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Inter Parfums, inc (NASDAQ:IPAR)Q2 2021 Earnings CallAug 10, 2021, 11:00 a.m. ETContents:
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OperatorGreetings, and welcome to the Inter Parfums Second Quarter 2021 Conference Call and Webcast. At this time, all individuals are in a listen-only mode. A matter-and-answer session will observe the formal presentation. [Operator Instructions] Please observe that this convention is being recorded.I’ll now flip the decision over to Russell Greenberg, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Inter Parfums. Mr. Greenberg, it’s possible you’ll start.Russell Greenberg — Executive Vice President and Chief Financial OfficerThank you very a lot, operator. Good morning, and welcome to our 2021 mid-year convention name. As all the time, this convention name might include forward-looking statements, which contain identified and unknown dangers, uncertainties and different components that will trigger precise outcomes to be materially completely different from projected outcomes. These components embody however aren’t restricted to the dangers and uncertainties mentioned beneath the headings forward-looking statements and danger components in our Annual Report on Form 10-Okay for the 12 months ended December thirty first, 2020 and different stories we file once in a while with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We don’t intend to and undertake no obligation to replace the data mentioned.When we check with our European-based operations, we’re primarily speaking about gross sales of status perfume merchandise carried out by means of our 73%-owned French subsidiary, Interparfums SA. When we talk about our United States-based operations, we’re primarily referring to gross sales of status perfume merchandise carried out by means of our wholly owned home subsidiaries.Of observe, the common greenback/euro alternate fee for the 2021 second quarter was 1.2 in comparison with 1.1 and 1.12 within the second quarters of 2020 and 2019, respectively. As you realize, a weaker greenback versus the euro has a positive impression on our internet gross sales, whereas gross margins are negatively affected, and that’s as a result of greater than 50% of internet gross sales of our European operations are literally denominated in U.S. {dollars} whereas virtually all of their prices are incurred in euro.I additionally do not should remind listeners that final 12 months’s second quarter a lot of the world closed down as a result of treacherous days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our gross sales almost floor to a halt and we recorded the first-ever quarterly loss in our 33 years as a public firm. What a distinction a 12 months makes.When we introduced preliminary 2021 steerage final November, our visibility was minimal. Since then, with the advantage of time, we’ve raised annual steerage twice. Today, COVID-19 and its variants, the distribution and acceptance of vaccines and the big selection of change in regulation in numerous jurisdictions, proceed to make projections extraordinarily difficult.Moving on to in the present day’s enterprise. 2021 second quarter gross sales have been much better than our greatest expectations and the working leverage that resulted was pretty much as good because it will get. In the information launch we issued yesterday, we targeted on the comparability between the 2021 second quarter and first half with the identical intervals in 2019. We will proceed with that format throughout this name.Second quarter 2021 gross sales of $207.6 million have been 25% forward of $166.2 million within the second quarter of 2019. Through the primary half, our gross sales are working almost 18% forward of 2019’s first half, with gross sales by European operations up 19% and U.S. operations up by simply over 13%.For U.S. operations, second quarter gross margin rose to 53% from 52% in that very same interval in 2019. The decline within the greenback versus the euro contributed to a slight decline within the gross revenue margin for European operations, which got here in at 67% in comparison with 68% in that second quarter of 2019.SG&A expense was 42% and 40% of internet gross sales for the three and the six months ended June 30, 2021, and that compares to 51% and 47%, respectively, in those self same intervals from 2019. European operations’ SG&A bills represented 44% of internet gross sales in comparison with 54% in 2019 and for U.S. operations, SG&A bills represented 36% of internet gross sales in ’21 in comparison with 40% in 2019.After a hiring freeze in 2020, we made a number of new hires this 12 months and enterprise journey has resumed considerably. But general, our administrative bills haven’t risen in proportion to the topline development. 