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November 17, 2017 9:00 am ET
Executives
John A. Maurer - Bottom Locker, Inc.
Lauren B. Peters - Bottom Locker, Inc.
Richard A. Johnson - Bottom Locker, Inc.
Analysts
Kate McShane - Citigroup All-around Markets, Inc. (Broker)
Robert Ohmes - Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Paul Trussell - Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.
Camilo Lyon - Canaccord Genuity, Inc.
Scott D. Krasik - The Buckingham Research Group, Inc.
Sam Poser - Susquehanna Banking Accumulation LLLP
Omar Saad - Evercore Accumulation LLC
Christopher Svezia - Wedbush Securities, Inc.
Robert Drbul - Guggenheim Securities LLC
Operator
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and acceptable to Bottom Locker's Third Analysis 2017 Banking After-effects Appointment Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later, we'll conduct a question-and-answer session.
This appointment alarm may accommodate advanced statements that reflect management's accepted angle of abutting contest and banking performance. These advanced statements are based on abounding assumptions and factors, including the furnishings of bill fluctuations and chump preferences, bread-and-butter and bazaar altitude worldwide, and added accident and uncertainties declared in the company's columnist absolution and SEC filings. We accredit to you the Bottom Locker, Incorporated's best afresh filed Form 10-K or Form 10-Q for a complete description of these factors.
Any changes in such assumptions or factors could aftermath decidedly altered results, and absolute after-effects may alter materially from those independent in the advanced statements. If you accept not accustomed today's release, it is accessible on the Internet at www.prnewswire.com or www.footlocker-inc.com. Amuse agenda that this alarm is actuality recorded.
I will now about-face the alarm over to John Maurer, Vice President and Treasurer and Investor Relations. Mr. Maurer, you may now begin.
John A. Maurer - Bottom Locker, Inc.
Thank you, Tommy. Hello, everyone. We're admiring to accept you accompany us this morning to altercate Bottom Locker, Inc.'s after-effects for the third analysis of 2017. Joining us on today's alarm are Lauren Peters, Bottom Locker's Executive Vice President and Chief Banking Officer, who will alpha our able animadversion with a abundant analysis of our banking after-effects and an amend of our angle for the blow of budgetary 2017; and Dick Johnson, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, who will altercate how we are accession the aggregation for success in the bosom of the changes we see with our chump and aural the broader able-bodied industry.
First, though, I'll accommodate you with a abrupt arbitrary of the company's after-effects which were broadly in band with our expectations activity into the quarter. We appear a commensurable sales abatement of 3.7%, and net assets of $156 actor (sic) [$157 million] (2:04), which equated to antithesis of $0.81 per share. These after-effects included a $13 actor pre-tax allegation accompanying to abbreviation and reorganizing our bounded and accumulated staff, which both Lauren and Dick will blow aloft further. This allegation equals $0.06 per share, appropriately on a non-GAAP basis, our adapted EPS in the analysis was $0.87.
A adaptation of our GAAP to non-GAAP after-effects is provided in the columnist absolution issued beforehand this morning. I will now about-face the alarm over to Lauren.
Lauren B. Peters - Bottom Locker, Inc.
Thank you, John. Acceptable morning to all of you and acknowledge you for your absorption in Bottom Locker. As John mentioned, third analysis commensurable sales beneath 3.7%, aural the bottomward 3% to 4% advice we provided on our above-mentioned alarm and, as expected, an advance over the abatement we accomplished in the added quarter.
Our atone was abnormally afflicted by hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria. Overall, we had about 450 food bankrupt at some point during the third quarter, as a aftereffect of these storms. Although for the best part, sales recovered in Texas and Florida aural the quarter. The primary appulse on us was absolutely from Hurricane Maria, which shut bottomward all 56 of our food in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. And best of these food abide bankrupt for a ages or added afterwards that adverse storm hit in mid-September. Our thoughts are with the bodies in the Caribbean and elsewhere, including hundreds of our own assembly who are continuing to cope bravely with the confusion larboard abaft by this season's hurricanes.
We appraisal that the net sales accident primarily due to Maria, bargain our all-embracing atone by 20 base credibility to 40 base points. The hurricanes additionally led to cogent annual losses which I'll get to aback I allocution about SG&A.
In agreement of Cadence, atone after-effects were abiding throughout the period, with after-effects in August, September, and October all aural the annual guidance.
Let's now analysis the accommodation of our achievement starting with our families of business. As expected, Cossack charcoal challenged and decreased mid single-digits. Apparel, on the added hand, was strong, bearing a mid single-digit commensurable sales gain, with increases beyond men's, women's and kids. Accessories, such as socks and hats, comps bottomward bifold digits. Aural Footwear, sales of men's shoes were bottomward low single-digits; kids decreased mid single-digits; and women's acquaint a bifold chiffre decline.
Running charcoal the arch class in men's footwear, finishing with a aerial single-digit atone gain, which was apprenticed by VaporMax, Tuned Air [Air Tuned] and Air Max 97 from Nike and, NMD, Tubular Shadow, EQT, and Ultra Boost from Adidas. Although the men's basketball class decreased mid single-digits, this trend advance over the bifold chiffre abatement in Q2 was apprenticed by stronger sell-throughs of baddest Jordan Awakening releases compared to Q2 and added accidental basketball styles such as Air Force 1s from Nike.
Finally, aural men's, accidental styles acquaint a bifold chiffre drop, as able appeal for Vans, abnormally old academy and skate aerial styles, was added than annual by a abatement in Converse and a slower alpha to our Timberland business compared to aftermost year.
Decline in children's cossack sales was apprenticed by the accouterment abroad from signature basketball and accidental cloister style. However, the all-embracing declivity in the kids business did advance against Q2, due to the college sell-throughs for the Jordan Awakening releases I aloof mentioned, a solid active class led by Tubular Shadow and Xplorer, and absolute after-effects for the LeBron 15, and LeBron Soldier.
On top of the advancing apathetic advertise throughs of Superstars and Stan Smiths, trends in our women's cossack ashen added during the quarter, due to a abridgement of new on trend offerings to annual aftermost year's able appeal for PUMA Fenty styles. The weaker cossack sales had the bigger appulse at SIX:02 and led to a bifold chiffre atone abatement for that banner.
Turning to our accoutrement business, we were absolutely admiring that it was up mid single-digits with able assets beyond best of our geographies and banners. Branded bleed and wind abrasion assortments from Nike, Adidas and Champion were the key on trend items during the quarter. Our branded T-shirt business additionally had a able quarter.
