John Carroll
Analyst · David Palmer from RBC Capital Markets
Listen, we're -- we tried New Covent Garden Soup in a carton, and the consumer here didn't know what the carton was and didn't recognize it as soup. In the U.K., it's been there for 20-plus years. We will be in the fresh soup business here in the U.S. with a similar product, but not so much in a carton and whether it will be under Imagine name, Health Valley name, et cetera, to know our brand. So there's a lot of technology that we're learning from the U.K. to introduce a 20- to 25-day shelf life on soup. Listen, Ella's, the team -- we closed on Ella's in May, the team had distribution by September in 4,400 stores in a mass market and have done a great job on expanding Ella's both in products and distribution. At the same time, you're going to see similar things on Tilda. And I said that before, Tilda has 8 million pounds of distribution in North America and not only Basmati rice, but the ready-to-eat technology. They also have different rice desserts. They also have some rice for kids that are in pouches. So we're looking at that, David. In regards to our juice business and fresh juices and drinks in that in the U.K., it's mostly private label for us. So there's a lot we're learning and looking at that same with -- we own Gale's honey. We've also introduced in the U.S. some of the U.K. products that we acquired from Premier under the Hartley's brand, the Gale brand, Frank Cooper brand. So we're ultimately looking to do that, and we'll continue vice versa. You heard what I said before, gluten-free, which we have close to 500 products today, we're looking at bringing some of those to the U.K. We're going to use the U.K. infrastructure to help us with our non-dairy business. We're looking to introduce Snacks in the U.K. The U.K. has the highest consumption of chips anywhere in the world. So we're going to look at how we can both help each other in many, many ways. The other thing what I said before, David, we're looking at the Tilda infrastructure that has multiple distributors across the Middle East, and I'm going to be over there in the next little while. And we're going to look at -- and they're all excited about Hain products whether it's Ella's, Earth's Best baby food, whether it's our tea, whether it's our snacks and how we put it together in one container and the same on India. That was some of the exciting things there. So lots of opportunities across border to sell products. Both products that are in the U.S. across the board and products that are in the U.K. or Middle East to sell here.