G-III Apparel Group, LTD.

Good day. Thank you for standing by. Welcome to the G3 Apparel Group's second quarter fiscal 2026 earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are on a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you will need to press star 1-1 on your telephone. You will then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. Please note that today's conference is being recorded. I will now hand the conference over to your speaker host. Neil Nagman, the Company Chief Financial Officer. Please go ahead, sir.

Good morning, and thank you for joining us. Before we begin, I would like to remind participants that certain statements made on today's call and in the Q&A session may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. Forward-looking statements are not guaranteed, and actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause actual results of operations or the financial condition of the company to differ are discussed in the documents filed by the company with the SEC. The company undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statements. In addition, during the call, we will refer to non-GAAP net income, non-GAAP net income for diluted share, and adjusted EBITDA, which are all non-GAAP financial measures. We have provided reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures two gap measures in our press release, which is also available on our website. I will now turn the call over to our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Morris Goldfarb.

Good morning. Thank you, Neil, and welcome, everyone. In the second quarter, we exceeded our expectations across both net sales and earnings. Net sales benefited from retailers responding to consumer demand for newness and fashion as we transitioned seasons. Sales momentum in the quarter was driven by our go-forward portfolio, specifically our key-owned brands, DKNY, Donna Karan, Karl Lagerfeld, and Vilbercan. Gross margins in the quarter were impacted by higher-than-expected tariff costs, driven primarily by a greater volume of tariffed inventory shipments than initially forecasted. We're actively mitigating these pressures through a combination of vendor participation, selective sourcing shifts, and targeted price increases. In the near term, we're absorbing a portion of these costs to remain competitive and capture market share. Looking ahead, we anticipate gross margins will largely normalize and ultimately expand as we exit licenses, as the penetration of our own brands increases and as we continue to take selected price increases. As we look to the second half of the year, our retail partners are increasingly cautious on their inventory buys in anticipation of tariff increases becoming more pronounced. Additionally, we've seen a disproportionate reduction in open-to-buys specifically for the Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger business. During the transition, we're responsibly exiting these business and staying disciplined in our inventory position based on the increased cost pressures and narrower selling period. In response to the latest tariffs, including those affecting India, we've proactively adjusted our inventory positions, prioritizing margin over sales. Accordingly, fiscal 2026 guidance we provided this morning reflects all of these factors. Now let us review our second quarter fiscal 2026 financial results. Net sales for the quarter were $613 million, well ahead of our guidance. Our GAAP earnings per diluted share were 25 cents, also well above the top end of our guidance range. Inventory levels were up 5% versus last year's, reflecting our planned acceleration of inventory receipts due to tariffs. We remain in a strong financial position, ending the quarter in a net cash position of $286 million after repurchasing $25 million in shares this past quarter, compared to last year's net neutral cash position. Turning to our strategic priorities, we're actively working to maximize the full potential of our globally recognized brands. To drive growth, we've built a robust corporate foundation anchored by an experienced leadership team, world-class merchant capabilities, strength across lifestyle categories, a well-developed supply chain, and long-term relationships with retail partners. This foundation has enabled us to consistently launch and scale brands with speed. To support our long-term strategy, we're streamlining our go-to-market approach, including investments in technology and infrastructure. In North America, we're optimizing network capability and implementing process improvements to drive productivity and reduce costs across materials, labor, and freight. We're consolidating our warehouse network, exiting four facilities, and reducing associated staff by year end, which is expected to generate significant savings. In parallel, we're investing in systems to support product creation all the way through to our speed to market and consumer engagement strategies. As part of our technology transformation, we're advancing digital tools such as 3D design, AI automation, and other innovations to help gain efficiencies. We're further realigning the organization as we transition our business to unlock additional savings in fiscal 2027 and beyond. Capturing the long-term potential of our own brands is one of our top priorities. Owned brands represent an important and sustainable long-term profit driver as they generate higher operating margins and provide an accretive licensing income stream. Our strategy centers on leveraging each brand's iconic DNA to deliver differentiated product to a wide array of consumers in their shopping channel of choice. We are rapidly