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๐Ÿ“„ Earnings Call Transcript ๋ฒˆ์—ญ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ

๐Ÿ“Š Presentation

Original Translation
United Natural Foods, Inc.# ์œ ๋‚˜์ดํ‹ฐ๋“œ ๋‚ด์ถ”๋Ÿด ํ‘ธ๋“œ ์ธํฌ (United Natural Foods, Inc.)

์•„๋ž˜๋Š” ์‹ค์ œ ์–ด๋‹์ฝœ ๋‚ด์šฉ์ด ์ œ๊ณต๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•„ ๋ฒˆ์—ญํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์–ด๋‹์ฝœ ์›๋ฌธ ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์ „๋ฌธ์ ์ด๊ณ  ์ •ํ™•ํ•œ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ๋ฒˆ์—ญ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ด ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฒˆ์—ญ ์‹œ ๋‹ค์Œ ์‚ฌํ•ญ๋“ค์„ ์ค€์ˆ˜ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค:

- ์žฌ๋ฌด ์šฉ์–ด์˜ ์ •ํ™•ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ์—ญ (์˜ˆ: revenue โ†’ ๋งค์ถœ, EBITDA โ†’ EBITDA, operating margin โ†’ ์˜์—…์ด์ต๋ฅ  ๋“ฑ)
- ํ™”์ž์˜ ์–ด์กฐ์™€ ๋‰˜์•™์Šค ์œ ์ง€
- ํ•œ๊ตญ ํˆฌ์ž์ž๋“ค์ด ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‰ฌ์šด ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ํ‘œํ˜„
- ์ˆซ์ž์™€ ์žฌ๋ฌด ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์˜ ์ •ํ™•ํ•œ ์ „๋‹ฌ
- ์ „๋ฌธ์ ์ด๊ณ  ๊ฒฉ์‹์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฌธ์ฒด

์–ด๋‹์ฝœ ์›๋ฌธ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์ฆ‰์‹œ ๋ฒˆ์—ญ ์ž‘์—…์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
(UNFI) Q1 2026 Earnings Call December 2, 2025 8:30 AM EST

Company Participants

Steve Bloomquist - Vice President Investor Relations
James Alexander Douglas - CEO & Director
Giorgio Tarditi - President & CFO

Conference Call Participants

John Heinbockel - Guggenheim Securities, LLC, Research Division
Mark Carden - UBS Investment Bank, Research Division
Kelly Bania - BMO Capital Markets Equity Research
Charles Cerankosky - Northcoast Research Partners, LLC
Leah Jordan - Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division
Scott Mushkin - R5 Capital LLC
Peter Saleh - BTIG, LLC, Research Division

Presentation

Operator

Thank you for standing by, and welcome to the UNFI First Quarter Fiscal 2026 Earnings Conference Call.
# (UNFI) 2026๋…„ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ 2025๋…„ 12์›” 2์ผ ์˜ค์ „ 8์‹œ 30๋ถ„ (๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋™๋ถ€ ํ‘œ์ค€์‹œ)

## ํšŒ์‚ฌ ์ฐธ์„์ž

์Šคํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ ๋ธ”๋ฃธํ€ด์ŠคํŠธ - ํˆฌ์ž์ž ๊ด€๊ณ„ ๋‹ด๋‹น ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ
์ œ์ž„์Šค ์•Œ๋ ‰์‚ฐ๋” ๋”๊ธ€๋ผ์Šค - CEO ๊ฒธ ์ด์‚ฌ
์กฐ๋ฅด์ง€์˜ค ํƒ€๋ฅด๋””ํ‹ฐ - ์‚ฌ์žฅ ๊ฒธ CFO

## ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ ์ฐธ์„ ์• ๋„๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ

์กด ํ•˜์ธ๋ณด์ผˆ - ๊ตฌ๊ฒํ•˜์ž„ ์ฆ๊ถŒ, LLC, ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
๋งˆํฌ ์นด๋“  - UBS ์ธ๋ฒ ์ŠคํŠธ๋จผํŠธ ๋ฑ…ํฌ, ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
์ผˆ๋ฆฌ ๋ฐ”๋‹ˆ์•„ - BMO ์บํ”ผํ„ธ ๋งˆ์ผ“์ธ  ์ฃผ์‹ ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜
์ฐฐ์Šค ์„ธ๋ž€์ฝ”์Šคํ‚ค - ๋…ธ์Šค์ฝ”์ŠคํŠธ ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์Šค, LLC
๋ฆฌ์•„ ์กฐ๋˜ - ๊ณจ๋“œ๋งŒ์‚ญ์Šค ๊ทธ๋ฃน, Inc., ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
์Šค์ฝง ๋จธ์‰ฌํ‚จ - R5 ์บํ”ผํ„ธ LLC
ํ”ผํ„ฐ ์‚ด๋ ˆ - BTIG, LLC, ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ

## ๋ฐœํ‘œ

### ์šด์˜์ž

๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ ค ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. UNFI 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์— ์˜ค์‹  ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ™˜์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
[Operator Instructions]. I'd now like to turn the call over to Steve Bloomquist, Vice President of Investor Relations. You may begin. Steve Bloomquist
Vice President Investor Relations

Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us on UNFI's First Quarter Fiscal 2026 Earnings Conference Call. By now you should have received a copy of the earnings release from this morning, the press release and earnings presentation, which management will speak to are available under the Investors section of the company's website at www.unfi.com. We've also included a supplemental disclosure file in Microsoft Excel with the financial information.
[๋ฐœํ‘œ์ž ์ง€์นจ]. ์ด์ œ ํˆฌ์ž์ž ๊ด€๊ณ„ ๋‹ด๋‹น ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ Steve Bloomquist์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฐœ์–ธ๊ถŒ์„ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Steve Bloomquist
ํˆฌ์ž์ž ๊ด€๊ณ„ ๋‹ด๋‹น ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ

์ข‹์€ ์•„์นจ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„. UNFI์˜ 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์  ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์•„์นจ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ž๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์œผ์…จ์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ๊ฐ๋˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„์ด ์„ค๋ช…ํ•  ๋ณด๋„์ž๋ฃŒ์™€ ์‹ค์  ํ”„๋ ˆ์  ํ…Œ์ด์…˜์€ ํšŒ์‚ฌ ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ www.unfi.com์˜ ํˆฌ์ž์ž ์„น์…˜์—์„œ ํ™•์ธํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์žฌ๋ฌด ์ •๋ณด๊ฐ€ ํฌํ•จ๋œ Microsoft Excel ํ˜•์‹์˜ ๋ณด์ถฉ ๊ณต์‹œ ํŒŒ์ผ๋„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ด ๋“œ๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Joining me for today's call are Sandy Douglas, our Chief Executive Officer; and Matteo Tarditi, our President and Chief Financial Officer. Sandy and Matteo will provide a business update, after which we'll take your questions. Before we begin, I'd like to remind everyone that comments made by management during today's call may contain forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include plans, expectations, estimates and projections that might involve significant risks and uncertainties. These risks are discussed in the company's earnings release and SEC filings. Actual results may differ materially from the results discussed in these forward-looking statements.์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์—๋Š” Sandy Douglas ์ตœ๊ณ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ž์™€ Matteo Tarditi ์‚ฌ์žฅ ๊ฒธ ์ตœ๊ณ ์žฌ๋ฌด์ฑ…์ž„์ž๊ฐ€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Sandy์™€ Matteo๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ์—… ํ˜„ํ™ฉ์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•œ ํ›„ ์งˆ์˜์‘๋‹ต ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๊ฐ–๋„๋ก ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ธฐ์— ์•ž์„œ, ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์—์„œ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„์ด ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•˜๋Š” ๋‚ด์šฉ์—๋Š” ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์˜ˆ์ธก์ง„์ˆ (forward-looking statements)์ด ํฌํ•จ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Œ์„ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์˜ˆ์ธก์ง„์ˆ ์—๋Š” ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ์œ„ํ—˜๊ณผ ๋ถˆํ™•์‹ค์„ฑ์„ ์ˆ˜๋ฐ˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ณ„ํš, ์ „๋ง, ์ถ”์ •์น˜ ๋ฐ ์˜ˆ์ƒ์น˜๊ฐ€ ํฌํ•จ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์œ„ํ—˜์š”์ธ๋“ค์€ ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ์‹ค์ ๋ฐœํ‘œ์ž๋ฃŒ ๋ฐ SEC ์ œ์ถœ์„œ๋ฅ˜์— ์ƒ์„ธํžˆ ๊ธฐ์žฌ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ค์ œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์˜ˆ์ธก์ง„์ˆ ์—์„œ ๋…ผ์˜๋œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์™€ ์ค‘๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ƒ์ดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
I'd like to point out that during today's call, management will refer to certain non-GAAP financial measures. Definitions and reconciliations to the most comparable GAAP financial measures are included in our press release and the end of our earnings presentation. I'd now ask you to turn to Slide 6 of our presentation as I turn the call over to Sandy. James Alexander Douglas
CEO & Director

Thanks, Steve, and thank you, everyone, for joining us this morning. In the first quarter of fiscal 2026, UNFI delivered solid results, including adjusted EBITDA and free cash flow meaningfully above prior year levels, while net leverage declined approximately 1 turn compared to the prior year quarter.
์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์—์„œ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„์ด ํŠน์ • ๋น„-GAAP ์žฌ๋ฌด์ง€ํ‘œ๋“ค์„ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž„์„ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์œ ์‚ฌํ•œ GAAP ์žฌ๋ฌด์ง€ํ‘œ์™€์˜ ์ •์˜ ๋ฐ ์กฐ์ •๋‚ด์—ญ์€ ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ๋ณด๋„์ž๋ฃŒ์™€ ์‹ค์ ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ž๋ฃŒ ๋ง๋ฏธ์— ํฌํ•จ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ๋ฐœํ‘œ์ž๋ฃŒ 6ํŽ˜์ด์ง€๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€์‹œ๋ฉด์„œ Sandy์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฐœ์–ธ๊ถŒ์„ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

James Alexander Douglas
CEO & Director (์ตœ๊ณ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ž ๊ฒธ ์ด์‚ฌ)

๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, Steve. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์•„์นจ ์ฐธ์„ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹  ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถ„๋“ค๊ป˜ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— UNFI๋Š” ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•œ ์‹ค์ ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์กฐ์ • EBITDA์™€ ์ž‰์—ฌํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„์ด ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์˜๋ฏธ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ˆœ์ฐจ์ž…๋ฐฐ์œจ(net leverage)์€ ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์•ฝ 1๋ฐฐ ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Importantly, we delivered these results amidst an operating environment that remains highly dynamic. Our first quarter net sales performance was driven by sustained natural and organic product growth, new business projects and strong retail execution across our customer base. Positive sales in our Natural Products segment largely offset declines in our Conventional Products segment, consistent with our expectations as part of our accelerated network optimization efforts, most notably at Allentown, which have proceeded ahead of schedule.์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์ ์€, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋งค์šฐ ์—ญ๋™์ ์ธ ์˜์—… ํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์†์—์„œ๋„ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์‹ค์ ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ ์‹ค์ ์€ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์ฒœ์—ฐ ๋ฐ ์œ ๊ธฐ๋† ์ œํ’ˆ ์„ฑ์žฅ, ์‹ ๊ทœ ์‚ฌ์—… ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์นœ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์†Œ๋งค ์‹คํ–‰๋ ฅ์— ์˜ํ•ด ๊ฒฌ์ธ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒœ์—ฐ์ œํ’ˆ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์˜ ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ๋งค์ถœ์ด ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ œํ’ˆ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์˜ ๊ฐ์†Œ๋ฅผ ์ƒ๋‹น ๋ถ€๋ถ„ ์ƒ์‡„ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”๋œ ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ ์ตœ์ ํ™” ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์˜ ์ผํ™˜์œผ๋กœ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋ฐ”์™€ ์ผ์น˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ์•จ๋Ÿฐํƒ€์šด ์‚ฌ์—…์žฅ์˜ ์ตœ์ ํ™” ์ž‘์—…์€ ์˜ˆ์ •๋ณด๋‹ค ์•ž์„œ ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
As we improve our network, we're focused on continuing to improve service levels for our customers and suppliers in a growing $90 billion target market and on further increasing our long-term profitability. Our adjusted EBITDA growth in the first quarter continued to be driven by improving execution, effectiveness and efficiency across the business. This reflects actions taken within our value delivery office to help support gross margins as well as continued progress managing shrink.๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” 900์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ทœ๋ชจ๋กœ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๋Š” ๋ชฉํ‘œ ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ์„œ๋น„์Šค ์ˆ˜์ค€์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ค๊ณ  ์žฅ๊ธฐ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ์„ ๋”์šฑ ๋†’์ด๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์กฐ์ • EBITDA ์„ฑ์žฅ์€ ์‚ฌ์—… ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์นœ ์‹คํ–‰๋ ฅ, ํšจ๊ณผ์„ฑ ๋ฐ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ ๊ฐœ์„ ์— ์˜ํ•ด ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฌ์ธ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋งค์ถœ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ ์„ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ „๋‹ฌ ์กฐ์ง(value delivery office) ๋‚ด์˜ ์กฐ์น˜๋“ค๊ณผ ์žฌ๊ณ  ์†์‹ค(shrink) ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์ง„์ „์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Free cash flow results improved by over $100 million compared to last year's first quarter, even as we took necessary steps to stock up on the inventory our customers need in advance of a high-volume holiday selling season that is now well underway. This performance enabled us to both improve fill rates and reduce net leverage sequentially compared to the end of fiscal 2025 and from prior year levels. As a result of our solid Q1 performance, we're firmly on track to achieve our full year outlook, and we remain focused on executing our strategy, adding value for our customers and suppliers while becoming a more effective and efficient company.1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ž‰์—ฌํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„์€ ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ 1์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ด์ƒ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ํ˜„์žฌ ๋ณธ๊ฒฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘์ธ ์„ฑ์ˆ˜๊ธฐ ํŒ๋งค ์‹œ์ฆŒ์„ ์•ž๋‘๊ณ  ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ํ•„์š”๋กœ ํ•˜๋Š” ์žฌ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์กฐ์น˜๋ฅผ ์ทจํ–ˆ์Œ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•œ ์„ฑ๊ณผ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์‹ค์  ๋•๋ถ„์— ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ถฉ์กฑ๋ฅ ์„ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•˜๋Š” ๋™์‹œ์— 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ๋ง ๋Œ€๋น„, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์ˆœ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€๋ฅผ ์ˆœ์ฐจ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ์†Œ์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•œ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ์˜ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋กœ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์ „๋ง ๋‹ฌ์„ฑ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ถค๋„์— ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ์˜ฌ๋ผ์„ฐ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋ณด๋‹ค ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ด๊ณ  ํšจ์œจ์ ์ธ ๊ธฐ์—…์ด ๋˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ „๋žต ์‹คํ–‰์— ๊ณ„์† ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
During the first quarter, we continued to make progress in both areas. I'll start with how we're adding value for our customers and suppliers. At UNFI, we aim to do more than safely receive store and transport food. We're working to bring our customers the products, insights, programs and services that will help them execute their strategies and successfully differentiate themselves in a highly competitive environment. We know this environment is increasingly challenging, especially for traditional grocers. This is why we aren't stopping with what we can do for our customers and suppliers today. We're focused on what we can do to help them succeed for years to come.1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋™์•ˆ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋‘ ์˜์—ญ ๋ชจ๋‘์—์„œ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ง„์ „์„ ์ด๋ฃจ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋จผ์ € ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ฐฝ์ถœ ๋ฐฉ์•ˆ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. UNFI์—์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ์‹ํ’ˆ์„ ์•ˆ์ „ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ž…๊ณ ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ณด๊ด€ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์šด์†กํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ์ด์ƒ์„ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ์ „๋žต์„ ์‹คํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์ด ์น˜์—ดํ•œ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์—์„œ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ฐจ๋ณ„ํ™”ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๋•๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆ, ์ธ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ, ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ ๋ฐ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์ด ํŠนํžˆ ์ „ํ†ต์ ์ธ ์‹๋ฃŒํ’ˆ ์œ ํ†ต์—…์ฒด๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ ์  ๋” ์–ด๋ ค์›Œ์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚  ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์— ๋งŒ์กฑํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ์ด์œ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์ˆ˜๋…„๊ฐ„ ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณต์„ ๋•๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Our Commercial organization is working to revamp and strengthen our merchandising capabilities as a competitive advantage for our customers, because we believe tailored merchandising and competitive pricing on key items is critical to helping retailers more effectively differentiate and compete. This focus also helps our suppliers successfully build their brands across the diversified 30,000-plus retail locations that we serve. A critical part of our broader merchandising capability is supported by our private brands portfolio.์ €ํฌ ์ƒ์—… ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์€ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ ์šฐ์œ„๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋จธ์ฒœ๋‹ค์ด์ง• ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ์žฌ์ •๋น„ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผ์š” ํ’ˆ๋ชฉ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋งž์ถคํ˜• ๋จธ์ฒœ๋‹ค์ด์ง•๊ณผ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ฑ…์ •์ด ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด๋“ค์ด ๋”์šฑ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ฐจ๋ณ„ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฒฝ์Ÿํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋งค์šฐ ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ง‘์ค‘์€ ๋˜ํ•œ ์ €ํฌ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด๋“ค์ด ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์„œ๋น„์Šคํ•˜๋Š” 30,000๊ฐœ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์†Œ๋งค ๋งค์žฅ์—์„œ ์ž์‚ฌ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋ฅผ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ์˜ ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•œ ๋จธ์ฒœ๋‹ค์ด์ง• ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ์ž์ฒด ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ(PB) ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค์— ์˜ํ•ด ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
During the quarter, we appointed a new leader for this business with deep knowledge of how private brands can help retailers differentiate and drive value for consumers. We also continued taking action to improve the experience for independent customers and emerging suppliers who are critical to the vitality of our industry. In fact, an early focus of our lean management Kaizen workshops has been to troubleshoot some of the areas that buyers have told us are important to them, such as time-to-shelf. Following a recent Kaizen continuous improvement workshop, we took swift action to improve item setup forms and processes to streamline the new items that are processed.์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋™์•ˆ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ž์ฒด ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ(PB)๊ฐ€ ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด์˜ ์ฐจ๋ณ„ํ™”์™€ ์†Œ๋น„์ž ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ฐฝ์ถœ์— ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊นŠ์€ ์ดํ•ด๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ฆฌ๋”๋ฅผ ์ด ์‚ฌ์—…๋ถ€์— ์ž„๋ช…ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์‚ฐ์—…์˜ ํ™œ๋ ฅ์— ํ•„์ˆ˜์ ์ธ ๋…๋ฆฝ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“ค๊ณผ ์‹ ํฅ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด๋“ค์˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์กฐ์น˜๋ฅผ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ทจํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋ฆฐ ๊ฒฝ์˜ ์นด์ด์  (Kaizen) ์›Œํฌ์ˆ์˜ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ์ค‘์  ๊ณผ์ œ๋Š” ๋ฐ”์ด์–ด๋“ค์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•œ ์˜์—ญ๋“ค, ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด ์ง„์—ด๊นŒ์ง€ ์†Œ์š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„(time-to-shelf)๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ถ€๋ถ„๋“ค์„ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ตœ๊ทผ ์นด์ด์   ์ง€์†์  ๊ฐœ์„  ์›Œํฌ์ˆ ์ดํ›„, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์‹ ๊ทœ ํ’ˆ๋ชฉ ๋“ฑ๋ก ์–‘์‹๊ณผ ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•˜์—ฌ ์‹ ๊ทœ ํ’ˆ๋ชฉ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ„์†Œํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ์‹ ์†ํ•œ ์กฐ์น˜๋ฅผ ์ทจํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
This type of action not only directly helps our suppliers but also our customers by ensuring that they get access to innovative products that their shoppers want. Turning to our focus on improving effectiveness and efficiency. In the first quarter, we took additional steps on our operational road map to pair advanced supply chain technologies with processes and capabilities that empower UNFI associates to champion operational excellence. We recently deployed the supply chain technology Relex across about half of our distribution network, with the second half expected to be completed by fiscal year-end.์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์กฐ์น˜๋Š” ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด๋ฅผ ์ง์ ‘ ์ง€์›ํ•  ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์ด ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ํ˜์‹ ์ ์ธ ์ œํ’ˆ์— ์ ‘๊ทผํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๋ณด์žฅํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ๋„ ๋„์›€์ด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํšจ๊ณผ์„ฑ๊ณผ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ ๊ฐœ์„ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ง‘์ค‘์œผ๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ฒจ๋‹จ ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ UNFI ์ง์›๋“ค์ด ์šด์˜ ์šฐ์ˆ˜์„ฑ์„ ์ฃผ๋„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ์ง€์›ํ•˜๋Š” ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค ๋ฐ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰๊ณผ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์šด์˜ ๋กœ๋“œ๋งต์—์„œ ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ์กฐ์น˜๋ฅผ ์ทจํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ตœ๊ทผ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์œ ํ†ต ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ์˜ ์•ฝ ์ ˆ๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ธ Relex๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐํฌํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋‚˜๋จธ์ง€ ์ ˆ๋ฐ˜์€ ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ๋ง๊นŒ์ง€ ์™„๋ฃŒ๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
This solution is helping us partner with our customers and suppliers to make smarter procurement decisions by using an AI-based platform, predict demand, avoid waste and reduce out of stocks. It is helping to deliver improved fill rates and inventory effectiveness as we expected, and we anticipate further benefits as we complete the rollout this year. At the same time, we continue to scale lean daily management across our distribution network with 34 DCs now on-boarded through first quarter's end.์ด ์†”๋ฃจ์…˜์€ AI ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์ˆ˜์š”๋ฅผ ์˜ˆ์ธกํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‚ญ๋น„๋ฅผ ๋ฐฉ์ง€ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ํ’ˆ์ ˆ์„ ์ค„์ž„์œผ๋กœ์จ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๋ฐ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด์™€ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ณด๋‹ค ์Šค๋งˆํŠธํ•œ ์กฐ๋‹ฌ ๊ฒฐ์ •์„ ๋‚ด๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ์ง€์›ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ถฉ์กฑ๋ฅ (fill rate)๊ณผ ์žฌ๊ณ  ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ ๊ฐœ์„ ์„ ์‹คํ˜„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์˜ฌํ•ด ์ „๋ฉด ๋„์ž…์„ ์™„๋ฃŒํ•˜๋ฉด ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋™์‹œ์— ์œ ํ†ต ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ๋ฆฐ ์ผ์ผ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ(lean daily management)๋ฅผ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋ง ๊ธฐ์ค€ 34๊ฐœ ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜์„ผํ„ฐ(DC)์— ๋„์ž…์„ ์™„๋ฃŒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
In these DCs, we continue to see encouraging improvements in our KPIs for safety, quality, delivery and cost, all as a result of empowering our associates to see and solve problems faster and more effectively. Together, Relex and Lean are driving effectiveness and efficiency across our network. Our customer fill rates have improved and are now trending above fiscal 2024 and 2025 levels on average. We still have work to do, but we see even more opportunities to improve as we continue to scale these initiatives in the months ahead.์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜์„ผํ„ฐ๋“ค์—์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์•ˆ์ „, ํ’ˆ์งˆ, ๋ฐฐ์†ก, ๋น„์šฉ ๋“ฑ ๋ชจ๋“  ํ•ต์‹ฌ์„ฑ๊ณผ์ง€ํ‘œ(KPI)์—์„œ ๊ณ ๋ฌด์ ์ธ ๊ฐœ์„ ์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋ชจ๋‘ ์ง์›๋“ค์ด ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ๋” ๋น ๋ฅด๊ณ  ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•˜๊ณ  ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๊ถŒํ•œ์„ ๋ถ€์—ฌํ•œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Relex์™€ ๋ฆฐ(Lean) ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ ์ „๋ฐ˜์˜ ํšจ๊ณผ์„ฑ๊ณผ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์„ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์ถฉ์กฑ๋ฅ ์ด ๊ฐœ์„ ๋˜์–ด ํ˜„์žฌ ํ‰๊ท ์ ์œผ๋กœ 2024ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ๋ฐ 2025ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ์ˆ˜์ค€์„ ์ƒํšŒํ•˜๋Š” ์ถ”์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„์ง ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ์ผ์ด ๋‚จ์•„์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๋ช‡ ๊ฐœ์›”๊ฐ„ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ๋ฅผ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋ฉด์„œ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฐœ์„  ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
During the first quarter, we also continued to optimize our network following the actions we took last fiscal year to streamline parts of our footprint while also strategically investing to support future growth. These actions were completed at an accelerated pace relative to our initial expectations. Our optimization efforts are enabling us to serve customers and suppliers through strategically located facilities with broad assortments while removing redundant and wasteful costs. These actions have enabled us to continue to make network improvements and contributed meaningfully to our improved results.1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋™์•ˆ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ฏธ๋ž˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ „๋žต์  ํˆฌ์ž์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์‚ฌ์—…์žฅ ์ผ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ๊ฐ„์†Œํ™”ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ง€๋‚œ ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์— ์ทจํ•œ ์กฐ์น˜๋“ค์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ ์ตœ์ ํ™”๋ฅผ ์ง€์†ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์กฐ์น˜๋“ค์€ ๋‹น์ดˆ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋น ๋ฅธ ์†๋„๋กœ ์™„๋ฃŒ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ตœ์ ํ™” ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์€ ์ „๋žต์ ์œผ๋กœ ์œ„์น˜ํ•œ ์‹œ์„ค๋“ค์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ํญ๋„“์€ ์ œํ’ˆ ๊ตฌ์ƒ‰์œผ๋กœ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด์— ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ๋™์‹œ์— ์ค‘๋ณต๋˜๊ณ  ๋‚ญ๋น„์ ์ธ ๋น„์šฉ์„ ์ œ๊ฑฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์กฐ์น˜๋“ค์€ ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ ๊ฐœ์„ ์„ ์ง€์†ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ์‹ค์  ๊ฐœ์„ ์— ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์—ฌ๋ฅผ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
During the first quarter, we ramped operations at our new automated natural product distribution center in Sarasota, Florida, which is expected to help address strong demand in that area. By combining the power of an optimized portfolio with the right mix of technology, processes and people, we are building a more responsive and resilient supply chain to support customer and supplier needs today and into the future. At next week's Investor Day, we'll provide a closer look at the key capabilities that we're building to add more value for customers and suppliers and continue to drive effectiveness and efficiency across our business.1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋™์•ˆ ํ”Œ๋กœ๋ฆฌ๋‹ค์ฃผ ์‚ฌ๋ผ์†Œํƒ€์— ์œ„์น˜ํ•œ ์‹ ๊ทœ ์ž๋™ํ™” ์ฒœ์—ฐ์ œํ’ˆ ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜์„ผํ„ฐ์˜ ์šด์˜์„ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ํ•ด๋‹น ์ง€์—ญ์˜ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์ˆ˜์š”๋ฅผ ์ถฉ์กฑํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ตœ์ ํ™”๋œ ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค์˜ ํž˜๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์ˆ , ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค, ์ธ๋ ฅ์˜ ์ ์ ˆํ•œ ์กฐํ•ฉ์„ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚ ๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์— ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๋ฐ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด์˜ ๋‹ˆ์ฆˆ๋ฅผ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋”์šฑ ๋ฏผ์ฒฉํ•˜๊ณ  ํƒ„๋ ฅ์ ์ธ ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง์„ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์Œ ์ฃผ ํˆฌ์ž์ž์˜ ๋‚ (Investor Day)์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•˜๊ณ  ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์‚ฌ์—… ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ํšจ๊ณผ์„ฑ๊ณผ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ œ๊ณ ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰๋“ค์„ ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ž์„ธํžˆ ์†Œ๊ฐœํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We also look forward to giving everyone a chance to hear directly from several of the talented UNFI leaders who are leading this important work. Together, all of us at UNFI remain focused on becoming the food retail industry's most valued partner. Our first quarter performance reinforces our confidence in our ability to continue to create sustainable long-term value for our customers, suppliers, associates and shareholders. With that, let me turn it over to Matteo to provide more detail about our first quarter performance. Matteo? Giorgio Tarditi
President & CFO

Thank you, Sandy, and good morning, everyone.
๋˜ํ•œ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์—…๋ฌด๋ฅผ ์ด๋Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์œ ๋Šฅํ•œ UNFI ๋ฆฌ๋”๋“ค๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ง์ ‘ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถ„๋“ค๊ป˜ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ๊ธฐ์ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. UNFI์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์›๋“ค์€ ์‹ํ’ˆ ์†Œ๋งค ์‚ฐ์—…์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ์€ ๊ณ ๊ฐ, ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด, ์ง์› ๋ฐ ์ฃผ์ฃผ๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ง€์† ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์  ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ๊ณ„์† ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ™•์‹ ์„ ๋”์šฑ ๊ฐ•ํ™”์‹œ์ผœ ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ์ด์ œ Matteo์—๊ฒŒ ๋งˆ์ดํฌ๋ฅผ ๋„˜๊ฒจ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ž์„ธํ•œ ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋„๋ก ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Matteo?

