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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
 

FORM 8-K
 

CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): June 1, 2016

LANDS' END, INC.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

 
Delaware
 
001-09769
 
36-2512786
 
 
 
 
 
(State or Other Jurisdiction of
Incorporation)
 
(Commission File Number)
 
(IRS Employer
Identification No.)
1 Lands’ End Lane
Dodgeville, Wisconsin
 
53595
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
 
(Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (608) 935-9341
Not Applicable
(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the Registrant under any of the following provisions (See General Instructions A.2. below):
¨ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
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¨ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))







Item 2.02     Results of Operations and Financial Condition.
Lands’ End, Inc. (the “Company”) is furnishing herewith a press release issued on June 1, 2016 as Exhibit 99.1, which is included herein. This press release was issued to report the Company’s first quarter 2016 results.
Any website address referred to in this report (including exhibits) is included for reference only and is not intended to be an active hyperlink. The information contained on any such website is not a part of this report and is not incorporated by reference in this report.
Item 9.01    Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits
Exhibit Number
 
Description
99.1
 
Press Release of Lands’ End, Inc. dated June 1, 2016










SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
LANDS' END, INC.
Date: June 1, 2016
By:
/s/ James F. Gooch
 
 
James F. Gooch
 
 
Title: Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer/Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer)







EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit No.
 
Description
99.1
 
Press Release of Lands’ End, Inc. dated June 1, 2016




Exhibit
Exhibit 99.1

LANDS' END ANNOUNCES FIRST QUARTER FISCAL 2016 RESULTS
DODGEVILLE, Wis., June 1, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Lands' End, Inc. (NASDAQ:LE) today announced financial results for the first quarter ended April 29, 2016.

First Quarter Fiscal 2016 Highlights

Net revenue was $273.4 million as compared to $299.4 million in the first quarter last year. Direct segment net revenue decreased 8.4% to $232.2 million. Retail segment net revenue decreased 10.4% to $41.2 million primarily driven by a 7.1% decrease in same store sales and a reduction in the number of Lands' End Shops at Sears.

Gross margin was 47.4% as compared to 49.0% in the first quarter last year due to deeper promotions as compared to last year in response to a difficult retail environment.

Net loss was $5.8 million or $0.18 per share, as compared to net income of $1.7 million, or $0.05 per diluted share in the first quarter last year.

Adjusted EBITDA1 was $0.6 million compared to $13.1 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2015.

Federica Marchionni, Lands' End's Chief Executive Officer, stated, "We continued to make progress across a number of initiatives; we remained focused on strengthening our core business and launching additional collections that we believe will drive future profitable growth. While we are encouraged by the initial wins, our financial results in the first quarter were impacted by the overall weakness in the retail environment, including aggressive discounting and promotional activity.  That said, during the quarter, we further executed our strategy by strengthening our traditional product categories and launching the Canvas by Lands' End collection. We also enhanced our brand image, including elevated marketing initiatives, the newly-launched multi-brand e-commerce website and refinements to our catalog strategy.  We continued to receive positive response from both existing and lapsed customers on our new product offering, marketing programs, and website enhancements, and while we expect the retail environment will be very challenging, we will remain focused on building on this momentum with sequential improvement beginning in the second quarter of fiscal 2016.”

Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Highlights
Cash and cash equivalents were $169.1 million on April 29, 2016, compared to $177.8 million on May 1, 2015. Net cash used in operations was $50.2 million for the 13 weeks ended April 29, 2016, compared to net cash used in operations of $31.5 million for the same period last year.
Inventory increased 8.9% to $309.9 million on April 29, 2016, from $284.6 million on May 1, 2015.
The Company had $161.8 million of availability under its asset-based senior secured credit facility and had long-term debt of $492.9 million as of April 29, 2016.
Conference Call
The company will host a conference call on Wednesday, June 1, 2016 at 8:00 a.m. ET to review its first quarter financial results and related matters. The call may be accessed through the Investor Relations section of the Company's website at http://investors.landsend.com.
About Lands' End, Inc.
Lands' End, Inc. (NASDAQ:LE) is a leading multi-channel retailer of clothing, accessories, footwear and home products. We offer products through catalogs, online at www.landsend.com, www.canvasbylandsend.com and affiliated specialty and international websites, and through retail locations, primarily at Lands' End Shops at Sears® and standalone Lands' End Inlet® Stores. We are a classic American lifestyle brand with a passion for quality, legendary service and real value, and seek to deliver timeless style for men, women, kids and the home.
Forward-Looking Statements



