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(NYSE:UNFI) Q4 2025 Earnings Call September 30, 2025 8:30 AM EDT

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
Scott Mushkin - R5 Capital LLC
Alexander Slagle - Jefferies LLC, Research Division
William Kirk - ROTH Capital Partners, LLC, Research Division
Leah Jordan - Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division
Edward Kelly - Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division
Charles Cerankosky - Northcoast Research Partners, LLC
William Reuter - BofA Securities, Research Division

Presentation

Operator

Hello, and thank you for standing by.
(NYSE:UNFI) 2025๋…„ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ 2025๋…„ 9์›” 30์ผ ์˜ค์ „ 8์‹œ 30๋ถ„ EDT

์ฐธ์„์ž

Steve Bloomquist - ํˆฌ์ž์ž ๊ด€๊ณ„ ๋‹ด๋‹น ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ
James Alexander Douglas - CEO ๊ฒธ ์ด์‚ฌ
Giorgio Tarditi - ์‚ฌ์žฅ ๊ฒธ CFO

์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ ์ฐธ๊ฐ€์ž

John Heinbockel - Guggenheim Securities, LLC, ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
Mark Carden - UBS Investment Bank, ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
Kelly Bania - BMO Capital Markets ์ฃผ์‹ ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜
Scott Mushkin - R5 Capital LLC
Alexander Slagle - Jefferies LLC, ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
William Kirk - ROTH Capital Partners, LLC, ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
Leah Jordan - Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
Edward Kelly - Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ
Charles Cerankosky - Northcoast Research Partners, LLC
William Reuter - BofA Securities, ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ

๋ฐœํ‘œ

์˜คํผ๋ ˆ์ดํ„ฐ

์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”, ๋Œ€๊ธฐํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
My name is Regina, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the UNFI's Fourth Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions]. I would now like to turn the conference over to Steve Bloomquist, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Steve Bloomquist
Vice President Investor Relations

Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us for UNFI's Fourth Quarter Fiscal 2025 Earnings Conference Call. By now, you should have received a copy of the earnings release from this morning.
์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”, ์ €๋Š” ๋ ˆ์ง€๋‚˜์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ง„ํ–‰์„ ๋งก๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์‹œ๊ฐ„์— UNFI์˜ 2025๋…„ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์  ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹  ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถ„๋“ค์„ ํ™˜์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. [์šด์˜์ž ์•ˆ๋‚ด์‚ฌํ•ญ]. ์ด์ œ ์Šคํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ ๋ธ”๋ฃธํ€ด์ŠคํŠธ ํˆฌ์ž์ž ๊ด€๊ณ„ ๋‹ด๋‹น ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ์—๊ฒŒ ์ง„ํ–‰์„ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.

**์Šคํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ ๋ธ”๋ฃธํ€ด์ŠคํŠธ**
ํˆฌ์ž์ž ๊ด€๊ณ„ ๋‹ด๋‹น ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ

์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”, ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„. UNFI์˜ 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์  ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๊ธˆ์ฏค ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์•„์นจ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ž๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์•„๋ณด์…จ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
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 key financial information. 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 will 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.๋ณด๋„์ž๋ฃŒ์™€ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„์ด ์„ค๋ช…ํ•  ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ž๋ฃŒ๋Š” ํšŒ์‚ฌ ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ www.unfi.com์˜ ํˆฌ์ž์ž ์„น์…˜์—์„œ ํ™•์ธํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์ฃผ์š” ์žฌ๋ฌด ์ •๋ณด๊ฐ€ ๋‹ด๊ธด Microsoft Excel ํ˜•ํƒœ์˜ ๋ณด์ถฉ ๊ณต์‹œ ํŒŒ์ผ๋„ ํฌํ•จ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์—๋Š” ์ƒŒ๋”” ๋”๊ธ€๋Ÿฌ์Šค(Sandy Douglas) ์ตœ๊ณ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ž์™€ ๋งˆํ…Œ์˜ค ํƒ€๋ฅด๋””ํ‹ฐ(Matteo Tarditi) ์‚ฌ์žฅ ๊ฒธ ์ตœ๊ณ ์žฌ๋ฌด์ฑ…์ž„์ž๊ฐ€ ์ฐธ์„ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒŒ๋””์™€ ๋งˆํ…Œ์˜ค๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ์—… ํ˜„ํ™ฉ์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•œ ํ›„ ์งˆ์˜์‘๋‹ต ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๊ฐ–๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ธฐ์— ์•ž์„œ, ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์—์„œ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„์ด ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐœ์–ธ์—๋Š” ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์˜ˆ์ธก์ง„์ˆ ์ด ํฌํ•จ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Œ์„ ์•Œ๋ ค๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
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. 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.์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์ „๋ง์ง„์ˆ ์—๋Š” ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ์œ„ํ—˜๊ณผ ๋ถˆํ™•์‹ค์„ฑ์„ ์ˆ˜๋ฐ˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ณ„ํš, ๊ธฐ๋Œ€, ์ถ”์ • ๋ฐ ์ „๋ง์ด ํฌํ•จ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์œ„ํ—˜๋“ค์€ ํšŒ์‚ฌ์˜ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ์ž๋ฃŒ ๋ฐ SEC ์ œ์ถœ์„œ๋ฅ˜์—์„œ ๋…ผ์˜๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ค์ œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์ „๋ง์ง„์ˆ ์—์„œ ๋…ผ์˜๋œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์™€ ํ˜„์ €ํžˆ ๋‹ค๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์—์„œ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„์ด ํŠน์ • ๋น„GAAP ์žฌ๋ฌด์ง€ํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž„์„ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋น„๊ต ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ GAAP ์žฌ๋ฌด์ง€ํ‘œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ •์˜ ๋ฐ ์กฐ์ •๋‚ด์—ญ์€ ๋ณด๋„์ž๋ฃŒ์™€ ์‹ค์ ๋ฐœํ‘œ ์ž๋ฃŒ ๋ง๋ฏธ์— ํฌํ•จ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ Sandy์—๊ฒŒ ํ†ตํ™”๋ฅผ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๋ฉด์„œ ๋ฐœํ‘œ์ž๋ฃŒ์˜ ์Šฌ๋ผ์ด๋“œ 6ํŽ˜์ด์ง€๋ฅผ ์ฐธ์กฐํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
James Alexander Douglas
CEO & Director

Thanks, Steve, and thank you, everyone, for joining us this morning. UNFI delivered solid fourth quarter results that drove fiscal 2025 performance in line with our previously provided outlook ranges for net sales and adjusted EBITDA and above our outlook for free cash flow. Notably, our strong free cash flow generation enabled us to reduce net debt to around $1.8 billion, the lowest level since the end of fiscal 2018 and reduced net leverage by 0.7 turns compared to last year.
์ œ์ž„์Šค ์•Œ๋ ‰์‚ฐ๋” ๋”๊ธ€๋ผ์Šค
CEO ๊ฒธ ์ด์‚ฌ

์Šคํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ, ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์•„์นจ ์ฐธ์„ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹  ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถ„๋“ค๊ป˜ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. UNFI๋Š” ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•œ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ๊ณผ ์กฐ์ • EBITDA์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ธฐ์กด์— ์ œ์‹œํ•œ ์ „๋ง ๋ฒ”์œ„์— ๋ถ€ํ•ฉํ•˜๊ณ , ์ž‰์—ฌํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„์—์„œ๋Š” ์ „๋ง์„ ์ƒํšŒํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ์ฃผ๋ชฉํ•  ์ ์€, ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์ž‰์—ฌํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„ ์ฐฝ์ถœ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ˆœ๋ถ€์ฑ„๋ฅผ ์•ฝ 18์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ค„์ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” 2018 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ๋ง ์ดํ›„ ์ตœ์ € ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ˆœ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€๋Š” ์ž‘๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 0.7๋ฐฐ ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Our fiscal 2025 results reflect the strength and resiliency of our customer base, combined with disciplined execution against the multiyear strategic plan we detailed a year ago. We're building momentum as we enter year 2 of our strategic plan. We're increasingly confident in our trajectory and in our ability to create sustainable long-term value for our customers, suppliers, associates and shareholders. With that backdrop, I want to take a few minutes to walk through the progress that we've made in the first year of our refresh strategy as well as the opportunities ahead to further accelerate our performance.2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ์‹ค์ ์€ 1๋…„ ์ „ ์ƒ์„ธํžˆ ์ œ์‹œํ•œ ๋‹ค๋…„๊ฐ„ ์ „๋žต ๊ณ„ํš์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ฒด๊ณ„์ ์ธ ์‹คํ–‰๊ณผ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉ๋œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์˜ ๊ฐ•์ ๊ณผ ํšŒ๋ณต๋ ฅ์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „๋žต ๊ณ„ํš์˜ 2๋…„์ฐจ์— ์ ‘์–ด๋“ค๋ฉด์„œ ๋ชจ๋ฉ˜ํ…€์„ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ถค๋„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ ์  ๋” ํ™•์‹ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ณ ๊ฐ, ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด, ์ง์› ๋ฐ ์ฃผ์ฃผ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ง€์† ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์žฅ๊ธฐ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋„ ๋งˆ์ฐฌ๊ฐ€์ง€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ ํ•˜์—, ๋ฆฌํ”„๋ ˆ์‹œ ์ „๋žต์˜ ์ฒซ ํ•ด์— ์ด๋ฃฌ ์ง„์ „๊ณผ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋”์šฑ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”ํ•  ํ–ฅํ›„ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ช‡ ๋ถ„๊ฐ„ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ž ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
At UNFI, we aspire to become the food industry's most valued partner by bringing innovative products, programs and services designed to help retailers and suppliers profitably grow their businesses and ours. We believe that UNFI's scale, heritage in enduring high-growth categories like natural, organic and specialty products, our merchandising programs, private brands and our value-added services make us uniquely suited to help retailers differentiate and compete in a dynamic marketplace. And as a result, we are building significant capabilities to help our suppliers build their brands and accelerate their growth within our diverse retailer network.UNFI์—์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด์™€ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด๊ฐ€ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ์„ฑ์žฅ์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ์„ค๊ณ„๋œ ํ˜์‹ ์ ์ธ ์ œํ’ˆ, ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ ๋ฐ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ์‹ํ’ˆ ์—…๊ณ„์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๊ณ ์ž ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” UNFI์˜ ๊ทœ๋ชจ, ์ฒœ์—ฐ, ์œ ๊ธฐ๋† ๋ฐ ํŠน์ˆ˜ ์ œํ’ˆ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ๊ณ ์„ฑ์žฅ ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ์˜ ์ „ํ†ต, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋จธ์ฒœ๋‹ค์ด์ง• ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ, ์ž์ฒด ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ถ€๊ฐ€๊ฐ€์น˜ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๊ฐ€ ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด๋“ค์ด ์—ญ๋™์ ์ธ ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ์ฐจ๋ณ„ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฒฝ์Ÿํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๋•๋Š” ๋ฐ ์žˆ์–ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋…ํŠนํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ ํ•ฉํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด๋“ค์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ ๋‚ด์—์„œ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๋•๋Š” ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Based on these core strengths, we believe that we are well positioned to drive profitable growth within a growing $90 billion target addressable market that includes many natural, organic, specialty, multicultural and conventional grocery retailers, all of whom can benefit from our differentiated products, programs, insights and services today and in the future. As expected, the refresh strategy and multiyear plan we announced last October have been steadily driving growth within this market, anchored by 2 primary focus areas, creating more value for customers and suppliers and becoming a more effective and efficient business.์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ, ๋‹น์‚ฌ๋Š” 900์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ๋ชฉํ‘œ ์‹œ์žฅ ๋‚ด์—์„œ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ ์žˆ๋Š” ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์œ ๋ฆฌํ•œ ์œ„์น˜์— ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์‹œ์žฅ์—๋Š” ์ž์—ฐ์‹ํ’ˆ, ์œ ๊ธฐ๋†, ์ „๋ฌธ์‹ํ’ˆ, ๋‹ค๋ฌธํ™” ๋ฐ ์ผ๋ฐ˜ ์‹๋ฃŒํ’ˆ ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด๋“ค์ด ํฌํ•จ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋“ค ๋ชจ๋‘๋Š” ํ˜„์žฌ์™€ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์— ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ์ฐจ๋ณ„ํ™”๋œ ์ œํ’ˆ, ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ, ์ธ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ ๋ฐ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ํ˜œํƒ์„ ๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•œ ๋ฐ”์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด, ์ง€๋‚œ 10์›”์— ๋ฐœํ‘œํ•œ ๋ฆฌํ”„๋ ˆ์‹œ ์ „๋žต๊ณผ ๋‹ค๋…„๊ฐ„ ๊ณ„ํš์ด ์ด ์‹œ์žฅ ๋‚ด์—์„œ ๊พธ์ค€ํžˆ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ฐฝ์ถœ๊ณผ ๋ณด๋‹ค ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ด๊ณ  ํšจ์œจ์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ์—… ์šด์˜์ด๋ผ๋Š” 2๊ฐœ์˜ ์ฃผ์š” ์ค‘์  ์˜์—ญ์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Over the past year, we've made meaningful progress in both areas, starting with our focus on adding value for customers and suppliers. Fiscal 2025, we grew our business with both existing and new customers by providing customized product, supply chain and programmatic solutions for customers to meet their short- and long-term needs. At the same time, we're taking action to improve our category merchandising and account management capabilities by realigning our sales and merchandising teams to better meet the unique needs of the customers and suppliers they serve across the natural, organic, specialty, fresh and conventional product sets.์ง€๋‚œ 1๋…„๊ฐ„ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ฐฝ์ถœ์— ์ค‘์ ์„ ๋‘๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์‹œ์ž‘์œผ๋กœ ๋‘ ์˜์—ญ ๋ชจ๋‘์—์„œ ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ง„์ „์„ ์ด๋ค˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์—๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ์˜ ๋‹จ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ ์žฅ๊ธฐ ๋‹ˆ์ฆˆ๋ฅผ ์ถฉ์กฑํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋งž์ถคํ˜• ์ œํ’ˆ, ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง ๋ฐ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋งคํ‹ฑ ์†”๋ฃจ์…˜์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ๊ธฐ์กด ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๋ชจ๋‘์™€์˜ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ์„ฑ์žฅ์‹œ์ผฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋™์‹œ์— ์˜์—… ๋ฐ ๋จธ์ฒœ๋‹ค์ด์ง• ํŒ€์„ ์žฌํŽธํ•˜์—ฌ ์ž์—ฐ์‹ํ’ˆ, ์œ ๊ธฐ๋†, ํŠน์ˆ˜์‹ํ’ˆ, ์‹ ์„ ์‹ํ’ˆ ๋ฐ ์ผ๋ฐ˜์‹ํ’ˆ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด์˜ ๊ณ ์œ ํ•œ ๋‹ˆ์ฆˆ๋ฅผ ๋” ์ž˜ ์ถฉ์กฑํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ ๋จธ์ฒœ๋‹ค์ด์ง• ๋ฐ ๊ณ„์ • ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰ ๊ฐœ์„ ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์กฐ์น˜๋ฅผ ์ทจํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We also continue to expand our digital and professional services, which create deeper and stronger customer relationships and range from credit card processing, shelf management and store remodeling to digital solutions like the UNFI Media Network and electronic shelf labels. Some of our long-standing customers increased their business with us to add these services last year, helping them save money, operate more efficiently and compete more effectively. For suppliers, we continue to roll out our revamped commercial go-to-market program, which streamlines fees and adds access to proprietary insights that help them build and profitably grow their brands within our retail network.๋˜ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์‹ ์šฉ์นด๋“œ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ, ์ง„์—ด ๊ด€๋ฆฌ, ๋งค์žฅ ๋ฆฌ๋ชจ๋ธ๋ง๋ถ€ํ„ฐ UNFI ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ์™€ ์ „์ž ์ง„์—ด ๋ผ๋ฒจ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ์†”๋ฃจ์…˜์— ์ด๋ฅด๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋”์šฑ ๊นŠ๊ณ  ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๋Š” ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ๋ฐ ์ „๋ฌธ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ™•์žฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ผ๋ถ€ ์˜ค๋žœ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์€ ์ž‘๋…„์— ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์™€์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ๋Š˜๋ ธ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋น„์šฉ์„ ์ ˆ์•ฝํ•˜๊ณ  ๋”์šฑ ํšจ์œจ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์šด์˜ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋”์šฑ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ˆ˜์ˆ˜๋ฃŒ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ„์†Œํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์†Œ๋งค ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ ๋‚ด์—์„œ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ์„ฑ์žฅ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋˜๋Š” ๋…์ ์  ์ธ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ ‘๊ทผ์„ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฐœํŽธ๋œ ์ƒ์—…์  ์‹œ์žฅ ์ง„์ถœ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ถœ์‹œํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We also created a dedicated cross-functional team that has been building new and improving existing processes to enhance the supplier experience. Together, these efforts underscore our commitment to create meaningful value for both our customers and suppliers while strengthening our own market position for the future. Next, I'll focus on our progress towards becoming a more effective and efficient company, which has been driven by 4 components: network optimization, cost efficiency, working capital management and reducing capital intensity. Over the past few quarters, we've outlined our efforts to optimize our distribution network to better serve customers and suppliers over the long term.๋˜ํ•œ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ค๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ธฐ์กด ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•˜๋Š” ์ „๋‹ด ๊ต์ฐจ๊ธฐ๋ŠฅํŒ€์„ ๊ตฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ๋“ค์€ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด ๋ชจ๋‘์—๊ฒŒ ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•˜๋Š” ๋™์‹œ์— ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์‹œ์žฅ ์ง€์œ„๋ฅผ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๊ฒ ๋‹ค๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์˜์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‹ค์Œ์œผ๋กœ, ๋ณด๋‹ค ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ด๊ณ  ํšจ์œจ์ ์ธ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ง„์ „ ์ƒํ™ฉ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ ์ตœ์ ํ™”, ๋น„์šฉ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ, ์šด์ „์ž๋ณธ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ž๋ณธ์ง‘์•ฝ๋„ ๊ฐ์†Œ๋ผ๋Š” 4๊ฐ€์ง€ ์š”์†Œ์— ์˜ํ•ด ์ถ”์ง„๋˜์–ด ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ช‡ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด์—๊ฒŒ ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์œ ํ†ต ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ๋ฅผ ์ตœ์ ํ™”ํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ๋…ธ๋ ฅ๋“ค์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
During fiscal 2025, we consolidated volumes from 4 distribution centers into larger, more modern facilities with broader assortments to benefit customers in these regions. These actions will also further improve our network profitability in fiscal 2026. In parallel, we've optimized capacity and enhanced capabilities across our network. This includes strategic investments in automation and approximately 400,000 incremental square feet in Manchester, Pennsylvania and Sarasota, Florida, which should enable growth in both regions, improve product restocking speed and order accuracy over time while reducing our operating costs.2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ๋™์•ˆ, ๋‹น์‚ฌ๋Š” 4๊ฐœ ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜์„ผํ„ฐ์˜ ๋ฌผ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๋” ํฌ๊ณ  ํ˜„๋Œ€์ ์ธ ์‹œ์„ค๋กœ ํ†ตํ•ฉํ•˜์—ฌ ํ•ด๋‹น ์ง€์—ญ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋” ํญ๋„“์€ ์ œํ’ˆ ๊ตฌ์ƒ‰์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์กฐ์น˜๋“ค์€ 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์— ๋‹น์‚ฌ ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ์„ ๋”์šฑ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋™์‹œ์—, ๋‹น์‚ฌ๋Š” ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์šฉ๋Ÿ‰์„ ์ตœ์ ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ์ž๋™ํ™”์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ „๋žต์  ํˆฌ์ž์™€ ํŽœ์‹ค๋ฒ ์ด๋‹ˆ์•„์ฃผ ๋งจ์ฒด์Šคํ„ฐ ๋ฐ ํ”Œ๋กœ๋ฆฌ๋‹ค์ฃผ ์‚ฌ๋ผ์†Œํƒ€์— ์•ฝ 40๋งŒ ํ‰๋ฐฉํ”ผํŠธ์˜ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ๊ณต๊ฐ„ ํ™•๋ณด๊ฐ€ ํฌํ•จ๋˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋‘ ์ง€์—ญ ๋ชจ๋‘์—์„œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์ œํ’ˆ ์žฌ์ž…๊ณ  ์†๋„์™€ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ ์ •ํ™•๋„๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•˜๋Š” ๋™์‹œ์— ์šด์˜๋น„์šฉ์„ ์ ˆ๊ฐํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
To further improve our service levels, we've deployed lean daily management in 28 of our 52 distribution centers through the end of fiscal 2025, which is strengthening our performance across safety, quality, delivery and cost metrics. We continue to embed lean management routines across our organization and create greater accountability through real-time tracking of key performance metrics. From adding new capabilities to embedding lean processes across our operations, we're building a more responsive and resilient supply chain that is well positioned to support customer needs across a range of macro and competitive backdrops.์„œ๋น„์Šค ์ˆ˜์ค€์„ ๋”์šฑ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ค๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด, 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ๋ง๊นŒ์ง€ 52๊ฐœ ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜์„ผํ„ฐ ์ค‘ 28๊ฐœ ์„ผํ„ฐ์— ๋ฆฐ ์ผ์ผ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ(lean daily management)๋ฅผ ๋„์ž…ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์•ˆ์ „, ํ’ˆ์งˆ, ๋ฐฐ์†ก, ๋น„์šฉ ์ง€ํ‘œ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์กฐ์ง ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ๋ฆฐ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ๋ฃจํ‹ด์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚ด์žฌํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์„ฑ๊ณผ ์ง€ํ‘œ์˜ ์‹ค์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์ถ”์ ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋” ํฐ ์ฑ…์ž„๊ฐ์„ ์กฐ์„ฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰ ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์šด์˜ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์นœ ๋ฆฐ ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค ๋‚ด์žฌํ™”์— ์ด๋ฅด๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๊ฑฐ์‹œ๊ฒฝ์ œ ๋ฐ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์—์„œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๋‹ˆ์ฆˆ๋ฅผ ์ง€์›ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ์ž˜ ์ค€๋น„๋œ, ๋ณด๋‹ค ์‹ ์†ํ•˜๊ณ  ํƒ„๋ ฅ์ ์ธ ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง์„ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Our nimble solutions-oriented approach helped us drive above-industry growth in fiscal 2025 and we expect to continue building on this strength in the year ahead. In fiscal 2025, we improved free cash flow by reducing capital intensity and strengthening our working capital management processes. Rigorous prioritization helped drive our approximately $130 million reduction in capital investment spend during the fiscal year. We also reduced inventory days on hand to pre-COVID levels, while working to improve fill rates for our customers. Finally, we've continued to optimize spending through disciplined SG&A cost management across the enterprise.์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋ฏผ์ฒฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์†”๋ฃจ์…˜ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์ ์ธ ์ ‘๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์‹์€ 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์— ์—…๊ณ„ ํ‰๊ท ์„ ์ƒํšŒํ•˜๋Š” ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋„ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฐ•์ ์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์—๋Š” ์ž๋ณธ ์ง‘์•ฝ๋„๋ฅผ ๋‚ฎ์ถ”๊ณ  ์šด์ „์ž๋ณธ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค๋ฅผ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜์—ฌ ์ž‰์—ฌํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„์„ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—„๊ฒฉํ•œ ์šฐ์„ ์ˆœ์œ„ ์„ค์ •์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ์ค‘ ์ž๋ณธํˆฌ์ž ์ง€์ถœ์„ ์•ฝ 1์–ต 3์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐ์ถ•ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์˜ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ ์ถฉ์กฑ๋ฅ  ๊ฐœ์„ ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•˜๋Š” ๋™์‹œ์— ์žฌ๊ณ  ๋ณด์œ ์ผ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ์ฝ”๋กœ๋‚˜19 ์ด์ „ ์ˆ˜์ค€์œผ๋กœ ์ค„์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ, ์ „์‚ฌ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ทœ์œจ ์žˆ๋Š” ํŒ๋งค๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋น„ ๋น„์šฉ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ง€์ถœ ์ตœ์ ํ™”๋ฅผ ์ง€์†ํ•ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
This included streamlining our processes and corporate support structure to enable key business functions to serve our customers and suppliers more quickly, effectively and cost efficiently, which resulted in an approximate 30 basis point reduction in full year operating expenses as a percentage of sales. In fiscal 2026, we expect to continue to make progress in each of these areas while also focusing on capability building and incremental initiatives to accelerate long-term profitable growth. For example, we see a meaningful opportunity to improve the experience for independent customers and emerging innovative suppliers who are critical to the vitality of our industry.์ด๋Š” ์ฃผ์š” ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์ด ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด์— ๋ณด๋‹ค ์‹ ์†ํ•˜๊ณ  ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ด๋ฉฐ ๋น„์šฉ ํšจ์œจ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค์™€ ๊ธฐ์—… ์ง€์› ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ„์†Œํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ํฌํ•จํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ๋งค์ถœ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์šด์˜๋น„์šฉ์ด ์•ฝ 30๋ฒ ์ด์‹œ์Šคํฌ์ธํŠธ ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์—๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฐ ์˜์—ญ์—์„œ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์ง„์ „์„ ์ด๋ฃจ๋Š” ๋™์‹œ์— ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰ ๊ตฌ์ถ•๊ณผ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ ์žˆ๋Š” ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ ์ง„์  ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ์—๋„ ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์—…๊ณ„์˜ ํ™œ๋ ฅ์— ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๋…๋ฆฝ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค๊ณผ ์‹ ํฅ ํ˜์‹  ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด๋“ค์˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We will also make our portfolio of value-added services more accessible to these operators. In terms of driving greater effectiveness and efficiency, we're focused on building a strategic road map for technology investments and streamlining more of our internal processes to drive even greater adaptability as well as margin and free cash flow benefits. Turning to our fiscal 2026 outlook, which Matteo will provide more detail on shortly, we are confident in our continued execution of our strategy, and ability to deliver another year of profitable growth while further strengthening our balance sheet. Looking ahead and turning to Page 6 in the presentation.๋˜ํ•œ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์šด์˜์—…์ฒด๋“ค์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋ถ€๊ฐ€๊ฐ€์น˜ ์„œ๋น„์Šค ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค์— ๋” ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ์ ‘๊ทผํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋” ํฐ ํšจ๊ณผ์„ฑ๊ณผ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์„ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•˜๋Š” ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ํˆฌ์ž๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ „๋žต์  ๋กœ๋“œ๋งต ๊ตฌ์ถ•๊ณผ ๋‚ด๋ถ€ ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค์˜ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฐ„์†Œํ™”์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜์—ฌ ๋” ํฐ ์ ์‘์„ฑ์€ ๋ฌผ๋ก  ๋งˆ์ง„๊ณผ ์ž‰์—ฌํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„ ํ˜œํƒ์„ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Matteo๊ฐ€ ๊ณง ๋” ์ž์„ธํžˆ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•  2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ์ „๋ง์œผ๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๋ฉด, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ „๋žต์˜ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์‹คํ–‰๊ณผ ๋Œ€์ฐจ๋Œ€์กฐํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๋”์šฑ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํ•ด์˜ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ ์žˆ๋Š” ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ํ™•์‹ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ž์„ ๋‚ด๋‹ค๋ณด๋ฉฐ ํ”„๋ ˆ์  ํ…Œ์ด์…˜์˜ 6ํŽ˜์ด์ง€๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We are accelerating and raising the multiyear objectives we previously set and announced 1 year ago for the fiscal 2025 to fiscal 2027 period. We now expect net sales to grow in the low single digits on average from fiscal 2024 to 2027, which compares to our previous expectation for fiscal 2027 net sales to be roughly flat to fiscal 2024. This reflects better than projected organic growth driven by growing customers as well as new customers, new categories with existing customers, customer retention and growth within natural, organic, specialty and fresh products, which is supported by enduring consumer tailwinds towards health, wellness and differentiated products.์ €ํฌ๋Š” 1๋…„ ์ „์— ๋ฐœํ‘œํ•œ 2025ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 2027ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„๊นŒ์ง€์˜ ๋‹ค๋…„๊ฐ„ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ƒํ–ฅ ์กฐ์ •ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ 2024ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 2027ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„๊นŒ์ง€ ๋งค์ถœ์ด ์—ฐํ‰๊ท  ๋‚ฎ์€ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” 2027ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ๋งค์ถœ์ด 2024ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๋Œ€๋žต ๋ณดํ•ฉ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ผ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์กด ์ „๋ง๊ณผ ๋น„๊ต๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ƒํ–ฅ ์กฐ์ •์€ ๊ธฐ์กด ๊ณ ๊ฐ์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ๊ณผ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ํ™•๋ณด, ๊ธฐ์กด ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ์˜ ์‹ ๊ทœ ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ ์ง„์ถœ, ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์œ ์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ฒœ์—ฐ, ์œ ๊ธฐ๋†, ํŠน์ˆ˜ ๋ฐ ์‹ ์„  ์ œํ’ˆ ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์— ํž˜์ž…์€ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋‚˜์€ ์œ ๊ธฐ์  ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ•, ์›ฐ๋น™ ๋ฐ ์ฐจ๋ณ„ํ™”๋œ ์ œํ’ˆ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์†Œ๋น„์ž ์ˆœํ’์— ์˜ํ•ด ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
In addition, we now expect average annual adjusted EBITDA growth from fiscal 2024 to fiscal 2027 to be well above our prior expectations and projected the growth for this period will be in the low double-digit range, with adjusted EBITDA margin growing by almost 40 basis points in fiscal 2026. Our updated multiyear objectives imply that we will deliver adjusted EBITDA of over $730 million in fiscal 2027.๋˜ํ•œ, 2024 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 2027 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„๊นŒ์ง€์˜ ์—ฐํ‰๊ท  ์กฐ์ • EBITDA ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์ด ๊ธฐ์กด ์˜ˆ์ƒ์น˜๋ฅผ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ์ƒํšŒํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์€ ๋‘ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์ดˆ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€์— ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ „๋งํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์—๋Š” ์กฐ์ • EBITDA ๋งˆ์ง„์ด ๊ฑฐ์˜ 40bp ์„ฑ์žฅํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ๋œ ๋‹ค๋…„๊ฐ„ ๋ชฉํ‘œ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, 2027 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์— 7์–ต 3์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ์ดˆ๊ณผํ•˜๋Š” ์กฐ์ • EBITDA๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
This higher profitability as well as our continued focus on optimizing capital investments and achieving pre-COVID levels of working capital is expected to generate free cash flow of around $300 million in both fiscal 2026 and fiscal 2027, roughly double the expectations that we communicated a year ago. Combining our higher adjusted EBITDA and free cash flow generation, we expect to reduce net leverage to around 2.5x by the end of fiscal 2026 and to further reduce this to under 2x by the end of fiscal 2027. As we reduce our debt levels and interest expense and improve profitability, we expect adjusted EPS will continue to grow faster than adjusted EBITDA.์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋†’์€ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ๊ณผ ์ž๋ณธ ํˆฌ์ž ์ตœ์ ํ™” ๋ฐ ์ฝ”๋กœ๋‚˜19 ์ด์ „ ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ์šด์ „์ž๋ณธ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์ง‘์ค‘์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์™€ 2027 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ๋ชจ๋‘์—์„œ ์•ฝ 3์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ์ž‰์—ฌํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„์„ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” 1๋…„ ์ „ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ œ์‹œํ–ˆ๋˜ ์ „๋ง์˜ ์•ฝ ๋‘ ๋ฐฐ์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋†’์€ ์กฐ์ • EBITDA์™€ ์ž‰์—ฌํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„ ์ฐฝ์ถœ์„ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉํ•˜์—ฌ, 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ๋ง๊นŒ์ง€ ์ˆœ๋ถ€์ฑ„๋น„์œจ์„ ์•ฝ 2.5๋ฐฐ๋กœ ๋‚ฎ์ถ”๊ณ , 2027 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ๋ง๊นŒ์ง€๋Š” ์ด๋ฅผ 2๋ฐฐ ๋ฏธ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ ๋”์šฑ ์ค„์ผ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ถ€์ฑ„ ์ˆ˜์ค€๊ณผ ์ด์ž๋น„์šฉ์„ ์ค„์ด๊ณ  ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ์„ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ, ์กฐ์ • ์ฃผ๋‹น์ˆœ์ด์ต์ด ์กฐ์ • EBITDA๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
In summary, despite the unexpected challenges we faced as we navigated the cyber incident with our customers and suppliers in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025, we continue to maintain our underlying business momentum through strong partnerships and a collaborative solutions-oriented culture. I'd be remiss if I didn't once again thank all of our customers and suppliers for their partnership and resilience during a challenging time. We learned a lot, and we're putting our learnings into action, as we focus on helping our customer and supplier community execute their strategies during the upcoming holiday selling season and beyond.์š”์•ฝํ•˜๋ฉด, 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๋ฐ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฒ„ ๋ณด์•ˆ ์‚ฌ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๊ฒช์œผ๋ฉฐ ์˜ˆ์ƒ์น˜ ๋ชปํ•œ ์–ด๋ ค์›€์— ์ง๋ฉดํ–ˆ์Œ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ , ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ๊ณผ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ์ ์ด๊ณ  ์†”๋ฃจ์…˜ ์ง€ํ–ฅ์ ์ธ ๊ธฐ์—…๋ฌธํ™”๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ทผ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ์—… ๋ชจ๋ฉ˜ํ…€์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์–ด๋ ค์šด ์‹œ๊ธฐ์— ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ๊ณผ ํšŒ๋ณต๋ ฅ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ์‹  ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๊ป˜ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ์˜ ๋ง์”€์„ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ง€ ์•Š์„ ์ˆ˜ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ฐฐ์› ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ค๋Š” ์—ฐ๋ง ํŒ๋งค ์‹œ์ฆŒ๊ณผ ๊ทธ ์ดํ›„ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๋ฐ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ์ž์˜ ์ „๋žต์„ ์‹คํ–‰ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ์ง€์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํ•™์Šต ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ์‹คํ–‰์— ์˜ฎ๊ธฐ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Now a month into year 2 of our refresh strategy, we are focused on accelerating our momentum by building on UNFI's unique ability to provide differentiated products, services and well-scaled supply chain solutions that help our customers and suppliers grow profitably. We look forward to discussing our path to long-term value creation in greater detail at our Investor Day in December. We are grateful to our customers and our suppliers for their continued partnership and the UNFI associates for delivering on our commitments over the past year. We still believe our future value creation opportunities far exceed what we've achieved so far.๋ฆฌํ”„๋ ˆ์‹œ ์ „๋žต 2๋…„์ฐจ์— ์ ‘์–ด๋“  ์ง€ ํ•œ ๋‹ฌ์ด ์ง€๋‚œ ํ˜„์žฌ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด์˜ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ ์žˆ๋Š” ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๋Š” ์ฐจ๋ณ„ํ™”๋œ ์ œํ’ˆ, ์„œ๋น„์Šค ๋ฐ ์ž˜ ๊ตฌ์ถ•๋œ ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง ์†”๋ฃจ์…˜์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” UNFI๋งŒ์˜ ๊ณ ์œ ํ•œ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ๋ชจ๋ฉ˜ํ…€์„ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 12์›” ํˆฌ์ž์ž์˜ ๋‚ ์—์„œ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ฐฝ์ถœ ๊ฒฝ๋กœ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋”์šฑ ์ž์„ธํžˆ ๋…ผ์˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ง€๋‚œ ํ•œ ํ•ด ๋™์•ˆ ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์•ฝ์†์„ ์ดํ–‰ํ•ด ์ค€ UNFI ์ง์›๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์˜ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ฐฝ์ถœ ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์ง€๊ธˆ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋›ฐ์–ด๋„˜์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
With that, let me turn it over to Matteo to provide more detail about our financial performance and our fiscal 2026 outlook. Giorgio Tarditi
President & CFO

Thank you, Sandy, and good morning, everyone. As Sandy stated, we finished fiscal 2025, in line with the revised outlook ranges we provided in July during our business update call for sales, adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EPS, while we outperformed our free cash flow target. Today, I will provide additional insight into our fourth quarter results, our year-end financial position and capital structure in our fiscal 2026 outlook.
๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ์ด์ œ Matteo์—๊ฒŒ ๋„˜๊ฒจ์„œ ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์žฌ๋ฌด ์„ฑ๊ณผ์™€ 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ์ „๋ง์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋” ์ž์„ธํžˆ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋„๋ก ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Giorgio Tarditi
์‚ฌ์žฅ ๊ฒธ CFO

