Gregg Ribatt - Crocs, Inc.
Analyst
Thank you, Brendon, and good morning, everyone. This morning, we announced our third quarter 2016 financial results. Revenues were $245.9 million, in line with our guidance. And net loss attributable to common shareholders was $5.4 million. While sales reflected generally tepid consumer environment for non-athletic footwear and corresponding retailer caution, our financial results demonstrate the more strategic management and resulting improvements of our business. Our adjusted gross margin was approximately 700 basis points above last year; and approximately 200 basis points above our guidance as we focused our business on higher margin molded product and reduced our promotional activities. In addition, we managed our inventories down $21 million, or 11% from last year. Over the past two years, we've elevated the capabilities of the team and successfully implemented a more strategic and stable operating platform. Specifically, we've narrowed our product line, reduced our inventory levels, reduced our retail store footprint, created a product development engine focused on delivering stronger gross margins, achieved top quartile customer service levels for on-time and in-full deliveries, completed the transition of parts of our China business from challenged distributors and increased our focus and simplified our business model by converting subscale markets to distributors. Despite this progress, we are anticipating the retail environment to remain challenging. Having restructured our business and tightened our operating practices over the past two years, we believe we can gain market share and deliver profitable revenue growth over time. We're planning our business cautiously, including accelerating the pace of improvements in our cost structure. These efforts are primarily focused in three areas: first, reducing SG&A as part of our increased focus and simplification efforts; second, driving efficiency through business process improvements as we leverage our more mature SAP implementation; and third, optimizing our distribution logistics costs through more effective supply and inventory planning and execution. Our product line for fall holiday 2016 and spring/summer 2017 continues to improve from a consumer perspective as we leverage learnings from each season which will better position us for the future. In the quarter, we unveiled our collaboration with leading designer Christopher Kane, which drew a great deal of positive media attention. And in the near future, we will announce exciting enhancements to our marketing campaign for spring/summer 2017. I'm pleased that we continue to be more strategic in managing our business and executing at a higher level than we have previously. We're focused on driving quality revenue growth in this challenging environment and I'm confident that we will do so. Now, Andrew will provide some additional thoughts on the quarter and future direction.