Kontoor Brands, Inc. (NYSE:KTB) Q3 2023 Earnings Conference Call November 2, 2023 8:30 AM ET

Company Participants

Eric Tracy - VP, Corporate Finance and IR

Scott Baxter - President, CEO and Chair

Joe Alkire - CFO

Conference Call Participants

Mauricio Serna - UBS

Bob Drbul - Guggenheim

Brooke Roach - Goldman Sachs

Will Gaertner - Wells Fargo

Peter McGoldrick - Stifel

Paul Kearney - Barclays

Operator

Greetings and welcome to the Kontoor Brands' Third Quarter 2023 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A brief question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentation. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference is being recorded.

It is now my pleasure to introduce your host Eric Tracy, VP, Corporate Finance and Investor Relations. Thank you. Please go ahead.

Eric Tracy

Thank you, operator, and welcome to Kontoor Brands' third quarter 2023 earnings conference call. Participants on today's call will make forward-looking statements. These statements are based on current expectations and are subject to uncertainties that could cause actual results to materially differ. These uncertainties are detailed in documents filed with the SEC.

We urge you to read our risk factors, cautionary language, and other disclosures contained in those reports. Amounts referred to on today's call will often be on an adjusted dollar basis, which we clearly defined in the news release that was issued earlier this morning.

Reconciliations of GAAP measures to adjusted amounts can be found in the supplemental financial tables included in today's news release, which is available on our website at kontoorbrands.com.

These tables identify and quantify excluded items and provide management's view of why this information is useful to investors. Unless otherwise noted, amounts referred to on today's call will be in constant currency, which exclude the translation impact of changes in foreign currency exchange rates.

Joining me on today's call are Kontoor Brands' President, Chief Executive Officer and Chair; Scott Baxter; and newly Chief Financial Officer, Joe Alkire. Following our prepared remarks, we will open the call for your questions. We anticipate the call will last about an hour. Scott?

Scott Baxter

Thanks Eric and thanks for all of those joining us on our call. I'm pleased to share that we delivered Q3 results above our expectations, most notably with upside to our topline. Our strategic playbook is working and is why I'm so confident in the next phase of Kontoor's evolution, even as we assume a more challenging macroeconomic backdrop.