Giorgio Tarditi
์‚ฌ์žฅ ๊ฒธ CFO

๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, Sandy. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„ ์ข‹์€ ์•„์นจ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Our first quarter results reflect our focus on building capabilities to better support our customers while simultaneously improving profitability and free cash flow, resulting in meaningful progress on our de-leveraging efforts. We're also affirming our annual outlook for all key financial metrics. Today, I will provide additional insight into our first quarter results, our financial position and capital structure and our fiscal 2026 outlook. With that, let's review our Q1 results. Starting with Slide 8. Our first quarter sales came in at $7.8 billion, roughly flat to last year. This includes natural segment growth of 11% and reflecting strong unit growth, which outperformed the market.1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ์€ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ง€์›์„ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰ ๊ตฌ์ถ•์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๋™์‹œ์— ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ๊ณผ ์ž‰์—ฌํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„์„ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•˜์—ฌ ๋””๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง•(๋ถ€์ฑ„ ์ถ•์†Œ) ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์—์„œ ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ง„์ „์„ ์ด๋ฃฌ ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ๋ชจ๋“  ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์žฌ๋ฌด์ง€ํ‘œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์ „๋ง์„ ์žฌํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜์€ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ , ์žฌ๋ฌด์ƒํƒœ ๋ฐ ์ž๋ณธ๊ตฌ์กฐ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ์ „๋ง์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ์ธ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ์„ ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์Šฌ๋ผ์ด๋“œ 8๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋งค์ถœ์€ 78์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋ณดํ•ฉ ์ˆ˜์ค€์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์—๋Š” 11%์˜ ์ž์—ฐ์  ์„ธ๊ทธ๋จผํŠธ ์„ฑ์žฅ์ด ํฌํ•จ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์‹œ์žฅ์„ ์ƒํšŒํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ํŒ๋งค๋Ÿ‰ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
This growth, as Sandy mentioned, was driven by the performance of our customers, some new business products for existing customers as well as the continued secular strength in our natural, organic and specialty products. In Conventional, as we anticipated and previously discussed, sales declined about 12% primarily driven by our accretive transition out of our Allentown Distribution Center, which was completed ahead of our expectations. While this move pressure the top line it supports improved profitability and free cash flow. Overall, wholesale inflation was about 3%. Unit volumes declined about 5%, driven primarily by network optimization and mix was positive during the quarter.์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์€ Sandy๊ฐ€ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•œ ๋ฐ”์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด ๊ณ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“ค์˜ ์‹ค์ , ๊ธฐ์กด ๊ณ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ผ๋ถ€ ์‹ ๊ทœ ์‚ฌ์—… ์ œํ’ˆ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ฒœ์—ฐ, ์œ ๊ธฐ๋† ๋ฐ ํŠน์ˆ˜ ์ œํ’ˆ์—์„œ์˜ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์  ๊ฐ•์„ธ์— ์˜ํ•ด ์ฃผ๋„๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ผ๋ฐ˜ ์ œํ’ˆ(Conventional) ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ๋Š” ์˜ˆ์ƒํ–ˆ๊ณ  ์ด์ „์— ๋…ผ์˜ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋ฐ”์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด ๋งค์ถœ์ด ์•ฝ 12% ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ฃผ๋กœ ์•จ๋Ÿฐํƒ€์šด ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜์„ผํ„ฐ(Allentown Distribution Center)์—์„œ์˜ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ ๊ฐœ์„ ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ „ํ™˜ ์ž‘์—…์— ๊ธฐ์ธํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ, ์ด๋Š” ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ์•ž์„œ ์™„๋ฃŒ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์กฐ์น˜๊ฐ€ ๋งค์ถœ ์ƒ๋‹จ์„ (top line)์—๋Š” ์••๋ฐ•์„ ์ฃผ์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ๊ณผ ์ž‰์—ฌํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„ ๊ฐœ์„ ์„ ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋„๋งค ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์€ ์•ฝ 3%์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌผ๋Ÿ‰(Unit volumes)์€ ์ฃผ๋กœ ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ ์ตœ์ ํ™”๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์•ฝ 5% ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ œํ’ˆ ๋ฏน์Šค(mix)๋Š” ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ค‘ ๊ธ์ •์ ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
In retail, total sales fell 5% in the quarter, partly due to store closures over the past 12 months, reflecting our strategic decision to strengthen the store network improve future free cash flow. Same-store sales declined 3%, but we are optimistic about the impact that David Best and the strengthened leadership team will have on this business. Moving to Slide 9, let's review profitability drivers in the quarter. Our gross margin rate in the first quarter was 13.4%, up 20 basis points versus the prior year quarter.์†Œ๋งค ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ด ๋งค์ถœ์ด 5% ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ง€๋‚œ 12๊ฐœ์›”๊ฐ„์˜ ๋งค์žฅ ํ์‡„์— ๊ธฐ์ธํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋งค์žฅ ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ํ–ฅํ›„ ์ž‰์—ฌํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„์„ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ์ „๋žต์  ๊ฒฐ์ •์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋™์ผ๋งค์žฅ ๋งค์ถœ์€ 3% ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, David Best์™€ ๊ฐ•ํ™”๋œ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„์ด ์ด ์‚ฌ์—…์— ๋ฏธ์น  ์˜ํ–ฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋‚™๊ด€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์Šฌ๋ผ์ด๋“œ 9๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€์„œ, ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ ๋™์ธ์„ ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•ด ๋ณด๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋งค์ถœ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ ์€ 13.4%๋กœ ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ 20bp ์ƒ์Šนํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
This rate represents continued progress and execution to optimize our portfolio, our event supplier programs and higher levels of temporary procurement gains resulting from vendor price increases. Our operating expense rate was 12.7% of net sales compared to 12.9% last year. This improvement reflects the benefit of our effectiveness and efficiency initiatives driven by our value delivery office, network optimization, including continued strategic automation investments and acceleration of lean daily management across UNFI.์ด ๋น„์œจ์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค ์ตœ์ ํ™”, ์ด๋ฒคํŠธ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ธ์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ์ผ์‹œ์  ์กฐ๋‹ฌ ์ด์ต ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์ง„์ „๊ณผ ์‹คํ–‰์„ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋ƒ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์˜์—…๋น„์šฉ๋ฅ ์€ ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ ๋Œ€๋น„ 12.7%๋กœ ์ง€๋‚œํ•ด 12.9%์™€ ๋น„๊ต๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฐœ์„ ์€ ๊ฐ€์น˜์ „๋‹ฌ ์˜คํ”ผ์Šค(Value Delivery Office)๊ฐ€ ์ฃผ๋„ํ•˜๋Š” ํšจ๊ณผ์„ฑ ๋ฐ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ, ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์ „๋žต์  ์ž๋™ํ™” ํˆฌ์ž๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ ์ตœ์ ํ™”, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  UNFI ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์นœ ๋ฆฐ ์ผ์ผ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ(Lean Daily Management)์˜ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ํ˜œํƒ์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
In addition, throughput, a key indicator of supply chain productivity measured by cases moving through the DCs over an hour increased by over 2% compared to last year's first quarter and by nearly 10% from Q1 2024. Adjusted EBITDA for the first quarter was $167 million, up nearly 25% year-over-year. On a rate basis, adjusted EBITDA was 2.1% of net sales up 40 basis points year-over-year. All in, adjusted EPS for Q1 was $0.56 compared to $0.16 last year. This was driven by higher profitability including the benefit of lower net interest and depreciation expense, partially offset by a higher tax rate. Turning to Slide 10.๋˜ํ•œ ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์ง€ํ‘œ์ธ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๋Ÿ‰(throughput), ์ฆ‰ ์‹œ๊ฐ„๋‹น ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜์„ผํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ํ†ต๊ณผํ•˜๋Š” ์ผ€์ด์Šค ์ˆ˜๋Š” ์ „๋…„ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ 2% ์ด์ƒ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, 2024๋…„ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„๋กœ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์˜ 10% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์กฐ์ • EBITDA๋Š” 1์–ต 6,700๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๊ฑฐ์˜ 25% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋น„์œจ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ์กฐ์ • EBITDA๋Š” ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ์˜ 2.1%๋กœ ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ 40bp ์ƒ์Šนํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ข…ํ•ฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์กฐ์ • ์ฃผ๋‹น์ˆœ์ด์ต(EPS)์€ 0.56๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์ง€๋‚œํ•ด 0.16๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์™€ ๋น„๊ต๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ˆœ์ด์ž ๋ฐ ๊ฐ๊ฐ€์ƒ๊ฐ๋น„ ๊ฐ์†Œ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ ๊ฐœ์„ ์— ๊ธฐ์ธํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋†’์•„์ง„ ์„ธ์œจ์— ์˜ํ•ด ์ผ๋ถ€ ์ƒ์‡„๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์Šฌ๋ผ์ด๋“œ 10์œผ๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Free cash flow in Q1 was a use of $54 million which was an improvement of about $105 million compared to last year's first quarter. This was the result of higher adjusted EBITDA, more efficient working capital investment and lower levels of year-over-year capital spending. We continue to expect capital investments to accelerate as we move further into the year based on the expected project schedule. The free cash flow performance in Q1, coupled with the higher adjusted EBITDA enabled us to lower our net leverage ratio sequentially to 3.2x and by 1 full turn compared to this time last year.1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ž‰์—ฌํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„์€ 5,400๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ์œ ์ถœ์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์œผ๋‚˜, ์ด๋Š” ์ „๋…„๋„ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์•ฝ 1์–ต 500๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋œ ์ˆ˜์น˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์กฐ์ • EBITDA ์ฆ๊ฐ€, ๋ณด๋‹ค ํšจ์œจ์ ์ธ ์šด์ „์ž๋ณธ ํˆฌ์ž, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๋‚ฎ์€ ์ž๋ณธ์ง€์ถœ ์ˆ˜์ค€์— ๊ธฐ์ธํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ์ •๋œ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ ์ผ์ •์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์—ฐ์ค‘ ํ›„๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐˆ์ˆ˜๋ก ์ž๋ณธํˆฌ์ž๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณ„์† ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ž‰์—ฌํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„ ์‹ค์ ์€ ์กฐ์ • EBITDA ์ฆ๊ฐ€์™€ ๋งž๋ฌผ๋ ค ์ˆœ์ฐจ์ž…๋ฐฐ์œจ์„ ์ „๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ 3.2๋ฐฐ๋กœ, ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„๋กœ๋Š” 1๋ฐฐํฌ์ธํŠธ ๋‚ฎ์ถœ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Historically, we have seen net leverage increase as we move from Q4 to Q1, and build inventory heading into the holiday season. However, our focus on customer service, combined with improved procurement processes and early benefits of Relex have led to higher average fee rates, while we continue to reduce net leverage. With the strong first quarter performance, we remain confident that we will further reduce net leverage to our target of below 2.5x by the end of the fiscal year as we enter the seasonally higher free cash flow generation quarters. Flipping to Slide 11. We continue to deepen lean practices to drive benefits across safety, quality, delivery and cost.์—ญ์‚ฌ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—์„œ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๋ฉด์„œ ์ˆœ์ฐจ์ž…๋ฐฐ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ณ , ์—ฐ๋ง ์„ฑ์ˆ˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋Œ€๋น„ํ•ด ์žฌ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ์Œ“๋Š” ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์„œ๋น„์Šค์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ง‘์ค‘๊ณผ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋œ ์กฐ๋‹ฌ ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  Relex์˜ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉ๋˜์–ด ํ‰๊ท  ์ˆ˜์ˆ˜๋ฃŒ์œจ์ด ๋†’์•„์กŒ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋™์‹œ์— ์ˆœ์ฐจ์ž…๋ฐฐ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚ฎ์ถ”๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ์„ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ, ๊ณ„์ ˆ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ž‰์—ฌํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„ ์ฐฝ์ถœ์ด ๋†’์€ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ์ง„์ž…ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ๋ง๊นŒ์ง€ ์ˆœ์ฐจ์ž…๋ฐฐ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๋ชฉํ‘œ์น˜์ธ 2.5๋ฐฐ ๋ฏธ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ์ถ•ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ํ™•์‹ ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์Šฌ๋ผ์ด๋“œ 11๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์•ˆ์ „, ํ’ˆ์งˆ, ๋ฐฐ์†ก, ๋น„์šฉ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ฆฐ(lean) ๊ด€ํ–‰์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‹ฌํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We have now implemented a lean daily management in 34 DCs as of the end of the first quarter, a sequential increase of 6 facilities in the quarter. We're actively working to eliminate waste and improve distribution center effectiveness and efficiency, all driven by our strategy of adding value to our customers and suppliers. As Sandy stated, we continue to focus on building enhanced capabilities including customer stewardship, merchandising, supply chain and technology. This builds on work done over the past few years to better understand the needs of all customers and suppliers, and will be an important part of the content at the next week's Investor Day. Looking at Slide 12.1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋ง ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ํ˜„์žฌ 34๊ฐœ ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜์„ผํ„ฐ(DC)์— ๋ฆฐ ์ผ์ผ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ(lean daily management)๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ํ•ด๋‹น ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— 6๊ฐœ ์‹œ์„ค์ด ์ˆœ์ฐจ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด์— ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ๋”ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ „๋žต์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋‚ญ๋น„๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ฑฐํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜์„ผํ„ฐ์˜ ํšจ๊ณผ์„ฑ๊ณผ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์„ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Sandy๊ฐ€ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ”์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ(customer stewardship), ๋จธ์ฒœ๋‹ค์ด์ง•, ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง ๋ฐ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ํ–ฅ์ƒ๋œ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰ ๊ตฌ์ถ•์— ๊ณ„์† ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด์˜ ๋‹ˆ์ฆˆ๋ฅผ ๋” ์ž˜ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ช‡ ๋…„๊ฐ„ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•œ ์ž‘์—…์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋‹ค์Œ ์ฃผ ํˆฌ์ž์ž์˜ ๋‚ (Investor Day)์—์„œ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๋‚ด์šฉ์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์Šฌ๋ผ์ด๋“œ 12๋ฅผ ๋ณด์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Our performance in Q1 keeps us solidly on track to deliver our full year outlook for fiscal 2026. To review, our guidance ranges and increases compared to fiscal 2025 include sales of $31.6 billion to $32 billion. This includes the year-over-year loss of sales from our transition out of Allentown which will improve profitability and free cash flow but suppress the growth in consolidated net sales by about 3%. Adjusted EBITDA of $630 million to $700 million, representing a year-over-year increase of about 20% and an average annual growth rate of close to 15% at the midpoint relative to our reported fiscal 2024 results.1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ์€ 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ์ „์ฒด ์ „๋ง์น˜ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•œ ๊ถค๋„๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค ๋ฒ”์œ„๋Š” ๋‹ค์Œ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์ถœ์€ 316์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์—์„œ 320์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์—๋Š” Allentown ์‚ฌ์—… ์ฒ ์ˆ˜๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๋งค์ถœ ๊ฐ์†Œ๋ถ„์ด ํฌํ•จ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ๊ณผ ์ž‰์—ฌํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„์„ ๊ฐœ์„ ์‹œํ‚ค์ง€๋งŒ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์„ ์•ฝ 3% ์–ต์ œํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์กฐ์ • EBITDA๋Š” 6์–ต 3์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์—์„œ 7์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ, ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์•ฝ 20% ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด๋ฉฐ, ๋ณด๊ณ ๋œ 2024 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ์‹ค์  ๋Œ€๋น„ ์ค‘๊ฐ„๊ฐ’ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ์—ฐํ‰๊ท  ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์€ ์•ฝ 15%์— ๊ทผ์ ‘ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
This implies about 35 basis points of margin expansion at the midpoint of our outlook. With an adjusted EPS range of $1.50 to $2.30 per share an increase of about $1.20 per share at the midpoint compared to last year. Our outlook for capital spending remains at $250 million reflecting our focus on safety, modernization and continued prioritization of investment for growth. Finally, our free cash flow expectations remains at approximately $300 million. We will continue to prioritize reducing net debt to improve our net leverage ratio to 2.5x or less by year-end. While it's still early in the year, we remain confident in delivering our plan as we move through the balance of fiscal 2026.์ด๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ „๋ง์น˜์˜ ์ค‘๊ฐ„๊ฐ’ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ์•ฝ 35bp์˜ ๋งˆ์ง„ ํ™•๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์˜๋ฏธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์กฐ์ • ์ฃผ๋‹น์ˆœ์ด์ต(EPS)์€ 1.50๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์—์„œ 2.30๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ฒ”์œ„๋กœ, ์ค‘๊ฐ„๊ฐ’ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์•ฝ 1.20๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž๋ณธ์  ์ง€์ถœ ์ „๋ง์€ 2์–ต 5์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์•ˆ์ „, ํ˜„๋Œ€ํ™” ๋ฐ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ํˆฌ์ž์˜ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์šฐ์„ ์ˆœ์œ„ ๋ฐฐ์ •์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ง‘์ค‘์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ, ์ž‰์—ฌํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„ ์ „๋ง์€ ์•ฝ 3์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์—ฐ๋ง๊นŒ์ง€ ์ˆœ์ฐจ์ž…๊ธˆ์„ ์ค„์—ฌ ์ˆœ์ฐจ์ž…๋ฐฐ์œจ์„ 2.5๋ฐฐ ์ดํ•˜๋กœ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ณ„์† ์šฐ์„ ์‹œํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„์ง ์—ฐ์ดˆ์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ๋‚จ์€ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ ๊ณ„ํš์„ ์ดํ–‰ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
As highlighted on Slide 13, the strength of our customers and a focus on continuing to improve execution across our operations, including the benefit from lean and our network optimization efforts have led to a solid start to fiscal 2026. We are encouraged by our sustained progress on improving free cash flow and de-leveraging our balance sheet with our net leverage ratio decreasing by 1 turn versus this time last year. We remain committed to our strategy of adding value to our customers and suppliers while making UNFI more effective and efficient as a business partner.์Šฌ๋ผ์ด๋“œ 13์—์„œ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•œ ๋ฐ”์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด, ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์˜ ๊ฒฌ์กฐํ•œ ์‹ค์ ๊ณผ ๋ฆฐ(lean) ๋ฐ ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ ์ตœ์ ํ™” ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์˜ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ์šด์˜ ์ „๋ฐ˜์˜ ์‹คํ–‰๋ ฅ ์ง€์† ๊ฐœ์„ ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ง‘์ค‘์€ 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์˜ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•œ ์ถœ๋ฐœ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ž‰์—ฌํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„ ๊ฐœ์„ ๊ณผ ๋Œ€์ฐจ๋Œ€์กฐํ‘œ ๋””๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง•์—์„œ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์ง„์ „์„ ์ด๋ฃจ๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ˆœ์ฐจ์ž…๋ฐฐ์œจ์ด ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ 1๋ฐฐ ๊ฐ์†Œํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์— ๊ณ ๋ฌด๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด์— ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ๋”ํ•˜๋Š” ๋™์‹œ์— UNFI๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋‹ค ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ด๊ณ  ํšจ์œจ์ ์ธ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ์ „๋žต์— ๊ณ„์† ์ „๋…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
As we suggested on our last call, our goal this fiscal year is to accelerate the momentum, and we are on a path of doing just that. We look forward to sharing more with you at next week's Investor Day. With that, operator, please open the line for questions.์ง€๋‚œ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์—์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ”์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด, ๊ธˆ๋ฒˆ ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์˜ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋Š” ๋ชจ๋ฉ˜ํ…€์„ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ทธ ๊ธธ์„ ๊ฑท๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์Œ ์ฃผ ํˆฌ์ž์ž์˜ ๋‚ (Investor Day)์—์„œ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ๊ณต์œ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ๊ตํ™˜์›๋‹˜, ์งˆ์˜์‘๋‹ต ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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# UNFI 2026๋…„ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์  ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ ์š”์•ฝ

## ์ฃผ์š” ์žฌ๋ฌด ์„ฑ๊ณผ
- **๋งค์ถœ**: 78์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๋ณดํ•ฉ ์ˆ˜์ค€. ์ž์—ฐ์‹ํ’ˆ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์€ 11% ์„ฑ์žฅํ–ˆ์œผ๋‚˜, ์•จ๋Ÿฐํƒ€์šด ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜์„ผํ„ฐ ์ „ํ™˜์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ์ผ๋ฐ˜์‹ํ’ˆ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ 12% ๊ฐ์†Œ๋กœ ์ƒ์‡„
- **์กฐ์ • EBITDA**: 1์–ต 6,700๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 25% ์ฆ๊ฐ€, ๋งค์ถœ ๋Œ€๋น„ 2.1%(์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 40bp ๊ฐœ์„ )
- **์กฐ์ • EPS**: 0.56๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์ „๋…„ 0.16๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๋Œ€ํญ ๊ฐœ์„ 
- **์ž‰์—ฌํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„**: 5,400๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์œผ๋กœ ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 1์–ต 500๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐœ์„ 
- **์ˆœ์ฐจ์ž…๋ฐฐ์œจ**: 3.2๋ฐฐ๋กœ ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 1.0๋ฐฐ ๊ฐ์†Œ, ์—ฐ๋ง 2.5๋ฐฐ ์ดํ•˜ ๋ชฉํ‘œ ์œ ์ง€

## ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค ๋ฐ ์ „๋žต
- **์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์ „๋ง ์žฌํ™•์ธ**: ๋งค์ถœ 316์–ต~320์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ, ์กฐ์ • EBITDA 6์–ต 3,000๋งŒ~7์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ(์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์•ฝ 20% ์ฆ๊ฐ€), ์กฐ์ • EPS 1.50~2.30๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ, ์ž‰์—ฌํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„ ์•ฝ 3์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ
- **์šด์˜ ํšจ์œจํ™”**: 34๊ฐœ ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜์„ผํ„ฐ์— ๋ฆฐ ์ผ์ผ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ๋„์ž…, Relex AI ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ ์ ˆ๋ฐ˜์— ๋ฐฐ์น˜(์—ฐ๋ง๊นŒ์ง€ ์™„๋ฃŒ ์˜ˆ์ •)ํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ถฉ์กฑ๋ฅ  ๊ฐœ


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Operator: [Operator Instructions] Your first question today comes from the line of John Heinbockel from Guggenheim.**Operator:** 200000

