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Operator

Operator

Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Restoration Hardware Holdings Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2012 Financial Results Conference Call. My name is Keith, and I’ll be your operator for today. At this time all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later on we will conduct a question-and-answer session. (Operator Instructions) As a reminder, today’s conference is being recorded for replay purposes. And with that I’d now like to turn the conference over to your host for today, Ms. Cammeron McLaughlin, Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Cammeron McLaughlin

Investor Relations

Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us for Restoration Hardware Holdings fourth quarter and fiscal 2012 financial results conference call. Joining me today are Carlos Alberini, Chief Executive Officer; Gary Friedman, Chairman Emeritus, Creator and Curator; and Karen Boone, Chief Financial Officer. Before turning the call over to Carlos, I’d like to remind you of our standard legal disclaimer that we will make certain statements today that are forward-looking within the meaning of the Federal Securities Laws including statements about the outlook for our business and other matters reference in our financial results press release. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. Please refer to our SEC filings as well as our financial results press release for a more detailed description of the risk factors that may affect our results. Please also note that these forward-looking statements reflect our opinions only as of the date of this call and we undertake no obligation to revise or publically release the results of any revision to these forward-looking statements in light of new information or future events. Also during our call today, we will discuss a number of non-GAAP financial measures including adjusted operating income, adjusted EBITDA, adjusted net income and adjusted earnings per share. These measures are just our GAAP results to eliminate the impact of certain items. You will find additional information regarding these non-GAAP financial measures, and a reconciliation of these non-GAAP to GAAP measures in today’s financial results press release as well as a reconciliation of adjusted P&L items on pages 11 and 12. A live broadcast of this call is available on in the investor relation section of our website at ir.restorationhardware.com. With that I will now turn the call over to Carlos.

Carlos Alberini

Chief Executive Officer

Thank you, Cammeron. Good afternoon everyone and thank you for joining us. We have many exciting things to share with you today. I’ll start with an overview of our business performance and touch on the progress that we have made on our key operating initiatives on long-term strategy. Then Gary will provide an update on the RH brand and key products and business initiatives. Karen will then wrap up our prepared remarks with a discussion of our financial results and our outlook for 2013. After that we will open the call for your questions. We are very pleased with our fourth quarter performance, which drove record financial results with adjusted net income growth of 24% and an adjusted diluted EPS of $0.64 for the period closing the best year ever for our company. On behalf of our leadership team, Gary and myself, I want to thank every member of Team Resto for all of the hard work and tremendous accomplishments this past year. In the fourth quarter, we delivered industry leading sales growth with a net revenue increase of 30% on top of 19% increase last year. Excluding the 53 week, net revenues increased 23% year-over-year. This performance marks our 12 consecutive quarter of double-digit net revenue growth. During the time, when we have contracted our store base from 95 locations in 2009 to the 71 locations that we had at year-end. In fact, during this three year period RH achieved compounded revenue growth of 24% per year, essentially doubling the size of the Company from $625 million in net revenue in 2009 to $1.2 billion this past year. We believe that this 24% CAGR significantly outpaces the home furnishing market. And now our peers; the home furnishing market in the U.S. has grown at 12% CAGR over the three…

Gary Friedman

Chairman

Thank you, Carlos, and good afternoon everyone. As mentioned in the press release, our ability to innovate, curate and integrate new products, businesses and experiences has driven our industry leading results and continue to distinguish us in the marketplace. Our growth in 2012, and indeed our growth since 2009 was driven by a combination of new products, new categories, new businesses and the re-conceptualization of both our retail and direct platform. We believe we are building not only an innovative and proprietary product offering, but also a completely new platform or eco system to experience our collections. Both these factors are producing industry leading sales per square foot in our galleries, and with continued refinement, we’ll also produce what we believe will be one of the most compelling and productive multi-channel experience in the retail. As Carlos mentioned, with only four of the top 50 markets having been converted, many of our new and developing businesses have been just introduced, and others being launched this spring and into the future. We are at the very early stages of our growth story. Most recently, our growth is driven by new collections and finishes in furniture, lighting and textiles coupled with an expanding bath and child offering and the introduction of small spaces. Looking forward, this spring, our collection will be presented across six Source Book titles totaling over 1,600 pages and represents the most dominant and authoritative assortment in a luxury home furnishings market. Our Interiors and Small Spaces Books include the addition of new furniture collections and finishes, the expansion and presentation of color across our upholstered furniture and textiles collections, and dramatic new lighting. The new furniture which includes an antique top and white painted finishes, we believe will open up an entirely new market for us. In addition,…