2021 second quarter promotion and promoting, which is — that’s included in SG&A, was $33.2 million or solely 16% of internet gross sales. By means of comparability, within the second quarter of 2019, promotion and promoting bills was $36.4 million or 22% of internet gross sales. For the 12 months as a complete, we proceed to anticipate promotional promoting bills to strategy historic ranges of 21% of internet gross sales on a full-year foundation, which primarily based upon our present gross sales steerage could be round $157 million in whole, implying that we’ve one other roughly $100 million to spend within the second half.Thus far, inflation didn’t have a major impression on our working outcomes, pricing, prices, finances or outlook. This has begun to vary in Q3, particularly with transportation prices, and we will likely be monitoring these results very, very carefully.Our second quarter working margin got here in at 22% in comparison with 14% in the identical interval in 2019. And for the primary half, our working margin was 23% versus 16% within the first half of 2019.We closed the second quarter with working capital of $462 million, together with roughly $298 million in money, money equivalents and short-term investments, and a working capital ratio of over 3:1. The $133 million of long-term debt pertains to our Paris headquarters acquisition, which was financed by a 10-year EUR120 million financial institution mortgage. Approximately, EUR80 million of this variable fee debt was swapped for mounted fee debt. Cash offered by working actions aggregated $38.1 million for the six months ended June 30, 2021.As we’ve reported final month and affirmed yesterday, we raised our 2021 gross sales steerage to roughly $750 million, leading to diluted EPS of $1.95. Our steerage assumes the common greenback/euro alternate fee stays at present ranges and that there isn’t a important resurgence within the COVID-19 pandemic. Once the Ferragamo deal closes, we are going to revisit the topic of steerage and make changes primarily based upon pending orders and stock ranges.Now, I’ll flip the decision over to Jean.Jean Madar — Chairman and Chief Executive OfficerThank you, Russ, and good morning, everybody. Our message in the present day may be summed up in three sentences; enterprise is booming, demand may be very sturdy and just about all our manufacturers are outperforming what we budgeted originally of the 12 months. So, let me transfer into particulars. Through the primary half of 2021, gross sales in our largest market, North America, rose 59% as in comparison with 2019. That is large.Sales in Western Europe and Asia have been comparatively flat with the primary half of 2019 and it is fairly good. Sales in two of our smaller markets, Eastern Europe and Central and South America, have been forward 54% and 10%, respectively, over[Phonetic] first half of 2019, whereas gross sales within the Middle East declined 22%.Our 4 largest manufacturers are working forward of 2019, as Montblanc, Jimmy Choo, Coach and GUESS rose 3% for Montblanc, 39% for Jimmy Choo, 34% for Coach and 58% for GUESS, in comparison with the primary half of 2019. You might recall that we launched Explorer for Montblanc in 2019 and therefore have a much less dramatic comparability.Although worldwide journey is slowly resuming, the impression on our journey retail duty-free enterprise is barely noticeable. Pre-pandemic, this enterprise traditionally represented round 15% of our internet gross sales. That mentioned, on-line gross sales have been fairly good. Just a reminder, we don’t immediately conduct e-commerce with shoppers, however our merchandise are offered throughout a number of web platforms, our merchandise are offered by means of the web sites of shops and specialty shops, possibly on-line websites like Tmall and Amazon and the web sites of our licensors.On the associated topic, Origines-parfums, wherein we acquired a minority curiosity efficient July 2020, has been doing fairly properly with sturdy gross sales development. But as a result of it is a minority curiosity, its gross sales aren’t consolidated.Of course, the massive information of the final month is Ferragamo. We are delighted to welcome Ferragamo to our portfolio of perfume manufacturers, which is able to formally occur in October 1. Ferragamo has been a timeless, traditional luxurious model for generations of quality-driven shoppers. With its origins relationship to the early ’70s — Nineteen Seventies, Ferragamo Parfum encompasses a big and beautiful