Acquisition of Yard House USA, Inc from TSG Consumer Partners LLC by Darden Restaurants, Inc Call Company Participants • Matthew Stroud • Clarence Otis • C

Acquisition of Yard House USA, Inc from TSG Consumer Partners LLC by Darden Restaurants, Inc Call Company Participants • Matthew Stroud • Clarence Otis • C

Company Name: Darden Restaurants Market Cap: 6,458.41 Bloomberg Estimates - EPS Company Ticker: DRI US Current PX: 50.20 Current Quarter: 0.842 Date: 2012-07-12 YTD Change($): +4.62 Current Year: 3.916 Event Description: Acquisition of Yard House USA, YTD Change(%): +10.136 Bloomberg Estimates - Sales Inc from TSG Consumer Partners LLC by Darden Current Quarter: 2028.154 Restaurants, Inc Call Current Year: 8551.071 Acquisition of Yard House USA, Inc from TSG Consumer Partners LLC by Darden Restaurants, Inc Call Company Participants • Matthew Stroud • Clarence Otis • C. Bradford Richmond • Harald Herrmann • Andrew H. Madsen Other Participants • Jeff Andrew Bernstein • Jason Taylor West • Will Slabaugh • Andy M. Barish • John S. Glass • Keith Siegner • Sara Harkavy Senatore • Priya Joy Ohri-Gupta • David S. Palmer • Jonathan Robert Komp • Phan Le • Jeff Floyd Omohundro • Alvin Caezar Concepcion • Jake Bartlett • Paul L. Westra MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION SECTION Operator Welcome and thank you for standing by. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. We will conduct a question-and-answer session during today's call. [Operator Instructions] Today's call is being recorded. If you have any objection, you may disconnect at this time. I'll now turn today's meeting over to your host, Mr. Matthew Stroud. Sir, you may begin. Matthew Stroud Thank you. Good morning, everybody. With me today in Orlando are, Drew Madsen, Darden's President and COO; and Brad Richmond, Darden's CFO. In California, we have Clarence Otis, Darden's Chairman and CEO; Gene Lee, President of Darden's Specialty Restaurant Group and Harald Herrmann, President and CEO of Yard House USA Incorporated. Page 1 of 14 Company Name: Darden Restaurants Market Cap: 6,458.41 Bloomberg Estimates - EPS Company Ticker: DRI US Current PX: 50.20 Current Quarter: 0.842 Date: 2012-07-12 YTD Change($): +4.62 Current Year: 3.916 Event Description: Acquisition of Yard House USA, YTD Change(%): +10.136 Bloomberg Estimates - Sales Inc from TSG Consumer Partners LLC by Darden Current Quarter: 2028.154 Restaurants, Inc Call Current Year: 8551.071 We welcome those of you joining us by telephone or the Internet and we especially appreciated you joining us on such short notice this afternoon. Earlier this afternoon, we announced that Darden has agreed to acquire Yard House USA Incorporated for a purchase price of $585 million in an all-cash transaction. This announcement was available on PRNewswire and other newswire services. This afternoon we'd like to discuss with you the merits of this acquisition. We have slides or presentation that you should be able to access through the webcast link at darden.com or on verizonbusiness.com and after the presentation from Clarence we will take your questions. First, let me remind everyone that during the course of this conference call, Darden's Restaurants' officers and employees may make forward-looking statements concerning the company's expectations, goals or objectives. Forward-looking statements are made under the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Any forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which such statements are made and we undertake no obligation to update such statements to reflect events or circumstances arising after such date. We wish to caution investors not to place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statements. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to materially differ from those anticipated in the statements. The most significant of these uncertainties are described in Darden's Form 10-K, Form 10-Q and Form 8-K reports including all amendments to those reports. These risks and uncertainties include the successful completion of the proposed transaction in a timely manner, the ability to successfully integrate the new operations into our business following completion of the proposed transaction, food safety and food-borne illness concerns, litigation, unfavorable publicity, federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs, technology failures, failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster, health concerns including virus outbreaks, the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry, factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth, the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition, our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52, our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations, a lack of suitable new restaurant locations, higher-than-anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants, increased advertising and marketing