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Q2 2016 Earnings Call· Thu, Aug 4, 2016

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Operator

Operator

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Church & Dwight Second Quarter 2016 Earnings Conference Call. Before we begin, I have been asked to remind you that on this call, the company's management may make forward-looking statements regarding, among other things, the company's financial objectives and forecasts. These statements are subject to risk and uncertainties and other factors that are described in detail in the company's SEC filings. I would now like to introduce your host for today's call, Mr. Matt Farrell, Chief Executive Officer of Church & Dwight. Please go ahead, sir. Matthew T. Farrell - President & Chief Executive Officer: Good morning, everyone. Thanks for joining us for today. I'm going to start with a brief review of our second quarter results, which you read about in today's press release. I'll then say a few words about our categories before I turn the call over to Rick Dierker. Rick will comment on each of our businesses and review the outlook for Q3 and the full year. And when Rick is finished, I'll get back on and we'll open the call up for questions. So here are the highlights; Q2 was a terrific quarter for our company. We posted organic sales growth of 3.7% and 16.4% EPS growth, which is 17.8% EPS growth on a currency neutral basis. Category growth was broad-based, in that nine of our 15 categories grew in the quarter. From a market share perspective four of our 10 power brands grew share. Now I'll comment on a few of our categories; that would be laundry, litter, vitamins and dry shampoo. The laundry category continues to be healthy, growing 2.5% year-over-year. This is the fifth quarter in a row of laundry category growth. The value segment grew 4%, led by ARM & HAMMER, Simply…

Operator

Operator

Thank you. Our first question is from Kevin Grundy with Jefferies. Your line is open.

Kevin Grundy - Jefferies LLC

Analyst · Jefferies. Your line is open

Hey, good morning, guys. Matthew T. Farrell - President & Chief Executive Officer: Hi, Kevin.

Kevin Grundy - Jefferies LLC

Analyst · Jefferies. Your line is open

Matt, I wanted to start, or Rick as well for that matter, on the guidance. So, organic sales stays the same, gross margins a bit better. But, Matt, it seems like but – and then advertising and marketing moves up more modestly, so it seems like you're probably leaning a bit harder on trade spend and coupon with some of this gross margin upside relative to taking up advertising and marketing. Is that correct? I just wanted to get some additional thoughts on how you're sort of balancing the trade spend in advertising and marketing? Richard A. Dierker - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Matt and I can both answer that. But, Kevin, from a financial perspective, I'd say it's pretty broad based. We have higher promotional spending. Yes, we also have higher advertising. So, I think it's a combination. And, that's kind of the – again, broad-based across advertising and promotional spending. Matthew T. Farrell - President & Chief Executive Officer: Yeah. Hey, Kevin, just to give you maybe a little more color. In my remarks, I said, hey, there's a lot of discounting going on in laundry and litter. And litter for example, we actually pulled back on trade promotions year-over-year in Q2 while at the same time, if you looked at Tidy Cat or Fresh Step they were up significantly in Q2. And even in laundry, the amount sold on deal for ARM & HAMMER was actually lower year-over-year in Q2, whereas if you looked at Tide, Simply Tide or Sun or especially Purex, are way up in the amount sold on deal year-over-year. So, every quarter is different. So you got to react to what's going in the marketplace and as I said, we're – we want to stay behind OXICLEAN, OXICLEAN laundry so, we're in it for long-haul there. And here and there in some other categories there's some competitive moves that we need to react to. So, fortunately, we have the financial flexibility in order to do that and as you know, we got a big portfolio of brands. So, we're in a position where we need some help, we're going to put the help there.

