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Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to Nike Incorporated Fiscal twenty twenty five Third Quarter Conference Call. For those who want to reference today's press release, you'll find it at investors.nike.com. Leading today's call is Paul Trussell, Vice President of Corporate Finance and Treasurer. Now I'd like to turn the call over to Paul Trussell.

Thank you, operator. Hello, everyone, and thank you for joining us today to discuss NIKE, Inc. Fiscal twenty twenty five third quarter results. Joining us on today's call will be NIKE, Inc. President and CEO, Elliot Hill and our CFO, Matt Friend.

Before we begin, let me remind you that participants on this call will make forward looking statements based on current expectations, and those statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. These risks and uncertainties are detailed in NIKE's reports filed with the SEC. In addition, participants may discuss non GAAP financial measures and non public financial and statistical information. Please refer to NIKE's earnings press release or NIKE's website investors.nike.com for comparable GAAP measures and quantitative reconciliations. All growth comparisons on the call today are presented on a year over year basis and are currency neutral unless otherwise noted.

We will start with prepared remarks and then open up for questions. We would like to allow as many of you to ask questions as possible in our allotted time, so we would appreciate you limiting your initial question to one. Thanks for your cooperation on this. I'll now turn the call over to NIKE, Inc. President and CEO, Elliot Hill.

Thank you, Paul. Good afternoon, everyone. I'll start by saying, I'm proud of the progress we made against the key actions we committed to ninety days ago. While we met the expectations we set, we're not satisfied with our overall results. We can and will be better.

For the quarter, the big takeaway for me was clear. When we lead with sport, we create impact for NIKE. We told inspiring athletes' stories. We brought more energy to sports' biggest moments and we introduced performance product across an integrated marketplace. We delivered something new to the consumer week after week and that's exactly the kind of sustained pace we need to strengthen our business.

Last quarter, I shared my initial observations and where we need to focus. The last ninety days only reinforced my early assessment of the areas that are most important. Since our last call, I continue to meet with wholesale partners to discuss the distinct role each can play with NIKE. I also had an incredibly inspiring trip to visit factory partners and NIKE teammates in Asia to see how we're executing in our supply chain with a focus on production for our new innovation. Most importantly, I continue to spend meaningful time with our NIKE teammates.

We focused in two areas, strengthening our culture and committing to our top priorities. In fact, right after my first call with you in December, we met with our teams and shared the five priority actions we outlined on the call. With a sharp focus on five fields of play, three countries and five cities. We call these strategic priorities Win Now. We have a clearer picture on our path forward and despite the global economic uncertainty, I believe our priority actions will continue to drive progress.

The first action is to ignite our winning culture. As I mentioned, our teams are building the momentum. We're hustling and being opportunistic. The next action is shaping our brand for distinction. This is about lining up storytelling power of Nike to celebrate the passion and emotion of sport.

In February, I attended the Super Bowl and the NBA All Star Weekend to see firsthand the kind of impact we make when we line up all of our advantages towards one moment. Our third action is to accelerate a complete product portfolio. We're fully committed to creating a more breadth and depth season after season. While we added innovation across our five key fields to play this quarter, it's not enough to offset the continued headwinds of our classic franchises. Elevate and grow the marketplace, the fourth action is a balanced approach where we're supporting wholesale partners to drive healthy growth and returning NIKE Direct to a premium destination.

We're in the early stages of repositioning NIKE Digital and we're restoring our sales organization and go to market processes. The final action, win on the ground, is where we celebrate local athletes, make cultural connections and support grassroots communities. A big reason for our running product success this quarter was the resources we put into building energy through the ground game. Of all the priority actions, we knew we could move quickest on investing in our brand. You saw that in several defining moments this quarter.

I'll start with the Super Bowl in New Orleans. It was of course, it starts with our close partnership with the NFL and our high performance uniforms, cleats and gloves that everyone sees on the field. Our product visibility goes well beyond four quarters. From Jalen Hertz wearing his red and black unbannable Jordan cleats during warm ups to Kendrick's halftime show wearing Dion Sanders retros and Serena Williams and SZA wearing Chuck Taylors. Our three iconic brands were front and center.