scaling each brand's full lifestyle product offering by extending existing assortments while expanding into new categories. This has enabled us to unlock accelerated growth across the wholesale channel, particularly in North America. Through our licensing partners, the brands have expanded into complementary categories such as fragrance, eyewear, and home. as well as experiential categories like hospitality, culinary, and refined leisure, all broadening consumer touchpoints and deepening brand affinity. We're investing in a brand's e-commerce presence. Importantly, our own brands remain highly underpenetrated internationally, presenting a significant opportunity for long-term expansion. We are continuing to invest in marketing to amplify our brand's global reach. This year, in addition to Donna Karan and DKNY, we're also investing in Karl Lagerfeld. With an always-on marketing approach, we're focused on top-tier talent with authentic brand resonance, enriched content, and global market activations to connect with new and existing consumers and drive conversions. This will come to life through local influencer programs, pop-up experience, and in-store events, all designed to bring our brands closer to the consumer. We see substantial potential across all growth avenues, including product, channel, categories, and geographies. We're confident in our ability to scale each of our own brands into the largest women's fashion brands over time. I'll now review brand highlights from the second quarter. This year marks four decades since Donna Karan revolutionized the way women dress. The brand's unwavering spirit has transcended time, providing cross-generational women with a daily wardrobe that is effortless, sensual, and timeless. A strategy centers on leveraging the brand's iconic DNA with classic silhouettes, cultured hardware, and sophisticated designs, while infusing it with fresh contemporary interpretation. Its aspirational luxury positioning allows us to establish higher price points and capture premium full price distribution in the US. The brand's AURs and sell-throughs remain the strongest across our portfolio. As a result, Donna Karan has tapped into a white space opportunity, not only within our portfolio, but also in the crowded marketplace. In the second quarter, the brand delivered strong results across its lifestyle offering, led by continuous strength and dresses. Our accessories business is gaining traction with premium handbags commanding AURs upward of $500, with several styles emerging as standouts, including the Baldwin, the Glenwood, and the Amagansett. As we continue to develop the Donna Karan lifestyle, we're expanding into new and existing categories with a current focus on social occasion wear, and now entering more casual offerings through the upcoming launch of our Donna Karan Weekend Collection. DonnaKaran.com is outperforming expectations, driven by engaging content and great product that is boosting conversion and top-line growth. Digital sales are gaining strong traction with affluent neighborhoods, which are emerging as top-performing markets, further reinforcing the brand's aspirational luxury positioning. We're optimizing customer acquisition costs while investing in retention to drive loyalty through compelling products and a seamless shopping experience, ultimately enhancing the customer lifetime value. Turning to marketing, a fall 2025 campaign launched yesterday and directs our focus to five icons who embody the essence of the brand. The campaign, entitled Women to Women, feature an authentic cast that have a rich history with the brand, including Claudia Schiffer, Irina Shayk, and Aman Ham, among others. The fall media plan will roll out across key U.S. markets with outdoor placements, robust digital and social programming, and high-caliber VIP social partnerships to maintain brand aspiration and relevance. In its first 24 hours, the campaign has already exceeded our expectations. Looking ahead to the second half of the year, we look forward to the soft launch of Donna Karan Weekend for Holiday 2025, with a more robust collection spanning an impressive 200 points of sale in Spring 2026. The newest lifestyle line will feature relaxed, sophisticated looks complemented by the addition of casual handbag silhouettes. This brand extension opens up opportunities for further growth in traditional channels as well as new distribution like leisure destination shops. We just signed a licensing agreement for fashion jewelry collection with price points ranging from $125 to $350. As a reminder, Donna Karan is currently distributed in the U.S., where we expect the brand to grow over 40% this year. We see outside global growth potential in fiscal 2027 and beyond. Karl Lagerfeld is building momentum globally, delivering another quarter of strong growth led by North America. In the region, sales grew over 30%, driven by outperformance across the lifestyle offerings with margin expansion. Notably, men's sales grew approximately 20% to last year. For the fall, we expect to add approximately 150 domestic points of sale driven by extended assortments in suit separates, handbags, and footwear, as well as men's sportswear. Additionally, a North American retail business saw high single-digit comp increases driven by traffic and AUR growth. The brand delivers broad-based growth across all channels and product categories, as well as margin expansion, despite a challenging macro backdrop. The wholesale business has accelerated, supported by curated product assortments to better deliver core essentials. We've also seen steady growth in our digital ecosystem. A couple of years ago, we bought our Karl