NASDAQ:SOWG Sow Good Q1 2024 Earnings Report $0.74 +0.01 (+0.71%) As of 11:14 AM Eastern Earnings HistoryForecast Sow Good EPS ResultsActual EPS$0.06Consensus EPS -$0.02Beat/MissBeat by +$0.08One Year Ago EPSN/ASow Good Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$11.41 millionExpected Revenue$11.00 millionBeat/MissBeat by +$410.00 thousandYoY Revenue GrowthN/ASow Good Announcement DetailsQuarterQ1 2024Date5/15/2024TimeN/AConference Call DateWednesday, May 15, 2024Conference Call Time10:00AM ETConference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptPress Release (8-K)Quarterly Report (10-Q)Earnings HistoryCompany ProfilePowered by Sow Good Q1 2024 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrMay 15, 2024 ShareLink copied to clipboard.There are 8 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Hello, and welcome to the SoGood First Quarter 2024 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen only mode. After the speakers' presentation, there will be a question and answer session. I would now like to turn the call over to Jackie Kashner, Director of Investor Relations. You may begin. Speaker 100:00:34Good morning, everyone, and thank you for participating in today's conference call to discuss SoGood's financial results for the Q1 ended March 31, 2024. Joining us today are SoGood's Co Founder and CEO, Claudia Goldfarb and Interim Chief Financial Officer, Brendan Fisher. Certain statements made during this call are forward looking statements, including those concerning our financial outlook, our market opportunities and the impact of the global economic environment on our business. These statements are based on currently available information and assumptions, we undertake no duty to update this information except as required by law. These statements are also subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including those highlighted in today's earnings release and our filings with the SEC. Speaker 100:01:20Additional information concerning these statements and the risks and uncertainties associated with them is highlighted in today's earnings release and in our filings with the SEC. Copies are available on SEC's website or on our Investor Relations website. Furthermore, we will discuss adjusted EBITDA, a non GAAP financial measure on today's call. A reconciliation of adjusted EBITDA to net loss, the nearest comparable non GAAP financial measure discussed on today's call, is available in our earnings press release at our Investor Relations website. With that, I will turn the call over to Claudia. Speaker 200:01:55Thank you, Jackie, and good morning, everyone. We appreciate you joining us today to discuss our Q1 2024 financial results. I want to start by thanking our So Good team for their unwavering commitment to So Good and our vision in creating one of the most innovative and disruptive companies in the candy industry. We are just beginning to scratch the surface of the innovative and disruptive power of freeze dried technology and are excited to continue to shake up the candy industry. We achieved quite a few milestones since our year end call and are on track to deliver an exceptional 2024. Speaker 200:02:34We delivered $11,400,000 in revenue in the Q1 of 2024, representing substantial year over year growth and a 20% sequential increase relative to the Q4 of 2023, as well as $2,450,000 in adjusted EBITDA with an adjusted EBITDA margin of 21.5%. Our strong first quarter financial results demonstrate that freeze dried candy continues to grow as a category and that our strategies of expanding internal production and co manufacturing capacity, growing and strengthening our distribution networks and continuing product innovation are working. But before I delve deeper into our operational strides in the Q1, I want to highlight a key corporate milestone we recently achieved. As we announced a few weeks ago, we have now uplisted our stock to NASDAQ with our shares trading on the NASDAQ Capital Markets as of May 2, 2024. Along with the uplift, we completed a public offering of 1,380,000 shares of common stock, raising approximately $13,800,000 in aggregate gross proceeds. Speaker 200:03:49Our Interim CFO, Brendan Fisher, will provide additional detail on the offering later in the call. We believe our NASDAQ listing allows us to expand our investor base and market visibility, while driving improvements in liquidity and long term shareholder value. We really look forward to leveraging the advantages of NASDAQ's platform in support of our ongoing growth strategy. The proceeds from the public offering place us in an excellent position to help us achieve our strategic objectives for 2024. Our key objectives are to continue increasing our in house and co manufactured production capacity, strengthening and diversifying our distribution partnerships, laying the groundwork for a strong marketing and branding strategy for the second half of this year and further disrupting the candy category with innovative treats. Speaker 200:04:44For our Q1 production capacity, we surpassed our projections of 4,250,000 units to over 4,500,000 units. We accomplished this milestone by building a strong culture within SoGood that prioritizes manufacturing excellence and efficiency, as well as investing strongly in increasing our in house production capabilities and strengthening our co manufacturing relationships in China and Colombia. We completed the installation of our 5th freeze dryer, which is now operational and our 6th freeze dryers on track to becoming operational by the Q3 of this year. In addition, we recently placed deposits on 3 additional freeze dryers, which are expected to be operational within the next 9 months. As discussed on the last call, we strategically paused new customer onboarding in the Q3 of 2023 to focus our efforts on growing our production capacity. Speaker 200:05:44Though this approach resulted in smaller sequential expansion relative to what we achieved between 3rd and 4th quarters of 2023, we determined that laying our production groundwork now would enable us to effectively manage and support much greater growth in the second half of this year. With our capacity increasing as projected, we have begun resuming new customer onboarding as planned. We are thrilled with the progress we have made with both existing and new customers. Recent updates to our customer launches and expansions include adding 5 new SKUs in Big Lots in May and launching sofa displays in 300 of their stores for increased exposure and brand building. Anticipated launch of our displays in 1897 Kroger stores beginning early summer, anticipated increases in our Target store presence to nearly 2,000 stores this summer after outperforming sales forecast in our initial 200 store launch. Speaker 200:06:48Launching 4 SKUs at Dollar General in May, anticipated launch of 3 SKUs in the fresh market in June, anticipated launch of 4 SKUs in nearly 8000 711 stores in June, and an anticipated launch of 3 SKUs at Ross in June. We're very proud of the milestones we continue to achieve as we ramp up production and sales. But before I discuss our goals in greater detail, I would like to introduce our Interim Chief Financial Officer, Brendan Fisher, whose appointment we announced early last month. Brendan first joined our team in June of 2023, bringing over 20 years of leadership experience in financial analysis, shareholder communications and regulatory compliance with public and private companies. Before joining SoGood, he served as the CIO, Managing Director and Chief Compliance Officer of Fisher Capital Management, an investment advisory firm he founded in 2018. Speaker 200:07:49He was previously an Assistant Investment Officer and Portfolio Manager at Rocky Mountain Advisors, managing a $1,300,000,000 publicly traded fund that was formerly known as the Boulder Growth and Income Fund. Throughout his time with the company, Brendan has been instrumental in helping us advance our strategic growth initiatives in support of the high market demand for freeze dried candy. We are beyond thrilled that he is part of the So