costs, a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders, the price and availability of key food products and utilities, shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products, volatility in the market value of derivatives, general macroeconomic factors including unemployment and interest rates, disruptions in the financial markets, risks of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets, failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property, a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets, a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting, or changes in accounting standards, and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission. A copy of our press release announcing the transaction, the Form 8-K used to furnish the release with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and any other financial and statistical information about the period covered in the conference call, including any information required by Regulation G is available under the heading Investor Relations on our website at darden.com. With that, let me turn it over to Clarence. Clarence Otis Thank you, Matthew. We're delighted to share the details of what is a very exciting expansion to Darden's business. As you know, Darden has a strong portfolio of brands that individually and collectively have excellent growth profiles. We have a wealth of collective experience and expertise. We have an ever more cost-effective support platform and we have a vibrant winning culture. Page 2 of 14 Company Name: Darden Restaurants Market Cap: 6,458.41 Bloomberg Estimates - EPS Company Ticker: DRI US Current PX: 50.20 Current Quarter: 0.842 Date: 2012-07-12 YTD Change($): +4.62 Current Year: 3.916 Event Description: Acquisition of Yard House USA, YTD Change(%): +10.136 Bloomberg Estimates - Sales Inc from TSG Consumer Partners LLC by Darden Current Quarter: 2028.154 Restaurants, Inc Call Current Year: 8551.071 The addition of Yard House, one of the most unique and exciting restaurant brands in the country today, strengthens each one of these value drivers. First, with its strong average sales per restaurant, the considerable new restaurant growth ahead of it and its strong unit level returns, Yard House will elevate Darden sales and earnings growth rates for years to come. Second, with the addition of Yard House's talented leaders, we buttress our collective expertise in ways that should in time help us broaden the appeal of our other brands. Third, as we realize the benefits of the added scale that comes with this transaction and capture the meaningful cost synergies ahead of us, Yard House makes our support platform even more cost effective. And then finally, we've got similar cultures and business philosophies and that will make integration seamless and enable us to capture the full benefits of what we think is just a wonderful combination. Now, let me turn briefly to some specific financial highlights of the transaction. As Matthew mentioned, the total purchase price is $585 million; that includes $30 million of anticipated cash tax benefits. The structure is an all-cash transaction of 100% of the capital stock of Yard House USA, Inc. on a multiple basis based on a transaction price of $555 million, which subtracts the $35 million (sic) [$30 million] of anticipated tax benefits from the total purchase price. The transaction represents approximately 1.5 times our estimate of Yard House's sales for our fiscal 2013, which we project will be $368 million. It also represents 12.6 times our estimate of Yard House's EBITDA for our fiscal 2013, and again we project that is going to be about $44 million. And it's a 10.7 times our estimate of fiscal 2013 EBITDA when we account for approximately $8 million of runway adjustments. We anticipate achieving synergies of approximately $6 million to $10 million in fiscal 2014 and $15 million to $20 million in fiscal 2015. The transaction is dilutive to Darden's diluted net EPS by approximately $0.03 to $0.05 in fiscal 2013 and that reflects approximately $0.07 to $0.10 of acquisition costs. In fiscal 2014, though, we expect the transaction to be accretive to our diluted net earnings per share by $0.10 to $0.12 and that would be despite acquisition costs. We do expect to close the transaction early in our second fiscal quarter. Now let me talk some about the Yard House brand, since I know many of you are not familiar with it. The Yard House offers great food that's made from scratch in its kitchen, it's American cuisine focused and caters to both Zagat aficionados and the bar crowd. Has a chef-driven menu that introduces guests to new cuisine choices with an emphasis on quality and on artistic presentation. In addition to great food, Yard House has a best-of-class alcohol selection. And as is customary in this category, there is no veto vote because the extensive menu offers a variety of options and appeals to a broad audience.

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