Lagerfeld site in-house, which has facilitated expansion of the product offerings and distribution capabilities. We are further investing in upgrading the platform to drive conversion and capture back-end cost efficiencies. Turning to marketing, on August 27, we unveiled our fall-winter 2025 global brand campaign from Paris with Love, featuring cultural icon Paris Hilton. The campaign is another major investment in the brand, designed for high visibility to drive momentum across each touchpoint of the Karl Lagerfeld universe. Paris Hilton brings her unmistakable charisma to our collection, celebrating confidence, individuality, and attitude qualities that reflect the irreverent spirit and sharp sophistication of Carl himself. The collection highlights studio pieces, structured tailoring, and timeless accessories with the K autograph handbag line in the heart of the campaign. In just one week, the campaign has already garnered over 1.5 billion impressions, driving strong engagements globally. The rollout includes high-impact activations across our key global markets, from an immersive pop-up at Galleries Lafayette in Paris and unmistakable billboards in New York's Times Square and Los Angeles' Sunset Boulevard, to major media features, branded taxis in Las Vegas, and a strong local influencer presence worldwide. Digital storytelling also plays a central role with bold social first activations to connect with new audiences. The momentum will build toward a high profile Paris Fashion Week event with Paris Hilton in the center of an unforgettable late night party as well as store events planned for London, Berlin, Paris, and Munich during each city's fashion week. These efforts further solidify a cultural impact and a global presence. We're capturing further market share in Europe and North America, as well as building out our business in Asia, where today the brand has a small presence. DKNY draws inspiration from the energy and attitude of New York offering a modern wardrobe designed to seamlessly transition from day to night, appealing to a younger consumer seeking contemporary assortments. The brand delivered a solid second quarter led by North America. Out of Wear saw outsized growth with sales nearly doubling. Our North American retail business experienced positive comp sales increases driven by AUR growth, showing that our refreshed product is resonating. Internationally, the brand is gaining traction. In Europe, we experienced nice wholesale expansion across DKNYGs and accessories. We're pleased with the improving sell-through trends despite the challenging consumer environment. In the Middle East, our business is mostly accessories, where we saw solid sell-throughs. This year, we will open three new DKNY monobranded boutiques in the Middle East. We're excited about our fall marketing campaign, launched September 2nd, with global style icon Hailey Bieber. Born in New York, Hailey has an authentic connection and affinity for the brand and comes with a highly engaged global fan base of over 72 million social followers. Rooted in New York street style and redefined through Haley's lens, the collection is timeless, versatile, and effortlessly cool. In just 24 hours, the campaign has already delivered an overwhelmingly positive response, garnering over 2.3 billion impressions and reaching over 22 million users over social media. As we enter the second half of the year, our expanding product assortments, including extended sizing, are well positioned to capture an incremental market share across premier North American department stores. DKNY will roll out a series of global pop-ups and activations to promote its best-selling handbags, which are expected to drive traffic and conversion. We deepened our relationship with the New York Yankees with a limited edition collaboration featuring fashion-forward sports apparel. Drawing inspiration from the Yankees' game day gear, each piece has subtle hints of embroidery, as well as DKNY and Yankee co-branding. This collaboration is an extension of DKNY's strategy to build brand visibility and connect with a broader audience in new ways, while also leveraging our well-developed sports licensing capabilities. Internationally, we're focused on brand expansion through new and existing partners across wholesale, digital, and franchise stores to increase global accessibility and awareness of the brand. We see outsized growth potential for the brand globally. VILPRACAM, possibly the world's most recognized men's swimwear brand, showed solid improvement in the second quarter with positive sales growth this summer season, driven by Europe and the Caribbean. Our flagship store in Cannes, where we also opened our first-ever beach club, has become the most productive store in our fleet. Several of our other stores are breaking all-time weekly records. To celebrate the start of this summer season in style, we teamed up with Fiat to create the Fiat Topolino Bilberkang Collection edition, which sold out. The special version of the most coveted microcar is a celebration of style, spontaneity, and that timeless sensation of never-ending summer by the sea, and a fabulous example of the brand's lifestyle reach. Vilperkamp Beach Clubs further extend the brand's lifestyle offerings, seamlessly blending beach culture elevated culinary experiences, and refined leisure. After launching our first-ever beach club in Cannes over two years ago, we've perfected the beach club concept and developed a successful license model. Through a licensed partner, we opened our second beach club at the St. Regis in Doha, which is doing well. This summer, a third beach club launched in Crete. bringing Riviera