Kevin Grundy - Jefferies LLC

Analyst · Jefferies. Your line is open

Okay. All right. That makes sense. Rick, I wanted to come back to, you touched on it a little bit, some of the non-scanned channel growth versus the scanned or tracked channel growth and so, you are up about 0.5 point in the Nielsen data for the second quarter. That implies very strong double-digit growth in non-tracked, just using sort of back of the napkin sort of math based on reasonable assumptions for channel mix. So, can you guys help me a bit, what is online now as a percent of sales and understanding that club is not in the Nielsen data as well, but curious what that number is, if you care to share it, what are your market shares look like online versus non-tracked? Procter talks about having higher market share in the online channel relative to more traditional mass channels. And then Matt, maybe touch on a little bit as this continues to evolve and the consumer continues to move online, talk about the implications a bit for your business from a – even broadly, margin perspective, seemingly less trade spend at this point et cetera? Thank you. Richard A. Dierker - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Sure. So, Kevin, just to touch briefly, we don't really go into the detail of our online sales. We've said historically, it's 1% to 3% of sales, just like any other CPG company, that's true, I'd say it's fast growing. From a market share perspective, we don't really comment on that either. What I will do for you though is help you with the tracked versus not-tracked and there is two or three drivers on that disconnect. For example, there's probably around 200 basis points from club and online, plus the fact that BATISTE isn't really tracked in…

Kevin Grundy - Jefferies LLC

Analyst · Jefferies. Your line is open

Okay. Thank you, guys. Congrats on the quarter. Matthew T. Farrell - President & Chief Executive Officer: Thanks, Kevin.

Operator

Operator

Our next question is from Bill Schmitz with Deutsche Bank. Your line is open.

Bill Schmitz - Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

Analyst · Deutsche Bank. Your line is open

Hey, guys. Good morning. Richard A. Dierker - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Hey, Bill.

Bill Schmitz - Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

Analyst · Deutsche Bank. Your line is open

Hey. The organic growth guidance for the third quarter, was there a timing shift in shipments at all or is it merely a function of higher promotional spending which is going to take the gross to net down? Because the comp's much easier in the third quarter than the second quarter obviously. Richard A. Dierker - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Yeah. I think it's a couple things. I mean, what you're getting to is also just deceleration from first half to second half. But the incremental promotional spending, right, that's one. We're up against higher comps for vitamin, like for example our Personal Care growth was up big in Q2, up 8% organically. And for vitamins we were cutting a year ago in Q2 and that kind of lessened as we got in the back half. And then, category comps for laundry for example are up a little bit in the back half, and then International growth, the first half was at 10% and the full year is at 7% to 8%. So that implies a second half of 4% to 5%. So all those reasons are why we're decelerating a little bit. But, I'd say that's – our original outlook was 3%, we always thought it would be, we raised that at the beginning of the year to 3% to 4%. And we always knew it was going to be a little bit lumpy.

Bill Schmitz - Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

Analyst · Deutsche Bank. Your line is open

Okay. Yeah, I mean, but how about the comps being harder in this quarter than they are for next quarter. I mean, because all that stuff is good, but like in aggregate the comp's like 200 basis points easier than the comp in the second quarter. You know what I mean? Richard A. Dierker - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Yeah. Well, I mean, the other comment I'd make is the laundry category – going back to the category dynamics for a second, if you go back to 2015, the laundry category was actually down in Q1, right. And in 2016, the laundry category was up in Q1. So on a stacked basis that was around 5%. In Q2, it's around 4%. But then, when you look out, the laundry category actually had 2% to 3%, almost 4% growth in the back half of the year in 2015. So, part of it is, like I said before, Household comparisons for laundry and then Personal Care, really vitamins going from Q2 to the back half is a more difficult comp.

Bill Schmitz - Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

Analyst · Deutsche Bank. Your line is open

Okay. And then, just directionally, is it fair to think that like the Personal Care business has 20 gross margin points higher than the Household business. Is that a safe assumption, as I try to calculate the mix impact of the business shift? Richard A. Dierker - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Yeah. We've said that publicly before. We said Personal Care margins are about 2000 basis points better than Household.

Bill Schmitz - Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

Analyst · Deutsche Bank. Your line is open

Okay. Got you. And I'm kind of surprised that the mix benefit wasn't more though, given like the lower promotions in the lowest margin categories like XTRA and cat litter? Richard A. Dierker - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: We were very pleased with 250 basis points of expansion.

Bill Schmitz - Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

Analyst · Deutsche Bank. Your line is open

So, was I. Okay. That's all I got. Thank you, guys.

Operator

Operator

Our next question is from Bill Chappell with SunTrust. Your line is open.

William B. Chappell - SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc.

Analyst · SunTrust. Your line is open

Thanks. Good morning. Matthew T. Farrell - President & Chief Executive Officer: Hey, Bill.

William B. Chappell - SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc.