Good team and will be instrumental in our future growth. I will now welcome him to the call to walk through our Q1 financial results. Brendan, over to you. Speaker 300:08:27Thank you, Claudia. It's a pleasure to join SoGood's leadership team and continue my work with the company during this exciting chapter. Moving into our financial performance, revenue in the Q1 of 2024 increased significantly year over year to $11,400,000 compared to approximately $198,900 in the prior year period. On a sequential basis, revenue this quarter increased approximately 20% over the $9,500,000 generated in the Q4 of 2023. Overall, our top line growth continues to be driven by our strategic pivot to the production of freeze dried candy and our increased ability to meet growing market demand through the expansion of our production capacity. Speaker 300:09:09Gross profit in the Q1 of 2024 increased significantly to $4,600,000 compared to approximately $114,900 for the same period in 2023. Our Q1 gross margin was 40.6% compared to 57.8% in the prior year period. Relative to the Q1 of last year, our business is now operating on a much greater scale with increased labor and related production costs reflected in our year over year margin comparison. In order to meet growing demand, we will continue to invest in our operations to increase our production capacity and we expect these investments provide a near term headwind to quarterly gross margin. Operating expenses in the Q1 of 20 24 were $3,700,000 compared to $1,000,000 for the same period in 2023. Speaker 300:09:58The year over year increase was primarily driven by higher compensation and professional services expenses as we scaled up the business and invested in systems and process improvements in anticipation of being listed on NASDAQ. Net income for the quarter was approximately 510,600 dollars compared to a net loss of $1,400,000 for the same period in 2023. The improvement reflects the higher gross profit we generated during the quarter and we aim to drive further profitability improvements over the coming quarters of 2024. Adjusted EBITDA in the Q1 of 2024 improved to $2,450,000 compared to approximately $171,300 for the same period in 2023. Moving to the balance sheet, we ended the Q1 of 2024 with cash and equivalents of $6,800,000 compared to $2,400,000 as of December 31, 2023. Speaker 300:10:57This increase in cash to cash equivalents was primarily driven by a private placement we completed in March of 2024, which raised approximately $3,700,000 in proceeds from the issuance of 515,597 new shares. Subsequent to the quarter end of March 31, 2024, we took additional actions to further strengthen the company's financial foundation. On April 15, we completed a warrant exercise transaction. To provide some background, the company had issued notes payable with attached warrants during the period between December 2021 May of 2023. The company reached an agreement with these note holders to exercise their warrants by allowing for the partial prepayment of principal and or accrued interest in an aggregate amount equal to the exercise prices of the holders' warrants. Speaker 300:11:49As a result, the company issued 2,186,250 shares of its common stock and the company's debt was reduced by $5,200,000 and accrued interest payable was reduced by $98,750 Additionally, as Claudia mentioned earlier, we closed an underwritten public offering of 1,380,000 shares of common stock early last week. The offering was completed at a price of $10 per share, yielding approximately $13,800,000 in gross proceeds before operating expenses and underwriting discounts and commissions. We intend to use the net proceeds from this offering for general corporate purposes, which may include capital expenditures for the expansion of production capacity, funding working and growth capital, expanding our sales and marketing efforts and reducing certain tranches of indebtedness. We would like to thank our new and existing investors for their support and look forward to further enhancing our foundation for growth. This concludes my prepared remarks. Speaker 300:12:53And I would now like to turn the call back to Claudia for closing remarks. Claudia? Speaker 200:12:59Thank you, Brendan. As we've discussed throughout this call and over the past few quarters, we have made rapid progress since launching our first 9 candy SKUs in the Q1 of 'twenty three. In just this 1st year of focusing on freeze dried candy, we have meaningfully expanded our production infrastructure, our retail customer and distributor network and our SKU and store count. This is just the beginning stages of our growth trajectory. As we look to the coming quarters, I'd like to close today's call with a quick overview of our key strategic pillars for 2024. Speaker 200:13:35Our first and foremost priority continues to be expanding our production capacity in support of customer demand. We expect to maintain our progress here through bringing our 6 freeze dryer online by Q3 of this year, placing orders for an additional 3 freeze dryers and continuing to ramp our international co manufacturing agreement. This work to grow and optimize our in house and international capacity will allow us to continue meeting the growing demand for our current most popular SKUs, while aiming to improve our ability to produce larger quantities of our other more laborious treats without compromising any of our margins or efficiencies. We continue to diversify our customer base and SKU portfolio, maintaining the advantageous breadth we have built on both of these fronts. In addition to the retail launches I mentioned earlier, we're also planning to introduce holiday and seasonal SKUs later this year. Speaker 200:14:37We will share updates on these and other new product innovations over the coming quarters. We have been incredibly fortunate to see the organic reviews, content creation and general positive reception of our treats on social media by our customers. This consumer support has translated into strong organic sales velocity. But to further support this demand, develop this category and cement our position as the category maker and leader, we will be unveiling a comprehensive marketing strategy later this calendar year. To date, we have focused on establishing our advantage in the freeze dried candy space through building a strong brand, scaling our production and distribution capabilities and diversifying our distribution strategy across all channels. Speaker 200:15:28We grew this economic moat before making any significant marketing investments. And now with our operational foundation in place and primed for further growth, we are eager to strengthen these barriers to entry via our investments in marketing and branding. We have entered 2024 with significant momentum and expect to continue building upon our innovative product portfolio, our production capacity and our customer base. We look forward to sharing more updates with you on our trajectory over the coming quarters and thank you very much for being here with us today. Operator, we'll now open up the call for Q and A. Operator00:16:10Thank Our first question comes from the line of George Kelly with ROTH. Your line is open. Speaker 400:16:37Hey, everybody. Thanks for taking my questions. And congrats on a really strong quarter. So there's a lot to go through. I'm going to ask maybe 2 or 3 questions and then I'll hop back in the queue. Speaker 400:16:50But I was hoping to start with some of the retail new retail partnerships that you announced. And I was hoping to, I guess, just get more context about how much growth you're going to drive this year, door growth. So I was curious if you could give us like how many doors or distribution points did you have at the end of Q1? And just using round numbers, not looking for specific guidance, but how much should that grow by year end? Speaker 300:17:28So George, on the door count, I don't have it off the top of my head. Claudia, you may have it. Speaker 200:17:34So at the end of Q1, George, I don't have the numbers in front of me, but somewhere around 6,500 and the