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10/29/2025
Hello, and welcome to the Vita Cocoa Company's third quarter 2025 earnings conference call. My name is Daniel. I'll be coordinating your call today. Following prepared remarks, we will open the call to your questions with instructions to be given at that time. I'll now hand the call over to John Mills with ICR.
Thank you, and welcome to the Vitacoco Company's third quarter 2025 earnings results conference call. Today's call is being recorded. With us are Mr. Mike Kerman, Executive Chairman, Martin Roper, Chief Executive Officer, and Corey Baker, Chief Financial Officer. By now, everyone should have access to the company's third quarter earnings release issued earlier today. This information is available in the investor relations section of the Vitacoco Company's website at investors.thevitacococompany.com. Also on the website, there is an accompanying presentation of our commercial and financial performance results. Certain comments made on this call include forward-looking statements which are subject to the Safe Harbor's provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are based on management's current expectations and beliefs concerning future events and are subject to several risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in these forward-looking statements. please refer to today's press release and other filings with the SEC for a more detailed discussion of the risk factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward-looking statements made today. Also, during the call, we will use some non-GAAP financial measures as we describe our business performance. Our SEC filings, as well as the earnings press release and supplementary earnings presentation, provide reconciliations of the non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures and are available on our website as well. And with that, it is my pleasure to now turn the call over to Mike Kerman, our co-founder and executive chairman.
Thanks, John. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us today to discuss our third quarter financial results and our expectations for the balance of 2025. I want to start by thanking all of our colleagues across the globe for our continued strong performance, particularly in a very fluid environment, and for their commitment to the Viacom Company and advancing our mission of creating ethical, sustainable, better-for-you beverages that uplift our communities and do right by our planet. Although I'm incredibly pleased with our third quarter performance, I'm even more excited by the underlying momentum in our category and our very high execution levels, which bodes well for our future. Coconut water remains one of the fastest-growing categories in the beverage aisle, growing 22% year-to-date in the U.S. and 32% in the U.K. based on CERCONA data, and over 100% in Germany based on Nielsen data. This, coupled with our significantly improved inventory position versus last year, has resulted in very strong retail growth for our brand. Year-to-date, according to our retail data, Vitacoco Coconut Water, excluding our coconut milk-based products like treats, is growing 21% in retail dollars in the US, 32% in the UK, and over 200% in Germany. This has led to similarly strong global net sales, gross profit, net income, and adjusted EBITDA performance for our third quarter. Year-to-date, our international business is accelerating, driven by strong performance in Europe. Our increased investment this year in the UK, Germany, and other select European markets is paying off with healthy growth and brand share wins. The acceleration of the category that we saw in late 2024 has continued through 2025, which combined with improved inventory and strong execution is producing exceptional year-to-date results. Looking forward, we expect to maintain strong growth trends as we invest in and develop the coconut water category in our priority markets. And our asset-light model and strong cash generation position us well to take advantage of the opportunities ahead. Big picture, I believe that the coconut water category is in the very early stages of gaining mainstream appeal on a global level. Coconut water looks to be transitioning from niche to mainstream, and we are at the forefront of that trend. If we can continue the household penetration and consumption gains that we are seeing, I'm confident that coconut water will one day be as large as some of the major beverage categories across the beverage aisle. And now, I'll turn the call over to our Chief Executive Officer, Martin Roper.
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