Karen Boone

Chief Financial Officer

Thanks, Gary and good afternoon everyone. I will first take you through some of the financial details of our fourth quarter and 2012 performance and will then provide our outlook for both the first quarter and 2013 full fiscal year. We’re extremely pleased with our fourth quarter performance. Total revenue for the fourth quarter increased 30% to $398 million. Retail sales during this period increased 22% to $210 million. And, our comparable store sales increased 26% and this is on top of the 22% comp store sales growth we experienced last year. We also operated fewer stores with 71 galleries opened at the end of the fourth quarter versus the 74 we had opened at the end of last year. Our direct sales increased 41% to $188 million on top of a 23% increase for the same period last year. Top line growth across all of our channels was primarily driven by the expansion of our assortment. As we’ve strong performance in the new black and brown furniture finishes, lighting expansion and new items in our Small Spaces and Baby & Child collection. Adjusted gross profit in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2012 increased by 26% and reach the $148 million. Adjusted gross margin decreased to 37.3% from 38.5% last year due to increased shipping costs and a reduction in product margin based on changes in product mix. With higher furniture sales during the period, partially offset by improvements in our occupancy costs. Strategic pricing on those new furniture introductions and existing collections has allowed us to take market share, this resulting in lower product margin. Increases in our furniture sales also result in higher shipping costs. We believe that the value we offer through our competitive pricing is resonating with our customers and is contributing to significant market share…

Operator

Operator

(Operator Instructions) And your first question comes from the line of Lorraine Hutchinson with Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Please go ahead. Lorraine Maikis Hutchinson – Bank of America Merrill Lynch: Good afternoon. My first question was around gross margin. I know there is a lot of mix shifts going on with the increase in the furniture penetration. How should we think about that over the long-term? Should we continue to see that decline on a multiyear basis, given the focus that you are placing on furniture or are there offsets that we can look for in the out years to offset that?

Carlos Alberini

Chief Executive Officer

Yes, Lorraine how are you? Let me take that. Let me start by saying that, we are very, very excited and thrilled with the evolution that the business that has taken and how we continue to gain markets in the business that is so critical to our long term strategy. And I am talking about furniture specifically. You are correct that that business has impacted our mix negatively. We are modeling our long term with a very stable margin. We do see that the trends are somewhat similar in the first quarter as Karen indicated and that would impact our first quarter margins as well. We have seen some promotional activity and we believe that we have winning formula with the very strong dominance over it and very exclusive products. So we feel that long term, we will have pricing power. As you know, at the core of our strategy we want to win disruptive marketplace and continue to gain market share and I think we are doing just that. The great thing about the model is that we do see operating margin leverage as we further lever our cost structure and infrastructure and SG&A overall and occupancy with the new deals that we are seeing. So we feel that we can continue to drive this market, share gain remain very competitively priced and continue to win in the marketplace.

Gary Friedman

Chairman

Yeah, this is Gary. Lorraine, let me build on a couple of key points. We are going to start to see growth from new businesses, particularly Tableware, Objects and Art. As the businesses start to grow, you’ll see a stabilizing of the furniture growth in the product mix. The other thing that we’re seeing is with the growth in furniture is leading to the better pricing with our vendor base. So there are deficiencies that our vendor base has, that are being passed along to us. So that will become a positive as we start to see it in the later half of this year. And the other thing to consider is Baby & Child is now just starting to reach a level where our orders are getting to a scale that we’re going to start to get leveraging or buying the Baby & Child. And so that business, because it was in its infancy with somewhat of a margin drag, and that will start to normalize and lift up margins also. Lorraine Maikis Hutchinson – Bank of America Merrill Lynch: Great. And then, on your new store opening cadence, what’s a good run rate for us to think about longer term, how many of these do you think you can digest in the course of a year, and is the $100 million a good CapEx number to use as a run rate?

