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| The Hershey Company (HSY) Q4 2025 Earnings Call February 5, 2026 8:30 AM EST Company Participants Anoori Naughton - Vice President of Investor Relations Kirk Tanner - President, CEO & Director Steven Voskuil - Senior VP & CFO Conference Call Participants Andrew Lazar - Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division Megan Christine Alexander - Morgan Stanley, Research Division Peter Galbo - BofA Securities, Research Division Peter Grom - UBS Investment Bank, Research Division David Palmer - Evercore ISI Institutional Equities, Research Division Leah Jordan - Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division Max Andrew Gumport - BNP Paribas, Research Division James Salera - Stephens Inc., Research Division Thomas Palmer - JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division Michael Lavery - Piper Sandler & Co., Research Division Alexia Howard - Bernstein Institutional Services LLC, Research Division Matthew Smith - Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated, Research Division Robert Moskow - TD Cowen, Research Division Scott Marks - Jefferies LLC, Research Division Christopher Carey - Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division John Baumgartner - Mizuho Securities USA LLC, Research Division Bingqing Zhu - Rothschild & Co Redburn, Research Division Presentation Operator Greetings, and welcome to the Hershey Company Fourth Quarter 2025 question-and-answer session. | ํ์ฌ ์ปดํผ๋(HSY) 2025๋
4๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ค์ ๋ฐํ ์ปจํผ๋ฐ์ค ์ฝ 2026๋
2์ 5์ผ ์ค์ 8์ 30๋ถ(๋๋ถ ํ์ค์) ํ์ฌ ์ฐธ์์ ์๋๋ฆฌ ๋ ธํผ(Anoori Naughton) - ํฌ์์ ๊ด๊ณ ๋ด๋น ๋ถ์ฌ์ฅ ์ปคํฌ ํ๋(Kirk Tanner) - ์ฌ์ฅ, CEO ๊ฒธ ์ด์ฌ ์คํฐ๋ธ ๋ณด์ค์ฟ ์ผ(Steven Voskuil) - ์์ ๋ถ์ฌ์ฅ ๊ฒธ CFO ์ปจํผ๋ฐ์ค ์ฝ ์ฐธ์ ์ ๋๋ฆฌ์คํธ ์ค๋๋ฅ ๋ผ์๋ฅด(Andrew Lazar) - ๋ฐํด๋ ์ด์ฆ ์ํ, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ ๋ฉ๊ฑด ํฌ๋ฆฌ์คํด ์๋ ์ฐ๋(Megan Christine Alexander) - ๋ชจ๊ฑด์คํ ๋ฆฌ, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ ํผํฐ ๊ฐ๋ณด(Peter Galbo) - ๋ฑ ํฌ์ค๋ธ์๋ฉ๋ฆฌ์นด ์ฆ๊ถ, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ ํผํฐ ๊ทธ๋กฌ(Peter Grom) - UBS ์ธ๋ฒ ์คํธ๋จผํธ ๋ฑ ํฌ, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ ๋ฐ์ด๋น๋ ํ๋จธ(David Palmer) - ์๋ฒ์ฝ์ด ISI ๊ธฐ๊ดํฌ์๊ฐ ์ฃผ์ ๋ถ๋ฌธ ๋ฆฌ์ ์กฐ๋(Leah Jordan) - ๊ณจ๋๋ง์ญ์ค ๊ทธ๋ฃน, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ ๋งฅ์ค ์ค๋๋ฅ ๊ฒํฌํธ(Max Andrew Gumport) - BNP ํ๋ฆฌ๋ฐ, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ ์ ์์ค ์ด๋ ๋ผ(James Salera) - ์คํฐ๋ธ์ค, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ ํ ๋ง์ค ํ๋จธ(Thomas Palmer) - JP๋ชจ๊ฑด ์ฒด์ด์ค, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ ๋ง์ดํด ๋๋ฒ๋ฆฌ(Michael Lavery) - ํ์ดํผ ์๋ค๋ฌ, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ ์๋ ์์ ํ์๋(Alexia Howard) - ๋ฒ์คํ์ธ ๊ธฐ๊ดํฌ์๊ฐ ์๋น์ค, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ ๋งคํ ์ค๋ฏธ์ค(Matthew Smith) - ์คํฐํ ๋์ฝ๋ผ์ฐ์ค, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ ๋ก๋ฒํธ ๋ชจ์ค์ฝ์ฐ(Robert Moskow) - TD ์ฝ์ฌ, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ ์ค์ฝง ๋งํฌ์ค(Scott Marks) - ์ ํ๋ฆฌ์ค, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์คํ ํผ ์บ๋ฆฌ(Christopher Carey) - ์ฐ์คํ๊ณ ์ฆ๊ถ, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ ์กด ๋ฐ์๊ฐํธ๋(John Baumgartner) - ๋ฏธ์ฆํธ ์ฆ๊ถ USA, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ ๋น์นญ ์ฃผ(Bingqing Zhu) - ๋ก์ค์ฐจ์ผ๋ ์ค ์ฝ ๋ ๋๋ฒ, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ ๋ฐํ ์ด์์ ์๋ ํ์ญ๋๊น. ํ์ฌ ์ปดํผ๋ 2025๋ 4๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ง์์๋ต ์ธ์ ์ ์ค์ ๊ฒ์ ํ์ํฉ๋๋ค. |
| [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. I'd now like to turn the call over to your host, Anoori Naughton, Vice President of Investor Relations for The Hershey Company. Thank you. You may begin. Anoori Naughton Vice President of Investor Relations Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us today for The Hershey Company's Fourth Quarter 2025 Earnings Q&A session. I hope everyone has had the chance to read our press release and listen to our prerecorded management remarks both of which are available on our website. In addition, we have posted a transcript of the prerecorded remarks. | [์งํ์ ์๋ด] ์ฐธ๊ณ ๋ก ๋ณธ ์ปจํผ๋ฐ์ค๋ ๋
น์๋๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด์ ํ์ฌ ์ปดํผ๋์ ํฌ์์ ๊ด๊ณ ๋ด๋น ๋ถ์ฌ์ฅ์ด์ Anoori Naughton๋๊ป ์งํ์ ๋๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. ์์ํ์
๋ ๋ฉ๋๋ค. Anoori Naughton ํฌ์์ ๊ด๊ณ ๋ด๋น ๋ถ์ฌ์ฅ ์๋ ํ์ธ์, ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ. ํ์ฌ ์ปดํผ๋์ 2025๋ 4๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ค์ ์ง์์๋ต ์ธ์ ์ ์ฐธ์ํด ์ฃผ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ชจ๋ ์ ํฌ ๋ณด๋์๋ฃ๋ฅผ ์ฝ์ด๋ณด์๊ณ ์ฌ์ ๋ น์๋ ๊ฒฝ์์ง ๋ฐ์ธ์ ๋ค์ผ์ จ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค. ๋ ์๋ฃ ๋ชจ๋ ์ ํฌ ์น์ฌ์ดํธ์์ ํ์ธํ์ค ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ํ ์ฌ์ ๋ น์๋ ๋ฐ์ธ์ ์คํฌ๋ฆฝํธ๋ ๊ฒ์ํด ๋์์ต๋๋ค. |
| At the conclusion of today's live Q&A session, we will also post a transcript and audio replay of this call. Please note that during today's Q&A session, we may make forward-looking statements that are subject to various risks and uncertainties. These statements include expectations and assumptions regarding the company's future operations and financial performance. Actual results could differ materially from those projected. The company undertakes no obligation to update these statements based on subsequent events. A detailed listing of such risks and uncertainties can be found in today's press release and the company's SEC filings. | ์ค๋ ์ค์๊ฐ ์ง์์๋ต ์ธ์ ์ด ์ข ๋ฃ๋ ํ, ๋ณธ ์ปจํผ๋ฐ์ค ์ฝ์ ๋ น์ทจ๋ก๊ณผ ์ค๋์ค ์ฌ์ ํ์ผ์ ๊ฒ์ํ ์์ ์ ๋๋ค. ์ค๋ ์ง์์๋ต ์ธ์ ์ค ๋ค์ํ ์ํ๊ณผ ๋ถํ์ค์ฑ์ ์๋ฐํ๋ ๋ฏธ๋์์ธก์ง์ ์ ํ ์ ์์์ ์ ์ํด ์ฃผ์๊ธฐ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ์ง์ ์๋ ํ์ฌ์ ํฅํ ์์ ๋ฐ ์ฌ๋ฌด ์ฑ๊ณผ์ ๋ํ ๊ธฐ๋์ ๊ฐ์ ์ด ํฌํจ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ์ค์ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ ์์๊ณผ ํฌ๊ฒ ๋ค๋ฅผ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ๋ ํ์ ์ฌ๊ฑด์ ๊ทผ๊ฑฐํ์ฌ ์ด๋ฌํ ์ง์ ์ ์ ๋ฐ์ดํธํ ์๋ฌด๋ฅผ ์ง์ง ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ์ํ๊ณผ ๋ถํ์ค์ฑ์ ๋ํ ์์ธํ ๋ชฉ๋ก์ ์ค๋ ๋ฐํ๋ ๋ณด๋์๋ฃ ๋ฐ ํ์ฌ์ SEC ์ ์ถ ์๋ฅ์์ ํ์ธํ์ค ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Finally, please note that we may refer to certain non-GAAP financial measures that we believe provide useful information for investors. This information is not intended to be considered in isolation, or as a substitute for the financial information presented in accordance with GAAP. Reconciliations for the GAAP results are included in this morning's press release. Joining me today are Hershey's President and CEO, Kirk Tanner; and Hershey's Senior Vice President and CFO, Steve Voskuil. I will now invite Kirk to begin with a brief introduction. Kirk Tanner President, CEO & Director Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us. | ๋ง์ง๋ง์ผ๋ก, ํฌ์์ ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ๊ป ์ ์ฉํ ์ ๋ณด๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณตํ๋ค๊ณ ํ๋จ๋๋ ํน์ ๋น-GAAP ์ฌ๋ฌด ์งํ๋ค์ ์ธ๊ธํ ์ ์์์ ์๋ ค๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ์ ๋ณด๋ ๋
๋ฆฝ์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ณ ๋ ค๋๊ฑฐ๋ GAAP์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ์ ์๋ ์ฌ๋ฌด ์ ๋ณด๋ฅผ ๋์ฒดํ๊ธฐ ์ํ ๊ฒ์ด ์๋๋๋ค. GAAP ์ค์ ๊ณผ์ ์กฐ์ ๋ด์ญ์ ์ค๋ ์์นจ ๋ณด๋์๋ฃ์ ํฌํจ๋์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ค๋ ์ ์ ํจ๊ป ํ์ฌ์ ์ฌ์ฅ ๊ฒธ CEO์ธ ์ปคํฌ ํ๋์ ํ์ฌ์ ์์ ๋ถ์ฌ์ฅ ๊ฒธ CFO์ธ ์คํฐ๋ธ ๋ณด์ค์ฟ ์ผ์ด ์ฐธ์ํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด์ ์ปคํฌ๋ฅผ ๋ชจ์๊ณ ๊ฐ๋จํ ์๊ฐ ๋ง์์ผ๋ก ์์ํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ปคํฌ ํ๋ ์ฌ์ฅ, CEO ๊ฒธ ์ด์ฌ ์๋ ํ์ญ๋๊น, ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ. ์ฐธ์ํด ์ฃผ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. |
| Before we get to questions, I just want to recognize our team and what they accomplished in 2025. Through skillful execution we strengthened our market position, we invested for the future, and we closed out the year with real momentum, all while navigating serious headwinds like cocoa inflation and macro volatility. Heading into 2026, I am confident. Our portfolio is resilient. We're looking at 4% to 5% net sales growth and meaningful earnings recovery. And that gives us runway to invest in innovation, brand building and execution to drive growth, and we are going after it. Thanks for attending the call today, and we're ready to take your questions. | ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋ฐ๊ธฐ ์ ์, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ํ๊ณผ ๊ทธ๋ค์ด 2025๋ ์ ์ด๋ฃฌ ์ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ธ์ ํ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ํ ์คํ๋ ฅ์ ํตํด ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์์ฅ ์ง์๋ฅผ ๊ฐํํ๊ณ , ๋ฏธ๋๋ฅผ ์ํ ํฌ์๋ฅผ ์งํํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์นด์นด์ค ์ธํ๋ ์ด์ ๊ณผ ๊ฑฐ์๊ฒฝ์ ๋ณ๋์ฑ๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ ์ฌ๊ฐํ ์ญํ์ ํค์ณ๋๊ฐ๋ฉด์๋ ์ค์ง์ ์ธ ๋ชจ๋ฉํ ์ผ๋ก ํ ํด๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ์ต๋๋ค. 2026๋ ์ ๋ง์ดํ๋ฉฐ, ์ ๋ ํ์ ํฉ๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค๋ ํ๋ ฅ์ ์ ๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ 4%์์ 5%์ ์๋งค์ถ ์ฑ์ฅ๊ณผ ์๋ฏธ ์๋ ์ค์ ํ๋ณต์ ์ ๋งํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์๊ฒ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ๊ธฐ ์ํ ํ์ , ๋ธ๋๋ ๊ตฌ์ถ ๋ฐ ์คํ์ ํฌ์ํ ์ ์๋ ์ฌ๋ ฅ์ ์ ๊ณตํ๋ฉฐ, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ด๋ฅผ ์ ๊ทน์ ์ผ๋ก ์ถ์งํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ค๋ ์ปจํผ๋ฐ์ค ์ฝ์ ์ฐธ์ํด ์ฃผ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ฌ๋๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ, ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ค๋น๊ฐ ๋์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. |
# Hershey (HSY) 2025๋
4๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ค์ ์์ฝ
โข **2025๋
์ค์ ๋ฐ ๊ฒฝ์์ง ํ๊ฐ**: ๊ฒฝ์์ง์ ์ฝ์ฝ์ ์ธํ๋ ์ด์
๊ณผ ๊ฑฐ์๊ฒฝ์ ๋ณ๋์ฑ ๋ฑ ์ด๋ ค์ด ํ๊ฒฝ ์์์๋ ์์ฅ ์ง์ ๊ฐํ, ๋ฏธ๋ ํฌ์ ์ง์, ์ฐ๋ง ๋ชจ๋ฉํ
ํ๋ณด ๋ฑ์ ๋ฌ์ฑํ๋ค๊ณ ํ๊ฐ. CEO Kirk Tanner์ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค ํ๋ณต๋ ฅ๊ณผ ์คํ๋ ฅ์ ๊ฐ์กฐํ๋ฉฐ ์์ ๊ฐ์ ํ๋ช
โข **2026๋
๊ฐ์ด๋์ค**: ๋งค์ถ ์ฑ์ฅ๋ฅ 4~5% ์ ๋ง, ์๋ฏธ ์๋ ์์ต์ฑ ํ๋ณต(earnings recovery) ์์. ์ด๋ฅผ ํตํด ํ์ , ๋ธ๋๋ ๊ตฌ์ถ, ์คํ๋ ฅ ๊ฐํ์ ์ฌํฌ์ํ ์ฌ๋ ฅ ํ๋ณด ๊ณํ
โข **์ฃผ์ ๋ฆฌ์คํฌ ์์ธ**: ์ฝ์ฝ์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ธํ๋ ์ด์
์ด ์ง์์ ์ธ ๋น์ฉ ์๋ฐ ์์ธ์ผ๋ก ์ธ๊ธ๋จ. ๊ฑฐ์๊ฒฝ์ ๋ถํ์ค์ฑ๋ ์ฌ์ ํ ๋ชจ๋ํฐ๋ง ๋์
โข **๊ฒฝ์์ง ํค**: ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ธ์ ์ ์ด๊ณ ์์ ๊ฐ ์๋ ์ด์กฐ. ์ด๋ ค์ด ํ๊ฒฝ์ ์ฑ๊ณต์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ทน๋ณตํ๋ค๋ ํ๊ฐ์ ํจ๊ป 2026๋
์ฑ์ฅ ๊ฐ์ํ์ ๋ํ ํ์ ํ๋ช
โข **ํน์ด์ฌํญ**: ๋ณธ ์ฝ์ ์ฌ์ ๋
น์๋ ๊ฒฝ์์ง ๋ฐ์ธ ์ดํ Q&A ์ธ์
๋ง ์งํ๋๋ ํ์. ์ ๊ณต๋ transcript๋ Q&A ์์ ์ ๊น์ง๋ง ํฌํจ๋์ด ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ์ฌ๋ฌด ์์น๋ ์ธ๋ถ ์ ๋ต์
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| Operator: [Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from the line of Andrew Lazar with Barclays. | **Operator:** [๊ตํ์ ์๋ด] ์ฒซ ๋ฒ์งธ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋ฐํด๋ ์ด์ฆ์ ์ค๋๋ฅ ๋ผ์๋ฅด๋๊ป์ ์ฃผ์ จ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Andrew Lazar: Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division Maybe to start, I appreciate obviously the chocolate category is typically not one that is a pass-through category, and that Hershey and others are still hedged well above where current spot rates are for cocoa at this point. But I guess just given the precipitous recent decline in the commodity, I guess, is there a risk maybe this time around that we could see some price deflation at some point, by either Hershey or competitors to sort of better match go-forward cocoa costs? And, I guess, how do you account for that sort of possibility in the guidance? | **Andrew Lazar:** ์ด์ฝ๋ฆฟ ์นดํ ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ผ๋ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ์์์ฌ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ๋ณ๋์ด ๊ทธ๋๋ก ๋ฐ์๋๋ ์นดํ ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์๋๋ผ๋ ์ , ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํ์ฌ๋ฅผ ๋น๋กฏํ ์ ์ฒด๋ค์ด ํ์ฌ ์นด์นด์ค ํ๋ฌผ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ๋ณด๋ค ํจ์ฌ ๋์ ์์ค์์ ํค์ง๋ฅผ ํ๊ณ ์๋ค๋ ์ ์ ์ ์๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ์ต๊ทผ ์์์ฌ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ด ๊ธ๊ฒฉํ๊ฒ ํ๋ฝํ ์ํฉ์์, ์ด๋ฒ์๋ ํ์ฌ๋ ๊ฒฝ์์ฌ๋ค์ด ํฅํ ์นด์นด์ค ๋น์ฉ์ ๋ง์ถฐ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ์ธํํ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ด ์์ง ์์๊น์? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค์์ ์ด๋ฌํ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ฐ์ํ๊ณ ๊ณ์ ์ง ๊ถ๊ธํฉ๋๋ค. |
| Kirk Tanner: President, CEO & Director Yes. Thank you for the question. Our competitors in the category are sophisticated, and they're large like ourselves, and they likely have coverage for more certainty in their business. And private label remains small here in the U.S. So that's kind of the first point. But there's a big conversation around how we think about pricing and the price of cocoa, et cetera. I'd like to make a few points here. So first, we don't take pricing lightly, and we've been very patient and played the long game when cocoa market surged to balance consumer needs. Our actions that we've taken are anchored in consumer insights and the brands remain affordable and accessible. 75% of our portfolio is still under $4. The pricing we took in '25, I think this is important, does not fully cover our cocoa cost inflation in 2026. So we are on a recovery path while also adding significant fuel to our growth with investments in marketing, innovation, R&D, really to keep that momentum on the top line going, and keeping the category exciting for consumers and keep that growth moving into '26 -- or beyond '26, into '27, '28. And then recently, pricing on our snacks business, I think we're in really good shape. We had 18% growth on our snack business in Q4 -- double-digit volume growth. Let me get a drink. Sorry, Andrew. | **Kirk Tanner:** ๋ค, ์ง๋ฌธ ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. ์ด ์นดํ
๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ ๊ฒฝ์์ฌ๋ค์ ์ ํฌ์ฒ๋ผ ๊ท๋ชจ๊ฐ ํฌ๊ณ ์ ๊ตํ๊ฒ ์ด์๋๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ฌ์
์ ํ์ค์ฑ์ ์ํด ํค์ง(hedging)๋ฅผ ํ์ฉํ๊ณ ์์ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ด ๋์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์์ฅ์์ ์์ฒด ๋ธ๋๋(private label) ๋น์ค์ ์ฌ์ ํ ์์ ํธ์
๋๋ค. ์ด๊ฒ์ด ์ฒซ ๋ฒ์งธ ํฌ์ธํธ์
๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ฑ ์ ๊ณผ ์ฝ์ฝ์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ๋ํ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์ ๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์์ ๋ํด ํฐ ๋ ผ์๊ฐ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฌ๊ธฐ์ ๋ช ๊ฐ์ง ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฒซ์งธ, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ธ์์ ๊ฐ๋ณ๊ฒ ์๊ฐํ์ง ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ฝ์ฝ์ ์์ฅ์ด ๊ธ๋ฑํ์ ๋๋ ์๋น์์ ๋์ฆ๋ฅผ ๊ท ํ์๊ฒ ๊ณ ๋ คํ๋ฉด์ ๋งค์ฐ ์ธ๋ด์ฌ ์๊ฒ ์ฅ๊ธฐ์ ๊ด์ ์ผ๋ก ๋์ํด์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ทจํ ์กฐ์น๋ค์ ์๋น์ ์ธ์ฌ์ดํธ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฐํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ธ๋๋๋ ์ฌ์ ํ ํฉ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ผ๋ก ์ ๊ทผ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ์์ค์ ์ ์งํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค์ 75%๊ฐ ์ฌ์ ํ 4๋ฌ๋ฌ ๋ฏธ๋ง์ ๋๋ค. 25๋ ์ ๋จํํ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ธ์์, ์ด ์ ์ด ์ค์ํ๋ฐ์, 2026๋ ์ฝ์ฝ์ ์๊ฐ ์์น๋ถ์ ์์ ํ ์ปค๋ฒํ์ง๋ ๋ชปํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ํ๋ณต ๊ฒฝ๋ก์ ์์ผ๋ฉด์ ๋์์ ๋ง์ผํ , ํ์ , R&D์ ๋ํ ํฌ์๋ฅผ ํตํด ์ฑ์ฅ์ ์๋นํ ์ฐ๋ฃ๋ฅผ ๊ณต๊ธํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ๋งค์ถ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๋ชจ๋ฉํ ์ ์ ์งํ๊ณ , ์๋น์๋ค์๊ฒ ์นดํ ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๊ณ์ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ง๋ค๋ฉฐ, 26๋ ์ ๋์ด 27๋ , 28๋ ๊น์ง ์ด๋ฌํ ์ฑ์ฅ์ธ๋ฅผ ์ด์ด๊ฐ๊ธฐ ์ํจ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ต๊ทผ ์ค๋ต ์ฌ์ ์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ฑ ์ ๊ณผ ๊ด๋ จํด์๋, ์ ๋ง ์ข์ ์ํ๋ผ๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. 4๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ์ค๋ต ์ฌ์ ์ด 18% ์ฑ์ฅํ๊ณ , ๋ณผ๋ฅจ๋ ๋ ์๋ฆฟ์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๊ธฐ๋กํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ ์ ๋ฌผ ์ข ๋ง์๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฃ์กํฉ๋๋ค, Andrew. |
| Andrew Lazar: Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division No, no. Take your time. Take your time. | **Andrew Lazar:** ์๋์, ๊ด์ฐฎ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฒ์ฒํ ๋ง์ํ์ธ์. |
| Kirk Tanner: President, CEO & Director Yes. So -- yes, that's kind of in a broad response to what we see in the market. Certainly, the deflationary momentum on cocoa takes future pricing pressure down. That's how I think about it. | **Kirk Tanner:** ๋ค, ๊ทธ๋ ์ต๋๋ค. ์์ฅ์์ ๋ณด์ด๋ ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ธ ์ํฉ์ ๋ํ ๋ต๋ณ์ ๋๋ค. ํ์คํ ์ฝ์ฝ์์ ๋ํ๋ ์ด์ ๋ชจ๋ฉํ ์ ํฅํ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์๋ฐ์ ๋ฎ์ถฐ์ค๋๋ค. ์ ๋ ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Andrew Lazar: Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division Got it. That's helpful. And then just a follow-up. I guess regarding elasticity, it's great to see that it's thus far coming in more favorably than you anticipated. I guess I'm curious as to what maybe do you owe this better outcome? And is the company building in some flexibility in the plan, should elasticity increase as we've seen maybe in some other markets for some other players? | **Andrew Lazar:** ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ๋์์ด ๋๋ค์. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํ์ ์ง๋ฌธ ๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ํ๋ ฅ์ฑ๊ณผ ๊ด๋ จํด์, ์ง๊ธ๊น์ง ์์๋ณด๋ค ๋ ์ฐํธ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ํ๋๊ณ ์๋ค๋ ์ ์ด ๊ณ ๋ฌด์ ์ ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ๊ธ์ ์ ์ธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ ์ด๋์์ ๋น๋กฏ๋ ๊ฒ์ธ์ง ๊ถ๊ธํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์์ฅ์ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๊ธฐ์ ๋ค์์ ๋ณด์๋ฏ์ด ํ๋ ฅ์ฑ์ด ์ฆ๊ฐํ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋นํด์ ํ์ฌ ๊ณํ์ ์ด๋ ์ ๋ ์ ์ฐ์ฑ์ ํ๋ณดํด ๋๊ณ ๊ณ์ ๊ฐ์? |
