11/12/2025

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Operator
Conference Operator

Greetings and welcome to the Caesarstone 3rd Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in listener limo. Should you need assistance, please signal a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by 0. A brief question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. To ask a question, you may press star then 1 on your telephone keypad. To withdraw a question, please press star then 2. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Brad Cray of ICR. Thank you, and you may begin.

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Brad Cray
Host, ICR

Thank you, Operator, and good morning to everyone on the line. I am joined by Yosha Ran, Caesarstone's Chief Executive Officer, and Nahum Trost, Caesarstone's Chief Financial Officer. Certain statements in today's conference call and responses to various questions may constitute forward-looking statements. We caution you that such statements reflect only the company's current expectations and that actual events or results may differ materially. For more information, please refer to the risk factors contained in the company's most recent annual report on Form 20F and subsequent filings with the SEC. In addition, on this call, the company will make reference to certain non-GAAP financial measures, including adjusted net loss income, adjusted net loss income per share, adjusted gross profit, adjusted EBITDA, and constant currency. The reconciliation of these non-GAAP measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures can be found in the company's third quarter 2025 earnings release, which is posted on the company's investor relations website. On today's call, Yos will discuss our business activity and Nahum will then cover additional details regarding financial results before we open the call for questions. Thank you, and I would now like to turn the call over to Yos. Please go ahead.

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Yosha Ran
Chief Executive Officer

Thank you, Brad, and good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us to discuss our third quarter 2025 results. We are rapidly advancing the transformation of our business model to focus on innovation, product development, and marketing while we continue to be deeply involved in the production and quality control activities with our production business partners. We are investing in strengthening the Caesarstone brand, expanding our porcelain offering, and enhancing our R&D capabilities. As part of this strategic transformation and following careful evaluation, we have decided to move our production to our global manufacturing partners and close Barlev manufacturing activity in order to further optimize our production footprint. This strategic action is intended to increase competitiveness, improve our profitability and cash flow, enhance service, and drive additional cost savings. These actions are expected to generate annualized cash savings of approximately $22 million and bring total savings since 2023 to over $85 million. Since launching our transformation strategy in 2023, we have fundamentally reshaped Caesarstone. Currently, over 70% of our production is sourced through global partners, and upon completion of the Barlev closure, we will reach 100% outsourced production, excluding porcelain, where we continue to operate and invest in our plant in India. These actions are necessary steps in reinforcing our competitive position and enabling a return to positive adjusted EBITDA in the third quarter of next year. But our transformation goes beyond manufacturing efficiency and cost savings. We are building a company focused on innovation, brand strength, and customer value creation with a lighter capital production assets. In addition, our porcelain business represents an important growth factor, and in September, we signed a share purchase agreement to acquire the remaining shares of Loyoli, bringing our ownership to 100%. This acquisition further strengthens our position in this expanding category, and enables us to capture new market opportunities. To conclude, Caesarstone is a different company. We are more agile, more innovative, and better positioned to scale efficiently as we move forward towards profitable growth over the long term. I now turn the call over to Nahum to review our financial results.

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