Megan Christine Alexander
Analyst · Morgan Stanley
Hi, good morning. Thanks so much. Wanted to ask a little bit about the consumption. Darcy, last quarter, you talked about an expectation that December consumption for Premier would accelerate to low double digits, and that would continue into January. I think you noted in the prepared remarks that some of the timing of the mass retailer partnerships was was the primary driver of Premier being slightly below. But it seems like into January, the the consumption's still running a bit below what you would had expected. So you just help us understand a little bit more of know, is that primary just what's going on primarily what's going on in the club channel You know, maybe some of the weaknesses persisted a bit longer than you expected on the on the the promotional intensity into January. And just help us understand kind of what's what's embedded into the the balance of the year for that channel in particular and maybe you can touch on just the expanded, sets as well and and how that's factored in. Thank you. Perfect. Okay, so yes, two main reasons that we so Premier shake consumption was down 2% in Q1, and we we modeled, and I predicted it would be flat. So two main reasons. One was what you talked about, which slightly we were slightly below the guide because of the time the timing delay. In setting up that mass promo. And then there's a second piece. Which is we start and I talked about it in my remarks. But we saw a small impact from increased frequency of events from insurgent brands, and that was mainly in club, but also some in mass as well. So part of bringing down our know, narrowing our guide a couple points, basically taking the top end off the guidance was we are flowing we're assuming that level of kind of frequency of events, promotion, throughout the rest of the year. So that is and that is, you know, affecting kind of some of the January consumption that you're seeing too. What I will say is and I think you guys are seeing it as well. The consumption is improving. So I think that although we kinda had a little bit of a late start than we expected, lots of learnings there, but we're starting to see a nice increase 6% all channels in January. 16% outside of club. So we are seeing some strong momentum. We expect that to continue. Through and continue into you know, throughout Q2 and further into q into '8 into the second half. As we start seeing our growth drivers become more meaningful. And I think Megan, there was another question in there. Just the expanded shelf set. Any update you kind of have on that at at your largest club customer? Yes. So, you know, as as we said last last call, we expect that it would stay we still expect it to stay.