charm and radiant sophistication to one of the Mediterranean's most exclusive resorts, the Domes El Oanda. We have two more exciting launches in the pipeline this year in Miami and Oman. Coming out of a strong summer season, we see many more opportunities to further drive the business in the summer of 2026 and beyond. with significant global potential for the brand over the long term. Investing in and expanding our complementary portfolio of licensed brands continues to be a key driver of our long-term strategy. We take a thoughtful approach to partnering with brands, ensuring that each new addition complements our existing portfolio while offering unique propositions that strengthen our business. Licensed brands are also a capital light way to grow and leverage our powerful corporate foundation. A team sports business is growing with the expanded rights for several of our major sports league licenses. This business historically limited us to just outerwear. With our newly negotiated renewals, we'll expand our offerings to include activewear and athleisure as well as kits. We have several other exciting initiatives in the pipeline for next year. Nautica, Halston, and Champion, which launched last year, delivered solid results in the second quarter. Our newest licenses for Converse and BCBG are just hitting stores, and we're excited to see the product building memento. BCBG launched here in North America with over 300 points of sale and is doing well. Converse also accesses a differentiated consumer and distribution network where our fashion brands have little or no presence. This includes big box, sports specialty, and sporting goods stores, as well as internationally and in Western Europe and through the brand's global network, Converse Stores. For North America, our launch spans across a rapidly growing wholesale business in addition to existing Converse brick and mortar online stores and online stores. Internationally, we've partnered with Converse partners throughout Europe, Latin America, and Southeast Asia, enabling us to service both Converse stores as well as wholesale partners in those regions. Launch is already exceeding our expectations. Looking ahead to fiscal 2027, we're proactively preparing for the expiration of several key PBH licenses, including Calvin Klein Outerwear and athleisure, and Tommy Hilfiger Outerwear, Sportswear, and Athleisure. At peak, we built Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger into $1.5 billion business in reported wholesale sales. After this year, following the expiration of the categories that I just mentioned, we expect remaining PBH sales to represent approximately $400 million in fiscal 2027. As PVH transitions these categories to themselves or new licensees, we strongly believe this will create a meaningful product void in the market, which we see as a strategic opportunity to capture additional market share while continuing to deepen our partnerships with retailers. Our own brands, along with our growing license portfolio, will help offset lost sales from the PVH brands. With a solid balance sheet, we're poised to unlock our global growth potential and pursue future license and acquisition opportunities aligned with our long-term growth strategy. We're focused on enhancing our omnichannel capabilities by improving our North American retail segment store operations and strengthening our digital ecosystem. In North America, we've made significant progress in our turnaround efforts. We remain on track to almost break even this year, eliminating approximately $10 million in operating losses. On the digital front, in the second quarter our global digital business was up mid-single digits. As our digital business continues to expand, we're strategically investing in our team technology and processes to enhance and streamline our global go-to-market capabilities. We remain focused on delivering a more robust and visually compelling product catalog across our owned and third-party partner sites. By elevating the quality of imagery, descriptors, and video content, we aim to provide an enriched consumer experience that drives conversion. Our owned websites delivered strong double-digit growth this quarter, underscoring the significant value and long-term potential of the channel. This momentum further enables consumers to engage with our brand seamlessly wherever they choose to shop. In closing, we delivered solid second quarter results as we executed on our strategic priorities. Looking ahead, we provided fiscal 2026 guidance to reflect the current macro environment, a more cautious outlook from our retail partners that affected most of our portfolio, especially Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger ahead of the transition, as well as the impact of tariffs on our top and bottom lines. We now expect net sales of approximately $3.02 billion and non-GAAP diluted earnings per share between $2.55 and $2.75. With a clear strategic path, we're confident in our ability to unlock the full potential of our go-forward portfolio of globally recognized brands. while successfully navigating a difficult environment. A strong balance sheet and dynamic business model provides flexibility to invest in our brands as well as pursue strategic opportunities. We will also consider opportunistically returning capital to our shareholders through stock repurchases. I'm incredibly excited about the transformation journey we're on. driven by our commitment to delivering long-term growth and shareholder value. I'll now pass the call to Neil, who will walk through the financial results for the second quarter and provide guidance for the third and full year of 2026.