Gary Friedman

Chairman

Yeah, let me address that too, we are very excited about what we are seeing in terms of the enthusiasm that we see that landlords are taking with our new Full Line Design concept. I think that there is a big opportunity here to grow the square footage in a pretty significant way, probably even more than what we originally thought because when you are concentrating on some of this shopping retail centers with anchor tenant deals, there is an opportunity to grow much faster than if we are just looking for one building here are they are now, of course there is going to be opportunity for single buildings like the ones that we found in Boston or the post office building in Greenwich, but this gives us a model that it will enable us to grow significantly faster. In terms of the number of units, it depends on the complexity, but we have been modeling our long term growth with numbers anywhere between 5 and 10 locations, I am talking about 3 to 5 years out. Lorraine Maikis Hutchinson – Bank of America Merrill Lynch: And CapEx?

Carlos Alberini

Chief Executive Officer

In terms of CapEx if you think about that type of number assuming that we are going to be building locations that are larger than what we have built so far just to accommodate the expansion of some of the product categories as I mentioned in my prepared remarks you have to think that this $100 million will be probably spend in a different way, there is a considerable amount of spending this year for infrastructure, primarily supply chain, we are opening a new DC, and we are expanding one in a pretty significant way that is very costly, but which we do not anticipate that we’ll have that type of investment every year. So but I think $95 million to $100 million in terms of overall capital is a good annual run rate doesn’t probably mean that we will spend exactly that amount every year there could be some years where we may spend more than that. But I think the $100 million range is a pretty good benchmark. Lorraine Maikis Hutchinson – Bank of America Merrill Lynch: All right, thank you.

Gary Friedman

Chairman

Thank you

Operator

Operator

Your next question is from the line of Matthew Fassler with Goldman Sachs. Please go ahead Matthew J. Fassler – Goldman Sachs & Co.: Thanks a lot and good afternoon, congratulations on the holiday season. The first question I’d like to ask relates to a little more detail on the impact some of the emerging businesses on the fourth quarter, I know that some of them that hit the Source Book, and the stores thereafter. Any color you could give, what your early reads are on their impact on the business?

Gary Friedman

Chairman

Matt, you’re talking about the books that are just now being dropped Matthew J. Fassler – Goldman Sachs & Co.: Well, I guess I am talking about some of the new initiatives Gary that impacted Q4?

Gary Friedman

Chairman

Yeah, well that’s a good one, if you stand back and think about it right, we have multiple business investments that we believe will lead to longer-term growth and leverage on our operating margins, but that provided de-leverage rate in the last couple of quarters. And so specifically those are Tableware, Objects of Curiosity and Fine Arts where we have no sales being generated, but we have teams working on building those businesses. And we’ll start seeing sales in Tableware and Objects of Curiosity in the next. We’re starting to see sales now, because we just brought up online the books are just starting to getting own. And then small space basis of Baby & Child, where we’ve had significant work being done on the assortment. But you’ve got businesses here when you think about it that there are in their infantile stage even Baby & Child, we have such a small retail presence, but we have a full assortment, I mean we opened a 7,000 square feet of selling in Santa Monica, California and needed every bit of that, and actually is performing quite well, we got I think industry leading dollars per square foot in all of our Baby & Child locations that we have. So when you think about starting to roll that out in retail you’re going to get big leverage there, same thing with Big Style small spaces. The small faces category, think about it as a start-up catalog, it is really in its first year we’re testing, refining. We’re optimizing circulation, optimizing page count and density. You’re going to see good leverage there. And then the third thing, I’d mention is we made circulation investments to test the depth of our file in the second half of last year. And we knew, as a private company we wanted to get a feeling for how big that market looked and made some investments that now we will start to optimize that circulation, and I think we would have expectations of better leverage from an advertising point of view going forward. Matthew J. Fassler – Goldman Sachs & Co.: And Gary, if you think about Big Style and small spaces in particular, which I realize is very much emerging, but still did have a presence for a number of months during last fiscal year. Any read on its promise and its contribution in the quarter that we just saw?