| Kirk Tanner: President, CEO & Director Yes, let me start and I'll kick it over to Steve, so that -- I think his voice might be stronger, right. Anyway, look, we're encouraged for what we've seen so far. So we announced pricing in July. We started taking pricing mid-September. And so we've gotten information that it's informed and our information is informed on what we're seeing right now, and we're encouraged by what we're seeing right now. | **Kirk Tanner:** ๋ค, ์ ๊ฐ ๋จผ์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ Steve์๊ฒ ๋๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์๋ฌด๋๋ ๊ทธ์ชฝ ๋ชฉ์๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ ๋์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ค์. ์ด์จ๋ , ์ง๊ธ๊น์ง ํ์ธํ ๋ด์ฉ์ ๋ํด ๊ณ ๋ฌด์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. 7์์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ธ์์ ๋ฐํํ๊ณ , 9์ ์ค์๋ถํฐ ์ค์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ธ์์ ์์ํ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ํ์ฌ ์์ฅ์์ ๋ํ๋๊ณ ์๋ ์ํฉ์ ๋ฐํ์ผ๋ก ์ ๋ณด๋ฅผ ์์งํ๊ณ , ์ง๊ธ ๋ณด์ด๋ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ค์ ๋ํด ๊ธ์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ํ๊ฐํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Steven Voskuil: Senior VP & CFO Yes. And I would say elasticities don't stay static. It fluctuates over time. While we're experiencing elasticities right now that's favorable to our original outlook. We continue to plan for around 0.8 to account for these fluctuations as there's still some price pack changes to roll in. There are still some channels rolling shelf tags through. So it's going to take a little bit longer, I think, for everything to fully adjust. Of course, our goal is to do better than that. So with the strong activation calendar that we have, some of the investment that we have, our goal is to do better, but the guide allows for some of that upside to flow through. | **Steven Voskuil:** ๋ค, ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ์๋ฉด ๊ฐ๊ฒฉํ๋ ฅ์ฑ์ ๊ณ ์ ๋์ด ์์ง ์์ต๋๋ค. ์๊ฐ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ๋ณ๋ํฉ๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๊ฒฝํํ๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉํ๋ ฅ์ฑ์ ๋น์ด ์ ๋ง๋ณด๋ค ์ฐํธ์ ์ธ ์ํฉ์ ๋๋ค๋ง, ๋ณ๋์ฑ์ ๊ณ ๋ คํด์ ๊ณ์ํด์ 0.8 ์์ค์ ๊ณํํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์์ง ์ ์ฉํด์ผ ํ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ๋ฐ ํฌ์ฅ ๋ณ๊ฒฝ์ฌํญ๋ค์ด ๋จ์์๊ณ , ์ผ๋ถ ์ฑ๋์์๋ ์ฌ์ ํ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉํ ๊ต์ฒด ์์ ์ ์งํ ์ค์ด๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์์ ํ ์์ฐฉ๋๊ธฐ๊น์ง๋ ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ ์๊ฐ์ด ๊ฑธ๋ฆด ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ๋ชฉํ๋ ๊ทธ๋ณด๋ค ๋ ๋์ ์ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ด๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ํํํ ํ๋ก๋ชจ์ ์ผ์ ๊ณผ ํฌ์ ๊ณํ์ ๊ฐ์ถ๊ณ ์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์, ๋ ๋์ ์ค์ ์ ๋ฌ์ฑํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ๋ชฉํ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ค๋ง ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค์๋ ์ด๋ฌํ ์์น ์ฌ๋ ฅ์ด ๋ฐ์๋ ์ ์๋๋ก ์ฌ์ ๋ฅผ ๋์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Megan Clapp with Morgan Stanley. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋ชจ๊ฑด์คํ ๋ฆฌ์ ๋ฉ๊ฑด ํด๋ฉ ์ ๋๋ฆฌ์คํธ๋ก๋ถํฐ ๋ฐ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Megan Christine Alexander: Morgan Stanley, Research Division I'll maybe start with a question for Steve to give Kirk, maybe give you a little bit of a break. So another question on cocoa, but more related to the margin framework. So I think in the prepared remarks, you talked about stable rates across the broader, commodity input basket. Just given the precipitous decline we've seen in cocoa, how should we think about cocoa within the framework? Were you able to kind of capture any benefit from what we've seen over the last month? Or is this really a tailwind as we think about '27? And what I'm really just trying to get at is, I think you're implying 41% gross margins in '26, obviously, a really nice recovery from '25, but still well below where you've been historically. So based on where cocoa has gone, is it kind of reasonable to expect continued progress kind of back towards those historical gross margin levels in '27? | **Megan Christine Alexander:** ์คํฐ๋ธ์๊ฒ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ฆฌ๋ฉด์ ์ปคํฌ์๊ฒ๋ ์ ๊น ์ด ์๊ฐ์ ๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์นด์นด์ค์ ๋ํ ๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ง๋ฌธ์ธ๋ฐ, ์ด๋ฒ์๋ ๋ง์ง ํ๋ ์์ํฌ์ ๋ ๊ด๋ จ์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฌ์ ๋ฐํ์์ ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ธ ์์์ฌ ํฌ์ ๋ฐ์ค์ผ ์ ์ฒด์ ๊ฑธ์ณ ์์ ์ ์ธ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ์ธ๊ธํ์ จ๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์นด์นด์ค ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ด ๊ธ๊ฒฉํ๊ฒ ํ๋ฝํ ์ํฉ์ ๊ณ ๋ คํ ๋, ํ๋ ์์ํฌ ๋ด์์ ์นด์นด์ค๋ฅผ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ด์ผ ํ ๊น์? ์ง๋ ํ ๋ฌ๊ฐ์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ํ๋ฝ์ผ๋ก๋ถํฐ ์ด๋ ์ ๋ ํํ์ ํ๋ณดํ์ค ์ ์์๋์? ์๋๋ฉด ์ด๊ฒ์ด ์ค์ง์ ์ผ๋ก 27๋ ๋๋ฅผ ์๊ฐํ ๋์ ์ํ์ด ๋ ๊น์? ์ ๊ฐ ์ ๋ง ์๊ณ ์ถ์ ๊ฒ์, 26๋ ๋์ ๋งค์ถ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ 41%๋ฅผ ์์ฌํ๊ณ ๊ณ์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์๋ฐ, 25๋ ๋ ๋๋น ์ ๋ง ํ๋ฅญํ ํ๋ณต์ด๊ธด ํ์ง๋ง, ์ฌ์ ํ ์ญ์ฌ์ ์์ค์ ๋นํ๋ฉด ์๋นํ ๋ฎ์ ์์ค์ด๋ผ๋ ์ ์ ๋๋ค. ์ฝ์ฝ์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ถ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๋ คํ์ ๋, 2027๋ ์๋ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ์์ค์ ๋งค์ถ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ (gross margin)๋ก ๊ณ์ ํ๋ณตํด ๋๊ฐ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๊ธฐ๋ํด๋ ๋ ๊น์? |
| Steven Voskuil: Senior VP & CFO Sure, yes. Happy to take it. We're glad to see that the cocoa financial markets have finally begun to reflect some of the fundamentals that we've been describing really for the last 18 months. As we look out, we continue to anticipate a larger supply surplus in '25 and '26, driven by supply expansion in some of those new origins we've talked about, as well as a contraction in global demand. So I'd say we're optimistic as we look to the future. That said, there's market volatility still, as prices are trying to find that new equilibrium. And I think we still believe that new equilibrium is likely to be above what we've seen in historic levels. Our hedging program has been in great shape for 2026, and we're hedged above current market levels. So if you kind of extend current market levels flat, that would suggest that we still have some upside for further deflation in 2027. So we'll talk more about that as we give more 2027 and '28 perspective at the conference. But as we look ahead, we see more possibility for upside there in the future. | **Steven Voskuil:** ๋ค, ๊ธฐ๊บผ์ด ๋ต๋ณ๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ง๋ 18๊ฐ์ ๋์ ์ ํฌ๊ฐ ์ค๋ช
๋๋ ค์จ ํ๋๋ฉํธ์ด ๋ง์นจ๋ด ์ฝ์ฝ์ ๊ธ์ต์์ฅ์ ๋ฐ์๋๊ธฐ ์์ํ ๊ฒ์ ๋ณด๊ฒ ๋์ด ๊ธฐ์ฉ๋๋ค. ์์ผ๋ก๋ฅผ ์ ๋งํด๋ณด๋ฉด, 25๋
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์๋ ๋ ํฐ ๊ณต๊ธ ๊ณผ์์ด ์์๋ฉ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ์ ํฌ๊ฐ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฐ ์ ๊ท ์์ฐ์ง๋ค์ ๊ณต๊ธ ํ๋์ ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ์์ ๊ฐ์์ ๊ธฐ์ธํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ๋ฏธ๋๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณผ ๋ ๋๊ด์ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋ง์๋๋ฆด ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ค๋ง, ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ด ์๋ก์ด ๊ท ํ์ ์ ์ฐพ์๊ฐ๋ ๊ณผ์ ์์ ์ฌ์ ํ ์์ฅ ๋ณ๋์ฑ์ ์กด์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ ํฌ๋ ์ด ์๋ก์ด ๊ท ํ์ ์ด ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ์์ค๋ณด๋ค๋ ๋์ ๊ณณ์์ ํ์ฑ๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. 2026๋ ์ ๋ํ ์ ํฌ ํค์ง ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ์ ๋งค์ฐ ์ข์ ์ํ์ด๋ฉฐ, ํ์ฌ ์์ฅ ์์ค๋ณด๋ค ๋์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ผ๋ก ํค์ง๋์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ ์์ฅ ์์ค์ ๊ทธ๋๋ก ์ฐ์ฅํด์ ๋ณด๋ฉด, 2027๋ ์๋ ์ถ๊ฐ์ ์ธ ๋ํ๋ ์ด์ ์์น ์ฌ๋ ฅ์ด ์๋ค๊ณ ๋ณผ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋ํด์๋ ์ปจํผ๋ฐ์ค์์ 2027๋ ๊ณผ 2028๋ ์ ๋ง์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆด ๋ ๋ ์์ธํ ๋ค๋ฃจ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ์์ผ๋ก๋ฅผ ๋ด๋ค๋ดค์ ๋, ํฅํ ์์น ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ด ๋ ์๋ค๊ณ ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Megan Christine Alexander: Morgan Stanley, Research Division Okay. Great. And maybe kind of a related question. A lot of discussion in the prepared remarks about the increased brand investment you're doing in 2026, including a double-digit increase in advertising. So as you look out to '27, how should we think about kind of the durability of the increased brand investments you're making in '26? And as you mentioned, as gross margins hopefully kind of continue to expand as cocoa deflates, how do you think about kind of the need or desire for incremental reinvestment beyond what you're doing in '26? | **Megan Christine Alexander:** ๋ค, ์ข์ ์ง๋ฌธ์
๋๋ค. 2026๋
์ ๋ธ๋๋ ํฌ์ ์ฆ๊ฐ์ ๋ํด ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ์๋ฉด, ๊ด๊ณ ๋น๋ฅผ ๋ ์๋ฆฟ์๋ก ๋๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฒ์ ํฌํจํด์ ์๋นํ ํฌ์๋ฅผ ๊ณํํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. 2027๋
์ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณผ ๋, 2026๋
์ ์์ํ๋ ์ด๋ฌํ ๋ธ๋๋ ํฌ์ ์ฆ๊ฐ๋ถ์ ์ง์์ฑ์ ๋ํด์๋ ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ์๊ฐํ์๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ์ฐ์ ์ ํฌ๋ ์ด๋ฒ ํฌ์๋ฅผ ์ผํ์ฑ์ด ์๋ ์ง์ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ์์ค์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ธ๋๋ ๊ตฌ์ถ์ ์ฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ๊ด์ ์์ ์ ๊ทผํด์ผ ํ๋ ๋ถ๋ถ์ด๊ณ , 2026๋ ์ ํ๋ํ๋ ํฌ์ ์์ค์ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ผ๋ก ๊ณ์ ์ด์ด๊ฐ ๊ณํ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ง์ํ์ ๋๋ก ์ฝ์ฝ์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ด ํ๋ฝํ๋ฉด์ ๋งค์ถ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ (gross margin)์ด ๊ฐ์ ๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๊ธฐ๋ํ๊ณ ์๋๋ฐ์, ์ด ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋ํ ์ ํฌ ์๊ฐ์ ๋ช ํํฉ๋๋ค. ์๊ฐ ์ ๊ฐ์ผ๋ก ํ๋ณด๋๋ ๋ง์ง ๊ฐ์ ๋ถ์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ํ์ฉํ ๊ฒ์ธ๊ฐ์ ๋ํด์๋ ๊ท ํ์กํ ์ ๊ทผ์ ํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ผ๋ถ๋ ๋น์ฐํ ์์ต์ฑ ๊ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ด์ด์ง ๊ฒ์ด๊ณ , ๋์์ ๋ธ๋๋ ํฌ์๋ฅผ ๋์ฑ ๊ฐํํ ์ ์๋ ๊ธฐํ๋ก๋ ํ์ฉํ ๊ณํ์ ๋๋ค. 2026๋ ์ดํ์๋ ์์ฅ ์ํฉ๊ณผ ๋ธ๋๋ ์ฑ์ฅ ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉด์ ์ถ๊ฐ์ ์ธ ์ฌํฌ์ ํ์์ฑ์ ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ฒํ ํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ค๋ง ์ด๋ ๋จ์ํ ๋น์ฉ์ ๋๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์๋๋ผ, ROI๋ฅผ ๋ฉด๋ฐํ ๋ฐ์ ธ๊ฐ๋ฉฐ ์ ๋ต์ ์ผ๋ก ์งํํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Steven Voskuil: Senior VP & CFO Sure. I mean, I think I would think about the things we're doing in '26 are, in some cases, multiyear investments, that are going to lay a foundation for not just '26, but '27 and beyond, while still delivering great growth in the present. We're really focused on fueling demand creation through things like scaling some investments in R&D and innovation, brand building, the retail sales team and the technology around that, that sets the portfolio up and really focuses on household penetration expansion and capturing new consumers, recapturing some of our lapsed consumers. So the investments are a mix of things that are going to deliver today, but also things that are laying a foundation, a multiyear foundation. And again, as we look to '27, '27 is also going to be a year like '26 of driving growth, but also margin recovery. So that balance will be present in '27 just like it is in '26. | **Steven Voskuil:** ๋ค, ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ์๋ฉด 26๋
์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ถ์งํ๋ ๊ฒ๋ค์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ๋ค๋
๊ฐ์ ํฌ์์ด๋ฉฐ, 26๋
๋ฟ๋ง ์๋๋ผ 27๋
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ทธ ์ดํ๋ฅผ ์ํ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ ๋ง๋ จํ๋ ๋์์ ํ์ฌ๋ ํ๋ฅญํ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๋ฌ์ฑํ๋ ๊ฒ์
๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ R&D์ ํ์ ์ ๋ํ ํฌ์ ํ๋, ๋ธ๋๋ ๊ตฌ์ถ, ๋ฆฌํ
์ผ ์์
ํ๊ณผ ๊ด๋ จ ๊ธฐ์ ๋ฑ์ ํตํด ์์ ์ฐฝ์ถ์ ์ด์งํ๋ ๋ฐ ์ง์คํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ํตํด ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค๋ฅผ ๊ฐํํ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ตฌ ์นจํฌ์จ ํ๋์ ์ ๊ท ์๋น์ ํ๋ณด, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ดํ ์๋น์ ์ฌํ๋ณด์ ์ฃผ๋ ฅํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ์ด๋ฌํ ํฌ์๋ ์ค๋ ๋น์ฅ์ ์ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ด๋ ๊ฒ๋ค๊ณผ ํจ๊ป, ๋ค๋
๊ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ ๊ตฌ์ถํ๋ ๊ฒ๋ค์ด ํผํฉ๋์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ค์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, 27๋ ๋๋ฅผ ์ ๋งํ ๋๋ 26๋ ๊ณผ ๋ง์ฐฌ๊ฐ์ง๋ก ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ๋ฉด์ ๋์์ ๋ง์ง์ ํ๋ณตํ๋ ํ ํด๊ฐ ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ 26๋ ๊ณผ ๋๊ฐ์ด 27๋ ์๋ ์ด๋ฌํ ๊ท ํ์ด ์ ์ง๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Kirk Tanner: President, CEO & Director Yes. We'll go into greater detail at our investor conference in March. Really unpack this brand building, our investments in R&D. The solution here is to have sustainable long-term top line growth. And those capabilities and investments that we make are really important and we'll unpack that in March. | **Kirk Tanner:** ๋ค, 3์ ํฌ์์ ์ปจํผ๋ฐ์ค์์ ๋ ์์ธํ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ธ๋๋ ๊ตฌ์ถ๊ณผ R&D ํฌ์์ ๋ํด ์ฌ๋ ์๊ฒ ๋ค๋ฃฐ ์์ ์ ๋๋ค. ์ฌ๊ธฐ์ ํต์ฌ์ ์ง์ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ์ฅ๊ธฐ ๋งค์ถ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๋ฌ์ฑํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๊ตฌ์ถํ๋ ์ญ๋๊ณผ ํฌ์๋ ์ ๋ง ์ค์ํ๋ฉฐ, 3์์ ์ด์ ๋ํด ์์ธํ ์ค๋ช ๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Peter Galbo with Bank of America. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋ฑ ํฌ์ค๋ธ์๋ฉ๋ฆฌ์นด์ Peter Galbo๋๊ป์ ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Peter Galbo: BofA Securities, Research Division Steve, I actually was hoping maybe we could unpack the quarter a little bit. You had some pretty nice upside in the gross margin, I think, even relative to your own expectations to the tune of like 250 basis points plus. I know you outlined maybe some of that in the prepared remarks of the buckets. But maybe you could just give us a little bit more detail on the upside in the quarter between kind of tariff cost saving, volume deleverage, where those kind of buckets stood? | **Peter Galbo:** ์ค์ ๋ก ์ด๋ฒ ๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ค์ ์ ์ข ๋ ์์ธํ ์ดํด๋ณด๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค. ๋งค์ถ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ (gross margin)์์ ์๋นํ ์ข์ ์์น์ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด์ จ๋๋ฐ, ํ์ฌ ์์ฒด ์์์น ๋๋น๋ก๋ ์ฝ 250bp ์ด์ ์ํํ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด์ ๋๋ค. ์ค๋น๋ ๋ฐํ์์ ๋ช ๊ฐ์ง ํญ๋ชฉ๋ค์ ์ค๋ช ํด์ฃผ์ ๊ฑด ์๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค๋ง, ์ด๋ฒ ๋ถ๊ธฐ ์์น ์์ธ์ ๋ํด ์ข ๋ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ง์ํด์ฃผ์ค ์ ์์๊น์? ๊ด์ธ ๋น์ฉ ์ ๊ฐ, ๋ฌผ๋ ๋๋ ๋ฒ๋ฆฌ์ง(volume deleverage) ๋ฑ ๊ฐ ํญ๋ชฉ๋ณ๋ก ์ด๋ ์ ๋ ์์ค์ด์๋์ง ๊ถ๊ธํฉ๋๋ค. |
| Steven Voskuil: Senior VP & CFO Sure. Yes. You're right. We had a few hundred basis points of better performance in gross margin than we expected in the fourth quarter. And there are a couple of things in there. Obviously, volumes were strong. So we got a little bit more leverage. But probably the single biggest piece was tariffs. Now if you think about tariffs in two ways. Tariffs on our products, which we have high visibility to, and we'll talk about that as some of that is still sitting in inventory to come out in Q1. But we also pay tariffs on some of our suppliers' items. And that was an area where we anticipated paying more tariffs on some of our suppliers' materials then we ended up paying in the fourth quarter. And that was one of the, I'll say, surprises to the upside or the positive for the quarter. Offsetting that, we had a little bit of LIFO headwinds, inventory reval headwinds, but that was the biggest piece for the upside. | **Steven Voskuil:** ๋ค, ๋ง์ต๋๋ค. 4๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ๋งค์ถ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ (gross margin)์ด ์์๋ณด๋ค ์๋ฐฑ ๋ฒ ์ด์์ค ํฌ์ธํธ ๋ ์ข์ ์ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ๋์ต๋๋ค. ์ฌ๊ธฐ์๋ ๋ช ๊ฐ์ง ์์ธ์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋น์ฐํ ๋ฌผ๋์ด ๊ฐ์ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ฌ์ ๋ ๋ฒ๋ฆฌ์ง ํจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ ์ป์์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ์๋ง๋ ๊ฐ์ฅ ํฐ ์์ธ์ ๊ด์ธ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ด์ธ๋ฅผ ๋ ๊ฐ์ง ์ธก๋ฉด์์ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ๋จผ์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์ ํ์ ๋ถ๊ณผ๋๋ ๊ด์ธ๊ฐ ์๋๋ฐ, ์ด ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๊ฐ์์ฑ์ด ๋์ต๋๋ค. ์ด ์ค ์ผ๋ถ๋ ์์ง ์ฌ๊ณ ๋ก ๋จ์์์ด์ 1๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ๋ฐ์๋ ์์ ์ด๊ณ , ์ด์ ๋ํด์๋ ์ถํ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฐ๋ฐ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ผ๋ถ ๊ณต๊ธ์ ์ฒด์ ํ๋ชฉ์ ๋ํด์๋ ๊ด์ธ๋ฅผ ์ง๋ถํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ก ์ด ๋ถ๋ถ์์ 4๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ๊ณต๊ธ์ ์ฒด ์์ฌ์ ๋ํด ์์ํ๋ ๊ฒ๋ณด๋ค ์ค์ ๋ก๋ ๋ ์ ์ ๊ด์ธ๋ฅผ ์ง๋ถํ๊ฒ ๋์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๊ฒ์ด ์ด๋ฒ ๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ๊ธ์ ์ ์ธ ์ํ๋ผ์ด์ฆ ์ค ํ๋์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ค๋ง LIFO(ํ์ ์ ์ถ๋ฒ) ์ญํ๊ณผ ์ฌ๊ณ ์ฌํ๊ฐ ์ญํ์ด ์ผ๋ถ ์์์ง๋ง, ์ด๊ฒ์ด ์ค์ ๊ฐ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ํฐ ์์ธ์ด์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Peter Galbo: BofA Securities, Research Division Got it. Okay. And Kirk, the prepared remarks had a notable on kind of Hershey and Reese's having a true campaign for the first time in 8 years. I was commenting to Anoori this morning, like I've seen the team USA ad, it's great ad copy. But just like the impetus kind of for why now, why this, why now on both those brands, again, given it's been some time would be helpful? | **Peter Galbo:** ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ Kirk, ์ค๋น๋ ๋ฐ์ธ์์ ํ์ฌ์ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ๊ฐ 8๋ ๋ง์ ์ฒ์์ผ๋ก ์ง์ ํ ์บ ํ์ธ์ ์งํํ๋ค๋ ๋ด์ฉ์ด ๋์ ๋์์ต๋๋ค. ์ค๋ ์์นจ Anoori์๊ฒ ๋งํ๋๋ฐ, ์ ๋ ํ USA ๊ด๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๋ดค๊ณ ์ ๋ง ํ๋ฅญํ ๊ด๊ณ ์นดํผ๋๋ผ๊ณ ์. ๊ทธ๋ฐ๋ฐ ์ ์ง๊ธ์ธ์ง, ์ ์ด ๋ ๋ธ๋๋์์ ์ง๊ธ ์ด๋ฐ ๊ฒฐ์ ์ ๋ด๋ ธ๋์ง, ๊ฝค ์ค๋ ์๊ฐ์ด ์ง๋ฌ๋ค๋ ์ ์ ๊ณ ๋ คํ ๋ ์ค๋ช ํด ์ฃผ์๋ฉด ๋์์ด ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Kirk Tanner: President, CEO & Director Yes. Thanks for that question. This is the year of Hershey, and we're investing in Reese's as well. But when you look at the campaign, it's your happy place with Hershey's. That really builds on the connection and love that consumers have for the brand. And staying relevant with consumers on big brands is so important to fuel our growth. We've got a full year planned on both Reese's and Hershey. You'll see innovation on both. There's big innovation coming out on Hershey. And then of course, we have the movie celebrating Milton Hershey and really the great American story success story of the Hershey Company coming out in the fall. So it really is an action-packed year that really celebrates these two big brands, and that drives growth for us. | **Kirk Tanner:** ๋ค, ์ง๋ฌธ ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. ์ฌํด๋ ํ์ฌ์ ํด์ด๊ณ , ๋ฆฌ์ฆ(Reese's)์๋ ํฌ์ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ์บ ํ์ธ์ ๋ณด์๋ฉด, '๋น์ ์ ํ๋ณตํ ์ฅ์, ํ์ฌ์ ํจ๊ป'๋ผ๋ ๋ฉ์์ง๊ฐ ์๋น์๋ค์ด ๋ธ๋๋์ ๋ํด ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์๋ ์ ๋๊ฐ๊ณผ ์ ์ ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ผ๋ก ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ํ ๋ธ๋๋๊ฐ ์๋น์๋ค๊ณผ์ ๊ด๋ จ์ฑ์ ์ ์งํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ๋ ๋ฐ ๋งค์ฐ ์ค์ํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ฆฌ์ฆ์ ํ์ฌ ๋ชจ๋์ ๋ํด ์ฐ๊ฐ ๊ณํ์ ์๋ฆฝํ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ ๋ธ๋๋ ๋ชจ๋์์ ํ์ ์ ๋ณด์๊ฒ ๋ ๊ฒ๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ์์ ๋๊ท๋ชจ ํ์ ์ด ๋์ฌ ์์ ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ฌผ๋ก , ๊ฐ์์๋ ๋ฐํด ํ์ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ ํ๊ณ ํ์ฌ ์ปดํผ๋์ ์๋ํ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ ์ฑ๊ณต ์คํ ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋ค๋ฃฌ ์ํ๊ฐ ๊ฐ๋ดํฉ๋๋ค. ์ ๋ง ์ด ๋ ๋ํ ๋ธ๋๋๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ ํ๋ ์์ฐฌ ํ ํด๊ฐ ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๊ณ , ์ด๊ฒ์ด ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ์ด๋์ด๊ฐ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Peter Grom with UBS. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ UBS์ Peter Grom์ผ๋ก๋ถํฐ ๋ฐ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Peter Grom: UBS Investment Bank, Research Division I wanted to ask on the '26 guidance and understanding a lot has changed over the last few months as it relates to cocoa, tariffs, elasticities. But I kind of wanted to bridge from the expectation last quarter of being on algorithms to maybe being a little bit above that, post tariffs to now kind of expecting 30% to 35% earnings growth? And I ask that more in context of trying to understand the degree of cushion, or flexibility in the guidance just given the expectation for such strong growth? | **Peter Grom:** UBS ์ธ๋ฒ ์คํธ๋จผํธ ๋ฑ ํฌ ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ์์ 26๋ ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค์ ๋ํด ์ง๋ฌธ๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค. ์ง๋ ๋ช ๊ฐ์๊ฐ ์ฝ์ฝ์, ๊ด์ธ, ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ํ๋ ฅ์ฑ๊ณผ ๊ด๋ จํด์ ๋ง์ ๋ณํ๊ฐ ์์๋ค๋ ์ ์ ์ดํดํฉ๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ์ง๋ ๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ์๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ ์์ค์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๊ธฐ๋ํ์ จ๋ค๊ฐ, ๊ด์ธ ์ดํ์๋ ๊ทธ๋ณด๋ค ์ฝ๊ฐ ๋์ ์์ค์ ์์ํ์ จ๊ณ , ์ด์ ๋ 30%์์ 35%์ ์ด์ต ์ฑ์ฅ์ ์ ๋งํ๊ณ ๊ณ์ ๋ฐ์. ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ ฅํ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ์์ํ์๋ ์ํฉ์์, ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค์ ์ด๋ ์ ๋์ ์ฌ์ ๋ถ์ด๋ ์ ์ฐ์ฑ์ด ์๋์ง ์ดํดํ๊ณ ์ ์ด ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค. |