We of course also debuted So Win, our first Super Bowl ad in twenty seven years where we celebrated the winning mindset of the top athletes in the world. We also showed up on the ground in New Orleans to support flag football with a sharp focus on girls and a commitment to increasing their participation in the game. We created pop up retail spaces across the city with partners like Dick's, Sneaker Politics and Hibbett's and built Nike and Jordan houses to connect with athletes, influencers, partners and wholesale retailers. After the win, we followed up with strong reactive campaigns. The Nike brand created It's Good to Be Green for the Eagles win and for Jalen's MVP, the Jordan brand aired its first Super Bowl ad in history, Love Hurts.

That is how we create impact and that is Nike being Nike. We transitioned from one amazing weekend right into another for the NBA All Star Weekend in the Bay Area. Our brands in one word, dominated. On both sides of the Bay, Nike, Jordan, Converse own performance and the culture of the game, connecting with young athletes and fans through unique experiences. Nike celebrated the future of basketball hosting games with top high school prep stars.

At the Alameda Navy Yard, the Jordan Fam Fest celebrated the brand's biggest moments for its fortieth anniversary with thousands of fans. And Converse unveiled the first signature shoe for Shay Gilgeous Alexander, the Shay one. Designed by Shay himself as the new Creative Director for Converse Basketball. His shoe will launch this fall. All told, Nike Inc.

Lit up the marketplace on the ground. Our Nike San Francisco flagship store had its best commercial day in ten years. And just down the street, we created energy and buzz with our wholesale partners Foot Locker and Shoe Palace. One thing it was great to see for the right product drops like the Nike Black Label collection, the Kobe Protros, Jordan Red Ones and Jordan four Cements, the passion of sneaker culture is alive. I saw lines down the block all weekend.

An important part of our strategy moving forward will be to harness the full power of our portfolio of brands. We made significant progress in elevating the voices and distinct position of our brands at the Super Bowl and All Star Weekend. Shifting to products, we're beginning to drive a more diversified portfolio. It will take time to reach the volume to replace the handful of classic franchises we over indexed on. But our approach is simple, Help consumers fall in love with something new from Nike and that something is not replacing one icon for another.

It's about building a supporting cast of multiple styles. Some that are gaining interaction with men and others with women's. Segmenting and differentiating our wholesale partners across the integrated marketplace, investing in the presentation of our products at point of sale, digital and physical and having an intentional ground game in influential cities. And we will lead with performance with a disciplined approach that balances product that's seeding with product that's scaling. Running was a standout field of play for the quarter growing mid single digits.

The PEG 41 is continuing to drive healthy volume in all geos and two innovations that have just begun to see are the Pegasus Premium and the Vomero 18. The Pet Premium is Nike bringing something totally unique to the market, a full visible Air Zoom unit that for the first time we sculpted to the foot, so it springs back for better energy return. It's a great ride and a beautiful looking shoe. Early seed pairs nearly sold out across the North America marketplace and the PEG premium will scale through fall twenty five. This quarter, we launched the Vomero 18 created for the everyday runner.

We aligned the storytelling of the Vomero eighteen's big foam and maximum cushioning across over 1,800 doors in the integrated marketplace, RSG, sporting goods, Nike direct. The results have been outstanding. We plan to build on the momentum and double the distribution of Vomero 18 by mid April, supported by a large scale running campaign. You can expect new additions to the franchise to release in our next fiscal year. In running, we're on the path to meeting our high standards of execution end to end.

Turning to sportswear, our largest icons Nike and Jordan streetwear are in different states of transition. With Air Force One, Dunk and Air Jordan One, it's about rightsizing, not sunsetting. Each franchise will always have a place in our stable of products. They're timeless staples with loyal fans. Our best example of healthy diversification in sportswear footwear right now is our look of running.

The Varvero five doubled its revenue this quarter. Nike Shox has grown its revenue by over 10 times in the last three quarters. And while in the seating stage, recently released shoes like the Air Superfly and the LD 1,000 are getting a lot of positive interest in the media and on social channels. Air Max, a brand in itself is a platform that consumers expect us to reinvent. This quarter, we brought fresh energy with the new DNA, which is resonating well with consumers in Japan and Korea and women's silhouette in the Air Max Muse.