Results are unaudited. This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements about our strategies and our opportunities for growth.  Forward-looking statements are based upon the current beliefs and expectations of our management and are subject to assumptions, uncertainties and significant risks that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include, without limitation, information concerning our future financial performance, business strategy, plans, goals and objectives. There can be no assurance that any of our initiatives will be successful. The following additional factors, among others, could cause our actual results, performance, and achievements to differ from those described in the forward-looking statements: our ability to offer merchandise and services that customers want to purchase, including new collections such as our Canvas by Lands’ End™ collection, that are designed to attract new customers and drive demand from core customers; changes in customer preference from our branded merchandise; customers’ use of our digital platform, including customer acceptance of our efforts to enhance our e-commerce websites; customer response to direct mail catalogs and digital marketing and catalogs; the success of our efforts to optimize catalog productivity; the success of our overall marketing strategies, including brand marketing initiatives, some of which, if successful, may not produce positive results in the short term; the success of our efforts to optimize promotions to drive sales and maximize gross margin dollars; our maintenance of a robust customer list; our dependence on information technology and a failure of information technology systems, including with respect to our e-commerce operations, or an inability to upgrade or adapt our systems; the success of our ERP implementation; the success of our efforts to grow and expand into new markets and channels; fluctuations and increases in costs of raw materials; impairment of our relationships with our vendors; our failure to maintain the security of customer, employee or company information; our failure to compete effectively in the apparel industry; the performance of our “store within a store” business; if Sears Holdings sells or disposes of its retail stores, including pursuant to the recapture rights granted to Seritage Growth Properties, and other parties or if its retail business does not attract customers or does not adequately provide services to the Lands’ End Shops at Sears; legal, regulatory, economic and political risks associated with international trade and those markets in which we conduct business and source our merchandise; our failure to protect or preserve the image of our brands and our intellectual property rights; increases in postage, paper and printing costs; failure by third parties who provide us with services in connection with certain aspects of our business to perform their obligations; our failure to timely and effectively obtain shipments of products from our vendors and deliver merchandise to our customers; reliance on promotions and markdowns to encourage customer purchases; our failure to efficiently manage inventory levels; unseasonal or severe weather conditions; the seasonal nature of our business; the adverse effect on our reputation if our independent vendors do not use ethical business practices or comply with applicable laws and regulations; assessments for additional state taxes; our exposure to periodic litigation and other regulatory proceedings, including with respect to product liability claims; incurrence of charges due to impairment of goodwill, other intangible assets and long-lived assets; our failure to retain our executive management team and to attract qualified new personnel; the impact on our business of adverse worldwide economic and market conditions, including economic factors that negatively impact consumer spending on discretionary items; the inability of our past performance generally, as reflected on our historical financial statements, to be indicative of our future performance; the impact of increased costs due to a decrease in our purchasing power following our separation from Sears Holdings (“Separation”) and other losses of benefits associated with being a subsidiary of Sears Holdings; the failure of Sears Holdings or its subsidiaries to perform under various transaction agreements that have been executed in connection with the Separation or our failure to have necessary systems and services in place when certain of the transaction agreements expire; our agreements related to the Separation and our continuing relationship with Sears Holdings were negotiated while we were a subsidiary of Sears Holdings and we may have received better terms from an unaffiliated third party; potential indemnification liabilities to Sears Holdings pursuant to the separation and distribution agreement; our inability to engage in certain corporate transactions after the Separation; the ability of our principal shareholders to exert substantial influence over us; adverse effects of the Separation on our business; potential liabilities under fraudulent conveyance and transfer laws and legal capital requirements; declines in our stock price due to the eligibility of a number of our shares of common stock for future sale; our inability to pay dividends; stockholders’ percentage ownership in Lands’ End may be diluted in the future; and increases in our expenses and administrative burden in relation to being a public company, in particular to maintain compliance with certain provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002; and other risks, uncertainties and factors discussed in the "Risk Factors" section of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January



29, 2016.  We intend the forward-looking statements to speak only as of the time made and do not undertake to update or revise them as more information becomes available, except as required by law.
Contacts
ICR
Jean Fontana
(646) 277-1214
Jean.Fontana@icrinc.com
Lands' End, Inc.
Jim Gooch
Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer
(608) 935-9341