Gary Friedman

Chairman

Yeah, we’re very enthusiastic about the reads on it, very enthusiastic. In fact, as Carlos alluded to we are going to size up the box on our new design galleries to incorporate a retail presence of big style small spaces. Yeah. Matthew J. Fassler – Goldman Sachs & Co.: Second question just on real estate; I realize that demand growth is a relevant metric, I guess, it encompasses direct and other things, but if you kind of take maybe a more traditional metric to same store sales on the retail box for the galleries that you saw for namely LA, in Houston, can you give us a color on how those numbers attract?

Gary Friedman

Chairman

Yeah, that’s actually what Carlos referred to is basically the demand of retail.

Carlos Alberini

Chief Executive Officer

Yeah, normally you would see complete correlation Matt, inventories away, you’ve talked about demand is because we were comparing to a much smaller type of business, so really if you don’t do it, based on demand. You would get, you would on the delivery of…

Gary Friedman

Chairman

Ship product yes…

Carlos Alberini

Chief Executive Officer

At the beginning of that, so, the same store sales is pretty much tracking the numbers that I spoke about for eastern close location.

Gary Friedman

Chairman

That demand growth is same store demand right? Matthew J. Fassler – Goldman Sachs & Co.: Spaces (inaudible) business if you will as opposed to…

Carlos Alberini

Chief Executive Officer

Exactly.

Gary Friedman

Chairman

Exactly. Matthew J. Fassler – Goldman Sachs & Co.: That’s a clean retail member.

Gary Friedman

Chairman

That’s a clean retail member. Matthew J. Fassler – Goldman Sachs & Co.: Got it, that’s great. And then my final question.

Gary Friedman

Chairman

I’m actually Matt, let me just add that if you add the impact of that this galleries have in each of those markets in our direct business, which was something that we were not counting on when we made those decisions to invest in this Full Line Design Gallery. The impact is significantly accretive to each of those markets as well on the direct business. Matthew J. Fassler – Goldman Sachs & Co.: Great, and then my final question, Karen you spoke in your comment on Q1 about SG&A trends improving considerably. I just want to make sure that are we thinking about versus the fourth quarter run rate versus the fourth quarter year-on-year in other words do you expect to see a lot more leverage in Q1 than you saw in Q4, I just to get clarify on, what precisely…

Karen Boone

Chief Financial Officer

Yes, it’s the leverage, we see the leverage in Q1 seeing better compared to what we saw in Q4. Matthew J. Fassler – Goldman Sachs & Co.: Great. Thank you so much guys.

Carlos Alberini

Chief Executive Officer

Thank you, Matt.

Operator

Operator

Your next question is from the line of Daniel Hofkin with William Blair. Please go ahead. Daniel Hofkin – William Blair & Company, L.L.C.: Good afternoon. Very nice quarter.

Gary Friedman

Chairman

Thank you. Hi, Dan. Daniel Hofkin – William Blair & Company, L.L.C.: I guess just a follow-up a little bit on maybe in the intermediate term and the gross margin you have talked about the first quarter outlook. It sounds like that’s kind of go in hand in hand with the stronger sales, particularly in furniture. As you get out for the year as a whole, do you expect the gross margin drag is smaller than in the first quarter alone, given the sort of?

Gary Friedman

Chairman

Yeah, completely. That’s exactly what we expect. We see opportunities as we go into the second half of the year for significant improvement over the trends that we saw. Daniel Hofkin – William Blair & Company, L.L.C.: Not necessarily up year-over-year, but you are saying smaller rate of degradation.

Karen Boone

Chief Financial Officer

Yes. Daniel Hofkin – William Blair & Company, L.L.C.: Okay, got it. And then…

Gary Friedman

Chairman

A bit smaller, a fraction of. Daniel Hofkin – William Blair & Company, L.L.C.: Got it. And then I guess just on the real estate for, maybe if I could just ask about the Chicago market, I know the couple of locations, the smaller locations have closed, is that just sort of in preparation for an eventual large format gallery or what’s sort of the specific strategy there if you can share that?

