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### Financial Performance - **Revenue**: $1,907.7 million, a 4.9% decrease from $2,005.1 million in the previous year. - **Net Income**: $123.8 million, a 26.6% decrease from $168.6 million. - **Earnings Per Share (EPS)**: $5.37, a 23.6% decrease from $7.03. - **Adjusted Income**: $165.4 million, a 22.5% decrease from $213.5 million. - **Adjusted EPS**: $7.17, a 19.5% decrease from $8.91. ### Operating Expenses - **Cost of Goods Sold**: $993.2 million, a 6.0% decrease from $1,056.4 million. - **Gross Profit**: $914.4 million, a 3.6% decrease from $948.7 million. - **SG&A**: $705.4 million, a 5.4% increase from $669.4 million. - **Asset Impairment Charges**: $51.5 million. - **Restructuring Charges**: $14.8 million. ### Earnings Per Share - **Basic EPS**: $5.38. - **Diluted EPS**: $5.37. ### Strategic Overview - **Project Pegasus**: Completed, resulting in total pre-tax restructuring charges of $60.9 million. - **Elevate for Growth Strategy**: Initiated, focusing on organic sales growth, margin expansion, and accretive capital deployment. - **Acquisitions**: Completed the acquisition of Olive & June, LLC, an innovative, omni-channel nail care brand. ### Future Outlook - **Project Pegasus Savings**: Targeted annualized pre-tax operating profit improvements of approximately $75 million to $85 million, expected to be substantially achieved by the end of fiscal 2027. - **Capital and Intangible Asset Expenditures**: Estimated between $25 million to $30 million to support ongoing operations and future infrastructure needs. ### Risk Factors - **Geographic Concentration**: Risk of disruptions affecting the ability to deliver products in a timely manner. - **Cybersecurity**: Risk of cyber incidents or failures in maintaining cybersecurity. - **Supply Chain**: Risk of disruptions in the supply chain, including increased costs and surges in demand. - **Economic Conditions**: Risk of adverse effects from economic downturns, public health crises, or other global events. - **Regulatory Compliance**: Risk of fines or penalties from non-compliance with regulations, such as EPA compliance costs. ### Financial Condition - **Liquidity**: Sufficient sources of liquidity to fund short- and long-term liquidity requirements. - **Debt**: Outstanding principal balance under the Credit Agreement was $921.9 million as of February 28, 2025. - **Cash and Cash Equivalents**: $18.9 million at February 28, 2025. ### Market Position Changes - **Sales to Top Customers**: Sales to the top five customers accounted for approximately 49% of consolidated net sales revenue in fiscal 2025. - **Online Sales**: Net sales to pure-play online retailers and retail customers fulfilling end-consumer online orders, as well as own online sales directly to consumers, comprised approximately 27% of total consolidated net sales revenue. ### Market Position - **Competitive Conditions**: Operating in very competitive and mature markets, competing against well-known global competitors and private-label brands. - **Product Innovation**: Continuous development and introduction of innovative new products to meet changing consumer preferences. ### Market Position - **Brand Recognition**: High levels of brand name recognition among retailers and consumers. - **Partnerships**: Favorable partnerships with licensors, providing access to unique brands that complement owned and internally developed trademarks. ### Market Position - **Product Safety**: Compliance with product safety laws and regulations in various jurisdictions. - **Sustainability**: Increasing focus on sustainability matters, including climate change and other environmental concerns. ### Market Position - **Economic Conditions**: Dependence on the strength of the retail economies in various parts of the world, primarily in North America and to a lesser extent EMEA, Asia, and Latin America. - **Consumer Spending**: Impact of economic conditions, consumer confidence, interest rates, and other factors on discretionary spending. ### Market Position - **Weather Conditions**: Impact of weather conditions on sales, particularly in the Beauty & Wellness segment. - **Public Health Crises**: Impact of public health crises, such as pandemics and epidemics, on retail traffic and consumer demand. ### Market Position - **Key Senior Officers**: Dependence on the CEO and a limited number of other key senior officers to operate the business. - **Licensed Trademarks**: Dependence on licensed trademarks from third parties and the potential impact of actions taken by licensors or licensees. ### Market Position - **Strategic Initiatives**: Execution of strategic business initiatives, such as acquisitions, divestitures, and global restructuring plans, including Project Pegasus. - **Legal and Regulatory Risks**: Compliance with laws and regulations, including environmental, employment, health and safety, and tax laws. ### Market Position - **Tariffs and Trade Policies**: Impact of tariffs and trade policies on imports from China, Mexico, and Vietnam. - **Sustainability Matters**: Increasing focus and expectations on sustainability matters, including climate change and other environmental concerns. ### Market Position - **Product Recalls**: Potential for product recalls, product liability, and other claims against the company. - **Financial Risks**: Impact of increased costs of raw materials, energy, and transportation on operating results and cash flow. ### Market Position - **Goodwill and Intangible Assets**: Risk of impairment charges if goodwill, indefinite-lived and definite-lived intangible assets, or other long-lived assets become impaired. - **Foreign Currency Exchange Rate Fluctuations**: Impact of fluctuations in exchange rates on sales and profitability. ### Market Position - **Liquidity and Cost of Capital**: Impact of constraints or changes in the capital and credit markets, interest rates, and limitations under financing arrangements. - **Projections of Product Demand**: Highly subjective nature of projections of product demand, sales, and net income. ### Market Position - **Discretionary Spending**: Dependence on discretionary spending, which is affected by economic and political conditions, consumer confidence, interest rates, inflation, and other factors. - **Global Supply Chain**: Impact of disruptions in the global supply chain on the ability to meet customer demand on a timely basis.