Reynolds Consumer Products Inc.

Greetings. Welcome to Reynolds Consumer Products Incorporated fourth quarter and full year 2025 earnings call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A brief question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. If anyone should require operator assistance during the conference, please press star zero on your telephone keypad. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Jill Koval, Director of Investor Relations. Thank you, Jill. You may begin.

Thank you, Operator, and good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us for Reynolds Consumer Products' fourth quarter earnings conference call. Today's call is being webcast, and a replay will be available on the investor relations section of our corporate site at ReynoldsConsumerProducts.com. Our earnings press release and investor presentation are also available. Joining me on the call today are Scott Huckins, our President and Chief Executive Officer, and Nathan Lowe, our Chief Financial Officer. Following their prepared remarks, we will open the call for a brief question and answer session. Before we begin, I would like to remind you that this morning's discussion will include forward-looking statements which are subject to risks, uncertainties, and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described today. Please refer to the risk factor section of our SEC filings for more information. The company does not intend to update or alter these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances arising after the call. In addition, we will reference certain non-GAAP or adjusted financial measures during today's call. Reconciliations of these GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures are available in our earnings press release, investor presentation deck, and form 10-K, which can be found on the investor relations section of our website. With that, I'd like to turn the call over to Scott.

Thank you, Jill, and thank you to everyone joining us this morning. We closed 2025 with solid fourth quarter execution in what remains a challenging operating environment. Our team stayed focused on the fundamentals, evolving our portfolio to meet consumer needs, serving our retail partners well with case fill rates in the high 90s, protecting profitability, and advancing the strategic growth in profit-generating priorities that underpin our long-term value creation. We delivered sequential quarterly improvement throughout the year, mitigating escalating commodity, tariff, and consumer headwinds. Driven by our solid execution, along with successful innovation in our expanding revenue growth management capabilities, our strong fourth quarter performance was underpinned by share gains across the overwhelming majority of our categories, including our six largest core categories. These share gains included hefty waste bags, hefty food bags, Reynolds wrap, Reynolds parchment, Reynolds bakeware, hefty party cups, as well as the strong performance across our store brand offerings. These gains reflect the consumer's affinity for innovative and differentiated solutions in waste bags and food bags, sustained preference for branded quality and foil, and growing interest and convenience across cooking and baking products. All of this reinforces that our innovation priorities are on target and help shape our go-to-market execution. As a point of reference, we outperformed our categories by over one point in 2025 and by two points in the fourth quarter. I'm also very pleased that we were able to deliver these share gains while increasing profitability in the quarter versus a year ago. On our fourth quarter call last year, we noted that 2025 would be a transition year as we aligned our team and began executing against and investing behind a number of strategic priorities. These priorities span growth and innovation, productivity initiatives across manufacturing and supply chain, and other cost savings programs. Let me walk through our progress during the first year of implementing our strategy. Our innovation engine began to deliver in 2025, driven by a focused strategy on fewer ideas, bigger ambition, and better consumer outcomes. We expanded our hefty waste bag lineup with new scents and colors, including our popular watermelon scent. We introduced Reynolds Kitchen's parchment cooking bags, and air fryer cups, eco-safe compostable cutlery, and additional seasonal offerings in Reynolds Wrap holiday fun foil and festive printed hefty party cups. The success of these launches highlights the demand for fun, convenience, value, and highly functional sustainable alternatives. Importantly, these new products meet real consumer needs and reinforce our leadership in everyday household essential categories. These new items are, in part, why we outperformed our categories in 2025. We advanced our revenue growth management capabilities, beginning to migrate trade dollars from lower return programs to higher return and mutually beneficial programs that deliver better outcomes for both our retail partners and rentals. We also delivered early wins through pricing and price pack architecture optimization, helping to offset inflation and minimize elasticity. This disciplined approach produced results, as evidenced in the foil category, where price gaps with store brands narrowed throughout the year, even as we successfully covered commodity pressure with substantial price increases. And we pursued targeted customer-level opportunities, beginning to close share gaps through expanded distribution in categories where our brands have a right to win. Our manufacturing and operating performance improved significantly in the second half of the year, as we accelerated our implementation of productivity initiatives, investments against our automation pipeline, and other complementary programs. All of these work streams are aimed at positioning our plants for increased efficiency and throughput. Our U.S.