Analyst · SunTrust. Your line is open

Hey, just wanted to clarify. As I look forward, as you're spending back in some of these brands, has that always kind of been in the plan of hey, we just kind of get to midyear and look to redeploy in certain areas? And then specifically, is what you're seeing in liquid laundry in terms of the price competition or some of the rollbacks what you expected or has competition heated up a little bit? Matthew T. Farrell - President & Chief Executive Officer: I don't know if it's – I'd say competition has heated up because the amount sold on deal. It's certainly higher than it was year-over-year. Sequentially it's probably consistent with the first quarter. The way we run the business, Bill, is we put a range out there, 7% to 9%. So we're pretty much targeting the midpoint of a range generally. We get a great first half, so we say, hey, we don't see our way to 7%. So we're going to say – so we're going to take the bottom in the range off so we'll call 8% to 9%. And we don't try to hit the home run in any one year. We're always thinking about the next year. So we want to make sure we're positioned well going into next year. So to the extent we have the dough, we're going to spend it back. And this has been a perennial move on the part of Church & Dwight.

William B. Chappell - SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc.

Analyst · SunTrust. Your line is open

No. I appreciate that. I think I have a pretty decent handle on the trends. But I was trying to kind of more understand as you look to the back half, I understand the strategy of spending back. But, is there an incremental need to spend back in liquid laundry and/or cat litter versus what kind of you originally expected to start the year? Matthew T. Farrell - President & Chief Executive Officer: Yeah. Because we – I would say that because we pulled back as a percentage of sales on deal for litter in the second quarter. Actually that's something we would try to remedy in the back half. Because obviously we lost some share there. But we – share can be a saw tooth, it can go up and down. But I will say that it's definitely competitive in litter. You have both Tidy Cat and Clorox spending a lot of dough promoting their products. So obviously we have to react to that. But laundry is our biggest category and that's one we're also have to react. XTRA continues to lose share, we're managing that for profit. But there is a line that we won't cross. So we have to make sure we shore that up in the second half.

William B. Chappell - SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc.

Analyst · SunTrust. Your line is open

Okay. And then just switching, Rick, I think you talked about the Nielsen IRI doesn't track your stuff perfectly, I mean, I understand that especially coming from vitamins, which kind of were – the business was built out of club and mass, but can you talk about other wins or other kind of growth you're seeing outside of vitamins in the club channel or the online channel and where you feel pretty good about? Richard A. Dierker - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Yeah. I mean other online brand that's very strong is TROJAN for example. That helped lead to the Personal Care organic growth in Q2. Across the board, oral care has been pretty strong as well and that's happening in club, online. Those are two examples, but again it's – we don't get all riled up about the tracked versus non-tracked, it's – a piece of it is, although the whole concept of promotional volume and not chasing that promotional volume, that causes a little bit of a disconnect between organic and consumption. Matthew T. Farrell - President & Chief Executive Officer: Yeah. And, Bill, as you know, Personal Care products lend themselves more to online sales than the heavy litter and detergent products.

William B. Chappell - SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc.

Analyst · SunTrust. Your line is open

Yeah. Absolutely. Thanks so much. Matthew T. Farrell - President & Chief Executive Officer: Okay.

Operator

Operator

Our next question is from Caroline Levy with CLSA. Your line is open.

Caroline Levy - CLSA Americas LLC

Analyst · CLSA. Your line is open

Thanks so much. Just if you could talk a little more in detail on the share movement. So I know you've touched on some of this already, but I guess six of 10 categories, you didn't gain share, which is unusual. Were some of those flat, and then what are the plans across the board to turn those around for the things you haven't talked about yet? Matthew T. Farrell - President & Chief Executive Officer: Yeah. Okay. Well, the four that were up were OXI stain fighters, Nair, BATISTE and vitamins. So the other ones we might talk about, Spinbrush for example, that category, battery-operated toothbrushes, was up 9.5%. Our adult toothbrush was up 10% but kids was soft. So, sort of a balance there, it's where we fell back. XTRA, we talked about. Obviously deep discounting there, particularly on the part of Sun products and some Simply Tide as well. Orajel, the issue there was private label had a good quarter. Condoms, that kind of ebbs and flows, so we generally don't worry too much about the condom share because we have approximately 75% share in that category. FIRST RESPONSE through, there has been a lot of couponing and competition that we have to address. Some of that by the way for the earlier questions is pregnancy kits is also an area that we're putting some money behind in the second half because we lost some share as a result of competition in the second quarter. And the ARM & HAMMER brand in total all forms was down, driven by litter. It was down slightly, all forms about 10 basis points, but it was really litter that was the driver there. So, that's sort of the rundown on the 10 brands, Caroline.

