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| We successfully launched our Teams app open access test, enabling businesses of any size to purchase scrubs through our platform, which contributed to strong growth in the quarter |
| We remain excited about the long-term prospects for our business |
| We reduced inventory by 33% and generated strong free cash flow of $85 million |
| We are the distant leader in health care apparel with distinct competitive advantages in product innovation and brand love, coupled with the scale and balance sheet to invest in future growth |
| Additionally, we achieved 18% net revenue growth in non-scrubs, 42% growth in our international business and nearly 50% growth in our teams business |
| We also opened our first permanent retail location, our community hub in Los Angeles with strong early reads in traffic and conversion |
| I think looking into the future, we believe that a high teens adjusted EBITDA margin is still a really good target for our business |
| We are confident in the steps we are taking to drive improved performance and therefore, we plan to continue to leverage our strong balance sheet and cash flow dynamics to make strategic investments that will position us to scale our business for future growth |
| And so yes, super proud of the performance we delivered |
| Finally, our adjusted EBITDA for Q4 remained strong at $26.6 million for an adjusted EBITDA margin of 18.4% compared to 13.6% in Q4 2022 |
| And we’re very proud of the ability of what we did in terms of bringing down our inventory from a peak of $190 million to $119 million in Q4 |
| As it relates to our community hub in Century City, we’ve seen really early success and have really been pleased with the traffic |
| Importantly, we have a strong balance sheet to make sound investments in our business to drive long-term sustainable growth |
| We feel really good about our ability to introduce innovation across new fabrications, product features and functionality in both scrubs and in non-scrubs |
| We were pleased to have exceeded our adjusted EBITDA margin expectations for 2023 |
| Our finance team is comprised of some of the best and the brightest, and I have every confidence that we will have a seamless transition under Kevin's leadership |
| She has also built out the best of the best finance team leading us to over $0.5 billion in net revenue while also being profitable |
| The new facility will operate with state-of-the-art robotics and new technology that we expect to increase reliability, flexibility and efficiency as well as improved order delivery times |
| International is a stronger driver of growth |
| I remain confident that the strategies we have underway will lead to healthy long-term sustainable growth |
| Non-scrubs represented 23% of net revenue in the fourth quarter, reflecting strong performance in a number of these categories, and we see meaningful runway ahead of us |
| We have a long-term healthcare industry tailwinds |
| We have ample market share opportunity across geographies, channels and professions |
| We remain bullish on our long-term opportunity for several reasons |
| And I think into the future, we have the opportunity to really optimize in our supplier base and continue to drive better costing as we scale our core business and then continuing to invest some of those gains back into growth |
| We are positioning our company to capitalize on the opportunities in front of us while taking important steps to make us a stronger, more resilient company in the future |
| We maintain discipline around our promotional events and I think that's really apparent in the really strong gross margin rate that we delivered for the full year |
| To exceed $0.5 billion as a digital-only brand is something we are very proud of and we believe that we can deliver an exceptional shopping experience across multiple channels |
| We believe that our Extreme's initiative is integral in rebuilding the powerful word-of-mouth dynamics that helped us to surpass $0.5 billion in 2022, just 10 years after our inception |
| Super proud to have delivered almost 16% adjusted EBITDA margin in the past year |
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| In terms of our Q1 2024 outlook, we expect net revenues to decline in the low single digits reflecting pressure on active customer growth and continuation of slower frequency trends |
| As a result of the aforementioned factors, we expect net revenues to be flat to down mid-single digits as compared to the full year 2023, reflecting pressure in frequency trends and active customer growth |
| We believe this could be exacerbated by the rising fatigue and stress among some workers in the industry |
| So, I think what we’re seeing with the consumer more broadly is that the economic landscape has felt uncertain for the majority of our customer base since 2021 when COVID-19 was – has really slowed since then |
| Gross margin was 69.1%, a decrease of 100 basis points year-over-year due to product mix shift and to a lesser extent, higher duties and a higher mix of promotional sales, partially offset by lower airfreight utilization and ocean freight rates |
| First, we believe macro challenges, such as inflation, will continue to pressure health care professionals in the near term |
| Trailing 12 months net revenues per active customer decreased 5% to $210 |
| Looking at profitability, we expect selling expense pressure associated with our fulfillment enhancement project and deleverage on G&A to pressure adjusted EBITDA margin in 2024 |
| And we believe we may be seeing this reflected through lower engagement metrics |
| We expect gross margin to be down versus Q1 last year due to investments in innovation and product mix shift |
| This reflects approximately 250 basis points of cost headwind from the transitory portion of our fulfillment project |
| And as a result, we are speaking to some pressure and active customer growth looking into 2024 |
| The net revenues impact of the reclassification negatively impacted gross margin by 100 basis points |
| I think we're going to continue to be really focused on protecting our brand, but we're also really mindful of the fact that we're in a challenging macro environment where, as Trina discussed, the consumer is under pressure |
| It looks like you've had some efficiencies in the fourth quarter, but revenues are under pressure and the customer is engaging a little bit differently |
| The aforementioned duty reclassification negatively impacted net revenues by $4.7 million |
| Looking at cadence, we expect the third quarter to be the most challenged of the year as we anniversary the strong volume generated by last year’s sample sale as we continue to work down inventory levels |
| We believe this may have contributed to the lower frequency and active customer trends we're now seeing |
| Is it more product launches? Is it more successful promotions? Is it an improved macro that’s on the high end of the guide, like what are the puts and takes there? Daniella Turenshine So looking at the cadence of growth throughout the year, we are expecting Q3 to be the most challenged because we are comping a very successful sample sale in the third quarter of last year that we spoke to, where we did have just a larger inventory position to drive that event |
| Second, we believe that the sustained fatigue and stress amongst healthcare professionals post-COVID may be impacting behavior |
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