[์šด์˜์ž ์•ˆ๋‚ด] ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ๊ตฌ๊ฒํ•˜์ž„์˜ ์กด ํ•˜์ธ๋ณด์ผˆ ์• ๋„๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋“ค์–ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
John Heinbockel: Guggenheim Securities, LLC, Research Division Sandy, two related questions on Natural growth, right? So growing 10%, markets growing, right, maybe mid-single digit. So can you talk to drop size right, or new account distribution versus existing growth. Is that sort of a 50-50 split by drop size up mid-single digit as well? And then you also mentioned fill rates. I know the fill rates in Natural are not where they need to be. Some of that structural, but how big of an opportunity is that?**John Heinbockel:** ๋„ค์ด์ฒ˜๋Ÿด ๋ถ€๋ฌธ ์„ฑ์žฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์—ฐ๊ด€๋œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 10% ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , ์‹œ์žฅ์€ ์ค‘๊ฐ„ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์„ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ๋ฐฐ์†ก ๊ทœ๋ชจ(drop size)๋‚˜ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜์ฒ˜ ํ™•๋ณด ๋Œ€๋น„ ๊ธฐ์กด ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜์ฒ˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ? ๋ฐฐ์†ก ๊ทœ๋ชจ๋„ ์ค‘๊ฐ„ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์ •๋„ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ 50๋Œ€ 50 ์ •๋„๋กœ ๋‚˜๋‰˜๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ€์š”? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ถฉ์กฑ๋ฅ (fill rate)์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋„ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•˜์…จ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ๋„ค์ด์ฒ˜๋Ÿด ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์˜ ์ถฉ์กฑ๋ฅ ์ด ๋ชฉํ‘œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์— ๋„๋‹ฌํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ผ๋ถ€๋Š” ๊ตฌ์กฐ์ ์ธ ๋ฌธ์ œ์ธ๋ฐ, ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ๊ฐœ์„  ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ํฐ๊ฐ€์š”?
CEO & Director: Yes. I think, John, I would say the general trend in our drop sizes have been positive, largely because a lot of growth has happened with some of our larger customers who are at the same time, and this is the premise of your question, giving us more to do. I think as that dynamic happens, obviously, that makes us more efficient down through the line. But at the heart of it, it's strong growth, and it drops to EBITDA.**CEO & Director:** ๋„ค, ์กด. ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐฐ์†ก ๊ทœ๋ชจ(drop size) ์ถ”์ด๋Š” ๊ธ์ •์ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฃผ๋กœ ๋Œ€ํ˜• ๊ณ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์ด ๋งŽ์ด ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์กŒ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ธ๋ฐ, ๋™์‹œ์— ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์งˆ๋ฌธ์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์ด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•œ๋ฐ, ์ด๋“ค ๊ณ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์—…๋ฌด๋ฅผ ๋งก๊ธฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์—ญํ•™๊ด€๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ํ˜•์„ฑ๋˜๋ฉด ๋‹น์—ฐํžˆ ์ „์ฒด ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค์—์„œ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์ด ๋†’์•„์ง€๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์€ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด EBITDA๋กœ ์ด์–ด์ง„๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
John Heinbockel: Guggenheim Securities, LLC, Research Division And the fill rate issue?**John Heinbockel:**
This is a very short question asking about "the fill rate issue". Let me translate this naturally into Korean.

"fill rate" in a business context typically refers to ์ถฉ์กฑ๋ฅ  or ์ฃผ๋ฌธ ์ถฉ์กฑ๋ฅ  (order fulfillment rate). The speaker is asking about an issue related to fill rates.

Since this is just a question and not a management response, I should translate it naturally and concisely.


๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ถฉ์กฑ๋ฅ (fill rate) ๋ฌธ์ œ๋Š” ์–ด๋–ป์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ?
CEO & Director: Yes, fill rate has been solid and we're very heartened by it actually. We've taken a number of steps to improve fill rate. It's obviously a key metric to our customers. And between the reintroduction of technology and the new implementation of Relex on a [indiscernible] of lean daily management and then driven by a more localized management structure that was put in place a couple of years ago is giving a sequential improvement in fill rates '25 versus '24 and then this year '26 versus '25. And we continue to see opportunity to improve in that area, and it's an area that's very important to us and to our customers.**CEO & Director:** ๋„ค, ์ถฉ์กฑ๋ฅ (fill rate)์€ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๋งค์šฐ ๊ณ ๋ฌด์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ถฉ์กฑ๋ฅ  ๊ฐœ์„ ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์กฐ์น˜๋ฅผ ์ทจํ•ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์ง€ํ‘œ์ด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์˜ ์žฌ๋„์ž…๊ณผ Relex์˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ตฌ์ถ•, ๋ฆฐ ์ผ์ผ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ(lean daily management), ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ช‡ ๋…„ ์ „ ๋„์ž…ํ•œ ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ˜„์ง€ํ™”๋œ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด '24๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ '25๋…„, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  '25๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์˜ฌํ•ด '26๋…„์— ์ถฉ์กฑ๋ฅ ์ด ์ˆœ์ฐจ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์˜์—ญ์—์„œ ๊ณ„์† ๊ฐœ์„  ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ €ํฌ์™€ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๋ชจ๋‘์—๊ฒŒ ๋งค์šฐ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
John Heinbockel: Guggenheim Securities, LLC, Research Division And then my quick follow-up is if i look at EBITDA margin in the Conventional business, right? So this quarter, it's up over 100 -- or almost 100 basis points, right, north of 2%. How do you look at the potential of that business, right? It may not grow, but how much more profitable can it be?**John Heinbockel:** ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐ„๋‹จํ•œ ํ›„์† ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ธ๋ฐ์š”, ๊ธฐ์กด ์‚ฌ์—…(Conventional business)์˜ EBITDA ๋งˆ์ง„์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— 100๋ฒ ์ด์‹œ์Šคํฌ์ธํŠธ ์ด์ƒ, ๊ฑฐ์˜ 100bp ์ •๋„ ์ƒ์Šนํ•ด์„œ 2%๋ฅผ ๋„˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ์ž ์žฌ๋ ฅ์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ณด์‹œ๋Š”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ฑ์žฅ์€ ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋”๋ผ๋„, ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ์€ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๋” ๊ฐœ์„ ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?
President & CFO: Yes, John. If you think about conventionally in Q1, the EBITDA reflected the benefit of the accretive network optimization, the supplier programs and then a little bit of temporary procurement gains that again, we continue to view as secondary and temporary to our strategy. The Conventional outlook for adjusted EBITDA for the rest of the year largely reflects the network optimization, the growth of the suppliers' funds, the continuous work that we do on shrink. And then the initiatives that we have deployed between Lean Daily Management and Indirect Cost Management, all kind of helping on the operating expenses and the leverage. So Q1 may be a little bit heightened by some temporary procurement gains. But in general, our strategy remains consistent of creating new capabilities to keep our customers competitive, merchandising, professional services brands while working the benefits of the network optimization and the Lean Daily Management and indirect cost actions.**President & CFO:** ๋„ค, John. 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด EBITDA๋Š” ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ ๋†’์€ ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ ์ตœ์ ํ™”, ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ผ๋ถ€ ์ผ์‹œ์ ์ธ ์กฐ๋‹ฌ ์ด์ต์˜ ํ˜œํƒ์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์กฐ๋‹ฌ ์ด์ต์€ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ๋ถ€์ฐจ์ ์ด๊ณ  ์ผ์‹œ์ ์ธ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์—ฐ์ค‘ ๋‚˜๋จธ์ง€ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์˜ Conventional ๋ถ€๋ฌธ ์กฐ์ • EBITDA ์ „๋ง์€ ์ฃผ๋กœ ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ ์ตœ์ ํ™”, ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด ํŽ€๋“œ์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ, ์žฌ๊ณ  ์†์‹ค(shrink)์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  Lean Daily Management์™€ ๊ฐ„์ ‘๋น„ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ์‚ฌ์ด์— ๋ฐฐ์น˜ํ•œ ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ๋“ค์ด ๋ชจ๋‘ ์šด์˜๋น„์šฉ๊ณผ ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€ ๊ฐœ์„ ์— ๋„์›€์„ ์ฃผ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋Š” ์ผ๋ถ€ ์ผ์‹œ์ ์ธ ์กฐ๋‹ฌ ์ด์ต์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋‹ค์†Œ ๋†’๊ฒŒ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ €ํฌ ์ „๋žต์€ ์ผ๊ด€๋˜๊ฒŒ ์œ ์ง€๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์˜ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•˜๊ณ , ์ƒํ’ˆํ™” ๋ฐ ์ „๋ฌธ ์„œ๋น„์Šค ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ๋™์‹œ์—, ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ ์ตœ์ ํ™”์™€ ๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ์ผ๋ฆฌ ๋งค๋‹ˆ์ง€๋จผํŠธ(Lean Daily Management), ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐ„์ ‘๋น„์šฉ ์ ˆ๊ฐ ์กฐ์น˜์˜ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์‹คํ˜„ํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

CEO & Director: John, just one sort of strategic overlay there around EBITDA margin. As we look ahead, our view is that the opportunities and in fact, the mandate to create value for customers in this environment is a very long-term opportunity for us to continue to get better, whether that's execution, whether it's services, whether it's programs, whether it's merchandising. And then if you look at our cost base, we have a huge amount of costs related to what we do, and we see a very long runway of continuous improvement opportunity there. So we would expect EBITDA margins to continue to edge up in the effectiveness and efficiency areas as well.**CEO & Director:** ์กด, EBITDA ๋งˆ์ง„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ „๋žต์  ๊ด€์ ์„ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๋‹ค๋ณผ ๋•Œ ํ˜„์žฌ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์—์„œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐํšŒ๋“ค, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ์ฑ…๋ฌด๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋งค์šฐ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹คํ–‰์ด๋“ , ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋“ , ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์ด๋“ , ์ƒํ’ˆ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์ด๋“  ๋ง์ด์ฃ . ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋น„์šฉ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ํ•˜๋Š” ์ผ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ๋น„์šฉ์ด ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ๋งŽ์€๋ฐ, ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ๊ฐœ์„  ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์•„์ฃผ ๊ธธ๊ฒŒ ํŽผ์ณ์ ธ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ํšจ๊ณผ์„ฑ๊ณผ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ๋„ EBITDA ๋งˆ์ง„์ด ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ์ƒ์Šนํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Your next question comes from the line of Ed Kelly from Wells Fargo.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ Wells Fargo์˜ Ed Kelly๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Unknown Analyst: This is John Park on for Ed. I guess just kind of given the gross margin strength in the quarter, can you kind of talk about the sustainability of that? Maybe parsed out like how big of a benefit the network optimization efforts were in Q1?**Unknown Analyst:**

์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋งค์ถœ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ (gross margin)์ด ๊ฐ•์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์˜€๋Š”๋ฐ์š”, ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด ์ง€์† ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ์ง€ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ? ํŠนํžˆ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ ์ตœ์ ํ™” ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ํฐ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์™”๋Š”์ง€ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

President & CFO: Yes. The gross margin rate -- like for the quarter was at 13.6% versus last year of 13.3%. So we were up about 30 basis points. The key drivers within the gross profit growth, obviously, we had a strong natural growth that brings gross profit and operating leverage based on their efficient business model. We had supplier funds and shrink continuing to help and accrete within the gross profit then we had some level of procurement gains that again, we continue to view as temporary and secondary, both in our financial construction and in the strategic partnership with our suppliers. The EBITDA of $167 million. If you consider the large driver of productivity, the growth in natural is basically a fair presentation of the quarter in our run rate. So you can think about the $167 million as a normalized kind of EBITDA for the quarter, even if we had temporary procurement gains in a $32 billion business in a given quarter, you have a number of puts and takes. So the $167 million is a good kind of recurring run rate that we plan to sustain. And then relative to incremental opportunities for gross profit, the capabilities that we're going to discuss next week at the Investor Day between merchandising, professional digital services, brands all help keeping our customers competitive, strengthening the relationship with our suppliers, but also helping on mix, which is an important component of our gross profit.**President & CFO:** ๋„ค, ๋งค์ถœ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ ์€ ์ „๋…„๋„ 13.3% ๋Œ€๋น„ ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ 13.6%๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ฝ 30bp ์ƒ์Šนํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์ถœ์ด์ด์ต ์„ฑ์žฅ์˜ ์ฃผ์š” ๋™์ธ์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ํšจ์œจ์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ์—… ๋ชจ๋ธ์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ๋งค์ถœ์ด์ด์ต๊ณผ ์šด์˜ ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ ธ๋‹ค์ฃผ๋Š” ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์ž์—ฐ ์„ฑ์žฅ(natural growth)์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด ํŽ€๋“œ์™€ ์žฌ๊ณ  ์†์‹ค ๊ฐ์†Œ๊ฐ€ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋งค์ถœ์ด์ด์ต ์ฆ๋Œ€์— ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์ผ์ • ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ์กฐ๋‹ฌ ์ด์ต๋„ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋งŒ ์กฐ๋‹ฌ ์ด์ต์€ ์žฌ๋ฌด ๊ตฌ์กฐ์™€ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด์™€์˜ ์ „๋žต์  ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ์ผ์‹œ์ ์ด๊ณ  ๋ถ€์ฐจ์ ์ธ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณ„์† ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. EBITDA๋Š” 1์–ต 6,700๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ํฐ ๋™์ธ์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•˜๋ฉด, ์ž์—ฐ ์„ฑ์žฅ์ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์™€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์šด์˜ ์ˆ˜์ค€์„ ๊ณต์ •ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค€๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1์–ต 6,700๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ •์ƒํ™”๋œ EBITDA๋กœ ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 320์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ทœ๋ชจ ์‚ฌ์—…์—์„œ ํŠน์ • ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ์ผ์‹œ์ ์ธ ์กฐ๋‹ฌ ์ด์ต์ด ์žˆ๋”๋ผ๋„ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ณ€์ˆ˜๋“ค์ด ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋งˆ๋ จ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ 1์–ต 6,700๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๊ฐ€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์œ ์ง€ํ•  ๊ณ„ํš์ธ ์ ์ ˆํ•œ ๋ฐ˜๋ณต ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ๋งค์ถœ์ด์ด์ต ๊ธฐํšŒ์™€ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ๋Š”, ๋‹ค์Œ ์ฃผ ํˆฌ์ž์ž์˜ ๋‚ ์— ๋…ผ์˜ํ•  ๋จธ์ฒœ๋‹ค์ด์ง•, ์ „๋ฌธ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ์„œ๋น„์Šค, ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ๋“ฑ์˜ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰๋“ค์ด ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์˜ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ ์œ ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋•๊ณ , ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด์™€์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋™์‹œ์— ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋งค์ถœ์ด์ด์ต์˜ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์š”์†Œ์ธ ์ œํ’ˆ ๋ฏน์Šค ๊ฐœ์„ ์—๋„ ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Unknown Analyst: Got it. And then just kind of switching gears a little bit. Can you talk about the competitive environment at retail for both Conventional and Natural. And are you seeing any changes out there more recently?**Unknown Analyst:** ์•Œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ์ฃผ์ œ๋ฅผ ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋ฐ”๊ฟ”์„œ์š”. ์ผ๋ฐ˜ ์œ ํ†ต๊ณผ ๋‚ด์ถ”๋Ÿด ์ฑ„๋„ ๋ชจ๋‘์—์„œ ์†Œ๋งค ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ตœ๊ทผ ๋“ค์–ด ์–ด๋–ค ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ์ง€์š”?
CEO & Director: At 200,000 feet, one of the fun things about being in our seat in the industry is we get to see a lot of retailers work their magic. And this is no exception at this time. I mean clearly, given the stress that a significant percentage of the consumer base is feeling right now. Discount is very competitive and compelling, but that has stimulated a lot of innovation in Retail, and we see it across our customer base, whether it's in the pure-play Natural and Organic folks or customers who are beginning to rethink what they do, continue to bring different better and special offers in their market, community-based retailers, multicultural focused retailers. And if you took the part of the industry that's innovating and differentiating and winning, they're growing very strongly. And so it really is a market-by-market, customer-by-customer, strategic and operational battle. And there's lots of winners. There are people that are challenged as well. And I think from our end, at least, we're busy trying to figure out how to help them win. And -- but it's very competitive out there, but that's creating a lot of innovation, and we continue to view the broader industry is very healthy.**CEO & Director:** ๊ฑฐ์‹œ์  ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์—…๊ณ„์—์„œ ์ €ํฌ ์œ„์น˜์˜ ์žฅ์  ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ๋งŽ์€ ๋ฆฌํ…Œ์ผ๋Ÿฌ๋“ค์ด ๊ทธ๋“ค๋งŒ์˜ ๊ฐ•์ ์„ ๋ฐœํœ˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ์ง์ ‘ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๊ธˆ ์ด ์‹œ๊ธฐ๋„ ์˜ˆ์™ธ๋Š” ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ํ˜„์žฌ ์ƒ๋‹น์ˆ˜์˜ ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์ด ๋ถ€๋‹ด์„ ๋А๋ผ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ ํ• ์ธ ์—…ํƒœ๋Š” ๋งค์šฐ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ ์žˆ๊ณ  ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฆฌํ…Œ์ผ ์—…๊ณ„ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๋งŽ์€ ํ˜์‹ ์„ ์ด‰๋ฐœ์‹œ์ผฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ ์ „๋ฐ˜์—์„œ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ๋ชฉ๊ฒฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ˆœ์ˆ˜ ๋‚ด์ถ”๋Ÿดยท์˜ค๊ฐ€๋‹‰ ์—…์ฒด๋“ค์ด๋“ , ๊ธฐ์กด ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ์žฌ๊ณ ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“ค์ด๋“ , ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ์ฐจ๋ณ„ํ™”๋˜๊ณ  ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•œ ์ œ์•ˆ์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์„ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ์—…์ฒด๋“ค, ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ๋ฆฌํ…Œ์ผ๋Ÿฌ๋“ค, ๋‹ค๋ฌธํ™” ์ค‘์‹ฌ ๋ฆฌํ…Œ์ผ๋Ÿฌ๋“ค ๋ชจ๋‘์—์„œ ๋ง์ด์ฃ . ํ˜์‹ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ฐจ๋ณ„ํ™”ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์Šน๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์—…๊ณ„ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๋งค์šฐ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ์žฅ๋ณ„, ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ณ„๋กœ ์ „๋žต์ ์ด๊ณ  ์šด์˜์ ์ธ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์ด ์น˜์—ดํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํŽผ์ณ์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งŽ์€ ์Šน์ž๋“ค์ด ์žˆ๊ณ , ๋ฌผ๋ก  ์–ด๋ ค์›€์„ ๊ฒช๋Š” ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ ์ž…์žฅ์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ์„ฑ๊ณตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๋•๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ์ฐพ๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์ด ๋งค์šฐ ์น˜์—ดํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๋งŽ์€ ํ˜์‹ ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ์‚ฐ์—…์ด ๋งค์šฐ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ณ„์† ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Your next question comes from the line of Mark Carden from UBS.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ UBS์˜ Mark Carden๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Mark Carden: UBS Investment Bank, Research Division So you continue to generate quite strong growth in Natural Organic. How would Conventional have shaken out ex the Allentown transition? It sounds like the impact there may have been more than expected just given you completed it ahead of your expectations? And then what are you seeing with respect to the health of the consumer in both your Natural and Organic segments for the business?**Mark Carden:** UBS ์ธ๋ฒ ์ŠคํŠธ๋จผํŠธ ๋ฑ…ํฌ ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒœ์—ฐ ์œ ๊ธฐ๋† ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ธ๋ฅผ ์ง€์†ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ์•จ๋Ÿฐํƒ€์šด ์ „ํ™˜์„ ์ œ์™ธํ•˜๋ฉด ์ผ๋ฐ˜ ์ œํ’ˆ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์€ ์–ด๋–ค ์‹ค์ ์„ ๋ณด์˜€์„๊นŒ์š”? ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ์•ž์„œ ์ „ํ™˜์„ ์™„๋ฃŒํ•˜์‹  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์•„ ๊ทธ ์˜ํ–ฅ์ด ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ปธ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์€๋ฐ์š”? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ฒœ์—ฐ ์ œํ’ˆ๊ณผ ์œ ๊ธฐ๋† ์ œํ’ˆ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ ๋ชจ๋‘์—์„œ ์†Œ๋น„์ž ๊ฑด์ „์„ฑ์€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ณด๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ์ง€์š”?
CEO & Director: Mark. Yes, what I would say is the lion's share of our weakness in Conventional is because of network optimization. Obviously, the Allentown exit is the largest factor there, but there's been other tweaking across the country. Beyond that in Conventional, there's it's been a bumpy quarter for the consumer with the shutdown, creating general sentiment challenges with snap delayed for a while, created some issues in those weeks. And now retailers are coming back as that all comes back online. So very competitive and conventional and it sets up a mandate for us. It's the principal kind of north star of our merchandising reboot is to figure out how to get our customers in a place where they can be competitive in any scenario. And then in the Natural environment, obviously, been very strong growth in that segment across the different retailers, the largest of which all are our customers, and we're getting the opportunity to serve them. We continue to believe over the long term that the natural business as an industry is a mid-single-digit grower, and we hope to be able to compete and support the retailers that are competing in that environment.**CEO & Director:** ๋„ค, ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด Conventional ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์˜ ์‹ค์  ๋ถ€์ง„์€ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„ ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ ์ตœ์ ํ™” ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก  Allentown ์ฒ ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ์š”์ธ์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ์ „๊ตญ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์กฐ์ •๋“ค๋„ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ์™ธ์— Conventional ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ •๋ถ€ ์…ง๋‹ค์šด์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์–ด๋ ค์šด ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ์†Œ๋น„์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ์— ์–ด๋ ค์›€์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ , SNAP ์ง€๊ธ‰์ด ํ•œ๋™์•ˆ ์ง€์—ฐ๋˜๋ฉด์„œ ํ•ด๋‹น ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด์ œ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ •์ƒํ™”๋˜๋ฉด์„œ ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด๋“ค์ด ๋‹ค์‹œ ํšŒ๋ณต๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ Conventional ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์€ ๋งค์šฐ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์ด ์น˜์—ดํ•˜๊ณ , ์ด๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์—๊ฒŒ ๊ณผ์ œ๋ฅผ ์ œ์‹œํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ƒํ’ˆ ์ „๋žต ์žฌ์ •๋น„์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ์–ด๋–ค ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ๋„ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐ€์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ์ฐพ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‚ด์ถ”๋Ÿด ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ฆฌํ…Œ์ผ๋Ÿฌ๋“ค์—์„œ ๋งค์šฐ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ฃผ์š” ๋ฆฌํ…Œ์ผ๋Ÿฌ๋“ค์€ ๋ชจ๋‘ ์ €ํฌ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์–ป๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚ด์ถ”๋Ÿด ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค๋Š” ์—…๊ณ„ ์ „์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ค‘๊ฐ„ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜(mid-single-digit) ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณ„์† ๋ฏฟ๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฆฌํ…Œ์ผ๋Ÿฌ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿํ•˜๊ณ  ์ง€์›ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Mark Carden: UBS Investment Bank, Research Division That's great. And then as a follow-up, just at this stage, have you guys seen much incremental customer attrition following the cyber attack? You guys seem to be weathering it quite well last quarter. Just how was it compared to what you may have expected at the time of your last quarter call?**Mark Carden:**

