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Harmit Singh

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

And so, you know, we are working through โ€“

Bloomberg Talks
Levi Strauss CFO Harmit Singh Talks Tariffs

You know, our efforts, and we've got different levers to kind of position it.

Bloomberg Talks
Levi Strauss CFO Harmit Singh Talks Tariffs

So you take quarter three, the quarter we just reported.

Bloomberg Talks
Levi Strauss CFO Harmit Singh Talks Tariffs

Gross margins are record.

Bloomberg Talks
Levi Strauss CFO Harmit Singh Talks Tariffs

So we're able to offset tariffs because we've got other things working for us.

Bloomberg Talks
Levi Strauss CFO Harmit Singh Talks Tariffs

You know, as we grow our women's business, our direct-to-consumer business, and international, all of which are accretive to gross margins.

Bloomberg Talks
Levi Strauss CFO Harmit Singh Talks Tariffs

and allow us to mitigate and offset some of the tariff exposure.

Bloomberg Talks
Levi Strauss CFO Harmit Singh Talks Tariffs

Quarter four, we did guide gross margins to be slightly down versus a year ago.

Bloomberg Talks
Levi Strauss CFO Harmit Singh Talks Tariffs

And had it not been for tariffs, we would have grown gross margins.

Bloomberg Talks
Levi Strauss CFO Harmit Singh Talks Tariffs

But overall, as we think about the year, we'll report, again, another year of record gross margin.

Bloomberg Talks
Levi Strauss CFO Harmit Singh Talks Tariffs

So we're working on levers for 2026.

Bloomberg Talks
Levi Strauss CFO Harmit Singh Talks Tariffs

The good news is we'll end the year stronger and we believe we're well positioned to have another strong year in 2026.

Bloomberg Talks
Levi Strauss CFO Harmit Singh Talks Tariffs

Yeah, and so the first thing, Bailey, to your question is our products are well segmented depending on the income profile of different consumers.

Bloomberg Talks
Levi Strauss CFO Harmit Singh Talks Tariffs

I talk blue tab, red tab, and signature.

Bloomberg Talks
Levi Strauss CFO Harmit Singh Talks Tariffs

Signature is what's sold into the lower income consumer.

Bloomberg Talks
Levi Strauss CFO Harmit Singh Talks Tariffs

We've been very thoughtful about pricing.

Bloomberg Talks
Levi Strauss CFO Harmit Singh Talks Tariffs

We're leading with product innovation rather than price.

Bloomberg Talks
Levi Strauss CFO Harmit Singh Talks Tariffs

And so we're doing what we can to maintain a price point.

Bloomberg Talks
Levi Strauss CFO Harmit Singh Talks Tariffs

It was evident in quarter three.

Bloomberg Talks
Levi Strauss CFO Harmit Singh Talks Tariffs

Signature, for example, I think is up in the low double digits for the year.