Gary Friedman

Chairman

Yes. Dan, this is very similar to and consistent with how we have approached every market. Every time we decided to close a location is based on that one investment decision and so if we decided to close it, because there was a significant return opportunity in every case, but that being said, you are absolutely right, we are searching for the appropriate location to represent us in that market and it’s a big market for us and a great opportunity for our Full Line Design Gallery and we have been negotiating and talking about one specific location we are very excited about. Daniel Hofkin – William Blair & Company, L.L.C.: Great, and then I guess my last question relates to the new store performance, is there anything you would call out in terms of, is it certain classification, certain collections of furniture that are driving especially get upside so far in I guess the three newest stores

Carlos Alberini

Chief Executive Officer

What I would say is Dan, I think that something that we said before, if we continue to confirm every time that one product is display at retail we experience that sell list in the 50% to 150% range, and that is consistent and of course this full line design galleries are displaying much more of our assortment and that is how we are seeing that significant lift. And that has being complete consistent in everyone of this locations we have been really surprise in a great way, was that Scottsdale just delivering some amazing numbers and we continue to build the two locations and thoroughly fully burdened in Houston, just continue to really accelerate relative best of this lead if you exclude Full Line Design Gallery even on the second anniversary. So it’s all great like Gary said before we do see an opportunity to relieve or represent more of the assortment we know that’s the way to win. Daniel Hofkin – William Blair & Company, L.L.C.: All right, thank you very much.

Carlos Alberini

Chief Executive Officer

Thank you, Dan.

Operator

Operator

Your next question is from the line of David Schick with Stifel Nicolaus. Please go ahead. David A. Schick – Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc.: Hi, good afternoon and I’d add the congrats on the quarter on the continued strength, and I think I have to just for sake of comedy talk there is something profound about Baby & Child being in its infancy right that we talked about.

Carlos Alberini

Chief Executive Officer

We like to think that is co-added. David A. Schick – Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc. : I think yes, we’ve got our title starting to form for the note, so if we could go and sort of think on a comp basis you got a lot of comp drivers, but then how much is new customers, you’ve talked about growing you catalog a little bit, but new customer versus existing customers growing their business with you, if you could talk about that, and then sort of overlying as well, transaction count growth versus the size of the transaction our units for transaction or whatever you think about it.

Carlos Alberini

Chief Executive Officer

Clearly we are selling more to our existing customers and as we expand the assortment and we move in new category so we would expect the majority of table top to sell to our existing customers that have been in that category same with Objects of Curiosity, same with where we’re seeing the growth in outdoor or Baby & Child or even in our existing furniture lines. I think the addition of small spaces starts to open up a new market, it makes our brand even more accessible and that’s what we are so excited about the small spaces concept into a retail format, because if you think about it, you got a couple of ways to make the brand more accessible; one is we make the product smaller, there is less input cost into the product so it can happen with a lot of retail, but also shipping it here you get more in the container so that gives you a lot of retail, so we’re not taking any quality or any design out of the product, but by sizing the product differently, we believe that’s gong to open up the market, not just from a youth point of view, but from an acceptability point of view. So we start to see how that is opening up the market and then the other key part here, one of the hardest way is to grow a business, it’s just through a direct channel as far as awareness right? Because the deeper you circulate them the more expensive it is and it’s hard to hit those targets. The best way, once you have a proven format, is to put that assortment into the retail channel and make it accessible and make it visible. So the biggest opportunity you have here for…

Carlos Alberini

Chief Executive Officer

If we grow footprint, I think we’re going to… David A. Schick – Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc. : I mean change that. Yeah, change that.

Carlos Alberini

Chief Executive Officer

But I think, the one thing I would add to that Dave is that like Gary said before, we’ve made a significant investment in the circulation and [going] significantly deeper this past year. And so, we are talking to new customers as well and we are seeing that the impact on the return on that investment is very desirable, so. David A. Schick – Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc. : Great.

Karen Boone

Chief Financial Officer

And on the cost side, you might hear it from all of that. This is Karen. On the comp, the other thing I would add is towards the latter part of 2012, we saw an acceleration and the impact of our interior design services we are having on our call. We are not having more and more designers in our stores. We closed the year with 39 designers in 25 of our galleries, and those individuals are so much more productive, and they have a longer relationship with these customers and more and more customers are coming and shopping for multiple rooms at their home overtime. So we are really pleased with that initiative and by the end of 2013, we expect to have these services available in all of our galleries, so we think that’s going to be a good driver for the comp in the future as well. David A. Schick – Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc. : Thank you so much. Anything you would share then on average transaction size growth or anything like that, any metrics?