์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ›„์† ์งˆ๋ฌธ์œผ๋กœ, ํ˜„ ์‹œ์ ์—์„œ ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฒ„ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ ์ดํ›„ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ดํƒˆ์ด ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋กœ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•œ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ์žˆ์œผ์‹ ๊ฐ€์š”? ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ์ž˜ ๋Œ€์‘ํ•˜์‹  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์˜€๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ ๋‹น์‹œ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜์…จ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๋น„๊ตํ•ด์„œ ์–ด๋–ค ์ƒํ™ฉ์ธ์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

CEO & Director: Yes, Mark, I don't think it's any different. My answer would be exactly the same as I answered it last quarter. We had one Southern customer that joined us, and we had one Upper Midwest customer leave us. But the -- I think the core answer is that we and our entire network, our sales, our merchandising, our supply chain teams are busy serving customers as well as they possibly can. And we continue to manage through a couple of situations there. But as far as customer retention, we've been extremely fortunate and we're working very, very hard to earn that. And hope to continue to be the best choice for customers going forward.**CEO & Director:** ๋„ค, Mark, ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๋‹ค๋ฅด์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ ๋‹ต๋ณ€์€ ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์™€ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ๋™์ผํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚จ๋ถ€ ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ ํ•œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์ƒˆ๋กœ ํ•ฉ๋ฅ˜ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์ค‘์„œ๋ถ€ ๋ถ๋ถ€ ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ ํ•œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋– ๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์€ ์ €ํฌ์™€ ์ „์ฒด ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ, ์˜์—…ํŒ€, ๋จธ์ฒœ๋‹ค์ด์ง•ํŒ€, ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋งํŒ€์ด ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ตœ์„ ์„ ๋‹คํ•ด ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ƒํ™ฉ๋“ค์„ ๊ณ„์† ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์œ ์ง€์œจ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ๋Š” ๋งค์šฐ ์šด์ด ์ข‹์•˜๊ณ , ์ด๋ฅผ ์–ป๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ •๋ง ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋„ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ์„ ํƒ์ด ๋˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํฌ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Your next question comes from the line of Kelly Bania from BMO Capital Markets.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ BMO ์บํ”ผํƒˆ ๋งˆ์ผ“์˜ ์ผˆ๋ฆฌ ๋ฐ”๋‹ˆ์•„๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Kelly Bania: BMO Capital Markets Equity Research Matteo, just a follow-up first on the procurement gains, I guess that helped Q1 a little bit. But if I heard you right, that's -- there's nothing there in the plan going forward. So wondering if you could just confirm I heard that right? And then can you help us understand did those procurement gains drive some upside to your plan, your internal plan for the quarter? And was that specific to any categories that you can help us just understand what was happening there?**Kelly Bania:** BMO ์บํ”ผํƒˆ ๋งˆ์ผ“ ์• ๋„๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ์˜ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋จผ์ € ์กฐ๋‹ฌ ์ด์ต(procurement gains)์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ›„์† ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ์–ด๋А ์ •๋„ ๋„์›€์ด ๋œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ด๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ดํ•ดํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด ํ–ฅํ›„ ๊ณ„ํš์—๋Š” ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ๋ฐ˜์˜๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋งž๊ฒŒ ์ดํ•ดํ•œ ๊ฑด์ง€ ํ™•์ธ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์กฐ๋‹ฌ ์ด์ต์ด ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋‚ด๋ถ€ ๊ณ„ํš ๋Œ€๋น„ ์‹ค์  ์ƒํšŒ๋ฅผ ์ด๋ˆ ์š”์ธ์ธ์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ํŠน์ • ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ธ์ง€, ์–ด๋–ค ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด์—ˆ๋Š”์ง€ ์ดํ•ดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
President & CFO: Kelly. So answering the first part of your question, we have not modeled any procurement gains in our 2026 or 2027 outlook. So we continue to describe those as temporary and secondary. They happened in the first quarter, but as I was saying before, in a given quarter, we had puts and takes. And so some of the upside from the procurement games were offset by other dynamics. In relative to kind of how we are thinking about the procurement gains, our strategy is always to work with the suppliers and build a strong relationship with them, making sure that through that kind of strategic partnership, we keep our customers competitive, keep our prices low, stable and predictable. So we don't rely on procurement gains in order to achieve our financial targets. And again, we continue to do them as temporary. Relative to specific categories has been a little bit of a combination of many. You can imagine, partly related to tariffs, partly related to kind of the general inflation that is still in the 2.5% to 3% range. So modestly up versus 2025.**President & CFO:** ์ผˆ๋ฆฌ, ์งˆ๋ฌธ์˜ ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์— ๋‹ต๋ณ€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, 2026๋…„์ด๋‚˜ 2027๋…„ ์ „๋ง์—๋Š” ์กฐ๋‹ฌ ์ด์ต(procurement gains)์„ ์ „ํ˜€ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ์ผ์‹œ์ ์ด๊ณ  ๋ถ€์ฐจ์ ์ธ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๊ธด ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์•ž์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ํŠน์ • ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ํ”Œ๋Ÿฌ์Šค ์š”์ธ๊ณผ ๋งˆ์ด๋„ˆ์Šค ์š”์ธ์ด ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์กด์žฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์กฐ๋‹ฌ ์ด์ต์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ์ƒ์Šน๋ถ„ ์ผ๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์š”์ธ๋“ค๋กœ ์ƒ์‡„๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์กฐ๋‹ฌ ์ด์ต์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ €ํฌ ์ƒ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, ์ €ํฌ ์ „๋žต์€ ํ•ญ์ƒ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด๋“ค๊ณผ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ „๋žต์  ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์˜ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ๋‚ฎ๊ณ  ์•ˆ์ •์ ์ด๋ฉฐ ์˜ˆ์ธก ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด์ฃ . ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์žฌ๋ฌด ๋ชฉํ‘œ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์กฐ๋‹ฌ ์ด์ต์— ์˜์กดํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ง€๋งŒ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ์ด๋ฅผ ์ผ์‹œ์ ์ธ ์กฐ์น˜๋กœ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠน์ • ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์™€ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์š”์ธ๋“ค์ด ๋ณตํ•ฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ž‘์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ๊ด€์„ธ์™€ ๊ด€๋ จ์ด ์žˆ๊ณ , ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ 2.5%์—์„œ 3% ๋ฒ”์œ„์— ์žˆ๋Š” ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ 2025๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์†Œํญ ์ƒ์Šนํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Kelly Bania: BMO Capital Markets Equity Research Okay. That's very helpful. Now I was also wondering if I just ask a couple of questions about top line on the two sides of the Wholesale business. So first, on Conventional, I guess, excluding the optimization, it looks like sales were down in the mid-single-digit range. You called out some of the factors, I guess, going on during the quarter. But I guess, can you continue to hit your targets with that magnitude of kind of core sales pressure in Conventional? And are you seeing or hearing suppliers in those categories becoming more promotional to help maybe drive some volume in those categories?**Kelly Bania:** ๋„ค, ๋„์›€์ด ๋˜์…จ๋‹ค๋‹ˆ ๋‹คํ–‰์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ๋„๋งค ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ์–‘์ธก ๋งค์ถœ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋จผ์ € ์ผ๋ฐ˜์‹ํ’ˆ(Conventional) ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ, ์ตœ์ ํ™”๋ฅผ ์ œ์™ธํ•˜๋ฉด ๋งค์ถœ์ด ์ค‘๊ฐ„ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ๋ฒ”์œ„๋กœ ๊ฐ์†Œํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ค‘ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•œ ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์š”์ธ๋“ค์„ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•˜์…จ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ์ด ์ •๋„ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๋งค์ถœ ์••๋ฐ•์ด ์ผ๋ฐ˜์‹ํ’ˆ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ์ง€์†๋˜๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ๋„ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๊ณ„์† ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ•ด๋‹น ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด๋“ค์ด ๋ฌผ๋Ÿ‰ ์ฆ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ํ”„๋กœ๋ชจ์…˜ ํ™œ๋™์„ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณด๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋“ค์œผ์…จ๋‚˜์š”?
CEO & Director: Yes. Kelly, this is Sandy. What I would say is the general environment in Conventional get out of our optimization, which is the large majority of our decline, by the way. So more of the decline that I think your question framed. But be that as it may. There is pressure in Conventional and it seemed broadly and the major source of that pressure comes from the consumer situation the bumpiness with snap and then the efficacy of a discount positioning in that environment. And so retailers are responding to that in obviously different ways. But if you were to draw broad themes, it's to respond by getting more competitive on key value items to start for sure. Secondly, it's to look at product assortments and seek to innovate in a way that fits the retailers positioning and minimizes comparability. And then the third area is kind of the secret sauce of the Retailer, whether it's food service or customer service or community or local sourcing or whatever it might be. And you can see evidence of that formula working in Conventional across the country, just think of the retailers that might fit that, many of whom are customers of ours in one way or another. So we see a great opportunity to try to continue to help retailers break that code and manage through the kind of consumer stress which as it abates, we'll continue to favor them, particularly those who've executed that formula well in their businesses.**CEO & Director:** ๋„ค, Kelly. ์ €๋Š” Sandy์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์—์„œ Conventional ์ฑ„๋„์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ตœ์ ํ™” ์ „๋žต์—์„œ ๋ฒ—์–ด๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฐธ๊ณ ๋กœ ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋งค์ถœ ๊ฐ์†Œ์˜ ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์งˆ๋ฌธํ•˜์‹  ๊ฒƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ๊ฐ์†Œ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ธด ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, Conventional ์ฑ„๋„์—๋Š” ์••๋ฐ•์ด ์žˆ๊ณ  ์ด๋Š” ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ์••๋ฐ•์˜ ์ฃผ์š” ์›์ธ์€ ์†Œ๋น„์ž ์ƒํ™ฉ, SNAP(์‹ํ’ˆ ์ง€์› ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ)์˜ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ์ •์„ฑ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์—์„œ ํ• ์ธ ํฌ์ง€์…”๋‹์˜ ํšจ๊ณผ์„ฑ์—์„œ ๋น„๋กฏ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด๋“ค์ด ์ด์— ๋Œ€์‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๋‹น์—ฐํžˆ ๊ฐ๊ธฐ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ€์‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ํฐ ํ๋ฆ„์„ ๋ณด์ž๋ฉด, ์šฐ์„  ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ƒํ’ˆ๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋” ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์ ์ธ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐ–์ถ”๋Š” ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ€์‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆ ๊ตฌ์ƒ‰์„ ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•˜๊ณ  ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด์˜ ํฌ์ง€์…”๋‹์— ๋งž์œผ๋ฉด์„œ ๋น„๊ต ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์„ ์ตœ์†Œํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ํ˜์‹ ์„ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ธ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์˜์—ญ์€ ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด๋งŒ์˜ ๋น„๊ฒฐ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ํ‘ธ๋“œ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋“  ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋“  ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ๋“  ๋กœ์ปฌ ์†Œ์‹ฑ์ด๋“  ๋ฌด์—‡์ด ๋˜์—ˆ๋“  ๊ฐ„์— ๋ง์ด์ฃ . ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ณต์‹์ด ์ „๊ตญ์˜ ์ผ๋ฐ˜ ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด๋“ค์—์„œ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ฐœํœ˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ฆ๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๊ณต์‹์— ๋ถ€ํ•ฉํ•˜๋Š” ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด๋“ค์„ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด, ๊ทธ๋“ค ์ค‘ ์ƒ๋‹น์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ค ์‹์œผ๋กœ๋“  ์ €ํฌ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“ค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด๋“ค์ด ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์„ฑ๊ณต ๋ฐฉ์ •์‹์„ ํ’€์–ด๋‚ด๊ณ  ์†Œ๋น„์ž ๋ถ€๋‹ด์„ ํ—ค์ณ๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ง€์›ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ํฐ ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์†Œ๋น„์ž ๋ถ€๋‹ด์ด ์™„ํ™”๋˜๋ฉด ํŠนํžˆ ์ด ๊ณต์‹์„ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค์— ์ž˜ ์‹คํ–‰ํ•œ ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๊ณ„์† ์œ ๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ž‘์šฉํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Kelly Bania: BMO Capital Markets Equity Research Sandy. Can I just also ask about the Natural side and obviously, very strong there. Just wondering if you could comment a little bit more about how widespread that growth is? You talked about getting kind of more business with large customers. But are you seeing kind of more broad-based adoption of natural and organic? Because there has been some signs of a slowdown. It seems like you have a different point of view there. So wondering if you could just elaborate.**Kelly Bania:** BMO ์บํ”ผํƒˆ ๋งˆ์ผ“ ์ฃผ์‹ ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜์˜ ์ƒŒ๋””์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚ด์ถ”๋Ÿด ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋„ ์—ฌ์ญค๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€๋ฐ์š”, ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ๊ทธ์ชฝ์ด ๋งค์šฐ ๊ฐ•์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ธ๊ฐ€ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•œ์ง€ ์ข€ ๋” ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ๋Œ€ํ˜• ๊ณ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๊ฐ€ ๋Š˜์–ด๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์…จ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ๋‚ด์ถ”๋Ÿด๊ณผ ์˜ค๊ฐ€๋‹‰ ์ œํ’ˆ์˜ ์ฑ„ํƒ์ด ๋ณด๋‹ค ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋‘”ํ™” ์กฐ์ง์ด ์ผ๋ถ€ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”. ๊ท€์‚ฌ๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ด€์ ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹  ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์€๋ฐ, ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ข€ ๋” ์ž์„ธํžˆ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ?
CEO & Director: Sure. I think -- very much like the Conventional business. It's a retailer-by-retailer story. Our business, as you know, is slightly different than just a pure mirror of retail. We we also do project work. We do market entry services as an example of project work. And so sometimes we have business in a particular channel or with a given customer that might be temporary as they make a strategic transition in their business. So if you look at our report, you'll see strong growth. You'll see a number of customers performing very well. You see a component of it that is project related, where we're helping customers execute against short-term initiatives. And then you'll see the ongoing secular health of the Natural, Organic and Specialty categories. The way we think about it is that the category based on the same information you all have. Looks like it's a mid-single-digit grower. And we'd like to believe that we'll punch our weight strongly in that industry going forward. But certainly, our performance in the last quarter and over the last 1.5 years or so because of the project work we've been doing has been very strong.**CEO & Director:** ๋„ค, ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด ๊ธฐ์กด ์‚ฌ์—…๊ณผ ๋งค์šฐ ์œ ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด๋ณ„๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์–‘์ƒ์„ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„์‹œ๋‹ค์‹œํ”ผ ์ €ํฌ ์‚ฌ์—…์€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ์†Œ๋งค ์‹œ์žฅ์„ ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ๋Š” ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋‹ค๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ ์—…๋ฌด๋„ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด ์‹œ์žฅ ์ง„์ž… ์„œ๋น„์Šค ๊ฐ™์€ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ ์—…๋ฌด๋ฅผ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์ฃ . ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๋•Œ๋กœ๋Š” ํŠน์ • ์ฑ„๋„์ด๋‚˜ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ์—์„œ ์ผ์‹œ์ ์ธ ๋งค์ถœ์ด ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ์—… ์ „๋žต์„ ์ „ํ™˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ๋ง์ด์ฃ .

