Welcome to the Crocs, Incorporated fiscal 2010 fourth quarter earnings conference call. (Operator Instructions) Earlier this afternoon, Crocs announced its fourth quarter 2010 financial results. A copy of the press release can be found on the company's website at www.crocs.com. Reconciliations of the non-GAAP measures mentioned on the call today can be found on the Investor Relations section of the Crocs website. The company would like to remind everyone that some of the information provided in this call will be forward-looking and accordingly are subject to the Safe Harbor provisions of federal security laws. The statement concern plans, beliefs, forecasts, guidance, projections, expectations, and estimates for future operations. Crocs cautions you that these statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties described in the Risk Factor section of the company's 2009 Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed on February 25, 2010 with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Accordingly, actual results could differ materially from those described on this call. Those listening to the call are advised to refer to Crocs Annual Report on Form 10-K, as well as other documents filed with the SEC for additional discussion of these risk factors. Crocs intends that all of its forward-looking statements in this call will be protected by the Safe Harbor provisions of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934. Crocs is not obligated to update its forward-looking statements to reflect the impact of future events. Now at this time, I would like to turn the call over to Mr. John McCarvel, Chief Executive Officer of Crocs. Please go ahead, sir.

Thank you for joining us on today's call. With me is Jeff Lasher, our Chief Accounting Officer and Interim Principal Financial Officer. I'll begin with a brief review of our fourth quarter operating performance, then Jeff will walk you through the financials and our outlook, then I'll recap the strategic highlights from 2010 and outline the key points of our 2011 growth strategy. As you saw from our press release issued earlier today, our fourth quarter sales increased 32% from a year ago to $179 million, which was meaningfully better than what we had projected. Our topline performance was once again driven primarily by global demand for our new products with several recent style introductions outperforming expectation. Response to our fall and holiday collections is very encouraging and speaks to the initial success we are having at evolving Crocs into an off season brand. Our fourth quarter profitability improved significantly over a year ago and was also above plan. The earnings upside was the result of strong sales growth and meaningful expense leverage, partially offset by gross margins that were lower than anticipated due primarily from seasonal factors, but up more than 390 basis points from the fourth quarter of 2009. Our wholesale business, particularly in Asia, proved to be much stronger in this fourth quarter versus internal projections. At the same time, our direct-to-consumer channel did experience some softness in December, after a strong start to the holidays. Our overall performance in the fourth quarter demonstrates the progress we have made, generating yearend excitements and demand for the brand, while also improving our operating platform. In one of our seasonally slowest periods, we drove double-digit sales gains in all channels across all regions, while returning the company to fourth quarter profitability for the first time in three years. This was a rewarding way to close our productive year for the company, and set this up nicely with solid momentum as we transition into 2011. Jeff will now review our fourth quarter and 2010 financial results, and our outlook for the first quarter of 2011 in more detail.

Thank you, John. Hello, everyone, and thanks for joining us. Today we'll be discussing both Q4 and full year results for 2010. Revenue for the quarter increased by $43 million or 32%, to $179 million, which exceeded our guidance of $165 million. Full year 2010 revenue increased 22% over 2009 to $790 million. We saw sales increase of over 25% in all three of our channels during the fourth quarter. In wholesale, revenue increased 27% to $98 million as we saw broad acceptance of key new styles and collections. Our yearend pre-book of $258 million are strong and represent 57% increase over the prior yearend. Average selling prices in our backlog appeared strong and they are in line with our expectation at over $16.50 per unit. For the full year, wholesale sales increased 19% to $482 million. Retail sales for Q4 increased 36% to $60 million. We ended the year with 378 company owned retail locations globally, which is up from 317 at the end of 2009. Broken down into store type, we had 138 full-price stores, 88 store-in-stores, 76 factory direct stores or outlets and 76 kiosks as of December 31, 2010. As expected, this represents a decrease in kiosks from last year and an increase for all other store types. For the year, retail sales increased 29% to $233 million. We expect to increase retail stores in 2011, with plans to add 25 to 35 stores in Americas, 40 to 30 stores in both Europe and Asia. Global interest sales increased 44% in the fourth quarter to $22 million. During 2010, internet sales increased to 24% to $75 million. We are very pleased with the healthy growth we've seen from our consumer direct channels as well as the direct interface with our consumers these channels have afforded us.…