| Kirk Tanner: President, CEO & Director Yes. Let me address just the momentum on the top line and let Steve talk about the EPS portion. But if you think about what's different between now and when we talked last, is the momentum in the business, and it's across the portfolio. So we've got real strength in our CMG business and we continue to see that. And then fundamentally, how we're investing in our brands and delivering innovation, that gives us the confidence on the top line. And then our Salty portfolio has been really -- got a lot of tailwind. It's really positioned with consumers in the right places. Again, we saw 18% growth organic growth in quarter 4 in our Salty business and that's double-digit volume growth. So we see real health there. And the combination of our Salty and Sweet portfolio gives us the confidence to deliver the top line, which also, of course, helps our earnings. So that's different. And then on EPS, Steve can talk kind of through the levers there. | **Kirk Tanner:** ๋ค, ์ ๊ฐ ๋จผ์ ๋งค์ถ ๋ชจ๋ฉํ
์ ๋ํด ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์คํฐ๋ธ๊ฐ ์ฃผ๋น์์ด์ต(EPS) ๋ถ๋ถ์ ์ค๋ช
ํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ง๋๋ฒ ๋ง์๋๋ ธ์ ๋์ ์ง๊ธ์ ์ฐจ์ด์ ์ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์ฌ์
์ ๋ฐ์ ๋ชจ๋ฉํ
์ด ํ์คํ ๋ค๋ฆ
๋๋ค. ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค ์ ์ฒด์์ ๋ํ๋๊ณ ์๋ ํ์์ด์ฃ . CMG ์ฌ์
์์ ์ค์ง์ ์ธ ๊ฐ์ธ๊ฐ ๋ํ๋๊ณ ์๊ณ ์ด๋ ๊ณ์ ์ด์ด์ง๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ทผ๋ณธ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ธ๋๋์ ๋ํ ํฌ์์ ํ์ ์ ๊ณต ๋ฐฉ์์ด ๋งค์ถ ์ ๋ง์ ๋ํ ํ์ ์ ์ฃผ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ค๋ต(Salty) ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค๊ฐ ์ ๋ง ํฐ ์ถ์ง๋ ฅ์ ์ป๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์๋น์๋ค์๊ฒ ์ ์ ํ ํฌ์ง์ ๋์ ํ๊ณ ์์ฃ . ์ค์ ๋ก 4๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ค๋ต ์ฌ์ ์์ 18%์ ์ ๊ธฐ์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๊ธฐ๋กํ๋๋ฐ, ์ด๋ ๋ ์๋ฆฟ์ ๋ฌผ๋ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ด ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ ๊ฑด์ ์ฑ์ด ํ์คํ ๋ณด์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์ง ๋ง(Salty)๊ณผ ๋จ๋ง(Sweet) ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค์ ์กฐํฉ์ด ๋งค์ถ ๋ฌ์ฑ์ ๋ํ ํ์ ์ ์ฃผ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ ๋น์ฐํ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์์ต์๋ ๋์์ด ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ด ๋ถ๋ถ์ด ๋ค๋ฆ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ฃผ๋น์์ด์ต(EPS)์ ๊ดํด์๋ Steve๊ฐ ๊ทธ ์์ธ๋ค์ ๋ํด ์ค๋ช ํด ๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Steven Voskuil: Senior VP & CFO Sure. We're -- it's a good spot to be in for a change where we have 2 of our biggest risks, cocoa and tariffs fully understood, at least up to the moment for the year. So that's a good place to start. On top of that, since we last talked, we've got a better view. We get new data every day on elasticity. We feel better about what we're seeing. We haven't, as we said earlier, built all that potential upside into the plan, but we believe we've got a good balanced outlook on elasticities. We've got strong operating plans that Kirk and I have been through in detail in the last few months, and we're excited about those. And at the same time, we're balancing that with understanding the headwinds from the macros and making sure that we've got a balanced view of how those could play out for the year. As we think about the gives and takes that we sometimes focus on what's in our control, and what's outside our control. In our control, as we said earlier, we want to do better on elasticities, and we've got strong programming and brand engagement to do that. We've got investments in innovation, media, in-store activation. And then the ability, which we've done a great job of delivering on productivity and cost savings. So we've got very high confidence in that set of controllables. But there are things out of our control, macro headwinds, which, again, I believe we've got a prudent outlook for competitive response. Again, we're not seeing anything today that's causing concern, but these are the things that we will certainly keep an eye on. I think the key as we think about the '26 guidance is that we have flexibility to respond to what's going to change and challenge. And so we've done a good job of being agile in '25, and we will do the same in 2026. | **Steven Voskuil:** ๋ค, ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ณํ๋ฅผ ๋ง์ดํ๋ ์ข์ ์์น์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ฐ์ฅ ํฐ ๋ฆฌ์คํฌ ์์ธ ๋ ๊ฐ์ง์ธ ์ฝ์ฝ์์ ๊ด์ธ์ ๋ํด ์ ์ด๋ ์ฌํด๊น์ง๋ ์์ ํ ํ์ ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๊ฒ์ด ์ข์ ์ถ๋ฐ์ ์ด์ฃ . ๊ฒ๋ค๊ฐ ์ง๋๋ฒ ๋ ผ์ ์ดํ ๋ ๋์ ์ ๋ง์ ๊ฐ๊ฒ ๋์์ต๋๋ค. ๋งค์ผ ์๋ก์ด ๋ฐ์ดํฐ๋ฅผ ํตํด ํ๋ ฅ์ฑ(elasticity)์ ๋ํ ์ดํด๋๊ฐ ๋์์ง๊ณ ์๊ณ , ํ์ฌ ๋ณด๊ณ ์๋ ์ํฉ์ ๋ํด ๊ธ์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ํ๊ฐํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฐ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ, ์ด๋ฌํ ์ ์ฌ์ ์์น ์ฌ๋ ฅ์ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ณํ์ ๋ฐ์ํ์ง๋ ์์์ง๋ง, ํ๋ ฅ์ฑ์ ๋ํด ๊ท ํ ์กํ ์ ๋ง์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์๋ค๊ณ ๋ฏฟ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ํ Kirk์ ์ ๊ฐ ์ง๋ ๋ช ๋ฌ๊ฐ ์ธ๋ถ์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ฒํ ํ ํํํ ์ด์ ๊ณํ๋ค์ ๋ณด์ ํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด์ ๋ํด ๋งค์ฐ ๊ธฐ๋ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋์์ ๊ฑฐ์๊ฒฝ์ ์ ์ญํ์ ์ดํดํ๊ณ ์ฌํด ์ด๋ฌํ ์์ธ๋ค์ด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์ ๊ฐ๋ ์ง์ ๋ํด ๊ท ํ์กํ ์๊ฐ์ ์ ์งํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ธ์ ์ ์์ธ๊ณผ ๋ถ์ ์ ์์ธ์ ๊ณ ๋ คํ ๋, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ํต์ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ๊ฒ๊ณผ ํต์ ๋ถ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ๊ฒ์ ์ง์คํ๊ณค ํฉ๋๋ค. ํต์ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ์์ญ์์๋ ์์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฐ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ํ๋ ฅ์ฑ์ ๊ฐ์ ํ๊ณ ์ ํ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ ์ํ ๊ฐ๋ ฅํ ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ๊ณผ ๋ธ๋๋ ์ฐธ์ฌ ์ ๋ต์ ๊ฐ์ถ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ , ๋ฏธ๋์ด, ๋งค์ฅ ๋ด ํ์ฑํ์ ๋ํ ํฌ์๋ ์งํ ์ค์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์ฐ์ฑ๊ณผ ๋น์ฉ ์ ๊ฐ ์ธก๋ฉด์์ ํ๋ฅญํ ์ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ด์๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์คํ ๋ฅ๋ ฅ๋ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ์ด๋ฌํ ํต์ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ์์๋ค์ ๋ํด์๋ ๋งค์ฐ ๋์ ํ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ํต์ ํ ์ ์๋ ์์ธ๋ค, ์ฆ ๊ฑฐ์๊ฒฝ์ ์ญํ์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ค์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ์ง๋ง, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฒฝ์์ฌ ๋์์ ๋ํด ์ ์คํ ์ ๋ง์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ๋ก์๋ ์ฐ๋ ค๋ฅผ ์ผ์ผํฌ ๋งํ ์ํฉ์ ๋ณด์ด์ง ์์ง๋ง, ์ด๋ฌํ ๋ถ๋ถ๋ค์ ๋ถ๋ช ํ ๊ณ์ ์ฃผ์ํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. 26๋ ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค์ ๊ด๋ จํด์ ํต์ฌ์ ๋ณํ์ ๋์ ์ ๋์ํ ์ ์๋ ์ ์ฐ์ฑ์ ํ๋ณดํ๊ณ ์๋ค๋ ์ ์ ๋๋ค. 25๋ ์ ๋ฏผ์ฒฉํ๊ฒ ๋์ํด์๊ณ , 2026๋ ์๋ ๋ง์ฐฌ๊ฐ์ง๋ก ์ ํด๋ผ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Peter Grom: UBS Investment Bank, Research Division Great. And then maybe just a follow-up on Salty. There was a competitor this week that talked about affordability, price reductions that they're seeing expanded shelf space distribution. I know there's some subcategory differences. But just curious how you see that playing out for the category and maybe any implications for your business as well? | **Peter Grom:** ๋ค, ์ข์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฒ ์ฃผ์ ๊ฒฝ์์ฌ๊ฐ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ ๊ทผ์ฑ(affordability)๊ณผ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ธํ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํ๋๋ ๋งค๋ ๊ณต๊ฐ๊ณผ ์ ํต์ ๋ํด ์ธ๊ธํ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ธ๋ถ ์นดํ ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๋ณ๋ก ์ฐจ์ด๊ฐ ์๋ค๋ ์ ์ ์ธ์งํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค๋ง, ์ ์ฒด ์นดํ ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ ์ฐจ์์์ ์ด๋ฌํ ์์ง์์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ณด๊ณ ๊ณ์ ์ง, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ท์ฌ ์ฌ์ ์ ๋ฏธ์น ์ ์๋ ์ํฅ์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์ ๋งํ์๋์ง ๊ถ๊ธํฉ๋๋ค. |
| Kirk Tanner: President, CEO & Director Yes. Our Salty business has got a lot of momentum, like we talked about, 18% double-digit growth for the full year, and really healthy volume growth. Customers reward space on performance and velocity. That's the fundamentals of the category management. And so we are -- as well, we're expanding with our customers and customers need our growth. If you think about the category, the Salty category was relatively flat last year, and we grew double digits. So we provided a lot of growth in the category, and we'll continue to do that with our customers, and we'll be rewarded with space gains and addition including support for the innovation that we bring out on our Salty business. So I feel really good about the fundamentals of where we are with our Salty business, and that momentum will continue. | **Kirk Tanner:** ๋ค, ๋ง์ํ์ ๋๋ก ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์ค๋ต(Salty) ์ฌ์ ์ ์๋นํ ๋ชจ๋ฉํ ์ ๋ณด์ ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ๊ฐ 18% ๋ ์๋ฆฟ์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๋ฌ์ฑํ๊ณ , ๋งค์ฐ ๊ฑด๊ฐํ ๋ฌผ๋ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๊ธฐ๋กํ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ค์ ์ฑ๊ณผ์ ํ์ ์จ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ๋งค์ฅ ๊ณต๊ฐ์ ๋ฐฐ๋ถํฉ๋๋ค. ์ด๊ฒ์ด ์นดํ ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ ๊ด๋ฆฌ์ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ ์์น์ด์ฃ . ๊ทธ๋์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ค๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ํ์ฅํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ค๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ํ์๋ก ํฉ๋๋ค. ์นดํ ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ ์ ์ฒด๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์๋ ์ค๋ต ์นดํ ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๋ ์๋์ ์ผ๋ก ์ ์ฒด๋์ด ์์์ง๋ง ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ ์๋ฆฟ์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๋ฌ์ฑํ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์นดํ ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ ๋ด์์ ์๋นํ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ๊ณ , ์์ผ๋ก๋ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ค๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ์ด๋ฅผ ์ง์ํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ๋งค์ฅ ๊ณต๊ฐ ํ๋๋ ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ค๋ต ์ฌ์ ์์ ์ ๋ณด์ด๋ ํ์ ์ ํ๋ค์ ๋ํ ์ง์๋ ๋ณด์์ผ๋ก ๋ฐ๊ฒ ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ค๋ต ์ฌ์ ์ ํ๋๋ฉํธ์ ๋ํด ์ ๋ง ๊ธ์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฌํ ๋ชจ๋ฉํ ์ ๊ณ์๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Operator: Our next question comes from the line of David Palmer with Evercore ISI. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ Evercore ISI์ David Palmer๋ก๋ถํฐ ๋ฐ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| David Palmer: Evercore ISI Institutional Equities, Research Division I want to hit on that line of questioning you heard earlier. People right now are going to be wrestling with how to think about earnings into '27, which is ridiculously early, I know, but people are going to clearly be imagining $10 or more in earnings in '27. Just thinking through where cocoa is today and likely it could be in the 4,000s for that upcoming year just based on how you might be hedging this year into that year. I'm just wondering like things that would maybe not make -- we don't want to get ahead of ourselves in terms of flow through, things that could hold back that flow through to get to those types of numbers, price elasticity moving over 0.8, I would imagine would be one. But other wish list types of reinvestments? Any thoughts on that would be helpful. And I have a follow-up. | **David Palmer:** ์ง๊ธ ์ฝ์ฝ์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์์ค๊ณผ ๋ด๋
๋ ํค์ง ๋ฐฉ์์ ๊ณ ๋ คํ๋ฉด 27๋
์๋ ์ฝ์ฝ์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ด 4,000๋ฌ๋ฌ๋์ ์์ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ด ๋์ต๋๋ค. ๋ง์ํ์ ๋๋ก 27๋
์ ์ฃผ๋น์์ด์ต(EPS) 10๋ฌ๋ฌ ์ด์์ ์์ํ์๋ ๋ถ๋ค์ด ๊ณ์ค ํ
๋ฐ, ๊ทธ๋ฐ ์์ค์ ๋๋ฌํ๋ ๋ฐ ์ ์ฝ์ด ๋ ์ ์๋ ์์ธ๋ค์ ๋ํด ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ํ๋ ฅ์ฑ์ด 0.8์ ๋์ด์๋ ์ํฉ์ ๋ถ๋ช ๊ณ ๋ คํด์ผ ํ ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ๊ทธ๊ฒ๋ง์ด ์๋๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋๋ฌด ์์ ๋๊ฐ๊ณ ์ถ์ง ์์ ์ด์ ๋, ์์ต์ฑ ๊ฐ์ ๋ถ์ ๊ทธ๋๋ก ์ค์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ฐ์ํ๊ธฐ๋ณด๋ค๋ ์ ๋ต์ ์ฌํฌ์๊ฐ ํ์ํ ์์ญ๋ค์ด ์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ธ๋๋ ๊ฐํ๋ฅผ ์ํ ๋ง์ผํ ํฌ์, ์์ฐ ํจ์จ์ฑ ์ ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ์ํ ์ค๋น ํฌ์, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ฑ์ฅ ๋๋ ฅ ํ๋ณด๋ฅผ ์ํ ํ์ ํฌ์ ๋ฑ์ด ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ฃผ์ฃผ ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ๊ป ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ํ์ํ๋ ๊ฒ๋ ์ค์ํ์ง๋ง, ์ง์ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ์ฑ์ฅ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ ๋ค์ง๋ ๊ฒ๊ณผ์ ๊ท ํ์ ๋ง์ถฐ์ผ ํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ์ฝ์ฝ์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ํ๋ฝ์ผ๋ก ์ธํ ์ํ๊ฐ ๋ชจ๋ ๋จ๊ธฐ ์ค์ ์ผ๋ก ์ด์ด์ง์ง๋ ์์ ๊ฒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ผ๋ถ๋ ํ์ฌ์ ๊ฒฝ์๋ ฅ ๊ฐํ๋ฅผ ์ํด ์ฌํฌ์๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋ํ ์๊ฒฌ์ ์ฃผ์๋ฉด ๋์์ด ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ถ๊ฐ ์ง๋ฌธ์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Steven Voskuil: Senior VP & CFO Sure. As you said, we'll unpack this more in the Investor Day. I agree with you. I think we all agree the external factors as we look out seem to be improving. Cocoa, one of those, we'd agree that today, if you were to snap a chalk line, you'd probably say that looks like a potential tailwind for 2027. But it's still volatile. It still hasn't found its new normal, and we continue to watch it. On the other side, we are going to, as we said earlier, continue to make investments in the portfolio and products that are going to set us up for multiyear performance. And so we feel good about what we have in the 2026 plan. Some of those are going to carry over into 2027. We are always going to balance the margin recovery and the growth. So don't think about that investment has taken away that margin recovery. But it's a balancing factor to make sure we enable long-term growth. And then as we talked about earlier, we're going to watch those macros very closely. We'll get more data on SNAP. We've got a lot of data coming in on GLP-1s, just like many of you do, we have a team of people who does nothing but study and analyze these macros to understand the impact on our business. And so we have built in, what we believe is, the best information today into that guide, but that will be a place we'll watch as it develops over the course of this year and we get more data. | **Steven Voskuil:** ๋ค, ๋ง์ํ์ ๋๋ก ํฌ์์์ ๋ (Investor Day)์์ ๋ ์์ธํ ์ค๋ช
๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ๋์ํฉ๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ชจ๋ ์์ผ๋ก์ ์ธ๋ถ ์์ธ๋ค์ด ๊ฐ์ ๋๊ณ ์๋ค๊ณ ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฝ์ฝ์๊ฐ ๊ทธ ์ค ํ๋์ธ๋ฐ, ํ์ฌ ์์ ์์ ๋ณด๋ฉด 2027๋
์๋ ์ ์ฌ์ ์ธ ์ํ ์์ธ์ด ๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด์
๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ์ฌ์ ํ ๋ณ๋์ฑ์ด ํฌ๊ณ ์๋ก์ด ๊ท ํ์ ์ ์ฐพ์ง ๋ชปํ ์ํ๋ผ์ ๊ณ์ ์ฃผ์ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ค๋ฅธ ํํธ์ผ๋ก๋, ์์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฐ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ๋ค๋ ๊ฐ์ ์ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ท๋ฐ์นจํ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค์ ์ ํ์ ๋ํ ํฌ์๋ฅผ ์ง์ํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. 2026๋ ๊ณํ์ ๋ํด์๋ ๊ธ์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๊ณ ์๊ณ , ์ด ์ค ์ผ๋ถ๋ 2027๋ ๊น์ง ์ด์ด์ง ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ํญ์ ๋ง์ง ํ๋ณต๊ณผ ์ฑ์ฅ ๊ฐ์ ๊ท ํ์ ๋ง์ถฐ๋๊ฐ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋๊น ์ด๋ฌํ ํฌ์๊ฐ ๋ง์ง ํ๋ณต์ ์ ํดํ๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํ์ง ๋ง์๊ธฐ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค. ๋ค๋ง ์ฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ๊ฒ ํ๊ธฐ ์ํ ๊ท ํ ์์๋ผ๊ณ ๋ณด์๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฐ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฑฐ์๊ฒฝ์ ์งํ๋ค์ ๋งค์ฐ ๋ฉด๋ฐํ ๋ชจ๋ํฐ๋งํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. SNAP ๊ด๋ จํด์ ๋ ๋ง์ ๋ฐ์ดํฐ๋ฅผ ํ๋ณดํ ์์ ์ด๊ณ ์. GLP-1 ๊ด๋ จํด์๋ ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ๋ค๊ณผ ๋ง์ฐฌ๊ฐ์ง๋ก ์๋นํ ๋ฐ์ดํฐ๊ฐ ๋ค์ด์ค๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ ํฌ๋ ์ด๋ฌํ ๊ฑฐ์๊ฒฝ์ ์์ธ๋ค์ ์ฐ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ๋ถ์ํ์ฌ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์ฌ์ ์ ๋ฏธ์น๋ ์ํฅ์ ํ์ ํ๋ ๊ฒ๋ง์ ์ ๋ดํ๋ ํ์ ์ด์ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ํ์ฌ ์์ ์์ ํ๋ณดํ ์ต์ ์ ์ ๋ณด๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค์ ๋ฐ์ํ๋ค๊ณ ๋ฏฟ์ต๋๋ค๋ง, ์ฌํด ์งํ๋๋ฉด์ ๋ ๋ง์ ๋ฐ์ดํฐ๋ฅผ ํ๋ณดํ๊ฒ ๋๋ฉด ์ด ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๊ณ์ ์ฃผ์ํ ์์ญ์ด ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. |
| David Palmer: Evercore ISI Institutional Equities, Research Division And just -- I don't want to front run your Investor Day. But Kirk, you obviously have been in the CPG space for a while. You have fresh eyes on this business. You obviously have a chance to -- do you have a say in the plan for '26 and '27, in terms of how we should think about the type of growth activations and the things that you're doing? The levers that we will see more of perhaps than that we've seen in the recent past. Any thoughts on that, just tease the Analyst Day a bit. | **David Palmer:** ํฌ์์์ ๋ ์ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ์์๊ฐ๊ณ ์ถ์ง๋ ์์ต๋๋ค๋ง, Kirk, ๋น์ ์ ์๋น์ฌ ์ ๊ณ์์ ์ค๋ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์ ์์์ค์ จ๊ณ ์ด ์ฌ์ ์ ์๋ก์ด ์๊ฐ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๊ณ ๊ณ์ญ๋๋ค. 26๋ ๊ณผ 27๋ ๊ณํ์ ๋ํด์๋ ๋ถ๋ช ํ ์๊ฒฌ์ ์ ์ํ ๊ธฐํ๊ฐ ์์ผ์ค ํ ๋ฐ์, ์ฑ์ฅ ๋๋ ฅ๊ณผ ์ถ์งํ๊ณ ๊ณ์ ์ฌํญ๋ค์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์๊ฐํด์ผ ํ ๊น์? ์ต๊ทผ์ ๋ด์๋ ๊ฒ๋ณด๋ค ์์ผ๋ก ๋ ๋ง์ด ๋ณด๊ฒ ๋ ๋ ๋ฒ๋ฆฌ์ง๋ ์ด๋ค ๊ฒ๋ค์ด ์์๊น์? ์ ๋๋ฆฌ์คํธ ๋ฐ์ด๋ฅผ ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ฏธ๋ฆฌ ์ฟ๋ณผ ์ ์๋๋ก ์๊ฐ์ ๋ค๋ ค์ฃผ์ค ์ ์์ผ์ ์ง์. |