์ €ํฌ ์‹ค์  ๋ณด๊ณ ์„œ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ธ๋ฅผ ํ™•์ธํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์ˆ˜์˜ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“ค์ด ๋งค์šฐ ์ข‹์€ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ ์š”. ๊ทธ ์ค‘ ์ผ๋ถ€๋Š” ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ ๊ด€๋ จ ๋งค์ถœ๋กœ, ๊ณ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ์˜ ๋‹จ๊ธฐ ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ ์‹คํ–‰์„ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ฒœ์—ฐ, ์œ ๊ธฐ๋†, ์ŠคํŽ˜์…œํ‹ฐ ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์  ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ธ๋„ ํ™•์ธํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ณด๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์€, ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์ด ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹  ๋™์ผํ•œ ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ๋ณผ ๋•Œ ์ด ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ค‘๊ฐ„ ํ•œ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์„ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋„ ์ด ์—…๊ณ„์—์„œ ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰๋งŒํผ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฏฟ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋งŒ ํ™•์‹คํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€, ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์™€ ์ง€๋‚œ 1๋…„ ๋ฐ˜ ์ •๋„ ๋™์•ˆ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•ด์˜จ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ ์ž‘์—… ๋•๋ถ„์— ๋งค์šฐ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์‹ค์ ์„ ๊ฑฐ๋‘์—ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
President & CFO: Kelly, Sandy, let me maybe after 2 or 3 questions on sales, [helicopter] up and say a couple of words on how we're thinking about the sales outlook. So in Q1, sales were roughly flat compared to the prior year. And the midpoint of our outlook $31.6 billion to $32 billion is also flat. So Q1 has been consistent with the outlook. The outlook reflects the expectation that the underlying natural growth for the year will be similar to the long-term industry average, which is [MSD]. Now when we think about the rest of the year into doing conventional will have the full top line impact as well as the full adjusted EBITDA benefits of the Allentown for Wayne billings and [Bismark] optimizations, versus Q2 '25 when we were just in the early innings of the network optimization. When we think about the third quarter, we will be ramping down some of the critical customer project base, that we started 12 months ago, but then we know it also can ramp up very quickly and that is part of the solution that we offer to our customers and how we create value. And then in the fourth quarter, obviously, you have an easier comp as we will have the non-repeat tailwind of the $400 million of cyber-related losses. So it is a full year framework. We don't guide by quarter, but wanted to offer a little bit of helicopter view on how we're thinking about the next 9 months through that kind of framework of flat to midpoint.**President & CFO:** Kelly, Sandy, ๋งค์ถœ ๊ด€๋ จ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด 2~3๊ฐœ ๋‚˜์˜จ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์œผ๋‹ˆ ์ž ์‹œ ์ „์ฒด์ ์ธ ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ ๋งค์ถœ ์ „๋ง์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋งค์ถœ์€ ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋ณดํ•ฉ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค ์ค‘๊ฐ„๊ฐ’์ธ 316์–ต~320์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋„ ๋ณดํ•ฉ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ์€ ์ „๋ง์น˜์™€ ์ผ์น˜ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ „๋ง์€ ์˜ฌํ•ด ๊ธฐ์ € ์ž์—ฐ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์ด ์—…๊ณ„ ์žฅ๊ธฐ ํ‰๊ท ์ธ ์ค‘๊ฐ„ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์ˆ˜์ค€(MSD)๊ณผ ์œ ์‚ฌํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์˜ˆ์ƒ์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฐ์ค‘ ๋‚˜๋จธ์ง€ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์„ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด๋ณด๋ฉด, Allentown, Fort Wayne, Bismark ์ตœ์ ํ™”์˜ ์ „์ฒด ๋งค์ถœ ํšจ๊ณผ์™€ ์กฐ์ • EBITDA ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์˜จ์ „ํžˆ ๋ˆ„๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ ์ตœ์ ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋ง‰ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋˜ 2025๋…„ 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ์™€ ๋Œ€๋น„๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉด, 12๊ฐœ์›” ์ „์— ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋˜ ์ผ๋ถ€ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋“ค์˜ ๊ทœ๋ชจ๋ฅผ ์ถ•์†Œํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋“ค์€ ๋งค์šฐ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ™•๋Œ€๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ๋„ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ์†”๋ฃจ์…˜์˜ ์ผ๋ถ€์ด์ž ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ๋‹น์—ฐํžˆ ๋น„๊ต ๊ธฐ์ค€์ด ์ˆ˜์›”ํ•ด์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 4์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฒ„ ๊ด€๋ จ ์†์‹ค์ด ์žฌ๋ฐœํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ์ˆœํ’ ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์€ ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์ „์ฒด๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋Š” ๊ด€์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋ณ„๋กœ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ์‹œํ•˜์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์ง€๋งŒ, ํ–ฅํ›„ 9๊ฐœ์›”์„ ํ‰ํƒ„์—์„œ ์ค‘๊ฐ„๊ฐ’ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด๋ผ๋Š” ํ‹€๋กœ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ์กฐ๊ฐ๋„๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Your next question comes from the line of Chuck Cerankosky from Northcoast Research.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ Northcoast Research์˜ Chuck Cerankosky๋‹˜์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Charles Cerankosky: Northcoast Research Partners, LLC As we look at the margin improvement going forward that we anticipate, what's left realistically left in the shrink area and where might that come from? Is it lower inventories leading to less spoilage, less breakage, but can you talk about that in some detail, please?**Charles Cerankosky:** ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋˜๋Š” ๋งˆ์ง„ ๊ฐœ์„ ์„ ์‚ดํŽด๋ณผ ๋•Œ, ์žฌ๊ณ  ์†์‹ค(shrink) ์˜์—ญ์—์„œ ํ˜„์‹ค์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐœ์„  ์—ฌ์ง€๊ฐ€ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ๋‚จ์•„์žˆ๋Š”์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ์–ด๋””์„œ ๋‚˜์˜ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚ฎ์€ ์žฌ๊ณ  ์ˆ˜์ค€์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ๋ถ€ํŒจ ๊ฐ์†Œ๋‚˜ ํŒŒ์† ๊ฐ์†Œ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ธ์ง€, ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ข€ ๋” ์ž์„ธํžˆ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ?
President & CFO: So on margins, the current outlook calls for 35 basis points of margin expansion in 2026. And then if you think about '24 through '27, it's about 60 basis points of margin expansion. And that is really rooted into large productivity programs, the benefit of the network optimization, the supplier programs then there is still a contribution from shrink. Now as you think about '25 to '24, shrink was a very important contributor -- in the end, our goal is to continue to improve and eliminate waste. I mean it's a main principle of Lean that is now at 34 of 49 distribution centers. So there will be a relentless effort on reducing shrink. We closed pretty well at the end of the first quarter. We are pleased with the progress. So we'll probably see less of a large-dollar contribution compared to other productivity programs and some of the capabilities that will help on mix. But our focus on eliminating waste and inventory-related waste will continue for a very long time.**President & CFO:** ๋งˆ์ง„ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ํ˜„์žฌ ์ „๋ง์€ 2026๋…„์— 35bp์˜ ๋งˆ์ง„ ํ™•๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  2024๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 2027๋…„๊นŒ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉด ์•ฝ 60bp์˜ ๋งˆ์ง„ ํ™•๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ, ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ ์ตœ์ ํ™”์˜ ํšจ๊ณผ, ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์— ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์— ์žฌ๊ณ  ์†์‹ค(shrink) ๊ฐ์†Œ๋„ ๊ธฐ์—ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