This past year was a success for us from a number of standpoints. After stabilizing the business in 2009 we began 2010 with a solid foundation and the strength of financial resources to once again confidently pursue our growth strategies. This past year, we re-engaged the consumers through new products that combined the brand's original DNA with innovative new product designs. The results were more appealing footwear collections that created renewed interest amongst existing consumers and brought new consumers to our brand. We supported these product initiatives with new marketing strategies designed to broaden the awareness of the brands and recreate the fine emotional connection we have with our consumers. These marketing initiatives included a sizeable investment in television, print and outdoor advertising with our "Feel the love" campaign in the United States and in Europe. The impact of our efforts could be witnessed across all three distribution channels and our global markets where the brand momentum has been steadily building. Our sales performance at wholesales in 2010 helped strengthen retailer confidence in Crocs and has fueled the acceleration in our backlog in 2011 through the past few quarters. We experienced similar results in our Consumer Direct channels where our growing portfolio of company-owned retail stores and e-commerce size provides us with the ideal platform to showcase the breadth and depth of our product lines. And each of our regions, Asia, The Americas and Europe posted solid top-line gains in all channels. 2010 was also about strengthening the company's infrastructure to ensure we have the ability to meet future demand. For a company of our size and global reach, we require new and better systems to manage our business and to address the inefficiencies that impact our ability to grow. We also upgraded the production capabilities of our in-house manufacturing.…

(Operator Instructions) Our first question will come from Jim Duffy with Stifel Nicolaus.

Jeff, a question for you. With respect to the first quarter guidance, can you help us with margin direction to get to that $0.19 in earnings?

In that prepared script, Jim, we said that we expect Q1 margin to be 53% to 54%.

I know I've missed this as well. Was there any commentary around your order book as you look into the back-to-school season and holiday next year, as you pre-line products with retailers?

We did not discuss that. At that point, we are happy with the progress that we're making. It's a little bit too early to bring those numbers out as we are in the process of finalizing our pre-books for the second half of 2011. Jim, our order book process for really the fall back-to-school timeframe is really 225, so we won't start to see those final numbers for about another week.

And then a final from me. You did a great job exiting the year clean on inventories. Are you doing any different from the inventory management standpoint? And I think you mentioned clearing some inventories on the wholesale business. Are you working with any new channel partners in that respect?

We did, and I think you'll see a slight impact to margins, about 1.2% of the margin degradation from what we had thought the fourth quarter would be to what the actuals were came from that inventory clearing. I think, Jim, you know the big difference perhaps as we ahead into 2011, comes from the fact that such a large portion of our wholesale business is already pre-booked and a portion of our Q2 business for wholesale is also pre-booked. The amount of auto-replenishment business that we're required to support and that we're planning to support will be less or lower from an inventory standpoint than it has in the past, as we continue to evolve and change our business model here.

We'll take our next question from Jeffrey Klinefelter with Piper Jaffray.

Couple of things, more generally first. John, thinking about manufacturing capacity, I know you have your Mexican-owned facility, but factoring in your Chinese manufacturing and then some other third party that you have globally, as you ramp up next year again at least what we're forecasting to be pretty substantial growth in dollars and units. What sort of capacity potential do you have at this point or flexibility with both your owned capacity and then your third party capacity? And then the other would just be any insights in this seasonality. I'm thinking about your peak of Q2 and Q3, at least your historic peak of Q2, Q3. And any color that you want to provide on Asia versus Europe versus North America for modeling purposes?