Sandy, ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„ ์•ˆ๋…•ํ•˜์„ธ์š”. Sandy๊ฐ€ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ”์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„๋ฅผ 7์›” ์‚ฌ์—… ํ˜„ํ™ฉ ์„ค๋ช…ํšŒ์—์„œ ์ œ์‹œํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ •๋œ ์ „๋ง ๋ฒ”์œ„์— ๋ถ€ํ•ฉํ•˜๋Š” ๋งค์ถœ, ์กฐ์ • EBITDA, ์กฐ์ • ์ฃผ๋‹น์ˆœ์ด์ต์œผ๋กœ ๋งˆ๊ฐํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ž‰์—ฌํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋Š” ์ƒํšŒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ €๋Š” 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ , ์—ฐ๋ง ์žฌ๋ฌด์ƒํƒœ์™€ ์ž๋ณธ๊ตฌ์กฐ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ์ „๋ง์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ์ธ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Our expectations for the new year include incremental benefits as we accelerate the execution of our multiyear strategy built upon the early success of our lean operating approach and look to achieve our previously stated 2.5 turns leverage target in 2026, 1 year ahead, our initial plans. With that, let's review our Q4 results. If you look at Slide 8, our fourth quarter sales came in at $7.7 billion compared to $8.2 billion last year. Including the $582 million benefit from the extra week in last year's fourth quarter, net sales grew by 1.6%.์ƒˆํ•ด์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ €ํฌ์˜ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋Š” ๋ฆฐ ์šด์˜ ์ ‘๊ทผ๋ฒ•์˜ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ์„ฑ๊ณต์„ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ๊ตฌ์ถ•๋œ ๋‹ค๋…„๊ฐ„ ์ „๋žต์˜ ์‹คํ–‰์„ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ ์ง„์ ์ธ ํ˜œํƒ์„ ํฌํ•จํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋‹น์ดˆ ๊ณ„ํš๋ณด๋‹ค 1๋…„ ์•ž์„  2026๋…„์— ์ด์ „์— ๋ช…์‹œํ•œ ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€ 2.5๋ฐฐ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์‹ค์ ์„ ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•ด๋ณด๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์Šฌ๋ผ์ด๋“œ 8์„ ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด, 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋งค์ถœ์€ ์ž‘๋…„ 82์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋Œ€๋น„ 77์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž‘๋…„ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ์˜ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์ฃผ๊ฐ„์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ 5์–ต 8,200๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ํ˜œํƒ์„ ํฌํ•จํ•˜๋ฉด, ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ์€ 1.6% ์„ฑ์žฅํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
This growth rate reflects a volume decline of around 3%, driven by the lost revenues from the cyber incident, which was more than offset by inflation of about 2% and positive product mix. The sales growth rate also includes an estimated impact of 5% from the cyber incident. Our Natural segment growth of 9% on a comparable 13-week basis again outperformed the market. We grow from both smaller and larger customers as well as the secular tailwind from increasing customer adoption of these products. Conventional segment sales declined 6%, partially reflecting the lapping of a large new customer addition and the beginning of the optimization and accretive transition out of Allentown.์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์€ ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฒ„ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ๋งค์ถœ ์†์‹ค๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์•ฝ 3%์˜ ๋ฌผ๋Ÿ‰ ๊ฐ์†Œ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์•ฝ 2%์˜ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜๊ณผ ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ์ œํ’ˆ ๋ฏน์Šค๋กœ ์ƒ์‡„๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์—๋Š” ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฒ„ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ์•ฝ 5%์˜ ์ถ”์ • ์˜ํ–ฅ๋„ ํฌํ•จ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ๋‚ด์ถ”๋Ÿด ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์€ ๋น„๊ต ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ 13์ฃผ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ 9% ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜์—ฌ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์‹œ์žฅ์„ ์•ž์„ฐ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์†Œ๊ทœ๋ชจ ๋ฐ ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๋ชจ๋‘๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ œํ’ˆ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ฑ„ํƒ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋ผ๋Š” ๊ตฌ์กฐ์  ์ˆœํ’๋„ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ปจ๋ฒค์…”๋„ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ ๋งค์ถœ์€ 6% ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ถ”๊ฐ€์˜ ๊ธฐ์ €ํšจ๊ณผ์™€ ์•จ๋Ÿฐํƒ€์šด์—์„œ์˜ ์ตœ์ ํ™” ๋ฐ ๋ถ€๊ฐ€๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ฐฝ์ถœ ์ „ํ™˜์˜ ์‹œ์ž‘์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
For the full year on a comparable 52-week basis, net sales rose 4.6%, volumes grew 1.4%, inflation was about 1.8% and a favorable mix shift accounted for the balance. Notably, full year volume growth outperformed Nielsen's industry benchmarks. This was largely the result of the strength of our customer base, including the benefit of new business with existing customers and the onboarding of new customers. In Retail, sales fell 1.7% in the quarter on a 13-week comparable basis. We believe that absent the cyber incident, total sales would have been positive as would ID sales at Cub. Our new Retail CEO, David Best, started at the beginning of the new fiscal year.52์ฃผ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์‹ค์ ์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ์€ 4.6% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฌผ๋Ÿ‰์€ 1.4% ์„ฑ์žฅํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์€ ์•ฝ 1.8%์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์œ ๋ฆฌํ•œ ์ œํ’ˆ๋ฏน์Šค ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜๋จธ์ง€ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋ถ„์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ์ฃผ๋ชฉํ•  ์ ์€ ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ๋ฌผ๋Ÿ‰ ์„ฑ์žฅ์ด ๋‹์Šจ์˜ ์—…๊ณ„ ๋ฒค์น˜๋งˆํฌ๋ฅผ ์ƒํšŒํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ฃผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ์กด ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ์˜ ์‹ ๊ทœ ์‚ฌ์—… ํ™•๋Œ€์™€ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์˜จ๋ณด๋”ฉ์˜ ํ˜œํƒ์„ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์˜ ๊ฐ•์ ์— ๊ธฐ์ธํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์†Œ๋งค ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ๋Š” 13์ฃผ ๋น„๊ต ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋งค์ถœ์ด 1.7% ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฒ„ ์‚ฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ€ ์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์ „์ฒด ๋งค์ถœ์€ ํ”Œ๋Ÿฌ์Šค๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, Cub์˜ ๋™์ผ๋งค์žฅ๋งค์ถœ(ID sales) ์—ญ์‹œ ์–‘์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋ณด์˜€์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ํŒ๋‹จ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์†Œ๋งค ๋ถ€๋ฌธ CEO์ธ ๋ฐ์ด๋น„๋“œ ๋ฒ ์ŠคํŠธ(David Best)๋Š” ์‹ ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ์ดˆ์— ์—…๋ฌด๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
David is focused on working with our Retail team to improve the customer experience, store traffic and operations and financial results. We are confident that under David's leadership and with his deep knowledge of the local market that Cub serves, we can enhance our offering while deepening our franchisee partnerships to drive improved performance. Moving to Slide 9. Let's review profitability drivers in the quarter. Our gross margin rate in the fourth quarter was 13.4%, which compares to 13.7% in the prior year quarter.๋ฐ์ด๋น„๋“œ๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ฒฝํ—˜, ๋งค์žฅ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ๊ฐ ์ˆ˜, ์šด์˜ ๋ฐ ์žฌ๋ฌด ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ์†Œ๋งค ํŒ€๊ณผ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ์ด๋น„๋“œ์˜ ๋ฆฌ๋”์‹ญ๊ณผ Cub์ด ์„œ๋น„์Šคํ•˜๋Š” ์ง€์—ญ ์‹œ์žฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ทธ์˜ ๊นŠ์€ ์ง€์‹์„ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ”„๋žœ์ฐจ์ด์ง€ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ์„ ์‹ฌํ™”์‹œํ‚ค๋ฉด์„œ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜์—ฌ ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๊ฐœ์„ ์„ ์ด๋Œ์–ด๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ™•์‹ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์Šฌ๋ผ์ด๋“œ 9๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ์˜ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ ๋™์ธ๋“ค์„ ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•ด๋ณด๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ ์€ 13.4%๋กœ, ์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ์˜ 13.7%์™€ ๋น„๊ต๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Excluding LIFO in both years and the impact of the cyber incident in this year's fourth quarter, which drove elevated shrink, the gross margin rate was 13.5% in the fourth quarter of both years, represented the highest quarterly rate this fiscal year. This performance reflects another solid quarter in managing shrink, the further benefits from our supplier programs and early progress with incremental win-win value creation solutions with customers. Gross profit dollars on a comparable 13-week basis increased about $13 million resulting from the 1.6% increase in sales for the same period. Our operating expense rate was 13.6% of the net sales compared to 13.2% last year.LIFO๋ฅผ ์–‘๋…„๋„์—์„œ ์ œ์™ธํ•˜๊ณ  ์˜ฌํ•ด 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ์˜ ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฒ„ ์‚ฌ๊ณ ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ์žฌ๊ณ  ์†์‹ค ์ฆ๊ฐ€ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ์ œ์™ธํ•˜๋ฉด, 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋งค์ถœ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ ์€ ์–‘๋…„๋„ ๋ชจ๋‘ 13.5%๋กœ, ์ด๋Š” ๊ธˆ๋…„๋„ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋ณ„ ์ตœ๊ณ ์น˜๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์‹ค์ ์€ ์žฌ๊ณ  ์†์‹ค ๊ด€๋ฆฌ์—์„œ์˜ ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ฒฌ์‹คํ•œ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์„ฑ๊ณผ, ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ์˜ ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ํ˜œํƒ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ์˜ ์ ์ง„์  ์œˆ-์œˆ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ฐฝ์ถœ ์†”๋ฃจ์…˜์—์„œ์˜ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ์ง„์ „์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋น„๊ต ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ 13์ฃผ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ๋งค์ถœ์ด์ด์ต์€ ๋™์ผ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋งค์ถœ 1.6% ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์•ฝ 1,300๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šด์˜๋น„์šฉ๋ฅ ์€ ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ ๋Œ€๋น„ 13.6%๋กœ ์ž‘๋…„ 13.2%์™€ ๋น„๊ต๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
The higher rate is largely attributable to the deleveraging impact on fixed cost of the estimated $400 million in lost sales as well as our meaningful investment in servicing our customers during the cyber incident which included additional overtime and other expenses from manual processes. During fiscal 2026, we fully expect our OpEx rate to return to the pre-cyber incident trends we experienced in the first 3 quarters of fiscal 2025, and believe the benefit of lean initiatives will continue to deliver better throughput and supply chain efficiency over time, supporting an improved customer experience.๋†’์€ ๋น„์œจ์€ ์ฃผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ ๋งค์ถœ ์†์‹ค 4์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ๊ณ ์ •๋น„์˜ ๋””๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง• ํšจ๊ณผ์™€ ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฒ„ ์‚ฌ๊ณ  ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ์ค‘ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ํˆฌ์ž์— ๊ธฐ์ธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ์ˆ˜๋™ ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์ดˆ๊ณผ๊ทผ๋ฌด ๋ฐ ๊ธฐํƒ€ ๋น„์šฉ์ด ํฌํ•จ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์—๋Š” ์šด์˜๋น„ ๋น„์œจ์ด 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ 1~3๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ–ˆ๋˜ ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฒ„ ์‚ฌ๊ณ  ์ด์ „ ์ถ”์„ธ๋กœ ์™„์ „ํžˆ ํšŒ๋ณต๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๋ฆฐ ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ์˜ ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๋Ÿ‰๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜์—ฌ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฏฟ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Adjusted EBITDA for the fourth quarter was $116 million compared to $133 million in last year's fourth quarter, excluding the additional week in fiscal 2024. This brought full year adjusted EBITDA to $552 million, slightly above the midpoint of the outlook we provided on July business update call as well as our original outlook provided 1 year ago. All in, we estimate that this cyber incident impacted adjusted EBITDA by approximately $50 million in the quarter, which means our full year estimate adjusted EBITDA would have been roughly $600 million. Adjusted EPS for Q4 was a loss of $0.11, bringing full year adjusted EPS to $0.71, also above the midpoint of our most recent guidance.4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์กฐ์ • EBITDA๋Š” 1์–ต 1,600๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ, 2024 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์˜ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์ฃผ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ์ œ์™ธํ•œ ์ž‘๋…„ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ 1์–ต 3,300๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๊ฐ์†Œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋กœ์จ ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์กฐ์ • EBITDA๋Š” 5์–ต 5,200๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” 7์›” ์‚ฌ์—… ํ˜„ํ™ฉ ์„ค๋ช…ํšŒ์—์„œ ์ œ์‹œํ•œ ์ „๋ง์น˜์˜ ์ค‘๊ฐ„๊ฐ’๊ณผ 1๋…„ ์ „ ์ œ์‹œํ•œ ๋‹น์ดˆ ์ „๋ง์น˜๋ฅผ ์•ฝ๊ฐ„ ์ƒํšŒํ•˜๋Š” ์ˆ˜์ค€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋ฒˆ ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฒ„ ๋ณด์•ˆ ์‚ฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ€ ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์กฐ์ • EBITDA์— ์•ฝ 5,000๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์นœ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ถ”์ •๋˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์กฐ์ • EBITDA๊ฐ€ ๋Œ€๋žต 6์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์— ๋‹ฌํ–ˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž„์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์กฐ์ • ์ฃผ๋‹น์ˆœ์ด์ต์€ 0.11๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์†์‹ค์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์กฐ์ • ์ฃผ๋‹น์ˆœ์ด์ต์€ 0.71๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์ตœ๊ทผ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค์˜ ์ค‘๊ฐ„๊ฐ’์„ ์ƒํšŒํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Turning to Slide 10. Free cash flow in Q4 was $86 million. This brought full year free cash flow to around $240 million compared to an approximate $90 million use of cash in fiscal 2024. This roughly $330 million improvement was largely the result of the work accomplished throughout the year to better forecast and manage the drivers of free cash flow, particularly returning inventory toward pre-COVID levels as well as the addition of free cash flow as an incentive compensation metric to drive focus and alignment within our organization.์Šฌ๋ผ์ด๋“œ 10์„ ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด, 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ž‰์—ฌํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„์€ 8,600๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋กœ์จ ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์ž‰์—ฌํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„์€ ์•ฝ 2์–ต 4,000๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์— ๋‹ฌํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” 2024 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์˜ ์•ฝ 9,000๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ํ˜„๊ธˆ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๊ณผ ๋น„๊ต๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์•ฝ 3์–ต 3,000๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ๊ฐœ์„ ์€ ์ฃผ๋กœ ์—ฐ์ค‘ ์ž‰์—ฌํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„ ๋™์ธ๋“ค์„ ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ์˜ˆ์ธกํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•œ ์ž‘์—…์˜ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ์žฌ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ์ฝ”๋กœ๋‚˜19 ์ด์ „ ์ˆ˜์ค€์œผ๋กœ ๋˜๋Œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ž‘์—…๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜, ์กฐ์ง ๋‚ด ์ง‘์ค‘๋„์™€ ์ผ์น˜์„ฑ์„ ๋†’์ด๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ž‰์—ฌํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„์„ ์„ฑ๊ณผ์—ฐ๋™๋ณด์ƒ ์ง€ํ‘œ๋กœ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ฃผ์š” ์š”์ธ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
The free cash flow generated in Q4 enabled us to maintain leverage sequentially at 3.3 turns despite the reduced level of trailing 12-month adjusted EBITDA resulting from the cyber incident. Importantly, we reduced net leverage by around 0.7 turns from the end of last fiscal year. Net debt also fell to just above $1.8 billion, the lowest level since 2018. Flipping to Slide 11. We continue to deepen lean practices to drive benefits across safety, quality, delivery and cost. We implemented lean daily management in 28 distribution centers as of the end of the fiscal year, which was a key driver of our operating efficiency and throughput improvement in fiscal 2025.4๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ์ฐฝ์ถœ๋œ ์ž‰์—ฌํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„ ๋•๋ถ„์— ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฒ„ ์‚ฌ๊ณ ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ์ง€๋‚œ 12๊ฐœ์›” ์กฐ์ • EBITDA ๊ฐ์†Œ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€๋ฅผ 3.3๋ฐฐ๋กœ ์ „๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๋™์ผํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์œผ๋กœ ์œ ์ง€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์ ์€ ์ง€๋‚œ ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ๋ง ๋Œ€๋น„ ์ˆœ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€๋ฅผ ์•ฝ 0.7๋ฐฐ ๊ฐ์†Œ์‹œ์ผฐ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ˆœ๋ถ€์ฑ„ ๋˜ํ•œ 18์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ์•ฝ๊ฐ„ ์ƒํšŒํ•˜๋Š” ์ˆ˜์ค€์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜๋ฝํ•˜์—ฌ 2018๋…„ ์ดํ›„ ์ตœ์ € ์ˆ˜์ค€์„ ๊ธฐ๋กํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์Šฌ๋ผ์ด๋“œ 11๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์•ˆ์ „, ํ’ˆ์งˆ, ๋‚ฉ๊ธฐ, ๋น„์šฉ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ํšจ์ต์„ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ฆฐ ๊ด€ํ–‰์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‹ฌํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ๋ง ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ 28๊ฐœ ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜์„ผํ„ฐ์—์„œ ๋ฆฐ ์ผ์ผ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋„์ž…ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ์šด์˜ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ๊ณผ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๋Ÿ‰ ๊ฐœ์„ ์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ๋™๋ ฅ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We are actively increasing deployment of lean daily management throughout our distribution network and expect to drive further improvement to supply chain effectiveness and efficiency in fiscal 2026. Our lean initiatives in fiscal 2026 also include eliminating waste and optimizing and digitizing processes to improve distribution center performance. Our value delivery office will also continue to generate further incremental savings with an emphasis this year on indirect spending. This relates to equipment and services not for retail, it makes up a meaningful portion of our roughly $4 billion annual operating spend.์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์œ ํ†ต ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ ์ „๋ฐ˜์— ๊ฑธ์ณ ๋ฆฐ ์ผ์ผ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ(lean daily management) ๋„์ž…์„ ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์— ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง ํšจ๊ณผ์„ฑ๊ณผ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์„ ๋”์šฑ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ๋ฆฐ ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ์—๋Š” ๋‚ญ๋น„ ์š”์†Œ ์ œ๊ฑฐ์™€ ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค ์ตœ์ ํ™” ๋ฐ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธํ™”๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•œ ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜์„ผํ„ฐ ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋„ ํฌํ•จ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ „๋‹ฌ ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์†Œ(value delivery office)๋Š” ์˜ฌํ•ด ๊ฐ„์ ‘๋น„ ์ง€์ถœ์— ์ค‘์ ์„ ๋‘๊ณ  ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ์ ์ง„์  ์ ˆ๊ฐ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์†Œ๋งค์šฉ์ด ์•„๋‹Œ ์žฅ๋น„ ๋ฐ ์„œ๋น„์Šค์™€ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ, ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์•ฝ 40์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ์šด์˜๋น„ ์ง€์ถœ์—์„œ ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ๋น„์ค‘์„ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Additionally, we see further opportunities to improve the supplier experience as well as working capital efficiency and free cash flow generation by aligning and streamlining billing processes and payment standards. Simultaneously, we continue to refine and optimize our organizational structure to deliver even higher service levels and productivity. All these controllable actions should more than offset planned merit and other customary operating cost increases.๋˜ํ•œ ์ฒญ๊ตฌ ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค์™€ ์ง€๊ธ‰ ๊ธฐ์ค€์„ ์ •๋ ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฐ„์†Œํ™”ํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์šด์ „์ž๋ณธ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ ๋ฐ ์ž‰์—ฌํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„ ์ฐฝ์ถœ์„ ๋”์šฑ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋™์‹œ์— ๋” ๋†’์€ ์„œ๋น„์Šค ์ˆ˜์ค€๊ณผ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์กฐ์ง ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฅผ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ตœ์ ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ชจ๋“  ํ†ต์ œ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์กฐ์น˜๋“ค์€ ๊ณ„ํš๋œ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๊ธ‰ ๋ฐ ๊ธฐํƒ€ ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ์šด์˜๋น„์šฉ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋ถ„์„ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ์ƒ์‡„ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
As Sandy highlighted earlier, we will also be focused on building enhanced capabilities within merchandising, revenue growth management and technology as well as making specific investments to the independent customers and emerging supplier experience. This builds on work done over the past few years to better understand the needs of all customers and suppliers. These capabilities are expected to enhance our longer-term growth trajectory and margin potential and we plan to provide more detail on these initiatives at our upcoming Investor Day in December. If you go to Slide 12, we finished fiscal 2025 with operating momentum and a high degree of conviction in our strategy.์•ž์„œ Sandy๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•œ ๋ฐ”์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋จธ์ฒœ๋‹ค์ด์ง•, ์ˆ˜์ต ์„ฑ์žฅ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ๋ฐ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ ํ–ฅ์ƒ๋œ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋…๋ฆฝ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ์‹ ํฅ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด ๊ฒฝํ—˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ํˆฌ์ž๋„ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ง€๋‚œ ๋ช‡ ๋…„๊ฐ„ ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด์˜ ๋‹ˆ์ฆˆ๋ฅผ ๋” ์ž˜ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•œ ์ž‘์—…์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰๋“ค์€ ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๊ถค๋„์™€ ๋งˆ์ง„ ์ž ์žฌ๋ ฅ์„ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ฌ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋˜๋ฉฐ, 12์›”์— ์˜ˆ์ •๋œ ํˆฌ์ž์ž์˜ ๋‚ ์—์„œ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋” ์ž์„ธํ•œ ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•  ๊ณ„ํš์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์Šฌ๋ผ์ด๋“œ 12๋ฅผ ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์šด์˜ ๋ชจ๋ฉ˜ํ…€๊ณผ ์ „๋žต์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋†’์€ ํ™•์‹ ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„๋ฅผ ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We remain focused on creating value for our customers and suppliers while becoming more effective and efficient as a business partner. As outlined in our press release, the guidance ranges and increases compared to fiscal 2025, include the following: sales that are expected to be in the range of $31.6 billion to $32 billion. As a reminder, this includes the top line impact from the optimization and accretive transition out of Allentown within our Conventional segment.์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ฐฝ์ถœ์— ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๋Š” ๋™์‹œ์— ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๋กœ์„œ ๋”์šฑ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ด๊ณ  ํšจ์œจ์ ์ด ๋˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ฃผ๋ ฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ณด๋„์ž๋ฃŒ์—์„œ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•œ ๋ฐ”์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด, 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค ๋ฒ”์œ„ ๋ฐ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋ถ„์—๋Š” ๋‹ค์Œ์ด ํฌํ•จ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค: ๋งค์ถœ์€ 316์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์—์„œ 320์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ฒ”์œ„๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฐธ๊ณ ๋กœ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ๊ธฐ์กด ์‚ฌ์—…๋ถ€๋ฌธ ๋‚ด ์•จ๋Ÿฐํƒ€์šด ์ตœ์ ํ™” ๋ฐ ์ˆ˜์ต ์ฆ๋Œ€ ์ „ํ™˜์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ๋งค์ถœ ์ƒ๋‹จ ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ํฌํ•จ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
This transition is expected to reduce our consolidated net sales growth rate by about 3% while improving our profitability and recurring free cash flow, an expected range for adjusted EBITDA of $630 million to $700 million, representing a year-over-year increase of about 20% at an average annual growth rate of close to 15% at the midpoint relative to our reported fiscal 2024 results. Using the midpoints for each of these ranges, we do expect to see year-over-year margin expansion largely driven by the various initiatives we have planned for the year and their anticipated contribution.์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ „ํ™˜์€ ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ ์ˆœ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์„ ์•ฝ 3% ๊ฐ์†Œ์‹œํ‚ฌ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ๊ณผ ๋ฐ˜๋ณต์ ์ธ ์ž‰์—ฌํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„์„ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์กฐ์ • EBITDA๋Š” 6์–ต 3์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์—์„œ 7์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ฒ”์œ„๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์•ฝ 20% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ณด๊ณ ๋œ 2024 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ์‹ค์  ๋Œ€๋น„ ์ค‘๊ฐ„๊ฐ’ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ์—ฐํ‰๊ท  ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์ด 15%์— ๊ทผ์ ‘ํ•˜๋Š” ์ˆ˜์ค€์„ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋ƒ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ฐ ๋ฒ”์œ„์˜ ์ค‘๊ฐ„๊ฐ’์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ๋•Œ, ๋‹น์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์˜ฌํ•ด ๊ณ„ํšํ•œ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ์™€ ์ด๋“ค์˜ ์˜ˆ์ƒ ๊ธฐ์—ฌ๋„์— ์ฃผ๋กœ ํž˜์ž…์–ด ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๋งˆ์ง„ ํ™•๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์‹คํ˜„ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
And finally, an adjusted EPS range of $1.50 to $2.30 per share, a 1-year increase of about $1.20 per share at the midpoint and a 2-year increase of $1.75. Our outlook for capital spending, including cloud implementation spend, is around $250 million. Our CapEx plans reflect our focus on safety, modernization and continued prioritization. We always evaluate opportunities to reinvest some of the benefits of this prioritization to support the long-run growth and improving supply chain value for customers and suppliers. This includes targeted automation and technology enablement investments.๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ, ์กฐ์ • ์ฃผ๋‹น์ˆœ์ด์ต(EPS)์€ ์ฃผ๋‹น 1.50๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์—์„œ 2.30๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ฒ”์œ„๋กœ ์ „๋งํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ค‘๊ฐ„๊ฐ’ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์•ฝ 1.20๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ฆ๊ฐ€, 2๋…„ ์ „ ๋Œ€๋น„ 1.75๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํด๋ผ์šฐ๋“œ ๊ตฌ์ถ• ๋น„์šฉ์„ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ์ž๋ณธ์ง€์ถœ ์ „๋ง์€ ์•ฝ 2์–ต 5์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์‚ฌ์˜ ์ž๋ณธ์ง€์ถœ ๊ณ„ํš์€ ์•ˆ์ „์„ฑ, ํ˜„๋Œ€ํ™” ๋ฐ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์šฐ์„ ์ˆœ์œ„ ์„ค์ •์— ์ค‘์ ์„ ๋‘๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํ•ญ์ƒ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์šฐ์„ ์ˆœ์œ„ ์„ค์ •์˜ ํšจ์ต ์ค‘ ์ผ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ์žฌํˆฌ์žํ•˜์—ฌ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ณต๊ธ‰๋ง ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•  ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ํ‰๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ํƒ€๊ฒŸํ˜• ์ž๋™ํ™” ๋ฐ ๊ธฐ์ˆ  ์ง€์› ํˆฌ์ž๊ฐ€ ํฌํ•จ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
We're also actioning our fiscal 2026 plan to generate approximately $300 million in free cash flow in fiscal 2026. We will continue to prioritize reducing net debt to improve our leverage to approximately 2.5 turns or less by year-end. This exceeds our prior stated long-term goal of generating recurring free cash flow of well over 0.5% of sales. Like the initial outlook we provided for last fiscal year, we believe these ranges represent a high confidence case with multiple ways to achieve these targets.์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋˜ํ•œ 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์— ์•ฝ 3์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ์ž‰์—ฌํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„์„ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ๊ณ„ํš์„ ์‹คํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์—ฐ๋ง๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€๋ฅผ ์•ฝ 2.5๋ฐฐ ์ดํ•˜๋กœ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ˆœ๋ถ€์ฑ„ ๊ฐ์ถ•์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์šฐ์„ ์‹œํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋งค์ถœ์˜ 0.5%๋ฅผ ํ›จ์”ฌ ์ƒํšŒํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์ƒ ์ž‰์—ฌํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„ ์ฐฝ์ถœ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์กด์˜ ์žฅ๊ธฐ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์ดˆ๊ณผํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ง€๋‚œ ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ œ๊ณตํ–ˆ๋˜ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ์ „๋ง๊ณผ ๋งˆ์ฐฌ๊ฐ€์ง€๋กœ, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ฒ”์œ„๊ฐ€ ์ด๋“ค ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ๋†’์€ ํ™•์‹ ๋„์˜ ์‹œ๋‚˜๋ฆฌ์˜ค๋ฅผ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ธ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
As highlighted on Slide 13, we made solid progress in fiscal 2025 to create incremental value for our customers and suppliers while taking actions to become a more effective and efficient business. We fully expect this momentum to continue in the new fiscal year as we further execute on our strategy. Having been here for about 1.5 years now, I'm even more confident about the future of UNFI and the value we can generate for our shareholders. After a successful fiscal '25 of delivering and deleveraging, we are committed to accelerating the momentum we've built and again, delivering our outlook in fiscal 2026. With that, operator, please open the line for questions.์Šฌ๋ผ์ด๋“œ 13์—์„œ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•œ ๋ฐ”์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์— ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ฆ๋ถ„ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ณด๋‹ค ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ด๊ณ  ํšจ์œจ์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ์—…์ด ๋˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์กฐ์น˜๋ฅผ ์ทจํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๊ฒฌ์‹คํ•œ ์ง„์ „์„ ์ด๋ฃจ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ „๋žต์„ ๋”์šฑ ์‹คํ–‰ํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋ฉด์„œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์—๋„ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ชจ๋ฉ˜ํ…€์ด ์ง€์†๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ณณ์— ์˜จ ์ง€ ์•ฝ 1๋…„ ๋ฐ˜์ด ๋œ ์ง€๊ธˆ, ์ €๋Š” UNFI์˜ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์™€ ์ฃผ์ฃผ๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์น˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋”์šฑ ํ™•์‹ ์„ ๊ฐ–๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ค์  ๋‹ฌ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๋””๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง•์„ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•œ 2025 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์นœ ํ›„, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•œ ๋ชจ๋ฉ˜ํ…€์„ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ์ „๋ง์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ „๋…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ์˜คํผ๋ ˆ์ดํ„ฐ๋‹˜, ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ํšŒ์„ ์„ ์—ด์–ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“Œ ์š”์•ฝ