Look for another new innovation platform with Air Max in FY '20 '20 '6. Diversifying our sportswear apparel offense is equally important. We want to minimize our reliance on fleece and push the edges to build new businesses. And that doesn't have to fit neatly into the sportswear category either. This quarter's new twenty fourseven collection brings performance materials to high style training apparel.

The new impossibly soft and perfect stretch fabrics gave us the opportunity to tell a deep technical apparel story. The first month of sales in twenty fourseven have exceeded our expectations and we're ramping up capacity to meet the demand. We also made some noise with the announcement of a new brand this quarter, NIKE SKIMS. Together, we identified a consumer need and are creating new a new market of style led product that sculpts and performs. Our first comprehensive collection launches next quarter in North America through both Nike and SKIMS direct channels and we will scale globally over multiple seasons.

The apparel space is right for fresh thinking and I've asked our team to keep innovating across the spectrum of performance and style and to seek out white space in the market to complement our brands and product portfolio. Our responsibility is to grow the overall market. And one of the most powerful ways we do that is through a relentless flow of coveted and innovative product through our powerful brands in both performance and sportswear for men, women and kids across footwear, apparel and accessories and up and down price points. We're moving with focus and urgency to get back into a rhythm of delivering across all dimensions. The final topic I'd like to discuss in detail is the integrated marketplace, where we create consumer led experiences across NIKE Direct or our wholesale partners, physical or digital.

In the almost 190 countries in which we do business, we have over 40,000 points of distribution and a digital business with massive reach. Our footprint is an unbeatable competitive advantage. That means that a lot of change is in motion because we want to be great at all touch points and I'm playing an active role in this one, leveraging my years of experience and relationships in the marketplace. Here's what we're going to prioritize. First, I mentioned we're restoring our sales organization and go to market processes.

Partnering with Nike must feel like a world class experience. That means building growth plans together, creating distinct consumer positions and consumer right assortments, engaging way earlier in the process and asking for product feedback, delivering our assortments at the right time, right place and at the right depth, educating their teams on new innovations, providing marketing support and making certain their Nike presentation is premium. So we capitalize on every sale opportunity. In NIKE Direct, digital will feel the changes more quickly. We're already reducing the promotional days and discounting at lower rates.

In fact, comparing last year's January and February to this year's, NIKE Digital in North America went from over thirty promotional days to zero. In our ecosystem, the consumers already seen a more elevated content and storytelling with a greater focus on our performance fields of play. Now that I've had the opportunity to visit East Geography, we're clear where we will focus to make an immediate impact. Through our WinNow strategic priorities, we'll start with three key countries, The United States, China and The United Kingdom and five key cities, New York, Los Angeles, London, Beijing and Shanghai. We'll invest to make sure each has innovative and coveted product, a loud and proud locally relevant brand voice, a consumer led and balanced integrated marketplace and passionate NIKE teammates on the ground.

Each country has unique dynamics and is in different state of development. China specifically is where we're being the most proactive in cleaning up the marketplace and we'll get back to inspiring the Chinese consumer in a more meaningful way. To close, our consumers and partners felt a different pace from NIKE this quarter. We're off to a solid start. And where we are making progress in our five priority actions, it's mostly through serving athletes through the lens of sport and performance.

That's exactly where we want to be. The bottom line is we are looking for opportunity on all fronts. Now it's up to us to be consistent. Some of the bigger shifts I have covered will take multiple seasons of excellent execution. Our teams are moving with focus and urgency and are up to the challenge of writing the next great chapter for NIKE.

I'll pass it to Matt to provide initial thoughts on the building blocks to return to sustainable and profitable growth, and I'll be back to close out the call.

Thanks, Elliot, and hello to everyone on the call. The team is moving aggressively to reignite brand momentum through sport and stabilize our business. Our third quarter financial results reflect the headwinds from the WinNow actions we identified for you last quarter. Today, I will review our third quarter results and provide context on the progress we have made. Then I will share additional insight for how we expect our WinNow actions to shape our business performance over the near term.

