to how you think you'll manage that?

Rob Kay -- Chief Executive Officer

Inflation did you say?

Anthony Lebiedzinski -- Sidoti & Company -- Analyst

Yes.

Rob Kay -- Chief Executive Officer

We are definitely seeing a cost input inflation. And we've been putting strategies to mitigate that, whether that's be labor costs and our distributions, which has been up on average $2 for almost a year and a half already. Unfortunately, where -- labor wage rate, where if they go to $15 minimum wage, it doesn't impact us. That's the good news, but we've been experiencing that.

But the cost inputs, whether it's materials, PP or polypropylene, sorry, which is a big input for ours. If you look at -- I mean, they are record highs. So a lot of the material costs, labor costs, a lot of the inputs. So there is cost inflation that we've been working for a while now, and we will continue to do to mitigate that through various channels.

But it is a reality.

Anthony Lebiedzinski -- Sidoti & Company -- Analyst

OK. So are you taking up pricing or how exactly you're going to offset some of these higher input costs, like I said, labor costs as well?

Rob Kay -- Chief Executive Officer

On the labor costs, we've basically -- we've been experiencing that for most of 2020. So we have mitigated that. And you can see in terms of our -- if you look at that -- I mentioned the distribution costs. And if you look at our distribution costs, it was down even in 2020 with significant labor and cost increases.

So we've had strategies to mitigate that that have been highly effective, and we'll continue to do so. The input, it's a universal, right? This isn't a Lifetime-oriented thing. That's everyone who's making anything similar to us, which will ultimately result in higher prices to the consumer over time.

Anthony Lebiedzinski -- Sidoti & Company -- Analyst

Got it. OK. And Rob, you mentioned that you have a strong outlook for first half of the year, is that both for domestic and international? Is it more skewed -- is it more domestic, similar to the fourth quarter trends?

Rob Kay -- Chief Executive Officer

Yes. So just to clarify, we have not given any guidance. And we will, with our first quarter call per our normal practice. I did say that, so far, we've seen -- consistent with 2020, we've seen strong demand so far in the first quarter.

In our core market, Europe was shut down and the combination of that in Brexit, which frankly, has been a complete disaster. We were well prepared, I think, better than the average bear. But it's very difficult, and they kind of hate each other over there. So that's had an impact on our business.

So -- but the demand still remains strong, and we're off to a good start.

Anthony Lebiedzinski -- Sidoti & Company -- Analyst

Got it. OK. And then lastly, as far as the tax rate is concerned, how should we think about that for '21?

Larry Winoker -- Chief Financial Officer

It's in the past. I mean, we should be the 21 plus the state, six to seven points, 28. Just know that the U.K. is planning to increase their rate legislations out there.

So, rate may be higher if that were to occur.

Anthony Lebiedzinski -- Sidoti & Company -- Analyst

Got it. All right. Well thanks and best of luck.

Larry Winoker -- Chief Financial Officer

Thanks Anthony.

Operator

[Operator instructions] At this time, we have no further questions. This concludes this morning's conference call.

Rob Kay -- Chief Executive Officer

Thank you again for joining us today. We appreciate your continued support of Lifetime Brands, and we hope that you will tune in tomorrow to listen to our presentation at the D.A. Davidson consumer growth conference. We look forward to discussing first-quarter results for fiscal 2021 on our next conference call.

Thank you, and have a good day.

Operator

[Operator signoff]

Duration: 39 minutes

Call participants:

Andrew Squire -- Head of Investor Relations

Rob Kay -- Chief Executive Officer

Larry Winoker -- Chief Financial Officer

Linda Bolton-Weiser -- D.A. Davidson -- Analyst

Brian Nagel -- Oppenheimer & Co. Inc -- Analyst

Anthony Lebiedzinski -- Sidoti & Company -- Analyst

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