Q3 2024 MGP Ingredients Inc Earnings Call Transcript
Key Points
- MGP Ingredients Inc (MGPI) reported a 13% increase in premium plus sales year-to-date, indicating strong growth in their high-margin segment.
- The company is actively reducing its exposure to aged whiskey sales, which accounted for less than 20% of consolidated gross profit in Q3, down from nearly half in Q1 2021.
- MGP Ingredients Inc (MGPI) is enhancing efforts to expand into international markets, particularly Europe and Asia, to leverage growth potential outside the United States.
- The company has a healthy balance sheet with a net debt leverage ratio of approximately 1.3 times at the end of the quarter.
- MGP Ingredients Inc (MGPI) continues to focus on becoming a premier branded spirits company, with premium plus brands now accounting for approximately half of branded spirits segment sales.
- Consolidated sales decreased by 24% from the prior year period, reflecting challenges in the distilling solutions segment.
- The American whiskey category is experiencing slower growth and higher inventories, leading to lower demand and reduced visibility on contract distilling sales.
- The company expects further inventory tightening at the distributor level to be a headwind in the near term.
- Distilling solutions segment sales are expected to decline by nearly 35% in 2025, with a 50% decline in gross profits anticipated.
- Ingredient solutions segment sales declined by 18% due to decreased sales volumes of specialty protein and lower commodity and specialty starch sales.
Good morning and welcome to the MGP Ingredients third quarter, 2024 financial results conference call, all participants will be in listen-only mode. Should you need assistance? Please signal a conference specialist by pressing star. Then zero on your telephone keypad. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions to ask a question. You may press star then one on your telephone keypad to withdraw your question. Please press star and two. Please note this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Amit Sharma, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.
Thank you. I'm a, I'm a Vice President of Investor relations and joining me are members of the management team including David Bratcher, Chief Executive Officer and President and Brandon Gall Chief Financial Officer, Vice President - Finance.
So, I'll begin the call, the management prepared to mods and then open the call to questions.
However, before we
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