This quarter, revenues were down 9% on a reported basis and down 7% on a currency neutral basis. The quarter benefited from strong holiday results in December, including a non comp benefit from Cyber Monday, followed by double digit declines in January and February. NIKE Direct was down 10% with NIKE Digital declining 15% and NIKE stores declining 2%. Wholesale was down 4% largely due to declines in Greater China. Gross margins declined three thirty basis points to 41.5% on a reported basis due to higher markdowns on NIKE Direct, higher wholesale discounts, inventory obsolescence and product costs and channel mix headwinds.

SG and A was down 8% on a reported basis as increased investments in brand marketing and sports marketing were more than offset by declines in operating overhead. Our effective tax rate was 5.9% compared to 16.5% for the same period last year, primarily due to a one time tax benefit from U. S. Tax regulations related to foreign currency gains and losses. Earnings per share was $0.54 Now let me provide additional insight into our progress against our WinNow actions this quarter.

Let's begin with our product portfolio. Our performance business grew in the third quarter, led by improving brand and business momentum in training and running. With new product launches, strong sell through of innovation and a more complete offense across price points in footwear and apparel. This momentum is encouraging since these two sports represent our largest performance businesses. For Q3, this momentum was more than offset by declines in Nike sportswear and the Jordan brand, led by a double digit decline in our classic footwear franchises.

These franchises again decelerated faster than the overall business with a more pronounced impact on NIKE Digital. Turning to our marketplace, our teams have taken the initial steps to reposition NIKE Digital as a full price business. We remained competitive and promotional in December, finishing with strong holiday results. However, in January and February, we significantly reduced days of promotion in North America and EMEA. This resulted in a several percentage point improvement in demand at full price.

With regards to wholesale, since Elliott has returned, we are working as closely with our partners as ever. We are creating confidence through the investments we are making in product engagement, commercial terms and rebuilding the scale, talent and capabilities of our sales organization. Within our fall order book in North America, EMEA and APLA, we see the declines in classic footwear franchises almost being offset by growth in performance dimensions of our portfolio, such as running, training and basketball as well as newness in sportswear. Now let's talk about the health of our brands. Elliott mobilized our teams this quarter to go bigger and bolder in sports' biggest moments.

As a result, we supported several new product launches across all three brands and also delivered outsized brand impact with emotional storytelling in the air and on the ground in key cities. And you felt it. To support this action, demand creation expenses grew high single digits versus the prior year. Last, let's discuss inventory. Inventory declined 2% versus the prior year.

But as I said last quarter, inventory remains elevated across all geographies as we implemented our WinNow actions after inventory was purchased and in transit. While we are seeing some increases in customer cancellations, the larger driver of our inventory is the buys for NIKE Direct. In addition, across the marketplace, we are beginning to see Air Force One inventory stabilize with current retail sales, while Air Jordan One and Dunk remain elevated with continued actions planned ahead. With that, let me turn to our operating segments. I will focus my commentary on the progress we have made in each of our geographies on our WinNow actions.

In North America, Q3 revenue declined 4%. NIKE Direct declined 10% with NIKE Digital down 12% and NIKE Stores down 6%. Wholesale increased 3% due primarily to favorable shipment timing and increased shipments to our value partners in the third quarter. EBIT declined 21% on a reported basis. Throughout the quarter, we delivered bold and inspiring storytelling in key sports moments, as Elliot mentioned, which drove heat and energy for our brand.

Training led performance growth this quarter and running grew high single digits. In Q3, we hosted dozens of key partners for product engagement and future growth planning, including a summit for partners serving core price points. We have taken initial steps to expand distribution to support our expanded core product offering, which is a meaningful market opportunity for NIKE. In EMEA, Q3 revenue declined 6%. NIKE Direct declined 12% with NIKE Digital down 25% and NIKE stores up 9%.

Wholesale declined 3%. EBIT declined 35% on a reported basis. In Q3, performance dimensions continued to build momentum. Fueled by the Mercurial and Global Football and new product launches and running. We celebrated Zinni Jr.