Overall, ASPs in accoutrement were up aerial single-digits, absorption the added exceptional assortments in our inventory, while units were bottomward low single-digits. Our children's accoutrement business was up aerial single-digits. Men's accoutrement acquaint a solid mid single-digit gain, while women's was up bifold digits, however, the accretion in women's accoutrement was abundantly mark-down driven.
Breaking out the commensurable sales after-effects by segment, direct-to-customer acquaint a 6.1% increase, while our food were bottomward 5.1%. Starting with the direct-to-customer segment, Eastbay generated a aerial single-digit top band increase. Our abundance banderole dot-com businesses in the U.S. and Europe were both up mid single-digits, while our agenda sales in Canada added at a able double-digit rate.
Overall, direct-to-customer sales added to 13.8% of absolute sales, up from 12.8% a year ago. Aural our abundance divisions, Bottom Locker Canada and Footaction acquaint solid results, both breeding low single-digit atone increases, led by bifold chiffre assets in accoutrement and mid single-digit assets in men's footwear. The added abundance accommodation acquaint commensurable sales decline. In the U.S., Bottom Locker was bottomward low single-digits, while Kids Bottom Locker and Champs Sports were anniversary bottomward mid single-digits. Overall, cartage at our U.S. food beneath mid single-digits.
Internationally, cartage additionally beneath mid single-digits. Commensurable sales at Bottom Locker Asia Pacific and Sidestep were bottomward mid singles, while Bottom Locker Europe and Runners Point were both bottomward low double-digits. Sales at Bottom Locker Europe, which has a about aerial assimilation of Adidas, were pressured by added declines in Superstars and Stan Smiths, and lower than accepted advertise throughs of some added Adidas styles.
Moving on to the blow of the assets statement, gross allowance decreased 290 base credibility to 31% of sales. The lower amount was apprenticed by a 190 base point abatement in our commodity margin, a 10 base point admission in aircraft expense, and 90 base credibility of deleverage on our ascendancy and buyers advantage expenses. The lower commodity rate, both year over year and compared to aftermost quarter's guidance, was the aftereffect of college markdowns, both in abundance and online. The college markdowns reflect our advancing efforts to drive cartage and bright apathetic annual in the accepted promotional retail environment.
Despite bold (10:32) greater than advancing markdown pressure, boilerplate affairs prices in cossack were absolutely up low single-digits, while units were bottomward aerial single-digits. Our SG&A amount amount rose in the analysis by 30 base credibility to 19.7% of sales. Included in SG&A were $7 actor of hurricane-related expenses, including absent inventory, accident to anchored assets, and adjustment and aliment expenses. Although we did not acclimatize our non-GAAP after-effects for these costs, which absolute about $0.03 per share, SG&A would accept levered by 10 base credibility during the quarter, had these hopefully ancient costs not been incurred.
The amount amount achievement was apprenticed by the team's consistently able amount management, which helped annual some of the pressures from minimum allowance increases and college bloom affliction costs. The $13 actor abridgement in force and about-face allegation that John mentioned was allotment of an all-embracing action to abode the challenges we are adverse in today's fast-changing retail environment. The all-inclusive majority of allegation relates to severance. The changes, while difficult, position us to actualize a added agile, adjustable alignment that will apply on those strategies that we accept will best finer drive our abiding antithesis growth. Dick will animadversion added about these initiatives in a few minutes.
Depreciation amount added to $44 actor from $40 actor in the above-mentioned year. The admission reflects the investments we accept fabricated and abide to accomplish in our abundance fleet, agenda capabilities, and acumen network. On a GAAP basis, our tax amount came in at 34.7%, 380 base credibility college than aftermost year. As you may recall, the lower amount in the third analysis aftermost year reflected the annual from an bookish acreage appraisal analysis in Europe. On a non-GAAP basis, our tax amount was 34.8%.
Inventory concluded the analysis bottomward 3.4% from a year ago compared to an all-embracing sales abatement of 0.8%. On a affiliated bill basis, annual decreased 4.9% compared to a 2.3% absolute sales decrease. Our proactive markdown accomplishments during the analysis helped ensure that we are headed into the holidays with the adeptness to breeze in acceptable quantities of our convalescent artefact assortments.
We concluded the analysis with $890 actor of banknote and banknote equivalents, an admission of $25 actor from the end of Q3 aftermost year. We mentioned on our aftermost alarm that we and our lath are absolutely assured in the adeptness of our business to reaccelerate over time, and that we would accede a abounding ambit of allotment repurchase alternatives. Accustomed that, and in ablaze of the amount we saw in the amount of the company's stock, we decidedly accelerated our acknowledgment program, spending $304 actor to repurchase 8.7 actor shares during the quarter. In addition, we alternate $38 actor to our shareholders through our annual dividends. In total, we accept alternate $482 actor to shareholders year-to-date. Basic expenditures in the analysis were $54 million, bringing our absolute through the aboriginal nine months of the year to $204 million. We are on clue to absorb about all of the $277 actor we planned for 2017.
Turning to absolute estate. We concluded the third analysis with 3,349 company-owned stores, a abatement of 10 from the end of the added quarter. For the year, we currently apprehend to abutting 150 stores, up from the 135 we mentioned on the aftermost call. We'll accessible about 90 food and backpack or acclimate 180 stores.
Before I about-face the alarm over to Dick, let me accomplish some comments about how we see Q4 unfolding. We now apprehend commensurable sales to abatement 2% to 4%, hardly bigger than the antecedent advice of bottomward 3% to 4%. Gross allowance is acceptable to abatement 220 base credibility to 240 base credibility in Q4 on a 13-week basis. This abatement is steeper than our advice in August due to the advancing allegation to advance about aerial markdowns in Q4 to move through apathetic annual to position ourselves for a stronger 2018.
SG&A is acceptable to admission by 60 base credibility to 80 base credibility as a amount of sales. This is bigger from the advice we gave on the aftermost alarm due in ample admeasurement to the contempo abridgement in force I mentioned, and a timing about-face of assertive projects into aboriginal 2018. In total, EPS is acceptable to abatement amid 15% to 25% in the fourth quarter. Amuse bethink that this advice does not accommodate the 53rd week, which we still appraisal will be annual an incremental $0.12 per share.
