Berry Global Group, Inc. (NYSE:BERY) Q4 2022 Earnings Call Transcript

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Kyle White: Thank you. I’ll turn it over.

Mark Miles: I’ll add Kyle. My comment is on having capacity, I would exclude that product line from my comments. We’re essentially sold out in our foodservice product line and we’ve got more demand than supply at the moment. We’re adding supply. That’s a chunk of our CapEx that we committed to here in the last 18 months and we’re continuing to add supply to meet the customer demand in that area.

Q €“ Kyle White: Sounds great. Appreciate that Mark.

Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Adam Samuelson with Goldman Sachs. Your line is now open.

Adam Samuelson: Yes. Thank you. Good morning, everyone. Maybe Mark just following up on the comments, you made on capacity and understanding kind of the point on the drink cups in North America and CPNA, can you just frame what volumes could grow over a one two-year — two- or three-year period inside the organization with the capacity you have without really needing more investment? Just trying to think in the context of fiscal 2022 where volumes were down slightly versus your initial expectations of up. Does it look like there’s much, volume growth really embedded in the fiscal 2023 plan and you’ve kind of again taking the CapEx, a little bit lower than we might have thought previously, which all would suggest there’s some scope to grow into the current network without putting a lot more capital to work.

Mark Miles: Sure. Yes. Obviously, mix is important. We have asset flexibility on many of our assets. Some have less flexibility. So foodservice we mentioned on that particular asset platform, we’re sold out. We have other asset platforms that have capacity and we’re out actively selling in those markets. To the extent, we don’t see demand improvement, we’re certainly prepared to take actions on the cost side and we’re doing that and we’ll take more if necessary. But I’d say, we have adequate capacity to meet our low single-digit growth objective certainly here in the midterm. But again, a lot of it will be determined by the mix of where the demand comes from. So hard to give a, an absolute number on that. It depends on where the volume growth comes from.

Adam Samuelson: Okay. And then if I just think about the fiscal 2023 outlook and again, it seems like at a total company level there’s very kind of modest, if any kind of volume growth embedded in the plan. Can you maybe just maybe provide any color on expectations, by the different segments for volume or regions where it makes sense? Just help us think about, how you’re framing kind of the different parts of the portfolio from a growth perspective.

Thomas Salmon: Not a significant change to what we’ve communicated before. The 70% of our portfolio, tied to areas like food, beverage, spirits, personal care are continuing to remain very resilient. We’ve spoken in the past relative to our industrial-based businesses that have been more negatively impacted by the economic downturn softness that you’ve seen in parts of the world. And we don’t see a significant change in that regard, at this point.

Adam Samuelson: Okay. All right. That’s helpful. I’ll pass it on, thanks.

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