Aritzia FY21 Accomplishments and Financial Highlights
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Forward-looking information
Certain statements made in this presentation may constitute forward-looking information under applicable securities laws. These statements may relate to our future financial outlook and anticipated events or results and include,
our ability to sustain momentum in our business and advance our strategic growth drivers, the impact of health and safety measures including capacity restrictions and mandated closures on retail performance and labour and
operating expenses, our ability to drive eCommerce and Omni innovation, geographic expansion, product expansion, and brand awareness and customer expansion, our ability to weather further uncertainty, achieve meaningful
growth and take advantage of opportunities, our ability to invest in critical infrastructure across our people, processes and technology, our ability to meaningfully accelerate the Company's product expansion into men's while
bringing incremental growth to the Company's women's eCommerce and U.S. businesses, our outlook for: (i) net revenue in the third quarter of fiscal 2022, (ii) net revenue in fiscal 2022, (iii) gross profit margin in fiscal 2022, (iv)
SG&A as a percent of net revenue in fiscal 2022, (v) net capital expenditure in fiscal 2022, (vi) new boutiques and expansion or repositioning of existing boutiques in fiscal 2022 and (vii) Reigning Champ's net revenue and Adjusted
EBITDA contribution in second half of fiscal 2022. Particularly, information regarding our expectations of future results, targets, performance achievements, prospects or opportunities is forward-looking information. As the context
requires, this may include certain targets as disclosed in the prospectus for our initial public offering, which are based on the factors and assumptions, and subject to the risks, as set out therein and herein. Often but not always,
forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "may", "will", "expect", "believe", "estimate", "plan", "could", "should", "would", "outlook", "forecast", "anticipate", "foresee", "continue" or the
negative of these terms or variations of them or similar terminology.
Implicit in forward-looking statements in respect of the Company's expectations for: (i) net revenue in the range of $350 million to $375 million for the third quarter, (ii) net revenue in the range of $1.25 billion to $1.30 billion in fiscal
2022, implying an increase of approximately 45% to 50% from fiscal 2021, (iii) Gross profit margin consistent with pre-pandemic levels in fiscal 2020 for the third and fourth quarter of fiscal 2022, (iv) SG&A as a percent of net
revenue to increase in the third and fourth quarter of fiscal 2022, slightly above the increase in the second quarter relative to pre-pandemic levels in fiscal 2020 (v) net capital expenditures in the range of $55 million to $60 million
and (vi) Reigning Champ's net revenue and adjusted EBITDA contribution in the second half of fiscal 2022, are certain current assumptions including the continued growth in eCommerce and retail sales trending above pre-
pandemic levels for the foreseeable future. The Company's forward-looking information is also based upon assumptions regarding the overall retail environment, the COVID-19 pandemic and related health and safety protocols
and currency exchange rates for fiscal 2022. Specifically, we have assumed the following exchange rates for fiscal 2022: USD:CAD = 1:1.28.
Given this unprecedented period of uncertainty, there can be no assurances regarding: (a) the limitations or restrictions that may be placed on servicing our clients in reopened boutiques or potential re-closing of boutiques; (b) the
COVID-19-related impacts on Aritzia's business, operations, supply chain performance and growth strategies, (c) Aritzia's ability to mitigate such impacts, including ongoing measures to enhance short-term liquidity, contain costs
and safeguard the business; (d) general economic conditions related to COVID-19 and impacts to consumer discretionary spending and shopping habits; (e) credit, market, currency, interest rates, operational, and liquidity risks
generally; and (f) other risks inherent to Aritzia's business and/or factors beyond its control which could have a material adverse effect on the Company.
Many factors could cause our actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements or future events or developments to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements, including,
without limitation, the factors discussed in the "Risk Factors" section of the Company's annual information form dated May 11, 2021 for the fiscal year ended February 28, 2021 (the "AIF"). A copy of the AIF and the Company's other
publicly filed documents can be accessed under the Company's profile on the System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval ("SEDAR") at www.sedar.com.
The Company cautions that the list of risk factors and uncertainties described in the AIF is not exhaustive and other factors could also adversely affect its results. Readers are urged to consider the risks, uncertainties and
assumptions carefully in evaluating the forward-looking information and are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such information. The forward-looking information contained in this press release represents our expectations
as of the date of this press release (or as the date they are otherwise stated to be made), and are subject to change after such date. However, we disclaim any intention or obligation or undertaking to update or revise any
forward-looking information whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required under applicable securities laws.
Non-IFRS Measures including Retail Industry Metrics
This presentation makes reference to certain non-IFRS measures and including certain retail industry metrics. These measures are not recognized measures under International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS"), do not have a
standardized meaning prescribed by IFRS and are therefore unlikely to be comparable to similar measures presented by other companies. Rather, these measures are provided as additional information to complement those IFRS
measures by providing further understanding of our results of operations from management's perspective. Accordingly, these measures should not be considered in isolation nor as a substitute for analysis of our financial
information reported under IFRS. We use non-IFRS measures including "EBITDA", "Adjusted EBITDA", "Adjusted Net Income", "Adjusted Net Income per diluted share", "gross profit margin" and "free cash flow". This presentation also
makes reference to "comparable sales growth" which is a commonly used operating metric in the retail industry but may be calculated differently compared to other retailers. These non-IFRS measures including retail industry
metrics are used to provide investors with supplemental measures of our operating performance and thus highlight trends in our core business that may not otherwise be apparent when relying solely on IFRS measures. We believe
that securities analysts, investors and other interested parties frequently use non-IFRS measures including retail industry metrics in the evaluation of issuers. Our management also uses non-IFRS measures including retail industry
metrics in order to facilitate operating performance comparisons from period to period, to prepare annual operating budgets and forecasts, and to determine components of management compensation.
For definitions and reconciliations of these non-IFRS measures to the relevant reported measures, please see the "How We Assess the Performance of Our Business" and "Selected Consolidated Financial Information" sections of
the Company's MD&A available on SEDAR.
Certain Other Matters
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