| Kirk Tanner: President, CEO & Director Yes, let's tease it out. But hey, look, first of all, we'd love to see you all on March 31 in New York. We're excited to share that. I'm excited to share the plan. So 2026 is really the first chapter of our next generation of growth. And then really -- and what we'll kind of share with you is the portfolio that we're building, the -- look, we have a terrific portfolio today. We'll continue to invest in that portfolio, and we're going to double down on our strengths. And those strengths will fuel that top line growth while we return earnings to our shareholders, and we'll bring that to life in -- at the Investor Day. And we'll be very articulate about what investments we're making, what capabilities and what outcomes we expect, but you'll see that really come to life. We're really excited to share that with you. | **Kirk Tanner:** ๋ค, ์์ธํ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ์ 3์ 31์ผ ๋ด์์์ ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ ๋ชจ๋๋ฅผ ๋ต๊ฒ ๋๊ธธ ๊ธฐ๋ํฉ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฒ ํ์ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ณต์ ํ๊ฒ ๋์ด ์ ๋ง ๊ธฐ์๊ณ , ์ ํฌ ๊ณํ์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ๋์ด ๊ธฐ๋๊ฐ ํฝ๋๋ค. 2026๋ ์ ์ฌ์ค์ ์ฐจ์ธ๋ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ์ฒซ ๋ฒ์งธ ์ฑํฐ๊ฐ ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ๊ป ๊ณต์ ๋๋ฆด ๋ด์ฉ์ ์ ํฌ๊ฐ ๊ตฌ์ถํ๊ณ ์๋ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค์ ๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ํ๋ฅญํ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค์ ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ํฌ์ํ ๊ฒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ๊ฐ์ ์ ๋์ฑ ์ง์คํ ๊ณํ์ ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ๊ฐ์ ๋ค์ด ๋งค์ถ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ๋ ๋์์ ์ฃผ์ฃผ๋ค์๊ฒ ์์ต์ ํ์ํ ๊ฒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ด ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ์ ํฌ์์์ ๋ ํ์ฌ์์ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด์ฌ๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ ํฌ๊ฐ ์ด๋ค ํฌ์๋ฅผ ํ๊ณ ์๋์ง, ์ด๋ค ์ญ๋์ ๊ตฌ์ถํ๊ณ ์๋์ง, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ด๋ค ์ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ํ๊ณ ์๋์ง ๋ช ํํ๊ฒ ๋ง์๋๋ฆด ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ค์ ๋ก ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์คํ๋๋์ง ๋ณด์๊ฒ ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ๊ณผ ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ณต์ ํ๊ฒ ๋์ด ์ ๋ง ๊ธฐ๋๊ฐ ํฝ๋๋ค. |
| Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Leah Jordan with Goldman Sachs. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๊ณจ๋๋ง์ญ์ค์ ๋ฆฌ์ ์กฐ๋ ์ ๋๋ฆฌ์คํธ๋ก๋ถํฐ ๋ฐ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Leah Jordan: Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division There just seems to be a lot of attention and excitement about the innovation and activation plans in a lot of your commentary today. So anything if you could provide more color on the plans you have for the coming year, key timing we should think about? And then I think ultimately, how do you think about growth and innovation versus core for the coming year? | **Leah Jordan:** ๊ณจ๋๋ง์ญ์ค ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ค. ์ค๋ ๋ง์ํ์ ๋ด์ฉ ์ค์ ํ์ ๊ณผ ํ์ฑํ ๊ณํ์ ๋ํ ๊ด์ฌ๊ณผ ๊ธฐ๋๊ฐ ์๋นํ ํฌ๊ฒ ๋๊ปด์ก์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ๋ด๋ ๊ณํ์ ๋ํด ์ข ๋ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ง์ํด ์ฃผ์ค ์ ์์๊น์? ์ฃผ์ ์์ ์ ์ธ์ ๋ก ์๊ฐํ์๋์ง์? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ถ๊ทน์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ด๋ ์ ์ฑ์ฅ๊ณผ ํ์ ๋๋น ํต์ฌ ์ฌ์ ์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด๊ณ ๊ณ์ ์ง ๊ถ๊ธํฉ๋๋ค. |
| Kirk Tanner: President, CEO & Director Yes. I think it's a balance. We just talked about some of the investments we're making on Hershey's and Reese's. I think that quality core growth is really important. And there's innovation in those places as well. But innovation is so important to the category, and we've had some really good innovation as of late. REESE'S OREO has been a really nice tailwind for us, and that continues through most of this year where we have -- 2/3 of the year we'll have that being a real positive to us. And then we have a pipeline of innovation that we're launching across our sweets and chocolate portfolio that we're excited. Plus we have really good innovation on our Salty business. And so innovation on our Hershey brand, Dot's brand, SkinnyPop, JOLLY RANCHER, you'll see all that innovation. We'll share all that innovation at our upcoming Investor Day, but it is robust. And then if you think about '27 and beyond, it's important that we have a pipeline of innovation that continues through '27. And that's why we're making continued investments in R&D so that we can be -- come to the market faster with the most relevant consumer-facing ideas, and we'll share that pipeline as well. | **Kirk Tanner:** ๋ค, ๊ท ํ์ ๋ฌธ์ ๋ผ๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ฐฉ๊ธ ํ์ฌ์ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ์ ๋ํ ํฌ์์ ๋ํด ๋ง์๋๋ ธ๋๋ฐ์, ํต์ฌ ์ ํ์ ์ง์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ด ์ ๋ง ์ค์ํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ทธ ๋ถ๋ถ์์๋ ํ์ ์ด ์ผ์ด๋๊ณ ์๊ณ ์. ํ์ง๋ง ํ์ ์ ์ด ์นดํ
๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์์ ๋งค์ฐ ์ค์ํ๋ฉฐ, ์ต๊ทผ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ ๋ง ์ข์ ํ์ ์ ํ๋ค์ ์ ๋ณด์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฆฌ์ฆ ์ค๋ ์ค(REESE'S OREO)๊ฐ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์๊ฒ ์๋นํ ๊ธ์ ์ ์ธ ๋ฐ๋์ ๋ถ์ด๋ฃ์ด ์ฃผ๊ณ ์๊ณ , ์ด๋ ์ฌํด ๋๋ถ๋ถ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋์ ์ง์๋ ๊ฒ์
๋๋ค. ์ฌํด์ 3๋ถ์ 2 ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋์ ์ด ์ ํ์ด ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์๊ฒ ์ค์ง์ ์ธ ๊ธ์ ์ ์์ธ์ด ๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ค์ํธ์ ์ด์ฝ๋ฆฟ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค ์ ๋ฐ์ ๊ฑธ์ณ ์ถ์ํ ํ์ ์ ํ ํ์ดํ๋ผ์ธ์ ๋ณด์ ํ๊ณ ์์ด ๊ธฐ๋๊ฐ ํฝ๋๋ค. ์ฌ๊ธฐ์ ๋ํด ์งญ์งคํ ์ค๋ต(Salty) ์ฌ์ ์์๋ ์ ๋ง ์ข์ ํ์ ์ ํ๋ค์ ๊ฐ์ถ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ ํฌ Hershey ๋ธ๋๋, Dot's ๋ธ๋๋, SkinnyPop, JOLLY RANCHER ๋ฑ ๋ชจ๋ ๋ธ๋๋์์ ํ์ ์ ๋ณด์๊ฒ ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ค๊ฐ์ค๋ ํฌ์์์ ๋ (Investor Day)์์ ์ด๋ฌํ ๋ชจ๋ ํ์ ์ ํ๋ค์ ๊ณต์ ํ ์์ ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ ๋ด์ฉ์ ์๋นํ ํ๋ถํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ 2027๋ ๊ณผ ๊ทธ ์ดํ๋ฅผ ์๊ฐํด๋ณด๋ฉด, 2027๋ ๊น์ง ์ง์๋๋ ํ์ ํ์ดํ๋ผ์ธ์ ๊ฐ์ถ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์ค์ํฉ๋๋ค. ์ด๊ฒ์ด ๋ฐ๋ก ์ ํฌ๊ฐ R&D์ ์ง์์ ์ธ ํฌ์๋ฅผ ํ๋ ์ด์ ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ฐ์ฅ ์๋น์ ๊ด๋ จ์ฑ ๋์ ์์ด๋์ด๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ๋ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์์ฅ์ ๋๊ฐ ์ ์๋๋ก ๋ง์ด์ฃ . ์ด๋ฌํ ํ์ดํ๋ผ์ธ๋ ํจ๊ป ๊ณต์ ํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Leah Jordan: Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division Okay. Great. We'll look forward to that. I think for my follow-up, I just wanted to go back to the gross margin discussion, specifically around this year and the cadence. Thank you for the color on the 400 basis points, we should expect for the full year, a little bit of pressure in 1Q and improve thereafter. But any more color on the puts and takes we should think about in the magnitude of that improvement as we go through each quarter? | **Leah Jordan:** ๋ค, ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ธฐ๋ํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ผ๋ก๋ ๋งค์ถ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ ์ ๋ํด ๋ค์ ์ฌ์ญค๋ณด๊ณ ์ถ์๋ฐ์, ํนํ ์ฌํด์ ๋ถ๊ธฐ๋ณ ์ถ์ด์ ๋ํด์์ ๋๋ค. ์ฐ๊ฐ 400bp ์ ๋ ์์ํ์๊ณ , 1๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ์ฝ๊ฐ์ ์๋ฐ์ด ์๋ค๊ฐ ์ดํ ๊ฐ์ ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ผ๋ ์ค๋ช ๊ฐ์ฌ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค. ๊ฐ ๋ถ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ์น๋ฉด์ ๊ฐ์ ํญ์ด ์ด๋ ์ ๋์ผ์ง, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ณ ๋ คํด์ผ ํ ์์น ์์ธ๊ณผ ํ๋ฝ ์์ธ์ ๋ํด ์ข ๋ ์์ธํ ๋ง์ํด ์ฃผ์ค ์ ์์๊น์? |
| Steven Voskuil: Senior VP & CFO Sure. You bet. I can take that one. As we kind of look through the flow of the quarters, we're going to see -- the first half is going to be -- or excuse me, Q1 will be the strongest from a top line standpoint. We're going to carry the momentum out of the fourth quarter, feel really good about our visibility in the first quarter on the top line. But margin and earnings are going to remain under pressure because we still are going to have higher cost inventory. We're still going to have tariffs in that inventory. So we'll see margin and earnings pressure in Q1. As we go to Q2, the top line growth is going to moderate slightly, but you're going to see an inflection from a gross margin standpoint. And we expect to see double-digit EPS growth for the balance of the year from there. Of course, we know we got tougher comps in the second half, but we factored that in as we think about this flow. So think about momentum carrying through the first half on the top line, second quarter inflection from a profitability standpoint. And then we'd expect to see our brand investment up double digits across the quarters, and this reflects some of those investments we talked about earlier. | **Steven Voskuil:** ๋ค, ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ถ๊ธฐ๋ณ ํ๋ฆ์ ์ดํด๋ณด๋ฉด, 1๋ถ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋งค์ถ ์ธก๋ฉด์์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ๊ฐ์ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ผ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์์๋ฉ๋๋ค. 4๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ๋ชจ๋ฉํ
์ ๊ทธ๋๋ก ์ด์ด๊ฐ ๊ฒ์ด๊ณ , 1๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋งค์ถ์ ๋ํ ๊ฐ์์ฑ๋ ๋งค์ฐ ์ข์ต๋๋ค. ๋ค๋ง ๋ง์ง๊ณผ ์ค์ ์ ์ฌ์ ํ ์๋ฐ์ ๋ฐ์ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด์
๋๋ค. ์์ง ๊ณ ๋น์ฉ ์ฌ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ ํ๊ณ ์๊ณ , ํด๋น ์ฌ๊ณ ์๋ ๊ด์ธ๊ฐ ํฌํจ๋์ด ์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์
๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ 1๋ถ๊ธฐ์๋ ๋ง์ง๊ณผ ์ค์ ์๋ฐ์ด ์ง์๋ ๊ฒ์
๋๋ค. 2๋ถ๊ธฐ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ฉด ๋งค์ถ ์ฑ์ฅ์ธ๋ ์ํญ ๋ํ๋๊ฒ ์ง๋ง, ๋งค์ถ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ ์ธก๋ฉด์์๋ ๋ฐ๋ฑ์ด ๋ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ทธ ์์ ๋ถํฐ ์ฐ๋ง๊น์ง ๋ ์๋ฆฟ์ EPS(์ฃผ๋น์์ด์ต) ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๊ธฐ๋ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก ํ๋ฐ๊ธฐ์ ๋น๊ต ๊ธฐ์ ๊ฐ ๋ ๋์์ง๋ค๋ ์ ์ ์๊ณ ์์ง๋ง, ์ด๋ฌํ ํ๋ฆ์ ๊ณ ๋ คํ ๋ ๊ทธ ๋ถ๋ถ๋ ์ด๋ฏธ ๋ฐ์ํ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ์๋ฐ๊ธฐ ๋์ ๋งค์ถ ์ธก๋ฉด์์ ๋ชจ๋ฉํ ์ด ์ง์๋๊ณ , 2๋ถ๊ธฐ์๋ ์์ต์ฑ ์ธก๋ฉด์์ ์ ํ์ ์ ๋ง์ดํ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด์๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๋ถ๊ธฐ๋ณ๋ก ๋ธ๋๋ ํฌ์๊ฐ ๋ ์๋ฆฟ์ ์ฆ๊ฐํ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์์ํ๋๋ฐ, ์ด๋ ์์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฐ ํฌ์๋ค์ ๋ฐ์ํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Max Gumport with BNP Paribas. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ BNP ํ๋ฆฌ๋ฐ์ Max Gumport๋๊ป์ ์ฃผ์ จ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Max Andrew Gumport: BNP Paribas, Research Division Clearly, elasticity so far have been encouraging. And I'm not expressing my own view here, but one that you hear from some investors. I think there's a narrative out there that once you get through this pricing cycle, you'll be unable to grow your chocolate volumes for several years. It's similar to what we're seeing in other packaged food categories currently. I realize we're a long way away from that point in time, but I'm just curious what pushback you'd offer to that narrative? And if there's any historical precedence you're focused on? | **Max Andrew Gumport:** ์ง๊ธ๊น์ง ํ๋ ฅ์ฑ์ ๊ณ ๋ฌด์ ์ด์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๊ฑด ์ ๊ฐ์ธ์ ์ธ ๊ฒฌํด๊ฐ ์๋๋ผ ์ผ๋ถ ํฌ์์๋ค๋ก๋ถํฐ ๋ฃ๋ ์๊ฒฌ์ธ๋ฐ์. ํ์ฌ ์์ฅ์๋ ์ด๋ฐ ์๋๋ฆฌ์ค๊ฐ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฒ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ธ์ ์ฌ์ดํด์ ์ง๋๊ณ ๋๋ฉด, ํฅํ ๋ช ๋ ๊ฐ ์ด์ฝ๋ฆฟ ๋ฌผ๋ ์ฑ์ฅ์ด ์ด๋ ค์ธ ๊ฒ์ด๋ผ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ ๋ค๋ฅธ ํฌ์ฅ์ํ ์นดํ ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์์ ๋ณด๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฒ๊ณผ ์ ์ฌํ ์ํฉ์ด์ฃ . ๋ฌผ๋ก ๊ทธ ์์ ๊น์ง๋ ์์ง ๋ฉ์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ์๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค๋ง, ์ด๋ฌํ ์๋๋ฆฌ์ค์ ๋ํด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ฐ๋ฐํ์ค ์ ์๋์ง ๊ถ๊ธํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ฐธ๊ณ ํ๊ณ ๊ณ์ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ์ฌ๋ก๊ฐ ์์ผ์ ์ง์? |
| Kirk Tanner: President, CEO & Director Yes. Let me break it down. Look, we like where we're at with really the big categories across our Confection business and our Salty business. The Confection category has been very resilient over time and it remains resilient. It is an emotional category that consumers look for. And if you think about where the growth is right now in retail, it really is around functional and emotional brands. And so that gives you confidence to see that continue to grow. And if you just look historically, it's been a very resilient category. It's a really good category. On the Salty side of the business, I think it's really important to be in the right places in the category. Permissible, better-for-you, portion control, those are areas that continue to leverage growth. Consumers are willing to pay for that. That's where the growth is, and that's where our brands are positioned in the category. Give you a couple of examples. SkinnyPop is doing exceptionally well, it's a real relevant. Popcorn very relevant with consumers today and will be long term as we see those consumer trends and what they're looking for. Dot's Pretzels really shows how you can reinvent a category and drive growth. Dot's is now the #1 pretzel in the category. And it is about tying into the relevance of what consumers are looking for. That -- of course, you're going to hear more about kind of the long term at -- and I'm really plugging this Investor Day. So I hope you're all coming. But we'll walk through kind of the long-term plan and how we see the categories and how we see the sustainability of that over the long-term horizon. | **Kirk Tanner:** ๋ค, ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ ํฌ ์ ๊ณผ ์ฌ์
๊ณผ ์งญ์งคํ ์ค๋ต ์ฌ์
์ ๋ฐ์ ์ฃผ์ ์นดํ
๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๋ค์ ๋ํด ํ์ฌ ๋งค์ฐ ๋ง์กฑ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ์๊ฐํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ ๊ณผ ์นดํ
๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ค๋ ์๊ฐ ๋์ ๋งค์ฐ ํ๋ณตํ๋ ฅ์ ์ธ ๋ชจ์ต์ ๋ณด์ฌ์๊ณ ์ง๊ธ๋ ๊ทธ ํ๋ ฅ์ฑ์ ์ ์งํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์๋น์๋ค์ด ์ฐพ๋ ๊ฐ์ฑ์ ์ธ ์นดํ
๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฃ . ํ์ฌ ์๋งค ์์ฅ์์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ด ์ผ์ด๋๋ ๊ณณ์ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์ค์ง์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์ฑ ๋ธ๋๋์ ๊ฐ์ฑ์ ๋ธ๋๋๋ฅผ ์ค์ฌ์ผ๋ก ์ด๋ฃจ์ด์ง๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ด ์นดํ
๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๊ณ์ ์ฑ์ฅํ ๊ฒ์ด๋ผ๋ ํ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ง ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ญ์ฌ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ด๋ ๋งค์ฐ ํ๋ณตํ๋ ฅ์ ์ธ ์นดํ
๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ ๋ง ์ข์ ์นดํ
๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์
๋๋ค. ์งญ์งคํ ์ค๋ต ์ฌ์ ์ชฝ์์๋ ์นดํ ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ ๋ด์์ ์ฌ๋ฐ๋ฅธ ์์น๋ฅผ ์ ์ ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์ ๋ง ์ค์ํ๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. ํ์ฉ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ๊ฐ์, ๊ฑด๊ฐ์งํฅ ์ ํ, 1ํ ๋ถ๋ ์กฐ์ ์ ํ, ์ด๋ฐ ์์ญ๋ค์ด ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์๋น์๋ค์ ๊ทธ๋ฐ ์ ํ์ ๊ธฐ๊บผ์ด ๋์ ์ง๋ถํ ์ํฅ์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ด ๋ฐ๋ก ์ฑ์ฅ์ด ์ผ์ด๋๋ ๊ณณ์ด๊ณ , ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ธ๋๋๋ค์ด ํด๋น ์นดํ ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์์ ํฌ์ง์ ๋ํ๊ณ ์๋ ์ง์ ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ช ๊ฐ์ง ์๋ฅผ ๋ค์ด๋ณด๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. SkinnyPop์ ์ ๋ง ๋ฐ์ด๋ ์ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ด๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๋งค์ฐ ์ ํฉํ ์ ํ์ ๋๋ค. ํ์ฝ์ ์ค๋๋ ์๋น์๋ค์๊ฒ ๋งค์ฐ ๊ด๋ จ์ฑ์ด ๋๊ณ , ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ณด๋ ์๋น์ ํธ๋ ๋์ ๊ทธ๋ค์ด ์ฐพ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๊ณ ๋ คํ ๋ ์ฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ผ๋ก๋ ๊ทธ๋ด ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. Dot's Pretzels๋ ์นดํ ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์ฌ์ฐฝ์กฐํ๊ณ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ ์ ์๋์ง๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๋ ์ข์ ์ฌ๋ก์ ๋๋ค. Dot's๋ ํ์ฌ ํด๋น ์นดํ ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์์ 1์ ํ๋ ์ฒผ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ด๋ ์๋น์๋ค์ด ์ฐพ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๊ด๋ จ์ฑ๊ณผ ์ฐ๊ฒฐ๋๋ ๊ฒ์ ๊ดํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋ํด์๋ ๋ ๋ง์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ค์ผ์ค ์ ์์ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ ๊ฐ ์ด ํฌ์์์ ๋ ์ ์ ๋ง ์ ๊ทน์ ์ผ๋ก ํ๋ณดํ๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ ๋ชจ๋ ์ฐธ์ํ์๊ธธ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค. ์ฅ๊ธฐ ๊ณํ๊ณผ ๊ฐ ์นดํ ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ณด๊ณ ์๋์ง, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ฅ๊ธฐ์ ๊ด์ ์์ ์ง์๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์ ๋งํ๋์ง ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Steven Voskuil: Senior VP & CFO And I think we'll have an opportunity there, too, to talk about how we can play offense on some of the categories that are going to see more growth. So we know sweets, better-for-you, premium, some of the functional products that we're going to talk about, I think we're going to have a really good story about how they can lean into the volume story as well. | **Steven Voskuil:** ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ทธ ์๋ฆฌ์์ ๋ ๋ง์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ด ์์๋๋ ์ผ๋ถ ์นดํ ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋๊ฐ ์ ์๋์ง์ ๋ํด์๋ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐํ ๊ธฐํ๊ฐ ์์ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. ์ค์ํธ(sweets), ๋ฒ ํฐ-ํฌ-์ (better-for-you), ํ๋ฆฌ๋ฏธ์, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ ผ์ํ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์ฑ ์ ํ๋ค๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ ์นดํ ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๋ค์์ ๋ง์ด์ฃ . ์ด๋ฌํ ์ ํ๋ค์ด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ณผ๋ฅจ ์ฑ์ฅ ์คํ ๋ฆฌ์ ๊ธฐ์ฌํ ์ ์๋์ง์ ๋ํด ์ ๋ง ์ข์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ค๋ ค๋๋ฆด ์ ์์ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. |
| Max Andrew Gumport: BNP Paribas, Research Division Great. And then in Europe, where I realize you don't have much of a chocolate presence, but it's a market where we -- it's an interesting corollary because in Europe, we saw chocolate pricing get taken earlier in a sizable way. And initially, elasticities were quite encouraging as you're seeing in the U.S. currently for your own chocolate business. But in the middle of '25, we started to see pricing elasticities ramp up meaningfully in Europe ahead of where the industry expected them to be. So I'm sure you're studying consumer behavior over there even if you don't have much of a presence. I'm curious what your learnings are that you've taken? And if there's any factors you're seeing that make the consumer in Europe, and how they approach chocolate different from the U.S. consumer? | **Max Andrew Gumport:** ์ข์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ ๋ฝ ์์ฅ์ ๋ํด ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ์๋ฉด, ์ ํฌ๊ฐ ์ด์ฝ๋ฆฟ ์ฌ์ ์์ ํฐ ์ ์ง๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์์ง๋ ์์ง๋ง, ํฅ๋ฏธ๋ก์ด ์ฐธ๊ณ ์ฌ๋ก๊ฐ ๋ ์ ์๋ ์์ฅ์ ๋๋ค. ์ ๋ฝ์์๋ ์ด์ฝ๋ฆฟ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ธ์์ด ์๋นํ ํญ์ผ๋ก ๋ ์ผ์ฐ ๋จํ๋์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๊ธฐ์๋ ํ์ฌ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์ ์ ํฌ ์ด์ฝ๋ฆฟ ์ฌ์ ์ด ๊ฒฝํํ๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ํ๋ ฅ์ฑ์ด ๊ฝค ๊ณ ๋ฌด์ ์ด์์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง 2025๋ ์ค๋ฐ๋ถํฐ ์ ๋ฝ์์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ํ๋ ฅ์ฑ์ด ์ ๊ณ๊ฐ ์์ํ๋ ๊ฒ๋ณด๋ค ํจ์ฌ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์๋ฏธ ์๋ ์์ค์ผ๋ก ์ฆ๊ฐํ๊ธฐ ์์ํ์ต๋๋ค. ๋น๋ก ์ ๋ฝ์์ ํฐ ์ฌ์ ๊ท๋ชจ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ๊ณ ์์ง๋ ์์ผ์์ง๋ง, ๊ทธ๊ณณ์ ์๋น์ ํ๋์ ๋ถ๋ช ํ ์ฐ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ๊ณ์ค ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์๊ฐ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์ ์ป์ผ์ ์ธ์ฌ์ดํธ๊ฐ ๋ฌด์์ธ์ง ๊ถ๊ธํฉ๋๋ค. ์ ๋ฝ ์๋น์๋ค์ด ์ด์ฝ๋ฆฟ์ ์ ๊ทผํ๋ ๋ฐฉ์์ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์๋น์์ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ ์ด ์๋ค๋ฉด ์ด๋ค ์์ธ๋ค์ด ์๋์ง ๊ถ๊ธํฉ๋๋ค. |