I think, Jeff, we'll just break it into two questions. Let me talk a little bit about the capacity piece, Jeff, and we'll talk a little bit about the seasonality question that you have. On our internal capacity today, we have about 10 million pairs between our operations in Italy and Mexico that we can build to and there is really not a capital plan for us to expand that capacity much further. So we're comfortable with the amount of product that we build internally. Our flexibility with our key partners in China, allows us to build this between 55 million and 60 million pairs if required, if desired. I mean, so we think we have good flexibility on the upside this year, as we go through the year. On the seasonality piece, maybe I'll let Jeff answer that question.

From a seasonality perspective we have seen an improvement from 2009 to 2010, as evident and are stronger than average growth rate for Q4. So we're pretty happy with the curve climbing out over the course of the year. Obviously, a part of that also has to do with our pre-book strategy, as we have really grown our pre-books at a very healthy rate that will also help us on the seasonality curve to maximize ourselves throughout the year. And separately, we are focused, a lot of our management time on the southern hemisphere and warmer markets Brazil, India, South-East Asia, where we are focused on growing our products, and our supply chain and our distribution throughout those markets to help with the seasonality that you discussed.

Just maybe one other clarification on that. In terms of the core Europe, Asia, U.S. trying to get a better feel, for where we're going to see the strongest growth in each of those markets? Europe being more still wholesale, Asia being more retail direct, and the U.S. being a pretty healthy balance of the two, will we see the strongest growth in Europe maybe in Q2, whereas we'll see the stronger growth in Asia in Q3. Is there any consideration between those two quarters?

When we talk about growth, are you talking about in dollars Jeff, or in percentage?

In percentages.

I think it includes dollar growth just because of the size of both the Americas market and the Asian markets. Your dollar growth is going to be I think going to continue to be what they have been. I think we are gaining a larger presence, especially in the wholesale side of the businesses as we've put a lot of time and effort over two years to rebuild relationships there, and as we said, more marketing dollars this year to support our wholesale partners here. I think as a percentage basis, because Europe did drop so low a year ago in 2009, I think the opportunity to grow from a percentage standpoint as we've now started to reopen those direct markets will be a higher percentage.

Just as a reminder, since we are dealing with the bookings number, the booking visibility is very strong for Q1 because a majority of that revenue is pre-booked. Q2, can you compare or contrast the pre-book percent of total that's sort of expected between Q1 and Q2 to help with some modeling thoughts?

Sure Jeff. It looks like right now, that about 55% of our pre-books that we ended December 31, 2010 with will be shipped in Q1; about 35% will ship in Q2, and the balance of that will ship out in the second half of 2011.

Just one last thing here. You said that your bookings are sitting at about $16.50 in terms of AUR last year. You ended up at $17.69 in terms of out the door wholesale pricing. Is that correct, and could you provide some thoughts on the delta between those?

The $16.50 is a wholesale pre-book ASP; the $17.69 is a blended ASP, including retail, internet and wholesale.

For the year. So the $16.50 on an apples-to-apples basis, that would be up.

So Jeff, maybe let me give you that number. So in 2010 our wholesale ASPs would be at about $14.67 for 2010.

(Operator Instructions) We'll take our next question from Jim Chartier with Monness, Crespi, Hardt.

Just to clarify a previous question, what percentage of your backlog do you expect to ship in first quarter, and is that different in the pre-book?

What we said was the backlog on 12/31/ 2010 of $260 million, about 55% of that would ship in Q1. The difference in this particular case between pre-book and backlog, pre-books are included in the $260 million but not the entire amount of the $260 million. The $260 million does have add-once orders that have yet to ship is well. So (those) are our order bank, if you will.

So would you expect more than 55% of the backlogs be shipped in first quarter?

No, the 55% number represents the delivery date as promised on 12/ 31. So we expect that that amount or about $150 million will ship in Q1 with about 35% of the 12/31 backlog shipping in Q2.

And then you mentioned some softness in the direct to consumer business in December. Was that just weather-related, and have you seen any improvement there in first quarter to-date?

