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| We believe that these fillers will allow us to double our theoretical capacity to approximately 45 million units, putting Lifecore in a great position to meet market needs and optimize our production across our manufacturing footprint |
| When combined with our unique expertise working with difficult materials, we feel like we are in an extremely strong position |
| Along with an expectation of improved revenue, we also expect to improve Lifecore segment adjusted EBITDA, which we expect to be approximately double our third quarter fiscal year '23 results, aided by a more normalized revenue mix |
| Our team is doing a great job ramping up our commercial presence in the market |
| Lifecore's unique expertise and longstanding commitment to quality are the foundation upon, which Lifecore tends to continue to expand its opportunities for growth in the future |
| To summarize, we're extremely pleased with the outcome from this comprehensive refinancing and the result and stability that it provides us |
| We believe our business remains very well positioned as a fully integrated CDMO with highly differentiated capabilities for the development, fill and finish of complex sterile injectable-grade pharmaceutical products |
| In summary, we are making important progress on preparing Lifecore for the growth that we see in our development portfolio with the completion of the Curation Food divestments, the refinancing and important commercial advancements with Alcon, the Lifecore business has the strongest foundation we've had in several years |
| We believe this positioning will translate into significantly increased revenue-generating capacity for Lifecore beginning in FY '24 and beyond |
| Once again, Lifecore is well positioned to take advantage of the strong industry fundamentals and customer projects as they progress through development and into commercialization |
| I'm extremely pleased with the resilience that our organization has demonstrated and thank each of our team members for their individual contributions |
| This expansion demonstrates the traction we are experiencing with existing and prospective customers as we continue to enhance our business with new capabilities and added capacity to support the continued expansion of our commercial product portfolio |
| It's a win-win for both companies, securing future supply for Alcon's products while at the same time, increasing our capacity in an asset-light, capital-efficient manner that we believe will help us return to our historical trend of achieving double-digit revenue and adjusted EBITDA growth in the future |
| We operate in an exciting and rapidly growing industry, and I believe we are well positioned for significant growth ahead |
| We are incredibly pleased with the outcome of our new agreements, both in terms of Alcon support on our refinancing as well as their desire to shift increased capacity onto the Lifecore platform |
| This is especially exciting as we work on leveraging our expanded set of capabilities |
| In addition, these arrangements allow Lifecore to maintain a stronger position during the strategic alternatives review process |
| These opportunities span multiple end markets, classes of drugs and medical devices and with an assortment of companies, both large and small, which we believe speak to the attractive CDMO capabilities within Lifecore's growing expertise that the pharma industry is actively seeking in a CDMO partner |
| While the company remains levered with the new lender arrangements, the combination of the lower cash pay interest, non-amortizing debt, covenant-light financing, reduced future period CapEx requirements to increase HA capacity and significant supply agreement improvements on the whole, we believe, provide with greater financial flexibility to achieve our significant growth aspirations in the years ahead, all without diluting current stockholders |
| These transactions allow us to clear the existing Going Concern qualification and create a more stable and sustainable business model |
| The good news here is that the launches of products are progressing well |
| Our unique expertise, coupled with ongoing industry trends towards outsourcing of new drug development, positions Lifecore as a preferred partner to provide CDMO services for new injectable drug applications |
| While we aren't providing formal guidance for fiscal 2023, we do expect a sequential improvement in fiscal fourth quarter, our largest quarter of the year, due to the shift in timing of projects that we spoke about |
| The timing impacts we have been discussing, including the completion of some larger revenue, late-stage development projects in the prior year and this year's impact on delays in commercialization the timing of commencing new development projects and the commencement of earlier lower revenue stage projects are expected to be present through Q1 of fiscal '24 before we expect to return to more normalized revenue and adjusted EBITDA levels that we realized in fiscal year '22, which would reflect substantial revenue and adjusted EBITDA growth over fiscal year '23 results |
| Given the industry's limited specialized injectable drug manufacturing capacity, we intend to continue to take full advantage of this incredible opportunity and deliver much needed capacity that we've been investing in during the past few years |
| Overall, our development portfolio of active projects continues to be well balanced, although we've realized a subtle shift towards early-stage lower revenue development projects as two large revenue late-stage projects transition to commercial approval |
| The supply agreement for HA fermentation has the potential to increase our HA raw material manufacturing business by approximately 70% over the next several years |
| These technical capabilities have been honed from our more than 40 years of experience in building a premier pharmaceutical injectable-grade hyaluronic acid manufacturing platform with a focus on complex and highly regulated products |
| On the Corporate & Other segment, adjusted EBITDA was approximately negative $2 million for Q3 fiscal year '23, which was slightly above our expectations |
| As we've discussed several times over the past year, our investments in our business development team are paying dividends |
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| For the fiscal third quarter of 2023, Lifecore segment revenues decreased 24% to $26.3 million driven by a 28% decrease in our CDMO business and a 15% decrease in our hyaluronic acid, HA, raw material manufacturing or fermentation business |
| Lifecore segment gross profit decreased $6.8 million to $6.1 million for the third quarter of 2023, representing a gross margin of 23.1%, which compares to 37.1% in the prior year period |
| We are also facing some headwinds as a result of inflationary pressures in the near term as pricing increases have lagged behind increases in costs due to customer contractual limitations, which we are now addressing |
| The gross profit decline was primarily due to an unfavorable volume variance of $3.1 million due to the year-over-year revenue decline and an unfavorable rate variance of $3.7 million due to an unfavorable mix in current year commercial products and lower development in HA fermentation revenues |
| And when combined with the shifting mix of revenues within our development portfolio, temporarily slowed our growth |
| The decrease in CDMO revenue was primarily due to a shift in the timing of a scaled-up process for a commercial product as well as a higher mix of earlier-stage projects with lower net revenue, but strong runway in future periods |
| The decrease in HA raw material manufacturing revenue was primarily due to the timing of customer shipments in the current period compared to channel inventory build in the prior year period |
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