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Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Tempur Sealy Third Quarter 2015 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later, we will conduct a question-and-answer session and instructions will follow at that time. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. I'd like to introduce your host for today's conference, Mr. Barry Hytinen, Chief Financial Officer. Sir, please begin. Barry A. Hytinen - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Thanks, Vince. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for participating in today's call. Joining me in our Lexington headquarters is Scott Thompson, Chairman, President and CEO. After prepared remarks, we will open the call for Q&A. Forward-looking statements that we make during this call are made pursuant to the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Investors are cautioned forward-looking statements including the company's expectations regarding sales, earnings or adjusted net income and anticipated fourth quarter performance involve uncertainties. Actual results may differ due to a variety of factors that could adversely affect the company's business. The factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those identified include economic, regulatory, competitive, operating and other factors discussed in the press release issued today. These factors are also discussed in the company's SEC filings, including but not limited to annual reports on Form 10-K and the company's quarterly reports on Form 10-Q under the headings Special Note Regarding Forward-looking Statements and/or Risk Factors, as well as the company's press releases. Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which it is made, and the company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements. This morning's commentary will include non-GAAP financial measures. The press release contains reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures, as well as the information regarding the methodology used for constant currency presentation. We have posted the press release on the company's website at tempursealy.com and have also filed it with the SEC. Also, in connection with the conference call, the company has prepared an investor presentation, which has been filed with the SEC and is also available on the Investor Relations section of the company's website. Our comments will supplement the detailed information provided in both the press release and the investor presentation. And with that introduction, it's my pleasure to turn the call over to Scott. Scott L. Thompson - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: Thank you, Barry. Since, this is my first earning call since joining Tempur Sealy, let me take just a minute to speak to why I joined the company. First, I was impressed with the knowledge and passion of each member of the board of directors of the company. They truly are engaged and committed to the long-term success of the company. Then in doing my due diligence on the bedding industry, I was impressed with the following: the industry's consistent history of unit and pricing growth, the importance of bedding products in people's lives, the worth of the industry's brands, marketing and services to retailers, the healthy margins both for the manufacturers and the retailers, lastly, the great free cash flow attributes of the industry. And looking specifically at Tempur Sealy, I was influenced by Tempur Sealy's well established brands. They truly have global reach. The balance of the company's product offerings, which cover the full range of bedding needs, the strength and diversity for the company's worldwide distribution channels, the company's history of nurturing win-win relationships with retail partners and key suppliers, the company's long history of innovative products and world-class marketing. And lastly, the company's diverse worldwide platform, which it certainly appears to be ripe for long-term growth. Next, let me take a minute or two and discuss what I found when I joined the company. Thanks to the previous leadership of the company, I found a solid long-term strategic plan and many aspects of this plan will continue to serve as a foundation for moving forward. I found a very talented senior management team driving towards their goals. I found a product pipeline in very good shape. And lastly, I found a passionate workforce that deeply cares about its customers, products, and long-term success of the company. I could not be more pleased with my findings. But in my career, I've seen companies underperform even with great strategies. What's critical now is how we execute. With the strong foundation in place, it is now the teams' responsibility to execute. We have to find problems, communicate problems, and jointly fix problems, all as quickly as possible. Execution is where most value creation takes place. Now, to the third quarter results. Reported numbers have several one-time items, both gains and losses that create a little noise in the numbers. Barry will walk through the items in detail in just a