โ€ข ์ฃผ์š” ์žฌ๋ฌด ์‹ค์ :
- 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋งค์ถœ 77์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ (์ „๋…„ ๋™๊ธฐ ๋Œ€๋น„ 1.6% ์ฆ๊ฐ€)
- ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์กฐ์ • EBITDA 5.52์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑ
- ์ˆœ๋ถ€์ฑ„ 18์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ๊ฐ์†Œ (2018๋…„ ์ดํ›„ ์ตœ์ € ์ˆ˜์ค€)

โ€ข 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค:
- ๋งค์ถœ 316-320์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ „๋ง
- ์กฐ์ • EBITDA 6.3-7์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์˜ˆ์ƒ (์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 20% ์ฆ๊ฐ€)
- ํ”„๋ฆฌ์บ์‹œํ”Œ๋กœ์šฐ ์•ฝ 3์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ชฉํ‘œ

โ€ข ์ „๋žต์  ํ•˜์ด๋ผ์ดํŠธ:
- ์ž์—ฐ/์œ ๊ธฐ๋† ๋ถ€๋ฌธ 9% ์„ฑ์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ์‹œ์žฅ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๋†’์€ ์‹ค์ 
- ๋ฆฐ(Lean) ๊ฒฝ์˜ ๋„์ž…์œผ๋กœ ์šด์˜ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ ๊ฐœ์„ 
- 2027๋…„๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€ ๋น„์œจ 2๋ฐฐ ๋ฏธ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ์ถ• ๋ชฉํ‘œ

โ€ข ๋ฆฌ์Šคํฌ ์š”์ธ:
- ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฒ„ ๋ณด์•ˆ ์‚ฌ๊ณ ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ 4๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋งค์ถœ ์•ฝ 4์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์†์‹ค
- ์ปจ๋ฒค์…”๋„ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ ๋งค์ถœ 6% ๊ฐ์†Œ

โ€ข ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„ ํ†ค:
- ์ „๋žต ์‹คํ–‰์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋†’์€ ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ ํ‘œ๋ช…
- ์žฅ๊ธฐ ์„ฑ์žฅ ์ „๋ง ๊ธ์ •์ 
- ๊ณ ๊ฐ/๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด์™€์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„ ๊ฐ•ํ™” ๊ฐ•์กฐ