growth in the second half of this year is going to be significantly more than that. Speaker 400:17:50So more than doubling of your door count? Speaker 200:17:53That's what we're anticipating. Speaker 400:17:56Okay. And then could you fill us in with a little more detail just on a couple of your announced partners, Dollar General and 711. How much I know you're in some 711s, I believe, like how much I think you said 8,000 doors, if I heard that right. How many SKUs will be in 711? And then if we could if you could do a kind of similar discussion on Dollar General? Speaker 200:18:21Yes. So for 711, we're anticipating 4 SKUs in all 8,000. As you know, some of them are franchise versus non franchise. So for the non franchise for the franchise stores, it's up to the independent operator, but that's what we're anticipating. On Dollar General, we're looking to start with 2 SKUs. Speaker 200:18:48They're going to be a smaller bag size, so they're going to be somewhere between 0.8 to 1.2 ounces. We're still solidifying what the final weight count is going to be. And it's going to be a sour bite and a sweet bite. Speaker 400:19:06Okay. And then the full list that you gave, is that all signed contracts or I guess how much confidence or visibility do you have on those launches? Speaker 200:19:16They are all signed contracts. Speaker 400:19:19Okay. That's excellent. And then one other question for me. Speaker 200:19:21But by signing contracts, we have POs and we have the onboarding documents. Speaker 400:19:26Okay. Understood. And then other topic I wanted to cover is gross margin and EBITDA margin. There was language in the press release about investments in capacity and infrastructure and everything. And gross margin though in the quarter was well above my estimate. Speaker 400:19:46So I guess the question is, where do you expect gross margin to trend over the next couple of quarters? And if there's a dip anticipated, how long do you think it'll take to get back to a kind of high 30s range for gross margin? Speaker 300:20:02Yes, that's a great question, George. Couple of things happened. We were surprised by the strength of the gross margin this quarter as well. So you weren't the only one. And really what drove that was we had very strong sales mix during the quarter, which helped boost margins and we also did a really good job of managing labor costs. Speaker 300:20:22Whether or not we're growing business, there's a lot of things that are variable, especially with the market we're in is in distancing. So we'll expect some variability on those two factors, especially on sales mix as we add new customers, that's going to kind of tweak things on the sales mix side. So we do expect some variability on margin related to that. We expect some additional margin from where we were this quarter, driven by the fact that we had some increased costs that we experienced in recent months, primarily on the shipping cost side. We all know the shipping freight situation, how that market gotten more expensive over the last several months. Speaker 300:20:59Those costs that we experienced really haven't flown through the income statement yet, And we expect that start to catch up in Q2. So we do expect some pressure there. And then combine that with the fact that we are in the growth phase of the business, we are going to be investing in labor, we're going to be investing in production capacity. As those things come online, we're obviously not going to be utilizing them at 100% efficiency. We're going to have to kind of grow into them and scale into them. Speaker 300:21:27So that's going to lead to a little bit near term margin pressure. Now where that all ends out, we're probably looking somewhere in the mid to high 30% range for the near term on gross margin. Speaker 400:21:41Okay. Understood. That's really helpful. Thank you very much. No problem. Operator00:21:46Thank you. Please stand by for our next question. Our next question comes from the line of Eric Dezeliere with Craig Hallum. Your line is open. Speaker 500:21:56Great. Thank you for taking my questions and Speaker 300:21:58congrats on the very impressive results here. Speaker 500:21:58Hey, Eric. My first question beginning Speaker 300:22:00of the Speaker 500:22:02year and now, guidance for 9 by, at the beginning of the year and now guidance for 9 by, I guess, within the next 9 months here. How much space do you have to continue adding freeze dryers in your Irving, Texas facility? Speaker 300:22:24So in the Irving facility, we are running out of space, but we're I guess the best way to put it is, we're growing business. We're going to have space for those freeze dryers. We're looking part of the project, the capacity expansion on the production side includes increase in square footage. Speaker 500:22:43Okay. I guess that kind of leads into my next question here of just just overall facilities. In the 10 Q, you mentioned you're looking for additional packaging facilities. Maybe you could just give us a high level on your overall facility plans, where are you looking to increase capacity or get into new facilities? And I guess for any potential new facilities, is this sort of all coming through the sort of viewpoint of adding capacity? Speaker 500:23:13Or is there any near term plans for like geographic diversification at all? Just kind of wondering how you're thinking about your facility footprint overall in the near term? Speaker 200:23:24Eric, great question. And right now, we're really focused on the Dallas area. After looking through different options that we had going international, going outside of the Dallas area, we've decided to keep everything under one roof. And so all of that production capacity is going to happen very close to where our Irving, Texas facility is currently located. Most of that footprint is going to be used for production capacity and packaging capacity expansion, with the remainder being raw material storage and all of the other things that you need to distribute the product. Speaker 500:24:04Got it. That's very helpful. And then just last question from me here. So in the press release, you highlighted big lots, 5 new SKUs and these so good displays as well. I think these displays are relatively new. Speaker 500:24:20Is this the first instance of these displays is giving them in at big lots? And I guess if not, do you have any sort of early insight on the impact here? And maybe just help us understand if this is more of like a strategy to increase velocity of your SKUs? Or is this a way for you to increase the number of SKUs at a given retailer? Just any sort of color on the impact of these displays would be great. Speaker 200:24:49Yes, definitely. I think, 1st and foremost, brand building is one of the things that we're really focused going into the second half of twenty twenty four. And so the displays are, incredible colorful and really just speak to our branding and marketing efforts. But the strategy for them being in store is, yes, definitely SKU assortment, expanding the SKU assortment, but velocity is definitely increasing. They've been in just a few tests Circle Ks, 711s have outperformed expectations. Speaker 200:25:27I don't have the exact numbers that I can share with you today. They're going into Big Lots. They're going into 5 Below. And so probably by the next earnings call, we'll have more color as to exactly how well they're performing. But initial test launches have them performing very well. Speaker 500:25:50Well, that's great to hear. Thank you for taking my questions and congrats again. Speaker 300:25:53Thank you. Operator00:25:55Thank you. Please standby for our next question. Our next question comes from the line of David Labickne with Trickle Research. Your line is open. Speaker 600:26:05Hi all. Fantastic quarter. I'm just wondering if you can tell me how many SKUs there are now and kind of where you expect that to be maybe as you exit the year? And the other thing I'm curious about is just how we should think about SG and A going forward. I know that you kind of talked about having to load the margin side of it a little bit with