suite of males’s and ladies’s perfume, however are produced in Italy and distributed worldwide.From our work finding out the model’s potential, we’re assured that the experience we carry to product growth, the packaging, the promoting, advertising and marketing and distribution will elevate the model’s perfume profile together with gross sales, particularly within the model’s largest markets, which is China and North America, the place we’ve established a really sturdy presence.We are buying the property of the enterprise into the stock, instruments, molds, that are falling into our wholly owned Italian subsidiary, which we are going to handle, function and develop in Florence, Italy. We are additionally taking over Ferragamo’s obligations, together with employment agreements and contractual agreements with suppliers and distributors. In conjunction with the acquisition settlement at closing, we are going to signal a 10-year unique worldwide license settlement with a five-year elective extension with the Salvatore Ferragamo Group, with after all royalty and minimal promoting necessities as are customary within the business.Our plan requires each legacy and new perfume merchandise to proceed to be produced in Italy, and we’ve focused 2023 for our first new product launch for the model. The Salvatore Ferragamo Group has entrusted Inter Parfums as its perfume accomplice due to the success we’ve loved revising perfume manufacturers that haven’t lived as much as their potential. We have made the dedication to the Ferragamo Group to dedicate the eye and sources essential to develop [Technical Issues] the Ferragamo perfume enterprise throughout the selective luxurious distribution framework that we’ve established inside our world distribution community.But we’re not accomplished but. Growing our model portfolio stays a excessive precedence with a give attention to names which have a pretty big established perfume enterprise and people house owners consider their perfume model is underserved by their present licensee. We have been very profitable taking over the problem of taking on the perfume manufacturers that weren’t residing as much as their potential and reinvigorating their gross sales.I need to use this chance to acknowledge our suppliers all through the world. Our relationships with them have been cemented in the course of the pandemic, and that was among the many the explanation why we have been in a position to keep adequate stock of completed items and elements to meet the gross sales in [Indecipherable]. Supply chain challenges have been extra prevalent in latest weeks as everyone is aware of, however we’ve been right here earlier than and have all the time been in a position to maneuver by means of and resolve these points.Before taking your questions, we need to share some dates with you Inter Parfums will take part in various digital investor conferences, together with the Citi Mid-Cap Consumer Conference on September 29, and Citi Global Consumer Conference, which runs from December 7 to December 9. We may also current on the Jefferies West Coast Consumer Conference, November 16 and November 17. And additionally, we’re planning to as soon as once more host our Annual Meeting of Shareholders just about on Tuesday, October fifth, at 10:00 AM. We stay up for reporting on our progress because the 12 months unfolds.So it is 11:20, and operator, we will open the ground to questions.Questions and Answers:OperatorThank you. And presently, we will likely be conducting our question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] Our first query comes Linda Bolton Weiser with D.A. Davidson. Please go forward together with your query.Linda Bolton Weiser — D.A. Davidson — AnalystSure. Hello, how are you?Russell Greenberg — Executive Vice President and Chief Financial OfficerAll good, Linda.Jean Madar — Chairman and Chief Executive OfficerGood. Thank you.Linda Bolton Weiser — D.A. Davidson — AnalystGood. That’s good. So, I used to be simply inquisitive about, Russ, your feedback on gross margin. I imply you in contrast it to the second quarter of ’19, however really for those who have a look at it identical to in comparison with the primary quarter of ’21, it really went up sequentially. So I’m simply curious why that’s, as a result of the euro comparability is definitely unfavorable within the second quarter. So, why was the gross margin even greater within the second quarter than the primary quarter, are you able to simply give a bit of extra colour on that?Russell Greenberg — Executive Vice President and Chief Financial OfficerActually, Linda. Lots of it — it was really up for each the three- and the six-month interval. And