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| We're confident in the trajectory of our business and our portfolio transformation driving us towards a higher growth, higher margin business |
| So we have -- it all starts with, we believe, we have a good knowledge base of really understanding how consumer demand is actually lift versus a non-promotional environment |
| So where is the volume growth coming from, but ultimately comes back to, yes, we expect a low single digit growth in the market, but we are very confident in our sustained momentum and market share gains and product innovation, which would broaden the business |
| The transaction closure will unlock significant value for us, largely coming from an improved free cash flow of $250 million per year |
| Looking more short-term at our Q3 results, we are pleased with our operational progress and our top-line growth and what is still a very challenging environment |
| Again, as I heard as I mentioned earlier, I feel good about the momentum that we have, but that on its own will not be sufficient in '24, and we got to find additional cost opportunities for '24, and we're working on a lot of things |
| So, we're pleased with double-digit 10% |
| e improved our supply chain execution |
| I mean, obviously, as you've seen before, we feel actually good about Q3 |
| As a result, we were able to gain market share in almost all of our major businesses |
| Market demand in the Americas has been solid, but this is entirely driven by a very strong replacement demand related to increased appliance usage at home, a trend which we expected and which we expect to continue |
| At the same time, we're able to achieve additional tax benefits |
| builder's number one choice with over $2 billion in annual sales in this channel and our continued product innovation, we're well positioned to deliver long-term shareholder value |
| With the products which we launched and which Jim showed earlier, we were able to expand both share and margin |
| Promotions, which were normalizing sooner than expected, we're more than offset by over point of share gains in North America, strong and growing replacement demand, our builder channel benefiting from a shortage of existing homes and InSinkErator acquisition |
| The key to have both share and margin expansion ultimately still comes back to having a strong product pipeline |
| Our actions drove 100 basis point margin expansion year-over-year with solid EBIT margin at 6.5% and ongoing earnings per share of $5.45 |
| So, it doesn't need to be a trade off, and in the case of what we just demonstrated in Q3, we deliver both share and margin expansion |
| Cost should be a positive impact |
| So, we achieved both margin expansion and share |
| Our resilient and adaptive supply chain has delivered share gains throughout the Americas |
| These are the two fundamental drivers to get back North America to what I would call, healthy 12% plus margins |
| And once we close the EMEA transaction and we're able to realize the benefits of some of the losses we'll have from investments we've made in there, we will see, also in 2024 a significantly lower tax straight than we historically have |
| Jim Peters I mean, I just emphasize what Marc said is, I think the trends are very positive |
| So, we feel pretty good about where we are |
| Combined with resilient replacement and builder demand, our leading position as the U.S |
| And as Jim showed early in my presentation, we feel very good about what we launched this year, and there's a lot of good new product launches in the pipeline |
| The region saw mid-single-digit revenue growth, both sequentially and year-over-year with improved supply chain execution and new product introductions delivering over a point of year-over-year share gains, coupled with resilient replacement and builder demand, the addition of InSinkErator and strong cost actions, partially offset by normalized promotions negatively impacting price mix |
| Overall, the region delivered double-digit margins of 10% |
| Turning to Slide 11, I will discuss how North America is well positioned to grow and expand margins |
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| Excluding the impact of currency, revenue declined approximately 8%, driven by continued consumer demand weakness |
| Finally, Asia demand continues to be impacted by softer consumer sentiment, and we now expect industry to be down 2% to 3% |
| However, as promotions have normalized to historical levels sooner than expected and the macro environment weighs on discretionary demand, which continues to be depressed |
| Industry expectations in EMEA of down 6% to 8% reflect an increasingly challenging macroeconomic and geopolitical environment |
| As you know, if you go back further, the back half of '22, we had disappointing margins as a company and in North America, kind of like, single digit margins |
| The other side of demand discretionary purchases have been even softer than anticipated as a result of increased mortgage rates and low consumer confidence |
| The region saw continued demand weakness as the inflationary environment and geopolitical tensions continued to weigh on consumer sentiment |
| Sequentially, price mix negatively impacted margins by 150 basis points and 375 basis points year-over-year |
| It is not higher than pre-COVID, it's just earlier back to when we originally expected, which is entirely driven by the drop of discretionary demand and in turn, kind of a more intense promotion environment |
| In addition, mix was negatively impacted in the quarter due to over indexed share gains in laundry, as our laundry share was disproportionately impacted by supply chain disruptions during the pandemic |
| We have adjusted EBIT margins to reflect the normalized promotional environment negatively impacting price mix |
| As you all know, existing home sales pretty much dropped to slightly below 4 million which is now all the way back to 2010 post financial crisis, and consumer sentiment is very soft |
| Revenue was down 2% year-over-year excluding the Russia business, which was divested in Q3 of last year |
| As I mentioned earlier, the market environment is still challenging |
| So, the discretionary side of the demand has been very soft throughout Q3, but it could almost say throughout the entire year |
| With industry demand weakness in EMEA continuing, we now expect EBIT margins to be approximately 1%, and we now expect Latin America and Asia to deliver EBIT margins of approximately 6% and approximately 3% respectively |
| I think your North American margin guide for the fourth quarter alone is like down 300, 400 basis points versus where it was before |
| Could you just talk through, I'm guessing that's the reduced income and maybe some working capital impact there as well |
| Obviously, price cost, it's coming in more profound headwind than you thought |
| With an industry demand of over 56 million annual units between the United States and Canada, and approximately 75,000 the 100,000 replacement units are purchased every day, and an undersupply of houses continues to exist in the U.S |
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