Glenn J. Chamandy - Gildan Activewear, Inc.
Analyst · BMO Capital Markets.
Well, look, I mean at the end of the day, it's – you can look at it in different ways is that, look, we sell – the price of a basics shirt, it sells for a lot less than a fashion shirt, right? So, the market is trending towards fashion which in theory, in Printwear is great for us, because that means that the price elasticity is there and consumers in that category are spending more money to buy the products. They're looking for better features, better garments. So, even our fashion basics, I mean really the big difference between the fashion basics and the basics is the fabrication and sometimes it's a little bit the fit. So, really, we think this is very positive for us, because overall our POS is positive, but yet we're leveraging the higher price, higher margin products, which is ultimately providing better returns as we go forward. And I think we saw this coming for a long time, and if you look at the company and that's part of our success is that we invested very long, strategic opportunities, and our whole yarn investment strategy which we set forth two, three years ago to invest $400 million in yarn, a lot of that yarn capacity was built to support which we thought was the growing area in the market, which is this fashion basics, and that's what's allowing us to get these great returns on capital. And we also combine that I think within our acquisition strategy, which I think has been very tactical. And if you look at what we've done over the last, let's say couple years, we've bought three, four great companies. We've paid very low multiples for these companies. We've got very high returns on capital with very low risk. We leveraged really our supply chain. We've driven our organic sales plan. I think that's important thing is that all these acquisitions that we've achieved are what's shaping Printwear today and allowing us to continue to have strong earnings as we move into 2018. These acquisitions have given us new product categories, new brands like American Apparel. We've added capacity like Swift. We just purchased Swift and also Alstyle. We've entered new markets and new channels of distribution. So, all – everything we're doing today with either our capital investments or our acquisition strategy really will position ourselves, we think as we move forward into the future, to continued strong earnings and growth potential and performance.