-centric supply chain remained a competitive advantage, enabling our high service levels and supply chain agility in a volatile environment. Nathan will elaborate more on these initiatives in a few minutes. Importantly, we added significant talent to our management team to support and execute our strategy. We added experienced leaders across all areas of our business, including new leaders in sales, operations, supply chain, and our hefty tableware segment. I am very pleased with how the leadership team has come together to drive the business forward and build momentum on each of our priorities as we exited 2025. As we enter 2026, we will continue to drive each of our priorities forward, which remain consistent with what I outlined a year ago. At the same time, we anticipate another year of sustained headwinds in 2026, underscoring the need for continued nimbleness, adaptability, and focus across the organization. As we move forward, we remain mindful of the state of the consumer environment and the retailer's focus on inventory management and consumer value. Our insights teams are tracking consumer patterns closely, helping refine our promotional strategy, price pack architecture, and innovation priorities to stay nimble as the year unfolds. Regarding raw materials, while resin has been relatively stable, aluminum has continued to move significantly higher. We've made excellent progress in aligning pricing with increasing costs, demonstrated by roughly 11 points of pricing present in the fourth quarter with only a two-point decline in retail volumes as seen in scanner data. For 2026, we have already implemented a price increase in January and are anticipating further adjustments for the second quarter. We will continue to balance pricing, potential elasticities, and promotions during key holiday shopping periods carefully to support demand. In terms of the competitive landscape, the dynamics have intensified in the waste bag and food bag categories as we exited the fourth quarter. We are seeing increased promotional and pricing activity being offered by the other brands we compete against, seemingly taking dollars out of these categories and creating added pressure for our business. Given our strong brand equity, we remain committed to our performance brand positioning and plan to stay the course on our current price points and promotional strategy noting that value is a function of the consumer's view of product attributes and function relative to price and not purely a measure of pricing relative to competitors. However, some near-term volume headwinds are possible, and we have embedded our estimate of this headwind into our outlook. Regarding our private label food and waste bag businesses, they remain resilient, delivering strong value for consumers as we continue to build a more robust branded presence. As you may recall from our commentary last quarter, the current environment is driving more transactional dynamics with retailers, including a greater focus on dual sourcing for private label programs. As this trend continues into 2026, we are actively managing both the risks and the opportunities. While this will create near-term pressure in 2026, we believe this will be more than offset by incremental opportunities over time. we remain confident that our category leadership and insights, strong service levels, innovation, quality, and increasing manufacturing efficiencies position us to compete effectively and remain an essential supplier. Despite the headwinds, our 2025 progress and momentum position us to deliver stable results in 2026 with adjusted EBITDA roughly flat year over year. This outlook reflects the achievements made against the priorities we outlined a year ago and recapped earlier. Importantly, this progress is not a one-time benefit, but a foundation for sustained improvement going forward. Turning now to our strategic priorities. On the top line, we continue to work across our three core pillars of revenue growth management, share gap selling, and innovation. We are committed to building on the strong foundation established last year in revenue growth management. Our 2026 focus remains on channeling trade investments into higher return programs that drive improved results for both our retail partners and our CP. We have invested in people, tools, and training in 2025 to bring this forward into 2026. Emphasis will continue to be on closing share gaps between our category share in our retail partners and market shares. These opportunities exist in both our branded and private label businesses, and we seek to expand distribution in our core categories where we have demonstrated success. Innovation and differentiation will remain central to our growth strategy in 2026, building on the momentum established in 2025. By strengthening our enterprise-wide focus on consumer insights, We are increasing strategic precision, prioritizing innovation and our resources around the highest impact opportunities, enhancing our total portfolio value proposition with customers, and building scalable growth platforms to deliver sustained and profitable growth. Importantly, we are pleased with the strength of our current pipeline for 2026 and beyond. On the margin priorities, Nathan will cover how we are advancing our operations and supply chain priorities in a few minutes. We are also evolving how we look at our business. Beginning in Q1, 2026, we will realign category organization across the hefty waste and storage and Presto segments, consolidating waste bags in one business and food bags and storage in another to increase efficiencies, sharpen the focus on innovation, and establish a structure to better unlock growth opportunities. Finally, on talent, our success at RCP is built on the strength of our 6,000 employee team. In 2026, we expect to continue developing talent and redefining what success looks like across the organization. We believe a high-performing and engaged workforce drives sustainable growth. In summary, 2025 was a year of discipline execution. operating with greater agility, outperforming our categories at retail, and delivering sequentially improved financial results, all while beginning to drive out manufacturing and supply chain costs. The progress we achieved strengthens our confidence in both our strategy and our ability to execute in 2026 and beyond. While the near term will continue to see some challenges, we remain focused on driving sustained progress. With that, I will turn the call over to Nathan to review our financials and provide guidance for 2026.