Carlisle Companies, Inc. (CSL)’s 2014 Earnings Update Conference Call Transcript

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David: Actually, there might be a small amount in the first quarter, but $8 million that we identified I just don’t think that’s going to repeat. I think that we are pretty by that PBC plan, which took us a little longer to get up in line and we anticipated is actually running fairy smoothly now.

The new TPO plant in Carolina is now up and running. We are pretty good in making PPO so the ongoing clause shouldn’t be an issue for us. We just step multitude of startup that really had an impact.

Neil: Great. Thanks very much guys.

David: You are welcome.

Jennifer: And your next question is from Glen Wallmann.

Glen: Good morning Dave.

David: Hi Glen.

Glen: Just a clarification, does the [inaudible 00:21:10] growth you are expecting for CCM in 15 include the negative offset from Europe?

David: Yes. That would be a net number.

Glen: Okay. And then, you guys generally tied a long term [inaudible 00:21:22] more than 50% for CCM. Given the initial tallying from the low commodities and assuming you may have to give back some of that on price, would you still expect to proceed that long term target or do you not want to go there yet?

David: Yeah, I think it’s still too early. But if you look back, I think it was 2011 or ’12, actually at ‘12 when we had the uprising situation like we have today, you have raw material clause that we were chasing in11. We ended up holding on some of that in 2012, and we had margins, I think we finished the year at 16.7% or somewhere in that range. So there is 15% margins in this business. We would expect to, hopefully, see something like that this year.

Glen: Okay. Thanks for taking my questions.

David: You are welcome.

Jennifer: There are no question at this time. I want to now turn it back over for closing remarks.

David: Thank you Jennifer. Before I close the call I’m going to stress that CCM, CIT and CFS or food service, are expected to that they have record years in 2015. As I said earlier, CCM is going to grow high single digit with declining raw material cost and a plant start up cost that are behind us. We should see excellent leverage on our sales growth in 2015.

At CIT, we’ve had the [inaudible 00:22:53] inventory right up issue with the purchase of LHI, which is now behind us. We are seeing good results from the [inaudible 00:23:00] events that we were holding at LHI plants. And with that really is reflective of staffing and [inaudible 00;23:09] amatory reductions, and their meetings are actually exceeding our expectations for when the plan that we put together when we bought the business. AOSV is behind us now. We have that tied up. We continue to see our customers seek ways to wrap up production. So we remain very positive on CIT in 2015.

Food service has turn the corner on revenue growth. We expect to see revenue growth this year where we are relatively flat at, and to continue making progress and improving profitability. We expect to see both, sales and earnings, improve in 2015 at food service. CBF is our only wildcard. We’ve adjusted our staffing level to reflect their current customer order rates. We don’t expect to find a recover in 2015, but we should see flat sales within uptake in earnings. The good thing is CBF represents approximately 10% of our total revenue.

We continue to make progress with FTC in gaining approval for the acquisition of [inaudible 00:24:22] finishing brand business. We hope to have the business in the full by the end of the first quarter, with any luck perhaps a little sooner than that. That business continues to form at a very high level under the current management team. So we are excited to get it finalized and get it into Carlisle. I’ll provide Carlisle and issue the businesses as we do our earnings call line at February 5th. So until then, Jennifer we are finished. You can end the call now.

Jennifer: Thank you ladies and gentlemen. That concludes today’s conference call. You may now disconnect.

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