Brunswick Corporation (NYSE:BC) Q4 2022 Earnings Call Transcript

Ryan Gwillim: Yes. I know it seems looking backwards, it seems not to be the case, but Navico is only been in the portfolio now for 15-months. And the deal model assumed cost and revenue synergies growing for the first three-years, four-years, to a run rate kind of by starting year five. So we are really only in kind of the early innings and there is work to do. Like Dave said, really nice proof point there in the fourth quarter. And that is also at a time. Navico itself is about 10% RV. And we did we are – obviously being a supplier to the RV industry, didn’t get a whole lot of sales there as they shutdown production here in the first quarter. So there is always tense, but we believe that integration is right on track, and you will see a strong 23% from that business.

Anna Glaessgen: Great, thanks for taking that questions.

Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Eric Wold with B. Riley Securities. Please proceed with your question.

Eric Wold: Thanks. Just maybe kind of a multipart question on the Mercury expansion. Can you just update us on kind of or the visibility in terms of orders for the year and then how do we think about – a lot of these will be new customers, new OEM customers that are coming over from other competing brands or didn’t have access to before, which I assume they are coming in at higher price points, higher margins than someone who has been an established customer for some time. How does that play into it and then my assumption would be that in the following years to become more an established customer that pricing margin would be kind of more normalized. If that is the case, how do you kind of work to offset that?

David Foulkes: Yes. Thanks, Eric, very much for the question. So I think our – and Fund du Luc unit volumes were up 13% or 14% this Q4 over last Q4. And obviously, in the course of Q4, we were ramping up, so that doesn’t reflect the kind of terminal rate of kind of production increase, I guess. So we are going to be exercising the facility above that rate in Q1. Some of the – as we have mentioned earlier, the in order for us to do the OEM conversions, we needed to be clear to them on what we could supply and when we could supply it. And we also needed to make sure that we could satisfy our existing OEMs. And to be honest, some of the existing OEMs would have liked more product from us this year than we were able to provide. So we have to get for existing OEMs, the products that they need, which will require additional volume from us and then we will bring on board the new OEMs. And I would say the model year changeover point, which is typically in June will be the point of – a particular point of high conversion where you will see those conversions really materialize as OEMs do the model year changeover.

We certainly do have a lot of opportunity, obviously, right now, there are no V10s, for example, in going to dealers or going into the aftermarket or repower and very few have made it to international markets so far. So you will begin to see those work their way out through the various channels in the course of the year. So we anticipate that we will use a substantial portion of that additional capacity and continue to be ramping up through the first half of the year as we get to the changeover.

Ryan Gwillim: Yes. At full go, Eric, the capacity project is adding 50% capacity and 150-horsepower and above. Does it mean we are going to use – be able to use all of that right away, but that is the number we have quoted and that is where it stands.