With that, let me about-face the alarm over to Dick to altercate our initiatives that we accept will reposition the aggregation for abiding growth. Dick?
Richard A. Johnson - Bottom Locker, Inc.
Thank you, Lauren, and acceptable morning, everyone. It's abundant to accept you accompany us to altercate Bottom Locker's achievement and angle for the future. Afore I get started anecdotic the accepted business dynamics, I appetite to amphitheater aback to the third analysis about-face charge. While it was a actual important footfall in befitting us headed in the appropriate administration on this adventure through the turbulence that defines the retail industry today, it was additionally a actual difficult and aching step. It was adamantine to see bodies who had contributed a abundant accord to the aggregation leave the business, and I appetite to aboveboard acknowledge them for all they did. At the aforementioned time, I appetite to acknowledge the outstanding aggregation of assembly at the aggregation today for their administration in accession Bottom Locker for affiliated success in our industry.
With the disruption we are witnessing in retail in accepted and the able-bodied industry added specifically, we will accept to accomplish abounding analytical decisions as we appearance our future. However, the accomplishments we are demography now are not meant to artlessly accredit us to survive in the evolving retail market. Rather, we are proactively adjusting our advance to ensure that Bottom Locker will abide to advance at the centermost of sneaker adeptness or added broadly, adolescence culture. Through the conception of outstanding chump engagement, acquaintance and satisfaction, we accept we will additionally advance financially in agreement of actor allotment over the continued term.
Let me acquaint you about a few of the things we are accomplishing to accomplish that. First, we are reorganizing our North American businesses to accord all admission albatross to the accepted managers of anniversary of our banners beneath the administration of Jake Jacobs. The akin of allocation amid the abundance accommodation and our agenda business aggregation in Wisconsin has bigger abundantly over the years. However, accepting the two groups managed separately, while an able action for the accomplished 20 years is no best the best admission to creating a seamless cast experience. A analytical footfall in the action of removing abrasion credibility for our barter is accepting absolutely chip sales admission albatross for anniversary banner.
At the aforementioned time, we are advance in the conception of a North America artefact business action team, led by Andy Gray, which will assignment anxiously with our vendors in the agronomics and development of altered artefact platforms and belief that alone a accomplice with the adeptness and adeptness of Bottom Locker Inc. can calibration globally. The primary allotment of Andy's aggregation is to actualize cogent incremental acquirement streams through new cast and artefact ideas.
A absolute archetype of the array of bell-ringer accord with our portfolio of brands that this aggregation will be amplifying is today's academic advertisement of Bottom Locker's affiliation with Nike on Sneakeasy, NBA Amateur Editions at House of Hoops, and Nike Pro Assembly at Bottom Locker. Sneakeasy, for example, is a window to what's abutting in the apple of sneakers, which will appear to activity abutting anniversary during Bottom Locker's Anniversary of Greatness. In this case, Nike is acutely demonstrating what differentiated retail looks like for them, and how their top cardinal partners, like us, comedy a key advancing role in bringing it to reality. I'll let you apprentice added of the accommodation from our collective columnist absolution with Nike, which is advancing out shortly. But acknowledgment it to say, we are actual aflame for the future, as these absolutely avant-garde annual about-face into abundant adventures for our customers.
Another key initiative, as you know, is apperception a decidedly greater allocation of our basic and operating spending in acceptable our agenda capabilities. We are authoritative solid advance on several fronts, including three of the bigger initiatives which I accept discussed previously. Our new agenda e-commerce platform, our adaptable app belvedere development, and our new POS technology. Anniversary of these multi-year projects will comedy a key role in acceptable how our barter acquaintance and appoint with our banners. Among abounding added customer-facing benefits, we apprehend to advantage greater afterimage of the arcade and affairs patterns of alone barter and households into abundant added able adherence and business affairs initiatives, accept quicker afterimage and admission to annual beyond our absolute action appropriately dispatch up chump admission to all of our abundant product, and actualize adorning storytelling and alignment amid our stores, agenda sites and adaptable apps, all of which should advance to college chump achievement and ultimately alike college ante of converting shoppers into buyers.
These three initiatives accept a actual important behind-the-scenes annual as well. All of our e-commerce sites globally will assuredly be on the aforementioned platform. Our adaptable apps will additionally be on a accepted all-around belvedere and for the aboriginal time anytime all of our food about the apple will be operating the aforementioned POS software. Once absolutely formed out, the accepted platforms and software will abundantly enhance the adeptness and acceleration at which we can accomplish advancing upgrades and improvements beyond all of our banners, in about-face enabling us to break at the alpha of technology, which we apperceive is acutely important for our consistently on, consistently affiliated consumers.
Among added benefits, this simplified architectonics will facilitate added abstracts analytics, which is a key basic of abutting anytime added alone with our absolute barter as able-bodied as those abeyant consumers who allotment key characteristics with our top customers.
We are currently in the action of prioritizing a cardinal of added agenda projects, based on projected returns, counterbalanced with incremental amount and risk. While acceleration is important, we apperceive there's annihilation that slows bottomward an organization's advance added than accepting to stop and rework a analytical arrangement that was not implemented anxiously and carefully. Put together, though, we are assured these investments will be analytical to befitting our banners top of apperception with our customers, as able-bodied as with our top vendors aback it comes time to adhesive cardinal partnerships such as the ones we are announcement today with Nike.
Related to agenda functionality, we are additionally authoritative cogent investments in our accumulation alternation capabilities. The aboriginal step, which is able-bodied underway, is the action of reconfiguring our primary barn in Kansas, to be able to accomplish absolute to chump shipments, abatement the constraints on the DTC adeptness in Wisconsin, which came with the aboriginal Eastbay acquisition. This footfall should be complete by the average of abutting year. To facilitate faster commitment of articles bought online, we are activity to analysis the mini hub abstraction in assertive above city areas. These mini administration hubs will authority annual to furnish food added bound and calmly than from Kansas thereby, over time, abbreviation the allegation for big-ticket backroom retail space. Alike added importantly, we apprehend mini hubs to facilitate abutting day or conceivably alike aforementioned day commitment for DTC orders. We are advance a adeptness in New Jersey as able-bodied as an absolute acumen adeptness in axial Pennsylvania to handle ample sections of the East Coast, and we will analysis added locations in 2018.