expenses just for growth. Speaker 600:26:36So I'm kind of thinking wondering how that impact may impact SG and A as well? Speaker 200:26:44Yes. So right now we're sitting at about 14 SKUs. We're going to end the year somewhere in the 20% range because we're launching holiday SKUs as well. Those have been just really well received. I'm actually at a trade show in Indianapolis right now. Speaker 200:27:04So we're getting to meet with retailers here. I think as we go forward, innovation is just a key cornerstone as to what we're going to be doing. What is really just resonating with customers everywhere is, we have core kind of 6 products and then in addition to that, new flavors, novel flavors, novel shapes are just being incredibly well received. So that's where we're yes. Speaker 300:27:38And to go on the operating question, expense question on the SG and A side, a couple of things to point out in this quarter is that we did this is a quarter we usually pay bonuses. This is about $250,000 that fell into this quarter that obviously won't see in the next 3 quarters. It's more of a Q1 situation for us. So as you take that down as well as on the other G and A side, usually when we pay the annual compensation for the Board. So you'll see that fall out in the next couple of quarters until next Q1 of 2019. Speaker 300:28:14Additional personnel as we build out our operations. So we'll have some increase from SG and A on that. And the other part of it is we'll have some increased rental expenses as to as we build out facilities and take on new facilities. So those are 2 big things that will decrease in the near future. And one other thing I'd Speaker 200:28:34point out Speaker 300:28:35yes go ahead, Claudia. Speaker 200:28:38Yes. No, and historically, as we've mentioned, we've spent 0 on marketing. Everything we've been able to do has been organic social media, word-of-mouth and just having a really engaged customer base. Going forward, that is going to change. So you're going to see those expenses start popping up probably in the Q3 of this year. Speaker 200:29:02And so that's comprehensive from supporting our retailers so that we continue to see the velocities we're seeing on shelf, some greater investments in social media and probably some small influencer involvement on a go forward basis. Speaker 600:29:25So that reminded me of another question I had. Are you starting to see and you talked about the moat and you talked now you're talking about accelerating marketing. Are you starting to see any sorts of competitors? I mean, the space is pretty new. It seems like some sort of competitors popping up here and there are is inevitable. Speaker 600:29:47I mean, obviously, that's going to require they'd be able to scale the business like you have. But I'm just curious if you've seen any sort of indications along those lines? Speaker 200:29:57Yes. No, definitely. At the trade show, I'm seeing competitors here. And one of the things that has been reassuring as we've been here is that those moats that we built are really effective. I'll give you an anecdotal story. Speaker 200:30:151 of the 7 to 11 buyers walked into the booth yesterday and we're like, hey, you want to try the new SKU we were launching? And she said, no, I don't like freeze dried candy. We said, okay, which ones have you tried that you haven't liked? And she said, oh, well, I've never tried yours. I've tried a competitor's of yours. Speaker 200:30:36We said, okay, that's the issue. Come on in, give our stuff a try. And she's like, oh, wow. Now I get why everyone keeps telling me that the only candy to carry is so good. So those modes of quality, focusing on production capacity and production excellence have really proven to be effective. Speaker 200:31:01The marketing spend is just so that we can continue to kind of scream that from the rooftops. There is a difference with So Good Candy that is apparent at first bite. And so I think once we really get mental health and acquire those modes are just going to continue to become much more effective. Speaker 600:31:25That's great. Thank you. Operator00:31:28Thanks, Dave. Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Steve Emerson with Emerson Investment Group. Your line is open. Speaker 400:31:45Thank you for a great quarter and excellent call. Speaker 200:31:52What kind of revenue run rate does 4,500,000 pieces capacity at this time represent and the 30 mil year end run rate pieces? Speaker 300:32:17Yes. So we're not giving any specific guidance on revenue. We don't reveal kind of our unit pricing for competitive reasons. But you can kind of back into that $4,500,000 that we had in capacity and kind of refer that back to our revenue to get an idea of where we are on a unit basis. It's not going to be perfect, obviously, because we don't sales and capacity don't always match up. Speaker 300:32:41But kind of what we're expecting from I can't talk about revenue cadence, but I can point you to our production capacity cadence that we've provided before where we expect to see that capacity ramp up to 7,200,000 units in 2Q, 9,000,000 in 3Q and 9,600,000 in Q4, which gives you to that 30,000,000 number for the full year. Now what you really need to do is adjust for the fact that there's going to be a delay between when new capacity comes online and the potential for new sales to occur. But really what we're looking for is to see similar growth cadence for revenue at this year that we do on the production capacity side. Speaker 200:33:19Thank you very much. Speaker 300:33:22You're welcome. Operator00:33:24Thank you. Please stand by for our next question. Our next question comes from the line of Greg Kidd with Pinnacle Fund. Your line is open. Speaker 700:33:34Hi, Claudia and Brendan, congratulations on a great quarter. Speaker 300:33:38Thank you, Greg. Speaker 700:33:40Kind of following up on Steve's question, Speaker 400:33:43is there a Speaker 700:33:43way to think about how much of the business in the Q1 was fulfilled through internal owned manufacturing versus co man? Speaker 300:33:56Again, we're not going to be providing that type of detail. But I mean, you can look again to the production capacity chart we had and that should give you a general idea of where we are. Speaker 700:34:07As you start to ramp with a lot of these customers, you talked about Kroger and Dollar General, 711, Fresh Market and Ross and then expansions with some existing. Do you think that that mix could change to be slightly greater than 50% co man while you're waiting for some of your additional freeze dryers to come online? Speaker 300:34:37Yes. At the end of the day, we're going to make sure we can service our customers. And whether that's going to be from domestic production or the Conan, whatever the situation in the short term, we're just going to make sure we get product to customers. So we do expect some variability. And I think the bigger thing to kind of think about is longer term is that we want to grow the domestic side of the business to own and control that type of manufacturing for us. Speaker 300:35:00So I would expect over the long term, the co manufacturing obviously is going to be a part of our business going forward, but we're going to be getting a bigger and bigger share coming from the domestic as we grow the business. Speaker 700:35:13Thank you. That was very helpful. Speaker 300:35:16No problem. Operator00:35:17Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm showing no further questions in the queue. I would now like to turn the call back over to Claudia for closing remarks. Speaker 200:35:29Well, thank you everyone for being a part of this call. We greatly appreciate it. We're incredibly excited as to where we are right now and where the rest of this year is going to take us. And we look forward to giving you another update in 3 months. Operator00:35:45Ladies and gentlemen, that concludes today's conference call. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect.Read morePowered by Key Takeaways SoGood reported Q1 2024 revenue of $11.4 million, up from ~$0.2 million a year ago and 20% higher than Q4 2023, with adjusted EBITDA of $2.45 million (21.5% margin). The company successfully uplisted to the Nasdaq Capital Market on May 2 and raised approximately $13.8 million in a concurrent public offering to support growth initiatives. Production capacity exceeded targets at over 4.5 million units in Q1, with the 5th freeze dryer now operational, a 6th due by Q3, and three more planned within nine months. Distribution expanded significantly with new SKU launches and displays across Big Lots, Kroger (1,897 stores), Target (~2,000 stores), Dollar General, 7-Eleven (~8,000 doors) and Ross. Key 2024 priorities include further scaling production capacity, diversifying distribution partnerships, rolling out a comprehensive marketing strategy in H2, and introducing new and seasonal freeze-dried candy SKUs. A.I. generated. 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There are 8 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Hello, and welcome to the SoGood First Quarter 2024 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen only mode. After the speakers' presentation, there will be a question and answer session. I would now like to turn the call over to Jackie Kashner, Director of Investor Relations. You may begin. Speaker 100:00:34Good morning, everyone, and thank you for participating in today's conference call to discuss SoGood's financial results for the Q1 ended March 31, 2024. Joining us today are SoGood's Co Founder and CEO, Claudia Goldfarb and Interim Chief Financial Officer, Brendan Fisher. Certain statements made during this call are forward looking statements, including those concerning our financial outlook, our market opportunities and the impact of the global economic environment on our business. These statements are based on currently available information and assumptions, we undertake no duty to update this information except as required by law. These statements are also subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including those highlighted in today's earnings release and our filings with the SEC. Speaker 100:01:20Additional information concerning these statements and the risks and uncertainties associated with them is highlighted in today's earnings release and in our filings with the SEC. Copies are available on SEC's website or on our Investor Relations website. Furthermore, we will discuss adjusted EBITDA, a non GAAP financial measure on today's call. A reconciliation of adjusted EBITDA to net loss, the nearest comparable non GAAP financial measure discussed on today's call, is available in our earnings press release at our Investor Relations website. With that, I will turn the call over to Claudia. Speaker 200:01:55Thank you, Jackie, and good morning, everyone. We appreciate you joining us today to discuss our Q1 2024 financial results. I want to start by thanking our So Good team for their unwavering commitment to So Good and our vision in creating one of the most innovative and disruptive companies in the candy industry. We are just beginning to scratch the surface of the innovative and disruptive power of freeze dried technology and are excited to continue to shake up the candy industry. We achieved quite a few milestones since our year end call and are on track to deliver an exceptional 2024. Speaker 200:02:34We delivered $11,400,000 in revenue in the Q1 of 2024, representing substantial year over year growth and a 20% sequential increase relative to the Q4 of 2023, as well as $2,450,000 in adjusted EBITDA with an adjusted EBITDA margin of 21.5%. Our strong first quarter financial results demonstrate that freeze dried candy continues to grow as a category and that our strategies of expanding internal production and co manufacturing capacity, growing and strengthening our distribution networks and continuing product innovation are working. But before I delve deeper into our operational strides in the Q1, I want to highlight a key corporate milestone we recently achieved. As we announced a few weeks ago, we have now uplisted our stock to NASDAQ with our shares trading on the NASDAQ Capital Markets as of May 2, 2024. Along with the uplift, we completed a public offering of 1,380,000 shares of common stock, raising approximately $13,800,000 in aggregate gross proceeds. Speaker 200:03:49Our Interim CFO, Brendan Fisher, will provide additional detail on the offering later in the call. We believe our NASDAQ listing allows us to expand our investor base and market visibility, while driving improvements in liquidity and long term shareholder value. We really look forward to leveraging the advantages of NASDAQ's platform in support of our ongoing growth strategy. The proceeds from the public offering place us in an excellent position to help us achieve our strategic objectives for 2024. Our key objectives are to continue increasing our in house and co manufactured production capacity, strengthening and diversifying our distribution partnerships, laying the groundwork for a strong marketing and branding strategy for the second half of this year and further disrupting the candy category with innovative treats. Speaker 200:04:44For our Q1 production capacity, we surpassed our projections of 4,250,000 units to over 4,500,000 units. We accomplished this milestone by building a strong culture within SoGood that prioritizes manufacturing excellence and efficiency, as well as investing strongly in increasing our in house production capabilities and strengthening our co manufacturing relationships in China and Colombia. We completed the installation of our 5th freeze dryer, which is now operational and our 6th freeze dryers on track to becoming operational by the Q3 of this year. In addition, we recently placed deposits on 3 additional freeze dryers, which are expected to be operational within the next 9 months. As discussed on the last call, we strategically paused new customer onboarding in the Q3 of 2023 to focus our efforts on growing our production capacity. Speaker 200:05:44Though this approach resulted in smaller sequential expansion relative to what we achieved between 3rd and 4th quarters of 2023, we determined that laying our production groundwork now would enable us to effectively manage and support much greater growth in the second half of this year. With our capacity increasing as projected, we have begun resuming new customer onboarding as planned. We are thrilled with the progress we have made with both existing and new customers. Recent updates to our customer launches and expansions include adding 5 new SKUs in Big Lots in May and launching sofa displays in 300 of their stores for increased exposure and brand building. Anticipated launch of our displays in 1897 Kroger stores beginning early summer, anticipated increases in our Target store presence to nearly 2,000 stores this summer after outperforming sales forecast in our initial 200 store launch. Speaker 200:06:48Launching 4 SKUs at Dollar General in May, anticipated launch of 3 SKUs in the fresh market in June, anticipated launch of 4 SKUs in nearly 8000 711 stores in June, and an anticipated launch of 3 SKUs at Ross in June. We're very proud of the milestones we continue to achieve as we ramp up production and sales. But before I discuss our goals in greater detail, I would like to introduce our Interim Chief Financial Officer, Brendan Fisher, whose appointment we announced early last month. Brendan first joined our team in June of 2023, bringing over 20 years of leadership experience in financial analysis, shareholder communications and regulatory compliance with public and private companies. Before joining SoGood, he served as the CIO, Managing Director and Chief Compliance Officer of Fisher Capital Management, an investment advisory firm he founded in 2018. Speaker 200:07:49He was previously an Assistant Investment Officer and Portfolio Manager at Rocky Mountain Advisors, managing a $1,300,000,000 publicly traded fund that was formerly known as the Boulder Growth and Income Fund. Throughout his time with the company, Brendan has been instrumental in helping us advance our strategic growth initiatives