Best FIFA Men's Player Award with a short video Can't Stop the Dance featuring the Chrome Mercurial, and we amplified the PEG Premium launch with a unique activation at the London Eye featuring Nike athletes. In the marketplace, in addition to taking steps to reposition Nike Digital, we also started a journey with JD Sports, Sports Direct and Snipes to elevate our brand physical retail with improved product positioning and visual merchandising. In Greater China, Q3 revenue declined 15%. NIKE Direct declined 11% with NIKE Digital down 20% and NIKE Stores down 6%. Wholesale declined 18%.

EBIT declined 42% on a reported basis. In Q3, traffic declined double digits and retail sales underperformed our plan. While the macro environment is challenging, sport is growing in China and we must accelerate our pace. The market continues to be promotional, especially in consumer moments and in the digital channel. And we are taking aggressive steps to clean up the marketplace, with the priority being the health of our partners.

These steps had a negative impact on our revenue and gross margin this quarter. At the same time, our team is focused on creating brand distinction through sport and serving consumers with new innovation and hyper local product. We saw strong consumer response to the Peg Premium and Vomero 18 and running. And in basketball, we launched the Year of the Mamba with strong growth in COBE Pro Tro. We continue to see locally designed Express Lane product resonate with strong sell through of our Chinese New Year product.

The opportunity in Greater China continues to be significant for NIKE, notwithstanding the highly competitive and fast moving dynamics in this marketplace. Our brand remains strong, but our actions to energize the marketplace will take some time. In APLA, Q3 revenue declined 4%. NIKE Direct declined 4% with NIKE Digital down 8% and NIKE Stores up 1%. Wholesale was down 4%.

EBIT declined 27% on a reported basis. While we saw mixed performance across territories in APLA, Japan and Latin America each returned to growth this quarter. In Q3, we created energy on the ground in running communities. We launched the After Dark Tour with incredible response from female runners and executed disruptive race takeovers at the Hakone Ikeden in Japan, the Mumbai Marathon and the Thailand Marathon. This fuels continued momentum in running with growth across footwear and apparel.

Now let's look forward. Elliott said earlier that we are even more confident that the five WinNow actions are the right moves to create better balance in our business and reignite brand momentum. So as we begin to have greater clarity and confidence in the steps that we are taking, I will provide some additional thoughts on our path forward over the next several quarters. First, we are accelerating our product portfolio transition. We expect sport performance dimensions to lead our growth with a relentless flow of newness across each field of play.

We are focused on increasing the contribution of newness as a percentage of our overall seasonal assortment, including new models, new colors and new materials. At the same time, we are moving fast to right size the contribution of our classic footwear franchises. In regards to this transition, we are making progress. In the last quarter of this fiscal year, we expect our Classic Footwear franchises will be down by more than 10 points as a percent of our total footwear mix. We intend to drive this mix lower in fiscal twenty twenty six with total units planned down double digits with the most aggressive actions on the Dunk.

Second, we are repositioning NIKE Digital within an integrated marketplace. To do this, we are reducing promotional days, reducing markdown rates and shifting closeout liquidation to our NIKE factory stores. Due to these actions and as we continue to reduce investment in paid media, we expect digital traffic to be down double digits in fiscal twenty twenty six. Gradually, we expect organic traffic to stabilize and grow with new product launches and our increased brand marketing investments. Third, we are cleaning up the marketplace.

For NIKE Digital, we are tightening our buys to support a full price business model. For NIKE factory stores, we are increasing markdowns to drive velocity of higher volumes of closeout inventory. And for our wholesale partners, we are making investments in sales related returns, reducing forward supply and providing higher wholesale discounts to liquidate aged inventory. We expect these actions will continue through the first half of fiscal twenty twenty six. Last, when we get back to a steady flow of new product at scale, improve brand engagement, reposition our NIKE Digital business to complement our wholesale partners and return to a healthy and clean marketplace, we expect our wholesale business to return to growth.

Each of our geographies have made varying levels of progress on each of these actions and as a result are working against different timelines. But when taken altogether, these are the building blocks for NIKE to return to sustainable profitable growth. Now I'll turn to our fourth quarter guidance. Our second half plan is in line with what we communicated last quarter with some shifts occurring between Q3 and Q4. Looking ahead, we believe that the fourth quarter will reflect the largest impact from our WinNow actions and that the headwinds to revenue and gross margin will begin to moderate from there.