-Financial Tables Follow-





LANDS’ END, INC.
Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets
(in thousands, except share data)
 
April 29, 2016
 
May 1, 2015
 
January 29, 2016*
 
 
(unaudited)
 
(unaudited)
 
 
ASSETS
 
 
 
 
 
 
Current assets
 
 
 
 
 
 
Cash and cash equivalents
 
$
169,073

 
$
177,814

 
$
228,368

Restricted cash
 
3,300

 
3,300

 
3,300

Accounts receivable, net
 
31,127

 
36,423

 
32,061

Inventories, net
 
309,855

 
284,589

 
329,203

Prepaid expenses and other current assets
 
32,118

 
36,544

 
23,618

Total current assets
 
545,473

 
538,670

 
616,550

Property and equipment, net
 
111,208

 
105,393

 
109,831

Goodwill
 
110,000

 
110,000

 
110,000

Intangible assets, net
 
430,000

 
528,300

 
430,000

Other assets
 
15,386

 
15,439

 
15,145

TOTAL ASSETS
 
$
1,212,067

 
$
1,297,802

 
$
1,281,526

LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
 
 
 
 
 
 
Current liabilities
 
 
 
 
 
 
Accounts payable
 
$
76,038

 
$
93,972

 
$
146,097

Other current liabilities
 
86,807

 
101,491

 
83,992

Total current liabilities
 
162,845

 
195,463

 
230,089

Long-term debt
 
492,890

 
496,685

 
493,838

Long-term deferred tax liabilities
 
158,499

 
181,925

 
157,252

Other liabilities
 
16,216

 
16,768

 
15,838

TOTAL LIABILITIES
 
830,450

 
890,841

 
897,017

Commitments and contingencies
 
 
 
 
 
 
STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
 
 
 
 
 
 
Common stock, par value $0.01- authorized: 480,000,000 shares; issued and outstanding: 31,969,645, 31,956,521, 31,991,668, respectively
 
320

 
320

 
320

Additional paid-in capital
 
344,796

 
342,975

 
344,244

Retained earnings
 
43,570

 
70,601

 
49,329

Accumulated other comprehensive loss
 
(7,069
)
 
(6,935
)
 
(9,384
)
Total stockholders’ equity
 
381,617

 
406,961

 
384,509

TOTAL LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
 
$
1,212,067

 
$
1,297,802

 
$
1,281,526









*Derived from the audited consolidated financial statements included in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 29, 2016.



LANDS’ END, INC.
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations
(Unaudited)
 
 
13 Weeks Ended
(in thousands except per share data)
 
April 29, 2016
 
May 1, 2015
Net revenue
 
$
273,433

 
$
299,387

Cost of sales (excluding depreciation and amortization)
 
143,763

 
152,823

Gross profit
 
129,670

 
146,564

 
 
 
 
 
Selling and administrative
 
129,034

 
133,514

Depreciation and amortization
 
4,136

 
4,553

Other operating (income) expense, net
 
(14
)
 
2

Operating (loss) income
 
(3,486
)
 
8,495

Interest expense
 
6,170

 
6,186

Other income, net
 
(453
)
 
(508
)
(Loss) income before income taxes
 
(9,203
)
 
2,817

Income tax (benefit) expense
 
(3,444
)
 
1,093

NET (LOSS) INCOME
 
$
(5,759
)
 
$
1,724

NET (LOSS) INCOME PER COMMON SHARE
 
 
 
 
Basic:
 
$
(0.18
)
 
$
0.05

Diluted:
 
$
(0.18
)
 
$
0.05

 
 
 
 
 
Basic weighted average common shares outstanding
 
32,002

 
31,957

Diluted weighted average common shares outstanding
 
32,002

 
32,060






 

Use and Definition of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
(1)Adjusted EBITDA - In addition to our Net income, for purposes of evaluating operating performance, we use an Adjusted Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization (“Adjusted EBITDA”), which is adjusted to exclude certain significant items as set forth below.
Our management uses Adjusted EBITDA to evaluate the operating performance of our business, as well as for executive compensation metrics, for comparable periods. Adjusted EBITDA should not be used by investors or other third parties as the sole basis for formulating investment decisions as it excludes a number of important cash and non-cash recurring items.