in support of the high market demand for freeze dried candy. We are beyond thrilled that he is part of the So Good team and will be instrumental in our future growth. I will now welcome him to the call to walk through our Q1 financial results. Brendan, over to you. Speaker 300:08:27Thank you, Claudia. It's a pleasure to join SoGood's leadership team and continue my work with the company during this exciting chapter. Moving into our financial performance, revenue in the Q1 of 2024 increased significantly year over year to $11,400,000 compared to approximately $198,900 in the prior year period. On a sequential basis, revenue this quarter increased approximately 20% over the $9,500,000 generated in the Q4 of 2023. Overall, our top line growth continues to be driven by our strategic pivot to the production of freeze dried candy and our increased ability to meet growing market demand through the expansion of our production capacity. Speaker 300:09:09Gross profit in the Q1 of 2024 increased significantly to $4,600,000 compared to approximately $114,900 for the same period in 2023. Our Q1 gross margin was 40.6% compared to 57.8% in the prior year period. Relative to the Q1 of last year, our business is now operating on a much greater scale with increased labor and related production costs reflected in our year over year margin comparison. In order to meet growing demand, we will continue to invest in our operations to increase our production capacity and we expect these investments provide a near term headwind to quarterly gross margin. Operating expenses in the Q1 of 20 24 were $3,700,000 compared to $1,000,000 for the same period in 2023. Speaker 300:09:58The year over year increase was primarily driven by higher compensation and professional services expenses as we scaled up the business and invested in systems and process improvements in anticipation of being listed on NASDAQ. Net income for the quarter was approximately 510,600 dollars compared to a net loss of $1,400,000 for the same period in 2023. The improvement reflects the higher gross profit we generated during the quarter and we aim to drive further profitability improvements over the coming quarters of 2024. Adjusted EBITDA in the Q1 of 2024 improved to $2,450,000 compared to approximately $171,300 for the same period in 2023. Moving to the balance sheet, we ended the Q1 of 2024 with cash and equivalents of $6,800,000 compared to $2,400,000 as of December 31, 2023. Speaker 300:10:57This increase in cash to cash equivalents was primarily driven by a private placement we completed in March of 2024, which raised approximately $3,700,000 in proceeds from the issuance of 515,597 new shares. Subsequent to the quarter end of March 31, 2024, we took additional actions to further strengthen the company's financial foundation. On April 15, we completed a warrant exercise transaction. To provide some background, the company had issued notes payable with attached warrants during the period between December 2021 May of 2023. The company reached an agreement with these note holders to exercise their warrants by allowing for the partial prepayment of principal and or accrued interest in an aggregate amount equal to the exercise prices of the holders' warrants. Speaker 300:11:49As a result, the company issued 2,186,250 shares of its common stock and the company's debt was reduced by $5,200,000 and accrued interest payable was reduced by $98,750 Additionally, as Claudia mentioned earlier, we closed an underwritten public offering of 1,380,000 shares of common stock early last week. The offering was completed at a price of $10 per share, yielding approximately $13,800,000 in gross proceeds before operating expenses and underwriting discounts and commissions. We intend to use the net proceeds from this offering for general corporate purposes, which may include capital expenditures for the expansion of production capacity, funding working and growth capital, expanding our sales and marketing efforts and reducing certain tranches of indebtedness. We would like to thank our new and existing investors for their support and look forward to further enhancing our foundation for growth. This concludes my prepared remarks. Speaker 300:12:53And I would now like to turn the call back to Claudia for closing remarks. Claudia? Speaker 200:12:59Thank you, Brendan. As we've discussed throughout this call and over the past few quarters, we have made rapid progress since launching our first 9 candy SKUs in the Q1 of 'twenty three. In just this 1st year of focusing on freeze dried candy, we have meaningfully expanded our production infrastructure, our retail customer and distributor network and our SKU and store count. This is just the beginning stages of our growth trajectory. As we look to the coming quarters, I'd like to close today's call with a quick overview of our key strategic pillars for 2024. Speaker 200:13:35Our first and foremost priority continues to be expanding our production capacity in support of customer demand. We expect to maintain our progress here through bringing our 6 freeze dryer online by Q3 of this year, placing orders for an additional 3 freeze dryers and continuing to ramp our international co manufacturing agreement. This work to grow and optimize our in house and international capacity will allow us to continue meeting the growing demand for our current most popular SKUs, while aiming to improve our ability to produce larger quantities of our other more laborious treats without compromising any of our margins or efficiencies. We continue to diversify our customer base and SKU portfolio, maintaining the advantageous breadth we have built on both of these fronts. In addition to the retail launches I mentioned earlier, we're also planning to introduce holiday and seasonal SKUs later this year. Speaker 200:14:37We will share updates on these and other new product innovations over the coming quarters. We have been incredibly fortunate to see the organic reviews, content creation and general positive reception of our treats on social media by our customers. This consumer support has translated into strong organic sales velocity. But to further support this demand, develop this category and cement our position as the category maker and leader, we will be unveiling a comprehensive marketing strategy later this calendar year. To date, we have focused on establishing our advantage in the freeze dried candy space through building a strong brand, scaling our production and distribution capabilities and diversifying our distribution strategy across all channels. Speaker 200:15:28We grew this economic moat before making any significant marketing investments. And now with our operational foundation in place and primed for further growth, we are eager to strengthen these barriers to entry via our investments in marketing and branding. We have entered 2024 with significant momentum and expect to continue building upon our innovative product portfolio, our production capacity and our customer base. We look forward to sharing more updates with you on our trajectory over the coming quarters and thank you very much for being here with us today. Operator, we'll now open up the call for Q and A. Operator00:16:10Thank Our first question comes from the line of George Kelly with ROTH. Your line is open. Speaker 400:16:37Hey, everybody. Thanks for taking my questions. And congrats on a really strong quarter. So there's a lot to go through. I'm going to ask maybe 2 or 3 questions and then I'll hop back in the queue. Speaker 400:16:50But I was hoping to start with some of the retail new retail partnerships that you announced. And I was hoping to, I guess, just get more context about how much growth you're going to drive this year, door growth. So I was curious if you could give us like how many doors or distribution points did you have at the end of Q1? And just using round numbers, not looking for specific guidance, but how much should that grow by year end? Speaker 300:17:28So George, on the door count, I don't have it off the top of my head. Claudia, you may have it. Speaker 