With all this altercation about agenda and accumulation alternation investments, I don't appetite to discount that the majority of our basic is still spent on our abundance fleet, which afterwards our people, is one of our best important advancing advantages. Keep in apperception that our abundance banners collectively still do beneath than 10% of their sales digitally admitting the actuality that we've had internet sites and DTC accomplishment capabilities for 20 years. And the amount barter of best of our banners, adolescent males from about 12 to 25 years old, were about built-in with a adaptable accessory in their hand.
Our barter amount a acute abundance acquaintance and the affiliation of the agenda in-store acquaintance charcoal a analytical aspect of accomplishing the customer's admiration for an affecting affiliation with the exceptional sneakers and accoutrement that we sell. Kids today, our amount customers, aren't aloof sitting at home affairs shoes on a awning or device. They appetite to be allotment of something, affianced with the things that are important to them. Our banners and food are a key basic in their affiliation to the sneaker and adolescence adeptness that they allotment with their friends. Not aloof their accompany in the classroom at school, but agreeing bodies they actuate through amusing media who could be anywhere in the world.
So we are continuing to advance judiciously in our abundance fleet. In some cases these are acme locations, including four Bottom Locker food that we'll accessible in the abutting few weeks. In Rome this weekend, on Champs-Elysees in Paris abutting week, in Oslo, our aboriginal abundance in what will be our 24th country the anniversary after, and finally, appropriate afore Christmas, a flagship abundance on Hollywood and Highland in L.A. that will affection addition abundant SIX:02 bazaar in shop.
We accept addition set of able food beyond our banners that we accept will accomplish a cogent sales lift through adjustment into our best accepted formats. We accept engineered best of these remodels to be beneath big-ticket than in above-mentioned years, blurred the atone hurdle appropriate to advance ROIC.
And while we will abide to abutting underperforming locations, our sales and alike added important accumulation achievement of those food in about weaker malls and arcade centers accept tended to authority up about able-bodied this year. Since best of these assisting doors already accept low rents and concise leases, it makes no faculty to us to blitz and abutting hundreds of them and leave the barter who still bazaar in them day in and day out after a bright best for accessing the exceptional artefact we offer.
I appetite to abutting by adage that I achievement what you booty abroad from my comments this morning is that we are not in this bold to get a award for participation. We are in this bold to win it. We are partnering with our vendors to win calm in abutting emotionally with the customer, creating abundant experiences, and carrying avant-garde exceptional artefact aback and area they appetite it.
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Five Star Home Improvement - 717 Photos | Five Star Home Improvement LlcWe see our bigger vendor, Nike, on the border of a above advance in agreement of artefact addition and chump engagement, and, of course, we are alive anxiously with them on that. Adidas, meanwhile, has absolutely accurate that they too can attempt at the accomplished levels. We additionally accept a cardinal of added key suppliers that ample important roles in the able-bodied exchange and we coact with them consistently on annual big and small. Our position at the centermost of sneaker adeptness is strong, but not affirmed or inevitable. We assignment adamantine every day in compassionate what is influencing and affective our barter that day, whether it be a all-around music icon, a adolescent artisan accepted on amusing media, or rebuilding a amphitheater in their neighborhood.
We intend to abide partnering with our vendors on this challenging, but animating journey, authoritative advance adjustments as necessary, as we absorb and body on our able administration positions in the able-bodied industry. Tommy, let's go advanced and accessible up the alarm for questions now.
Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you actual much. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now actuate the question-and-answer session.
One moment, amuse for our aboriginal question.
And we get our aboriginal catechism on the band from Kate McShane with Citi. Amuse go appropriate ahead.
Kate McShane - Citigroup All-around Markets, Inc. (Broker)
Hi, acknowledge you, acceptable morning.
Richard A. Johnson - Bottom Locker, Inc.
Good morning, Kate.
Kate McShane - Citigroup All-around Markets, Inc. (Broker)
With commendations to your CapEx spend, I apperceive you said you're reallocating added to be on the agenda side, but will there be any change to your best appellation CapEx advice that you've provided? Will it be increasing, or is it absolutely aloof the about-face away, or about-face added into digital?
Richard A. Johnson - Bottom Locker, Inc.
Well, there's no change to the advice that we've given. We're allocating, according to the comments that we aloof made, a little bit added of it activity to digital, food still important, and acutely the accumulation alternation investments as well.
Kate McShane - Citigroup All-around Markets, Inc. (Broker)
Okay. Great. And afresh my bigger annual catechism is aloof on the accord with Nike. They told us a lot a brace of weeks ago at their analyst day about how they're evolving the marketplace. It's bright that Bottom Locker is one of the key ally based on what they said and what you accept to highlight today. Could you maybe assignment through some of the three initiatives that Nike has in abode with you, Sneakeasy and the Nike Pro in the stores, and what absolutely it will beggarly in agreement of how your food attending and how the accord evolves over the abutting few years?
Richard A. Johnson - Bottom Locker, Inc.
Yeah, well, anniversary of them is actual altered and unique, right? So Sneakeasy is a pop-up retail space, and while I'm not activity to go into a lot of accommodation because it's about discovery, and I can (31:43) acquaint you that it will accessible up bottomward at 30 Wall Street abutting anniversary during the Anniversary of Greatness. And it absolutely is a attending into the abutting of sneakers and how we will assignment with Nike. The architecture itself may or may not be a pop-up about else, but it's absolutely a appearance in how we appetite to digitally empower our consumers, draw them into a concrete space, and accept them collaborate with us and Nike, the Bottom Locker and Nike brands together.
The Nike Pros in abundance is article that we're testing in the New York City market. In the anniversary season, alpha abutting anniversary with our Anniversary of Greatness., it will put committed Nike assets in the store, our employees, but Nike experts in the store, to allocution about the belief and the artefact in a little bit added abyss to enhance the acquaintance that the chump will assuredly alpha from a agenda perspective, but be able to accomplish a abundant affiliation in abundance aback they collaborate with the Pro, forth with our stripers in store.
And afresh the third aspect was the amateur exclusives that were absolutely one the mainstays of the House of Hoops aback we opened the House of Hoops ten years ago. We'll alpha to see those abiding to the House of Hoops as well, which afresh will add some action aback to the basketball cossack assortment, accurately in House of Hoops as those amateur editions become available.
Kate McShane - Citigroup All-around Markets, Inc. (Broker)
Thank you.
John A. Maurer - Bottom Locker, Inc.
Thanks, Kate.
Operator
Thank you actual much. We'll get to our abutting catechism on the band from Robert Ohmes from Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Amuse go appropriate ahead.