a lot of that’s as a result of enhance within the gross sales and us having the ability to leverage a few of the mounted prices which are included within the gross margin. As you realize, sure depreciation of instruments and molds, particularly right here within the United States, that is extra of a set expense that’s included within the gross margin in order that when gross sales are greater, you’d higher in a position to leverage these sorts of bills.In addition, and this goes extra for the European operations, the quantity and proportion of giftsets which are offered in the course of the course of the quarter in 2021 have been — as a proportion of whole gross sales, have been a lot lower than that of 2020. And that additionally attributed to the rise within the gross sales within the gross margin throughout that interval.Linda Bolton Weiser — D.A. Davidson — AnalystOkay. Thank you. And then, are you able to simply give a bit of bit extra colour on the Ferragamo license, like possibly the long-term potential of that model? I imply, I do know it has current gross sales. Can you give us a dimension maybe of the annual income at present? And then how do you see it sizing up versus a few of your different franchises?Jean Madar — Chairman and Chief Executive OfficerSure. Russ, you need to attempt to reply?Russell Greenberg — Executive Vice President and Chief Financial OfficerYeah. The Ferragamo perfume enterprise was within the high-double digits for a lot of, a few years and Ferragamo was publicly traded, so lots of this data is actually accessible on-line and you’ll see it for your self. We actually haven’t gone out and publicly disclosed their numbers, and I actually do not need to. But evidently, the perfume gross sales, on account of the COVID-19 pandemic, have been impacted severely in the course of the course of the final 12 months — two years.So, our objective is actually to have the ability to reinvigorate and produce again Ferragamo to the degrees that it has seen for the final 10 years, 15 years, and that is actually the place the objective is. I do not actually need to enumerate and put particular greenback figures on the market, however there’s most likely sufficient data within the public area that you could possibly most likely analysis and discover it for your self. Jean, do you agree on that?Jean Madar — Chairman and Chief Executive OfficerYeah. The data is public, so [Technical Issues]. But we all know Ferragamo for some time, the perfume have been run internally by the style home. But we met once more in the course of the pandemic and Ferragamo administration determined to actually have a look at our proposal of the licensee as a result of it was tough for them to battle alone on this atmosphere. So, by becoming a member of our portfolio, Ferragamo is way stronger, Ferragamo will profit from the power of our manufacturers, from over different manufacturers, from the power of our distribution.We have large plans for Ferragamo. There is an current enterprise that’s completely positive and the concept will likely be to launch for brand spanking new product in 2023 with all of the sturdy parts of the model. The model is understood, we have no points with the notion of the model. We simply must reestablish them as a high luxurious perfume out there. We suppose it’s very achievable and we give ourselves two years to a few years to be again on the degree that we have been pre-COVID.Linda Bolton Weiser — D.A. Davidson — AnalystOkay. Thank you.Jean Madar — Chairman and Chief Executive OfficerThank you.Russell Greenberg — Executive Vice President and Chief Financial OfficerThank you.Jean Madar — Chairman and Chief Executive OfficerThank you, Linda.Linda Bolton Weiser — D.A. Davidson — AnalystAnd then, can I simply…Jean Madar — Chairman and Chief Executive OfficerYeah. Go forward.Linda Bolton Weiser — D.A. Davidson — AnalystCan I ask you another factor?Jean Madar — Chairman and Chief Executive OfficerOf course.Linda Bolton Weiser — D.A. Davidson — AnalystYeah. Can I simply — yeah, you talked about value inflation that’s type of altering and changing into a bit of bit extra so within the third quarter. Are you together with in your steerage particularly any margin stress from elevated prices? Or are you hoping to offset? Or what is precisely included in your steerage?Russell Greenberg — Executive Vice President and Chief Financial OfficerYeah…Jean Madar — Chairman and Chief Executive OfficerIn the steerage we’ve — I’m sorry. In the steerage we’ve, after all we have a look at our prices and that is true with the second a part of our value of products are going up. Like Russ talked about, the freight worldwide