Caroline Levy - CLSA Americas LLC

Analyst · CLSA. Your line is open

Right. And does that – is that why you're getting more aggressive. Was that really driving the change, or is it simply you have the money to spend. Because, I mean, you generally love to claim that on almost all of your categories you're gaining share. So, is that the goal by year end? You want to up in all categories? Matthew T. Farrell - President & Chief Executive Officer: Yeah. No, it's – look, when we say four out of 10 it's not like we're unhappy. I don't think we've ever had a 10 out of a 10 quarter, I think six would be great, six out of 10. And if the rest were around flattish. So yeah, I mean, some of them are – there are clearly issues in each of those different brands, but we expect to remedy them in the third quarter and fourth quarter.

Caroline Levy - CLSA Americas LLC

Analyst · CLSA. Your line is open

Great. And then could you just comment on the UK, which I think is your biggest international market, maybe Canada is. Sorry, but how are things there? Matthew T. Farrell - President & Chief Executive Officer: Yeah. So think of it, it's not just the UK. We have a European business that's our number one subsidiary followed by Canada, which is number two. Europe would encompass primarily the UK and France. And they've been doing fabulously behind BATISTE, certainly is their biggest brand. But they also have STERIMAR, which is a feminine hygiene brand and – or pardon me, Femfresh is a feminine hygiene brand, and then STERIMAR which is our nasal hygiene brand. So they've been doing extremely well.

Caroline Levy - CLSA Americas LLC

Analyst · CLSA. Your line is open

Okay. Because you didn't call out the UK and you usually do, so I just thought that maybe there were some issues already showing up? Matthew T. Farrell - President & Chief Executive Officer: No, no, no. No issues, it's just that we have the league table. So the ones that are at the top of the league table in the quarter get to take a bow.

Caroline Levy - CLSA Americas LLC

Analyst · CLSA. Your line is open

Great. And then lastly just on your margin profile online, is there any degradation of margin as you build up that business? Matthew T. Farrell - President & Chief Executive Officer: Actually some of the products that we sell online can be higher margin than they are in bricks-and-mortar. So it's a balance right now. We're pretty happy with the margins online. I think the heavier products like litter is where we'd be more pressed on margin. They would be lower than anything we would have in bricks-and-mortar. Richard A. Dierker - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Yeah, but overall, even online, the Personal Care mix is slanted toward Personal Care, so that helps the margin as well. So we're happy with that.

Caroline Levy - CLSA Americas LLC

Analyst · CLSA. Your line is open

Thanks a lot. Matthew T. Farrell - President & Chief Executive Officer: Okay, Caroline.

Operator

Operator

Our next question is from Joe Altobello with Raymond James. Your line is open. Joseph Nicholas Altobello - Raymond James & Associates, Inc.: Hey, guys. Good morning. Richard A. Dierker - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Good morning, Joe. Joseph Nicholas Altobello - Raymond James & Associates, Inc.: I guess, I'll just pick up there on the gross margin guide and I apologize if I missed this, was mix the biggest driver of the upside to the full year? Richard A. Dierker - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: To the full year? I would probably say, partly mix but also because of the organic revenue growth on Personal Care. But I'd also say, we were pleasantly surprised as we turned the corner on our vitamin manufacturing and our vitamin distribution efficiencies. A year ago when we were cutting customers, the trucks were going out every day and they weren't always filled, because we wanted to get that next shipment to the retailer as soon as possible. When we look back this quarter for example, our fill rate's closer to 99%. So we're shipping out full truckloads again. So that's as an example of what's going on with gross margin. Joseph Nicholas Altobello - Raymond James & Associates, Inc.: Okay. That's helpful. And then in terms of the third quarter, the organic up 1% to 2%. If you look at your volume growth the last few quarters, it's kind of averaged somewhere between 3% and 4%. So maybe if you could deconstruct for us what you're thinking in terms of volumes versus price mix in the third quarter, is it volumes up 2% to 3%, call it, maybe price mix down 1%? Richard A. Dierker - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Yeah. Joe, I think,…