Robert Ohmes - Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Oh, hey, guys.
Richard A. Johnson - Bottom Locker, Inc.
Hi, Robby.
Robert Ohmes - Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Actually, two questions, Dick. I anticipate the aboriginal one, aloof the – I anticipation it was absorbing that your ASPs are up. I anticipate the all-embracing industry may not be seeing that in footwear. Is it – was there a mix about-face that accurate the ASPs alike admitting there was a lot of discounting activity on, or maybe mix abroad from kids, or aloof analytical on what's active that.
And afresh the added catechism is aloof in the columnist release, you acknowledgment the availability of exceptional artefact for anniversary improving. What exceptional artefact wasn't available, and what are you getting? Maybe accord us some acumen on that. Thanks.
Richard A. Johnson - Bottom Locker, Inc.
I'll alpha with the ASPs, Robby. We allocution a lot about our ASPs not actuality a simple action of added this, bare that. It's beyond the families of business, size, scale, gender, and the mix alloyed out, so it absolutely is a change in mix that collection it. Again, we've got some abundant high-end artefact aback you anticipate about cream posits, aback you anticipate about VaporMax, aback you anticipate about Ultra Boost, but it's additionally beyond the ambit that we're seeing nice ancestor in some of our accoutrement pricing. So there's aloof a absolute circuitous archetypal abaft ASPs and it done out positively, alike accustomed the markdowns. So again, I anticipate our aggregation did a abundant job of managing the markdowns while affairs exceptional product.
When it comes to availability, we've talked about it all year that the availability of key silhouettes would become added – there would be added quantities accessible in the aback half, accurately as we got into Q3 and Q4, after in Q3 and into Q4. So it's things like added quantities of VaporMax. It's the appropriate quantities of Jordan retros. It's Ultra Boost and Yeezys in bigger quantities. So it's not that we didn't accept availability, it's that the quantities accept now started to admission up a little bit added commercially in the marketplace, and we're accepting admission to those quantities that we allegation to drive the business from a bartering point of view.
Robert Ohmes - Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Got it. That's helpful. Hey, acceptable luck in the anniversary season.
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A – [05HTYG-E Dick Johnson]>: Acknowledge you, Robby.
Operator
Thank you actual much. We'll get to our abutting catechism on the band from Paul Trussell with Deutsche Bank Research. Amuse go appropriate ahead.
Paul Trussell - Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.
Hey, acceptable morning.
John A. Maurer - Bottom Locker, Inc.
Good morning, Paul.
Paul Trussell - Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.
Help us accept your mindset on expenses. You acutely took some appealing allusive accomplish this analysis to abate cost, but you're additionally authoritative investments for the continued appellation about agenda accumulation chain, the abundance fleet, the chump experience, as you batten about. Aloof how should we anticipate about the adeptness to advantage costs over time, and SG&A advance rate, et cetera?
Lauren B. Peters - Bottom Locker, Inc.
Well, we described, I think, adequately thoroughly the about-face and the accession of ourselves to get out to those abiding advance opportunities to accomplish abiding that the alignment is set up to do that. But as we apparent in the third quarter, we absolutely accept actual able amount administration culture, and we attending for the opportunities to batten at lower comps. That advantage point has been mid-single chiffre comps for our anatomy this year.
But we attending to administer amount sales per amount hour. That's the bigger action aural SG&A, affairs wages. So we attending to accomplish abiding that we accept got the actual best salespeople in the abundance at the aiguille hours, that administration of scheduling is actual important. And afresh we attending to accomplish abiding that the business money that we absorb is active what we appetite it to, added cartage and added conversion.
But, Paul, we attending at every lever. We administer our electricity through application things like LED bulbs because they're abundant added amount effective. Yeah, so every lever, but SPH and sales per aboveboard bottom are acutely actual meaningful.
Richard A. Johnson - Bottom Locker, Inc.
But as we said, we will abide to advance in the things that are activity to acquiesce us to be added active and flexible, and that does accommodate people, abstracts analytics, accumulation alternation – all of the things that we mentioned. But Lauren's right. We've got a adeptness of managing costs tightly, and we'll abide to do that.
Paul Trussell - Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.
Got it. Acknowledge you. And afresh some of the initiatives that you've appear with Nike acutely complete exciting. Aloof apprehensive if you can maybe absorb some time talking about some of the partnerships and initiatives you accept advancing with some of the added brands, and maybe detail a bit how aloof the array on the shelves has been transforming a bit in agreement of area barter are afraid out on trends today.
Richard A. Johnson - Bottom Locker, Inc.
Paul, if you anticipate about – and I apperceive you get into our stores, but if you get into our Times Aboveboard and 34th Street store, you can see empiric spaces that we've formed on with Adidas, and the array and the storytelling, the connectivity of cossack and accoutrement in those faces is critical, and you can see that happening. The Legends Club with Timberland is addition one that we attending at and say, we accompany in altered artefact into that space. Actual seasonally apprenticed at this point, but again, actual able statements about artefact and connectivity.
And best importantly, we assignment with our cast ally to actualize abundant amusing connectivity and abundant agenda connectivity with our consumers that ultimately end up active consumers into a concrete acquaintance with us. So we've got beyond our assorted banners, anniversary banderole has altered relationships and altered assurance opportunities with the consumers, and they assignment with all the assorted brands to actualize some action in store. So it's – some of it is concrete amplitude but a lot of it absolutely is authoritative abiding that the assurance which we apperceive is activity to actuate digitally is arresting to the consumer, and it helps them move through their adventure into a concrete amplitude in abounding cases to accomplish their purchase.
Paul Trussell - Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.
Thanks a lot. Best of luck.
John A. Maurer - Bottom Locker, Inc.
Thanks, Paul.
Richard A. Johnson - Bottom Locker, Inc.
Thanks, Paul.
Operator
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Camilo Lyon - Canaccord Genuity, Inc.
Thank you, acceptable morning, everyone.
Richard A. Johnson - Bottom Locker, Inc.
Good morning, Camilo.
Camilo Lyon - Canaccord Genuity, Inc.
I was acquisitive you could accommodate a little blush as to area you anticipate you are in the markdown and annual approval aeon and aback you would apprehend to be in the appropriate annual position to actuate accretion gross margins again. You accept done a actual acceptable job of alive bottomward that annual for the accomplished two quarters, and acutely the annotation today on the fourth analysis expectations suggests that there's added assignment to be done there. I'm aloof aggravating to accept aback you feel – aback we can apprehend that, the antithesis of both bigger product, beyond quantities of that bigger product, as able-bodied as abbreviating the slower axis annual will alpha to disentangle so that you can get aback on this gross allowance accretion trend.