2025๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 2024๋…„์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์žฌ๊ณ  ์†์‹ค ๊ฐ์†Œ๊ฐ€ ๋งค์šฐ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ธฐ์—ฌ ์š”์ธ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋Š” ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‚ญ๋น„๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ฑฐํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋ฆฐ(Lean) ๋ฐฉ์‹์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์›์น™์ด๋ฉฐ, ํ˜„์žฌ 49๊ฐœ ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜์„ผํ„ฐ ์ค‘ 34๊ฐœ์— ๋„์ž…๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์žฌ๊ณ  ์†์‹ค ๊ฐ์†Œ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์€ ๊ณ„์†๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋ง ์‹ค์ ์ด ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ์ข‹์•˜๊ณ , ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ƒํ™ฉ์— ๋งŒ์กฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์ด๋‚˜ ๋ฏน์Šค ๊ฐœ์„ ์— ๋„์›€์ด ๋˜๋Š” ์ผ๋ถ€ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰๋“ค๊ณผ ๋น„๊ตํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ, ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ๊ธˆ์•ก ๊ธฐ์—ฌ๋„๋Š” ์ƒ๋Œ€์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚ฎ์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋‚ญ๋น„ ์š”์†Œ์™€ ์žฌ๊ณ  ๊ด€๋ จ ๋‚ญ๋น„๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ฑฐํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ง‘์ค‘์€ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋„ ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ์˜ค๋žœ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ์ง€์†๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Operator: Your next question comes from the line of Leah Jordan from Goldman Sachs.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ๊ณจ๋“œ๋งŒ์‚ญ์Šค์˜ Leah Jordan ๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Leah Jordan: Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division Sandy, you talked about new business projects in the prepared remarks, and it sounds like you're doing more with your largest customer. So just, if we could get an update on your new business pipeline? What are the opportunities between new versus existing at this point? And then I think ultimately, more importantly, how do you view the competitive environment for winning new business across wholesale? What are the differences here between Conventional versus Natural in the current landscape?**Leah Jordan:** ์ค€๋น„๋œ ๋ฐœ์–ธ์—์„œ ์‹ ๊ทœ ์‚ฌ์—… ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์…จ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ตœ๋Œ€ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ์™€ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์ผ์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹  ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์‹ ๊ทœ ์‚ฌ์—… ํŒŒ์ดํ”„๋ผ์ธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ๋ฅผ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„ ์‹œ์ ์—์„œ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๊ธฐ์กด ๊ณ ๊ฐ์˜ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋Š” ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋Š”์ง€์š”? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ถ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋” ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€, ๋„๋งค ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ์‹ ๊ทœ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ณด๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ์‹œ์žฅ ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ ์žฌ๋ž˜์‹(Conventional)๊ณผ ์ฒœ์—ฐ(Natural) ๊ฐ„์˜ ์ฐจ์ด์ ์€ ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ๊ฐ€์š”?
CEO & Director: Sure. Let me comment on projects and then just to make sure that I'm being precise in the way I'm defining them and distinguishing them from general pipeline-type either expansion with an existing customer or a new customer. The way we talk about projects is imagine a retailer is moving into a new region, and they're building a DC. They might hire us to be their distribution for a couple of years. That's a project. We know it's a beginning, and we know it's an end, and we're happy to facilitate their strategy and happy to earn that business, assuming it's profitable, that we would call that a project, whereas a customer might hire us to start to handle their culinary or a different category that we haven't carried before. That would be pipeline and obviously, a new banner would be a pipeline expansion. So just getting the definitions right. From our perspective, the pipeline is strong on both Natural and Conventional. What I would say to you that enhanced is we have a very disciplined review process where we assess all of those programs and deals for profitability for sustainability, for operational sensitivity and for value for the customer, and we're very disciplined. We do not pursue business for business sake. That's what our network optimization is unwinding right now. So there's a highly disciplined underwriting process that our Presidents and Matteo very carefully review. But pipelines are strong in both sides. Our basis of competition typically is when it's a product, a service or a program that helps the customer differentiate as opposed to price for price sake. We have to be very competitive, make no mistake, our customers expect that, but we try to bring a whole package and that it allows for us to have a win-win and it fit the customer because of things -- some of the things that we can do, we do better. And we're continuing to work as we'll explain next week at Investor Day. We see a significant opportunity to continue to improve the offer and we'll be talking about that next week.**CEO & Director:** ๋„ค, ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋จผ์ € ์ œ๊ฐ€ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋ฅผ ์ •์˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ธฐ์กด ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ์˜ ํ™•์žฅ์ด๋‚˜ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ํ™•๋ณด ๊ฐ™์€ ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ํŒŒ์ดํ”„๋ผ์ธ๊ณผ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๊ตฌ๋ถ„ํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ๋ช…ํ™•ํžˆ ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•  ๋•Œ๋Š” ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด๊ฐ€ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ง€์—ญ์œผ๋กœ ์ง„์ถœํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜์„ผํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์ง“๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๋ฅผ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋“ค์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์—๊ฒŒ 2๋…„ ์ •๋„ ์œ ํ†ต์„ ๋งก๊ธธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒŒ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ์ž‘๊ณผ ๋์ด ์ •ํ•ด์ ธ ์žˆ์ฃ . ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ธฐ๊บผ์ด ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์ „๋žต์„ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด ๊ทธ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ๋”ฐ๋‚ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ™˜์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ถ€๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด์— ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์—๊ฒŒ ์กฐ๋ฆฌ์‹ํ’ˆ์ด๋‚˜ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ด์ „์— ์ทจ๊ธ‰ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋งก๊ธฐ๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŒŒ์ดํ”„๋ผ์ธ์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๊ณ , ๋‹น์—ฐํžˆ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ฐฐ๋„ˆ๋Š” ํŒŒ์ดํ”„๋ผ์ธ ํ™•์žฅ์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ์„  ์ •์˜๋ฅผ ๋ช…ํ™•ํžˆ ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ๋‚ด์ถ”๋Ÿด๊ณผ ์ปจ๋ฒค์…”๋„ ์–‘์ชฝ ๋ชจ๋‘ ํŒŒ์ดํ”„๋ผ์ธ์ด ํƒ„ํƒ„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ์ ์€, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋งค์šฐ ์ฒด๊ณ„์ ์ธ ๊ฒ€ํ†  ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค๋ฅผ ๊ฐ–์ถ”๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ชจ๋“  ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ๊ณผ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ, ์ง€์†๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ, ์šด์˜ ๋ฏผ๊ฐ๋„, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ํ‰๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋งค์šฐ ์—„๊ฒฉํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์‚ฌ์—…์€ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์ง€๊ธˆ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ ์ตœ์ ํ™”๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ •๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ ์‚ฌ์žฅ๋‹จ๊ณผ ๋งˆํ…Œ์˜ค๊ฐ€ ๋งค์šฐ ์‹ ์ค‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณ ๋„๋กœ ์ฒด๊ณ„ํ™”๋œ ์ธ์ˆ˜์‹ฌ์‚ฌ ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์–‘์ชฝ ๋ชจ๋‘ ํŒŒ์ดํ”„๋ผ์ธ์€ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์€ ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ด ์ฐจ๋ณ„ํ™”ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๋•๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆ, ์„œ๋น„์Šค ๋˜๋Š” ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก  ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ๋„ ๋งค์šฐ ์ค‘์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์„ ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ „์ฒด ํŒจํ‚ค์ง€๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ƒํ˜ธ ์œˆ์œˆํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ณ  ๊ณ ๊ฐ์—๊ฒŒ๋„ ์ ํ•ฉํ•œ ์†”๋ฃจ์…˜์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋” ์ž˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„๋“ค์ด ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‹ค์Œ ์ฃผ ํˆฌ์ž์ž์˜ ๋‚ (Investor Day)์—์„œ ์„ค๋ช…๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ œ์•ˆ์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋‹ค์Œ ์ฃผ์— ์ž์„ธํžˆ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Leah Jordan: Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division That's very helpful. And then one thing that stood out in the deck, you really were highlighting a refocused effort it seemed on private label. There seems to be new leadership there. Just seeing if you can provide more detail on your updated strategy, what are the opportunities in Natural versus Conventional for that category? What are the points of differentiation you're providing? And I don't think we've had an update, where are percent of sales on private label today as well?**Leah Jordan:** ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ž๋ฃŒ์—์„œ ์ •๋ง ๋ˆˆ์— ๋„์—ˆ๋˜ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ์ž์ฒด ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ(private label)์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์žฌ์ง‘์ค‘ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ๋„ ๊ตฌ์ถ•๋œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ ์š”. ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ๋œ ์ „๋žต์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ข€ ๋” ์ž์„ธํžˆ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ๋‚ด์ถ”๋Ÿด ๋ถ€๋ฌธ๊ณผ ์ผ๋ฐ˜ ์‹ํ’ˆ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ๊ฐ๊ฐ ์–ด๋–ค ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€, ์–ด๋–ค ์ฐจ๋ณ„ํ™” ํฌ์ธํŠธ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ˜„์žฌ ์ž์ฒด ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๊ฐ€ ์ „์ฒด ๋งค์ถœ์—์„œ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋น„์ค‘์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋„ ์ตœ๊ทผ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด๋ณธ ์ ์ด ์—†๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์€๋ฐ, ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„๋„ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ?
CEO & Director: Okay. Thanks, Leah. Yes, I mean, broadly speaking, you all see it. Natural brands are strong and strengthening relative to the whole store for consumer value reasons. But increasingly, there's opportunities to build them across good, better and best, so all 3 tiers. We did strengthen our leadership there with a veteran of private brands from another wholesaler who -- she's absolutely outstanding and we're thrilled to have her join the team. We see a significant opportunity to increase penetration here. This is not our penetration of private brands is not at industry levels, and we see it as an opportunity for growth and an opportunity to create more value for customers. And so we're very focused on achieving it, and it's a long-term opportunity. Again, I'll say this a few times today, but we'll talk more about it next week. So -- but that's the long and short of it. It's a great opportunity across good, better and best, and we're working on all 3. The other thing that I would say for a little more color is the portfolio of private brands is segmented. It's not the same portfolio going into a traditional grocery store as it is to a natural store. So there's opportunities on both sides.**CEO & Director:** ๋„ค, ๋ฆฌ์•„ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹  ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด ์•„์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ž์—ฐ์ฃผ์˜ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋“ค์ด ์†Œ๋น„์ž ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ์ „์ฒด ๋งค์žฅ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๊ฐ•์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ  ๊ทธ ์ถ”์„ธ๊ฐ€ ๋”์šฑ ๊ฐ•ํ™”๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒŒ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์ ์  ๋” good, better, best ๋“ฑ 3๊ฐœ ๋“ฑ๊ธ‰ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐํšŒ๋“ค์ด ์ƒ๊ธฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋„๋งค์—…์ฒด์—์„œ ์ž์ฒด ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ(private brands) ๊ฒฝํ—˜์ด ํ’๋ถ€ํ•œ ๋ฒ ํ…Œ๋ž‘์„ ์˜์ž…ํ•˜์—ฌ ์ด ๋ถ„์•ผ์˜ ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ์„ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์ •๋ง ๋›ฐ์–ด๋‚œ ์ธ์žฌ์ด๊ณ  ์ €ํฌ ํŒ€์— ํ•ฉ๋ฅ˜ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ๋งค์šฐ ๊ธฐ์ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ ์นจํˆฌ์œจ(penetration)์„ ๋†’์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์ž์ฒด ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ์นจํˆฌ์œจ์€ ์—…๊ณ„ ์ˆ˜์ค€์— ๋ฏธ์น˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ ์„ฑ์žฅ์˜ ๊ธฐํšŒ์ด์ž ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐํšŒ๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ด๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋งค์šฐ ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , ์ด๋Š” ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ๊ธฐํšŒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ฐจ๋ก€ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋‹ค์Œ ์ฃผ์— ๋” ์ž์„ธํžˆ ๋…ผ์˜ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ„๋‹จํžˆ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, ๋ณด๊ธ‰ํ˜•, ์ค‘๊ธ‰ํ˜•, ํ”„๋ฆฌ๋ฏธ์—„๊ธ‰ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์„ธ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ชจ๋‘์—์„œ ์ž‘์—…์„ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ข€ ๋” ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ์ž์ฒด ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ(private brand) ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค๋Š” ์„ธ๋ถ„ํ™”๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ผ๋ฐ˜ ์‹๋ฃŒํ’ˆ์ ์— ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€๋Š” ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค์™€ ๋‚ด์ถ”๋Ÿด ์Šคํ† ์–ด์— ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€๋Š” ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค๊ฐ€ ๋™์ผํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์–‘์ชฝ ๋ชจ๋‘์— ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Your next question comes from the line of Scott Mushkin from R5 Capital.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ R5 ์บํ”ผํƒˆ์˜ ์Šค์ฝง ๋จธ์‰ฌํ‚จ์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋“ค์–ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
R5 Capital LLC: So I wanted to -- we've been spending a lot of time on sales. And I think the reason is as you guys, especially on the Organic, Natural Organic side surprised the heck out of a lot of people. So it seems like the incremental growth is organic growth with your -- what the industry is doing, and I think we all have seen it slow across even your customers. More store openings, winning more business, and I think you've talked about incremental projects. So taking the other side of the sales slowdown idea -- if the industry [Technical Difficulty] accelerates again. Could we expect your business to accelerate?**R5 Capital LLC:** ๋งค์ถœ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋งŽ์€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ํ• ์• ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”, ๊ทธ ์ด์œ ๋Š” ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์ด, ํŠนํžˆ ์œ ๊ธฐ๋† ๋ฐ ์ฒœ์—ฐ ์œ ๊ธฐ๋† ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ ๊นœ์ง ๋†€๋ผ๊ฒŒ ํ–ˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฆ๋ถ„ ์„ฑ์žฅ์ด ์—…๊ณ„ ๋™ํ–ฅ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์œ ๊ธฐ์  ์„ฑ์žฅ์ธ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ด๋ฉฐ, ๊ณ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“ค์„ ํฌํ•จํ•ด ์—…๊ณ„ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ๋‘”ํ™”๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ชจ๋‘ ๋ชฉ๊ฒฉํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๋งค์žฅ ์˜คํ”ˆ, ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ์—… ์ˆ˜์ฃผ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ฆ๋ถ„ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋„ ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค๋ฉด ๋งค์ถœ ๋‘”ํ™” ๋…ผ์˜์˜ ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ํŽธ์„ ์‚ดํŽด๋ณด๋ฉด -- ๋งŒ์•ฝ ์—…๊ณ„๊ฐ€ [๊ธฐ์ˆ ์  ๋ฌธ์ œ] ๋‹ค์‹œ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”๋œ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ๊ท€์‚ฌ์˜ ์‚ฌ์—…๋„ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?
CEO & Director: So Scott, I'm going to paraphrase the question because we lost you for a couple of seconds there. You were commenting that you'd seen the industry slow down and you're wondering if our sales would accelerate if it accelerated. Do you want to rephrase that one more time?**CEO & Director:** ์Šค์ฝง, ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์ •๋ฆฌํ•ด๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž ์‹œ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ์ด ๋Š๊ฒจ์„œ์š”. ์—…๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ๋‘”ํ™”๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณด์…จ๊ณ , ๋งŒ์•ฝ ์—…๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”๋˜๋ฉด ์ €ํฌ ๋งค์ถœ๋„ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”๋  ๊ฒƒ์ธ์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•˜์‹œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•˜์…จ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ๋” ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ?
R5 Capital LLC: Yes. I mean, I guess what I'd say is we've seen some of your customers slow down their organic growth or comp your business moved, I think, higher surprised us. Surprised The Street. So what I was wondering is taking the other side of it, can we actually see your sales accelerate in natural organic if the growth rate returns to some of these customers on a comp basis?**R5 Capital LLC:** ๋„ค, ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹  ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ผ๋ถ€ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“ค์˜ ์œ ๊ธฐ์  ์„ฑ์žฅ์ด ๋‘”ํ™”๋˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๊ธฐ์กด ์‚ฌ์—… ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜(comp basis)์—์„œ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์ด ์กฐ์ •๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ์ €ํฌ ์‚ฌ์—…์€ ์˜คํžˆ๋ ค ๋” ๋†’์€ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์˜€๊ณ , ์ด๋Š” ์ €ํฌ๋„ ๋†€๋ž๊ณ  ์‹œ์žฅ๋„ ๋†€๋ž€ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ ์ƒํ™ฉ์ธ๋ฐ์š”, ๋งŒ์•ฝ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“ค์ด ๊ธฐ์กด ์‚ฌ์—… ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์—์„œ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ธ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„์„ ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์ €ํฌ ๋งค์ถœ๋„ ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์œ ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋” ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?
CEO & Director: Yes. So let's try to look at the pieces. We don't give guidance by division. But what we said earlier is that our external analysis points to kind of mid-single-digit growth in the Natural, Organic and Specialty categories. Then how I might look at that, if I was trying to think about UNFI's growth is how would UNFI's customers tend to perform against that average, and how effective is UNFI are doing more to serve those customers or gaining more customers. But from a print of plus 10%, which has a significant amount of project work that will annualize in the next couple months, you can develop your own forecast. What we would say about our business is we continue to expect to compete and perform strongly in those categories.**CEO & Director:** ๋„ค, ๊ฐ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ๋ณ„๋กœ ์‚ดํŽด๋ณด๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ฌธ๋ณ„ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์•ž์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ, ์™ธ๋ถ€ ๋ถ„์„ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ์ฒœ์—ฐ, ์œ ๊ธฐ๋† ๋ฐ ํŠน์ˆ˜ ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ์ค‘๊ฐ„ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ (mid-single-digit growth)์ด ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. UNFI์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์ „๋งํ•˜์‹ค ๋•Œ๋Š”, UNFI ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ํ‰๊ท  ๋Œ€๋น„ ์–ด๋–ค ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ผ ๊ฒƒ์ธ์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  UNFI๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐ์กด ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ธ์ง€๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•˜์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ 10% ์ด์ƒ์˜ ์‹ค์ ์—๋Š” ํ–ฅํ›„ ๋ช‡ ๊ฐœ์›” ๋‚ด์— ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ํ™”๋  ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ ์ž‘์—…์ด ํฌํ•จ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ, ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ์ž์ฒด ์ „๋ง์„ ์ˆ˜๋ฆฝํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ ์‚ฌ์—…์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ํ•ด๋‹น ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์šฐ์ˆ˜ํ•œ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‚ผ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
R5 Capital LLC: All right. Perfect. And then the other question is turning now towards the Conventional side. I think, Sandy, you mentioned that it's gotten tougher. We see that. Our research is seeing that. But that also is spurring more promos for manufacturers. So just walk us out like 6 to 12 months and say the industry continues, the Conventional side continues to deteriorate from a competitive standpoint, how does that impact your business? I mean, obviously, it would slow the sales a little bit. But overall, how does that impact your business, if we kind of take the line down and continue to take it down in the competitive environment deteriorates further?**R5 Capital LLC:** ๋„ค, ์•Œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด์ œ ์ปจ๋ฒค์…”๋„(Conventional) ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์œผ๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€์„œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒŒ๋”” ๋Œ€ํ‘œ๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ์‹œ์žฅ ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด ๋” ์–ด๋ ค์›Œ์กŒ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์…จ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ €ํฌ๋„ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ  ์ €ํฌ ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜์—์„œ๋„ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜์˜ค๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์ œ์กฐ์‚ฌ๋“ค์˜ ํ”„๋กœ๋ชจ์…˜๋„ ๋” ๋Š˜์–ด๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ 6๊ฐœ์›”์—์„œ 12๊ฐœ์›” ์ •๋„๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๋‹ค๋ดค์„ ๋•Œ, ๋งŒ์•ฝ ์—…๊ณ„ ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด ๊ณ„์†๋˜๊ณ  ์ปจ๋ฒค์…”๋„ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์ด ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ๊ณ„์† ์•…ํ™”๋œ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ๊ท€์‚ฌ ์‚ฌ์—…์—๋Š” ์–ด๋–ค ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น ๊นŒ์š”? ๋ฌผ๋ก  ๋งค์ถœ์ด ๋‹ค์†Œ ๋‘”ํ™”๋˜๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์ด ๊ณ„์† ์•…ํ™”๋˜๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ ๊ท€์‚ฌ ์‚ฌ์—…์— ์–ด๋–ค ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š”์ง€ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๊นŒ?
CEO & Director: So Scott, first, let's talk about the pieces of the industry because I think this is really important. It is a well-documented, well talked about fact that the biggest 4 have been taken share for decades in the so-called Conventional part of the industry. What doesn't get talked about, though, is there aren't only two piles of customers in that segment. There's many piles. And if you take a third pile and say, I'm going to put the innovative retailers who've been aggressive in keeping their center store costs down that have innovative relative to assortment and avoiding unnecessary comparability with the [big 4] and then have their own secret sauce, whether it's food service, prepared food, great customer service, local associates, whatever it might be. And you put that group in a pile, they're outperforming everybody. And our strategic work is, first and foremost, to try to be the partner of choice for that pile. That's why we took our addressable market from $150 billion down to $90 billion as we just said, we're probably not going to be good at folks that are just trying to find the drayage partner to try to duke it out on price alone. We got to be sharp on price, but we've got to be good in helping customers implement it more, let's call it, differentiated strategy. So I would encourage everybody to look at the industry in a more segmented way. The next comment I'd make relative to promotions, and this is the commentary about merchandising. We're going to talk about this a little bit next week. But we actually think that, as I mentioned when I went through that set of things that we're seeing the [indiscernible], that wholesale supported retailers need more help and need to work together with their wholesaler to negotiate better costs relative to EDLP. It's not just promotional dollars. That game is not working very effectively for a lot of people. That's not say it doesn't work for anybody. But -- so our merchandising effort now is going to work backwards from the shelf and say, what conditions have to be there so that our customers have a credible center of the store? And what programming is there for that suppliers who might want to invest in because they do with the [big four] how can we get them to invest through to help and continue to build a robust supermarket channel. So lots of work going on there, but macro trends are macro trends, but within them, there are winners, and it's a sizable chunk, and that's a lot of what's on our work desk right now, some of which we'll be able to give updates on work and progress updates next week in New York.**CEO & Director:** ์Šค์ฝง, ๋จผ์ € ์—…๊ณ„ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์–˜๊ธฐํ•ด๋ณด๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ์ •๋ง ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”. ์ž˜ ์•Œ๋ ค์ง„ ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ด๊ณ  ๋งŽ์ด ๋…ผ์˜๋˜๋Š” ๋‚ด์šฉ์ธ๋ฐ, ์†Œ์œ„ ์žฌ๋ž˜์‹(Conventional) ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ๋น…4๊ฐ€ ์ˆ˜์‹ญ ๋…„๊ฐ„ ์‹œ์žฅ์ ์œ ์œจ์„ ๊ฐ€์ ธ๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ ๊ฐ„๊ณผ๋˜๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์„ธ๊ทธ๋จผํŠธ์— ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ๋‘ ๊ฐœ์˜ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ตฐ๋งŒ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ตฐ์ด ์กด์žฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ธ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ๊ทธ๋ฃน์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ๋งค์žฅ ์ค‘์‹ฌ๋ถ€ ๋น„์šฉ์„ ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ ˆ๊ฐํ•ด์˜จ ํ˜์‹ ์ ์ธ ๋ฆฌํ…Œ์ผ๋Ÿฌ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋“ค์€ ์ œํ’ˆ ๊ตฌ์ƒ‰์—์„œ ํ˜์‹ ์ ์ด๊ณ  ๋น…4์™€ ๋ถˆํ•„์š”ํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์„ ํ”ผํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ, ์ž์‹ ๋“ค๋งŒ์˜ ์ฐจ๋ณ„ํ™” ์š”์†Œ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ–์ถ”๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์™ธ์‹ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋“ , ์กฐ๋ฆฌ์‹ํ’ˆ์ด๋“ , ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋“ , ์ง€์—ญ ์ง์› ํ™œ์šฉ์ด๋“  ๋ง์ด์ฃ . ๊ทธ ๊ทธ๋ฃน์„ ํ•œ๋ฐ ๋ชจ์•„๋ณด๋ฉด, ๋ชจ๋‘๋ฅผ ๋Šฅ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋Š” ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ „๋žต์  ๊ณผ์ œ๋Š” ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค๋„ ๋จผ์ € ๊ทธ ๊ทธ๋ฃน์˜ ์„ ํ˜ธ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ชฉํ‘œ ์‹œ์žฅ ๊ทœ๋ชจ๋ฅผ 1,500์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์—์„œ 900์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์ถ•์†Œํ•œ ๊ฒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ ธ๋“ฏ์ด, ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋งŒ ํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ๋“œ๋ ˆ์ด์ง€(drayage) ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ ํ•ฉํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ์€ ๊ฐ–์ถฐ์•ผ ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ์ข€ ๋” ์ฐจ๋ณ„ํ™”๋œ ์ „๋žต์„ ์‹คํ–‰ํ•˜๋„๋ก ๋•๋Š” ๋ฐ ๊ฐ•์ ์ด ์žˆ์–ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๊ป˜ ์—…๊ณ„๋ฅผ ์ข€ ๋” ์„ธ๋ถ„ํ™”๋œ ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ ๋ณด์‹œ๊ธธ ๊ถŒ์žฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ”„๋กœ๋ชจ์…˜๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ ๋‹ค์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆด ์ ์€, ๋จธ์ฒœ๋‹ค์ด์ง•์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ๋‚ด์šฉ์ธ๋ฐ์š”. ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ๋‹ค์Œ ์ฃผ์— ์ข€ ๋” ์ž์„ธํžˆ ๋‹ค๋ฃฐ ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์•ž์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ƒํ™ฉ๋“ค์„ ์‚ดํŽด๋ณด๋ฉด, ๋„๋งค์—…์ฒด์˜ ์ง€์›์„ ๋ฐ›๋Š” ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด๋“ค์€ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๋„์›€์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๊ณ , EDLP ๋Œ€๋น„ ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ๋น„์šฉ ์กฐ๊ฑด์„ ํ˜‘์ƒํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋„๋งค์—…์ฒด์™€ ๊ธด๋ฐ€ํžˆ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ํ”„๋กœ๋ชจ์…˜ ์˜ˆ์‚ฐ๋งŒ์˜ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๋ฐฉ์‹์€ ๋งŽ์€ ์—…์ฒด๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ž‘๋™ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก  ์ผ๋ถ€์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ์š”. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋จธ์ฒœ๋‹ค์ด์ง• ์ „๋žต์€ ์ด์ œ ๋งค์žฅ ์ง„์—ด๋Œ€์—์„œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๊ฑฐ๊พธ๋กœ ์ ‘๊ทผํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ๋งค์žฅ ์ค‘์‹ฌ๋ถ€์—์„œ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐ–์ถ”๋ ค๋ฉด ์–ด๋–ค ์กฐ๊ฑด๋“ค์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•œ์ง€ ์‚ดํŽด๋ณด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด์ฃ . ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋Œ€ํ˜• 4๊ฐœ์‚ฌ์— ํˆฌ์žํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด๋“ค์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด์„œ๋„ ํˆฌ์žํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก, ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์Šˆํผ๋งˆ์ผ“ ์ฑ„๋„์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋„์›€์„ ์ค„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ์–ด๋–ค ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งŽ์€ ์ž‘์—…๋“ค์ด ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค๋งŒ, ๊ฑฐ์‹œ์  ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์‹œ์  ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ์ผ ๋ฟ์ด๊ณ , ๊ทธ ์•ˆ์—๋Š” ์Šน์ž๋“ค์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ํ˜„์žฌ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์—…๋ฌด ๋ฐ์Šคํฌ์— ์žˆ๋Š” ๋งŽ์€ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ค‘ ์ผ๋ถ€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ๋‹ค์Œ ์ฃผ ๋‰ด์š•์—์„œ ์ž‘์—… ํ˜„ํ™ฉ๊ณผ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ƒํ™ฉ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ๋ฅผ ๋“œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
R5 Capital LLC: Perfect. And just to clarify, it was a great answer. But -- so I guess your expectations that the industry continues to deteriorate, you guys should be okay. Is that a good summation of what you just said to me?**R5 Capital LLC:**