We are also navigating through several external factors that create uncertainty in the current operating environment, including geopolitical dynamics, new tariffs, volatile foreign exchange rates and tax regulations, as well as the impact of this uncertainty and other macro factors on consumer confidence. Our fourth quarter guidance includes our best assessment of these factors based on the data we have available to us today. We expect Q4 revenues to be down in the mid teens range, albeit at the low end. This includes several points of unfavorable shipment timing in North America as well as two points of negative impact from foreign exchange headwinds. We expect Q4 gross margins to be down approximately 400 to 500 basis points, including restructuring charges during the same period last year.

We have included the estimated impact from newly implemented tariffs on imports from China and Mexico. We expect Q4 SG and A dollars to be up low to mid single digits, including restructuring charges in the prior year. We will continue to tightly manage expenses, while we increase investment to fuel our WinNow priorities, most notably demand creation. We expect other income and expense, including net interest income, to be $45,000,000 to $55,000,000 for Q4. And we expect the tax rate for the full year to be in the mid teens range.

We are focused on what we can control. And for NIKE at this moment, serving athletes with new product innovation and reigniting brand momentum is what matters most. Our collective experience as well as the early signals we are seeing with consumers gives us confidence in the path ahead. With that, I'll turn it back over to Elliot.

Thank you, Matt. I'll close by taking a minute to talk about my teammates at NIKE. Look, it's been a tough couple of years. We've been through a lot of change, but what's encouraging is that in the one hundred and fifty days since I've been back, we've reclaimed our identity. We know who we are.

Nike Inc. Is a sports company. We inspire through iconic brands and create innovative products for all athletes. It may seem like an obvious direction, but we needed to say it out loud to reawaken the fire in our teams and I have been unrelenting in that message. One of the things that makes it special to work at NIKE is we invite athletes, coaches and teams to our business meetings to spend time with our teammates.

One conversation that stirred something up in me this quarter was with Coach Ryan Day, Coach of the National Champions, the Ohio State Buckeyes. He had an answer to the question that really connected with how I'm thinking about our team right now and the tone we're setting. The question to him was, how do you stay on the offense and what's the key to keep your program moving forward? His answer was that Ohio State applies pressure constantly in all three phases of the game, no matter who he's playing. Get vertical down the field on offense, play suffocating man coverage so no one no throw is easy, go after punts and have his best athletes returning kicks.

He just painted this picture of a team that is relentlessly pushing and challenging, being aggressive and making it uncomfortable to play against. I love that attitude. And that's how I think about Nike when we're at our best. Success for Nike has never been about protecting our turf. We force others to play our game.

We drive trends, grow markets, we lead. Coach Day made it clear that it takes complete buy in to be a championship team. That's exactly what we're asking of our teammates right now, to keep up the intensity, to move with focus and urgency, to have passion and take pride in all that we do and to win as a team. With that, I'll turn it over for questions.

Thank you. And we will now begin the question and answer session. Your question and are listening via speakerphone on your device,

handset and ensure that your phone is not on mute when asking your question. To be able to take as many questions as possible, we ask that you please limit yourself to one question. And your first question comes from the line of Lorraine Hutchinson with Bank of America. Your line is open.

Thank you. Good afternoon. Elliot, can you provide a timeline on when you think classic shoe inventories will be clean in the wholesale channel? And then same question for the direct channel as well.

Thanks for the question, Lorraine. Before I dive too deeply into the specific question, I do want to start really quickly because I think it's important to set the tone here on the call for these types of questions that ninety days ago we declared five actions to return to growth. And what we'll say ninety days later, I'm even more convinced that these are the right actions to move our brand and business forward. And these when now actions really start with our culture, our product portfolio, which is a question that you're asking here and I'll dive into that here in just a second. Shaping our brand for distinction, elevating and growing the marketplace and winning on the ground.