Thank you, Morris. Net sales for the second quarter ended July 31, 2025 with $613 million compared to $645 million in the same period last year, well ahead of our expectations driven by our wholesale segment. The decline in sales compared to the prior year is primarily attributable to the exits from Calvin Klein jeans and sportswear licensed businesses. Net sales of our wholesale segment were $590 million compared to $620 million in the previous year. Net sales of our retail segment were $41 million for the quarter compared to net sales of $37 million in the previous year. This growth is a direct result of our turnaround initiatives despite the decrease in store footprint in our North American outlet business. Our gross margin percentage was 40.8% in the second quarter of fiscal 2026 compared to 42.8% in the previous year's second quarter. The wholesale segments gross margin percentage was 38.9% compared to 41.2% in the previous year. The gross profit percentage in the current period decreased 230 basis points due to higher than expected tariff costs driven primarily by a greater volume of tariff inventory shipments in the quarter, as well as an unfavorable product mix. Gross margin in our retail operations segment was 52.4%, down from 54.4% in the prior year. This decline primarily reflects the liquidation of the GHBAS branded product, which is previously shared this past spring is transitioning to a license arrangement with the Aldo Group beginning January 2026. Non-GAAP SG&A expenses were $226 million compared to $229 million in the previous year. This decrease was driven by lower compensation expenses resulting from decreased profitability as well as reduced advertising expenses related to lower net sales of licensed products in the period. These decreases were partially offset by higher supply chain expenses reflecting the acceleration of inventory receipts as previously mentioned. Non-GAAP net income for the second quarter was $11 million or 25 cents per diluted share compared to $24 million or 52 cents per diluted share in the previous year. The impact of lower sales and additional tariff costs were the primary drivers in our reduced profitability. Turning to the balance sheet, inventories are in excellent shape at $640 million at the end of the quarter, increasing 5% from last year's $610 million. We remain in a strong financial position, ending the quarter in a net cash position of $286 million after repurchasing $25 million worth of shares this past quarter, compared to last year's net neutral cash position. Our total availability remains very strong at approximately $830 million. Our financial strength provides us flexibility to invest in our business and other strategic opportunities to drive future growth. Turning to guidance, we issued updated guidance this morning for fiscal 2026, which reflects a more cautious outlook resulting from both the retail landscape and consumer environment, as well as the impact of tariffs on our top and bottom lines. We now expect fiscal year 2026 net sales of approximately $3.02 billion, a decrease of approximately 5% to the previous year. Driven by, first, the expiration of our Calvin Klein jeans and sportswear licenses as of December 31, 2024, which contributed approximately $175 million in sales in the previous full year. The cautious stance from retail partners reflected in reduced opener buys in our order book, particularly in the second half of the year as consumer impacts from tariffs become more pronounced. This affected most of our portfolio, especially Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger ahead of the transition. Third, we are responsibly planning our exit from the expiring Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger licenses and staying disciplined in our inventory positions based on the increased cost pressures and narrower selling period. Additionally, we are foregoing sales due to the recent 50% tariff rate on India. This decision was made to protect margins. It is important to note our key owned brands, DKNY, Donna Karan, Karl Lagerfeld, and Vilbocon continue to show healthy growth and are expected to grow at a mid-single-digit rate this year. I want to take a moment to discuss our estimated tariff impact. We expect the total incremental cost of tariffs to be approximately $155 million, up from the $135 million original estimate, and this is based on the latest tariff increases implemented for Vietnam, India, and Indonesia, among others. Through a combination of vendor participation, strategic sourcing shifts, and targeted price increases, we have successfully mitigated a portion of these costs. Our updated outlook for fiscal 2026 reflects an unmitigated impact of tariffs of approximately $75 million, with the majority expected to be incurred in the second half of the year. As a primarily North American wholesale business, we had limited flexibility to adjust pricing on inventory already sold into retailers for the upcoming seasons. As a result, in the near term, we are absorbing a larger share of these costs to remain competitive and protect market share. Looking ahead, we expect gross margins to normalize and ultimately expand, driven by the exit of lower margin licenses, from the increased penetration of our higher margin-owned brands, and from continued selective price increases. Non-GAAP net income for fiscal 2026 is expected to be between $113 and $123 million, or diluted earnings per share between 255 and 275. This compares to non-GAAP net income of $204 million or diluted earnings per share of 442 for fiscal 2025. Adjusted EBITDA for fiscal 2026 is expected to be between $198 million and $208 million compared to adjusted EBITDA of $325 million in fiscal 2025. Let me discuss a few points related to our guidance. As for the gross margin rate, we expect the full fiscal year 2026 gross margin rate to be down approximately 300 basis points. We expect third quarter gross margin rate to be down slightly less than the fourth quarter, as the fourth quarter sales will have the highest penetration and impact from tariff inventory. Regarding SG&A, as we look ahead, we are actively pursuing initiatives to optimize our business model and drive cost efficiencies across our operations. We believe that continued investments in our brands and infrastructure will be key to supporting our business transformation and unlocking the full potential of our portfolio. For example, we are aligning our warehouse footprint and capacity to our needs and are making the appropriate investments in technology and our corporate platform. Further, we will continue to support our brand investments through marketing in line with last year. We expect interest expense to be approximately $5 million for the full year, benefiting from the $400 million debt repayment. We expect capital expenditures of approximately $40 million, principally driven by the build out of shop and shops for our new brand launches and implementation of new technology to support our transforming business model. We are estimating a tax rate of approximately 30% for fiscal 2026. We have not anticipated any potential share repurchases in our guidance. That concludes my comments. I will now turn the call back to Morris for closing remarks.