We think it is. I mean, I think you have seen, with a number of the brands experiencing the same situation in December. Through Black Friday through Cyber Monday, I think we were significantly ahead of our plan and where we though we would be. December just became a difficult month, not only in the U.S. but in the European markets also. They were also hit with the severe weather that seem to inhibit behavior. And I think a number of brands decided to discount more than what we had originally thought we would see in the December timeframe. And we thought that was the right thing to do for us also, Jim, to not carry that excess inventory for fall, winter products into 2011. And so we took a little more aggressive approach to pricing in December. As far as the carryover into the first six weeks of 2011, I think we've seen that rebound for us in a number of markets. We do not have a significant amount of our spring/summer '11 product into retail stores yet; it's just going into our retail stores in the first half of February, so we don't have a good read on how much of the sell-through impact is because of new products yet. But we are also bullish about what we think new products can mean to us in 2011.

And then for a large portion of last year, your own retail stores seem to be a little starved for inventory. So how was the inventory position in fourth quarter, and how is it for the first quarter?

It is good problem to have, I think when we see the demand that we have with products. At times, some of our fast-selling products we have, had gaps in inventory availability at some of our own retail stores. We've, as we said earlier in the presentation, made investments towards better planning systems for retail for 2011. We're going to continue to invest in additional systems and capabilities to plan and merchandise in our own retail stores. And we're taking up the line a little bit when it comes to what we are offering in retail. We're going to be a little bit tighter and a little bit deeper for 2011 than as broad as we were in many of our stores in 2010.

Our next question comes from Jessica Bornn with Sterne Agee.

Just a quick question, John. We spoke before. You said like 20% of the goods for spring are probably already shipped or delivered. Is that about right?

That's correct. Most of our customers will take product 215 and 315. But you are right, up until 215, maybe only 20% of our customers have taken new spring/summer products.

And that would be more southern tiers retailers I would assume?

Generally, yes.

And have you seen any read out of that little bit of delivery in the southern tiers? You have so much new product coming in?

I don't today, and even in our own retail stores in the southern markets in Florida and in the Southeast we don't have a read yet in the first seven to ten days yet on kind of what the sell-through is.

I guess I'll ask a forward question. On the Q1 call, which we're pretty far into the quarter already, when we get to the Q1 call, is that a point where you're going to be able to have a better lookout for the balance of the year once you've seen some selling and so on and so forth?

I don't know if I'd say it for the year. I mean, we're definitely going to have a much better read when we do the Q1 earnings call on what the sell-through of the new products is, what we think re-order points are going to be, which should take us through the summer months. But as far as back-to-school and our fall/winter line of products, I'm not sure by April we'll have a strong read on that. We will have our pre-books in for products, but we will have to wait and see when we get there.

And coming out of Outdoor Retailer, New York Shoe Show and platform, I mean what did you learn I guess from the various trade shows of late and retailer response?

I think two things; the sales in Q4 2010 also add substance to our belief that we do have a product up and it resonates with consumers in a close-toed environment, and that we can participate in the boot marketplace, the winter marketplace with certain types of products. Obviously we are not going to be at the high end, competing with the likes of an Uggs; that we clearly can resonate with consumers with rain boots and some fun products in the boot space at the right price points for our brand.

And just one more question. You probably already talked about this, but I hopped on late. When you look at the gross margin for Q1 and how you are thinking about it for the year, are you still looking at mid 50s? Is that sort of the way you are thinking about it overall?

So Sam, what we said was that in Q1 we expected that the gross margin would be 53% to 54%. And at this point we think 2011 gross margins would be about the same as what we saw in 2010, as our expanding product line in potentially higher ASPs will be offset by increased manufacturing cost, higher content in our products and other supply chain costs that will be incorporated into our gross margin.

And what is your forecast, and again this is a Q2 question, I'm sorry; what is your forecast for the percent of At Once business looking for the first half of the year right now? I would assume your At Once business runs a higher gross margin than your futures business.