Operator

Operator

Our next question is from Rupesh Parikh with Oppenheimer. Your line is open. Rupesh Parikh - Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. (Broker): Thank you for taking my question. I also wanted to go back to your guidance on gross margins for the 110 basis point improvement this year, the expectation. Just wanted to get a sense, as you look at that improvement, is there anything that you would consider unsustainable and I guess and potentially the new base of gross margins that you expect this year? Richard A. Dierker - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Yeah. I mean, the only thing – again, to break out the 110 basis points we said it was 60 basis points for commodities, 50 basis points for lower manufacturing cost, 10 basis points for price volume mix, 20 basis points from really the new acquisitions and the 30 basis points drag for FX. The commodity stuff, we are starting to lap. That really started a year ago in August. So, back half of 2015. So, that's not sustainable for our go forward future. So, that's always a risk. Lower manufacturing cost I think, we do a great job in this company with our productivity program and that's really – that leads into our kind of operating model. Price volume mix, so, typically we are a volume grower. We don't really take price in a lot of categories. Acquisitions, that's all dependent on what we do buy, typically we do recently have bought Personal Care type businesses with higher margins, and then of course the currency as we lap that drag, hopefully that will be a little bit more benign. So hopefully that gives you some color, Rupesh. Rupesh Parikh - Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. (Broker): Okay. Great. And if I can ask one…

Operator

Operator

Our next question is from Lauren Lieberman with Barclays. Your line is open.

Lauren Rae Lieberman - Barclays Capital, Inc.

Analyst · Barclays. Your line is open

Great. Thanks, good morning. Matthew T. Farrell - President & Chief Executive Officer: Hey, Lauren. Richard A. Dierker - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Good morning.

Lauren Rae Lieberman - Barclays Capital, Inc.

Analyst · Barclays. Your line is open

Hey, I just had one last question on the promotional environment. So I guess, laundry more so than litter is probably a category where when commodity costs improve you've seen the environment flare up over time. So a couple of questions: one, would you say, there are other categories in your portfolio where you feel like they are more commodity sensitive vis-à-vis promotional activity and that sort of this change in environment maybe should have been anticipated or in your outlook to begin with. Luckily, you've got plenty of wiggle room to deal with it. And then secondly, same would be on litter, just the standpoint you knew that Clorox was launching, I would actually think that maybe it was intentional to step back, let them spend a bunch and then kind of when that quieted down to get more active. So it's just the pattern of promotional activity doesn't strike me as necessarily surprising in litter. And then just if laundry you think is more commodity related than anything else? Thanks. Matthew T. Farrell - President & Chief Executive Officer: Yeah. Hey, Lauren, did you say you were surprised by the promotional activity in litter?

Lauren Rae Lieberman - Barclays Capital, Inc.

Analyst · Barclays. Your line is open

No. I'm not actually at all. Matthew T. Farrell - President & Chief Executive Officer: Yeah.

Lauren Rae Lieberman - Barclays Capital, Inc.

Analyst · Barclays. Your line is open

Yeah. Matthew T. Farrell - President & Chief Executive Officer: Yeah. Okay. Because obviously we have Tidy Cat getting behind their light weight variants and Clorox has their litter with Febreze, so...

Lauren Rae Lieberman - Barclays Capital, Inc.