While Adjusted EBITDA(1) is a non-GAAP measurement, management believes that it is an important indicator of operating performance, and is useful to investors, because:
EBITDA excludes the effects of financings, investing activities and tax structure by eliminating the effects of interest, depreciation and income tax costs.
Other significant items, while periodically affecting our results, may vary significantly from period to period and have a disproportionate effect in a given period, which affects comparability of results. We have adjusted our results for these items to make our statements more comparable and therefore more useful to investors as the items are not representative of our ongoing operations.
For the 13 weeks ended April 29, 2016 and May 1, 2015, we excluded the gain or loss on disposal of property and equipment as management considers the gains or losses on disposal of assets to result from investing decisions rather than ongoing operations.

Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Information to GAAP
(Unaudited)


 
 
13 Weeks Ended
 
 
April 29, 2016
 
May 1, 2015
(in thousands)
 
$’s
 
% of Net revenue
 
$’s
 
% of Net revenue
NET (LOSS) INCOME
 
$
(5,759
)
 
(2.1
)%
 
$
1,724

 
0.6
 %
Income tax (benefit) expense
 
(3,444
)
 
(1.3
)%
 
1,093

 
0.4
 %
Other income, net
 
(453
)
 
(0.2
)%
 
(508
)
 
(0.2
)%
Interest expense
 
6,170

 
2.3
 %
 
6,186

 
2.1
 %
Operating (loss) income
 
(3,486
)
 
(1.3
)%
 
8,495

 
2.8
 %
Depreciation and amortization
 
4,136

 
1.5
 %
 
4,553

 
1.5
 %
(Gain) loss on disposal of property and equipment
 
(14
)
 
 %
 
2

 
 %
Adjusted EBITDA (1)
 
$
636

 
0.2
 %
 
$
13,050

 
4.4
 %





LANDS’ END, INC.
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
(Unaudited)
 
 
13 Weeks Ended
(in thousands)
 
April 29, 2016
 
May 1, 2015
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES
 
 
 
 
Net (loss) income
 
$
(5,759
)
 
$
1,724

Adjustments to reconcile net (loss) income to net cash used in operating activities:
 
 
 
 
Depreciation and amortization
 
4,136

 
4,553

Amortization of debt issuance costs
 
428

 
490

Stock-based compensation
 
713

 
681

(Gain) loss on disposal of property and equipment
 
(14
)
 
2

Deferred income taxes
 

 
684

Change in operating assets and liabilities:
 
 
 
 
Inventories
 
21,441

 
16,766

Accounts payable
 
(65,390
)
 
(36,025
)
Other operating assets
 
(5,637
)
 
(13,076
)
Other operating liabilities
 
(130
)
 
(7,287
)
Net cash used in operating activities
 
(50,212
)
 
(31,488
)
CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES
 
 
 
 
Purchases of property and equipment
 
(10,485
)
 
(10,974
)
Net cash used in investing activities
 
(10,485
)
 
(10,974
)
CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES
 
 
 
 
Payments on term loan facility
 
(1,288
)
 
(1,288
)
Net cash used in financing activities
 
(1,288
)
 
(1,288
)
Effects of exchange rate changes on cash
 
2,690

 
110

NET DECREASE IN CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS
 
(59,295
)
 
(43,640
)
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, BEGINNING OF YEAR
 
228,368

 
221,454

CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, END OF YEAR
 
$
169,073

 
$
177,814

SUPPLEMENTAL CASH FLOW DATA
 
 
 
 
Unpaid liability to acquire property and equipment
 
$
2,822

 
$
1,453

Income taxes paid
 
$
3,057

 
$
12,793

Interest paid
 
$
5,657

 
$
5,634






Financial information by segment is presented in the following tables for the 13 weeks ended April 29, 2016, and May 1, 2015.

 
 
13 Weeks Ended
(in thousands)
 
April 29, 2016
 
May 1, 2015
Net revenue:
 
 
 
 
Direct
 
$
232,185

 
$
253,373

Retail
 
41,216

 
45,992

Corporate / other
 
32

 
22

Total net revenue
 
$
273,433

 
$
299,387


 
 
13 Weeks Ended
(in thousands)
 
April 29, 2016
 
May 1, 2015
Adjusted EBITDA(1):
 
 
 
 
Direct
 
$
12,832

 
$
21,678

Retail
 
(3,930
)
 
144

Corporate / other
 
(8,266
)
 
(8,772
)
Total Adjusted EBITDA(1)
 
$
636

 
$
13,050