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Carol Massar

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Bloomberg Talks
Levi Strauss CFO Harmit Singh Talks Tariffs

So let's see what one of the company's members of the C-suite have to say.

Bloomberg Talks
Levi Strauss CFO Harmit Singh Talks Tariffs

Harmeet Singh is with us, Chief Financial and Growth Officer at Levi Strauss.

Bloomberg Talks
Levi Strauss CFO Harmit Singh Talks Tariffs

He joins us from our San Francisco bureau.

Bloomberg Talks
Levi Strauss CFO Harmit Singh Talks Tariffs

Harmeet, it's so good to have you here with us.

Bloomberg Talks
Levi Strauss CFO Harmit Singh Talks Tariffs

How are you and how is the consumer doing?

Bloomberg Talks
Levi Strauss CFO Harmit Singh Talks Tariffs

Well, I'm just going to lay it out for you.

Bloomberg Talks
Levi Strauss CFO Harmit Singh Talks Tariffs

I think I bought my first pair of Levi's in a long time, just a couple of months ago.

Bloomberg Talks
Levi Strauss CFO Harmit Singh Talks Tariffs

My daughter, who's 22, so much younger than me, has been buying Levi's for a while.

Bloomberg Talks
Levi Strauss CFO Harmit Singh Talks Tariffs

So, Bailey, I mean, they're back.

Bloomberg Talks
Levi Strauss CFO Harmit Singh Talks Tariffs

I go into the store in downtown in the village, and, yeah, it's packed.

Bloomberg Talks
Levi Strauss CFO Harmit Singh Talks Tariffs

So let me just ask you, though, you guys did, you know, you mentioned you raised your full-year outlook.

Bloomberg Talks
Levi Strauss CFO Harmit Singh Talks Tariffs

You did warn that tariffs are starting to bite.

Bloomberg Talks
Levi Strauss CFO Harmit Singh Talks Tariffs

Profitability to measure by gross margins improves.

Bloomberg Talks
Levi Strauss CFO Harmit Singh Talks Tariffs

So these are the good stuff, but again, that tariffs are starting to bite.

Bloomberg Talks
Levi Strauss CFO Harmit Singh Talks Tariffs

Harmeet, can you tell us what that means, the bite of tariffs?

Bloomberg Talks
Levi Strauss CFO Harmit Singh Talks Tariffs

When, how much, you know, any color around that?

Bloomberg Talks
Levi Strauss CFO Harmit Singh Talks Tariffs

I just want to know, do you really have a pair of baggy barrel jeans?

Bloomberg Talks
Levi Strauss CFO Harmit Singh Talks Tariffs

I can't get my head around them.

Bloomberg Talks
Levi Strauss CFO Harmit Singh Talks Tariffs

I'm trying, I'm trying.

Bloomberg Talks
Levi Strauss CFO Harmit Singh Talks Tariffs

I'm just, I haven't done it.