Analyst · Barclays. Your line is open

Yeah. Just thought you'd be tactical on your part. Like the other two have a lot of like noise, like let them promote their noise and then you'd kind of a take a break and then come back into the market? Matthew T. Farrell - President & Chief Executive Officer: Yeah. Exactly, so we had pulled back on amount sold on deal in the second quarter for litter, and we lost some share. Okay. That's fine. It's not like that we're surprised by that, but one quarter doesn't make a year. Your question is, if you think about our various categories, are there a lot of other categories that are sensitive to commodities? I would say, other than laundry, that's where all the questions go and why, because we're worried about surfactants and ethylene prices and resin, et cetera. If you think about all the commodities that we sweat – just going to run down them. So there is surfactants, which is derived from ethylene and then you have resin. Diesel, which is going to affect our transportation costs, but that affects everything. Latex for condoms, but that's actually a small part of the cost of goods sold. And then you have paper, so we have so many things that are packaged in paperboard. So, and then as you get a lot smaller after that, soda ash, which is pretty tepid right now and things like palm fatty acid distillate. So, we would say with the exception of laundry, there aren't a lot of categories that we'd say are going to be dramatically affected by commodities. Richard A. Dierker - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: And, Lauren, I would add two things. Number one; I wouldn't expect – our comments on promotional volume isn't really saying we're going to go spend a lot of money back in the laundry category to drive promotions. We're going to continue to support OXICLEAN laundry. Right now if you look at the data, our amount sold on deal just in total is lower than a year ago or right at levels of a year ago. So we're not throwing a whole ton of money back into across the brands. The other thing I would say is from a commodity perspective; commodities are starting to inch up. So, we've said previously in Q1 and Q2, for example, that resin was down 10%, surfactants were down 20% and that was true. The second half, we're starting to lap those comparisons. So resin will likely be closer to be flat and surfactants will probably be closer to up slightly, just for context.

Lauren Rae Lieberman - Barclays Capital, Inc.

Analyst · Barclays. Your line is open

Okay. That's great. Thank you so much. Matthew T. Farrell - President & Chief Executive Officer: Okay, Lauren.

Operator

Operator

Our next question is from Stephen Powers with UBS. Your line is open.

Stephen R. Powers - UBS Securities LLC

Analyst · UBS. Your line is open

Great. Thank you. Hey, guys, I guess first, just one more cleanup if I could on the organic growth guidance for Q3.You got the increased promotional investment and I'm sure it's all to some extent conservative. But you call out in the release a more difficult year-over-year comparison in International specifically and again, my numbers could be incorrect. But it looks like both the one year and two year comps actually get sequentially easier in Q3 versus Q2. So can you just comment there, is there something that I'm missing or that you're specifically concerned about lapping? Richard A. Dierker - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: No, I think, you're exactly right, Steve. I think, our comment started off at a country or two, Australia for example, has a high comp and that evolved to a one-liner in the release. But International, as I said before, the first half was really 10% growth and so with the full year at 7% to 8% and that means the second half is going to be closer to 4% or 5%. That's really the context you should think of for the International growth for the year.

Stephen R. Powers - UBS Securities LLC

Analyst · UBS. Your line is open

Okay. That's helpful. Thanks. And then, I guess more – kind of more broadly, I think, it was back at your Analyst Day in January, you spent some time talking about distribution wins that you've been making over the past three years, four years, five years. I just wonder if you could weigh in a little bit on how much of the strength you've seen in this year is aided by even more distribution wins. And I'm guessing it's pretty broad-based where you're seeing it, but just if you can comment on which businesses you're having – those wins are having the most impact. I'm assuming it's things like vitamins and BATISTE. But, again, some context there will be helpful? Thanks. Matthew T. Farrell - President & Chief Executive Officer: Yeah. No, there is no question, you hit the two that are leading the pack and one is vitamins, where as I said in my opening remarks that we have 5% increase in distribution which is pretty significant, because obviously that carries over into future quarters. And then BATISTE is just a craze. So it's getting more and more shelf space. And when you're the – there are more and more retailers becoming more interested in it. So, it seems like almost every quarter now, we're gaining more distribution and then that has a compounding effect. That's why we, although, it's a small brand, we continue to talk about it because it is influencing our numbers. So, you've hit on the two big ones there.

Stephen R. Powers - UBS Securities LLC

Analyst · UBS. Your line is open

Okay. Thank you very much. Matthew T. Farrell - President & Chief Executive Officer: All right, Steve.