goes up, so our freighting is up. So, our value of bringing elements and transferring elements worldwide is up. But we’ve additionally main problem on the provision, so we’ve to simply accept sure value enhance. All that is already taken into consideration in our new forecast — in our new steerage. Russ?Russell Greenberg — Executive Vice President and Chief Financial OfficerSure. So, that is precisely what I used to be going to say. When we issued the — and revised our steerage most just lately, after we introduced gross sales again, I believe it was the nineteenth, this new steerage undoubtedly consists of the results of the a few of the provide chain points that we’re seeing. The gross sales have been ready on a comparatively conservative foundation to take that into consideration.From a margin standpoint, we have completely included a few of the further transportation prices that we’ve seen. That was — that is actually the most important inflation space that we’re confronted with on the present time. Transportation prices are up, in some circumstances 200% to 300%. So, transferring elements from nation to nation, we’re taking a deep dive and what we will do to be able to get round a few of these will increase. But so far as the numbers that we have projected for the rest of the 12 months, we have undoubtedly considered the lion’s share of the potential results.Linda Bolton Weiser — D.A. Davidson — AnalystOkay. Thank you a lot. I admire it.Russell Greenberg — Executive Vice President and Chief Financial OfficerThank you, Linda.Jean Madar — Chairman and Chief Executive OfficerThank you.OperatorOur subsequent query comes from Steph Wissink with Jefferies. Please state your query.Steph Wissink — Jefferies — AnalystThank you. Good morning, everybody. I even have just a few questions, if we might. Russ, this one is for you on advertising and marketing. Just questioning for those who may help us suppose by means of the cadence within the second semester. Is there a ready by quarter Q3, This fall? Or how do you need to type of mannequin A&P for the again half?Russell Greenberg — Executive Vice President and Chief Financial OfficerYeah, definitely. Based upon what we see from the gross sales tendencies, Q3 and This fall from a gross sales standpoint will most likely be comparatively nearer collectively than they’ve prior to now. But from an promoting standpoint, our promoting expenditures are all the time rather more concentrated in This fall than in Q3.In addition, we’ve an preliminary, name it, a small unique pre-launch for Moncler developing within the fourth quarter. And in anticipation of the 2022 launch for Moncler, we all know that we have already allotted sure {dollars} of selling spend that we’re most likely going to place into {the marketplace} in This fall into type of advance and in anticipation of the 2022 launch of the brand new Moncler perfume. So, I might undoubtedly say that issues are going to be rather more concentrated in This fall than Q3.Steph Wissink — Jefferies — AnalystAll proper. Very useful. And then my second query is simply in relation to Linda’s query on prices. Do you’ve any plans to boost value? And for those who do, what is the course of to boost like-for-like value in your product out there already? Do you must give retailers discover how shortly are you able to implement? What ought to we be occupied with for pricing?Jean Madar — Chairman and Chief Executive OfficerSure, we’ve not raised costs for greater than three years, however we’ve determined to extend costs. We gave discover to most of our clients on August 1, so this was not a very long time in the past, that we’ll have sure value enhance on January 1. The reception was fairly accepted as a result of we do not do that usually and evidently all our opponents have — are doing it. So, we did not see any points with that. Price enhance that we’re speaking about is wherever from 2% to 4%.Steph Wissink — Jefferies — AnalystVery useful. And my final one and possibly, Jean, that is for you. It’s greater image occupied with how shoppers are partaking within the class. It’s simply actually been so spectacular year-to-date. Has there been any change by channel or by particular distribution level the place you are seeing shopper habits coming again out of the bottom of COVID, possibly turning up a bit of bit in a different way in several locations than you’ll have anticipated?Jean Madar — Chairman and Chief Executive OfficerNot actually. Not actually. I do not see any modifications. The on-line enterprise continued to be sturdy with shops, and specialty and perfumery enterprise can be good. The enterprise is nice actually on all of the channels. But