Karen Boone

Chief Financial Officer

Not at this time. We are not going to share those. David A. Schick – Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc. : Okay, thank you.

Operator

Operator

Your next question is from the line of Neely Tamminga with Piper Jaffray. Please go ahead. Neely J. N. Tamminga – Piper Jaffray, Inc.: Great. Good morning, and let me also add my congratulations to the team.

Carlos Alberini

Chief Executive Officer

Thank you Neely. Neely J. N. Tamminga – Piper Jaffray, Inc.: So I just wanted to get some just clarity around particularly the Big Style small spaces and table tops. Gary, is there currently right now in all galleries of 73 year or so of them representation of some form of the added of this product in stores or just the 25 or so, I mean just trying to get a sense of where it is?

Gary Friedman

Chairman

It is from small spaces and table tops, there is no assortment out there. There is a little bit in the second floor New York in the basement like there is basically no representation of small spaces in the company and then ultimately table top the book is just getting to drop in the product key rolling out to retail stores over the next several months, and as it tested, we get more clarity how it’s performing we will make bigger investments into the retail presentation. Neely J. N. Tamminga – Piper Jaffray, Inc.: By the end of the year would you expect to at least maybe 10% of the galleries to have some format added or 10% of the product to be in all the gallery something to that effect?

Carlos Alberini

Chief Executive Officer

Not in small spaces, in table top I would say by the fourth quarter we’ll be in all galleries with table top. Neely J. N. Tamminga – Piper Jaffray, Inc.: Okay, excellent, okay cool. Thank you for that clarity, and then just a couple of more questions here on outdoor furniture, I know that Minneapolis is not the center of the world, but I am currently staring at a snow storm today just wondering and somewhat dramatic what we’ve seen across at least in mid-west from the sort of spring, could you comment as to how outdoors perform for you guys, and then whether or not Q2 contemplate or Q1 and into Q2 contemplate some sort of acceleration in that business for pent up demand just help us understand the importance of outdoor.

Gary Friedman

Chairman

Two things; one, our outdoor business is positive year-to-date and we’re happy with the performance of outdoor, and one of the things that if you think about our limited retail space a lot of it deals with, not only the time when we drop the book, but when do we switch out into our product off the floor and put outdoor product on the floor in our retail stores. And we’ve been studying that art, if you will carefully and which perfectly left into our product on the floor longer this year because we believe we have a better arbitrage in that and so we’re just now going to start to see some outdoor furniture on the floor in the retail stores. So I think we are excited about our store and we think we have one of the coolest new collections, Aspen collections which you will see in the front of the book and across magazines, designed by Soren Rose from Copenhagen is I think one of most innovative outdoor collection, it’s really viable for mountain homes and places like Aspen, and Sun Valley and log cabins and things like that and we’ve done lot outdoor expect a very good season so.

Carlos Alberini

Chief Executive Officer

And what I would add is I think you probably heard the comment that Gary made that the books are dropping later than they where a year ago, so and that also includes outdoor, so the fact that the business has been tracking so strongly relative to a year ago with that change in our strategy, I think it’s pretty meaningful and significant. Neely J. N. Tamminga – Piper Jaffray, Inc.: It’s an excellent point thanks Carlos, and then I just have two follow-up model questions for you Karen. First, do you specifically give where the circulation plan is this year relative to last year? I know that you have been a significant investment in last year. But, what does the 2013 circ plan?

Karen Boone

Chief Financial Officer

We’re not sharing the specifics of that I’ll just, will say that we do try and optimize that in few leverage in 2013, but we’re not really guiding to a specific at cost or numbers or percentages. Neely J. N. Tamminga – Piper Jaffray, Inc.: Okay, and then, in terms of depreciation, have you given some sort of depreciation guidance for this year, for the quarter?