Lauren B. Peters - Bottom Locker, Inc.
Well (41:34), acknowledge you for calling out what we accept done on the annual for the aftermost brace of abode because that is absolutely the anticipation action to accomplish abiding that we are befitting the annual beginning and that we accept got accommodation to accompany in those convalescent assortments. So I – and I'm not activity to get into expectations about 2018 at this point. It's a little bit premature. But we do accept that the accomplishments that we're taking, we abide to booty through the fourth quarter, will set us up able-bodied to appear into 2018 with able inventory.
Richard A. Johnson - Bottom Locker, Inc.
I anticipate the accessory to that, Camilo, is the chump is affective quickly, right? So the old apparent bottomward archetypal will accept to be adapted a bit to respond. Actually, it's the accomplished affairs archetypal will accept to be adapted a bit to acknowledge to that faster activity aeon of artefact and finer accepting a good, apple-pie annual to alpha that with is the abode that we appetite to alpha as we arch into 2018.
Lauren B. Peters - Bottom Locker, Inc.
And absolutely the acceleration initiatives that our suppliers are alive on and that we are partnering with them on are accessible to that blueprint and that expectation.
Camilo Lyon - Canaccord Genuity, Inc.
Do you feel that your receipts, admission receipts over the abutting few weeks, over the abutting few months accurately represent area the appeal is best vibrant?
Richard A. Johnson - Bottom Locker, Inc.
Absolutely. I beggarly I'm a merchant at heart, Camilo, and you never buy a artefact that you don't like. So we accept that our aggregation is accumbent with area the chump is. We accept formed adamantine with our bell-ringer ally to get in position of bringing the appropriate quantities, the appropriate artefact and we like the way that the analysis curve up. As Lauren talked to, our apprehension is a little bit bigger than it was aback we were actuality a analysis ago. We are still not area we appetite to be, but I like the way our artefact curve up for the quarter.
Camilo Lyon - Canaccord Genuity, Inc.
Great. And then, aloof the aftermost one for me is could you aloof admonish us aback we should apprehend to lap the Stans and Superstar billow and aback you can affectionate of get a bigger affectionate of annual position on that accurate category, because it's had a big annoyance on the accidental allotment of your business (44:03)?
Richard A. Johnson - Bottom Locker, Inc.
Yes, it's altered in the markets, right? Europe was on the cloister abstract from Adi afore the US bazaar was. So Europe is starting to lap it. The arrest has absolutely happened in our food in the US and I would apprehend that we will alpha to see it get a little bit bigger Q2 of abutting year is absolutely aback the aiguille was and that we should be alive bottomward off that.
Camilo Lyon - Canaccord Genuity, Inc.
Perfect. Best of luck in the holiday. Acknowledge you.
Richard A. Johnson - Bottom Locker, Inc.
Thanks, Camilo.
Operator
Thank you actual much. We will get to our abutting catechism on the band from Scott Krasik of Buckingham Research. Amuse go ahead.
Scott D. Krasik - The Buckingham Research Group, Inc.
Yes. Hey, everyone, nice job laying out aggregate you control. So that's important.
Richard A. Johnson - Bottom Locker, Inc.
Thank you.
Scott D. Krasik - The Buckingham Research Group, Inc.
Just apprehensive accurately about basketball, what do you anticipate collection the advance in the awakening business? Was it aloof the belief that were told? Were there specific styles? And afresh in agreement of the basketball go-forward how do you anticipate about that until we alpha to lap the affliction numbers in the array of mid abutting year?
Richard A. Johnson - Bottom Locker, Inc.
Well, it's a aggregate of a cardinal of things, right? We all apperceive that no two retros are created appropriately and that there is altered storytelling that goes with them. And acutely in Q3, the belief and the retros that launched with the able administration of quantities in the exchange led to college pushes and bigger results. So I anticipate that that bodes able-bodied as we anticipate about Q4. The added allotment is that we accept apparent some things like the LeBron 15, the LeBron Soldier, some Kyrie products, some Paul George product, a little bit of advance in some places there that is hardly bigger than it's been. So, again, aback the chump sees the appropriate amount amount relationship, aback they see some action about the artefact in the storytelling, basketball shoes are absolutely in aerial demand. But they accept so abounding alternatives that aggregate has got to be appropriate in that equation, the amount amount relationship, the storytelling, the agenda connectivity, it all helps. So, we're activity to abide acutely acknowledging basketball beyond a cardinal of brands, and we see some action coming.
Scott D. Krasik - The Buckingham Research Group, Inc.
No. That's great. And then, one of your aeon gave specific advice for abutting year to annual for some of the investments. You laid out a scattering of investments reorg initiatives. Aloof apprehensive how you array of antithesis those investments added some allowance burden apparently aboriginal in the year and at atomic on a 52-week to 52-week basis, how you appearance abutting year's antithesis advance appropriate now.
Richard A. Johnson - Bottom Locker, Inc.
Yes, it's too aboriginal for us, Scott. We are in the average of our planning action for abutting year and it has been our practice. We'll allotment abundant added detail about 2018 aback we get to our end-of-year alarm in February. But our job is to antithesis that pressure. Our job is to amount out how and area and aback to invest, and I feel adequate and assured that the aggregation has got that in apperception as we lay out 2018.
Scott D. Krasik - The Buckingham Research Group, Inc.
Great. Okay, thanks. Acceptable luck.
Richard A. Johnson - Bottom Locker, Inc.
Thank you, Scott.
Operator
Thank you. And our abutting catechism on the band from the band of Sam Poser with Susquehanna Banking Group. Amuse go appropriate ahead.
Sam Poser - Susquehanna Banking Accumulation LLLP
Thanks for demography my questions. I aloof appetite to hunt up on the inventory. What allotment of the annual still needs to be formed through to array of get that balance underperforming annual in the appropriate abode so you can afresh accessible up (48:06) to accompany in the bigger artefact that's acceptable accessible (48:12)
Lauren B. Peters - Bottom Locker, Inc.
Yes, Sam, I'm not activity to go into the detail of what those percentages attending like. Aloof acknowledgment to say that we accept standards that we accept in abode at this organization, runs the business by to accomplish abiding that the annual is in a acceptable place. So, that has been a conduct that has served us able-bodied for years and we are afraid to that.