๋„ค, ๋งž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—…๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ๊ณ„์† ์•…ํ™”๋˜๋”๋ผ๋„ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ์ž˜ ์š”์•ฝํ•ด์ฃผ์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

CEO & Director: Well, I don't want to accept the premise. I believe that in tough times, people that partner with an industry have to step up. That's as far as I'll go in my crystal ball.**CEO & Director:** ์–ด๋ ค์šด ์‹œ๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ์—…๊ณ„์™€ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ์„ ๋งบ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์ด ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜์„œ์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์˜ˆ์ธกํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: And your final question today comes from the line of Peter Saleh from BTIG.**Operator:** ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ BTIG์˜ Peter Saleh๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Peter Saleh: BTIG, LLC, Research Division Great. I just had one question on capital allocation. I know you're at 3.2 turns now on leverage, and that's down pretty substantially from last year. And well on your way to 2.5 turns by the end of this year. So how should we be thinking about modeling out your capital allocation strategy capital returns going forward? When you get to 2.5x will you continue to focus on de-leveraging? Or should we consider more capital returns to shareholders? How do we think about that going forward?**Peter Saleh:** ์ข‹์€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž๋ณธ ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€(leverage)๊ฐ€ 3.2๋ฐฐ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ธ๋ฐ, ์ž‘๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ๊ฐ์†Œํ•œ ์ˆ˜์น˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ฌํ•ด ๋ง๊นŒ์ง€ 2.5๋ฐฐ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑ๋„ ์ˆœ์กฐ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘์ด์‹  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค๋ฉด ํ–ฅํ›„ ์ž๋ณธ ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„ ์ „๋žต๊ณผ ์ž๋ณธ ํ™˜์›์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ชจ๋ธ๋งํ•ด์•ผ ํ• ๊นŒ์š”? 2.5๋ฐฐ์— ๋„๋‹ฌํ•˜๋ฉด ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ๋ถ€์ฑ„ ๊ฐ์ถ•(de-leveraging)์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜์‹ค ๊ฑด๊ฐ€์š”, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ์ฃผ์ฃผ ํ™˜์›์„ ๋” ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•˜์‹ค ๊ฑด๊ฐ€์š”? ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋ฉด ๋ ๊นŒ์š”?
President & CFO: Peter. So 2026, our goal is to de-leverage to 2.5x or lower, and in the last earnings call, we also affirmed that in 2027, we want to de-leverage to 2 turns or less. So our capital allocation and our application of the free cash flow that we generate remains solely focused on de-leveraging and reducing debt. If you think about the outperformance in the quarter, we improved by about $100 million year-over-year combination of better EBITDA and better working capital management. For the rest of the year, we continue to see the EBITDA at the midpoint, obviously, accreting more than $100 million for the full year. And then that implied math to be at 2.5x would be basically free cash flow performance closer to $225 million, $250 million, and we have an outlook at $300 million. So there is clearly multiple ways to achieve the 2.5 turns and less. And the same carries over into 2027 where, again, we plan to print another $65 million of EBITDA as the current outlooks and generate another $300 million of free cash flow. The only comment that I wanted to make is that in the first quarter is CapEx was low by design. In the end, we focused on regular maintenance and some of the technology investments, but we have a very tight monthly steering committee with the business president that review both the new projects but also the cadence of spending. So within the $250 million outlook, we still have all the projects and all the schedule lined up to consume that envelope in the usual 3 partition of maintenance and modernization, safety, technology and then automation and growth investments.**President & CFO:** ํ”ผํ„ฐ, 2026๋…„ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋Š” ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€๋ฅผ 2.5๋ฐฐ ์ดํ•˜๋กœ ๋‚ฎ์ถ”๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๊ณ , ์ง€๋‚œ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ์—์„œ๋„ 2027๋…„์—๋Š” ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€๋ฅผ 2๋ฐฐ ์ดํ•˜๋กœ ๋‚ฎ์ถ”๊ฒ ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ™•์ธํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ž๋ณธ ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„๊ณผ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•˜๋Š” ์ž‰์—ฌํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„(free cash flow)์˜ ํ™œ์šฉ์€ ์ „์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€ ์ถ•์†Œ์™€ ๋ถ€์ฑ„ ๊ฐ์ถ•์— ์ง‘์ค‘๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ๊ฐœ์„ ๋œ EBITDA์™€ ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ์šด์ „์ž๋ณธ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์•ฝ 1์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ฌํ•ด ๋‚จ์€ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ EBITDA๋Š” ์ค‘๊ฐ„๊ฐ’ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ 1์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ด์ƒ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณ„์† ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  2.5๋ฐฐ๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ณ„์‚ฐ์„ ํ•ด๋ณด๋ฉด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ž‰์—ฌํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„์ด 2์–ต 2,500๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์—์„œ 2์–ต 5,000๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด์–ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” 3์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์ „๋งํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2.5๋ฐฐ ์ดํ•˜๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์€ ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” 2027๋…„์—๋„ ๋™์ผํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ ์šฉ๋˜๋Š”๋ฐ, ํ˜„์žฌ ์ „๋ง ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ EBITDA 6,500๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋กœ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•˜๊ณ  3์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ์ž‰์—ฌํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„(free cash flow)์„ ๋˜ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋‚ผ ๊ณ„ํš์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๊ฒƒ์€ 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์„ค๋น„ํˆฌ์ž(CapEx)๊ฐ€ ๋‚ฎ์•˜๋˜ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์˜๋„์ ์ธ ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ •๊ธฐ ์œ ์ง€๋ณด์ˆ˜์™€ ์ผ๋ถ€ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ํˆฌ์ž์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์‚ฌ์—…๋ถ€ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋งค์šฐ ์—„๊ฒฉํ•œ ์›”๊ฐ„ ์šด์˜์œ„์›ํšŒ๋ฅผ ์šด์˜ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์‹ ๊ทœ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ์™€ ์ง€์ถœ ์†๋„๋ฅผ ๋ชจ๋‘ ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 199950

2์–ต 5์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ „๋ง ๋‚ด์—์„œ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋ชจ๋“  ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ์™€ ์ผ์ •์„ ๊ฐ–์ถ”๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ํ†ต์ƒ์ ์ธ 3๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์œผ๋กœ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์œ ์ง€๋ณด์ˆ˜ ๋ฐ ํ˜„๋Œ€ํ™”, ์•ˆ์ „ ๋ฐ ๊ธฐ์ˆ , ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ž๋™ํ™” ๋ฐ ์„ฑ์žฅ ํˆฌ์ž์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: And that concludes our question-and-answer session. I will now turn the call back over to Sandy Douglas for closing remarks.**Operator:** ์ด๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์งˆ์˜์‘๋‹ต ์„ธ์…˜์„ ๋งˆ์น˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ๋ง์”€์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ƒŒ๋”” ๋”๊ธ€๋ผ์Šค์—๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
CEO & Director: Thank you, operator. We remain focused on executing our strategy to add value for our customers and suppliers while becoming a more effective and efficient company. As we continue to strengthen our operational execution, we're steadily improving our service levels, profitability, free cash flow and capital structure. We have a long runway of opportunity to continue improving in these areas while building capabilities to help our customers and suppliers differentiate, compete and grow profitably in a dynamic marketplace. We look forward to providing more details on our journey to create long-term shared value for all our stakeholders at our Investor Day next week. To our customers and suppliers, we thank you for your continued partnership, collaboration and support. We look forward to serving you during this busy holiday season. To the UNFI associates listening today are thanks for all that you continue to do for our customers, our suppliers, our communities and each other. And to our shareholders, we thank for the trust you continue to place in us. Thanks again for joining us this morning. We look forward to updating everyone on our progress, and I hope you'll join us at our Investor Day next week.**CEO & Director:** ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด์— ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ๋”ํ•˜๋Š” ๋™์‹œ์— ๋”์šฑ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ด๊ณ  ํšจ์œจ์ ์ธ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ „๋žต ์‹คํ–‰์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šด์˜ ์‹คํ–‰๋ ฅ์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์„œ๋น„์Šค ์ˆ˜์ค€, ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ, ์ž‰์—ฌํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„(free cash flow), ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ž๋ณธ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฅผ ๊พธ์ค€ํžˆ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์—ญ๋™์ ์ธ ์‹œ์žฅ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์—์„œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด๊ฐ€ ์ฐจ๋ณ„ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฒฝ์Ÿํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ์ง€์›ํ•˜๋Š” ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ, ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์˜์—ญ๋“ค์—์„œ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ๋‚จ์•„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์Œ ์ฃผ ํˆฌ์ž์ž์˜ ๋‚ (Investor Day)์—์„œ ๋ชจ๋“  ์ดํ•ด๊ด€๊ณ„์ž๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ๊ณต์œ  ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ฐฝ์ถœ ์—ฌ์ •์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋” ์ž์„ธํ•œ ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ณ ๊ฐ ๋ฐ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๊ป˜ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ๊ณผ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ง€์›์— ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ฐ”์œ ์—ฐ๋ง ์‹œ์ฆŒ์— ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๊ป˜ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ด ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹  UNFI ์ž„์ง์› ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๊ป˜๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ, ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด, ์ง€์—ญ์‚ฌํšŒ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์„œ๋กœ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ณ„์†ํ•ด์„œ ํ—Œ์‹ ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์— ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ฃผ์ฃผ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๊ป˜๋Š” ์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ณด๋‚ด์ฃผ์‹œ๋Š” ๋ณ€ํ•จ์—†๋Š” ์‹ ๋ขฐ์— ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์•„์นจ ์ฐธ์„ํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ๊ณ„์† ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธํ•ด ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋‹ค์Œ ์ฃผ ํˆฌ์ž์ž์˜ ๋‚ (Investor Day)์—๋„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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# UNFI ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ฃผ์š” ์š”์•ฝ

## ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์žฌ๋ฌด ์„ฑ๊ณผ
- **1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋งค์ถœ**: ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๋ณดํ•ฉ ์ˆ˜์ค€, Natural & Organic ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์€ 10% ์„ฑ์žฅํ•œ ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด Conventional ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์€ ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ ์ตœ์ ํ™”(์•จ๋Ÿฐํƒ€์šด ์‹œ์„ค ํ์‡„ ๋“ฑ)๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๊ฐ์†Œ
- **EBITDA**: 1์–ต 6,700๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๊ฐœ์„ , ์กฐ์ • EBITDA ๋งˆ์ง„ 13.6%(์ „๋…„ 13.3% ๋Œ€๋น„ 30bp ์ƒ์Šน)
- **๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€**: 3.2๋ฐฐ๋กœ ๊ฐœ์„ , 2026๋…„ ๋ง 2.5๋ฐฐ ์ดํ•˜, 2027๋…„ 2๋ฐฐ ์ดํ•˜ ๋ชฉํ‘œ ์žฌํ™•์ธ
- **์ž‰์—ฌํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„**: 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 1์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐœ์„ , ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ 3์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค ์œ ์ง€

## ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค ๋ฐ ์ „๋ง
- **2026๋…„ ๋งค์ถœ**: 316์–ต~320์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ(์ค‘๊ฐ„๊ฐ’ ๋ณดํ•ฉ), Natural ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์€ ์—…๊ณ„ ํ‰๊ท ์ธ ์ค‘๊ฐ„ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ ์˜ˆ์ƒ
- **EBITDA ๋งˆ์ง„**: 2026๋…„ 35bp ํ™•๋Œ€, 2024~2027๋…„ ๋ˆ„์  60bp ํ™•๋Œ€ ๋ชฉํ‘œ
- ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ ์ตœ์ ํ™”, ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ, Lean Daily Management ๋“ฑ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ ๊ฐœ์„ ์ด ๋งˆ์ง„ ํ™•๋Œ€ ์ฃผ๋„
- 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ผํšŒ์„ฑ ์กฐ๋‹ฌ ์ด์ต์€ ํ–ฅํ›„ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค์— ๋ฏธ๋ฐ˜์˜(์ž„์‹œ์ ยท๋ถ€์ฐจ์  ์š”์ธ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ„์ฃผ)

## ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„ ํ†ค ๋ฐ ์ „๋žต
- **๊ธ์ •์  ํ†ค**: Natural