โ“ Q&A

Original Translation
Operator: [Operator Instructions] Our first question will come from the line of John Heinbockel with Guggenheim Securities.**Operator:** [์šด์˜์ž ์•ˆ๋‚ด] ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ๊ตฌ๊ฒํ•˜์ž„ ์‹œํ๋ฆฌํ‹ฐ์ฆˆ์˜ ์กด ํ•˜์ธ๋ณด์ผˆ๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
John Heinbockel: Guggenheim Securities, LLC, Research Division Sandy, do you want to start with Natural merchandising initiatives, capabilities? Where do you see the biggest opportunity there? Is it -- obviously, the long tail is where the innovation is. But those guys don't have manufacturing capabilities, so there's some limitation on supply. Is it the long tail? Is it helping them with supply? Or where is it? And I guess, would that allow you to continue to grow Natural in the high single digits?**John Heinbockel:** ์ž์—ฐ์‹ํ’ˆ ๋จธ์ฒœ๋‹ค์ด์ง• ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ์™€ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋จผ์ € ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋””์— ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณด์‹œ๋Š”์ง€์š”? ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ๋กฑํ…Œ์ผ(long tail) ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์ด ํ˜์‹ ์ด ์ผ์–ด๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ณณ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์ œ์กฐ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์ด ์—†์–ด์„œ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์— ์–ด๋А ์ •๋„ ์ œ์•ฝ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋กฑํ…Œ์ผ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์ธ๊ฐ€์š”? ๊ณต๊ธ‰ ์ง€์›์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ทธ๋“ค์„ ๋•๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ธ๊ฐ€์š”? ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ธ๊ฐ€์š”? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ž์—ฐ์‹ํ’ˆ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ๋†’์€ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์ง€์†ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?
CEO & Director: I think of it as really 3 pieces depending on the customer segment. First, as you suggest, innovation is very important to Natural retailers who are positioned that way. And so a lot of the merchandising work we're doing there is to simplify the experience for emerging suppliers and to facilitate more innovation through multiple platforms to our customers. On the more conventionally positioned side, our Natural agenda is more about the road map to deepen their involvement in the categories. And depending on the region of the country and the development of the categories, we manage that specifically on a customer-by-customer basis. I think the punchline is that we think there's a significant opportunity for UNFI to help our customers merchandise their products and be more successful regardless of their positioning.**CEO & Director:** ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์„ธ๊ทธ๋จผํŠธ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ํฌ๊ฒŒ 3๊ฐ€์ง€๋กœ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„์–ด ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋จผ์ € ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹  ๋Œ€๋กœ, ํ˜์‹ ์€ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ํฌ์ง€์…”๋‹์„ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ๋‚ด์ถ”๋Ÿด ๋ฆฌํ…Œ์ผ๋Ÿฌ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋งค์šฐ ์ค‘์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ๊ทธ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋จธ์ฒœ๋‹ค์ด์ง• ์ž‘์—…์˜ ์ƒ๋‹น ๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ์‹ ํฅ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด๋“ค์˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ , ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ํ˜์‹ ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ณด๋‹ค ์ „ํ†ต์ ์ธ ํฌ์ง€์…”๋‹์„ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ์ชฝ์—์„œ๋Š”, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋‚ด์ถ”๋Ÿด ์–ด์  ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ํ•ด๋‹น ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์ฐธ์—ฌ๋ฅผ ์‹ฌํ™”์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๋กœ๋“œ๋งต์— ๋” ์ค‘์ ์„ ๋‘๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์˜ ์ง€์—ญ๊ณผ ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋ฐœ์ „ ์ •๋„์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ณ„๋กœ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์€ UNFI๊ฐ€ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์˜ ํฌ์ง€์…”๋‹๊ณผ ๊ด€๊ณ„์—†์ด ์ œํ’ˆ ๋จธ์ฒœ๋‹ค์ด์ง•์„ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋” ํฐ ์„ฑ๊ณต์„ ๊ฑฐ๋‘˜ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๋•๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณธ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
John Heinbockel: Guggenheim Securities, LLC, Research Division All right. Then my follow-up is right now that you guys are obviously now disclosing segment EBITDA. Conventionals have that -- have the margin of Natural. So I wonder, when you look at that margin, what's the opportunity to improve Conventional profitability? Can it be meaningfully improved, I guess, and I don't know if you have an idea as to where? Or is it more, look, that's just structural and we need to shrink that business thoughtfully over the next 5 years?**John Heinbockel:** ์ข‹์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ํ›„์† ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€, ํ˜„์žฌ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์ด ์„ธ๊ทธ๋จผํŠธ EBITDA๋ฅผ ๊ณต๊ฐœํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ, ๊ธฐ์กด ์‚ฌ์—…(Conventionals)์ด Natural ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ๋งˆ์ง„์„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ๋งˆ์ง„์„ ๋ณผ ๋•Œ, ๊ธฐ์กด ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ์„ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•  ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋А ์ •๋„ ๋˜๋Š”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐœ์„ ์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ๊ฑด์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์–ด๋А ์ •๋„๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์•„์ด๋””์–ด๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์œผ์‹ ์ง€์š”? ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ตฌ์กฐ์ ์ธ ๋ฌธ์ œ์—ฌ์„œ ํ–ฅํ›„ 5๋…„๊ฐ„ ํ•ด๋‹น ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ์‹ ์ค‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ถ•์†Œํ•ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์ธ ๊ฑด๊ฐ€์š”?
President & CFO: So Natural, as you mentioned, has a higher profitability and historically had a higher margin profile due to the specialized and differentiated product assortments as well as their ability to -- or our ability to have higher operating leverage on warehousing and transportation cost just based on the network and the composition of the business. Now across both segments, we are focused on driving greater profitability with a focus on 3 areas. I mean, the first one is to improve product and service mix. The second one is to continue to drive greater efficiency, so shrink indirect costs, operating expenses. And then the third element is how do we continue to embed lean into our operations and identify it through lean ways to be both more effective and more efficient. So if you think about the margin trajectory, we grew about 10 basis points, '25 to '24 with the headwind from the cyber incident. We're growing the guidance -- midpoint of the guidance about 35 basis points between '26 and '25. And then with the $730 million of EBITDA direction for 2027, that will be about 60 basis points of margin expansion versus 2024. So we're working all the levers, balancing, creating customer -- value for customers and suppliers, becoming a more effective business partner and then planned efficiencies.**President & CFO:** ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹  ๋Œ€๋กœ Natural ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์€ ๋” ๋†’์€ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ์„ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ ์œผ๋กœ๋„ ์ „๋ฌธํ™”๋˜๊ณ  ์ฐจ๋ณ„ํ™”๋œ ์ œํ’ˆ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ ๋ฐ ์‚ฌ์—… ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ํ•œ ์ฐฝ๊ณ  ๋ฐ ์šด์†ก๋น„์šฉ์—์„œ์˜ ๋†’์€ ์šด์˜ ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ ๋•๋ถ„์— ๋” ๋†’์€ ๋งˆ์ง„ ํ”„๋กœํŒŒ์ผ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ˜„์žฌ ๋‘ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ ๋ชจ๋‘์—์„œ 3๊ฐ€์ง€ ์˜์—ญ์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜์—ฌ ๋” ํฐ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ์„ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ๋Š” ์ œํ’ˆ ๋ฐ ์„œ๋น„์Šค ๋ฏน์Šค ๊ฐœ์„ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ๋Š” ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ ํ–ฅ์ƒ, ์ฆ‰ ๊ฐ„์ ‘๋น„์šฉ๊ณผ ์šด์˜๋น„์šฉ ์ ˆ๊ฐ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์„ธ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์š”์†Œ๋Š” ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋ฉด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์šด์˜์— ๋ฆฐ(lean) ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚ด์žฌํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ , ๋ฆฐ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋”์šฑ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ด๊ณ  ํšจ์œจ์ ์ธ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•๋“ค์„ ์ฐพ์•„๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”๊ฐ€ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ง„ ๊ถค์ ์„ ์‚ดํŽด๋ณด๋ฉด, ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฒ„ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ์—ญํ’์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  2024๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 2025๋…„์— ์•ฝ 10๋ฒ ์ด์‹œ์Šคํฌ์ธํŠธ ์„ฑ์žฅํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2025๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ 2026๋…„์—๋Š” ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค ์ค‘๊ฐ„๊ฐ’ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ์•ฝ 35๋ฒ ์ด์‹œ์Šคํฌ์ธํŠธ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  2027๋…„ EBITDA 7์–ต 3์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•˜๋ฉด 2024๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์•ฝ 60๋ฒ ์ด์‹œ์Šคํฌ์ธํŠธ์˜ ๋งˆ์ง„ ํ™•๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ฐฝ์ถœ, ๋” ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ธ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ณ„ํš๋œ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ ๊ฐœ์„  ์‚ฌ์ด์˜ ๊ท ํ˜•์„ ๋งž์ถฐ๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Mark Carden with UBS.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ UBS์˜ Mark Carden๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ์ฃผ์‹  ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Mark Carden: UBS Investment Bank, Research Division So to start on your updated 3-year guidance, you're boosting your sales growth expectations to low single-digit range. And you talked a bit about the stronger-than-anticipated organic growth. Are you guys -- any shifts to how you're approaching planned customer attrition or any assumptions for new account growth going forward? Just some more color on how you're thinking about the balance would be great.**Mark Carden:** ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ๋œ 3๊ฐœ๋…„ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉด ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ ์ „๋ง์„ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์ €์„ฑ์žฅ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ƒํ–ฅ ์กฐ์ •ํ•˜์…จ๊ณ , ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ๊ฐ•ํ•œ ์œ ๊ธฐ์  ์„ฑ์žฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋„ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•˜์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ„ํš๋œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ดํƒˆ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ ‘๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์‹์— ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€, ๋˜๋Š” ํ–ฅํ›„ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๊ณ„์ • ์„ฑ์žฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ •์— ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๊ท ํ˜•์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ์ง€ ์ข€ ๋” ์ž์„ธํžˆ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
CEO & Director: Mark, our view is that as we migrate to our addressable market of $90 billion, we've done some optimization, particularly in the Conventional side, which has been a headwind to overall growth. But beyond that, inside the addressable market, we've seen solid growth in our customer file, both from a new customer and expanding categories with existing customer perspective. And I'd say the thing that's changed is the organic tailwind in natural organic and higher levels of customer file growth and customer retention. And our strategy on the whole for the various segments hasn't changed at all. We're just performing slightly better than we expected when we originally guided last year.**CEO & Director:** 900์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ๋ชฉํ‘œ ์‹œ์žฅ(addressable market)์œผ๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ผ๋ถ€ ์ตœ์ ํ™” ์ž‘์—…์„ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ํŠนํžˆ ๊ธฐ์กด ์‚ฌ์—…(Conventional) ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ž‘์—…์ด ์ „์ฒด ์„ฑ์žฅ์— ์—ญํ’์œผ๋กœ ์ž‘์šฉํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ ์™ธ์—๋Š” ๋ชฉํ‘œ ์‹œ์žฅ ๋‚ด์—์„œ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ํ™•๋ณด์™€ ๊ธฐ์กด ๊ณ ๊ฐ์˜ ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ ํ™•์žฅ ์–‘์ชฝ ๋ชจ๋‘์—์„œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์ด ๊ฒฌ์‹คํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ณ€ํ™”ํ•œ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์ฒœ์—ฐ ์œ ๊ธฐ๋† ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์˜ ์œ ๊ธฐ์  ์„ฑ์žฅ ๋™๋ ฅ๊ณผ ๋” ๋†’์€ ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๋ฐ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์œ ์ง€์œจ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์‚ฌ์—… ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ „์ฒด์ ์ธ ์ „๋žต์€ ์ „ํ˜€ ๋ฐ”๋€Œ์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋งŒ ์ž‘๋…„์— ์ฒ˜์Œ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ์‹œํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ์•ฝ๊ฐ„ ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์„ ๋ฟ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Mark Carden: UBS Investment Bank, Research Division Okay. Great. And then just in terms of the current backdrop, are you guys seeing any shifts to the industry promotional backdrop? And just how is that shaping up relative to your expectations with all the unevenness in the consumer backdrop?**Mark Carden:** ํ˜„์žฌ ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ ์—…๊ณ„์˜ ํ”„๋กœ๋ชจ์…˜ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์— ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์†Œ๋น„์ž ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์˜ ๋ถˆ๊ท ๋“ฑํ•จ์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•  ๋•Œ, ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์˜ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๊ณผ ๋น„๊ตํ•ด์„œ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ „๊ฐœ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€์š”?
President & CFO: Mark, we see the promotion cadence edging up, but it remains very disciplined. So the share of volume sold on deal is still running below 2019. We see selectively at least in activities and kind of leaning harder into digital coupons, retail media placements, [ deferred ] share, which also supports the future value proposition of our UMN. What we consider for our outlook for fiscal 2026 is basically an immaterial step change in promotion levels. So very consistent with 2025.**President & CFO:** ๋งˆํฌ, ํ”„๋กœ๋ชจ์…˜ ๋นˆ๋„๊ฐ€ ์•ฝ๊ฐ„ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋งค์šฐ ์ ˆ์ œ๋œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ• ์ธ๊ฐ€๋กœ ํŒ๋งค๋˜๋Š” ๋ฌผ๋Ÿ‰ ๋น„์ค‘์ด ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ 2019๋…„๋ณด๋‹ค ๋‚ฎ์€ ์ˆ˜์ค€์—์„œ ์šด์˜๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ ๋ณ„์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ™œ๋™์„ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ์ฟ ํฐ, ๋ฆฌํ…Œ์ผ ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด ๋ฐฐ์น˜, ์ง€์—ฐ ์ ์œ ์œจ ๋“ฑ์— ๋” ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ UMN์˜ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ œ์•ˆ๋„ ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ์ „๋ง์—์„œ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ”„๋กœ๋ชจ์…˜ ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ๋ฏธ๋ฏธํ•œ ๋‹จ๊ณ„์  ๋ณ€ํ™”์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2025๋…„๊ณผ ๋งค์šฐ ์ผ๊ด€๋œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด์ฃ .
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Kelly Bania with BMO Capital Markets.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ BMO ์บํ”ผํ„ธ ๋งˆ์ผ“์˜ ์ผˆ๋ฆฌ ๋ฐ”๋‹ˆ์•„๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Kelly Bania: BMO Capital Markets Equity Research First, I just want to clarify, I think I heard volume metrics that you gave. Are we right to assume that volumes would have been about positive 2% excluding the cyber incident in the quarter? And just can you clarify how that would look across the channels, just assuming the incident was kind of equally distributed across the channels. Is that a fair assumption?**Kelly Bania:** BMO ์บํ”ผํ„ธ ๋งˆ์ผ“ ์ฃผ์‹ ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜์—์„œ ๋จผ์ € ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๊ฒƒ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ง์”€ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹  ๋ณผ๋ฅจ ์ง€ํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋“ค์—ˆ๋Š”์ง€ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€๋ฐ์š”. ๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ค‘ ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฒ„ ์‚ฌ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ์ œ์™ธํ•˜๋ฉด ๋ณผ๋ฅจ์ด ์•ฝ 2% ํ”Œ๋Ÿฌ์Šค์˜€์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ๋งž๋‚˜์š”? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ•ด๋‹น ์‚ฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ ์ฑ„๋„์— ๊ท ๋“ฑํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ถ„์‚ฐ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์ •ํ•  ๋•Œ, ์ฑ„๋„๋ณ„๋กœ๋Š” ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ณด์ผ์ง€ ๋ช…ํ™•ํžˆ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”? ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๊ฐ€์ •์ด ํ•ฉ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ๊ฐ€์š”?
President & CFO: Kelly, so volume was up about 1.5% for full year in 2025. And as you can imagine, with Natural being up high single digits and then on a reported basis with the cyber headwind Conventional being flattish year-over-year, volumes were clearly more skewed towards Natural than Conventional. So overall, the cyber impact was probably a little bit heavier on the Conventional front. Our ability to recover through some of the many, many processes where we activated was quicker in Natural. And so with that, we had probably a little bit more of an impact in Conventional. You'll see it also as we think about year-on-year kind of tailwinds into 2026 EBITDA.**President & CFO:** ์ผˆ๋ฆฌ, 2025๋…„ ์ „์ฒด ๋ณผ๋ฅจ์ด ์•ฝ 1.5% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋‚ด์ถ”๋Ÿด(Natural) ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์ด ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ํ›„๋ฐ˜ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์œจ์„ ๋ณด์ธ ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด, ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฒ„ ์—ญํ’์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋ณด๊ณ  ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ์ปจ๋ฒค์…”๋„(Conventional) ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์ด ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๋ณดํ•ฉ์„ธ๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ, ๋ณผ๋ฅจ์ด ์ปจ๋ฒค์…”๋„๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š” ๋‚ด์ถ”๋Ÿด ์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ ๋ช…ํ™•ํžˆ ๋” ์น˜์šฐ์ณ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฒ„ ์˜ํ–ฅ์€ ์ปจ๋ฒค์…”๋„ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋” ์‹ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€๋™ํ•œ ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•œ ํšŒ๋ณต ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์ด ๋‚ด์ถ”๋Ÿด ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ๋” ๋นจ๋ž๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ปจ๋ฒค์…”๋„ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋” ํฐ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” 2026๋…„ EBITDA์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ „๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์ˆœํ’ ์š”์ธ์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•  ๋•Œ๋„ ํ™•์ธํ•˜์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Kelly Bania: BMO Capital Markets Equity Research Okay. That's helpful. And I guess as we just kind of step back and think about the updated algorithm over the next few years here, what is the biggest contributing factor that is leading to raise the adjusted EBITDA algorithm?**Kelly Bania:** ๋„ค, ๋„์›€์ด ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ–ฅํ›„ ๋ช‡ ๋…„๊ฐ„์˜ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ๋œ ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜์„ ์ „์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ดํŽด๋ณผ ๋•Œ, ์กฐ์ • EBITDA ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜ ์ƒํ–ฅ ์กฐ์ •์˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ๊ธฐ์—ฌ ์š”์ธ์€ ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ๊ฐ€์š”?
President & CFO: Kelly, it's really 3 things. First one is, we were modeling a year ago to be flat in terms of top line growth. And now we are seeing low single digits through the combination of a strong resilient Natural business and also our ability to retain more customers as part of the network optimization. The second element is the continuous progress with shrink reduction and the suppliers' programs. These have been both positive in '24 and '25, and we continue to see the trend into 2026 with tight daily management. And then the third area is really the productivity effort. So if you recall, in 2024, we remargin the business with about $150 million. In 2025, we reduced OpEx by about 50 basis points as a percentage of sales, that on $30 billion is about $150 million. And the journey continues into '26 and '27. '26 is going to be a full year realization of the actions that we launched in 2025. And then '26 across '27 is the focus that we're putting on indirect spend.**President & CFO:** ์ผˆ๋ฆฌ, ์„ธ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์š”์ธ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ๋Š” 1๋…„ ์ „์— ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์ด ์ œ๋กœ ์„ฑ์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ๋ชจ๋ธ๋งํ–ˆ์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ง€๊ธˆ์€ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ•˜๊ณ  ํšŒ๋ณต๋ ฅ ์žˆ๋Š” Natural ์‚ฌ์—…๊ณผ ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ ์ตœ์ ํ™”๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์œ ์ง€์œจ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์˜ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉ์œผ๋กœ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์ €์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์š”์†Œ๋Š” ์žฌ๊ณ  ์†์‹ค ๊ฐ์†Œ์™€ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์˜ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ๊ฐœ์„ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ชจ๋‘ 2024๋…„๊ณผ 2025๋…„์— ๊ธ์ •์ ์ด์—ˆ๊ณ , ์—„๊ฒฉํ•œ ์ผ์ผ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด 2026๋…„๊นŒ์ง€ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ์ถ”์„ธ๊ฐ€ ๊ณ„์†๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์„ธ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์˜์—ญ์€ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ ํ–ฅ์ƒ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•˜์‹œ๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ 2024๋…„์—๋Š” ์•ฝ 1์–ต 5์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์—… ๋งˆ์ง„์„ ์žฌ์กฐ์ •ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2025๋…„์—๋Š” ๋งค์ถœ ๋Œ€๋น„ ์šด์˜๋น„๋ฅผ ์•ฝ 50๋ฒ ์ด์‹œ์Šคํฌ์ธํŠธ ์ค„์˜€๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” 300์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ์•ฝ 1์–ต 5์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด ์—ฌ์ •์€ 26๋…„๊ณผ 27๋…„๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ณ„์†๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 26๋…„์—๋Š” 2025๋…„์— ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•œ ์กฐ์น˜๋“ค์˜ ์™„์ „ํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์‹คํ˜„์„ ๋ณด๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  26๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 27๋…„์— ๊ฑธ์ณ์„œ๋Š” ๊ฐ„์ ‘๋น„ ์ง€์ถœ์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Our next question will come from the line of Scott Mushkin with R5 Capital.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ R5 Capital์˜ Scott Mushkin์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฐ›๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
R5 Capital LLC: Thanks for all the details you guys have given on the company. It's really helpful. So my question is really strategic and it really has to do with the relationship with Amazon and is there any way to make it more symbiotic? Amazon is out there, creating a 3P network of grocers. So the question would be, can you bundle your smaller and mid-sized customers to participate in that network? Could you create a buying consortium since you guys sell a lot of the same products and you're obviously serving their Whole Foods banner? And then could you put Cub into that 3P network? So I just kind of want to get a feel for, do you think this relationship could grow over time?**R5 Capital LLC:** ๋ชจ๋“  ์„ธ๋ถ€ ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ์ •๋ง ๋„์›€์ด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ์ „๋žต์ ์ธ ๋‚ด์šฉ์œผ๋กœ ์•„๋งˆ์กด๊ณผ์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ธ๋ฐ, ์ด ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋”์šฑ ์ƒํ˜ธ ๋ณด์™„์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ด ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?

์•„๋งˆ์กด์€ ํ˜„์žฌ ์‹๋ฃŒํ’ˆ์—…์ฒด๋“ค์˜ 3P ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€, ๊ท€ํ•˜์˜ ์ค‘์†Œ๊ทœ๋ชจ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์„ ๋ฌถ์–ด์„œ ํ•ด๋‹น ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ์— ์ฐธ์—ฌ์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ๊ท€ํ•˜๊ฐ€ ๋™์ผํ•œ ์ œํ’ˆ๋“ค์„ ๋งŽ์ด ํŒ๋งคํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ  ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ํ™€ํ‘ธ์ฆˆ ๋งค์žฅ์—๋„ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ, ๊ตฌ๋งค ์ปจ์†Œ์‹œ์—„์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  Cub์„ ๊ทธ 3P ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ์— ํฌํ•จ์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”?