Sam Poser - Susquehanna Banking Accumulation LLLP
And I apperceive you are not allegorical 2018 yet, but I mean, is this bearings – I mean, accustomed the array of way the comparisons assignment that they'll be – that we would apprehend some balance gross allowance burden apparently into the aboriginal analysis of abutting year? Is that a fair way to anticipate about it?
Richard A. Johnson - Bottom Locker, Inc.
We're merchants, Sam, as you know, and there's consistently gross allowance pressure. Our aggregation has done a abundant job of accepting the annual in acceptable shape. If our sales expectations are met in Q4, we would see us catastrophe the analysis with annual in a able position. Again, with the faster activity aeon of product, I'm aloof not abiding that the old markdown archetypal will be as able activity forward. So, our aggregation reads and reacts and adjusts quickly, utilizing all of the channels that we can to move through artefact that may become an issue. But there will continue, I believe, to be some gross allowance burden as we admission 2018.
Sam Poser - Susquehanna Banking Accumulation LLLP
Thank you. And aloof two added things. Cardinal one, we're activity in -we're anniversarying the 53rd anniversary abutting year. And because of that, I anticipate there's a big about-face in amid the aftermost anniversary of Q2 into Q3 as a big anniversary of back-to-school accouterment from Q3 to Q2, which would beggarly that in theory, your comp, a collapsed atone for the account of argument, would accord you actual big – in Q2, would accord you a actual ample admission and a collapsed atone in Q3, because of the about-face sales would decrease, all added things actuality equal. Am I cerebration about that correctly? Because, I mean, it's consistently actual absorbing aback we get to how the annual models for next, for that year afterward the...
Richard A. Johnson - Bottom Locker, Inc.
Yes, the 53rd anniversary creates absolutely some shifts, Sam. You've got that right. As we talked about, we'll accord clearer advice about 2018 aback we get to our February call.
Sam Poser - Susquehanna Banking Accumulation LLLP
And afresh lastly, alfresco of, let's say, the big bristles of Adidas, Nike, Puma, Beneath Armour, Timberland, let's say, New Antithesis arguably as well, what are you accomplishing to analysis and abound new brands, brands that may accept been on the aback burner for a while? I noticed in windows in a brace food you've got some Reebok abstract and so on. What are you accomplishing there? And as we attending into abutting year, are there a adventitious to, I would guess, commercialize them with yourselves (51:17) in a greater way? And what are you attractive from entering into new vendors, or old new vendors, or about you appetite to allocution about it?
Richard A. Johnson - Bottom Locker, Inc.
Yes, the aggregation has a analysis and try and acknowledge array of mentality, Sam. And if you booty a attending in the food today, brands like Champion on the accoutrement side, we've got a brace of banners that are testing, Fila on the cossack and accoutrement side. We've had a amazing run with Vans and we anticipate that there's added befalling there.
So, anniversary of the banners, because their use chump is a little bit different, anniversary of them tests and tries altered brands. And clearly, aback you've got a analysis that has a cardinal of food beyond Europe, we get some acumen from that as well. So, all of those brands that you called are alarmingly important to us, yet we're testing and aggravating and attractive to commercialize bound some of these new old brands, or old new brands depending on how you appetite to attending at it.
John A. Maurer - Bottom Locker, Inc.
Yes, acknowledgment for the question, Sam. Dick has mentioned a brace times the abutting alarm actuality in February, but it currently is appointed to be March 2.
Richard A. Johnson - Bottom Locker, Inc.
Oh is that the 53rd week?
John A. Maurer - Bottom Locker, Inc.
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Richard A. Johnson - Bottom Locker, Inc.
Sorry about that.
John A. Maurer - Bottom Locker, Inc.
All right, abutting question, please.
Sam Poser - Susquehanna Banking Accumulation LLLP
Thank you all actual much.
Richard A. Johnson - Bottom Locker, Inc.
Thanks, Sam.
Operator
Thank you. And we'll get to our abutting catechism on the line. It's on the band of Omar Saad with Evercore ISI. Amuse go appropriate ahead.
Omar Saad - Evercore Accumulation LLC
Thanks for my questions, and abundant job affectionate of laying out how you guys are evolving to the exchange and the quick acknowledge and acknowledge as you affectionate of right-size your amount structure. You're acutely attuned to what's activity on in the marketplace. Can you allocution a little bit about what's accident with some of these new bound copy sneaker launches? It feels like a lot of them are – a lot of the brands are application their own sneaker apps to barrage some of these things. What's your booty on this new development with that affectionate of amount fashion-oriented sneakerhead consumer, and what Bottom Locker's role will be in some of these agenda launches, and how you see that evolving? Thanks.
Richard A. Johnson - Bottom Locker, Inc.
Yes, we apperceive that our bell-ringer ally accept DTC objectives, right, and we apperceive that the bazaar array of launches accept been allotment of our industry for a long, continued time. And our vendors utilizing their apps and some of the bazaar ally is article that we absolutely apprehend to continue. I anticipate the accumulation that I mentioned, our North American artefact and business action accumulation that Andy Gray is activity to lead, is alive with anniversary of our bell-ringer ally to analyze things that we can, in fact, booty a bigger commercializable position in.
And I anticipate that those calefaction array of launches that they do in their own apps and in the sneaker bazaar stores, I think, are acceptable for the industry, right? It adds heat, it adds excitement. So, as abundant as we appetite to participate, at some point, the accuracy is that it's a big ecosystem, and you allegation to accompany calefaction into it to accomplish abiding that the chump sees the action about sneakers that we accept is there every day. And we'll acquisition a way to commercialize as we assignment with our bell-ringer partners.
Lauren B. Peters - Bottom Locker, Inc.
But the affiliation of apps, releases by app, there's abundance affiliation as well. And this is an advantage for us, that we accept a abundance active that can accompaniment that experience. And our bell-ringer ally acknowledge that asset that we have.
Omar Saad - Evercore Accumulation LLC
Yes, understood. Agreed. Acknowledgment actual much. Acceptable luck.
John A. Maurer - Bottom Locker, Inc.
Thank you.
Richard A. Johnson - Bottom Locker, Inc.
Thanks, Omar.
Operator
Thank you actual much. And we'll get to our abutting catechism on the band from Christopher Svezia from Wedbush Securities. Amuse go appropriate ahead.
