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| In our Coach brand, we have seen a strong response from consumers to our Elliot collection, which was introduced earlier this year |
| We're actually seeing better strength in products that actually have a more mechanical component to them like automatic watches |
| Despite being down year-over-year, we continued to make good progress on our strategic initiatives and maintained an extremely strong balance sheet |
| We have a healthy balance sheet with a strong cash position and no debt, which allows us to invest for the future while ensuring that we execute to support our brands and our businesses |
| The continued strength of our balance sheet allows us to build a strong foundation for the next period of growth from Movado Group |
| We remain excited about the opportunities that lie ahead and our teams are energized as they develop innovation on the product and marketing front for the balance of this year and most importantly, as we prepare for next year |
| In addition, we are encouraged by the positive response we've gotten to our new honeycomb jewelry collection |
| Despite this backdrop, we're excited about the key products that we are featuring in each of our brands and the marketing initiatives that we have in place to help drive holiday sales |
| Both of these new collections are driving strong performance on our OB website |
| We have already received very encouraging feedback from customers, and we expect to see the positive impact of both these new creative efforts as well as increased investments during the important holiday quarter |
| We are also introducing new product families, and we're already seeing strong demand for our new Movado Bold Evolution 2.0, which was introduced during the third quarter |
| For Olivia Burton, we're seeing a strong response from consumers to two new leading families, our Shaped Grosvenor watch and our new Collection, a boyfriend size family |
| For the holiday season, we are launching the new elated bangle family, which has received a strong response from retailers around the world |
| This holiday season, we're seeing a strong response from our retailers to our new product introductions in each of our brands |
| We are seeing success in our iconic twisted bezel collection and our charming bangle watch collections in addition to our iconic jewelry families |
| We continue to maintain a strong balance sheet with $201 million in cash and no debt, and we returned $47.7 million in dividends and stock repurchases to our shareholders during the first 9 months of this fiscal year |
| In an ongoing challenging environment for discretionary products in our largest markets in Europe and the United States, our company continued to report strong profitability, maintain a durable balance sheet and generate strong cash flow while investing behind our brands, people and product innovation to position the company to accelerate growth in the future |
| While we remain cautious for the holiday season, we are confident in our ability to navigate the current global challenges and emerge stronger as we have throughout our history |
| In addition, our continued emphasis on automatic watches saw Movado sales in this category increased by over 65% in the third quarter |
| And we think it's an important investment to make, and we're happy to be able to do it, and are starting to see some green shoots around those efforts |
| We are already seeing improvements during the fourth quarter |
| Our team has worked diligently to update our fashion watch and jewelry strategy to succeed in an evolving landscape, and we expect this effort to begin to gain traction next year |
| During the first 9 months of fiscal 2024, we had positive cash flow from operations of $7.4 million |
| As a company, we have a long history of overcoming significant changes, both in the watch and jewelry categories and in the retail marketplace and are confident that we will continue to do so |
| While the environment was challenging, we achieved noteworthy accomplishments |
| Digital watches seem to have been pretty strong during season so far |
| As we have talked about on previous calls, we are pleased with the rollout of our Movado brand Refresh, which began in September and will hit critical mass during the important holiday quarter, iconic brands need to continue to evolve while staying true to their heritage and DNA |
| We believe that now is the time to drive change, drive innovation in both products and marketing and support our most important markets while continuing to grow emerging markets like India and newer brands like Calvin Klein |
| You noted in the fourth quarter that current trends you've seen some trend improvement |
| and how retailers do for that do during that period, which then leads to can lead to stronger replenishment in the month of January |
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| As we had discussed during our second quarter conference call, we anticipated the fashion watch and jewelry category would remain challenging in Europe |
| Overall, our performance for the third quarter of fiscal 2024 continued to be negatively impacted by a challenging retail environment |
| business declined by 12.3% and our international business declined by 10.4% as the retail environment remained challenging and retailers around the world focused on bringing down inventories as they enter the fourth quarter |
| Last year, I would say they went into the holiday season with much heavier inventories anticipating a stronger holiday season, and then we're disappointed |
| On a constant currency basis, International net sales decreased 14.4% with continued softening in our largest international market, Europe |
| For the quarter, our licensed brands declined by 12.6% as middle-class consumers were pressured by increasing inflation |
| For the third quarter, our sales declined 11.2% to $187.7 million or 13.5% on a constant dollar basis |
| We saw a brick-and-mortar Movado company stores business declined by approximately 6% for both the third quarter and the first 9 months of fiscal 2024 |
| net sales decreased 12.3% as compared to the third quarter of last year |
| As we proceed through the important holiday quarter, we are taking a cautious view while supporting important marketing initiatives to ensure that our brands get stronger while we navigate the uncertain retail climate and steer clear of the excessive promotional environment |
| Total net sales decreased 11.6% as compared to the 9-month period of fiscal 2023 |
| As a result of the reduction in sales and gross margin, operating income decreased to $21.1 million as compared to $38.9 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2023 |
| As Efraim mentioned, we are operating in a challenging retail environment, especially in our key markets, the United States and Europe |
| The decrease in the gross margin rate for the first 9 months was primarily due to unfavorable channel and product mix |
| International net sales decreased 10.3% or 11.1% on a constant currency basis |
| net sales declined by 13.4% |
| As it relates to our outlook, while we have seen some trend improvement in recent weeks and are beginning to see the impact of our new Movado marketing initiatives, we felt that it was prudent to modify our outlook given the uncertain retail environment and the challenges that retailers are experiencing in the U.S |
| International net sales decreased 10.4% |
| Sales were $187.7 million as compared to $211.4 million last year, a decrease of 11.2% |
| As the year has progressed, we have seen the challenging retail environment advance into more categories and retailers |
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