And what we did add to our teams after coming off the call was providing them a sharp focus on which sports. We have five sports running, basketball, football, training and sportswear, three key countries outlined for you and then the five cities. So the teams are really rallying around this win now priorities and even calling it the 05/1935. So now let me jump more specifically into product for you and I will also start a little higher level before I dive into the specific question around the key franchises. What we are going to run a balanced and complete portfolio.

That's why I want to make sure everybody on the call hears that. We're going to run that through all three brands, Nike, Jordan, Converse across performance and sportswear, men's, women's, kids, footwear, pro accessories and up and down price points. And we're going to be sharper on specific sports. And I've touched on those already, so I won't dive too deeply on those five sports. But we have set teams up against each of those sport times gender and we have small teams, cross functional teams taking the insights from those sports and those consumers and driving innovative products.

So feel good about where the team is heading on the performance side of the business and we're starting to see some great success and I'm sure we'll hit on that here in a moment. What I'd say about franchise management and to answer questions specifically is that we have decade long experience of managing franchises. And I will also say this, we had the three Air Force One, Dunk H A-one, they are still beloved silhouettes. So it's not about sunsetting these, it's about rightsizing them. And we asked our teams to accelerate our actions as Matt spoke to in his prepared remarks of rightsizing that inventory so that we can get back to running that complete and balanced portfolio.

And so we're confident that we're making the right moves from a performance perspective and we're seeing some wins there running training that Matt touched on and we're right sizing the three key franchises and at the same time starting to plant some newness in the sportswear side of our business with Vomero five, P6000 shocks. We touched on some of these Superfly, Air Max Muse and Air Max 95. So feel like the teams are taking all the right actions against those key footwear franchises, right sizing the inventory and getting back to running a relentless flow of innovative and coveted products.

Hey, Lorraine, I'll just add that what I said in my prepared remarks was that we intend to drive we've made really good progress over the past year. And as Elliot came in, he challenged the teams to increase the pace at which we reduce the supply of those three franchises in the marketplace. And as a result of that, it had some impact on our Q4 headwinds that we talked about, but it's going to it will continue to be a headwind, in fiscal year twenty twenty six. By the time we exit Q4, we expect that we will have reduced the contribution of those franchises by 10 percentage points as a percent of our overall footwear mix. And we intend to drive that down more in fiscal year twenty twenty six.

When I think about it through the lens of channels, what I would say to you is that, on the Nike Direct side and the digital side in particular, we're already taking action as Elliot and I both outlined to reduce the number of promotional days and to reducing the discounts that we see in the marketplace. The challenge we have in the near term is that we were buying against a different plan. And so we've tightened the buys against NIKE Digital, but we really did that towards the end of summer and heading into fall. That inventory will not end up in the digital channel. We will directly transition it to our factory stores and we will clean it in a value channel like we typically do as we clean up the season.

On the wholesale side, we're making investments and I talked about us needing to use the first half of fiscal year twenty twenty six in order to be able to clean up the marketplace. And what I would tell you there is that the combination of the actions that we're taking in digital plus the actions that we've communicated and worked through with our partners, we're already starting to see fruit. And what I mean by that is, one, inventory of Air Force One is beginning to stabilize with retail sales for Air Force One. But secondly, when you look at the order book in wholesale for our partners in North America and APLA, we're seeing growth in the performance dimensions of our business plus newness in sportswear almost offset the declines we're managing in the classic footwear franchises. And that gives us a lot of confidence that our partners are coming behind us and that we are moving down the right path to affect the cleanup.

And our next question comes from the line of Brooke Roach with Goldman Sachs.

Elliot, I was hoping to get your latest thoughts on innovation within NIKE. How do you feel about the strength of your innovation team and the pipeline ahead? And how are you thinking about innovating into some of the sportswear franchises as we look into fiscal twenty twenty six? Thank you.

Yes. Thank you, Brook. Let me first start on innovation. And when we think about innovation, we think about it really in two forms. We have long term, let's call it three to plus five years, and we have a dedicated team against that over at our LeBron James, Nike Sports Research Lab.