200:17:34So at the end of Q1, George, I don't have the numbers in front of me, but somewhere around 6,500 and the growth in the second half of this year is going to be significantly more than that. Speaker 400:17:50So more than doubling of your door count? Speaker 200:17:53That's what we're anticipating. Speaker 400:17:56Okay. And then could you fill us in with a little more detail just on a couple of your announced partners, Dollar General and 711. How much I know you're in some 711s, I believe, like how much I think you said 8,000 doors, if I heard that right. How many SKUs will be in 711? And then if we could if you could do a kind of similar discussion on Dollar General? Speaker 200:18:21Yes. So for 711, we're anticipating 4 SKUs in all 8,000. As you know, some of them are franchise versus non franchise. So for the non franchise for the franchise stores, it's up to the independent operator, but that's what we're anticipating. On Dollar General, we're looking to start with 2 SKUs. Speaker 200:18:48They're going to be a smaller bag size, so they're going to be somewhere between 0.8 to 1.2 ounces. We're still solidifying what the final weight count is going to be. And it's going to be a sour bite and a sweet bite. Speaker 400:19:06Okay. And then the full list that you gave, is that all signed contracts or I guess how much confidence or visibility do you have on those launches? Speaker 200:19:16They are all signed contracts. Speaker 400:19:19Okay. That's excellent. And then one other question for me. Speaker 200:19:21But by signing contracts, we have POs and we have the onboarding documents. Speaker 400:19:26Okay. Understood. And then other topic I wanted to cover is gross margin and EBITDA margin. There was language in the press release about investments in capacity and infrastructure and everything. And gross margin though in the quarter was well above my estimate. Speaker 400:19:46So I guess the question is, where do you expect gross margin to trend over the next couple of quarters? And if there's a dip anticipated, how long do you think it'll take to get back to a kind of high 30s range for gross margin? Speaker 300:20:02Yes, that's a great question, George. Couple of things happened. We were surprised by the strength of the gross margin this quarter as well. So you weren't the only one. And really what drove that was we had very strong sales mix during the quarter, which helped boost margins and we also did a really good job of managing labor costs. Speaker 300:20:22Whether or not we're growing business, there's a lot of things that are variable, especially with the market we're in is in distancing. So we'll expect some variability on those two factors, especially on sales mix as we add new customers, that's going to kind of tweak things on the sales mix side. So we do expect some variability on margin related to that. We expect some additional margin from where we were this quarter, driven by the fact that we had some increased costs that we experienced in recent months, primarily on the shipping cost side. We all know the shipping freight situation, how that market gotten more expensive over the last several months. Speaker 300:20:59Those costs that we experienced really haven't flown through the income statement yet, And we expect that start to catch up in Q2. So we do expect some pressure there. And then combine that with the fact that we are in the growth phase of the business, we are going to be investing in labor, we're going to be investing in production capacity. As those things come online, we're obviously not going to be utilizing them at 100% efficiency. We're going to have to kind of grow into them and scale into them. Speaker 300:21:27So that's going to lead to a little bit near term margin pressure. Now where that all ends out, we're probably looking somewhere in the mid to high 30% range for the near term on gross margin. Speaker 400:21:41Okay. Understood. That's really helpful. Thank you very much. No problem. Operator00:21:46Thank you. Please stand by for our next question. Our next question comes from the line of Eric Dezeliere with Craig Hallum. Your line is open. Speaker 500:21:56Great. Thank you for taking my questions and Speaker 300:21:58congrats on the very impressive results here. Speaker 500:21:58Hey, Eric. My first question beginning Speaker 300:22:00of the Speaker 500:22:02year and now, guidance for 9 by, at the beginning of the year and now guidance for 9 by, I guess, within the next 9 months here. How much space do you have to continue adding freeze dryers in your Irving, Texas facility? Speaker 300:22:24So in the Irving facility, we are running out of space, but we're I guess the best way to put it is, we're growing business. We're going to have space for those freeze dryers. We're looking part of the project, the capacity expansion on the production side includes increase in square footage. Speaker 500:22:43Okay. I guess that kind of leads into my next question here of just just overall facilities. In the 10 Q, you mentioned you're looking for additional packaging facilities. Maybe you could just give us a high level on your overall facility plans, where are you looking to increase capacity or get into new facilities? And I guess for any potential new facilities, is this sort of all coming through the sort of viewpoint of adding capacity? Speaker 500:23:13Or is there any near term plans for like geographic diversification at all? Just kind of wondering how you're thinking about your facility footprint overall in the near term? Speaker 200:23:24Eric, great question. And right now, we're really focused on the Dallas area. After looking through different options that we had going international, going outside of the Dallas area, we've decided to keep everything under one roof. And so all of that production capacity is going to happen very close to where our Irving, Texas facility is currently located. Most of that footprint is going to be used for production capacity and packaging capacity expansion, with the remainder being raw material storage and all of the other things that you need to distribute the product. Speaker 500:24:04Got it. That's very helpful. And then just last question from me here. So in the press release, you highlighted big lots, 5 new SKUs and these so good displays as well. I think these displays are relatively new. Speaker 500:24:20Is this the first instance of these displays is giving them in at big lots? And I guess if not, do you have any sort of early insight on the impact here? And maybe just help us understand if this is more of like a strategy to increase velocity of your SKUs? Or is this a way for you to increase the number of SKUs at a given retailer? Just any sort of color on the impact of these displays would be great. Speaker 200:24:49Yes, definitely. I think, 1st and foremost, brand building is one of the things that we're really focused going into the second half of twenty twenty four. And so the displays are, incredible colorful and really just speak to our branding and marketing efforts. But the strategy for them being in store is, yes, definitely SKU assortment, expanding the SKU assortment, but velocity is definitely increasing. They've been in just a few tests Circle Ks, 711s have outperformed expectations. Speaker 200:25:27I don't have the exact numbers that I can share with you today. They're going into Big Lots. They're going into 5 Below. And so probably by the next earnings call, we'll have more color as to exactly how well they're performing. But initial test launches have them performing very well. Speaker 500:25:50Well, that's great to hear. Thank you for taking my questions and congrats again. Speaker 300:25:53Thank you. Operator00:25:55Thank you. Please standby for our next question. Our next question comes from the line of David Labickne with Trickle Research. Your line is open. Speaker 600:26:05Hi all. Fantastic quarter. I'm just wondering if you can tell me how many SKUs there are now and kind of where you expect that to be maybe as you exit the year? And the other thing I'm curious about is just how we should think about