Thank you, Neil, and thank you all for joining us today. I'm proud of our team's work this quarter, and I'm confident in G3's future as a global leader in fashion. I'd also like to thank our entire organization, our many partners, and all our stakeholders for their support. Operator, we're now ready to take some questions.

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, as a reminder, to ask a question, you will need to press star 11 on your telephone and wait for your name to be announced. Please stand by while we compile the Q&A roster. Now, first question coming from the line of Ashley Owens with KeyBank Capital Markets. Your line is now open. Hi, good morning, and thanks for taking our questions.

So just to start on the gross margin, I appreciate the color there. Just anything else we should be mindful of weighing on the balance of the year, how you're approaching promotionality, just as you balance elasticity with some of these price increases, given the mixed consumer signals we're getting. And then moving into next year, I know it's early, but do you foresee further pressure in the first half of the year, or should some of these mitigation strategies be fully in motion by then? Thank you.

Thank you for your question, Ashley. On price increases, we're targeting areas of our business where it's appropriate and acceptable to raise prices. As I said in our script, a lot of what we do is art. We don't sell a dozen eggs. We don't sell tonnage of steel. And art, if it's done appropriately, and you target your consumer, you get paid well for art, and you create demand with great art. We're doing great art. We have demand for our collections. The consumer has accepted some price increases that we've implemented at the tail end of Q2, and currently the month of Of August, we had product that was elevated in price point, and there was no consumer resistance. Back to school was very good. The consumer is resilient. We're looking at it closely. The areas of business where we need to be competitive, we're competitive. Where we believe there's elasticity, will implement it, will implement price increases. We have a unique situation. Tariffs are not, for us, are not solely the cause of margin deflation and top-line dilution. You need to remember that we are exiting PVH's assets, and when tariffs are implemented, and prices need to be increased to come out alive, you modify your plan. You have retailers that are not certain about acceptance of price increases. They know there's a transition of management and supervision of the brands. And we altered our plan for PVH on the exits. We have a limited time period to dispose or sell through of our inventory in the PVH assets, and we decided that it was not worth the risk with the pressure of price increase and the lack of support that we were getting on the exit of the brands. So the tariffs influenced the level of inventory we bought, and all said, we're comfortable that as we transition out of the PVH brands and get into the coming year, we believe that it all levels out. some very strong initiatives that are now being shipped into the stores, new licenses, as well as the maturity of Donna Karan and Carl Lagerfeld and DKNY for that matter. And we see growth in every one of our brands. As I stated earlier, owned brands provide a better return on margin than licensed brands. So, as a percentage of our own brands increases, you will see margin improvement over the coming year.

Ashley, this is Neil. With respect to the first half of next year, look, it's a little early for us to give you any kind of specific guidance. Let me give you a little bit of a background in terms of what we're looking at. Certainly, we end this year, January is the beginning of our spring shipping. And then, of course, the first quarter will be the robust part of our spring shipping. The spring season, the latest set of tariffs really happened sort of midstream with respect to our going to market. We've been able to correct some of those prices and incorporate those, as Morris mentioned, not entirely. So we'll have a little bit of pressure. But I think overall, the big thing for us is that if we see the tariffs coming ahead of time, before we go to market, we can appropriately price our product and get back to the kinds of margins that we expect to have and have had in the past. Thank you, Ashley. Got it.

Yeah, that's super helpful. Maybe just one more quickly to follow up, I think, with the mix of owned and licensed and just talking about EVH. You know, when you last spoke to the portfolio strategy about six months ago, I believe it was mentioned that Calvin and Tommy were expected to represent about 25% of total sales at the end of this year. But just given the reduction in open-to-buys that you highlighted for some of these brands, is that still how we should be thinking about the full-year mix shift? I guess a better way to word that is the reduction there driving an acceleration and kind of a mixed step down from PBH for the balance of the year. Thank you.

Yeah, no dramatic change in terms of percentage, pretty similar to where we've been before. We've been impacted, certainly. across all the brands as far as the pullback in our sales as a result of the consumer pressures and the impact of tariffs.