Operator

Operator

Our next question is from Jason English with Goldman Sachs. Your line is open. Jason English - Goldman Sachs & Co.: Hey. Good morning, folks. Thank you for the questions. Richard A. Dierker - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Hey, Jason. Matthew T. Farrell - President & Chief Executive Officer: Jason. Jason English - Goldman Sachs & Co.: Congratulations on a solid quarter and a good first half. Matthew T. Farrell - President & Chief Executive Officer: Hey, thanks. Thank you. Jason English - Goldman Sachs & Co.: A couple of clarifying questions. First, Rick, your comment on resin and surfactants, in terms of the trajectory in the back half of the year. Were you referring to sort of spot markets or the costs that you actually expect to roll through your P&L? Richard A. Dierker - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Yeah. Spot markets. Jason English - Goldman Sachs & Co.: And given your buy and I think you were a little bit long on hedges last year, which may have sort of prevented that roll through, is it fair to say that you're probably going to be more favorable than spot throughout the remainder of this year? Richard A. Dierker - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: I think we'll be more favorable than spot as we go into 2017. Jason English - Goldman Sachs & Co.: Got it. Okay. Okay. So, there is some carryover into next year. And then, back to the questions on the volume trajectory which we've – there has been a few, right? But you are suggesting that volume decelerates on both a stand-alone and two-year stack basis, particularly on two-year stack pretty substantially despite the incremental spend. So, implicitly you seem to be suggesting that you are…

Operator

Operator

Our next question is from Jon Andersen with William Blair. Your line is open. Jon R. Andersen - William Blair & Co. LLC: Hey, good morning, guys. Thanks for the question. Could you just give us a bit of an update on your capacity utilization in vitamins. I know you've completed the capacity expansion, I think it was 75%, where you sit right now and really the idea here is the contribution margins out of this business, should we expect them to continue to improve as you fill out capacity going forward? Richard A. Dierker - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Yeah. So we've talked about capacity utilization in terms of vitamins a few times and we said when we made that investment. It was a 75% increase in capacity in round numbers. When we said that our business was around $300 million and that would take us up to around $525 million. So we have a lot of runway for capacity. We feel great about that. We've made some great strides from a manufacturing perspective. We touched on earlier and even on distribution related to vitamins as well. What was the second part of your question, Jon? Jon R. Andersen - William Blair & Co. LLC: Well, I guess just kind of where you sit today relative to the $525 million in capacity you have and give us some sense... Richard A. Dierker - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Yeah. Right. We're not going to give you where our sales are today, but we have plenty of room to run. Your other part of the question was contribution margin. Jon R. Andersen - William Blair & Co. LLC: Yeah. Richard A. Dierker - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: And I talked about that…

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Our next question is from Mark Astrachan with Stifel. Your line is open. Mark Astrachan - Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc.: Yeah, thanks and good morning, everybody. I wanted to ask on BATISTE. So roughly to the extent you can, what's the split between sales in the U.S. and international? And then, how do we think about it as a driver from an international standpoint? Is it fair to call it the majority of international growth or is it just not big enough? Matthew T. Farrell - President & Chief Executive Officer: Well, with respect to what our sales are by country, we wouldn't get into that. And one thing I would like to dispel is the belief that the BATISTE is the sole driver of the international business. ARM & HAMMER is growing quite a bit in Canada and Mexico and this is kind of anchored in the benefits of baking soda and that seems to be resonating with people both in developed and emerging markets. Femfresh is another one I talked about which is feminine hygiene. One interesting phenomenon you might be interested in is there's a lot of product being purchased in Australia and then shipped to China like shelves being swept, we're not the only ones that have benefited that from time-to-time. So, that can help, has helped Australia from here and there. STERIMAR is the other one I talked about, so that's a nasal hygiene product. Had fabulous growth in Mexico this year and France last year behind strong marketing and lots of new products that we bring out. So it's a nice balance between our export business and our country growth. Mark Astrachan - Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc.: Great. And then, I realize it's early and I'm not going to explicitly ask about gross margins for next year, but maybe as we sort of think about modeling it, are there any one-off type things, benefits, headwinds that would roll-off next year that we should think about in modeling? Matthew T. Farrell - President & Chief Executive Officer: It's a little early, it's only August, but you may be familiar with our evergreen model. So every year we try to expand our operating margins 50 basis points and generally half of that that will come from SG&A and half of it from gross margin when we try to keep marketing pretty level and not save our way to prosperity by cutting our advertising. Mark Astrachan - Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc.: Great. Thank you. Matthew T. Farrell - President & Chief Executive Officer: Okay. All right. There are no further questions. I want to thank you all dialing in today. We'll talk to you again at the end of October. Richard A. Dierker - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Thank you.

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