minute. All of my comments are based on adjusting the GAAP results for these one-time items, as I think that it's the best indication of the company's operating performance. Overall, the company had a solid quarter with net sales up 6.4% on a reported basis and 10.6% on a constant currency. You should note that is on top of a 12.5% net sales increase in the third quarter of 2014. The increase in net sales combined with 180 basis point increase in adjusted EBITDA margin to produce adjusted EBITDA of $142 million for the quarter. North America slightly outperformed our expectations offsetting a slight disappointing international performance. Barry will drill down on the details in just a minute. Major highlights for the quarter that I'd like to call out include solid growth throughout the world on a constant currency basis. In North America, sales grew about 10%, including an all-time record for the Tempur-Pedic brand driven by Flex and Breeze products. Our Posturepedic launch has achieved record levels of distribution, and improved our Sealy mix with considerable strength in our hybrid collection. Internationally, we grew 14% with solid growth across all regions of the globe, with particular strength in our Sealy business in Latin America. The next highlight is operating margin. Adjusted operating margin expanded 230 basis points to 14.1%. This was driven by an increase in Tempur brands' contribution to our overall sales mix, improved operating efficiencies from sourcing, lower commodity costs, supply chain and plant improvements, higher product pricing. The team did a solid job in this area. You should note that the margin expansion occurred despite increases in advertising and R&D, demonstrating we are firmly committed to investing in brand, new product development and innovation. The last financial highlight I'd like to call out is that we had great flow through of cash, with operating cash flow up over 20% in the third quarter. Manufacturing highlights, our initiatives to build Sealy inventory ahead of major selling periods continues to payoff resulting in less overtime and better on-time deliveries during the key Labor Day shopping period. Also, we're experiencing lower product return as our investments in quality are paying off. Turning to marketing and product development. For Tempur, we saw a good conversion from our media buy and effective creative. Tempur-Pedic brand awareness is up and consumer brand perception continues to rise. Additionally, retail locator searches for Tempur-Pedic were up over 20% from last year, indicating strong near-term purchasing interest. There's also good news around the Sealy brands. Our effort to grow awareness for Stearns & Foster brand is working. Both aided and unaided awareness is up. Additionally, Stearns & Foster had a large increase in current owners likelihood to buy again. We're seeing positive traction for Sealy as well, with increases in owner satisfaction and Net Promoter Scores. We believe these metrics indicate that our increased investment in marketing and product is paying off. Lastly, across the entire worldwide brand portfolio, we made significant progress in the development of our product pipeline. We're expecting strong product launches in 2016. Although the quarter was solid, we have some areas that fell short of our internal expectations. As I mentioned, internationally is not where we wanted to be. A good part of this is due to the less robust international market and FX headwinds. But that doesn't explain all the shortfall. The balance of the underperformance we own and the international team is hard at work. I'll be overseas next week to visit with them. Additionally, North American Sealy margins represent an opportunity for the company, and the North American leadership team is focused on bringing them in line with our internal target. We'll be launching the new Stearns & Foster offering in early 2016 and expect that will help drive the margin through favorable product mix. But that said, we still have work to do in the basic blocking and tackling in Sealy manufacturing. Next, corporate overhead was not consistent with the kind of lean streamlined company, which we believe is necessary to be successful in this industry. General, administrative expenses were 8.1% of net sales for the quarter versus 7.8% third quarter of 2014. This is after solid revenue growth in the quarter. We simply have to be structured to provide worldwide products at a competitive price. We've recently taken actions in this area. We've reduced our run rate of worldwide overhead by $15 million. This was a painful process for the organization as the people affected are quality individuals, but it was required to protect the company's competitive position in the industry. We expect a one-time charge in the fourth quarter of $8 million to reflect these actions. Lastly, we've under-spent in Sealy brand advertising. Going forward, we will be more supportive of the Sealy brand. Now Barry will walk you through the quarter's details. Barry A. Hytinen - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President: Thanks, Scott. As Scott