| Kirk Tanner: President, CEO & Director Yes. Thanks for that question. Yes, and we are definitely studying that. Look, we've taken a very patient approach as we've -- the impact of cocoa and the pricing. So we've taken a very patient approach through the lens of the consumer. The categories, though, in the U.S. look very different than Europe. There's more brand differentiation. If you look at the brands across the portfolio, there's a lot high level of differentiation. There's a variety across the portfolio and the top players have higher market share. Europe has a concentration of chocolate tablet bars and private label. But there is a very distinguished difference between the brands in the U.S. and the role of each of those brands play in the confection category. So there is a big difference. And the category skews premium in Europe, and it skews mainstream in the U.S. Relative affordability is still a key component of the category. Again, we mentioned that 75% of our portfolio is under $4, very accessible to consumers. | **Kirk Tanner:** ๋ค, ์ง๋ฌธ ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ ๋ถ๋ถ์ ์ ํฌ๋ ํ์คํ ๊ฒํ ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ ํฌ๋ ์นด์นด์ค ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ํฅ๊ณผ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ฑ ์ ์ ์์ด์ ๋งค์ฐ ์ ์คํ ์ ๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์์ ์ทจํด์์ต๋๋ค. ์๋น์ ๊ด์ ์์ ์ธ๋ด์ฌ์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์ ๊ทผํด ์์ฃ . ํ์ง๋ง ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์์ฅ์ ์นดํ ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ ๋ฝ๊ณผ ๋งค์ฐ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์์์ ๋ณด์ ๋๋ค. ๋ธ๋๋ ์ฐจ๋ณํ๊ฐ ํจ์ฌ ๋ ๋๋ ทํฉ๋๋ค. ์ ํฌ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค ์ ๋ฐ์ ๋ธ๋๋๋ค์ ๋ณด์๋ฉด ์ฐจ๋ณํ ์์ค์ด ์๋นํ ๋์ต๋๋ค. ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค ๋ด์์ ๋ค์์ฑ์ด ์กด์ฌํ๊ณ , ์์ ๋ธ๋๋๋ค์ด ๋ ๋์ ์์ฅ ์ ์ ์จ์ ๋ณด์ ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ฉด ์ ๋ฝ์ ์ด์ฝ๋ฆฟ ํ๋ธ๋ฆฟ ๋ฐ์ ์์ฒด ๋ธ๋๋(PL) ์ ํ์ ์ง์ค๋์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋ธ๋๋๋ค ๊ฐ์๋ ๋งค์ฐ ๋ช ํํ ์ฐจ์ด๊ฐ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ฐ ๋ธ๋๋๊ฐ ์ ๊ณผ ์นดํ ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์์ ๋ด๋นํ๋ ์ญํ ๋ ๊ตฌ๋ถ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ํฐ ์ฐจ์ด๊ฐ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ ๋ฝ์์๋ ํ๋ฆฌ๋ฏธ์ ์ ํ ์ค์ฌ์ด๊ณ , ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์๋ ๋ฉ์ธ์คํธ๋ฆผ ์ ํ ์ค์ฌ์ ๋๋ค. ์๋์ ์ธ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ ๊ทผ์ฑ์ ์ฌ์ ํ ์ด ์นดํ ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ ํต์ฌ ์์์ ๋๋ค. ๋ค์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ์ง๋ง, ์ ํฌ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค์ 75%๊ฐ 4๋ฌ๋ฌ ๋ฏธ๋ง์ผ๋ก ์๋น์๋ค์ด ๋งค์ฐ ์ฝ๊ฒ ์ ๊ทผํ ์ ์๋ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ๋์ ๋๋ค. |
| Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Jim Salera with Stephens Inc. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ Stephens Inc.์ Jim Salera๋ก๋ถํฐ ๋ฐ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ง๋ฌธ ๋ด์ฉ์ ์ ๊ณตํด์ฃผ์๋ฉด ๋ฒ์ญํด๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| James Salera: Stephens Inc., Research Division I wanted to ask a little bit around SNAP as we roll into '26, there's some incremental rule changes, I think, both on work requirements and some states restricting what you can buy with SNAP dollars. Just walk us through, I guess, first, the overall percentage of your portfolio that is exposed to SNAP dollars? And maybe how you're thinking about those changes in 2026, since they're all relatively new to the program? | **James Salera:** 2026๋ ์ผ๋ก ๋์ด๊ฐ๋ฉด์ SNAP ๊ด๋ จํด์ ๋ช ๊ฐ์ง ์ง๋ฌธ๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค. ์ ์ง์ ์ธ ๊ท์ ๋ณ๊ฒฝ์ด ์๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์๊ณ ์๋๋ฐ์, ๊ทผ๋ก ์๊ฑด ๊ด๋ จ๋ ๋ถ๋ถ๋ ์๊ณ ์ผ๋ถ ์ฃผ์์ SNAP ๋ฌ๋ฌ๋ก ๊ตฌ๋งคํ ์ ์๋ ํ๋ชฉ์ ์ ํํ๋ ๋ถ๋ถ๋ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋จผ์ ์ ์ฒด ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค ์ค์์ SNAP ๋ฌ๋ฌ์ ๋ ธ์ถ๋ ๋น์ค์ด ์ด๋ ์ ๋์ธ์ง, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ด๋ฐ ๋ณ๊ฒฝ์ฌํญ๋ค์ด ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ์ ๋น๊ต์ ์๋ก์ด ๊ฒ๋ค์ธ๋ฐ 2026๋ ์ด๋ฌํ ๋ณํ๋ค์ ๋ํด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์๊ฐํ๊ณ ๊ณ์ ์ง ๋ง์ํด ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๊น? |
| Kirk Tanner: President, CEO & Director Yes. Thanks, Jim. The SNAP, let me just give you what we know on SNAP and this is how we're seeing it. Look, our early assessment in the states where waivers are in place is still pretty noisy. It's been just since January, and we're looking at winter storm implications. And really, the difference across retailers as they implement it. We've been proactively spending time with customers and consumers in these states to get ahead of the choices they're making. And we are readying our strategies to deliver for them. We have factored the SNAP waiver adoption into our outlook, and we'll continue to monitor that and provide updates over the course of the year. So to date, only 2 states have implemented SNAP waivers for candy of the 12 states that have waivers approved. So in total, throughout the course of the year, there will be 12 states that are impacted, 2 states so far. We'll gather those insights. Again, it's pretty early days. But I would tell you, it's a manageable headwind and it's contemplated in our outlook. | **Kirk Tanner:** ๋ค, ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. SNAP์ ๋ํด ์ ํฌ๊ฐ ํ์ ํ๊ณ ์๋ ๋ด์ฉ์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฉด์ ์กฐ์น๊ฐ ์ํ๋ ์ฃผ๋ค์ ๋ํ ์ด๊ธฐ ํ๊ฐ๋ ์์ง ๋ช ํํ์ง ์์ ์ํฉ์ ๋๋ค. 1์๋ถํฐ ์์๋๊ณ , ๊ฒจ์ธ ํญํ์ ์ํฅ๋ ์์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ค์ ๋ก ์๋งค์ ์ฒด๋ง๋ค ์ํ ๋ฐฉ์์ ์ฐจ์ด๊ฐ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ ํฌ๋ ํด๋น ์ฃผ์ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ณผ ์๋น์๋ค์ด ์ด๋ค ์ ํ์ ํ๋์ง ์ ์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ํ์ ํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ์๊ฐ์ ํฌ์ํด์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์ํ ์ ๋ต๋ ์ค๋นํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. SNAP ๋ฉด์ ์กฐ์น ๋์ ์ ์ด๋ฏธ ์ ํฌ ์ ๋ง์ ๋ฐ์ํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ฐ์ค ๊ณ์ ๋ชจ๋ํฐ๋งํ๋ฉด์ ์ ๋ฐ์ดํธ๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณตํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ๊น์ง ์น์ธ๋ 12๊ฐ ์ฃผ ์ค 2๊ฐ ์ฃผ๋ง์ด ์ฌํ๋ฅ์ ๋ํ SNAP ๋ฉด์ ์กฐ์น๋ฅผ ์ํํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ์ค ์ด 12๊ฐ ์ฃผ๊ฐ ์ํฅ์ ๋ฐ๊ฒ ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ํ์ฌ๊น์ง๋ 2๊ฐ ์ฃผ์ ๋๋ค. ์ด์ ๋ํ ์ธ์ฌ์ดํธ๋ฅผ ๊ณ์ ์์งํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์์ง ์ด๊ธฐ ๋จ๊ณ์ด๊ธด ํ์ง๋ง, ๊ด๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ์์ค์ ์ญํ์ด๋ฉฐ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์ ๋ง์ ์ด๋ฏธ ๋ฐ์๋์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| James Salera: Stephens Inc., Research Division Great. And then shifting gears a little bit. You called out the 10 different cultural and seasonal events this year to boost engagement. Are you able to quantify how much of an incremental uplift we should see from kind of that more filled calendar relative to what like a normalized year would be? | **James Salera:** ์ข์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ฃผ์ ๋ก ๋์ด๊ฐ์์. ์ฌํด ์ฐธ์ฌ๋๋ฅผ ๋์ด๊ธฐ ์ํ 10๊ฐ์ง ๋ฌธํ ๋ฐ ์์ฆ ์ด๋ฒคํธ๋ฅผ ์ธ๊ธํ์ จ๋๋ฐ์. ์ ์์ ์ธ ์ฐ๋์ ๋น๊ตํ์ ๋ ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ๋ ๋นฝ๋นฝํ ์ผ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ธํด ์ผ๋ง๋ ์ถ๊ฐ์ ์ธ ์์น ํจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ํ ์ ์๋์ง ์์นํํ ์ ์์ผ์ ๊ฐ์? |
| Kirk Tanner: President, CEO & Director Yes, I think it looks -- if you kind of look at our outlook, it's reflected in that outlook. Look, it continues to make our top line robust. And because some of the kind of the background on this is we have excellence in executing seasons. So we gained share across the seasons last year. What makes it so great is we have the consumer-loved brands, coupled with great execution in the marketplace with our retail sales team. This gave us insight is like we have the opportunity to be a part of more cultural moments and the Olympics starting this weekend, is really the first of those. But we'll show up for NCAA Final Four, then we'll show up in the summer celebrating 250-year anniversary of our country. Our brands are expected by consumers to show up in these big cultural moments and connecting our brands to these cultural moments gives us the license to have more activity throughout the year in these cultural moments in addition to seasons. And it has this almost always on approach where you can see our brands, our Salty and our Sweet brands together in the marketplace celebrating these moments. And kind of that's the background of that. | **Kirk Tanner:** ๋ค, ์ ๋ง์ ๋ฐ์๋์ด ์๋ค๊ณ ๋ณด์๋ฉด ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ์์๋ค์ด ๊ณ์ํด์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๋งค์ถ์ ๊ฒฌ์กฐํ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค์ด์ฃผ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ์๋ฉด, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์์ฆ๋ณ ์คํ๋ ฅ์์ ํ์ํจ์ ๋ณด์ฌ์์ต๋๋ค. ์๋
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๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ํตํด ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ ๋ง์ ๋ฌธํ์ ์๊ฐ๋ค์ ์ฐธ์ฌํ ์ ์๋ ๊ธฐํ๊ฐ ์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ์๊ฒ ๋์๊ณ , ์ด๋ฒ ์ฃผ๋ง ์์๋๋ ์ฌ๋ฆผํฝ์ด ๊ทธ ์ฒซ ๋ฒ์งธ๊ฐ ๋ ๊ฒ์
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๋๋ค. ์๋น์๋ค์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ธ๋๋๊ฐ ์ด๋ฌํ ์ฃผ์ ๋ฌธํ์ ์๊ฐ๋ค์ ํจ๊ปํ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ธ๋๋๋ฅผ ์ด๋ฌํ ๋ฌธํ์ ์๊ฐ๋ค๊ณผ ์ฐ๊ฒฐํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๊ณ์ ๋ณ ํ๋ก๋ชจ์ ์ธ์๋ ์ฐ์ค ๋ด๋ด ์ด๋ฌํ ๋ฌธํ์ ์๊ฐ๋ค์์ ๋ ๋ง์ ํ๋์ ํ ์ ์๋ ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณตํฉ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ๊ฑฐ์ ์์ ์ ๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์์ด๋ผ๊ณ ํ ์ ์๋๋ฐ, ์์ฅ์์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์งญ์งคํ ์ค๋ต(Salty) ๋ธ๋๋์ ๋ฌ์ฝคํ ์ค๋ต(Sweet) ๋ธ๋๋๊ฐ ํจ๊ป ์ด๋ฌํ ์๊ฐ๋ค์ ์ถํํ๋ ๋ชจ์ต์ ๋ณด์ค ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๊ฒ์ด ๋ฐ๋ก ๊ทธ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Tom Palmer with JPMorgan. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ JPMorgan์ Tom Palmer๋๊ป์ ์ฃผ์ จ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Thomas Palmer: JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division You discussed plans for double-digit A&C increases? And then unless I missed it, your answer to Andrew suggests that your pricing plans, some of which have not rolled out still hold. I did want to ask on promotions. How do you consider the possibility of stepped up promotions later this year, and maybe balancing the optionality of promotions versus allocating towards marketing dollars? | **Thomas Palmer:** ๋ ์๋ฆฟ์ ๊ด๊ณ ๋ฐ ์๋น์ ๋ง์ผํ (A&C) ์ฆ๊ฐ ๊ณํ์ ๋ํด ๋ง์ํ์ จ๋๋ฐ์. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ ๊ฐ ๋์น ๊ฒ ์๋๋ผ๋ฉด, Andrew์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋ํ ๋ต๋ณ์์ ์์ง ์ํ๋์ง ์์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ฑ ์ ๊ณํ๋ค์ด ์ฌ์ ํ ์ ํจํ๋ค๊ณ ํ์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. ํ๋ก๋ชจ์ ์ ๋ํด ์ฌ์ญค๋ณด๊ณ ์ถ์๋ฐ์. ์ฌํด ํ๋ฐ์ ํ๋ก๋ชจ์ ์ ๊ฐํํ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๊ณ ๋ คํ๊ณ ๊ณ์ ์ง, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํ๋ก๋ชจ์ ์ ํ๊ถ๊ณผ ๋ง์ผํ ๋น์ฉ ๋ฐฐ๋ถ ์ฌ์ด์ ๊ท ํ์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ง์ถ์ค ๊ณํ์ธ์ง ๊ถ๊ธํฉ๋๋ค. |
| Kirk Tanner: President, CEO & Director Yes. So let me ask -- let me answer the advertising and the investment we're making there. So we got great programming around building our big brands like we talked about, Hershey and Reese's. Plus we have these programs, these cultural tent-pole moments that we will support throughout the course of the year. It is a balance of delivering pull and push. So you think about that demand creation. We're very cognizant and we have great return on these investments to deliver that, and that delivers the top line. And then from an execution standpoint, I would tell you that the category remains very rational from a pricing standpoint. We'll continue to leverage promotion to drive excitement with consumers and deliver that right price point for them. And we'll be in concert with the execution across our seasons in these tent-pole moments throughout the year. But I would expect overall, a very rational category. | **Kirk Tanner:** ๋ค, ๊ด๊ณ ์ ๊ด๋ จ ํฌ์์ ๋ํด ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ํ์ฌ์ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ ๊ฐ์ ๋ํ ๋ธ๋๋๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถํ๋ ํ๋ฅญํ ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ๋ค์ ๊ฐ์ถ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ํ ์ฐ์ค ์ง์ํ ๋ฌธํ์ ์ฃผ์ ์ด๋ฒคํธ๋ค๋ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ํ(pull)๊ณผ ํธ์(push) ์ ๋ต์ ๊ท ํ์ ๋ง์ถ๋ ๊ฒ์
๋๋ค. ์์ ์ฐฝ์ถ ์ธก๋ฉด์์ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ด๋ฌํ ํฌ์์ ๋ํ ํ๋ฅญํ ์์ต๋ฅ ์ ๋ช
ํํ ์ธ์ํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๊ฒ์ด ๋งค์ถ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๊ฒฌ์ธํฉ๋๋ค. ์คํ ๊ด์ ์์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, ์นดํ ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ธก๋ฉด์์ ์ฌ์ ํ ๋งค์ฐ ํฉ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ์ํ๋ฅผ ์ ์งํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ณ์ํด์ ํ๋ก๋ชจ์ ์ ํ์ฉํด ์๋น์๋ค์๊ฒ ํฅ๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๋ถ๋ฌ์ผ์ผํค๊ณ ์ ์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ๋๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณตํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ด๋ ์ฐ์ค ์ฃผ์ ์์ฆ๊ณผ ํต์ฌ ์์ ๋ค์ ๊ฑธ์น ์คํ๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ์งํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก๋ ๋งค์ฐ ํฉ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ์นดํ ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์์ํฉ๋๋ค. |
| Steven Voskuil: Senior VP & CFO Yes. And I would just say on the first part of your question, just to be clear, all the pricing has been sold in. So that's not a risk. There's nothing else pricing-wise, that's going to drop. | **Steven Voskuil:** ๋ค, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ์ฒซ ๋ฒ์งธ ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋ํด ๋ช ํํ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ์๋ฉด, ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ ์ฑ ์ ์ด๋ฏธ ๋ฐ์๋์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ๋ฆฌ์คํฌ๋ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ธก๋ฉด์์ ์ถ๊ฐ๋ก ํ๋ฝํ ์์๋ ์ ํ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Thomas Palmer: JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division In the prepared remarks, there was a comment about expected low single-digit sales growth for international. I wondered if maybe you could provide some color on expectations in the other 2 segments? And then also, there was a comment about profit recovery for international. And I wondered to what extent that might reflect incremental pricing actions because they were relatively modest as we look at 2025? | **Thomas Palmer:** ์ฌ์ ๋ฐ์ธ์์ ๊ตญ์ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ ํ ์๋ฆฟ์ ์ด๋ฐ ๋งค์ถ ์ฑ์ฅ์ด ์์๋๋ค๋ ์ธ๊ธ์ด ์์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ ๋ํ ์ ๋ง๋ ์ข ๋ ์์ธํ ์ค๋ช ํด ์ฃผ์ค ์ ์์๊น์? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ตญ์ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ ์์ต์ฑ ํ๋ณต์ ๋ํ ์ธ๊ธ๋ ์์๋๋ฐ, 2025๋ ์ ๋ณด๋ฉด ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ธ์ ์กฐ์น๊ฐ ์๋์ ์ผ๋ก ์ ํ์ ์ด์๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด์ด๋๋ฐ, ์ด๋ฒ ํ๋ณต์ ์ถ๊ฐ์ ์ธ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ธ์ ์กฐ์น๊ฐ ์ด๋ ์ ๋ ๋ฐ์๋ ๊ฒ์ธ์ง ๊ถ๊ธํฉ๋๋ค. |
| Steven Voskuil: Senior VP & CFO Sure. I can take maybe the segment piece first. So just to share a couple of headlines. So organic sales growth on the Confection segment, around 3%. Salty snacks mid-single digits, international down low single digits. So that's the organic top line. From an EBIT standpoint, we've got all double digit across the segments year-over-year. So that's some of the highlights on the segments. On international, we've taken a lot of price this year, and that's part of what we're seeing in terms of some of the volume impact from that. We play in the premium part of the market. We've got cocoa intensive products. And so we've been, in some cases, stronger on pricing in order to make sure we're setting up a good, strong future P&L. We've been very thoughtful about trying to focus on the markets where we believe we have the best case to win, and making some choices on go to market to that, again, are thinking about the future and the profitability. Despite the challenges, we've had some wins in the international market. And we'll talk about some of those and how we're expanding on those when we get to March. But we do have a mix of, sort of, recovering for cocoa pricing and then also optimizing the portfolio itself to make sure that as we look to the future, we're investing behind our big brand like Reese and also our core markets with a streamlined route to market. | **Steven Voskuil:** ๋จผ์ ๋ถ๋ฌธ๋ณ ์ค์ ๋ถํฐ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ช ๊ฐ์ง ์ฃผ์ ๋ด์ฉ์ ๊ณต์ ํ์๋ฉด, ์ ๊ณผ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ ์ ๊ธฐ์ ๋งค์ถ ์ฑ์ฅ๋ฅ ์ ์ฝ 3%์์ต๋๋ค. ์งญ์งคํ ์ค๋ต์ ์ค๊ฐ ํ ์๋ฆฟ์ ์ฑ์ฅ๋ฅ ์, ํด์ธ ์ฌ์
์ ๋ฎ์ ํ ์๋ฆฟ์ ๊ฐ์๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๊ฒ์ด ์ ๊ธฐ์ ๋งค์ถ ์์ ๋ผ์ธ์
๋๋ค. EBIT ์ธก๋ฉด์์๋ ๋ชจ๋ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ด ์ ๋
๋๋น ๋ ์๋ฆฟ์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๋ฌ์ฑํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๊ฒ์ด ๋ถ๋ฌธ๋ณ ์ฃผ์ ์ค์ ์
๋๋ค. ํด์ธ ์ฌ์ ์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ, ์ฌํด ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ์๋นํ ์ธ์ํ๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋ก ์ธํ ๋ฌผ๋ ์ํฅ์ด ์ผ๋ถ ๋ํ๋๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ํ๋ฆฌ๋ฏธ์ ์์ฅ์์ ๊ฒฝ์ํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ฝ์ฝ์ ํจ๋์ด ๋์ ์ ํ๋ค์ ๋ณด์ ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ผ๋ถ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ์๋ ํฅํ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ ์์ต๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ธ์์ ๋ ๊ฐํ๊ฒ ์ถ์งํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์น์ฐ์ด ๊ฐ์ฅ ๋๋ค๊ณ ํ๋จ๋๋ ์์ฅ์ ์ง์คํ๋ ๋ฐ ๋งค์ฐ ์ ์ค์ ๊ธฐํ๊ณ , ์์ฅ ์ง์ถ ๋ฐฉ์์ ์์ด์๋ ๋ฏธ๋์ ์์ต์ฑ์ ์ผ๋์ ๋ ์ ํ์ ํด์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ค์ด ์ํฉ์๋ ๋ถ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ๊ตญ์ ์์ฅ์์ ๋ช ๊ฐ์ง ์ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ๋์์ต๋๋ค. 3์์ ์ด๋ฌํ ์ฑ๊ณผ๋ค๊ณผ ํ์ฅ ๋ฐฉ์์ ๋ํด ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ฝ์ฝ์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ํ๋ณต๊ณผ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค ์ต์ ํ๋ฅผ ๋์์ ์งํํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฏธ๋๋ฅผ ๋ด๋ค๋ณด๋ฉฐ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ(Reese)์ ๊ฐ์ ์ฃผ๋ ฅ ๋ธ๋๋์ ํต์ฌ ์์ฅ์ ๊ฐ์ํ๋ ์ ํต ๊ฒฝ๋ก๋ฅผ ํตํด ํฌ์ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Kirk Tanner: President, CEO & Director Yes. Let me add on a couple of things on international. Look, I'm really bullish on the opportunity that we have internationally. I look at our track record right now just from how we're performing in the markets, our key markets, and we're gaining share, gaining share across Canada, Mexico, Brazil, the U.K. I think those are really important proof points that we have the opportunity to do that. We're going to bring a focused strategy on our international business in March that really articulates how we're going to make investments and why we have a right to win in these markets. But more to come. | **Kirk Tanner:** ๋ค, ๊ตญ์ ์ฌ์ ์ ๋ํด ๋ช ๊ฐ์ง ๋ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์์งํ ์ ๋ ๊ตญ์ ์ฌ์ ๊ธฐํ์ ๋ํด ์ ๋ง ๋๊ด์ ์ ๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ ์ฃผ์ ์์ฅ์์์ ์ค์ ์ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์บ๋๋ค, ๋ฉ์์ฝ, ๋ธ๋ผ์ง, ์๊ตญ ์ ์ญ์์ ์์ฅ ์ ์ ์จ์ ํ๋ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ด๋ฅผ ์คํํ ์ ์๋ค๋ ๋งค์ฐ ์ค์ํ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. 3์์ ๊ตญ์ ์ฌ์ ์ ๋ํ ์ง์ค ์ ๋ต์ ๋ฐํํ ์์ ์ธ๋ฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ ํตํด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ํฌ์ํ ๊ฒ์ธ์ง, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ด ์์ฅ๋ค์์ ์น๋ฆฌํ ์๊ฒฉ์ด ์๋์ง๋ฅผ ๋ช ํํ ์ ์ํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์์ธํ ๋ด์ฉ์ ์ถํ ๊ณต๊ฐํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Michael Lavery with Piper Sandler. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ํ์ดํผ ์๋ค๋ฌ์ ๋ง์ดํด ๋๋ฒ๋ฆฌ๋ก๋ถํฐ ๋ฐ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Michael Lavery: Piper Sandler & Co., Research Division I want to come back to guidance. I know you laid out some of the flexibility or ways that you're trying to allow for risks and capture those. But curious, not to get too greedy, if there's expectations where you can point to potential upside? And maybe also specifically how to think about buybacks? I know you said there weren't any in the last quarter, but you mentioned the authorization that remains. Are any of those included in the outlook for 2026? | **Michael Lavery:** ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค๋ก ๋ค์ ๋์๊ฐ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค. ์ ์ฐ์ฑ์ด๋ ๋ฆฌ์คํฌ๋ฅผ ํ์ฉํ๊ณ ํฌ์ฐฉํ๋ ค๋ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ๋ค์ ๋ํด ์ค๋ช ํด ์ฃผ์ ๊ฑด ์๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ๋๋ฌด ์์ฌ๋ด๋ ๊ฑด ์๋์ง๋ง, ์ ์ฌ์ ์ธ ์์น ์ฌ๋ ฅ(upside)์ ๊ธฐ๋ํ ์ ์๋ ๋ถ๋ถ์ด ์๋์ง ๊ถ๊ธํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ ์ ๋ํด์๋ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ผ๋ก ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์๊ฐํด์ผ ํ ์ง ์๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค. ์ง๋ ๋ถ๊ธฐ์๋ ์์ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ ์ด ์์๋ค๊ณ ๋ง์ํ์ จ๋๋ฐ, ๋จ์์๋ ์น์ธ ํ๋๋ฅผ ์ธ๊ธํ์ จ์์์. 2026๋ ์ ๋ง์ ์์ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ ์ด ํฌํจ๋์ด ์๋์? |