์ด ๊ด€๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚˜๋ฉด์„œ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณด์‹œ๋Š”์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ๊ฒฌํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋“ฃ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
CEO & Director: Scott, it's Sandy. As you know, we have a policy not to comment on specific customers and we'll continue to live by that policy in this answer. What I would say, though, broadly, is that, particularly with our enterprise accounts, we develop a very customized and tailored strategy of creating value for and with them and that would include the widest possible range of values that we could usually agree to pursue. And I think you can be assured that, that would include the customer you mentioned as a high priority for us. I would say, in parallel, though, that we are working on a segmented basis to improve our ability to grow profitably and to help customers of all sizes, in particular, small independents that are very agile and innovative, both from a wholesale supply standpoint and also for our suppliers. So think of it as a segmented approach with a range of enterprise value drivers up to and including our largest customer and then ranging down through the segments to independents as well.**CEO & Director:** ์Šค์ฝง, ์ƒŒ๋””์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„์‹œ๋‹ค์‹œํ”ผ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํŠน์ • ๊ณ ๊ฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ์ •์ฑ…์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋‹ต๋ณ€์—์„œ๋„ ๊ทธ ์ •์ฑ…์„ ๊ณ„์† ์ง€์ผœ๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋งŒ ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, ํŠนํžˆ ์—”ํ„ฐํ”„๋ผ์ด์ฆˆ ๊ณ„์ •์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋งค์šฐ ๋งž์ถคํ™”๋˜๊ณ  ์„ธ์‹ฌํ•œ ์ „๋žต์„ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ•ฉ์˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋“ค์ด ํฌํ•จ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹  ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋„ ์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ ๋†’์€ ์šฐ์„ ์ˆœ์œ„๋ผ๋Š” ์ ์„ ํ™•์‹ ํ•˜์…”๋„ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋™์‹œ์— ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์„ธ๋ถ„ํ™”๋œ ์ ‘๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ ์žˆ๋Š” ์„ฑ์žฅ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•˜๊ณ , ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค, ํŠนํžˆ ๋งค์šฐ ๋ฏผ์ฒฉํ•˜๊ณ  ํ˜์‹ ์ ์ธ ์†Œ๊ทœ๋ชจ ๋…๋ฆฝ์—…์ฒด๋“ค์„ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋„๋งค ๊ณต๊ธ‰ ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ๋„ ๋งˆ์ฐฌ๊ฐ€์ง€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๋ฅผ ์ตœ๋Œ€ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•ด์„œ ๊ฐ ์„ธ๊ทธ๋จผํŠธ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์ณ ๋…๋ฆฝ์—…์ฒด๋“ค๊นŒ์ง€ ์•„์šฐ๋ฅด๋Š” ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๊ธฐ์—… ๊ฐ€์น˜ ๋™๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ์„ธ๋ถ„ํ™”๋œ ์ ‘๊ทผ๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
R5 Capital LLC: It seems if you've teamed up, you could really help those smaller players over time. The second question is, obviously, you've been rationalizing distribution and automating, making it more efficient. If your volumes came in much stronger than you're anticipating over the next 2 to 3 years, walk us through whether you would need significant capital investment and facility expansion.**R5 Capital LLC:** ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚˜๋ฉด์„œ ์†Œ๊ทœ๋ชจ ์—…์ฒด๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ •๋ง ๋„์›€์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€, ๋ถ„๋ช…ํžˆ ์œ ํ†ต์„ ํ•ฉ๋ฆฌํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ž๋™ํ™”๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์„ ๋†’์ด๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ๋ฐ์š”. ํ–ฅํ›„ 2-3๋…„๊ฐ„ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋ฌผ๋Ÿ‰์ด ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋งŽ์ด ๋“ค์–ด์˜จ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ์ž๋ณธ ํˆฌ์ž์™€ ์‹œ์„ค ํ™•์žฅ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•œ์ง€ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”?
CEO & Director: Sure. I guess the best way to describe that is that we have been both rationalizing to optimize distribution centers and expanding and growing. Most recently, as we mentioned in our prepared remarks, in Natural, we opened a new DC in Manchester, Pennsylvania that's an automated DC and then we opened a new DC in Sarasota, Florida, between them 400,000 incremental square feet and different automation applications in each of the 2, to facilitate accelerated growth in those regions. We'll continue to optimize the network as our technology road map takes hold, we'll develop more agility and flexibility in the network. But at this stage, our growth is well contained in our 3-year plan and then the outlook we've provided.**CEO & Director:** ๋„ค, ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ข‹์€ ์„ค๋ช… ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์€ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์œ ํ†ต์„ผํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ํ•ฉ๋ฆฌํ™”ํ•˜์—ฌ ์ตœ์ ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ๋™์‹œ์— ํ™•์žฅ๊ณผ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๋ณ‘ํ–‰ํ•ด์™”๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ตœ๊ทผ์—๋Š” ์ค€๋น„๋œ ๋ฐœ์–ธ์—์„œ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋“ฏ์ด, Natural ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ํŽœ์‹ค๋ฒ ์ด๋‹ˆ์•„์ฃผ ๋งจ์ฒด์Šคํ„ฐ์— ์ž๋™ํ™” ์œ ํ†ต์„ผํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์ƒˆ๋กœ ๊ฐœ์„คํ–ˆ๊ณ , ํ”Œ๋กœ๋ฆฌ๋‹ค์ฃผ ์‚ฌ๋ผ์†Œํƒ€์—๋„ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์œ ํ†ต์„ผํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์—ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋‘ ๊ณณ์„ ํ•ฉ์ณ 40๋งŒ ํ‰๋ฐฉํ”ผํŠธ์˜ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ฐ๊ฐ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ž๋™ํ™” ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ์ ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ํ•ด๋‹น ์ง€์—ญ์˜ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”๋œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋กœ๋“œ๋งต์ด ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์žก์•„๊ฐ€๋ฉด์„œ ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ๋ฅผ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ตœ์ ํ™”ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ์˜ ๋ฏผ์ฒฉ์„ฑ๊ณผ ์œ ์—ฐ์„ฑ์„ ๋”์šฑ ๋ฐœ์ „์‹œ์ผœ ๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ํ˜„ ๋‹จ๊ณ„์—์„œ ์ €ํฌ ์„ฑ์žฅ์€ 3๊ฐœ๋…„ ๊ณ„ํš๊ณผ ์ œ์‹œํ•œ ์ „๋ง ๋ฒ”์œ„ ๋‚ด์—์„œ ์ž˜ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
President & CFO: And if I can add a couple of thoughts here also. Scott, in the $250 million capital investment that we have for 2026 and beyond, we always assign a portion of that to automation and modernization. So as Sandy mentioned, we're going to have Sarasota going live with new automated technologies and also we're going to have Joliet going live in about 12 months. That brings the total count of automated DCs within our portfolio to 6. And then we're also using lean not only as a way to improve safety and improve quality and delivery and cost, but also as ways to optimize our layout and create more capacity. So when you put both, the $250 million envelope to work and a lean lens on our processes, we had opportunities to expand capacity without necessarily going too long relative to CapEx.**President & CFO:** ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์— ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ƒ๊ฐ์„ ๋” ๋ง๋ถ™์ด๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์Šค์ฝง, 2026๋…„ ์ดํ›„๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ 2์–ต 5์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ž๋ณธ ํˆฌ์ž์—์„œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ํ•ญ์ƒ ์ผ์ • ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ์ž๋™ํ™”์™€ ํ˜„๋Œ€ํ™”์— ํ• ๋‹นํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒŒ๋””๊ฐ€ ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋“ฏ์ด, ์‚ฌ๋ผ์†Œํƒ€์—์„œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ž๋™ํ™” ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด ๊ฐ€๋™๋  ์˜ˆ์ •์ด๊ณ , ์กธ๋ฆฌ์—ฃ๋„ ์•ฝ 12๊ฐœ์›” ํ›„์— ๊ฐ€๋™๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋ฉด ์ €ํฌ ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค ๋‚ด ์ž๋™ํ™”๋œ ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜์„ผํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ์ด 6๊ฐœ๊ฐ€ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋˜ํ•œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋ฆฐ(lean) ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ์•ˆ์ „์„ฑ ๊ฐœ์„ , ํ’ˆ์งˆ๊ณผ ๋ฐฐ์†ก ๋ฐ ๋น„์šฉ ๊ฐœ์„ ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๋ ˆ์ด์•„์›ƒ์„ ์ตœ์ ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ๋„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ 2์–ต 5์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์˜ˆ์‚ฐ์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜๊ณ  ์ €ํฌ ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค์— ๋ฆฐ ๊ด€์ ์„ ์ ์šฉํ•˜๋ฉด, ์ž๋ณธ์ง€์ถœ(CapEx) ๋Œ€๋น„ ๊ณผ๋„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์žฅ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ํˆฌ์žํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ์ƒ์‚ฐ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ์„ ํ™•์žฅํ•  ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Alex Slagle with Jefferies.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ์ œํ”„๋ฆฌ์Šค์˜ ์•Œ๋ ‰์Šค ์Šฌ๋ž˜๊ธ€๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Alexander Slagle: Jefferies LLC, Research Division Congrats. I wonder if you could talk about how we should think about the balance of where the margin gains flow through in '26 would kind of come? I would imagine there'd be more of it on the OpEx side, net-net. But I think you mentioned you expect the OpEx margin, the return at the levels from 1Q to 3Q levels. So just kind of curious how you're thinking about that for '26.**Alexander Slagle:** ์ถ•ํ•˜๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2026๋…„์— ๋งˆ์ง„ ๊ฐœ์„ ์ด ์–ด๋–ค ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ ์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ์ „์ฒด์ ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์šด์˜๋น„(OpEx) ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฐœ์„ ์ด ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ๊ฐ๋˜๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์šด์˜๋น„ ๋งˆ์ง„์ด 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ์—์„œ 3๋ถ„๊ธฐ ์ˆ˜์ค€์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐˆ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹  ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ 2026๋…„์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
President & CFO: Alexander, let me walk you through the big pieces of the EBITDA expansion or the EBITDA growth. So if you start with $552 million of adjusted EBITDA for '25 as a jumping off point, then we would add the $50 million of the cyber incident-related losses that are not repeat. And so rebaseline as at $600 million for 2025. From there, there is EBITDA accretion from the exit of an unprofitable customer and distribution center that builds on the $600 million. There is the continuous progress on shrink and suppliers' funds. And then there is a third element of productivity, which, as I was mentioning earlier on, is centered on two areas. One is the full year realization of the 2025 actions. And the second area is really as we go and continue to deploy lean, finding more throughput opportunities and then going after the indirect spend, which is a meaningful portion of the $4 billion spending. So think about really these 4 blocks as you walk, '25 to '26 is the $50 million no repeat of cyber is the exit of the unprofitable contract, is the continuous programs in shrink and suppliers and then is the productivity actions.**President & CFO:** ์•Œ๋ ‰์‚ฐ๋”, EBITDA ํ™•์žฅ ๋˜๋Š” EBITDA ์„ฑ์žฅ์˜ ์ฃผ์š” ์š”์†Œ๋“ค์„ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2025๋…„ ์กฐ์ • EBITDA 5์–ต 5,200๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ์ถœ๋ฐœ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜๋ฉด, ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์— ๋ฐ˜๋ณต๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฒ„ ์‚ฌ๊ณ  ๊ด€๋ จ ์†์‹ค 5,000๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๋”ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ 2025๋…„ ๊ธฐ์ค€์„ ์„ 6์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์žฌ์„ค์ •ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ์ด ์—†๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜์„ผํ„ฐ ์ฒ ์ˆ˜๋กœ ์ธํ•œ EBITDA ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋ถ„์ด 6์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์— ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์žฌ๊ณ  ์†์‹ค(shrink) ๊ฐœ์„ ๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด ํŽ€๋“œ์—์„œ์˜ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์ง„์ „๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์„ธ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์š”์†Œ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์•ž์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ”์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด ์ด๋Š” ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์˜์—ญ์— ์ง‘์ค‘๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” 2025๋…„ ์กฐ์น˜๋“ค์˜ ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ์™„์ „ ์‹คํ˜„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์˜์—ญ์€ ๋ฆฐ(lean) ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋„์ž…ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๋Ÿ‰ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๊ณ , 40์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ง€์ถœ์—์„œ ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฐ„์ ‘ ์ง€์ถœ์„ ๊ณต๋žตํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