And what I would say, I'm really confident in the team that we have there and not only the team, but the work that they are doing long term creating new innovation for our team. So that's a little longer term. I spent a lot of time with John Hoke and his team over there and excited about some of the products that are coming through the NIKE Sports Research Lab. Shorter term and more near term, again, I touched on it in my first answer and it's really coming back to driving newness and freshness against performance and sportswear, men's, women's, kids, footwear, apparel and accessories, not just footwear. We've got some really interesting innovation coming from apparel.

I touched on it briefly in my prepared remarks around twenty fourseven. And that is it comes out of our training line, but it is also viewed as sportswear and there's some innovation there. And I'm really pleased with the sell through on twenty fourseven and the reorders that are coming on that from an apparel perspective. And then on a footwear perspective, we'll continue to right size the three franchise that I touched on. We still believe all three of them are meaningful products.

And then you'll see us continue to invest in innovation around sportswear. And I touched on some of those products, the Vomero five, P6000, shocks. Shox is having a really building some momentum, Air Max 95 etcetera. And I'll just close out here, Brooke. This week, we had our spring twenty six product review where we bring all of our geo partners here to the campus to go through our spring twenty six line.

And what I'll tell you is we are all excited about the products that are coming for spring twenty twenty six. We're starting to see our win now focus on accelerating our product portfolio against these five sports running basketball, football training and sports were paying dividends. I'm really excited about the work I saw there. And while I have you, I'll just add one other thing that I saw that I was excited about. We are also working on elevating the marketplace and the retail team has done some phenomenal work around elevating our presentation at both wholesale and physical retail and so excited about some of that work.

So overall, I'm confident that our innovation pipeline is there and we just now have to flow through it to get back to building the brand of the business.

And your next question comes from the line of Anisha Sherman with Bernstein. Your line is open.

Thank you so much. Elliot, I just want to follow-up on the comment that you just made about the spring twenty six product review. Based on some of the comments earlier from Matt around performance growth almost offsetting Classic's decline, do you expect that inflection point to be in spring twenty twenty six? I know you don't have the orders yet, but is that when you expect performance growth to more than offset Classic in your total wholesale order book to grow? And then Matt, a follow-up on your comments on gross margins.

You talked about wholesale liquidations at H1. I know you're not giving margin guidance for next year, but are you generally expecting gradual progression of gross margins through the year as some of those liquidations roll off and then you get a stronger order book in the second half? Thank you.

Let me here's we're absolutely gaining confidence in the product pipeline. In the fall, Matt already touched on some of the order book on fall and North America APLA, and EMEA. So definitely gaining confidence around the order book fall holiday and then like I said, the sneak peek into 2026. The key here though is how quickly we can clean up the marketplace. That's why you see some of the results that we have in Q4 and then resetting both the digital and physical marketplaces to receive this innovation, making certain that we present it in the way that we believe we need to present the product at point of sale, digital physical, so that we drive the sell through.

And so that's where we have the team's focus right now. The brand, I believe we've already started to invest in. We did that early. I see product coming now and that excites me and so I feel good about that. Now we've got to reset the marketplace and make sure that we get the sell through and it's that sell through that's going to continue to drive the order book and get us back to profitable sustainable growth.

Yes. And I just would add that last quarter we said that the fourth quarter was going to have the largest the greatest impact from the WinNow actions that Elliot outlined. And we continue to believe this is true and it's on our plan. But what we can also tell you is that we now expect Q4 to reflect the largest impact from these WinNow actions and that the headwinds to revenue and margin we expect to moderate from there. And so what I how I think you translate that Anisha as you start to look forward is we've tried to lay out each of these actions and the implications that they have as we start to think about heading into 2026.

And we expect that these headwinds will continue in 2026. And as Elliot referenced, while we're going to have positive things beginning vis a vis greater full price selling and digital and we're going to have a clean and full price order book with our wholesale partners, we are going to continue to be liquidating inventory. And we expect that that's going to take us several quarters to work through. But the reason why we're confident is because we know we'll be liquidating it through the channels where we're used to liquidating that inventory. So we will continue to be transparent as we've got greater visibility as we get into fiscal twenty twenty six.

But we're still in the early days of executing against these partnerships. And sorry, we're still in the early days of executing against these priorities. And we remain committed to providing guidance and financial updates every ninety days.

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