mentioned, sales, margins and earnings growth were strong this quarter. Consolidated net sales for the third quarter were $880 million, up 6.4% versus the third quarter last year and on a constant currency basis were up 10.6%. Adjusted gross margin improved 250 basis points to 41.3% and adjusted operating margin improved 230 basis points to 14.1%. As a percent of sales, operating expenses were essentially unchanged with higher advertising and R&D expense offset by lower other selling expenses. The additional advertising was generally weighted toward Tempur and the R&D was spread over all the brands. The team is committed in continuing to invest in products and related marketing. North America net sales increased 8.2% and were up 9.8% in constant currency. Strong growth of 9.6% in the U.S. was driven by high-teens growth for the Tempur-Pedic brand and low single-digit growth for Sealy brands. We also had strong growth in Canada with sales increasing 12% on a constant currency basis. However, unfavorable foreign exchange translated sales into a reported decline of 7%. Bedding product sales increased 7% on a unit increase of approximately 4% with positive price growth resulting from a higher mix of Tempur-Pedic sales during the period and the previously disclosed March 2015 and May 2015 Tempur-Pedic pricing actions. Our new TEMPUR-Flex, and Sealy Posturepedic, together with Tempur Breeze products were significant drivers of growth. Other products were up driven by solid growth in pillow sales. North America adjusted operating margin improved 260 basis points to 16.4% as a result of a 310 basis point increase in adjusted operating margin to 39.1%. The improvement was driven principally by Tempur-Pedic U.S. gross margins, which were strong in the quarter and benefited from improved efficiency in our operations, including sourcing and lower commodity costs, supply chain and plant improvement as well as pricing. However, as Scott mentioned, our Sealy margin continues to be an opportunity. Sealy U.S. gross margin was down slightly year-on-year. This is not consistent with our expectations. We remain committed to Sealy margin improvement and during 2016 and beyond, we expect to improve margins through operational and procurement productivity and favorable product mix, as Scott alluded to. Turning to international, net sales declined 2.3%, yet on a constant currency basis were up 14.1% with growth across all regions. Bedding product sales were flat on actual rate, though on a constant currency basis were up 18%. Units increased 26%, reflecting very significant growth from our Sealy brand businesses in Latin America. Our international average selling price is down, but this is entirely due to this market mix. Other channel sales were up 30% on a constant currency basis, driven by strong Tempur direct sales. International adjusted gross margin was essentially flat to prior year at 52.7% and adjusted operating margin was down slightly to 18.5%. GAAP interest expense was $33.2 million, which includes a $12 million non-cash charge for the accelerated amortization of the associated deferred financing costs related to our recent debt offering. Therefore, our adjusted interest expense was $21.2 million. GAAP, other expense was $11.8 million. The significant adjustments include $17 million of expense related to the German regulatory settlement, and $9.5 million of income related to a partial legal settlement. Our adjusted other expense was $3 million. This compares to other income of approximately $1 million last year. The year-over-year variance was due to currency impacts on foreign denominated loans. Adjusted earnings per share increased 26% to $1.11 and on a constant currency basis increased 36% as foreign exchange rate negatively impacted adjusted EPS by $0.09. Adjusted EBITDA increased 19% to $142.3 million in the third quarter and on a constant currency basis increased 26% as foreign exchange negatively impacted adjusted EBITDA by $8.5 million. Since we had a number of adjustments to the reported GAAP numbers this quarter, let me take a minute and bridge GAAP net income to adjusted net income. As outlined in the press release, there were approximately $30 million of after-tax adjustments. They include first, as previously disclosed in our 2014 10-K our German subsidiary was subject to a regulatory investigation of the German mattress industry. Last week, we reported that we had reached a settlement that fully resolved this matter. The total charge was $17.6 million. We want investors to know that we take this matter seriously. We've taken appropriate steps to address it and don't anticipate any lingering effects. Second, non-cash interest expense of $8.3 million related to the recent debt offering. Third, integration cost of $4.2 million related to the transitioning of manufacturing facilities and other cost related to the continued alignment of the North American business segment related to the Sealy acquisition. We are nearing completion of our integration efforts and currently expect about $3 million in the fourth quarter, and only $1 million or $2 million in the first half of 2016. Fourth, executive