SG and A going forward. I know that you kind of talked about having to load the margin side of it a little bit with expenses just for growth. Speaker 600:26:36So I'm kind of thinking wondering how that impact may impact SG and A as well? Speaker 200:26:44Yes. So right now we're sitting at about 14 SKUs. We're going to end the year somewhere in the 20% range because we're launching holiday SKUs as well. Those have been just really well received. I'm actually at a trade show in Indianapolis right now. Speaker 200:27:04So we're getting to meet with retailers here. I think as we go forward, innovation is just a key cornerstone as to what we're going to be doing. What is really just resonating with customers everywhere is, we have core kind of 6 products and then in addition to that, new flavors, novel flavors, novel shapes are just being incredibly well received. So that's where we're yes. Speaker 300:27:38And to go on the operating question, expense question on the SG and A side, a couple of things to point out in this quarter is that we did this is a quarter we usually pay bonuses. This is about $250,000 that fell into this quarter that obviously won't see in the next 3 quarters. It's more of a Q1 situation for us. So as you take that down as well as on the other G and A side, usually when we pay the annual compensation for the Board. So you'll see that fall out in the next couple of quarters until next Q1 of 2019. Speaker 300:28:14Additional personnel as we build out our operations. So we'll have some increase from SG and A on that. And the other part of it is we'll have some increased rental expenses as to as we build out facilities and take on new facilities. So those are 2 big things that will decrease in the near future. And one other thing I'd Speaker 200:28:34point out Speaker 300:28:35yes go ahead, Claudia. Speaker 200:28:38Yes. No, and historically, as we've mentioned, we've spent 0 on marketing. Everything we've been able to do has been organic social media, word-of-mouth and just having a really engaged customer base. Going forward, that is going to change. So you're going to see those expenses start popping up probably in the Q3 of this year. Speaker 200:29:02And so that's comprehensive from supporting our retailers so that we continue to see the velocities we're seeing on shelf, some greater investments in social media and probably some small influencer involvement on a go forward basis. Speaker 600:29:25So that reminded me of another question I had. Are you starting to see and you talked about the moat and you talked now you're talking about accelerating marketing. Are you starting to see any sorts of competitors? I mean, the space is pretty new. It seems like some sort of competitors popping up here and there are is inevitable. Speaker 600:29:47I mean, obviously, that's going to require they'd be able to scale the business like you have. But I'm just curious if you've seen any sort of indications along those lines? Speaker 200:29:57Yes. No, definitely. At the trade show, I'm seeing competitors here. And one of the things that has been reassuring as we've been here is that those moats that we built are really effective. I'll give you an anecdotal story. Speaker 200:30:151 of the 7 to 11 buyers walked into the booth yesterday and we're like, hey, you want to try the new SKU we were launching? And she said, no, I don't like freeze dried candy. We said, okay, which ones have you tried that you haven't liked? And she said, oh, well, I've never tried yours. I've tried a competitor's of yours. Speaker 200:30:36We said, okay, that's the issue. Come on in, give our stuff a try. And she's like, oh, wow. Now I get why everyone keeps telling me that the only candy to carry is so good. So those modes of quality, focusing on production capacity and production excellence have really proven to be effective. Speaker 200:31:01The marketing spend is just so that we can continue to kind of scream that from the rooftops. There is a difference with So Good Candy that is apparent at first bite. And so I think once we really get mental health and acquire those modes are just going to continue to become much more effective. Speaker 600:31:25That's great. Thank you. Operator00:31:28Thanks, Dave. Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Steve Emerson with Emerson Investment Group. Your line is open. Speaker 400:31:45Thank you for a great quarter and excellent call. Speaker 200:31:52What kind of revenue run rate does 4,500,000 pieces capacity at this time represent and the 30 mil year end run rate pieces? Speaker 300:32:17Yes. So we're not giving any specific guidance on revenue. We don't reveal kind of our unit pricing for competitive reasons. But you can kind of back into that $4,500,000 that we had in capacity and kind of refer that back to our revenue to get an idea of where we are on a unit basis. It's not going to be perfect, obviously, because we don't sales and capacity don't always match up. Speaker 300:32:41But kind of what we're expecting from I can't talk about revenue cadence, but I can point you to our production capacity cadence that we've provided before where we expect to see that capacity ramp up to 7,200,000 units in 2Q, 9,000,000 in 3Q and 9,600,000 in Q4, which gives you to that 30,000,000 number for the full year. Now what you really need to do is adjust for the fact that there's going to be a delay between when new capacity comes online and the potential for new sales to occur. But really what we're looking for is to see similar growth cadence for revenue at this year that we do on the production capacity side. Speaker 200:33:19Thank you very much. Speaker 300:33:22You're welcome. Operator00:33:24Thank you. Please stand by for our next question. Our next question comes from the line of Greg Kidd with Pinnacle Fund. Your line is open. Speaker 700:33:34Hi, Claudia and Brendan, congratulations on a great quarter. Speaker 300:33:38Thank you, Greg. Speaker 700:33:40Kind of following up on Steve's question, Speaker 400:33:43is there a Speaker 700:33:43way to think about how much of the business in the Q1 was fulfilled through internal owned manufacturing versus co man? Speaker 300:33:56Again, we're not going to be providing that type of detail. But I mean, you can look again to the production capacity chart we had and that should give you a general idea of where we are. Speaker 700:34:07As you start to ramp with a lot of these customers, you talked about Kroger and Dollar General, 711, Fresh Market and Ross and then expansions with some existing. Do you think that that mix could change to be slightly greater than 50% co man while you're waiting for some of your additional freeze dryers to come online? Speaker 300:34:37Yes. At the end of the day, we're going to make sure we can service our customers. And whether that's going to be from domestic production or the Conan, whatever the situation in the short term, we're just going to make sure we get product to customers. So we do expect some variability. And I think the bigger thing to kind of think about is longer term is that we want to grow the domestic side of the business to own and control that type of manufacturing for us. Speaker 300:35:00So I would expect over the long term, the co manufacturing obviously is going to be a part of our business going forward, but we're going to be getting a bigger and bigger share coming from the domestic as we grow the business. Speaker 700:35:13Thank you. That was very helpful. Speaker 300:35:16No problem. Operator00:35:17Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm showing no further questions in the queue. I would now like to turn the call back over to Claudia for closing remarks. Speaker 200:35:29Well, thank you everyone for being a part of this call. We greatly appreciate it. We're incredibly excited as to where we are right now and where the rest of this year is going to take us. And we look forward to giving you another update in 3 months. Operator00:35:45Ladies and gentlemen, that concludes today's conference call. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect.Read morePowered by