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| And if you look at how we've positioned ourselves in those categories, yes, we have historically had more of a value tilt to our portfolio and we are benefiting from new consumers coming into the category, primarily there is some trade down |
| Your commitment to our mission and core values creates our strong culture for success |
| I'm proud to report that after consistently exceeding our expectations, quarter after quarter in 2023, we finished the year significantly better than we anticipated |
| When compared to the prior year, our 2023 net sales increased 20% to a record $1.1 billion and our adjusted EBITDA increased approximately 35% to $105 million |
| Our stronger-than-expected 2023 net sales led to favorable leverage of our costs and expenses and strong profit contribution, which helped fuel record annual cash from operations of $61.9 million and free cash flow of $52.7 million, much higher than the $30 million to $40 million we projected |
| We, as usual, are taking a conservative approach to the company's performance and outlook, but are very excited about 2024 and beyond as PetIQ continues to gain momentum, further distance itself from its competition, and continues to execute at the level we execute |
| And we're positioned extremely well as it relates to pet health and wellness and retail with very little competition that's going to be available to do those deals |
| We've obviously demonstrated that pet health is really strong and growing |
| And more, even impressive are the net sales of PetIQ's brands, which increased 28% and exceeded our growth expectations for the year |
| These results demonstrate the strength in the planning and execution of our entire team |
| As Cord mentioned, we had strong broad-based growth across sales channels and product categories |
| Across our PetIQ manufacturer brand, we continue to see great returns on our enhanced advertising and promotional efforts as evidenced by our growth recall |
| And I think everyone's seen how our investments from a conservative have ended up allowing us to be better than the midpoint consistently |
| We're clearly getting better and better all the time |
| Our pet supplement products continue to see accelerated consumption and growth in the fourth quarter of 2023, where our offerings in this space grew plus 23.5% compared to the prior year period |
| And if the weather comes through, it'll be significantly better than those numbers that are in the plans |
| Look, I think we are -- into a year (ph) where we're doing exactly what we normally do, where our manufacturer brands are going to be in the low double digits and we feel great about that |
| And so they're happy, we're happy |
| It is doing better than what we thought it was going to be doing from a production and pet count perspective |
| The community clinic business is a bright spot for the company |
| The Pet Supplement category also maintained its growth trajectory in the quarter, gaining 14.4% over the prior year period |
| This fast-growing category has now more than doubled over the last four years and has surpassed the over-the-counter flea and tick category |
| But again, we think the right way to really measure our success is to take into account the $52 million we talked about and we're up 10% top line, 15% bottom line, which is in line with what we think this business should be growing for the long term |
| We've reported record Q4 net sales of $219.9 million, an increase of 19.5% compared to Q4 of last year, driven by an increase in sales from both the Products and Services segments as well as the addition of Rocco & Roxie |
| We are very encouraged about the brand's success thus far |
| We think we have 50 basis -- 50 basis plus of margin upside next year, and as we think about it, what we control is our manufactured products and their growth rates and they’ve had exceptional growth this year and we exception next year as well |
| The Minties and Pur Luv brands both grew at two times the category, leading to meaningful share gains |
| Our team capitalized on our opportunities for growth as evidenced by the strong growth in our PetIQ brand portfolio and we took important strategic steps in the second half of the year to increase operating efficiencies and make planned marketing investments to fuel our growth and success into 2024 and beyond |
| The Pur Luv treat brand also continued to gain momentum as it posted outstanding growth of 184% in Q4 versus a year ago |
| The newest brand in our product portfolio, Rocco & Roxie, grew at a positive 21.2% (ph) for the fourth quarter of 2023, also well ahead of our projections |
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| Our adjusted gross profit included a drag of approximately $1.2 million or 60 basis points from our Services segment optimization and the related cost inefficiencies that we did not adjust for in the quarter |
| And so that dragged our growth -- our 2024 Q4 margins down about $1 million -- $1.2 million and had an impact of services margins |
| Didn't know what you saw in the fourth quarter because it sounds like there was actually, I guess, a negative hit to gross margin from that |
| The segment gross profit dollars and margin showing decreases due to our optimization efforts |
| We currently expect our cash costs associated with the services optimization to be less than $5 million below the initial expectations we provided last quarter of over $6 million |
| The wellness center model, we have challenges because of the labor model, and we really need to lean into a model that uses kind of a community clinic model where we can have the vet labor there when it needs to be there and not have it overstaffed when it's not |
| So that's a little bit of noise that we have in the Q4 |
| Weather and the quality of the flea and tick seasons, the greatest variable, we have to both the upside or the downside |
| As a percentage of net sales, adjusted SG&A was 18.5%, a decrease of 40 basis points compared to the prior year period |
| My bad |
| And so if we feel like we've hit a ceiling, it's time to pull back, we will |
| I think going it would be any kind of a negative drag would be -- we're really starting to push forward more community clinics |
| And we've had assets that don't make sense because they still are looking for multiples that we think are unrealistic and definitely don't fit our company |
| Please refer to the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and other reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the company's press release issued today for a detailed discussion of the risks that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward-looking statements made today |
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