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| Our performance fabrics Featherweight Performance Twill, ReActive and Ultralight continue to trend well, appealing to our younger core customer with a higher household income |
| We are excited about the opportunities for both brands |
| We are very pleased with the meaningful progress we have made so far |
| We believe this focus at a minimum should nearly double year-over-year operating income and more than double EPS |
| This should deliver value to our shareholders over the long term |
| Store sales remain strong |
| With our diligent expense management and focus on profitability, Pura Vida year-over-year third quarter operating income improved |
| So, we got this in to test informed some of our leather expansion that we're planning to do next year, and we were really pleased with the results |
| So when our partners are seeing better traffic and sales, we're actually benefiting from that |
| And we -- our business with Amazon is strong |
| So first of all, we -- the marketing initiatives that we undertook throughout Q3 were successful in driving traffic and improving trend |
| This year's gross margin rate is expected to be favorably impacted by lower year-over-year freight expense, cost reduction initiatives and the sell-through of previously reserved inventory, partially offset by increased promotional activity, as I mentioned -- all of which I mentioned earlier |
| We believe execution of Product Restoration will drive long-term profitable growth and deliver value to our shareholders |
| Our team is focused on driving long-term revenue growth, improving gross margin and ensuring strong financial discipline and cost control, all of which we expect will drive long-term profitable growth |
| We are especially thrilled about our NFL collection introduced in August |
| We continue to see strong response from Disney to Hello Kitty to Peanuts to our most recently launched Toy Story Collection |
| The simple clean lines, beautiful designs and exceptional functionality have been well received by our customers, and we expect to expand our collection going forward |
| So, I expect that we'll continue to see improvement in our operations with some improvement in the overall level of inventory, but there will be more guidance to come at our next call |
| For the channel, we have a strong focus on driving e-commerce growth and strategic expansion of wholesale by pursuing bigger, more strategic partnerships and expanding larger existing accounts |
| Patterns will always be our signature, but coordinating solids continue to be a key opportunity for us as well |
| Year-over-year, third quarter non-GAAP income was essentially flat as we delivered solid gross margin expansion and carefully managed our expenses despite sales challenges |
| Again, great job there |
| We believe performance fabrics are a big opportunity for us |
| As part of this, our recent site rebranding and navigation changes have been successful in reducing bounce rate and driving conversion and sales |
| We started out the year at a pretty positive environment there |
| Our custom bracelets from Harper Charms to engravable items to building your own bracelets are popular and continue to be a big growth opportunity |
| For the holidays, we have a great gift-giving lineup of products featuring fan favorites and uniquely giftable items from bags to ornaments to our cosy collection, all at sharp price points |
| Our recent live free and college mobile tours were huge successes for customer engagement |
| for long-term profitable growth |
| Vera Bradley Indirect segment revenues totaled $25 million, a 12% increase over $22.3 million in the prior year third quarter, reflecting a significant onetime key account order that did not take place in the prior year |
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| Vera Bradley direct revenue declines primarily resulted from continued weakness in the outlet store channel and the impact of store closures |
| Comparable sales declined 8.2% in the third quarter, primarily driven by weakness in the outlet channel |
| Total third quarter revenues for the Vera Bradley brand decreased 5% from last year |
| Pura Vida segment revenues totaled $17.7 million, an 18.3% decrease from $21.7 million in the prior year, reflecting the decline in sales to wholesale accounts and a decline in e-commerce sales, partially offset by a growth in retail store sales |
| Pura Vida year-over-year sales decreased 18.3% with declines in both wholesale and e-commerce revenues as prior year sales were driven by meaningfully higher levels of marketing spend along with increased liquidation and clearance activity |
| So the first two months of the quarter were definitely more challenging |
| Current year third quarter Vera Bradley Direct segment revenues totaled $72.3 million which is a 9.7% decrease from $80.1 million in the prior year third quarter |
| Joe Gomes So Jackie, and Michael, last time when we talked for the second quarter, your traffic had been down and you guys were taking some steps, including some paid media, mall takeovers, et cetera, to try and drive additional traffic |
| Prior year gross profit was materially impacted by high inbound and outbound freight expense as well as deleverage of overhead costs |
| The first is we continue to expect to see inventory down 10% to 15% year-over-year by the end of the year |
| They -- unfortunately, because of the conversion metrics, they weren't as -- they weren't as effective in driving sales |
| Total revenues were also impacted by store closures over the last 12 months, including 15 full line and two outlet store closures |
| Please refer to today's press release and the Company's most recent Form 10-K filed with the SEC for a discussion of known risks and uncertainties |
| But then they declined in the second quarter |
| The expense deleverage resulted from lower revenues |
| Joe, I think there are several issues in play when we think about inventory, especially as you look to the end of the year and then beyond |
| So -- but regardless, we still expect to see 10% to 15% reduction from -- on a year-over-year basis |
| This quarter, they climbed back to that nearly 20% down |
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