Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from Michelle Tan – Goldman Sachs.
Michelle Tan – Goldman Sachs
I was wondering if you could give us a little more color on the drivers of the apparel re-acceleration next year, from a product perspective.
And then also talk about the demand you are seeing in the current quarter for colder weather apparel and whether your sales are inventory constrained at all here in the second half.
Kevin A. Plank
Let me just start with some of the things that we are seeing in apparel, and obviously we are real encouraged by some of the indicators that are out there and particularly in the performance in the quarter.
The first thing I think that's driving is more than anything is probably just our brand equity. I think we continue to see the brand move beyond being a sort of a narrow team sports brand into being much more open and accepted by athletes really of all backgrounds.
And we continue to build it with the consumer with great product delivered in a very authentic way. And so not compromising our message, not buying our way into categories, but really allowing the brand to be pulled into categories by athletes has really been driving.
And I think, as we mentioned, we really saw strength across the board, so apparel is obviously the highlight, but with Men's apparel, Women's apparel, and our Youth apparel all growing, as well as footwear, international, direct-to-consumer, accessories, and licensing, it's rare, or not often, I think, that you get every category up in a given quarter. So while apparel, of course, is the largest aspect of our business, we are really excited by all the different places we are seeing growth.
But the equity, I think, that we found, particularly where you find a lot of people talking about today's environment, we've always had our relationship with that core athlete, and that core athlete is someone that never really leaves our brand and in good times or bad, football will still be played in the fall, baseball in the spring, and volleyball and soccer and so on. So we haven't seen them necessarily go away.
But if we had any message around our business, and I think you will see us continue to innovate. I mentioned our fitted options that we will have to core compression business, and continue to expand the idea of base player, as we're not necessarily calling it compression anymore, but the next-to-skin product lines, as then us innovating with definitive products like we talked about Armour Bite as well, so we have those premium products that we'll have out.
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