management transition and retention compensation of $3.9 million. Fifth, the initial phase of streamlining costs of $1.7 million, related to Scott's commentary on corporate head count reductions as well as certain international store closures. And lastly, netted against those, was other income of approximately $6.6 million related to a partial settlement of a legal dispute with certain suppliers. I expect that going forward; the adjustments will generally decrease in both number and amount. Now moving on to the key balance sheet and cash flow items. At the end of the third quarter, our total debt was $1.5 billion, and our total cash was $72 million, an improvement from year-end 2014 levels of $1.6 billion in total debt and $63 million in cash. Capital expenditures for the quarter were $17 million. Now for the full year, we are expecting $70 million. As detailed in the press release, our leverage ratio as calculated based on our senior credit facility, which limits the level of adjustments to EBITDA, further improved and as of the end of the third quarter was 3.5 times, which compares to 3.8 times at the end of the second quarter and 4.1 times in the year ago period. We continue to expect to approach three times leverage by early 2016, using our bank covenant EBITDA. In addition to the credit facility calculation, if you look at our leverage ratio based on the financial statements without the bank covenant limitations, our ratio of consolidated funded debt, less qualified cash to adjusted EBITDA was 3.3 times as of the end of the third quarter, and this ratio has also improved significantly over the past year. During the third quarter, we completed a $450 million senior notes offering. We used the proceeds to reduce term loan outstanding under our senior secured credit facilities. We also made a $50 million voluntary prepayment. Together, these actions substantially improved our capital structure by extending our debt maturities, freeing up senior debt capacity and moving more of our debt to a fixed rate. Operating cash flow in the third quarter was $132 million, up from $109 million. We expect strong cash flow in the fourth quarter. In addition, Scott's asked me to evaluate future cash flows and future leverage targets and we're having discussions with our banking relationships as we evaluate capital allocation. We expect to update you on this work on the next earnings call. Now, turning to our financial guidance for 2015. We currently expect net sales to be in a range of $3,150 million to $3,175 billion. You should remember, during the 2014 year-end earnings call, of about $15 million to $20 million of forward buying that occurred in the fourth quarter of last year. We don't expect that type of year-end activity this year as we have changed our trade programs. This factor is reflected in our guidance. We currently expect adjusted earnings of $3.10 to $3.20 per diluted share. At the midpoint of guidance, this reflects a 19% growth rate. Our new guidance reflects the solid third quarter as well as an increased interest expense related to the recently completed debt offering and a slight increase to share count. These two technical adjustments combined to be a $0.06 headwind for the full year of which $0.05 are expected in the fourth quarter. So by holding the top end of EPS range unchanged, our new guidance reflects improved operating performance and outlook. Our guidance is based on adjusted figures and dependent on the factors that I discussed at the beginning of the call. And at this time, I'd like to turn the call back to Scott. Scott L. Thompson - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer: Thank you, Barry. Great job. I'd like to add a little bit to Barry's guidance comments. Overall, our markets feel okay, stable, with North America, our largest market in the best shape. We continue to watch things like consumer confidence, housing turnover, traffic and conversion rates at our retail partners, but as we sit here today, things feel pretty good. Key items you should be looking for in the fourth quarter, continued sales growth of our Tempur Flex and Sealy Posturepedic products. Further margin expansion, driven by expected improvement in North America. Strong cash flow generation, resulting in some deleveraging and lastly, increased focus on product innovation, as we further strengthen our product pipeline. I've been on the job for about 50 days. And I'm really excited about all the opportunities that lie ahead of us. One of my key commitments is to create transparency, not only within the organization, but also with our shareholders. And I'm committed to maintaining an open dialogue with all of you. Lastly, before we open the call for questions, as most likely most of you saw this morning, we added Rick Neu to the company's board of directors. Rick is a seasoned public company board member, who's also successfully held various senior executive officer positions. He will further enhance the board's financial and governance expertise and the entire board is very pleased that he's agreed to join us. Operator, will you please open the call for questions?