25๋…„์—์„œ 26๋…„์œผ๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๋ฉด์„œ ์ด 4๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ธ”๋ก์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด, 5์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋Š” ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฒ„ ๋ณด์•ˆ ๋น„์šฉ์˜ ๋น„๋ฐ˜๋ณต์„ฑ์ด๊ณ , ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ ์—†๋Š” ๊ณ„์•ฝ ์ข…๋ฃŒ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ถ•์†Œ ๋ฐ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด ๊ด€๋ จ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ๋“ค, ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ ํ–ฅ์ƒ ์กฐ์น˜๋“ค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Alexander Slagle: Jefferies LLC, Research Division Got it. And on tariff impact. I don't know if you mentioned anything there. I know you were talking about a moderate impact you thought, but what's the backdrop look like at this point now? Are there any unknowns that you're working through?**Alexander Slagle:** ๊ด€์„ธ ์˜ํ–ฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ํ˜„์žฌ ์ ๋‹นํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ ธ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ง€๊ธˆ ์‹œ์ ์—์„œ ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ณด์ด๋Š”์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์•„์ง ํŒŒ์•…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ถˆํ™•์‹คํ•œ ์š”์†Œ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
CEO & Director: Alex, I guess our view on tariffs, while it's still fairly dynamic, we're very closely partnering with suppliers and customers to help all of them navigate and compete across the various segments where they're operating. We have a cross-functional task force monitoring the new development scenario planning with customers and providing product alternatives that were necessary. And ultimately, I think the key theme is to work as hard as we possibly can to help our customers keep prices as low as possible, which we believe will help us and then drive sustainable and profitable long-term growth. At this stage, we're being able to manage it in a very agile way and continue to expect to do so.**CEO & Director:** ๊ด€์„ธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ €ํฌ ๊ฒฌํ•ด๋Š” ์•„์ง ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ์œ ๋™์ ์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด์™€ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ๊ฐ์ž ์šด์˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿํ•˜๊ณ  ์ ์‘ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๊ธด๋ฐ€ํžˆ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ๋ชจ๋‹ˆํ„ฐ๋งํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค๊ณผ ์‹œ๋‚˜๋ฆฌ์˜ค ๊ณ„ํš์„ ์ˆ˜๋ฆฝํ•˜๋ฉฐ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์ œํ’ˆ ๋Œ€์•ˆ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ๊ต์ฐจ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ ํƒœ์Šคํฌํฌ์Šค๋ฅผ ์šด์˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ถ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์€ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ํ•œ ๋‚ฎ์€ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ์ตœ์„ ์„ ๋‹คํ•ด ๋•๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ๋„ ๋„์›€์ด ๋˜๊ณ  ์ง€์† ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ ์žˆ๋Š” ์žฅ๊ธฐ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฏฟ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„ ๋‹จ๊ณ„์—์„œ๋Š” ๋งค์šฐ ๋ฏผ์ฒฉํ•œ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์•ž์œผ๋กœ๋„ ๊ณ„์† ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Bill Kirk with ROTH Capital.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ROTH Capital์˜ Bill Kirk๋‹˜์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
William Kirk: ROTH Capital Partners, LLC, Research Division So I don't think I saw a reconciliation for reported EPS and the adjusted EPS guide for fiscal '26. And I guess, given the delta is pretty large, could you help us by maybe giving some buckets and some sizing of the onetimes that you expect in fiscal '26 that weigh on the reported and obviously not on the adjusted?**William Kirk:** ๋ณด๊ณ ๋œ EPS์™€ 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ์กฐ์ • EPS ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค ๊ฐ„์˜ ์กฐ์ •ํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๋ณธ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ ์ฐจ์ด๊ฐ€ ๊ฝค ํฐ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์€๋ฐ, 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์— ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋˜๋Š” ์ผํšŒ์„ฑ ํ•ญ๋ชฉ๋“ค์„ ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ฒ”์ฃผ๋กœ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„์–ด ๊ทœ๋ชจ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ์ด๋Ÿฐ ํ•ญ๋ชฉ๋“ค์ด ๋ณด๊ณ ๋œ ์‹ค์ ์—๋Š” ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ์ฃผ์ง€๋งŒ ์กฐ์ • ์‹ค์ ์—๋Š” ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ์ฃผ์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋“ค ๋ง์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
President & CFO: Yes, so the big pieces here are on the adjusted EPS what you would expect is to see the benefit of the no repeat of the $50 million or so of cyber-related losses. Then the expansion on EBITDA related to the exit of the unprofitable contract [indiscernible] the shrink and supplier benefits, supplier funds benefits and then the productivity. That kind of gets you from the $0.70 of adjusted EBITDA in 2025 to the midpoint, call it, $1.90 in 2026. Now relative to the reported over and above those, I mean, we would have the $25 million or so of cyber-related remediation costs and elevated expenses that we incurred that were adjusted out of adjusted EPS and EBITDA in 2025 and ran through the reported numbers, as well as when you think about the $53 million of Key Food termination fee, that would be a no repeat both -- or I guess, in the reported EPS in 2026. So the 2 big drivers between '25 and '26 in the reported numbers are the cyber-related costs and the no repeat of the termination fee.**President & CFO:** ๋„ค, ์กฐ์ • ์ฃผ๋‹น์ˆœ์ด์ต(adjusted EPS)์˜ ์ฃผ์š” ์š”์†Œ๋“ค์„ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, ๋จผ์ € ์•ฝ 5์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฒ„ ๊ด€๋ จ ์†์‹ค์ด ์žฌ๋ฐœํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋‹ค์Œ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ์ด ์—†๋Š” ๊ณ„์•ฝ ์ข…๋ฃŒ์™€ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ EBITDA ํ™•์žฅ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ถ•์†Œ ๋ฐ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด ํ˜œํƒ, ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด ํŽ€๋“œ ํ˜œํƒ, ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ ํ–ฅ์ƒ ๋“ฑ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์š”์†Œ๋“ค์ด 2025๋…„ ์กฐ์ • EBITDA 0.70๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์—์„œ 2026๋…„ ์ค‘๊ฐ„๊ฐ’์ธ ์•ฝ 1.90๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋กœ ์ƒ์Šนํ•˜๋Š” ๋™๋ ฅ์ด ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ณด๊ณ ๋œ ์ˆ˜์น˜๋“ค๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, 2025๋…„์— ์กฐ์ • ์ฃผ๋‹น์ˆœ์ด์ต(adjusted EPS)๊ณผ EBITDA์—์„œ ์ œ์™ธ๋˜๊ณ  ๋ณด๊ณ ๋œ ์ˆ˜์น˜์— ๋ฐ˜์˜๋œ ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฒ„ ๊ด€๋ จ ๋ณต๊ตฌ ๋น„์šฉ๊ณผ ์ฆ๊ฐ€๋œ ๋น„์šฉ์ด ์•ฝ 2,500๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ •๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ Key Food ๊ณ„์•ฝ ํ•ด์ง€ ์ˆ˜์ˆ˜๋ฃŒ 5,300๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, 2026๋…„ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์ฃผ๋‹น์ˆœ์ด์ต์—์„œ๋Š” ์žฌ๋ฐœํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์„ ํ•ญ๋ชฉ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ 2025๋…„๊ณผ 2026๋…„ ๋ณด๊ณ ๋œ ์ˆ˜์น˜ ๊ฐ„์˜ ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ฃผ์š” ๋ณ€๋™ ์š”์ธ์€ ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฒ„ ๊ด€๋ จ ๋น„์šฉ๊ณผ ํ•ด์ง€ ์ˆ˜์ˆ˜๋ฃŒ์˜ ๋น„๋ฐ˜๋ณต์„ฑ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
William Kirk: ROTH Capital Partners, LLC, Research Division I guess what I'm going for, it looks like -- it sounds like we got some of it is the difference between reported 2026 and adjusted 2026. So forget the 2025 onetime for a second, what are the onetimes in 2026 that are driving that difference?**William Kirk:** ROTH Capital Partners์—์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ž ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€, ๋ณด๊ณ ๋œ 2026๋…„ ์ˆ˜์น˜์™€ ์กฐ์ •๋œ 2026๋…„ ์ˆ˜์น˜ ๊ฐ„์˜ ์ฐจ์ด์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2025๋…„ ์ผํšŒ์„ฑ ํ•ญ๋ชฉ์€ ์ž ์‹œ ์ œ์ณ๋‘๊ณ , 2026๋…„์— ๊ทธ ์ฐจ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ์ผํšŒ์„ฑ ํ•ญ๋ชฉ๋“ค์ด ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ์ง€ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
President & CFO: There is severance. For instance, we continue to invest in kind of optimization and kind of restructuring plan. So we have that. We have always a placeholder for transformation initiatives. I think that these are kind of the big components.**President & CFO:** ํ‡ด์ง๊ธˆ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด, ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ตœ์ ํ™”์™€ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์กฐ์ • ๊ณ„ํš์— ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ํˆฌ์žํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๋น„์šฉ์ด ์žˆ๊ณ ์š”. ๋ณ€ํ™” ์ด๋‹ˆ์…”ํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ์˜ˆ์‚ฐ๋„ ํ•ญ์ƒ ํ™•๋ณดํ•ด๋‘๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์ด ์ฃผ์š” ๊ตฌ์„ฑ ์š”์†Œ๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Leah Jordan with Goldman Sachs.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ๊ณจ๋“œ๋งŒ์‚ญ์Šค์˜ ๋ฆฌ์•„ ์กฐ๋˜๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ์ฃผ์‹  ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Leah Jordan: Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division Just seeing if you could provide a little bit more detail on your sales outlook for '26. And just a cadence throughout the year and how you're thinking about volumes versus inflation, that would be helpful.**Leah Jordan:** 2026๋…„ ๋งค์ถœ ์ „๋ง์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ข€ ๋” ์ž์„ธํ•œ ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฐ์ค‘ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ƒํ™ฉ๊ณผ ๋ฌผ๋Ÿ‰ ๋Œ€ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฒฌํ•ด๋„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋ง์”€ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ๋„์›€์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
President & CFO: So relative to the way we're thinking about growth, at the midpoint of the guidance, so $31.8 billion, what we have reflected here is our focus on driving profitable revenue with greater level of profitability and free cash flow and this is what is driving the improvement in adjusted EBITDA growth and margin improvement. If you think about the midpoint, $31.8 billion is roughly flat versus 2025 and includes the organic sales growth that is led by our Natural business that is also enjoying a kind of secular tailwind and then this growth is offset by the impact of our DC network and retail optimization. But again, both reflects our focus on a strategic targeted addressable market of $90 billion as we redefined about a year ago. What we expect within the kind of organic growth is Natural to grow at a steady clip on an enduring long-lasting basis with our focus in Conventional being more on optimizing our portfolio and continuing to find win-win opportunities with our customers. So that's how we updated our 3-year sales objectives from flat '24 to '27 to low single digit. Relative to the seasonality in the year with Thanksgiving and Christmas being 2 holidays falling in the second quarter, we would always expect revenues to be higher in the second quarter and being the highest point in the year. And then, again, relative to seasonality, I think the other point that is relevant in terms of modeling is we tend to build inventory in the first quarter and the first half of the year. So we would expect some cash usage in the first quarter and kind of in the first part of the year and then rebalancing in the second part.**President & CFO:** ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค ์ค‘๊ฐ„๊ฐ’์ธ 318์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์ค€์œผ๋กœ ์„ฑ์žฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ €ํฌ ๊ด€์ ์„ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์— ๋ฐ˜์˜๋œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋” ๋†’์€ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ๊ณผ ์ž‰์—ฌํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„(free cash flow)์„ ํ†ตํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์ง‘์ค‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์กฐ์ • EBITDA ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ๊ณผ ๋งˆ์ง„ ๊ฐœ์„ ์„ ์ด๋Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ค‘๊ฐ„๊ฐ’์„ ๋ณด์‹œ๋ฉด, 318์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋Š” 2025๋…„ ๋Œ€๋น„ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ํšก๋ณด ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด๋ฉฐ, ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์—๋Š” Natural ์‚ฌ์—…์ด ์ฃผ๋„ํ•˜๋Š” ์œ ๊ธฐ์  ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ์ด ํฌํ•จ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. Natural ์‚ฌ์—…์€ ์ผ์ข…์˜ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์  ์ˆœํ’๋„ ๋ˆ„๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์€ DC ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ์™€ ๋ฆฌํ…Œ์ผ ์ตœ์ ํ™”์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ์‡„๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‹ค์‹œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์€ ์•ฝ 1๋…„ ์ „์— ์žฌ์ •์˜ํ•œ 900์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ์ „๋žต์  ๋ชฉํ‘œ ์‹œ์žฅ(targeted addressable market)์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ €ํฌ์˜ ์ง‘์ค‘์„ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์œ ๊ธฐ๋† ์„ฑ์žฅ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ”๋Š” Natural ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์ด ์ง€์†์ ์ด๊ณ  ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ์œ„์—์„œ ๊พธ์ค€ํ•œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, Conventional ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ๋Š” ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค ์ตœ์ ํ™”์™€ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ์œˆ-์œˆ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐœ๊ตดํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ๋” ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ 3๊ฐœ๋…„ ๋งค์ถœ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋ฅผ 24๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 27๋…„๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ณดํ•ฉ์—์„œ ์ €์„ฑ์žฅ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ƒํ–ฅ ์กฐ์ •ํ•œ ์ด์œ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์—ฐ์ค‘ ๊ณ„์ ˆ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ๋Š” ์ถ”์ˆ˜๊ฐ์‚ฌ์ ˆ๊ณผ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค๋ผ๋Š” ๋‘ ๋Œ€ํ˜• ํœด์ผ์ด 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ์— ๋ชฐ๋ ค ์žˆ์–ด ํ•ญ์ƒ 2๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋งค์ถœ์ด ๋” ๋†’์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์—ฐ์ค‘ ์ตœ๊ณ ์ ์ด ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ณ„์ ˆ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด์„œ ๋ชจ๋ธ๋ง ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ๊ด€๋ จ์„ฑ์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํฌ์ธํŠธ๋Š” ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ณดํ†ต 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ์™€ ์ƒ๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ์— ์žฌ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝํ–ฅ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1๋ถ„๊ธฐ์™€ ์—ฐ์ดˆ์—๋Š” ํ˜„๊ธˆ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ด ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ํ•˜๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ์— ๋‹ค์‹œ ๊ท ํ˜•์„ ๋งž์ถฐ๊ฐˆ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Leah Jordan: Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division That's very helpful. Then I just wanted to follow up on services. I know Sandy, you called out a number of services you provide and all the opportunity there. Just if you could provide more detail there. How has engagement tracked with your customers, the uptick there, which services are you seeing today? And what are the biggest opportunities long-term? And how should we think about any impact to top line growth versus more of a margin tailwind?**Leah Jordan:** ๋งค์šฐ ๋„์›€์ด ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ์„œ๋น„์Šค์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ํ›„์† ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ƒŒ๋””, ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹  ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋“ค๊ณผ ๊ทธ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•ด ์ฃผ์…จ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ์ข€ ๋” ์ž์„ธํ•œ ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ์•Œ๋ ค์ฃผ์‹ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ์š”? ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ์ฐธ์—ฌ๋„๋Š” ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ถ”์ด๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€, ๊ทธ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์„ธ๋Š” ์–ด๋–ค์ง€, ํ˜„์žฌ ์–ด๋–ค ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋“ค์—์„œ ์„ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ์ง€์š”? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋Š” ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ์ง€, ๋งค์ถœ ์„ฑ์žฅ์— ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ์˜ํ–ฅ๊ณผ ๋งˆ์ง„ ๊ฐœ์„  ํšจ๊ณผ ์ค‘ ์–ด๋А ์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ ๋” ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด์•ผ ํ• ์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
CEO & Director: Yes. Thanks, Leah. I really think about services in 2 buckets. One are the services that tend to flow with sales, whether they be retail merchandising, store design, equipment and those are sort of the legacy services that we've built and then the more value-added sort of elective services like credit card processing scale or some of our new digital services, whether that be the UNFI Retail Media Network or digital shelf tags and other innovation that we're working with various vendors on. And I think we can continue to expect a steady growth of the more basic services and then where we see the biggest opportunity is in the digital services and helping suppliers navigate our customer base and helping our customer base do the research and the homework to understand which digital applications are best for them and then connecting the dots for everybody to accelerate growth and make everyone more competitive, more efficient and more successful. And there's a whole lot of opportunity there given the wide range of innovation that's happening in the digital marketplace, and we see a significant value add for UNFI there.**CEO & Director:** ๋„ค, ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค, Leah. ์ €๋Š” ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ฒ”์ฃผ๋กœ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„์–ด ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ๋Š” ๋งค์ถœ๊ณผ ์—ฐ๋™๋˜๋Š” ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋“ค๋กœ, ์†Œ๋งค ๋จธ์ฒœ๋‹ค์ด์ง•, ๋งค์žฅ ๋””์ž์ธ, ์žฅ๋น„ ๋“ฑ์ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ์ด๋“ค์€ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•ด์˜จ ๊ธฐ์กด์˜ ๋ ˆ๊ฑฐ์‹œ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋“ค์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ๋Š” ๋” ๋ถ€๊ฐ€๊ฐ€์น˜๊ฐ€ ๋†’์€ ์„ ํƒ์  ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋“ค๋กœ, ์‹ ์šฉ์นด๋“œ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ ๊ทœ๋ชจ๋‚˜ UNFI ๋ฆฌํ…Œ์ผ ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ(UNFI Retail Media Network), ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ์ง„์—ด ํƒœ๊ทธ ๋“ฑ์˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋“ค, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ฒค๋”๋“ค๊ณผ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ธฐํƒ€ ํ˜์‹  ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋“ค์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ๋ณธ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋“ค์˜ ๊พธ์ค€ํ•œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ณ„์† ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋Š” ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ์„œ๋น„์Šค ๋ถ„์•ผ์—์„œ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด๋“ค์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์„ ์ž˜ ํ™œ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๋•๊ณ , ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ์–ด๋–ค ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ์• ํ”Œ๋ฆฌ์ผ€์ด์…˜์ด ์ž์‹ ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ ํ•ฉํ•œ์ง€ ์กฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•˜๋Š” ์ž‘์—…์„ ์ง€์›ํ•œ ๋‹ค์Œ, ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ด€๊ณ„์ž๋“ค์„ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐํ•ด์„œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ๋” ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ ์žˆ๊ณ  ํšจ์œจ์ ์ด๋ฉฐ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๋•๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ์ผ์–ด๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ด‘๋ฒ”์œ„ํ•œ ํ˜์‹ ์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•  ๋•Œ ์ด ๋ถ„์•ผ์—๋Š” ์—„์ฒญ๋‚œ ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, UNFI๊ฐ€ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ๋ถ€๊ฐ€๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถœํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Edward Kelly with Wells Fargo.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ Wells Fargo์˜ Edward Kelly๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Edward Kelly: Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division I wanted to touch on the secular growth sort of tailwind that you've mentioned in Natural organic industry or Natural segment. It seems like last year, there was some real acceleration in the industry and we're lapping that now. I'm kind of curious as to how you're sort of thinking about that? Are we entering somewhat of an air pocket because of that comparison where growth might be a little bit slower than what it might normally be for the industry there. And then longer term, sort of over time, is this still a subsegment that you think has growth roughly in sort of the mid-single-digit range, which I think is where a lot of sort of like industry sources would talk about that.**Edward Kelly:** ์ž์—ฐ ์œ ๊ธฐ๋† ์‚ฐ์—…์ด๋‚˜ ์ž์—ฐ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์—์„œ ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹  ๊ตฌ์กฐ์  ์„ฑ์žฅ ์ˆœํ’์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์งˆ๋ฌธ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž‘๋…„์— ์—…๊ณ„์—์„œ ์‹ค์งˆ์ ์ธ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์€๋ฐ, ์ง€๊ธˆ์€ ๊ทธ ์‹œ๊ธฐ์™€ ๋น„๊ตํ•˜๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๋น„๊ต ๊ธฐ์ค€ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๋‹ค์†Œ ๊ณต๋ฐฑ๊ธฐ์— ์ง„์ž…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑด์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์ด ํ•ด๋‹น ์—…๊ณ„์˜ ์ •์ƒ์ ์ธ ์ˆ˜์ค€๋ณด๋‹ค ๋‹ค์†Œ ๋‘”ํ™”๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑด์ง€์š”.

๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์ด ํ•˜์œ„ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์ด ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์ค‘๊ฐ„ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ๋ฒ”์œ„์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ ์„ ๋ณด์ผ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์‹œ๋Š”์ง€์š”? ๋งŽ์€ ์—…๊ณ„ ์ž๋ฃŒ๋“ค์ด ๊ทธ ์ •๋„ ์ˆ˜์ค€์œผ๋กœ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์€๋ฐ ๋ง์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
CEO & Director: I think your last comment is roughly what we expect to see from an industry perspective. We're in line with that. There's 2 other pieces of color that we would add. The first one is that we think it's an enduring trend. We think regardless of the economy, there's a significant uptick in mindful eating, healthy eating, wellness in general and that traverses economic segments to a degree. So we think that it's a very durable tailwind. The second piece of color I would mention is remember that our business is not exactly a mirror of the retail segment. We earn business by serving the needs of retailers who traverse the Natural position retailers as well as Conventional because they're also focused on growing their Natural business. And so we continue to view that as a strong growth area of the business. And we continue to view Conventional with differentiated retailers to be a durable segment as well. So that's how we kind of think about it.**CEO & Director:** ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์‹  ๋‚ด์šฉ์ด ์—…๊ณ„ ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ”์™€ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์ผ์น˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋„ ๊ฐ™์€ ์„ ์ƒ์— ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์— ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ๊ด€์ ์„ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ๋Š” ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฝ์ œ ์ƒํ™ฉ๊ณผ ๊ด€๊ณ„์—†์ด ์‹ ์ค‘ํ•œ ์‹์Šต๊ด€, ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•œ ์‹์Šต๊ด€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ์›ฐ๋‹ˆ์Šค์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์ด ์ƒ๋‹นํžˆ ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์–ด๋А ์ •๋„ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์  ๊ณ„์ธต์„ ๊ฐ€๋ฆฌ์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ด๋Š” ๋งค์šฐ ์ง€์† ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ์ˆœํ’์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ๋กœ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ์ ์€ ์ €ํฌ ์‚ฌ์—…์ด ์†Œ๋งค ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์„ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋‚ด์ถ”๋Ÿด ํฌ์ง€์…˜ ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ปจ๋ฒค์…”๋„ ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด์˜ ๋‹ˆ์ฆˆ๋ฅผ ์ถฉ์กฑ์‹œํ‚ด์œผ๋กœ์จ ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋“ค ์—ญ์‹œ ์ž์‹ ๋“ค์˜ ๋‚ด์ถ”๋Ÿด ์‚ฌ์—… ์„ฑ์žฅ์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ์ด ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์„ ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ๊ฐ•๋ ฅํ•œ ์„ฑ์žฅ ์˜์—ญ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณ„์† ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ฐจ๋ณ„ํ™”๋œ ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ์กด ์‚ฌ์—…(Conventional) ์—ญ์‹œ ์ง€์† ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•œ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์‹์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Edward Kelly: Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division Great. And just, I guess, maybe along those lines, I would imagine Conventional players continue to push deeper into that product offering. Has the landscape more recently in the tailwinds just really driven more of a desire from that customer base to push down that road. I would imagine that, that's obviously incremental margin for you. I'm just kind of curious as to what you're seeing sort of underneath of the demand trends from the Conventional players there?**Edward Kelly:** ๋„ค, ๋งž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ์กด ์—…์ฒด๋“ค์ด ํ•ด๋‹น ์ œํ’ˆ ๋ผ์ธ์— ๋” ๊นŠ์ด ์ง„์ถœํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ตœ๊ทผ์˜ ์‹œ์žฅ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ๊ณผ ์ˆœํ’์ด ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ํ•ด๋‹น ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ธต์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜์—ฌ๊ธˆ ๊ทธ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ๋”์šฑ ์ ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€๊ณ ์ž ํ•˜๋Š” ์š•๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๋ถˆ๋Ÿฌ์ผ์œผํ‚ค๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์—ฐํžˆ ์ด๋Š” ๊ท€ํ•˜์—๊ฒŒ ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ๋งˆ์ง„์„ ๊ฐ€์ ธ๋‹ค์ค„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ด๋Š”๋ฐ์š”. ๊ธฐ์กด ์—…์ฒด๋“ค๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ์˜ ์ˆ˜์š” ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ ์ด๋ฉด์—์„œ ์–ด๋–ค ์–‘์ƒ์„ ๋ชฉ๊ฒฉํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
CEO & Director: Yes. I think the way I'd describe that is, it obviously varies. The Conventional market is almost an oversimplified term. Retailers range in positioning and strategy widely from multicultural to value-added and all the way across to your neighborhood supermarket. My own view is that natural and organic and wellness products are an important component of any retailer's assortment, but it's going to vary depending on the positioning, how important that is to them. I do think and I continue to believe that the pure-play Natural retailers have a significant advantage because of the way they compete, but we're in the business of helping our customers succeed and we're going to meet them where they are with their strategy and the development of their business.**CEO & Director:** ๋„ค, ๊ทธ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ์„ค๋ช…๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด ๋ช…ํ™•ํžˆ ์ƒํ™ฉ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋‹ค๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ์กด ์‹œ์žฅ(Conventional market)์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์šฉ์–ด๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค ์ง€๋‚˜์น˜๊ฒŒ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ™”๋œ ํ‘œํ˜„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด๋“ค์€ ๋‹ค๋ฌธํ™” ์ค‘์‹ฌ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ถ€๊ฐ€๊ฐ€์น˜ ์ œ๊ณต, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋™๋„ค ์Šˆํผ๋งˆ์ผ“์— ์ด๋ฅด๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€ ํฌ์ง€์…”๋‹๊ณผ ์ „๋žต์ด ๋งค์šฐ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ œ ๊ฐœ์ธ์ ์ธ ๊ฒฌํ•ด๋กœ๋Š” ์ฒœ์—ฐ ๋ฐ ์œ ๊ธฐ๋†, ์›ฐ๋‹ˆ์Šค ์ œํ’ˆ๋“ค์ด ์–ด๋–ค ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด๋“  ์ƒํ’ˆ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์—์„œ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์š”์†Œ๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ํฌ์ง€์…”๋‹์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๊ทธ ์ค‘์š”๋„๋Š” ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์งˆ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ €๋Š” ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์ˆœ์ˆ˜ ์ฒœ์—ฐ ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด๋“ค(pure-play Natural retailers)์ด ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ ๋ฐฉ์‹ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ์šฐ์œ„๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์† ๋ฏฟ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณต์„ ๋•๋Š” ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์—, ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์ „๋žต๊ณผ ์‚ฌ์—… ๋ฐœ์ „ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์— ๋งž์ถฐ ๊ทธ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ณณ์—์„œ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Chuck Cerankosky with Northcoast Research.**Operator:** ๋‹ค์Œ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ Northcoast Research์˜ Chuck Cerankosky๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Charles Cerankosky: Northcoast Research Partners, LLC I want to talk about it from consumers point of view again. And you mentioned that some of their spending is cautious or guarded, careful, yet they're trying to eat in many cases, more healthily. How are they approaching their market basket in terms of branded products, fresh products, private label? And how does that influence UNFI's operations, especially as you approach product suppliers?**Charles Cerankosky:** ์†Œ๋น„์ž ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์˜ ์ง€์ถœ์ด ์‹ ์ค‘ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์…จ๋Š”๋ฐ, ๋™์‹œ์— ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ๋” ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋จน์œผ๋ ค๊ณ  ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋“ค์ด ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ์ œํ’ˆ, ์‹ ์„  ์ œํ’ˆ, ์ž์ฒด ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ(PL) ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ์žฅ๋ฐ”๊ตฌ๋‹ˆ๋ฅผ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๊ตฌ์„ฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด UNFI์˜ ์šด์˜์— ์–ด๋–ค ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š”์ง€, ํŠนํžˆ ์ œํ’ˆ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„์—์„œ ์–ด๋–ค ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
CEO & Director: Yes. Thanks, Chuck. I think, again, you're going to get a segmented answer here. Consumers generally are eating more healthily and that applies to the various categories and it results in accelerated growth in natural and organic and a trend to fresh, et cetera. But the guarded piece is the other side of the coin. And one of the areas that we're extremely focused on for our customers is working on the overall cost picture for them so that they can compete more effectively against discounters. So it's a full grocery basket, and it varies by consumer and by retailer positioning. But I would say cost matters in every category and then having the right assortment and product set for the retailer strategy is the other piece to maximize growth.**CEO & Director:** ๋„ค, ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์ฒ™. ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ์„ธ๋ถ„ํ™”๋œ ๋‹ต๋ณ€์„ ๋“œ๋ ค์•ผ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์€ ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋” ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์‹์‚ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , ์ด๋Š” ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์— ์ ์šฉ๋˜์–ด ์ฒœ์—ฐ ๋ฐ ์œ ๊ธฐ๋† ์ œํ’ˆ์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”์™€ ์‹ ์„ ์‹ํ’ˆ์œผ๋กœ์˜ ํŠธ๋ Œ๋“œ ๋“ฑ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์‹ ์ค‘ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ๋™์ „์˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ฉด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ทน๋„๋กœ ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์˜์—ญ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ทธ๋“ค์ด ํ• ์ธ์—…์ฒด๋“ค๊ณผ ๋” ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ๋น„์šฉ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ „์ฒด ์žฅ๋ฐ”๊ตฌ๋‹ˆ์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๊ณ , ์†Œ๋น„์ž์™€ ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด ํฌ์ง€์…”๋‹์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์ง‘๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋ชจ๋“  ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ๋น„์šฉ์ด ์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ๊ณ , ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ทน๋Œ€ํ™”ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์š”์†Œ๋Š” ์†Œ๋งค์—…์ฒด ์ „๋žต์— ๋งž๋Š” ์˜ฌ๋ฐ”๋ฅธ ์ œํ’ˆ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ๊ณผ ์ œํ’ˆ๊ตฐ์„ ๊ฐ–์ถ”๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Charles Cerankosky: Northcoast Research Partners, LLC So you're working with them almost by vendor or putting together programs to their purchases across vendors are optimized for their style of business and volume of purchases?**Charles Cerankosky:** Northcoast Research Partners์—์„œ ์งˆ๋ฌธํ•˜์‹  ๋‚ด์šฉ์€, ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ฒค๋”๋ณ„๋กœ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์‚ฌ์—… ์Šคํƒ€์ผ๊ณผ ๊ตฌ๋งค ๋ณผ๋ฅจ์— ์ตœ์ ํ™”๋œ ๋ฒค๋” ๊ฐ„ ๊ตฌ๋งค ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์„ ๊ตฌ์„ฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๊ตฐ์š”?
CEO & Director: Yes. And what I would say is we are investing in our capability to get better and better at that. We think there's a long runway of opportunity to improve our merchandising capability to meet customers where they are, and it's a major priority for us.**CEO & Director:** ๋„ค, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์—์„œ ์ ์  ๋” ๋‚˜์•„์ง€๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์— ํˆฌ์žํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ณณ์—์„œ ๋งŒ๋‚  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๋จธ์ฒœ๋‹ค์ด์ง• ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•  ๊ธฐํšŒ๊ฐ€ ์•„์ง ๋งŽ์ด ๋‚จ์•„์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ ์ฃผ์š” ์šฐ์„ ์ˆœ์œ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: Our last question will come from the line of William Reuter with Bank of America.**Operator:** ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์€ ๋ฑ…ํฌ ์˜ค๋ธŒ ์•„๋ฉ”๋ฆฌ์นด์˜ ์œŒ๋ฆฌ์—„ ๋กœ์ดํ„ฐ ์• ๋„๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ๊ฐ€ ํ•˜์‹œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
William Reuter: BofA Securities, Research Division So I just have two. The first is the move to automation. I think you'll have 6 facilities you said by later this year. When you make those investments, are those positive ROI, return on capital investments? Or do you view them kind of as defensive measures that are required to make sure you continue to compete and keep your business?**William Reuter:** ์ž๋™ํ™”๋กœ์˜ ์ „ํ™˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋‘ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฒซ ๋ฒˆ์งธ๋Š” ์˜ฌํ•ด ๋ง๊นŒ์ง€ 6๊ฐœ ์‹œ์„ค์„ ๊ฐ–๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ง์”€ํ•˜์…จ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํˆฌ์ž๋ฅผ ํ•  ๋•Œ ์ด๊ฒƒ๋“ค์ด ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ROI, ์ฆ‰ ์ž๋ณธ ์ˆ˜์ต๋ฅ ์„ ๊ฐ€์ ธ๋‹ค์ฃผ๋Š” ํˆฌ์ž์ธ๊ฐ€์š”? ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿํ•˜๊ณ  ์‚ฌ์—…์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ๋ฐฉ์–ด์  ์กฐ์น˜๋กœ ๋ณด์‹œ๋Š” ๊ฑด๊ฐ€์š”?
President & CFO: William, yes, we're going to have 6 automated DCs by the end of 2026. And we view them as ROI, both capacity and ROI-positive investments. With that in mind, the automation investments are expensive and they are kind of long-term returns, but we always do them as ways to increase capacity, improve our effectiveness and improve our efficiency sort of in this order, right? So we always keep customers and suppliers front and center as we think about how do we serve them better, how do we become more effective and then how do we realize the throughput benefits of automation with the overarching principle also that automation helps a lot in our safety goals, which is the first priority. So they are expensive. We model them in our $250 million or so of CapEx budget for 2026. And we also view lean, as I was mentioning a couple of questions ago, as a good alternative to continue to improve capacity, safety and efficiency.**President & CFO:** ๋„ค, 2026๋…„ ๋ง๊นŒ์ง€ 6๊ฐœ์˜ ์ž๋™ํ™” ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜์„ผํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์šด์˜ํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ์šฉ๋Ÿ‰ ํ™•๋Œ€์™€ ROI(ํˆฌ์ž์ˆ˜์ต๋ฅ ) ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ๋ชจ๋‘ ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ํˆฌ์ž๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž๋™ํ™” ํˆฌ์ž๋Š” ๋น„์šฉ์ด ๋งŽ์ด ๋“ค๊ณ  ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ ๊ฐ€์ ธ๋‹ค์ฃผ๋Š” ํˆฌ์ž์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ํ•ญ์ƒ ์šฉ๋Ÿ‰ ์ฆ๋Œ€, ํšจ๊ณผ์„ฑ ๊ฐœ์„ , ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ ํ–ฅ์ƒ ์ˆœ์„œ๋กœ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋ชฉ์ ๋“ค์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด๋ฅผ ํ•ญ์ƒ ์ตœ์šฐ์„ ์œผ๋กœ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„์ง€, ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋” ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ž๋™ํ™”์˜ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๋Ÿ‰ ์ฆ๋Œ€ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์‹คํ˜„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„์ง€๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์ž๋™ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ตœ์šฐ์„  ๊ณผ์ œ์ธ ์•ˆ์ „ ๋ชฉํ‘œ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑ์— ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๋„์›€์ด ๋œ๋‹ค๋Š” ํฌ๊ด„์ ์ธ ์›์น™๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํˆฌ์ž ๋น„์šฉ์ด ๋งŽ์ด ๋“œ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋งž์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2026๋…„ ์•ฝ 2์–ต 5์ฒœ๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ์ž๋ณธ์ง€์ถœ(CapEx) ์˜ˆ์‚ฐ์— ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐ˜์˜ํ•ด์„œ ๋ชจ๋ธ๋งํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์•ž์„œ ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์งˆ๋ฌธ์—์„œ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ”์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด, ๋ฆฐ(lean) ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ์šฉ๋Ÿ‰, ์•ˆ์ „์„ฑ, ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ข‹์€ ๋Œ€์•ˆ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
William Reuter: BofA Securities, Research Division Got it. And then just secondarily, on leverage, you're now going to reach your target by the end of the year or a year earlier than expected. How is this going to impact your capital allocation? I guess, would you consider acquisitions at that point? Would you consider share repurchases? What are your thoughts?**William Reuter:** ์•Œ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ๋กœ ๋ ˆ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ์ธ๋ฐ, ์ด์ œ ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋ณด๋‹ค 1๋…„ ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ์—ฐ๋ง๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ชฉํ‘œ์— ๋„๋‹ฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์ž๋ณธ ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„์— ์–ด๋–ค ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น ๊นŒ์š”? ๊ทธ ์‹œ์ ์—์„œ ์ธ์ˆ˜ํ•ฉ๋ณ‘์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•˜์‹ค ๊ฑด๊ฐ€์š”? ์ž์‚ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ž…์„ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•˜์‹ค ๊ฑด๊ฐ€์š”? ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹ ์ง€์š”?
President & CFO: William, our priority right now and has been the same consistently over the last 4, 5 quarters is to reduce debt. We have multiple ways to achieve the 2.5 turns or less in 2026 and below 2 turns in 2027. If you think about the midpoint of the guidance at $665 million of EBITDA times 2.5, I mean it tells you that our debt should be about $1.6 billion to $1.7 billion and with $300 million of free cash flow guidance for '26 will be below $1.6 billion, right? So we have multiple ways to get there, which continues to embrace our philosophy and our belief of high confidence plans and there will be more that we can talk about as we achieve those targets. But for now, that's a priority.**President & CFO:** ์œŒ๋ฆฌ์—„, ํ˜„์žฌ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์šฐ์„ ์ˆœ์œ„๋Š” ์ง€๋‚œ 4-5๋ถ„๊ธฐ ๋™์•ˆ ์ผ๊ด€๋˜๊ฒŒ ์œ ์ง€ํ•ด์˜จ ๊ฒƒ๊ณผ ๋™์ผํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ถ€์ฑ„ ๊ฐ์ถ•์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2026๋…„ 2.5๋ฐฐ ์ดํ•˜, 2027๋…„ 2๋ฐฐ ์ดํ•˜๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์€ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค ์ค‘๊ฐ„๊ฐ’์ธ EBITDA 6์–ต 6,500๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์— 2.5๋ฐฐ๋ฅผ ๊ณฑํ•˜๋ฉด ๋ถ€์ฑ„๊ฐ€ ์•ฝ 16์–ต-17์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด์–ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ณ , 2026๋…„ ์ž‰์—ฌํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„(free cash flow) ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค 3์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๋ คํ•˜๋ฉด 16์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ดํ•˜๊ฐ€ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ชฉํ‘œ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๋†’์€ ํ™•์‹ ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ๊ณ„ํš์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ฒ ํ•™๊ณผ ์‹ ๋…์„ ๊ณ„์† ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋“ค์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋ฉด์„œ ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ง€๊ธˆ์œผ๋กœ์„œ๋Š” ์ด๊ฒƒ์ด ์šฐ์„ ์ˆœ์œ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: That will conclude our question-and-answer session. And I will now turn the call back over to Sandy Douglas for any closing comments.**Operator:** ์งˆ์˜์‘๋‹ต ์„ธ์…˜์„ ๋งˆ์น˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ๋ง์”€์„ ์œ„ํ•ด Sandy Douglas์—๊ฒŒ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐํ•ด๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
CEO & Director: Thank you, operator. During fiscal 2026, we will be focused on accelerating momentum and continuing to add value for customers and suppliers while becoming a more effective and efficient partner as we execute the second year of our refresh strategy. We expect this to drive increasing profitability and free cash flow and to further strengthen our capital structure. We are also continuing to grow capabilities to help our customers and our suppliers compete and grow profitably in a dynamic marketplace with the ultimate goal of becoming the most valued partner to the vibrant diversified food retailing industry. For our customers and suppliers, we thank you for your continued partnership, collaboration and support. For the UNFI associates listening today, our thanks to each of you for everything that you do for our customers, our suppliers, our communities and each other. And for our shareholders, we thank you for the trust you continue to place in us. Thanks again for everybody joining this morning. We look forward to updating you on our progress through the year. And we hope that you all will be able to join us for our Investor Day at this coming December.**CEO & Director:** 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ๋™์•ˆ ์ €ํฌ๋Š” ๋ชจ๋ฉ˜ํ…€์„ ๊ฐ€์†ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด์— ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋™์‹œ์— ๋ฆฌํ”„๋ ˆ์‹œ ์ „๋žต์˜ ๋‘ ๋ฒˆ์งธ ํ•ด๋ฅผ ์‹คํ–‰ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋”์šฑ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์ด๊ณ  ํšจ์œจ์ ์ธ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์–ด๊ฐ€๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ๊ณผ ์ž‰์—ฌํ˜„๊ธˆํ๋ฆ„(free cash flow)์ด ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ž๋ณธ๊ตฌ์กฐ๊ฐ€ ๋”์šฑ ๊ฐ•ํ™”๋  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋˜ํ•œ ์—ญ๋™์ ์ธ ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด๊ฐ€ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿํ•˜๊ณ  ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ ์žˆ๋Š” ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๋•๋Š” ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ถ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ํ™œ๊ธฐ์ฐฌ ๋‹ค๊ฐํ™”๋œ ์‹ํ’ˆ ์†Œ๋งค์—…๊ณ„์—์„œ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ฐ€์น˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋ชฉํ‘œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ง€์†์ ์ธ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ๊ณผ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ง€์›์„ ๋ณด๋‚ด์ฃผ์‹œ๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๊ป˜ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ด ์ž๋ฆฌ์— ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹  UNFI ์ง์› ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๊ป˜, ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์—…์ฒด, ์ง€์—ญ์‚ฌํšŒ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์„œ๋กœ๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ์ผ์— ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ฃผ์ฃผ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๊ป˜๋Š” ์ €ํฌ์—๊ฒŒ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๋‚ด์ฃผ์‹œ๋Š” ์‹ ๋ขฐ์— ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์˜ค๋Š˜ ์•„์นจ ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹  ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ถ„๋“ค๊ป˜ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ, ์—ฐ์ค‘ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธํ•ด ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š” 12์›”์— ๊ฐœ์ตœ๋  ํˆฌ์ž์ž์˜ ๋‚  ํ–‰์‚ฌ์—๋„ ๋ชจ๋‘ ์ฐธ์„ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
Operator: This will conclude today's call. Thank you all for joining. You may now disconnect.**Operator:** ์˜ค๋Š˜ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค ์ฝœ์„ ๋งˆ์น˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ์„ ์ข…๋ฃŒํ•˜์…”๋„ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๐Ÿ“Œ ์š”์•ฝ

Here's a Korean summary of the key points from the earnings call transcript:

โ€ข ์‹ค์  ๋ฐ ์ „๋ง
- 2025๋…„ ์ž์—ฐ์‹ํ’ˆ(Natural) ๋ถ€๋ฌธ ๋งค์ถœ ๊ณ ์„ฑ์žฅ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑ (๋†’์€ ํ•œ ์ž๋ฆฟ์ˆ˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ๋ฅ )
- 2026๋…„ ์กฐ์ • EBITDA ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค ์ค‘๊ฐ„๊ฐ’ 6์–ต 6,500๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ œ์‹œ
- 2027๋…„๊นŒ์ง€ EBITDA 7์–ต 3,000๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑ ๋ชฉํ‘œ

โ€ข ์‚ฌ์—… ์ „๋žต
- ์ž์—ฐ์‹ํ’ˆ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์˜ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ธ ์œ ์ง€ ์ „๋ง
- ์ž๋™ํ™” ๋ฌผ๋ฅ˜์„ผํ„ฐ 6๊ฐœ์†Œ ์šด์˜ ๊ณ„ํš (2026๋…„ ๋ง๊นŒ์ง€)
- ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ์„œ๋น„์Šค์™€ ์†Œ๋งค ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด ๋„คํŠธ์›Œํฌ ๋“ฑ ๋ถ€๊ฐ€๊ฐ€์น˜ ์„œ๋น„์Šค ํ™•๋Œ€

โ€ข ๋ฆฌ์Šคํฌ/๊ธฐํšŒ ์š”์ธ
- ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฒ„ ๋ณด์•ˆ ์‚ฌ๊ณ ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ 5,000๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์†์‹ค ๋ฐœ์ƒ (์ผํšŒ์„ฑ)
- ๋น„์šฉ ํšจ์œจํ™”์™€ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์„ ํ†ตํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ ๊ฐœ์„  ์ถ”์ง„
- ๊ฒฝ์˜์ง„์€ ์ž์—ฐ์‹ํ’ˆ ์‹œ์žฅ์˜ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์  ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ธ์ •์  ์ „๋ง ์œ ์ง€