Okay, great. I'll pass it along. Thank you.

Thank you, Ashley.

Thank you. Our next question coming from the line of Mauricio Serna with UBS. Your line is now open.

Great. Good morning. Thanks for taking my questions. I wanted to ask if you could provide a little bit more detail on the sales update for the year. Maybe could you give us a little bit more detail of how much is that attributed to much lower revenues from the PBH brands versus your go-forward business, particularly given the comments that you expect the go-forward brands to be up mid-single digit. I guess it kind of implies a deceleration versus you know, like the double-digit growth rate you've seen like in previous quarters. Thank you.

Yeah. Thanks, Mauricio, for the question. Look, you're right on. We've actually got challenges this year, both, you know, first and foremost, really, from the transition of the businesses. It's not just the businesses that are falling off, but really all of the Calvin product is in a transition mode for us, and that does present some selling seasons. selling problems into the marketplace. I think when you combine that with the tariff pressures, as Morris was mentioning before, it's nearly a perfect storm. So we've got certainly deceleration in the Calvin and PVH brands, and we've got some deceleration in our own. And you're right, the mid-single digits is what we're expecting this year, down from where we've been a little bit more robust.

We also see a little softness in some of our categories. Footwear has been soft for us, so there's an internal miss on what we projected to do in footwear. There's the confusion of exiting most of our production out of China did not help us. Moving into new factories, And getting your trading partners to comply with how you produce, when you produce, and the quality of what you produce is not seamless. So we were affected by transitioning from country to country, as well as a softness in the general consumer demand for footwear as we see it. Got it.

Just a quick follow-up on the Q2 results. Maybe could you tell us, like, how much was the tariff impact that you had on the second quarter? And I guess just, like, is this just, like, mainly because, you know, you were taking product with 145%, you know, China tariff? Just trying to understand, like, how, like, if this, like, will be actually, like, probably, like, a relatively positive in Q2 next year, just as you lap this headwind. Thank you.

Yeah, Mauricio, if I were to look at our reduction of just over 200 basis points, I would say it was probably half tariffs and half product mix. So relatively speaking, a pretty small tariff impact in the quarter, but certainly as a percentage, it was a significant part of the fall off from the prior year. We do not have tariffs at 145% rate, our China tariffs were at 30%, and we did receive some of that, the tariff product that flowed through in the second quarter, slightly more than we would have expected when we did the original forecasts.

To be clear, we were not impacted on the 145% tariff. That was a moment in time. We responded by rerouting product to Europe where we marketed a potential problem. And we held in bond another batch of product as tariffs became more realistic and we brought the product in. So if the assumption is, you know, the dilution of profit was 145% tariff. It was not.

Got it. I understand. Thank you so much.

Thank you, Mauricio.

Thank you. Our next question, coming from the lineup, Paul Kearney with Barclays. Your line is now open.

Good morning. Thanks for taking my question. I was wondering if you can just help size The amount of product that was coming from India, I'm just trying to gauge the impact from the foregone product post-tariff from India versus the reduction in order to buys from Calvin and Tommy.

Thank you. Thank you for your question, Paul. The amount of product we bring in from India historically has not been very much. It's a low single-digit percentage. percentage of our total production. This quarter, the third and fourth quarter, as we move some product into India, is greater than the low single-digit number. But it is not impactful for the future. It is impactful for the year. We plan on taking some of the product and, again, marketing it in Europe if we can. And if not, it'll be held and dealt with with our Indian partners. I'm happy to give you the top line FOB number. It happens to be somewhere near $30 million, which does affect our fourth quarter or year-end top line results. Should we have to abandon it? And it's factored in as a give back.

And just to clarify, that 30 is the sales impact of the unit production.

Okay, thanks. My quick follow-up, and I think you touched on it a little bit, but in the past you've spoken to some very strong pricing power for the right product, and I'm just curious as you look to mitigate the tariffs into next year, do you Are you starting to see any resistance on price, whether through your own brands or through what your retail partners are saying? Are we starting to push against the limit of what is possible on price? Thank you.

So we are seeing some resistance. The resistance is not because the consumer is not willing to pay. It's basically retailers wanting to see comp prices in the field. So, for example, the off-price channel is about value, price-value relationships. And for them to be comfortable that they can afford to pay increases, they need to see price increases in the department store level. They've not yet felt comfortable enough to get behind it in full force. They're buying their needs, and my belief is that there's a treasury waiting to be spent when prices are rationalized.

