RH (NYSE:RH) Q4 2022 Earnings Call Transcript

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Jack Preston: The economic model of the U.S. sort of our North American four-wall gallery base hasn’t changed other than in the same way that would have been impacted as our business has evolved, whether margins come down as we talked about. But it’s not €“ I think you don’t think about it the same way, I guess, on that basis. On the international side, we will have more to say when we open. I don’t think there is €“ that’s a question of also the size ultimately of the business. And as Gary has talked about we don’t have €“ it’s quite a wide range of what could happen here as we launched.

Max Rakhlenko: Got it. Okay. And then on just the new openings, any color on the cadence, both U.S. as well as Europe, throughout the year? And then just any color on the new real estate prototype that you’re looking to roll out? How should we just think about that annually versus the regular types of galleries that you open and then just anything on margins and profitability there?

Jack Preston: I mean, again, Gary referred to the cadence in the letter. So talking about England opening in the summer, the other galleries are sort of H2 timing. We will update you as that unfolds. And then also the design studio, same thing, I think it’s €“ when we have more to share, we will share it at the moment, that is what we have.

Max Rakhlenko: Got it. Okay, thanks a lot, guys. Best regards.

Gary Friedman: Thank you.

Operator: Steven Zaccone with Citi, your line is open.

Steven Zaccone: Thanks. Good afternoon, everyone. Thanks for taking my question. I wanted to follow-up on international because it did look like you listed some new cities, and that included Sydney. So curious how you think about that timetable? And on the international stores in particular, how do you plan to merchandise these stores versus the gallery in the U.S.? Like will you have RH Contemporary in the UK opening?

Gary Friedman: Yes. No, there is €“ we’re building a global brand. And unless we’re in markets that have, for some reason, something that should be vastly different, which there are probably markets we’re not going to approach initially. Yes, you can expect that RH experience, it’s very similar. So, your question about Sydney since I outlined the timeline for Sydney with famous Paris, Milan and so on and so forth, so €“ and so the timetables are all outlined. These are big development projects. Sydney is a brand-new building, they’ll be digging into the ground soon. So we have to get certain approvals and things like that, design approvals for the building we’re hopeful there could be delays. They could decide they don’t like our building and want to make changes.

So we’re working with local developer that owns the land and is developing kind of a custom build for RH. So if we span a reasonable timetable, if there is no real issues there that should fall in mind. Everything else is kind of somewhat under construction or demolition or summer more complex, less complex. Some of the bigger, more complex ones are Milan and London and Paris. Those are all under construction moving along nicely. If you’re in Paris in the next few weeks and if you are anywhere near this Avenue Montaigne look up, we will see €“ I think it’s almost 100-foot high, something like that, 100-foot-high, 70-foot illustration is the wrapping RH Paris as a symbol is our design ethos and beliefs. And soon, you’ll see something like that in London.

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