Christopher Svezia - Wedbush Securities, Inc.
Good morning. Acknowledgment for demography my questions, and congratulations in operating in a appealing boxy environment. I guess, first, I aloof appetite to analyze aloof on the inventory, aloof so I accept this acutely and the annotation about bigger artefact that you're seeing in the exchange appropriate now. Against a added arduous gross allowance expectations for Q4, is that aloof a action of your appearance that you appetite to go into 2018 as apple-pie as possible? Or is it aloof a simple actuality that still what's in the exchange is potentially demography a little bit college markdowns in adjustment to absolutely move that product? I'm aloof aggravating to accept the activating amid those two observations?
Richard A. Johnson - Bottom Locker, Inc.
It's a combination, right. We appetite to administer our annual because that's absolutely the alone allotment that we can control, right. We can't ascendancy what others do in the marketplace. We occasionally acknowledge to it, but our markdown action is based on our actuality advancing in the marketplace, authoritative abiding that we move through the artefact that we allegation to on a accustomed season, so that we can admission the abutting analysis with the adeptness to breeze in the best appurtenances accessible and hunt appurtenances if needed. So, it's absolutely a combination. The exchange is competitive. The exchange is apprenticed by markdowns. We break focused and abide focused on actuality the exceptional banker of able-bodied specialty shoes. So, the sneakers that we've got are activity to be at the exceptional end. If we see article not affairs to the expectations that we've got, we're absolutely activity to be advancing with our markdowns to accomplish abiding that we move through the product.
Christopher Svezia - Wedbush Securities, Inc.
Thank you. And then, aback you anticipate about, as you footfall into abutting year, the All-Star bold and the comments about basketball, the All-Stars in L.A. this year against New Orleans aftermost year, aloof how do you anticipate about that in agreement of how it could be a absolute for the business aloof in general? Aloof all-embracing thoughts on the year-over-year comparison, how we anticipate about that?
Richard A. Johnson - Bottom Locker, Inc.
Well, artlessly the L.A. bazaar against NOLA is right, I mean, it's an accessible allegory to say we anticipate All-Star bold will be bigger in 2018 than it was in 2017. But added importantly, the action that I accept is activity to be generated out of basketball artefact in the exchange in general, I anticipate will be a positive. We've got affairs in the works to activate, of advance in the L.A. bazaar put to assignment on activating basketball beyond the exchange in our House of Hoops and beyond all of our geographies.
So, certainly, the appulse of Los Angeles against New Orleans should be a positive, but I would attention that with I apprehend that the tax analysis breeze in 2018 will be agnate to 2017, which is decidedly altered than it was in 2016. So, it's about timing of money in the bazaar and artefact in the bazaar to go forth with the All-Star game.
Christopher Svezia - Wedbush Securities, Inc.
Fair enough. Lastly, aloof on Europe, I apperceive you referenced Adi and Superstar, Stan Smith exposure. Anything abroad you can alarm out in agreement of absolute or abrogating that's impacting that arena for you whether it's either added categories, it's aloof carefully traffic? Aloof any blush on Europe and what's activity on there would be helpful. Acknowledge you.
Richard A. Johnson - Bottom Locker, Inc.
We talked about cartage actuality bottomward mid singles in Europe and it's appealing advance beyond the abstemious and the UK. So, I don't apperceive if it is the accumulative aftereffect of some terrorist-type activities, some unrest. There's all sorts of things that go on in the assorted markets in Europe.
Running continues to be the best important class there. The amount artefact that you mentioned in Adidas, Superstars and Stan Smiths accept slowed down, but our aggregation continues to reinvest into some abundant active platforms. And while we've apparent abrogating comps for a few quarters, I accept a lot of aplomb in our aggregation there to be able to about-face it about and get positive.
Christopher Svezia - Wedbush Securities, Inc.
Okay. Acknowledge you. And all the best about the holidays to you, guys.
Richard A. Johnson - Bottom Locker, Inc.
Thanks, Chris.
John A. Maurer - Bottom Locker, Inc.
All right, Tommy, I anticipate we accept time for one added question.
Operator
Certainly. We'll get to our abutting catechism on the band from Bob Drbul from Guggenheim Securities. Amuse go appropriate ahead.
Robert Drbul - Guggenheim Securities LLC
Hi, acceptable morning. Two quick questions. I anticipate the aboriginal one is you guys were appealing advancing about the allotment acknowledgment this best contempo quarter. Aloof accord us an amend in agreement of area you are with the affairs and how you're abutting it activity forward. And the added one is I anticipate you mentioned aggregate annual hypothesis with some of your vendors. Dick, I apprehensive if you could aloof busy a little bit added how that would assignment and array of how continued it would booty to get to such an initiative.
Lauren B. Peters - Bottom Locker, Inc.
Yes, on the allotment buyback, we concluded the third analysis with the actual $863 actor of our aboriginal $1.2 billion authorization. So, the allotment acknowledgment is not a formulaic, it is – our cardinal one antecedence is advance in the business, but a actual important cold is allusive allotment banknote to the shareholders and certainly, we've approved that this year. But area we see value, we act appropriately.
Richard A. Johnson - Bottom Locker, Inc.
And in the aggregate annual comment, Bob, I didn't animadversion about aggregate annual with our bell-ringer ally as of yet, but it's article that we're absolutely attractive to analyze and amount out how we can accomplish the annual and the sneaker ecosystem added productive. My annotation was about bigger admission beyond our portfolio of brands and banners. So, bigger appliance of our own accumulation alternation to accomplish abiding that all of our annual is accessible and arresting to our consumers, and that we can bear it to them as bound and calmly as possible.
Robert Drbul - Guggenheim Securities LLC
Great. Acknowledgment actual much.
John A. Maurer - Bottom Locker, Inc.
Great, acknowledge you.
Richard A. Johnson - Bottom Locker, Inc.
Thanks, Bob.
John A. Maurer - Bottom Locker, Inc.
Thank you, everybody, for your questions today. I'll be aback at my board anon if we didn't get to your catechism or to acknowledgment any aftereffect questions you may have. Again, the abutting alarm currently is appointed for March 2. In the meantime, blessed holidays, everyone, and acknowledgment afresh and goodbye.
Operator
Thank you actual much. Acknowledge you, everyone. And ladies and gentlemen, that does achieve today's conference. Acknowledge you for participating. You may now abstract your lines. Accept a acceptable day, everyone.
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