| Steven Voskuil: Senior VP & CFO Sure. So I'll come on to buybacks. On the upside, we touched on some of these already. I mean if elasticities were to hold in the sort of space they're in now, that would be a potential upside. Even the macros, although our outlook is to expect the macros like SNAP and GLP-1s to have a growing impact across the quarters, which I think is reasonable. If that is slower or less impact, I think that's upside to what we've tried to prudently build into the outlook. Things like the performance on innovation, media, all these in-store activations and tent poles that we talked about. Again, our goal is to execute all those to try to beat the plan, but those would be potential upsides. And then as always, we want to exceed our productivity and cost savings goals. So we've got what I think are good challenging objectives there to go get, but our supply chain teams are fantastic, and they're going to go hard against trying to beat those. So I think those are all the kind of things we would point to. When I look at it in total, I feel like as we look at the guide, it's balanced. We're trying to recognize there are upsides and opportunities to beat in some areas, but also there are still some unknowns that we want to make sure we can contend with. And that's where the agility piece comes in. On buybacks, I'll just maybe just say our capital allocation strategy is kind of resetting back to normal a little bit. And so without some of the pressure, cash pressure, in particular, on tariffs and cocoa. And so as you can tell from the guide, our focus in job one is to make sure we're funding the business and driving good, smart long-term investment in the organic business, maintaining a posture of agility relative to inorganic growth opportunities, and we're integrating LesserEvil, that's going very well. We're going to continue to look for those sort of opportunistic places. You see CapEx kind of normalizing again back into the space where it should be. You see us focused on working capital efficiency like we are every year, driving savings. Dividend returning to growth, which is very important to us and pleased to see that. And we feel good about leverage and where we're at and the trajectory on leverage. So all that kind of comes then down to the repurchase. And as we've said in the past, share repurchase is a great way to put tension in the capital allocation equation, right? We're not going to warehouse the shareholders' money. If we can't wisely invest it for the future, we're going to give it back. And so that conversation is now back on the table because we're going to have strong cash flow. We've got great investments supporting the business. And as the year progresses and we get a little bit more perspective on some of these macros and everything else, we'll reintroduce that conversation. | **Steven Voskuil:** ์์ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์
์ ๋ํด ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์์น ์์ธ๋ค์ ๋ํด์๋ ์ด๋ฏธ ์ผ๋ถ ์ธ๊ธํ์ต๋๋ค๋ง, ๋ง์ฝ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ํ๋ ฅ์ฑ์ด ํ์ฌ ์์ค์ ์ ์งํ๋ค๋ฉด ์ ์ฌ์ ์ธ ์์น ์์ธ์ด ๋ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ฑฐ์ ๊ฒฝ์ ์์ธ๋ค, ํนํ SNAP์ด๋ GLP-1 ๊ฐ์ ๊ฒ๋ค์ ์ํฅ์ด ๋ถ๊ธฐ๋ณ๋ก ์ปค์ง ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์ ๋งํ๊ณ ์๋๋ฐ, ์ด๋ ํฉ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ์์์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋ด
๋๋ค. ๋ง์ฝ ์ด๋ฌํ ์ํฅ์ด ๋๋๊ฒ ๋ํ๋๊ฑฐ๋ ์ํฅ์ด ์ ๋ค๋ฉด, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ ์คํ๊ฒ ์ ๋ง์ ๋ฐ์ํ ๊ฒ๋ณด๋ค ์ข์ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ ๋์ฌ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ ์ฑ๊ณผ, ๋ฏธ๋์ด, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฐ ๋งค์ฅ ๋ด ํ์ฑํ ํ๋๊ณผ ์ฃผ์ ์ด๋ฒคํธ๋ค๋ ๋ง์ฐฌ๊ฐ์ง์ ๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ชฉํ๋ ์ด ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ๋ค์ ์คํํด์ ๊ณํ์ ์ํํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด์ง๋ง, ์ด๊ฒ๋ค๋ ์ ์ฌ์ ์ธ ์์น ์์ธ์ด ๋ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํญ์ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ฏ์ด, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์์ฐ์ฑ๊ณผ ๋น์ฉ ์ ๊ฐ ๋ชฉํ๋ฅผ ์ด๊ณผ ๋ฌ์ฑํ๊ณ ์ ํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ฌ์ฑํ๊ธฐ์ ์ถฉ๋ถํ ๋์ ์ ์ด๋ฉด์๋ ์ข์ ๋ชฉํ๋ค์ ์ค์ ํ๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ณต๊ธ๋ง ํ์ ์ ๋ง ํ๋ฅญํ๊ณ , ์ด ๋ชฉํ๋ค์ ๋ฐ์ด๋๊ธฐ ์ํด ์ต์ ์ ๋คํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฐ ๊ฒ๋ค์ด ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ฃผ๋ชฉํ๋ ๋ถ๋ถ๋ค์ ๋๋ค. ์ ์ฒด์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ณผ ๋, ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค๋ฅผ ์ดํด๋ณด๋ฉด ๊ท ํ์ด ์ ์กํ ์๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. ์ผ๋ถ ์์ญ์์๋ ์์น ์ฌ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ๋ชฉํ ์ด๊ณผ ๋ฌ์ฑ ๊ธฐํ๊ฐ ์๋ค๋ ์ ์ ์ธ์ํ๋ ค๊ณ ๋ ธ๋ ฅํ๊ณ ์์ง๋ง, ๋์์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋์ํด์ผ ํ ๋ถํ์ค์ฑ๋ ์ฌ์ ํ ์กด์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ก ์ด ์ง์ ์์ ๋ฏผ์ฒฉ์ฑ์ด ์ค์ํด์ง๋๋ค. ์์ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ ์ ๋ํด์๋, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์๋ณธ ๋ฐฐ๋ถ ์ ๋ต์ด ์ด๋ ์ ๋ ์ ์ ์์ค์ผ๋ก ์ฌ์กฐ์ ๋๊ณ ์๋ค๊ณ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ด์ธ์ ์ฝ์ฝ์๋ก ์ธํ ํ๊ธ ์๋ฐ์ด ์ผ๋ถ ์ํ๋๋ฉด์ ๋ง์ด์ฃ . ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค์์ ๋ณด์๋ค์ํผ, ์ ํฌ์ ์ต์ฐ์ ๊ณผ์ ๋ ์ฌ์ ์ ํ์ํ ์๊ธ์ ํ๋ณดํ๊ณ ์ ๊ธฐ์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ์ํ ํ๋ช ํ๊ณ ์ฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ํฌ์๋ฅผ ์ถ์งํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๋์์ ์ธ์ํฉ๋ณ ๊ธฐํ์ ๋ํด์๋ ๊ธฐ๋ฏผํ๊ฒ ๋์ํ ์ ์๋ ํ์ธ๋ฅผ ์ ์งํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. LesserEvil ํตํฉ์ ๋งค์ฐ ์์กฐ๋กญ๊ฒ ์งํ๋๊ณ ์๊ณ ์. ์์ผ๋ก๋ ์ด๋ฐ ๊ธฐํ์ ์ธ ์์ญ๋ค์ ๊ณ์ ์ฐพ์๋๊ฐ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ค๋นํฌ์(CapEx)๋ ์ ์ ์์ค์ผ๋ก ์ ์ํ๋๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋งค๋ ๊ทธ๋์๋ฏ์ด ์ด์ ์๋ณธ ํจ์จ์ฑ ๊ฐ์ ๊ณผ ๋น์ฉ ์ ๊ฐ์๋ ์ง์คํ๊ณ ์๊ณ ์. ๋ฐฐ๋น๋ ๋ค์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ธ๋ก ๋์์ฐ๋๋ฐ, ์ด๋ ์ ํฌ์๊ฒ ๋งค์ฐ ์ค์ํ ๋ถ๋ถ์ด๊ณ ๊ธ์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ ๋ฒ๋ฆฌ์ง ์์ค๊ณผ ๊ทธ ๊ฐ์ ์ถ์ด์ ๋ํด์๋ ๋ง์กฑ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. ์ด ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ๋ค์ ๊ณ ๋ คํ๋ฉด ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์์ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ ๋ฌธ์ ๋ก ๊ท๊ฒฐ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์๋ ๋ง์๋๋ ธ๋ฏ์ด, ์์ฌ์ฃผ ๋งค์ ์ ์๋ณธ ๋ฐฐ๋ถ ๋ฐฉ์ ์์ ๊ธด์ฅ๊ฐ์ ๋ถ์ฌํ๋ ํ๋ฅญํ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ฃผ์ฃผ๋ค์ ์๊ธ์ ๊ทธ๋ฅ ์์๋์ง ์๊ฒ ๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ด์ฃ . ๋ฏธ๋๋ฅผ ์ํด ํ๋ช ํ๊ฒ ํฌ์ํ ์ ์๋ค๋ฉด, ์ฃผ์ฃผ๋ค์๊ฒ ๋๋ ค๋๋ฆด ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ด์ ๊ทธ ๋ ผ์๊ฐ ๋ค์ ํ ์ด๋ธ ์์ ์ฌ๋ผ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฐ๋ ฅํ ํ๊ธํ๋ฆ์ ํ๋ณดํ๊ณ ์๊ณ , ์ฌ์ ์ ๋ท๋ฐ์นจํ๋ ํ๋ฅญํ ํฌ์๋ค๋ ๊ฐ์ถ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฌํด๊ฐ ์งํ๋๋ฉด์ ๊ฑฐ์๊ฒฝ์ ์ํฉ ๋ฑ์ ๋ํ ๊ด์ ์ด ์ข ๋ ๋ช ํํด์ง๋ฉด, ๊ทธ ๋ ผ์๋ฅผ ๋ค์ ์์ํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Michael Lavery: Piper Sandler & Co., Research Division That's great color. And it sounds like you might be having an Investor Day soon, but -- and I'm sure you'll get into this in obviously much more detail. But as you lay out some of the investment opportunities and the reinvestments you're making this year, just at a high level, maybe can you give us a sense of how much we should expect a near-term impact versus longer term? And how that kind of fits into your thinking? | **Michael Lavery:** ์ข์ ์ค๋ช ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ณง ํฌ์์์ ๋ (Investor Day)์ ๊ฐ์ตํ์ค ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์๋ฐ์, ๊ทธ๋ ํจ์ฌ ๋ ์์ธํ ๋ค๋ฃจ์๊ฒ ์ง๋ง์. ์ฌํด ์งํํ์๋ ํฌ์ ๊ธฐํ์ ์ฌํฌ์์ ๋ํด ์ค๋ช ํด์ฃผ์๋ฉด์, ๋์ ์์ค์์ ๋จ๊ธฐ์ ์ํฅ๊ณผ ์ฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ํฅ์ ์ด๋ ์ ๋๋ก ์์ํด์ผ ํ ์ง ๊ฐ์ ์ฃผ์ค ์ ์์๊น์? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ด ๊ท์ฌ์ ์ ๋ต์ ์ฌ๊ณ ์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ง๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ๋์ง๋ ๊ถ๊ธํฉ๋๋ค. |
| Steven Voskuil: Senior VP & CFO Yes. I'm going to punt the details of that pie to the Investor Day. What I would say is all of these investments have something to do for us now and are going to have things to do for us for the future. You can imagine investments in R&D. The near term on R&D investment may not be as big as we're going to see in '27 and '28, but even so we'll get some early insights from that. And so we'll unpack that more, but think of these as multiyear investments, but they do have benefits even as we get to especially the back end of this year. | **Steven Voskuil:** ๋ค, ๊ทธ ์ธ๋ถ ๋ด์ญ์ ํฌ์์์ ๋ (Investor Day)์์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ค๋ง ๋ง์๋๋ฆด ์ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ด๋ฌํ ๋ชจ๋ ํฌ์๋ค์ด ํ์ฌ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์๊ฒ๋ ์๋ฏธ๊ฐ ์๊ณ , ๋ฏธ๋์๋ ์ญํ ์ ํ ๊ฒ์ด๋ผ๋ ์ ์ ๋๋ค. ์ฐ๊ตฌ๊ฐ๋ฐ(R&D) ํฌ์๋ฅผ ์๋ก ๋ค๋ฉด, ๋จ๊ธฐ์ ์ผ๋ก๋ 27๋ ์ด๋ 28๋ ์ ๋ณด๊ฒ ๋ ๋งํผ ํฐ ํจ๊ณผ๊ฐ ๋ํ๋์ง ์์ ์ ์์ง๋ง, ๊ทธ๋ผ์๋ ๋ถ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ์ด๊ธฐ ์ธ์ฌ์ดํธ๋ ์ป์ ์ ์์ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ด ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋์ค์ ๋ ์์ธํ ์ค๋ช ๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ง๋ง, ์ด๊ฒ๋ค์ ๋ค๋ ๊ฐ์ ํฌ์๋ก ์๊ฐํ์๋, ํนํ ์ฌํด ํ๋ฐ๊ธฐ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ฉด์ ์ด๋ฏธ ํจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ธฐ ์์ํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Kirk Tanner: President, CEO & Director Yes. Let me just add. These investments are all about driving growth, top line growth, sustainable growth, modernizing our portfolio. So those are fundamentally what's backing this growth is to fuel and keep heat on our brands with consumers, launch innovations that are relevant and do the R&D so that we can continue to modernize our portfolio for the future and staying relevant is so important. So it really is about fueling growth. | **Kirk Tanner:** ๋ค, ๋ง๋ถ์ด์๋ฉด ์ด๋ฌํ ํฌ์๋ค์ ๋ชจ๋ ์ฑ์ฅ, ๋งค์ถ ์ฑ์ฅ, ์ง์๊ฐ๋ฅํ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ๊ณ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค๋ฅผ ํ๋ํํ๋ ๋ฐ ์ด์ ์ด ๋ง์ถฐ์ ธ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๊ฒ์ด ๋ฐ๋ก ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๋ท๋ฐ์นจํ๋ ๊ทผ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ์์์ ๋๋ค. ์๋น์๋ค์๊ฒ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ธ๋๋์ ์ด๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ์ ์งํ๊ณ , ๊ด๋ จ์ฑ ์๋ ํ์ ์ ํ๋ค์ ์ถ์ํ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฏธ๋๋ฅผ ์ํด ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค๋ฅผ ๊ณ์ ํ๋ํํ ์ ์๋๋ก R&D๋ฅผ ์ํํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด์ฃ . ๊ด๋ จ์ฑ์ ์ ์งํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ๋งค์ฐ ์ค์ํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์ด ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ์ด์งํ๊ธฐ ์ํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Alexia Howard with Bernstein. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋ฒ์คํ์ธ์ ์๋ ์์ ํ์๋๋ก๋ถํฐ ๋ฐ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Alexia Howard: Bernstein Institutional Services LLC, Research Division Can I start with the price elasticity in international markets versus the U.S. Do you have views on why the trends seem to be worse in the international markets, and why they're better over here at the moment? | **Alexia Howard:** ๊ตญ์ ์์ฅ๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์์ฅ์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ํ๋ ฅ์ฑ ์ฐจ์ด์ ๋ํด ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ ๊ตญ์ ์์ฅ์์ ํธ๋ ๋๊ฐ ๋ ์ข์ง ์์ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์๋ ๋ ๋์ ์ํฉ์ธ ์ด์ ์ ๋ํ ๊ฒฌํด๊ฐ ์์ผ์ ์ง์? |
| Kirk Tanner: President, CEO & Director Yes, let me take that question. We discussed a little bit, there's a big difference between the two categories for starters. The category in the U.S. is highly unique. The category is very differentiated across the portfolio. There's a lot of runway by brand across the landscape in the confection category in the U.S. versus a high chocolate tablet bar market in Europe, along with the impact of private label. So you think about affordability also is a real big lever. And the category is affordable. It skews mainstream. Our portfolio is still mostly under $4. That, I think, is a really big difference. But the resiliency has been really positive for the category here in the U.S. And what we've seen so far, we're encouraged by. | **Kirk Tanner:** ๋ค, ์ ๊ฐ ๊ทธ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋ต๋ณ๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์กฐ๊ธ ์ ์ ๋
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๊ณ ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ์๋ ํฐ ์ฐจ์ด๊ฐ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์์ฅ์ ์นดํ
๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋งค์ฐ ๋
ํนํฉ๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค ์ ๋ฐ์ ๊ฑธ์ณ ์นดํ
๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋งค์ฐ ์ฐจ๋ณํ๋์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ ๊ณผ ์นดํ
๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์์๋ ๋ธ๋๋๋ณ๋ก ์ฑ์ฅ ์ฌ๋ ฅ์ด ์๋นํ ํฝ๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ฉด ์ ๋ฝ์ ์ด์ฝ๋ฆฟ ํ๋ธ๋ฆฟ ๋ฐ ์์ฅ์ด ์ฃผ๋ฅผ ์ด๋ฃจ๊ณ ์๊ณ , ์์ฒด ๋ธ๋๋(private label)์ ์ํฅ๋ ๋ฐ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ ๊ทผ์ฑ๋ ์ ๋ง ์ค์ํ ์์์ ๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์นดํ ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ ๊ทผ์ฑ์ด ์ข์ต๋๋ค. ์ฃผ๋ฅ ์๋น์ธต์ ํ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค๋ ์ฌ์ ํ ๋๋ถ๋ถ 4๋ฌ๋ฌ ๋ฏธ๋ง์ ๋๋ค. ์ด๊ฒ์ด ์ ๋ง ํฐ ์ฐจ์ด์ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์์ฅ์์ ์นดํ ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ ํ๋ณตํ๋ ฅ์ฑ์ ์ ๋ง ๊ธ์ ์ ์ด์์ต๋๋ค. ์ง๊ธ๊น์ง ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ณธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ค์ ๊ณ ๋ฌด์ ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Steven Voskuil: Senior VP & CFO I would say, specific to our portfolio in international and the elasticities, keeping in mind, we are premium market positioning. So we see some more elasticity there. We're relatively limited in scale in some regions and not a market leader. So those are factors with our portfolio, in particular, that drive higher elasticity. | **Steven Voskuil:** ์ ํฌ ํด์ธ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ํ๋ ฅ์ฑ์ ๋ํด ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ์๋ฉด, ์ฐ์ ์ ํฌ๋ ํ๋ฆฌ๋ฏธ์ ์์ฅ ํฌ์ง์ ๋์ ์ ์งํ๊ณ ์๋ค๋ ์ ์ ์ผ๋์ ๋์ ์ผ ํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ํ๋ ฅ์ฑ์ด ๋ค์ ๋๊ฒ ๋ํ๋๋ ํธ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ํ ์ผ๋ถ ์ง์ญ์์๋ ๊ท๋ชจ๊ฐ ์๋์ ์ผ๋ก ์ ํ์ ์ด๊ณ ์์ฅ ์ ๋ ๊ธฐ์ ์ด ์๋๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ์์ธ๋ค์ด ์ ํฌ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค์์ ํนํ ๋์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ํ๋ ฅ์ฑ์ ๋ณด์ด๋ ์ด์ ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Matt Smith with Stifel. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ Stifel์ Matt Smith๋ก๋ถํฐ ๋ฐ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Matthew Smith: Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated, Research Division Steve, you called out an increase in both marketing and operating costs through the year. It sounds like marketing up double digits is fairly evenly phased. But is there anything unique you'd call out on the operating costs? And with operating costs growing in line with sales, is this a level of investment that as you exit 2026, allows some future leverage from SG&A? | **Matthew Smith:** ์ฌํด ๋ง์ผํ ๊ณผ ์ด์ ๋น์ฉ ์ฆ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ์ธ๊ธํ์ จ๋๋ฐ์, ๋ง์ผํ ์ ๋ ์๋ฆฟ์ ์ฆ๊ฐ๋ก ์ฐ์ค ๋น๊ต์ ๊ณ ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋ถ์ฐ๋๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ค๋ฆฝ๋๋ค. ์ด์ ๋น์ฉ์์ ํน๋ณํ ์ธ๊ธํ์ค ๋งํ ๋ ํนํ ๋ถ๋ถ์ด ์๋์? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ด์ ๋น์ฉ์ด ๋งค์ถ๊ณผ ๋ณด์กฐ๋ฅผ ๋ง์ถฐ ์ฆ๊ฐํ๋ค๋ฉด, 2026๋ ์ ๋๊ฐ๋ฉด์ ํฅํ ํ๊ด๋น(SG&A)์์ ์ด๋ ์ ๋ ๋ ๋ฒ๋ฆฌ์ง๋ฅผ ์ป์ ์ ์๋ ์์ค์ ํฌ์๋ผ๊ณ ๋ณผ ์ ์์๊น์? |
| Steven Voskuil: Senior VP & CFO Sure. So I think across the quarters, I would guide say it's probably going to be pretty even. There are going to be some -- and again, I'll go back to things like R&D that will probably build a little bit more in the back half. And we'll unpack that more when we get to Investor Day, too. But I think overall, it should be up across the quarters. With respect to leverage in ' 27 and beyond, again, I'll go back and say, while we're investing and some of these investments are multiyear investments to set up a future of growth, we are also aware of the margin recovery story that we need to continue in 2027. So we have always 2 things going on at once. We're looking to make smart long-term investments in the business. But at the same time, we want to fuel that investment with productivity and savings. And so we kind of say, hey, we're investing for demand creation, but we want to drive demand fulfillment efficiency as well. And so -- and we're very good at that. And so we're going to continue to drive supply chain efficiencies. We're going to drive efficiencies between the lines like we've done with the transformation work and continue to drive there, too. So our goal is over time, we are going to see leverage across all of those lines. | **Steven Voskuil:** ๋ค, ๋ถ๊ธฐ๋ณ๋ก ๋ณด๋ฉด ์๋ง ๋น๊ต์ ๊ณ ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋ถ์ฐ๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์์๋ฉ๋๋ค. ๋ค๋ง ์ผ๋ถ ๋ณ๋์ด ์์ ์ ์๋๋ฐ์, ๋ค์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๋ฉด R&D ๊ฐ์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ๋ ํ๋ฐ๊ธฐ์ ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ ์ฆ๊ฐํ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด์
๋๋ค. ์ด ๋ถ๋ถ์ ํฌ์์์ ๋ (Investor Day)์์ ๋ ์์ธํ ์ค๋ช
๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก๋ ๊ฐ ๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ๊ฑธ์ณ ์ฆ๊ฐํ ๊ฒ์
