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| So we would expect a much more normalized market share going forward in the U.S., certainly with margins in excess of 10%, we are in a good market position in terms of share |
| A couple of the observations I've had in the first couple of weeks, again there's incredible momentum in the Goodyear Forward plan meeting with the teams just as you look to the plans, well thought out, step-by-step timing, ownership, execution |
| Ultimately, I'm confident Goodyear Forward will drive our company's next stage of profitable growth and success |
| For Goodyear, for us, it's about maximizing our strength and our market position in North America, is improving our cost structure as well as derisking our balance sheet |
| So we do have a good path to earnings growth in the future in Europe, but I think it's going to take a little bit longer than this two-year plan period that we're talking about as part of Goodyear Forward |
| It's for us to get to sustainable operational margins of 10%, getting our net leverage to 2, 2.5x by end of '25, and having that sustainable free cash flow that's going to increase our overall financial flexibility |
| And then we'll lap that about $60 million drag that we've been carrying with us as part of the commercial truck decline since the second quarter of last year, we'll lap that in Q2, so our price mix in Q2 should be better than Q1 |
| I think if you look at Asia-Pacific, we have been seeing steady growth of mid-single to high-single digit in our consumer replacement business |
| I think we can get Europe to a high single digit SOI margin performance |
| So that's, call it like at the time you said $1.4 billion, sort of like annualized SOI and then on top of that, we can have net cost savings of about $100 million |
| And then we know that we have the positive of Goodyear Forward of 350, we have a negative inflation of 135 |
| Good to talk to you again, Mark |
| Then separately, with Toubro [ph] now at full production, we should get a $50 million benefit in the second quarter on a year-over-year basis |
| As you guys can imagine, I'm working diligently, quickly to a deep understanding of our business |
| We said that we will do that as part of Goodyear Forward through SKU consolidation, through our customer programs as we look to continue to grow our margins |
| And so that is what I'm here to do, is to help Christina and the rest of the team in terms of helping to lead and guide those initiatives across the finish line Rod |
| I've been a part of leading transformational efforts and driving results in my past roles and bringing them to the bottom line through clear KPIs, the definition, the tracking and speed of execution |
| I mentioned an expansion that's going to add, call $2.5 million dollars of HVA capacity for us in annualized run rate by the end of 2026, so getting the full year benefit of that in 2027 |
| We're also looking to build a couple million units of inventory in the Americas as the levels are lower than what we need for optimal service levels as a result of the tornado and are managing the business for cash last year, that should benefit second half unabsorbed by about $40 million |
| It's about us delivering that Goodyear Forward plan |
| And just on the business, maybe, Christina, you can help us with this, cost performance is obviously starting to look a lot better now and I presume that that's not really with much benefit from the Goodyear Forward plan yet |
| So Christina, I appreciate all the good color around the work |
| Mark Stewart Thank you |
| Christina Zamarro Good morning |
| I do see right now a tailwind of $75 million in the first half that's driven by transportation rates, but will flip to headwinds in the back half of the year, driven by increased insurance premiums as well as some transitional manufacturing inefficiencies related to our announced footprint actions in EMEA |
| Rod Lache Good morning everybody |
| So that's new news |
| Thank you |
| Thank you |
| Thanks for that |
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| We've been hurt by our position in OE, and that's where the industry has certainly fallen pretty dramatically off its peak |
| We also drag in some inefficiencies from the holiday shutdowns into Q1 |
| Insurance premiums are a headwind against the run rate |
| and Europe is both slow growth for 2024, something like up 1% to 2% feels tougher in the first half than in the second half |
| Now, when we think about EMEA, the past headwind has been our sales volume performance really going back to 2019 |
| And then some of these manufacturing inefficiencies related to our recently announced factory shutdowns in EMEA |
| And then outside of inflation, I articulated on the year-over-year walk just a $75 million headwind in the second half, driven by higher insurance premiums |
| And I know that there are factors that affected it in every region, but even in isolation, just Goodyear's year-over-year volume performance wasn't great |
| As you know, I think going forward we see little downside risk to OE |
| It's also hurt in replacement, where we do tend to be more profitable |
| And even with the significant change on a year-over-year basis, looking at the volume decline, what I'd also point out to you is that our sellout share, so what's getting bolted on to vehicles at retail, was in line with the industry |
| If I look at it today and adjusting for first quarter seasonality, we do have a big step down in Q1 always, because we generally sell about 4 million units less in Q1 than we do in Q4 |
| And then raw materials we've said are $375 million in the first half, first quarter price mix down $130 million |
| And we know we also have recent declines in raw material, so there's that to put into the calculus as well |
| But when I think about the consumer replacement market share in Europe, what I'd say is, we lost a lot of market share since 2019 to imported budget brands, and they have grown as a part of the industry about 15 million units since 2019 and that's at the same time the industry shrunk 7 million units and so we've lost our fair share of that and that's why we're directing the restructuring dollars as part of Goodyear Forward to the factories in EMEA and that was all announced in the fourth quarter |
| Call it like 50 million as an exit rate, and then sort of like this, 75 million headwind in the second half, and then your assumption on price mix volume |
| And then you get to the mature markets where you have to balance this slower volume growth environment, call it up 1% or so against the declining raw material environment and what you think that means for our price mix |
| I could not be more excited to have joined this iconic company |
| And then if I could just ask one more, just on the full year, kind of a follow-up to Rod's question, just on a full year basis, would you be surprised if Goodyear's unit volumes were down for the full year where you've got the -2% for the first quarter, just wondering if we could kind of establish that barometer in terms of just expectations flat or up or down for the full year in terms of units? Thanks |
| Emmanuel Rosner Sorry, just to clarify, the changes versus the new news, I guess, versus the November framework, is a little bit of a lower run rate |
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