Thank you very much.

Thank you. And our last question coming from the line of Dana Chelsea with Chelsea Advisory Group. Your line is now open.

Hi. Good morning, everyone. As you think about the future, which is the future of your own brands, can you expand on the performance of your own brands for the remainder of this year or this quarter, this third quarter? And then, Morris, can you talk about the other potential license opportunities? I think Converse gets you into new places, BCBG, with obviously what we have going on now, it's a point in time. But if you think about the go forward, what do you see as the brand opportunities, both for licensing and any changes to your existing expectations? Thank you.

Thanks for your questions. Our brands are retailing very well. You can tell pretty much every call we talk about door expansion. You don't get door expansion without performing. So initially, as you launch a new brand, you get a handful of doors to test it. As sales begin to surface, the door count increases, and today every retailer we trade with, has seen the merit of carrying Donna Karan. They've seen outsized performance relative to inventory that they've carried and door count. So we're getting not only greater door count, we're getting better penetration per door, and we ourselves are expanding classifications within those brands, as I stated before, weekend, which is yet to be shipped. has booked incredibly well, and I believe will be in almost 300 doors for spring. That's not been shipped yet. So there's a soft launch coming in the next probably 45 days, and then we get further penetrated as it retails. And with Karl Lagerfeld, basically the same way. If you're a store shopper and you do shop department stores, you'll see great penetration of DKNY, Karl Lagerfeld, and Donna Karan. They're clearly leaders in the department store sector as far as penetration. You wouldn't know this, but as far as performance as well, there was a call out from Macy's on several brands. I believe there were four brands that Tony Spring called out as performing well. Donna Karan, again, I believe this might have been the third time he cited good performance with Donna Karan. We're proud to hear it. We're proud to see it. We have no distribution outside of the United States. We have no off-price distribution. It's a pure brand that has pricing power that we believe we can take advantage of. And we just shipped product into Saks for the first time in Donna Karan. So we're hopeful that it'll retail and we'll have another department store group that'll support the brand. And our own retail in Karl Lagerfeld has been very good. We're looking at outlet expansion now. We're shopping for more stores as we logically and carefully maybe maybe maybe conquered the retail space on our own which is essential to some of our brands we do not have a store for for Donna Karan we're likely to open a couple of flagships and we're beginning to get significant interest in licensing Donna Karan as I stated the first license was jewelry and the jewelry looks great. Parts of it come from Donna's archives and we're getting great support, great marketing, great talent that underpins it all in GE3. So I talk about Donna Karan. Donna Karan today is Let's say if we talk about the triplets, Donna Karan, DKNY, and Karl Lagerfeld, Donna Karan is the smallest of the group with great potential. It's quite large for a launch. It's far better than we anticipated scale-wise, but there's a long way to go. We believe it can be a billion-dollar brand in the coming years. So, as we post that, margins will improve, top line will improve, and diversity will also improve, will be better balanced for pricing elasticity. I'm sorry to be so wordy, but as you can tell, I'm very proud of what this organization has accomplished in difficult times, not only tariffs, PBH, the consumer, If there was a perfect windstorm, we were hit with it, and we're coming out rock solid. From a financial point of view, we're in great shape. From a balanced portfolio, I haven't even touched on your question of BCBG and Converse. Those are globally recognized brands. Who doesn't know Converse? It's supported by Nike. It's owned by Nike. And we're challenged to take on pretty much globally. There's North America. There's Western Europe. Most of our licenses do not include anything out of North America. This one does. and the abundance of orders that are coming in. We've shipped very little. We're about to get our product out there, but we have great global distribution. We've been given accolades for how great the product looks. I don't want to speak for the Converse organization, their team, but as they come through, they're They're much more than satisfied and maybe surprised as to how fast we brought it to market, utilizing identified factories that are unique for Nike production. They need to be approved. We got that accomplished. We got product produced and ready to be delivered, and product looks great, so I think we have We have a big brand in the horizon, and BCBG covers another piece of our business, or not our business, newly entered into the business, which is contemporary. There's an effort to balance assortments in department stores with more contemporary brand, and BCBG covers that. We ship a fair amount of product just recently, and the sell-throughs this past week were excellent. So we see growth in two emerging brands that I think will hit the radar screen, and maybe we'll talk about how important, again, our licensed business is as we exit PVH. Thank you very much. Thank you, Dana, as always. And thank you all for your participation. And wait and see. We've got some great stuff on the horizon. I'm eager to share it with you in the coming quarters. Thank you all.

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