๋๋ค. 27๋ ์ดํ์ ๋ ๋ฒ๋ฆฌ์ง์ ๊ด๋ จํด์๋, ๋ค์ ํ๋ฒ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ์ง๋ง ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ํฌ์๋ฅผ ์งํํ๊ณ ์๊ณ ์ด๋ฌํ ํฌ์ ์ค ์ผ๋ถ๋ ๋ฏธ๋ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ์ํ ๋ค๋ ๊ฐ์ ํฌ์์ด๊ธด ํ์ง๋ง, ๋์์ 2027๋ ์๋ ์ง์ํด์ผ ํ๋ ๋ง์ง ํ๋ณต ์คํ ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ถฉ๋ถํ ์ธ์งํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ํญ์ ๋ ๊ฐ์ง๋ฅผ ๋์์ ์งํํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฌ์ ์ ๋ํ ํ๋ช ํ ์ฅ๊ธฐ ํฌ์๋ฅผ ์ถ๊ตฌํ๋ฉด์๋ ๋ง์ด์ฃ . ๋์์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์์ฐ์ฑ๊ณผ ๋น์ฉ ์ ๊ฐ์ ํตํด ๊ทธ๋ฌํ ํฌ์ ์ฌ์์ ๋ง๋ จํ๊ณ ์ ํฉ๋๋ค. ์์ ์ฐฝ์ถ์ ์ํ ํฌ์๋ฅผ ํ๋ฉด์๋ ์์ ์ถฉ์กฑ์ ํจ์จ์ฑ๋ ํจ๊ป ๋์ด๊ฒ ๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ด ๋ถ๋ถ์์ ๋งค์ฐ ๊ฐ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ๊ณต๊ธ๋ง ํจ์จ์ฑ์ ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ์ ํด ๋๊ฐ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ํ ์ ์ฌ์ ํ์ ์์ ์ ํตํด ์ถ์งํด์จ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ํญ๋ชฉ ๊ฐ ํจ์จ์ฑ๋ ๊ณ์ ๋์ฌ๋๊ฐ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ๋ชฉํ๋ ์๊ฐ์ด ์ง๋จ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ๋ชจ๋ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์์ ๋ ๋ฒ๋ฆฌ์ง ํจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์คํํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Robert Moskow with TD Cowen. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ TD Cowen์ Robert Moskow๋ก๋ถํฐ ๋ฐ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Robert Moskow: TD Cowen, Research Division I had a question about like just trying to understand how you forecast all of these macro factors at once. Like you have the SNAP cuts from a federal level, you have the waivers at the state level. You have the GLPs and then you have elasticity from higher pricing. And I think you've done a really good job of keeping things pretty conservative on the elasticity assumption. But the models that your team is working on, Steve, like can you figure out the cumulative impact of all these things at once? It sounds just like a lot to put into models that probably don't have a lot of historical precedents for that. | **Robert Moskow:** ์คํฐ๋ธ, ์ด ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฑฐ์์ ์์ธ๋ค์ ๋์์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์์ธกํ์๋์ง ์ดํดํ๊ณ ์ถ์ด์ ์ง๋ฌธ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฐฉ ์ฐจ์์ SNAP ์ญ๊ฐ๋ ์๊ณ , ์ฃผ ์ฐจ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์กฐ์น๋ ์๊ณ , GLP ์ฝ๋ฌผ๋ ์๊ณ , ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ธ์์ผ๋ก ์ธํ ํ๋ ฅ์ฑ ๋ฌธ์ ๋ ์์์์. ํ๋ ฅ์ฑ ๊ฐ์ ์ ๊ฝค ๋ณด์์ ์ผ๋ก ์ ์งํด ์ค์ ์ ์ ์ ๋ง ์ํ์ จ๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฐ๋ฐ ๊ท์ฌ ํ์ด ์์ ํ๊ณ ์๋ ๋ชจ๋ธ๋ค๋ก ์ด ๋ชจ๋ ์์ธ๋ค์ ๋์ ์ํฅ์ ํ์ ํ ์ ์์ผ์ ๊ฐ์? ์ญ์ฌ์ ์ ๋ก๊ฐ ๋ง์ง ์์ ๋ชจ๋ธ๋ค์ ๋ฃ์ด์ผ ํ ๋ณ์๊ฐ ๋๋ฌด ๋ง์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์์. |
| Steven Voskuil: Senior VP & CFO Yes. I mean it's a challenge for sure. In each one, and we said this before, we've got a small team on each of these, really trying to dig deep. And in the case, as Kirk said, in the case of SNAP, we have people on the ground working with retailers to understand exactly how this is working out on shelf, what retailers are doing, what we're doing. And so we're trying to get firsthand information to build into these models. And then at the same time, we do try to run scenarios and come up with a risk-balanced view across these macros to try to come up with an assumption for the outlook. And I know we'll be wrong. I don't -- we've tried to be prudent and balanced in the way we look for and project these out, but taking the best information that we have. We get smarter every month that goes by, we'll have more data. And I expect as some of these programs -- or excuse me, some of these things like SNAP, more states get involved, GLP-1s adoption gets easier, we're trying to predict different ways it could play out. And then again, how our portfolio can play offense against some of those challenges. | **Steven Voskuil:** ๋ค, ํ์คํ ์ด๋ ค์ด ๊ณผ์ ์
๋๋ค. ๊ฐ ์ฌ์๋ง๋ค, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ด์ ์๋ ๋ง์๋๋ ธ๋ฏ์ด, ์๊ท๋ชจ ํ์ ๋ฐฐ์นํด์ ๊น์ด ์๊ฒ ํ๊ณ ๋ค๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. Kirk๊ฐ ๋งํ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ SNAP์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ, ํ์ฅ์ ์ง์ ์ธ๋ ฅ์ ๋ฐฐ์นํด์ ์๋งค์
์ฒด๋ค๊ณผ ํ๋ ฅํ๋ฉฐ ๋งค์ฅ ์ง์ด ์ํฉ์ด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์ ๊ฐ๋๊ณ ์๋์ง, ์๋งค์
์ฒด๋ค์ด ๋ฌด์์ ํ๊ณ ์๋์ง, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ฌด์์ ํ๊ณ ์๋์ง ์ ํํ ํ์
ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ํ์ฅ์์ ์ง์ ์ป์ ์ ๋ณด๋ฅผ ๋ชจ๋ธ์ ๋ฐ์ํ๋ ค๊ณ ๋
ธ๋ ฅํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋์์ ์ฌ๋ฌ ์๋๋ฆฌ์ค๋ฅผ ๊ฒํ ํ๋ฉด์ ์ด๋ฌํ ๊ฑฐ์๊ฒฝ์ ๋ณ์๋ค์ ๋ํด ๋ฆฌ์คํฌ ๊ท ํ์ ์ธ ๊ด์ ์ ๋์ถํ์ฌ ์ ๋ง ๊ฐ์ ์ ์๋ฆฝํ๋ ค๊ณ ํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์์ธก์ด ํ๋ฆด ์๋ ์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ์๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ค๋ง ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ง ์ต์ ์ ์ ๋ณด๋ฅผ ๋ฐํ์ผ๋ก ์ ์คํ๊ณ ๊ท ํ์กํ ๋ฐฉ์์ผ๋ก ์ด๋ฅผ ์ ๋งํ๊ณ ์์ธกํ๋ ค๊ณ ๋ ธ๋ ฅํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋งค๋ฌ ๋ ๋ง์ ๋ฐ์ดํฐ๋ฅผ ํ๋ณดํ๋ฉด์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ์ฌ์ดํธ๋ ๊น์ด์ง๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. SNAP ๊ฐ์ ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ์ ๋ ๋ง์ ์ฃผ(ๅท)๊ฐ ์ฐธ์ฌํ๊ณ , GLP-1 ์ฝ๋ฌผ ๋์ ์ด ๋ ์ฉ์ดํด์ง๋ฉด์, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ค์ํ ์๋๋ฆฌ์ค๋ฅผ ์์ธกํ๋ ค๊ณ ๋ ธ๋ ฅํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ด๋ฌํ ๋์ ๊ณผ์ ๋ค์ ๋ํด ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค๊ฐ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋์ํ ์ ์์์ง ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Robert Moskow: TD Cowen, Research Division Okay. And that was kind of my follow-up. You said that you're working with retailers in a couple of states where the waivers are happening. Like can you be more specific on what playing offense means? Like what kind of things can you do? | **Robert Moskow:** ๋ค, ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ทธ๊ฒ ์ ํ์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ด๊ธฐ๋ ํ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฉด์ ๊ฐ ์งํ๋๊ณ ์๋ ๋ช๋ช ์ฃผ์์ ์๋งค์ ์ฒด๋ค๊ณผ ํ๋ ฅํ๊ณ ๊ณ์๋ค๊ณ ๋ง์ํ์ จ๋๋ฐ์. ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋์ํ๋ค๋ ๊ฒ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ผ๋ก ์ด๋ค ์๋ฏธ์ธ์ง ์ข ๋ ์์ธํ ์ค๋ช ํด ์ฃผ์ค ์ ์์๊น์? ์ด๋ค ์กฐ์น๋ค์ ์ทจํ์ค ์ ์๋ ๊ฑด๊ฐ์? |
| Steven Voskuil: Senior VP & CFO Sure. You want me to take that one? | **Steven Voskuil:** ๋ค, ์ ๊ฐ ๋ต๋ณ๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Kirk Tanner: President, CEO & Director Yes, I can jump in. I like playing offense. So this is a bit exactly. Yes. I mean a lot of it has to do with, yes, when you work with customers, affordable price, affordability still remains a really important part in driving other channels, too. So we have a big convenience business driving our immediate consumption business, driving availability of those top SKUs are critically important. But I just go back to how do we drive the insights around the affordable price points, unique packages. Those are solutions with our customers. Again, 2 states out of the 12 states have been implemented. It's early days. We'll continue to discuss this as we get greater insights, and we'll talk about the tools that we're leveraging to curtail this headwind. | **Kirk Tanner:** ๋ค, ์ ๊ฐ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ ๋ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋๊ฐ๋ ๊ฑธ ์ข์ํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ด๊ฑด ์ ํํ ๊ทธ๋ฐ ๋ถ๋ถ์ด์ฃ . ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ค๊ณผ ํ์
ํ ๋ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ ๊ทผ์ฑ, ์ฆ ํฉ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ์ฌ์ ํ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ฑ๋๋ค์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ํค๋ ๋ฐ ์์ด ์ ๋ง ์ค์ํ ์์์
๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ฆ์ ์๋น ๋น์ฆ๋์ค๋ฅผ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ๋ ๋๊ท๋ชจ ํธ์์ ์ฌ์
์ ์ด์ํ๊ณ ์๊ณ , ์ฃผ์ SKU๋ค์ ๊ฐ์ฉ์ฑ ํ๋ณด๊ฐ ๋งค์ฐ ์ค์ํฉ๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ๋ค์ ํต์ฌ์ผ๋ก ๋์๊ฐ๋ฉด, ํฉ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ๋์ ์ฐจ๋ณํ๋ ํจํค์ง์ ๋ํ ์ธ์ฌ์ดํธ๋ฅผ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ํ๋ณดํ ๊ฒ์ธ๊ฐ์ ๋๋ค. ์ด๊ฒ๋ค์ด ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ค๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ๋ง๋ค์ด๊ฐ๋ ์๋ฃจ์ ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ค์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ์ง๋ง, 12๊ฐ ์ฃผ ์ค 2๊ฐ ์ฃผ์์๋ง ์ํ๋์ต๋๋ค. ์์ง ์ด๊ธฐ ๋จ๊ณ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ ๋ง์ ์ธ์ฌ์ดํธ๋ฅผ ํ๋ณดํ๋ฉด์ ๊ณ์ ๋ ผ์ํด ๋๊ฐ ๊ฒ์ด๊ณ , ์ด๋ฌํ ์ญํ์ ์ต์ ํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ํ์ฉํ๊ณ ์๋ ๋๊ตฌ๋ค์ ๋ํด์๋ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Scott Marks with Jefferies. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ์ ํ๋ฆฌ์ค์ ์ค์ฝง ๋งํฌ์ค๋๊ป์ ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Scott Marks: Jefferies LLC, Research Division Two questions from me. The first one is on cocoa. I think previously, you had said that you were hedged for '26 above the rates you had locked in for '25, but that you also had some flexible hedging structures. So given the comments today around stable commodity basket, should we assume that means that your cocoa cost in '26 is actually in line with that of '25? | **Scott Marks:** ์ ํผ๋ฆฌ์ค LLC, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ์์ ๋ ๊ฐ์ง ์ง๋ฌธ ๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฒซ ๋ฒ์งธ๋ ์ฝ์ฝ์์ ๊ดํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ด์ ์ ๋ง์ํ์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ 26๋ ๋๋ 25๋ ๋์ ํ๋ณดํ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ๋ณด๋ค ๋์ ์์ค์์ ํค์งํ์ง๋ง, ์ผ๋ถ ์ ์ฐํ ํค์ง ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ ๊ฐ์ถ๊ณ ์๋ค๊ณ ํ์ จ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ๋ค๋ฉด ์ค๋ ์์ ์ ์ธ ์์์ฌ ๋ฐ์ค์ผ์ ๋ํ ์ธ๊ธ์ ๊ณ ๋ คํ ๋, 26๋ ๋ ์ฝ์ฝ์ ๋น์ฉ์ด ์ค์ ๋ก 25๋ ๋์ ๋น์ทํ ์์ค์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋ด์ผ ํ ๊น์? |
| Steven Voskuil: Senior VP & CFO Yes. So cocoa is up just a little versus 2025. And what we said before is it's hedged above current market levels. So it's not hedged materially above '25, just hedged above where cocoa is trading right now. When we -- just like we did last year, we've got a variety of hedging structures and some of those structures allow us to participate in downside. So even in '26, we have a little opportunity. It's not like it was last year to participate in downside, but there's still a little bit there that if cocoa continues to decline, we will have some potential. And then, of course, as we look to '27, placing hedges today would mean that we'd have deflation between '27 and '26. So we're watching that space. And again, we've got a very structured hedging policy to take advantage of that. | **Steven Voskuil:** ๋ค, ์นด์นด์ค ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ 2025๋ ๋๋น ์ํญ ์์นํ์ต๋๋ค. ์์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฐ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ํ์ฌ ์์ฅ ์์ค๋ณด๋ค ๋์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ผ๋ก ํค์ง๋์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ค๋ง 2025๋ ๋๋นํด์๋ ํฌ๊ฒ ๋์ง ์๊ณ , ํ์ฌ ์นด์นด์ค ๊ฑฐ๋ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ๋ณด๋ค ๋์ ์์ค์ ๋๋ค. ์๋ ์ ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ๋ค์ํ ํค์ง ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฅผ ํ์ฉํ๊ณ ์๋๋ฐ, ์ผ๋ถ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ํ๋ฝ ์ ํํ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ ์๋๋ก ์ค๊ณ๋์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. 2026๋ ์๋ ์ฝ๊ฐ์ ๊ธฐํ๊ฐ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์๋ ๋งํผ์ ์๋์ง๋ง, ์นด์นด์ค ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ด ๊ณ์ ํ๋ฝํ๋ค๋ฉด ์ด๋ ์ ๋ ํํ์ ๋ณผ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ 2027๋ ์ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์ง๊ธ ํค์ง๋ฅผ ์งํํ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ 2026๋ ๋๋น 2027๋ ์ ๋ํ๋ ์ด์ ์ด ๋ฐ์ํ๊ฒ ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ด ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋ฉด๋ฐํ ์ง์ผ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ค์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ์ง๋ง, ์ ํฌ๋ ์ด๋ฅผ ํ์ฉํ๊ธฐ ์ํ ๋งค์ฐ ์ฒด๊ณ์ ์ธ ํค์ง(hedging) ์ ์ฑ ์ ๊ฐ์ถ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Scott Marks: Jefferies LLC, Research Division Understood. And then second question, today, there's obviously a lot of discussion around focusing with innovation and media behind some of the largest brands. And I think over the past maybe 1 year, 1.5 years, there was maybe a little more emphasis on supporting some of the smaller brands within the chocolate portfolio as well. So wondering if you can just kind of share how you're thinking about some of those tail brands and how we should be thinking about investment in those going forward? | **Scott Marks:** ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ ๋ฒ์งธ ์ง๋ฌธ์ธ๋ฐ์, ์ค๋ ์ฃผ์ ๋ํ ๋ธ๋๋๋ค์ ํ์ ๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๋์ด๋ฅผ ์ง์คํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ํ ๋ ผ์๊ฐ ๋ง์์ต๋๋ค. ์ง๋ 1๋ ์์ 1๋ ๋ฐ ์ ๋๋ฅผ ๋์ด์ผ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์ด์ฝ๋ฆฟ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค ๋ด ์ผ๋ถ ์๊ท๋ชจ ๋ธ๋๋๋ค์ ์ง์ํ๋ ๋ฐ ์ข ๋ ์ค์ ์ ๋์๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์๋ฐ์. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ด๋ฌํ ํ ์ผ ๋ธ๋๋(tail brands)๋ค์ ๋ํด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์๊ฐํ๊ณ ๊ณ์ ์ง, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํฅํ ์ด๋ค ๋ธ๋๋์ ๋ํ ํฌ์๋ฅผ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ด์ผ ํ ์ง ๋ง์ํด ์ฃผ์๋ฉด ๊ฐ์ฌํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Kirk Tanner: President, CEO & Director Yes. This is really about world-class portfolio management. And we announced obviously Hershey's and Reese's big investment across those. That gives us a lot of momentum in the business and that drives a lot of growth. We do have a beautiful portfolio across our Confection and Salty brands. And there are other tools that we're leveraging to grow those brands. So we are paying attention to the entire portfolio, and we're clear about each brand and the role it plays in our portfolio so that we can get to the consumers in a more targeted way. So it is a balance of both. It's not a trade-off between our large brands and our smaller brands that have lots of potential. We're investing across our portfolio, but it's very deliberate about the opportunity of each brand and the role it plays in our portfolio. | **Kirk Tanner:** ๋ค, ์ด๊ฒ์ ์ ๋ง ์ธ๊ณ์ ์์ค์ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค ๊ด๋ฆฌ์ ๊ดํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ์ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ์ ๋ํ ๋๊ท๋ชจ ํฌ์๋ฅผ ๋ฐํํ๊ณ , ์ด๋ฅผ ํตํด ์ฌ์ ์ ํฐ ๋ชจ๋ฉํ ์ ํ๋ณดํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ ๋ง์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ค๋ต ๋ธ๋๋ ์ ๋ฐ์ ๊ฑธ์ณ ํ๋ฅญํ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ด๋ฌํ ๋ธ๋๋๋ค์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ํค๊ธฐ ์ํด ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋๊ตฌ๋ค๋ ํ์ฉํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ ์ฒด ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค์ ์ฃผ๋ชฉํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ฐ ๋ธ๋๋์ ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ด ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค์์ ๋ด๋นํ๋ ์ญํ ์ ๋ช ํํ ํ์ฌ ์๋น์๋ค์๊ฒ ๋ณด๋ค ํ๊ฒํ๋ ๋ฐฉ์์ผ๋ก ๋ค๊ฐ๊ฐ ์ ์๋๋ก ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ด๊ฒ์ ๊ท ํ์ ๋ฌธ์ ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ํ ๋ธ๋๋์ ์ ์ฌ๋ ฅ์ด ํฐ ์ํ ๋ธ๋๋ ๊ฐ์ ํธ๋ ์ด๋์คํ๊ฐ ์๋๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค ์ ๋ฐ์ ๊ฑธ์ณ ํฌ์ํ๊ณ ์์ง๋ง, ๊ฐ ๋ธ๋๋๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ง ๊ธฐํ์ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค ๋ด์์ ๋ด๋นํ๋ ์ญํ ์ ๋งค์ฐ ์ ์คํ๊ฒ ๊ณ ๋ คํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Steven Voskuil: Senior VP & CFO Yes. We'd like some of those small brands to become the next billion-dollar brands and leveraging -- we're going to continue to leverage nonworking media to support new brands and occasions as well. | **Steven Voskuil:** ๋ค, ๊ทธ๋ฐ ์๊ท๋ชจ ๋ธ๋๋๋ค ์ค ์ผ๋ถ๊ฐ ๋ค์ 10์ต ๋ฌ๋ฌ ๊ท๋ชจ ๋ธ๋๋๋ก ์ฑ์ฅํ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋น๊ด๊ณ ์ฑ ๋ฏธ๋์ด(nonworking media)๋ฅผ ๊ณ์ ํ์ฉํด์ ์ ๊ท ๋ธ๋๋์ ์๋ก์ด ์๋น ๊ธฐํ๋ค์ ์ง์ํด ๋๊ฐ ๊ณํ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Chris Carey with Wells Fargo Securities. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ Wells Fargo Securities์ Chris Carey๋์ผ๋ก๋ถํฐ ๋ฐ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Christopher Carey: Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division I just wanted to ask one follow-up on cocoa. Just as you think about 2027, how aggressive can you be about hedging the current drop. And if I heard it correctly, did I hear that, you don't need to take pricing in 2027. That's how you're viewing current levels right now? And then I have a follow-up. | **Christopher Carey:** ์ฝ์ฝ์์ ๋ํด ํ์ ์ง๋ฌธ ๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. 2027๋ ์ ์๊ฐํ์ค ๋, ํ์ฌ์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ํ๋ฝ์ ๋ํด ์ผ๋ง๋ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์ ์ผ๋ก ํค์งํ์ค ์ ์์ผ์ ๊ฐ์? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ ๊ฐ ์ ๋๋ก ๋ค์ ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค๋ฉด, 2027๋ ์๋ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ธ์์ด ํ์ํ์ง ์๋ค๊ณ ๋ง์ํ์ ๊ฑด๊ฐ์? ํ์ฌ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์์ค์ ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ๋ณด๊ณ ๊ณ์ ๊ฑด๊ฐ์? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ถ๊ฐ ์ง๋ฌธ์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Steven Voskuil: Senior VP & CFO So there's a couple of things in there. We're not going to get specific about 2027 hedging, but we will be very thoughtful. We have a program that gives us some structure in how we attack that. And -- but that's probably all we're going to share relative to that. Relative to pricing, I think where cocoa is trading today, looking ahead to '27, it probably takes some pressure off pricing in the near term. We've taken price. We're going to execute and activate against that. In a broader sense, pricing is part of a long-term strategy, but it's only one part. We have mix and innovation and other ways to drive value price pack architecture. And so in the long term, we look at all of those things through the mix. It's just we happen to be in a case more recently because of cocoa to have to rely more on price. | **Steven Voskuil:** ๋ช ๊ฐ์ง ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. 2027๋
ํค์ง์ ๋ํด์๋ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ์ด๋ ต์ง๋ง, ๋งค์ฐ ์ ์คํ๊ฒ ์ ๊ทผํ ๊ฒ์
๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ด๋ฅผ ์ฒด๊ณ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ค๋ฃฐ ์ ์๋ ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ์ ๊ฐ์ถ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ค๋ง ์ด ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋ํด์๋ ์ฌ๊ธฐ๊น์ง๋ง ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ฑ ์ ๊ณผ ๊ด๋ จํด์๋, ํ์ฌ ์ฝ์ฝ์ ๊ฑฐ๋ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ๋ณด๋ฉด 2027๋ ์ ๋ด๋ค๋ดค์ ๋ ๋จ๊ธฐ์ ์ผ๋ก๋ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ธ์ ์๋ฐ์ด ๋ค์ ์ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด์ ๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ด๋ฏธ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ์ธ์ํ๊ณ , ์ด๋ฅผ ์คํํ๊ณ ํ์ฑํํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ ๋์ ๊ด์ ์์ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ฑ ์ ์ ์ฅ๊ธฐ ์ ๋ต์ ์ผ๋ถ์ด๊ธด ํ์ง๋ง ์ ๋ถ๋ ์๋๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์๊ฒ๋ ์ ํ ๋ฏน์ค, ํ์ , ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถํ ์ ์๋ ๋ค์ํ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ-ํฌ์ฅ ๊ตฌ์กฐ(price pack architecture) ๋ฑ ์ฌ๋ฌ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ์ฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ผ๋ก๋ ์ด ๋ชจ๋ ์์๋ค์ ์ข ํฉ์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ณ ๋ คํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ต๊ทผ ์ฝ์ฝ์ ์ํฉ์ผ๋ก ์ธํด ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ธ์์ ๋ ์์กดํ ์๋ฐ์ ์๋ ์ํฉ์ด ๋์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Christopher Carey: Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division Okay. Great. And then one quick follow-up would just be, when you think about volume, obviously, margins are recovering nicely. Do you have a view on where you want volumes to be as we look out over the next 18 months? And when you think volumes can get back to kind of flattish to positive? | **Christopher Carey:** ๋ค, ์ข์ ์ง๋ฌธ์