Karen Boone

Chief Financial Officer

We didn’t give that, but I’ll just say planning at roughly similar to what we saw in 2012 will be a good estimate. Neely J. N. Tamminga – Piper Jaffray, Inc.: Similar, are you mean by the rate or the actual whole dollars could you clarify just little bit?

Karen Boone

Chief Financial Officer

The rate. Neely J. N. Tamminga – Piper Jaffray, Inc.: Okay, Thank you very much and good luck to you guys.

Gary Friedman

Chairman

Thank you Neely.

Operator

Operator

Your next question is from line of Matt Nemer with Wells Fargo Securities. Please go ahead. Matt Nemer – Wells Fargo Securities LLC: Good afternoon, everyone. Sorry for the background noise. So, I just wanted to follow-up on the Full Line Design Galleries that you’re making larger in terms of small spaces in Baby offset by the anchor tenant deals that you’re getting. How does that impact the returns and the payback on this next batch of stores versus the math you provided in the IPO?

Carlos Alberini

Chief Executive Officer

Gary Friedman

Chairman

You know what I would add Matt is that there were a few things that were very different when we were during the Roadshow, when we talked about this topic and I think the good news is that all the changes are more positive and beneficial. So the first one is, the fact that at the same we had some expectations about the performance of the Full Line Design Galleries, which we have been exceeding free and they’re actually the ones that we have. So that is definitely impacting our returns in a positive way. The second one is that we had anticipated our plan that our total occupancy cost we’re going to be similar on a per square foot basis to what we’re paying that’s the way we modeled our financial plan. And what we are seeing now is that with this anchor tenant deals that we can see a pretty significant improvement of what we’re paying. So that is the second big thing combined with the capital utilization, which we again think that could be a big positive. The fact that we are dedicating more space to this category that Gary mentioned it’s all good news. We see based on our experience in Baby & Child, Gary mentioned the Santa Monica location is delivering some pretty impressive performance and we know that everyone of the markets where we are planning to open our space for Baby & Child, our markets are doing very well with the direct business for Baby & Child. So we already have accessed we know what we expect, it has worked it in every market where we did open Baby & Child. And we believe that small space is a big opportunity as Gary said. So we haven’t read down the numbers in terms of what to expect in terms of return, but it’s going to be better all around. Matt Nemer – Wells Fargo Securities LLC: Great, that’s helpful. And then just secondly in terms of services you mentioned that you ended the year with 39 designers where from that number go by the end of this year and just overtime does that going to the 100’s or just give us a sense for how a guess, what you guess?

Gary Friedman

Chairman

In order to be present in all 70 galleries like Karen mentioned, you’ll be looking at number in the 90. Matt Nemer – Wells Fargo Securities LLC: Okay. And then lastly I know it’s pretty early because it hasn’t been online that long, but any early read on tabletop and just early read from what customers are kind of talking about and blogging about? Thanks.

Carlos Alberini

Chief Executive Officer

It’s too early and the books aren’t really in home yet and we went online with the books and we’ve gotten some. The comments are all positive, like, in generally, they are. I mean, our people are enthusiastic about it. That’s great. The first few transactions around tabletop, we’re seeing people buying not just items. We’re buying like full collections [outfitting and second home]. So we’re very, very encouraged by it. I think if you take our table top look and you try to take other look at anybody else who has got tabletop and a catalog and just put him side by side on a table, I think it is a completely different presentation and assortment of how tabletops represented anywhere in America today. And we have been wisely think it’s better. Our people are excited about it and we’re relatively positive we’re going to be happy with the outcome. I think that you could say same thing with Objects of Curiosity. If you say to yourself where do you buy product like that, where is it presented in a way that you can understand it. If that category even exist in the marketplace today, I would argue that the category not really merchandised anywhere in a meaningful way and that would grow with creating a new category with Objects of Curiosity. And I don’t know if you guys have gotten the books yet or if you’ve seen them online, but again these are businesses. When you think of the Tableware and Objects of Curiosity, these are products that our customers need and want, right. Need and want. You need to finish excess writing you home. You need tabletop in everyone of our customers’ homes and they want the level of quality, the level of taste and level of style that we provide and we’re proving that in other category. So logic says, survey says it should work. But we don’t have any real numbers to get out there and get too enthusiastic. So this is our tempered enthusiasm. Matt Nemer – Wells Fargo Securities LLC: Thanks for that detail and congratulations on a great quarter.