For the first quarter, as we had talked about before, our pre-book business really with our wholesale customers consumes most of that At Once capacity. And yes, we do have some inventory that is available for At Once sales, but it will change. When we go into Q2, then we see a much larger portion of our revenue come from sell-through and At Once business. And I think as Jeff talked earlier, right now on our wholesale business, about 35% of our backlog will ship for Q2 orders for second and third drops to major wholesale accounts. So clearly, there is much greater risk in the upside at wholesale in Q2 based on what the consumers' opinion is going to be of our new product offering.

So from a gross margin perspective, when you doing futures I assume you give discounts, and when you are doing At Once, those should be higher margins orders. So theoretically, your margins, if it works, should be higher than second and fourth quarters than they would be in the first and third, just because of the mix of futures to At Once.

Yes, a little bit. You do have that dynamic. The other side of that is our co-op dollars around marketing and spending through the summer periods, as those products are being merchandised is going to be a little bit higher. So you're trading a little bit of that margin back into higher marketing spend in conjunction with the seasonality.

(Operator Instructions) We move on to Steven Martin with Slater Capital.

John, recently you talked about marketing spend for '11 and you recently made comments about, you didn't expect marketing spend in '11 to exceed '10 and just be redistributed which I guess you commented on. Is that still a true statement?

Yes, that's our plan today.

In a worst-case scenario, marketing spend is flat and may be a little better?

I would think so. I would think that we don't have the major dollar spends around media by television. But as we redistribute those dollars, I think we can get more in the marketing area to build the brand and to be able to showcase the right portfolio of products that we have in more cost-effective ways. But I think as you said, worst-case scenario, we would spend about the same amount in marketing in 2010 as we do in 2011.

And Jeff, from an SG&A standpoint leaving out the 'S', what does the G&A look like, corporate and otherwise for '11?

We don't typically break out the S from G&A. However, we would break out the corporate spend and give a little bit of clarity to that, that we do expect our corporate spend to be flat or certainly up, much less than our revenue in total for 2011 as we go out. And we did say in the prepared remarks that we are looking for opportunities to leverage our indirect SG&A in 2011 through efficiencies and increased cost control on the corporate and regions expenses.

Maybe I'll add just a little bit more color to this is, that while we have a perspective what we've seen internally, in 2009, our SG&A spend, not including retail was around $210 million. And in 2010, that same group, excluding retail is about $200 million. So we had a reduction in real dollars in SG&A year-over-year and a 7% decrease improvement in SG&A. And so, it's just that we are going to continue to focus on the opportunities that we have there, leverage the investments that we are making in systems and try to control that SG&A spend appropriately.

One last one; what are you seeing as you are signing leases for new stores this year? How did they look, and what do the pro formas look like on those stores?

We haven't seen quite the opportunistic availability of stores that we saw this time last year, or in 2009 where we really saw some great deals. We are seeing some opportunities that we are going after and chasing. More locations are selected within the mall, so we often are not quite the first to take the available space. And we are pretty happy with where the rents are in the U.S. market and how we have been able to capitalize on the weakness in that market. However, as you look outside of the U.S., the opportunities have not been as awesome as they were in 2009. With that said, I think that's just kind of the market realities, and we are finding some good stores throughout the world and we are opportunistically entering into those marketplaces.

We have a follow up question from Jim Chartier.

Your internet business accelerated pretty nicely in the fourth quarter. I was wondering if you could tell us what the drivers were, and if you see this as an inflection point for that business?

Jim, we have talked through our investments with Demandware and the platforms that we have rolled out with them globally. I think we are starting to see the benefit of that investment with a much better focus in 2010 with our digital marketing group, with our social marketing groups, especially in Europe and the United States. And we think that that starts to resonate with the right consumers to drive that kind of internet behavior. And I think also, we are benefiting a little bit with the bad weather in December with the uptick in business in both markets, just because people weren't going out as much to shops. But I think we have a great digital marketing, social marketing and e-commerce group here. And I think you can see the benefits of the hard work that they have done.

We have no further questions at this time. I would like to turn the conference back over to Mr. McCarvel for any additional or closing remarks.

Thank you very much for listening with us today, and we look forward to talking to you again in April.

Ladies and gentlemen that does conclude today's conference. Thank you for your participation.