๋๋ค. ๋ง์ง์ด ์ข์ ํ๋ณต์ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ง์ต๋๋ค. ํฅํ 18๊ฐ์์ ๋ด๋ค๋ดค์ ๋ ๋ฌผ๋ ๋ชฉํ์ ๋ํด ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ์๋ฉด, ์ฐ์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์์ต์ฑ ์๋ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ์ง์คํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฌผ๋์ด ํก๋ณดํ๊ฑฐ๋ ํ๋ฌ์ค๋ก ์ ํ๋๋ ์์ ์ ๋ํด์๋, ํ์ฌ ์์ฅ ํ๊ฒฝ๊ณผ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ ๋ต์ ๊ณ ๋ คํ ๋ ์ ์ง์ ์ธ ๊ฐ์ ์ ์์ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ค๋ง ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ์์ ์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ๋ ์ด๋ ต์ต๋๋ค. ์ค์ํ ๊ฒ์ ๋จ์ํ ๋ฌผ๋์ ๋๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์๋๋ผ, ์ ์ ํ ๋ง์ง์ ํ๋ณดํ๋ฉด์ ๋ฌผ๋์ ํ๋ณตํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์์ผ๋ก ๋ช ๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ๊ฑธ์ณ ์์ฅ ์ํฉ์ด ์์ ํ๋๊ณ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์กฐ์ ์ด ์์ฅ์ ์ ์ฐฉ๋๋ฉด์, ๋ฌผ๋ ๊ฐ์ํญ์ด ์ ์ฐจ ์ค์ด๋ค ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ถ๊ทน์ ์ผ๋ก๋ ์์ต์ฑ๊ณผ ๋ฌผ๋ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๊ท ํ์ ๋ง์ถฐ๋๊ฐ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Steven Voskuil: Senior VP & CFO Yes. I think Kirk kind of touched on this earlier. As we get -- we're going to be digesting the price increase in 2026, activating against it. As we get further out and we look to 2027 and beyond, our goal is to get back to a more balanced mix of price and volume. And we know we've got parts in the portfolio that even with some of the macro headwinds are set up for volume growth, sweets, better-for-you, premium, the functional products. And that's not to say we can't get volume in the core, just to say that even as you look at the macros, there are places where our portfolio can play stronger from a volume standpoint. So again, this is something we'll also unpack more when we're together in March as we look out past '26. But recovering volume, we've got equipment ready to go to make more candy. And so we're anxious to be able to deploy it against volume. | **Steven Voskuil:** ๋ค, Kirk๊ฐ ์์ ์ด ๋ถ๋ถ์ ์ธ๊ธํ์ต๋๋ค. 2026๋ ์๋ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ธ์์ ์ํํ๊ณ ์ด๋ฅผ ํ์ฑํํ๋ ๋ฐ ์ง์คํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. 2027๋ ์ดํ๋ฅผ ๋ด๋ค๋ณด๋ฉด, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ๋ชฉํ๋ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ๊ณผ ๋ฌผ๋์ ๊ท ํ์ ๋ ์ ๋ง์ถ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค ๋ด์์ ์ผ๋ถ ๊ฑฐ์๊ฒฝ์ ์ญํ์๋ ๋ถ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ๋ฌผ๋ ์ฑ์ฅ์ด ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ๋ถ๋ฌธ๋ค์ด ์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ์๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ค์ํธ(sweets), ๊ฑด๊ฐ์งํฅ ์ ํ, ํ๋ฆฌ๋ฏธ์ ์ ํ, ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์ฑ ์ ํ ๋ฑ์ด์ฃ . ๋ฌผ๋ก ํต์ฌ ์ ํ๊ตฐ์์๋ ๋ฌผ๋ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ์ด๋ฃฐ ์ ์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ์๋๋๋ค. ๋ค๋ง ๊ฑฐ์๊ฒฝ์ ์ํฉ์ ๊ณ ๋ คํ ๋, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค๊ฐ ๋ฌผ๋ ์ธก๋ฉด์์ ๋ ๊ฐ๋ ฅํ๊ฒ ์์ฉํ ์ ์๋ ์์ญ๋ค์ด ์๋ค๋ ๋ง์์ ๋๋ค. ์ด ๋ถ๋ถ์ 3์์ ํจ๊ป ๋ชจ์ผ ๋ 2026๋ ์ดํ๋ฅผ ์ ๋งํ๋ฉด์ ๋ ์์ธํ ์ค๋ช ๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ๋ฌผ๋ ํ๋ณต๊ณผ ๊ด๋ จํด์๋, ๋ ๋ง์ ์บ๋๋ฅผ ์์ฐํ ์ ์๋ ์ค๋น๊ฐ ์ด๋ฏธ ์ค๋น๋์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ ํฌ๋ ๋ฌผ๋ ์ฆ๊ฐ์ ๋ง์ถฐ ์ด๋ฅผ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒ ํฌ์ ํ ์ ์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Kirk Tanner: President, CEO & Director Yes. Let me just add just a couple of things. Yes, volume unit growth, occasion growth is really important to us and we'll build on that. And that we've got plans, of course, in '27 and '28 that we'll share. But it really is coming down to delivering that consumer occasion and driving growth in that. And we'll do that in a variety of ways, but that is a really important lever for us. | **Kirk Tanner:** ๋ค, ๋ช ๊ฐ์ง๋ง ๋ง๋ถ์ด๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ํ๋งค๋ ๋จ์ ์ฑ์ฅ๊ณผ ์๋น ๊ธฐํ ํ๋๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์๊ฒ ์ ๋ง ์ค์ํ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ณ์ ๊ฐํํด ๋๊ฐ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. 27๋ ๊ณผ 28๋ ์ ๋ํ ๊ณํ๋ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์๊ณ , ์ด๋ ์ถํ ๊ณต์ ํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ํต์ฌ์ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์๋น์ ์ ์ ์ ์ ๊ณตํ๊ณ ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ํตํด ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ค์ํ ๋ฐฉ์์ผ๋ก ์คํํ ๊ฒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์๊ฒ ์ ๋ง ์ค์ํ ์ฑ์ฅ ๋๋ ฅ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Operator: Our next question comes from the line of John Baumgartner with Mizuho Securities. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋ฏธ์ฆํธ ์ฆ๊ถ์ ์กด ๋ฐ์๊ฐํธ๋ ์ ๋๋ฆฌ์คํธ๋ก๋ถํฐ ๋ฐ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| John Baumgartner: Mizuho Securities USA LLC, Research Division There was a comment this morning about investing in your protein portfolio. And it's been 6 years since the acquisition of ONE Bar. So I imagine Hershey has gained some decent understanding of the category by now. How do you think about participating in protein as a theme? I mean to what extent do you view protein as sort of the hedge to retain consumers gravitating to healthier snacks? And I guess especially since we've seen numerous cases already of snacking flavors applied successfully in the protein space. | **John Baumgartner:** ์ฌํด ์์นจ์ ๋จ๋ฐฑ์ง ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค์ ๋ํ ํฌ์ ์ธ๊ธ์ด ์์์ต๋๋ค. ONE Bar ์ธ์ ์ดํ 6๋ ์ด ์ง๋ฌ์ผ๋, ์ด์ ํ์ฌ๋ ์ด ์นดํ ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ ๋ํด ์๋นํ ์ดํด๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ถ์์ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์๊ฐ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ๋จ๋ฐฑ์ง์ ํ๋์ ํ ๋ง๋ก์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์ฐธ์ฌํ ๊ณํ์ด์ ๊ฐ์? ๋จ๋ฐฑ์ง์ ๊ฑด๊ฐํ ์ค๋ต์ผ๋ก ์ด๋ํ๋ ์๋น์๋ค์ ์ ์งํ๊ธฐ ์ํ ์ผ์ข ์ ํค์ง ์๋จ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด์๋์ง์? ํนํ ์ด๋ฏธ ์ฌ๋ฌ ์ฌ๋ก์์ ์ค๋ต ํ๋ ์ด๋ฒ๊ฐ ๋จ๋ฐฑ์ง ์์ญ์ ์ฑ๊ณต์ ์ผ๋ก ์ ์ฉ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ดค๋๋ฐ ๋ง์ ๋๋ค. |
| Kirk Tanner: President, CEO & Director Yes. I think that's really a good question, really relevant for what we're talking about. Investing in our protein business. We have a really strong outlook for our protein business this year. We've invested in a lot of R&D around protein and fiber and things that our consumers are looking for. I look at the total snacking universe and functional snacking is a reality, and we have to participate in that space and we are. And we really like what we're building with ONE and Fulfil, and we'll continue to add resources against that and see the growth coming through. Yes, that is an area that we'll focus and build on for the future. | **Kirk Tanner:** ๋ค, ์ ๋ง ์ข์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ด๊ณ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ ผ์ํ๊ณ ์๋ ๋ด์ฉ๊ณผ ๋งค์ฐ ๊ด๋ จ์ด ๊น์ต๋๋ค. ๋จ๋ฐฑ์ง ์ฌ์ ์ ๋ํ ํฌ์ ๋ง์์ด์ ๋ฐ์. ์ฌํด ๋จ๋ฐฑ์ง ์ฌ์ ์ ๋ํ ์ ๋ง์ด ๋งค์ฐ ๊ธ์ ์ ์ ๋๋ค. ๋จ๋ฐฑ์ง๊ณผ ์์ด์ฌ์ , ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์๋น์๋ค์ด ์ฐพ๋ ์์๋ค๊ณผ ๊ด๋ จํด์ ์๋นํ R&D ํฌ์๋ฅผ ์งํํด์์ต๋๋ค. ์ ์ฒด ์ค๋ต ์์ฅ์ ๋ณด๋ฉด ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์ฑ ์ค๋ต์ ์ด๋ฏธ ํ์ค์ด ๋์๊ณ , ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ด ์์ญ์ ๋ฐ๋์ ์ฐธ์ฌํด์ผ ํ๋ฉฐ ์ค์ ๋ก ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ONE๊ณผ Fulfil ๋ธ๋๋๋ก ๊ตฌ์ถํ๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฒ๋ค์ด ๋งค์ฐ ๋ง์์ ๋ค๊ณ , ๊ณ์ํด์ ์์์ ํฌ์ ํ๋ฉฐ ์ฑ์ฅ์ด ๋ํ๋๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ค, ์ด ๋ถ์ผ๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ฏธ๋๋ฅผ ์ํด ์ง์คํ๊ณ ํค์๋๊ฐ ์์ญ์ ๋๋ค. |
| John Baumgartner: Mizuho Securities USA LLC, Research Division And then maybe to follow up on that, Kirk. Just considering how Hershey built the Salty snacks portfolio through M&A. I guess what's the feasibility or interest level to use balance sheet to expand similarly in protein? I mean does your interest level rise to build the portfolio of brands in some categories? Or should we just think about future protein efforts really just anchored more to the ONE Bar brand? | **John Baumgartner:** ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ Kirk, ์ด์ด์ ์ง๋ฌธ๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. Hershey๊ฐ M&A๋ฅผ ํตํด ์งญ์งคํ ์ค๋ต(Salty snacks) ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถํ ๋ฐฉ์์ ๊ณ ๋ คํ ๋์. ๋จ๋ฐฑ์ง ๋ถ๋ฌธ์์๋ ์ ์ฌํ๊ฒ ๋์ฐจ๋์กฐํ๋ฅผ ํ์ฉํด ํ์ฅํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์คํ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ด๋ ๊ด์ฌ๋๋ ์ด๋ ์ ๋์ ๋๊น? ํน์ ์นดํ ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์์ ๋ธ๋๋ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ํ ๊ด์ฌ์ด ๋์์ง๊ณ ์๋์ง, ์๋๋ฉด ํฅํ ๋จ๋ฐฑ์ง ์ฌ์ ๋ ธ๋ ฅ์ด ์ค์ง์ ์ผ๋ก ONE Bar ๋ธ๋๋์๋ง ์ง์ค๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ด์ผ ํ ๊น์? |
| Kirk Tanner: President, CEO & Director Yes, it's a big white space, and there's so much traction from consumers. I think you have to really be open to 2, I mean both, right? Growing organically, we see lots of potential for the brands that we have. But we're also open for those opportunities that build our portfolio. So I would say we're open for that approach. But the first thing, the things that we can control right now are, let's grow these businesses, let's innovate in these spaces, let's get thriving brands and then we'll be open for opportunities in the future. | **Kirk Tanner:** ๋ค, ์ ๋ง ํฐ ๋ฐฑ์ ์์ฅ(white space)์ด๊ณ , ์๋น์๋ค๋ก๋ถํฐ ์์ฒญ๋ ๊ฒฌ์ธ๋ ฅ์ ์ป๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ ๊ฐ์ง ๋ชจ๋์ ์ด๋ ค์์ด์ผ ํ๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. ์ ๊ธฐ์ ์ฑ์ฅ ์ธก๋ฉด์์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ณด์ ํ ๋ธ๋๋๋ค์ ๋ง์ ์ ์ฌ๋ ฅ์ด ์๋ค๊ณ ๋ด
๋๋ค. ๋์์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ํฌํธํด๋ฆฌ์ค๋ฅผ ๊ฐํํ ์ ์๋ ๊ธฐํ๋ค์๋ ์ด๋ ค์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ๋ ๊ฐ์ง ์ ๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์ ๋ชจ๋์ ๊ฐ๋ฐฉ์ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ์ฐ์ ์ ์ง๊ธ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ํต์ ํ ์ ์๋ ๊ฒ๋ค์ ์ง์คํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ด ์ฌ์ ๋ค์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ํค๊ณ , ์ด ๋ถ์ผ์์ ํ์ ํ๊ณ , ๋ธ๋๋๋ค์ ๋ฒ์ฐฝํ๊ฒ ๋ง๋๋ ๊ฒ์ด์ฃ . ๊ทธ๋ฐ ๋ค์ ํฅํ ๊ธฐํ๋ค์ ๋ํด ์ด๋ฆฐ ์์ธ๋ฅผ ์ทจํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Bingqing Zhu with Rothschild & Co Redburn. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ Rothschild & Co Redburn์ Bingqing Zhu๋ก๋ถํฐ ๋ฐ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Bingqing Zhu: Rothschild & Co Redburn, Research Division My first one is trying to follow up on the volume question. Because your 2026 guidance, 2.5%, 3.5% organic sales and 10% pricing, that embedded quite meaningful volume mix decline. I appreciate that's still early in the year and the elasticity is favorable so far. But how much volume decline are you comfortable absorbing before you would reconsider pricing and maybe lean more towards promotion and price adjustment to support the volume? And then I have a follow-up, please. | **Bingqing Zhu:** ์ฒซ ๋ฒ์งธ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋ฌผ๋ ๊ด๋ จ ํ์์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ค. 2026๋ ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉด ์ ๊ธฐ์ ๋งค์ถ ์ฑ์ฅ๋ฅ ์ด 2.5%์์ 3.5%, ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ธ์์ด 10%์ธ๋ฐ, ์ด๋ ์๋นํ ์์ค์ ๋ฌผ๋ ๋ฏน์ค ๊ฐ์๋ฅผ ๋ดํฌํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก ์์ง ์ฐ์ด์ด๊ณ ์ง๊ธ๊น์ง ํ๋ ฅ์ฑ์ ์ํธํ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ ๋ต์ ์ฌ๊ณ ํ๊ณ ๋ฌผ๋์ ์ง์ํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ํ๋ก๋ชจ์ ์ด๋ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์กฐ์ ์ชฝ์ผ๋ก ๋ฐฉํฅ์ ์ ํํ๊ธฐ ์ ์, ์ด๋ ์ ๋ ์์ค์ ๋ฌผ๋ ๊ฐ์๊น์ง ๊ฐ๋ดํ์ค ์ ์์ผ์ ์ง ๊ถ๊ธํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ถ๊ฐ ์ง๋ฌธ์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Steven Voskuil: Senior VP & CFO Sure. I mean the volume impact of the pricing that we have taken is embedded in the guide. And so we accept that we don't like it. We want -- as we said several times, we want more volume growth. When we're together in March, we're going to talk more about that. But the volume impact of elasticity that we have inside the plan has been factored in. In our plan between marketing dollars, promotion dollars, investments, we believe we have the agility inside the plan to be able to deploy to protect sensitive areas and respond if we see a concern. As we sit here today, as Kirk said, the market has been rational. The kind of competitive environment is stable. So we don't have any particular pockets of concern. Elasticities are as expected and so if not a little better. And so -- but we're ready inside the plan to respond if we need to. | **Steven Voskuil:** ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค์๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋จํํ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ธ์์ ๋ฌผ๋ ์ํฅ์ด ์ด๋ฏธ ๋ฐ์๋์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ด๋ฐ ์ํฉ์ด ๋ฌ๊ฐ์ง๋ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฌ๋ฌ ์ฐจ๋ก ๋ง์๋๋ ธ๋ฏ์ด ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ ๋ง์ ๋ฌผ๋ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ์ํฉ๋๋ค. 3์์ ๋ง๋ ๋ ์ด ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋ํด ๋ ์์ธํ ๋
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๋๋ค. ๋ค๋ง ๊ณํ์๋ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ํ๋ ฅ์ฑ์ผ๋ก ์ธํ ๋ฌผ๋ ์ํฅ์ด ์ด๋ฏธ ๊ณ ๋ ค๋์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ง์ผํ ๋น์ฉ, ํ๋ก๋ชจ์ ๋น์ฉ, ํฌ์ ๋ฑ์ ํฌํจํ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ณํ ๋ด์์ ๋ฏผ๊ฐํ ์์ญ์ ๋ณดํธํ๊ณ ์ฐ๋ ค ์ฌํญ์ด ๋ฐ์ํ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ ๋์ํ ์ ์๋ ์ถฉ๋ถํ ์ ์ฐ์ฑ์ ํ๋ณดํ๊ณ ์๋ค๊ณ ํ๋จํฉ๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ ์์ ์์ Kirk๊ฐ ๋งํ๋ฏ์ด ์์ฅ์ ํฉ๋ฆฌ์ ์ผ๋ก ์์ง์ด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ฒฝ์ ํ๊ฒฝ๋ ์์ ์ ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ํน๋ณํ ์ฐ๋ ค๋๋ ๋ถ๋ถ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ํ๋ ฅ์ฑ์ ์์ ์์ค์ด๊ฑฐ๋ ์คํ๋ ค ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ ๋์ ํธ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ํ์ํ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ ๋์ํ ์ ์๋๋ก ๊ณํ ๋ด์์ ์ค๋น๋์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Bingqing Zhu: Rothschild & Co Redburn, Research Division Okay. Then I have a follow-up on the pricing. So in the prepared remarks, you mentioned pricing to be 10% in 2026. If I recall correctly, I think a few quarters back in Q2, when you announced the price increase, you expect to be mid-teens in '26. So that's a bit lower than what you previously guided. Can you provide more color on that, please? Does that mean you maybe roll back some pricing you originally planned? Or what does that mean? | **Bingqing Zhu:** ๋ค, ์ค๋น๋ ๋ฐ์ธ์์ 2026๋ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ธ์์ 10%๋ก ์ธ๊ธํ์ จ๋๋ฐ์. ์ ๊ธฐ์ต์ด ๋ง๋ค๋ฉด, ๋ช ๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ 2๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ธ์์ ๋ฐํํ์ จ์ ๋ 26๋ ์๋ 10%๋ ์ค๋ฐ์ ์์ํ์ ๋ค๊ณ ํ์ จ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ด์ ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค๋ณด๋ค๋ ๋ค์ ๋ฎ์ ์์ค์ธ๋ฐ์. ์ด ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋ํด ์ข ๋ ์์ธํ ์ค๋ช ํด ์ฃผ์ค ์ ์์ผ์ค๊น์? ์๋ ๊ณํํ์ จ๋ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ธ์์ ์ผ๋ถ๋ฅผ ์ฒ ํํ์ ๊ฑด๊ฐ์? ์๋๋ฉด ์ด๋ค ์๋ฏธ์ธ๊ฐ์? |
| Steven Voskuil: Senior VP & CFO Yes. We haven't rolled back any pricing. It may be just a misunderstanding of if we're talking by segment or we're talking overall company pricing increase, that might be where the misunderstanding is. But we've realized the pricing that we had announced earlier in 2025. As we said earlier, the more recently announced pricing is already in the market. So from a pricing standpoint, everything is on track, nothing has been rolled back, and we're all in execution mode. | **Steven Voskuil:** ๋ค, ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ์ฒ ํํ ์ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์๋ง๋ ์ธ๊ทธ๋จผํธ๋ณ๋ก ๋ง์ํ์๋ ๊ฑด์ง ์ ์ฌ ์ฐจ์์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ธ์์ ๋ง์ํ์๋ ๊ฑด์ง์ ๋ํ ์คํด๊ฐ ์์ผ์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ์ ํฌ๋ 2025๋ ์ด์ ๋ฐํํ๋ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ธ์์ ์คํํ์ต๋๋ค. ์์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฐ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ, ์ต๊ทผ์ ๋ฐํํ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ธ์์ ์ด๋ฏธ ์์ฅ์ ์ ์ฉ๋์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ธก๋ฉด์์ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ๊ณํ๋๋ก ์งํ๋๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ฒ ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ ํ ์๊ณ , ํ์ฌ ์ ํฌ๋ ๋ชจ๋ ์คํ ๋จ๊ณ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Operator: Ladies and gentlemen, that concludes our question-and-answer session. I'll turn the floor back to management for any final comments. | **Operator:** ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ, ์ง์์๋ต ์ธ์ ์ ๋ง์น๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ง๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ๋ง์์ ์ํด ๊ฒฝ์์ง์๊ฒ ๋ค์ ๋ง์ดํฌ๋ฅผ ๋๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Anoori Naughton: Vice President of Investor Relations Thank you all for your questions, and we look forward to catching up with you over the coming days and weeks. | **Anoori Naughton:** ์ง๋ฌธํด ์ฃผ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ฌ๋๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ, ์์ผ๋ก ๋ฉฐ์น , ๋ช ์ฃผ์ ๊ฑธ์ณ ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ๊ณผ ๋ค์ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ ๋๋ ์ ์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Kirk Tanner: President, CEO & Director Yes. Thank you very much. | **Kirk Tanner:** ๋ค, ๋๋จํ ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. |
| Operator: Thank you. This concludes today's conference. You may disconnect your lines at this time. Thank you for your participation. | **Operator:** ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. ์ค๋ ์ปจํผ๋ฐ์ค๋ฅผ ๋ง์น๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด์ ์ฐ๊ฒฐ์ ์ข ๋ฃํ์ ๋ ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ์ฐธ์ฌํด ์ฃผ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. |
# Hershey ์ค์ ๋ฐํ ์์ฝ
## ์ฃผ์ ์ฌ๋ฌด ์งํ ๋ฐ ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค
- **2026๋
๊ฐ์ด๋์ค**: ์ ๊ธฐ์ ๋งค์ถ ์ฑ์ฅ๋ฅ 2.5~3.5%, EPS ์ฑ์ฅ๋ฅ 30~35%๋ก ์์ฅ ๊ธฐ๋์น ์ํ
- **๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ธ์**: 2026๋
์ฝ 10% ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ธ์ ๋ฐ์, 2025๋
์ค๋ฐ ๋ฐํ๋ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ธ์์ ์ด๋ฏธ ์์ฅ์ ์ ์ฉ ์๋ฃ
- **๋ง์ง ํ๋ณต**: 2026๋
์ด๋ง์ง ์ฝ 400bp ๊ฐ์ ์์ (41% ์์ค), 1๋ถ๊ธฐ๋ ์ฌ๊ณ ๋ด ๊ด์ธ ๋ฐ ๋์ ์๊ฐ๋ก ์๋ฐ ์ง์, 2๋ถ๊ธฐ๋ถํฐ ๊ฐ์ ์ ๋ง
- **์ฝ์ฝ์ ํค์ง**: 2026๋
์ฝ์ฝ์ ์๊ฐ๋ 2025๋
๋๋น ์ํญ ์์น, ํ์ฌ ์์ฅ๊ฐ ๋๋น ๋์ ์์ค์์ ํค์ง ์๋ฃ. 2027๋
์ ํ ์์ฅ๊ฐ ๊ธฐ์ค ๋ํ๋ ์ด์
๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ ์์ฌ
## ๊ฒฝ์์ง ํค ๋ฐ ์ ๋ต
- **๊ธ์ ์ ๋ชจ๋ฉํ
**: 4๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ค๋ต ์ฌ์
18% ์ฑ์ฅ(๋ณผ๋ฅจ ๋ ์๋ฆฟ์ ์ฆ๊ฐ), ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ํ๋ ฅ์ฑ์ด ์์(0.8) ๋๋น ์ํธํ๊ฒ ๋ํ๋ ๊ฒฝ์์ง ์์ ๊ฐ ํ๋ช
- **๋ธ๋๋ ํฌ์ ๊ฐํ**: 2026๋
๊ด๊ณ ๋น ๋ ์๋ฆฟ์ ์ฆ๊ฐ, Hershey's์ Reese's ๋ธ๋๋์ 8๋
๋ง์ ๋๊ท๋ชจ ์บ ํ์ธ ํฌ์
, R&D ๋ฐ ํ์ ์ ๋ค๋
๊ฐ ํฌ์