Carlos Alberini

Chief Executive Officer

Yeah, thank you.

Operator

Operator

And your next question is from the line of Peter Benedict with Robert Baird. Please go ahead Justin Kleber – Robert W. Baird & Co. Equity Capital Markets: Hey, guys. This is actually Justin Kleber on for Peter. Thanks for taking the question and congrats on the quarter. Just in terms of books dropping later, was that an internal decision on the part of you or is there some other rationale behind it, is it just lead times associated within those assortments or something else driving that decision?

Carlos Alberini

Chief Executive Officer

It’s a combination of things. We felt it was the optimal way to maximize our business and [life of] efficiencies in the way we did it. So, listen we learn all the time here right. So we’re constantly fine tuning and tweaking and like I talked earlier about the arbitrage between indoor and outdoor furniture, there is a lot of things you can fine tune here in the direct business and the direct modeling and this is [one way] that we’re testing.

Gary Friedman

Chairman

I would add that this was a strategic decision and we are very happy with the decision we made. Let me put it that way. Justin Kleber – Robert W. Baird & Co. Equity Capital Markets: Okay, thanks. And then, Karen, just on the gross margin, going back to the fourth quarter, could you discuss the impacts from product margin, supply chain cost and occupancy, maybe perhaps in basis points at least relative magnitude?

Karen Boone

Chief Financial Officer

Yeah. When we think about those three components that we’ve been speaking about in the past, the product margin, the shipping cost and the occupancy costs. The product margin and shipping costs are impacted by the mix and it really do vary based on the timing of new product introductions and seasonality. We’re not going to be giving the same level of detail that we’ve given in the past down to the basis point by each area and then the occupancy cost leverage is going to fluctuate from period to period and in Q4 as I mentioned we did have investments and frankly in ’12 and then going into ’13. We expanded our flux revenue both from furniture facility and we expanded that another 600,000 square feet. in Q4, we have in Ohio shelf stock facility that we are expanding coming in the 2013 year and another DC in Dallas that we are opening, that really are critical investments to support our growth, and a lot of the growth that we see coming and being sustained, so the timing of those investments are going to change the timing of the occupancy leverage that we see over time, for Q4 specifically again we don’t want to get into a lot of the details, but I will say that that the product piece of that was less than what we saw early in the year in Q3 and then the occupancy was less. So the magnitude that you saw in some of the earlier quarters with big swing, a lot of way in big swing, the other way, we still have some of those offsetting factors, that they won is great. Justin Kleber – Robert W. Baird & Co. Equity Capital Markets: Okay I appreciate the color and then just lastly on any closings we should expect through out 2013, I think you only have the one full line design gallery planned and just any visibility on additional closures?

Gary Friedman

Chairman

As you know we closed the two Boston locations that we had this year, that happened in the first quarter so when you think about start activity that is going to impact that and depending on when we open Greenwich, that could trigger the closure of the existing location or not we are still thinking about those things, we also closed one store in New York in January. Justin Kleber – Robert W. Baird & Co. Equity Capital Markets: All right thanks guys. Best of luck.

Gary Friedman

Chairman

Thank you very much.

Karen Boone

Chief Financial Officer

Thank you.

Operator

Operator

And ladies and gentlemen that is all the time we have for questions today, I’d like to turn the call back over to Mr. Carlos Alberini for some closing remarks.

Carlos Alberini

Chief Executive Officer

Well thank you so in closing we are very confident and excited about our strategy. We have a constructive and very powerful business model and we believe that we will continue to drive market share again, in addition we believe we are in the very early stages of our real estate transformation and we see significant opportunities to unlock the value of our assortment, which I think is absolutely dominant in the marketplace. We have invested in our infrastructure to support future growth and we are well positioned for operating margin expansion as we look into the next few years. Thank you all for taking the time this afternoon and we look forward to sharing our progress with you in next quarter. Have a great evening.

Operator

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen that will conclude today’s conference. Thank you very much for joining us and you may now disconnect. Have a good day everyone.