what we see is sort of spectacular as a result of we’re receiving orders in the present day that we can not fulfil as a result of we’re means, means above our forecast.So, we ship the shops solely the portions that we — that they will promote within the subsequent month or two. Nobody — undoubtedly, no person has lots of stock. Actually, some shops are complaining as a result of they wish to have extra stock. We are in a — actually, we’re in an excellent place. The inventories at shops is transferring very, very quick. We are delivery every day some retailer, weekly foundation some shops. The merchandise transfer very quick. We haven’t seen this for a very long time. I do not keep in mind within the final 5 years of seeing such a stronger demand throughout our manufacturers.Steph Wissink — Jefferies — AnalystVery useful as all the time. Thank you, gents.Russell Greenberg — Executive Vice President and Chief Financial OfficerThank you.Jean Madar — Chairman and Chief Executive OfficerThank you.OperatorOur subsequent query comes from Hamed Khorsand with BWS Financial. Please state your query.Hamed Khorsand — BWS Financial — AnalystHello, simply on the remark you simply made about stock. Is it — do you suppose that you just’re choosing up share or is all the pie really increasing sooner than you suppose?Jean Madar — Chairman and Chief Executive OfficerIn sure markets, within the U.S., we’re undoubtedly choosing up shares as a result of we have been one of many first ones to ship, once more we’re one of many first ones to respend once more in advertising and marketing and promoting. So, undoubtedly we’re choosing market share. In Europe, it is a bit of bit completely different, it is a bit of bit slower as a result of some markets aren’t absolutely open as we communicate, so it is on and off. But within the U.S. and in China we’re undoubtedly taking market share.Hamed Khorsand — BWS Financial — AnalystAnd what do you assess so far as the duty-free shops comprising of your income proper now? Are they again to regular for you?Jean Madar — Chairman and Chief Executive OfficerNo. No, no, we’re very, very, very removed from the conventional, very far. As I mentioned in my feedback, it used to signify shut to fifteen% of our enterprise, we’re nonetheless very, very far. We’ve seen some sturdy enterprise in China with after all Hainan. Also, we’re seeing some sturdy enterprise within the Korean duty-free. We have some Chinese vacationers. So Korea duty-free, China duty-free is outperforming. But general, we’re means, means beneath our regular proportion of gross sales in journey retail.Hamed Khorsand — BWS Financial — AnalystAnd my last query was, how do you describe or assess your ’22 product launch plans? Is it going to be as strong because it was this 12 months?Jean Madar — Chairman and Chief Executive OfficerWe have a mixture of crucial launches, what we name blockbuster launches, and naturally, attempting[Phonetic] to maintain the road working. So, we’ve an important combine going ahead. The market is actually all of our packages and are responding fairly positively. So, all our — the issue in the present day is extra of producing and ensuring to have extra stock to be able to provide all of the demand. But this demand was not forecasted, that is why we raised already twice our steerage.As you realize, the corporate is sort of conservative after we give steerage. So, we’ll wait till the tomorrow, I might say one other month or two earlier than we evaluation once more. But the problem is we’ve the orders, we’ve clients, we simply have to provide them. So, it is a good downside to have, and we’re doing fairly properly.Hamed Khorsand — BWS Financial — AnalystOkay. Thank you.Russell Greenberg — Executive Vice President and Chief Financial OfficerThank you, Hamed.Jean Madar — Chairman and Chief Executive OfficerThank you.OperatorThank you. There are not any additional questions presently. I’ll flip the decision again to administration for closing remarks.Russell Greenberg — Executive Vice President and Chief Financial OfficerThank you. Thank you, thanks all for tuning into our convention name. As regular, for those who do have any additional questions, I may be contacted by e mail. Thank you as soon as once more for connecting into the decision. Stay properly and keep secure.Operator[Operator Closing Remarks]Duration: 34 minutesCall individuals:Russell Greenberg — Executive Vice President and Chief Financial OfficerJean Madar — Chairman and Chief Executive OfficerLinda Bolton Weiser — D.A. Davidson — AnalystSteph Wissink — Jefferies — AnalystHamed Khorsand — BWS Financial — Analyst
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