After a disappointing quarterly report, new VF Corp CEO Bracken Darrell told CNBC's Jim Cramer how he will get the company back on track.
After a disappointing quarterly report, new VF Corp CEO Bracken Darrell told CNBC's Jim Cramer how he plans to help the company revamp its business.its full-year revenue and profit forecasts, new CEO Bracken Darrell laid out his plans to improve business in an interview with CNBC's
The company, which owns brands including Vans, North Face and Timberland, saw its sales decline 11% in the U.S during its second quarter, with Vans sales alone down 21%. By Monday's close, VF Corp shares were trading down 4.56%., and he said he's no stranger to helping companies reinvigorate business, citing his 10-year run as the CEO of"I see four things that we need to do," Darrell said. "And then we'll have a bigger strategy that will follow.
Darrell first emphasized the company's aim to make its U.S. business as popular as it is abroad. VF Corp's foreign sales grew 10% over the last quarter. He also said the company will lower its cost base, reinvesting into innovation and brand building, and then lower its debt by de-levering. He emphasized VF Corp's intention to "deliver the Vans turnaround." He said the sneaker brand first catered to skaters and a more alternative crowd, but lost sight of that demographic as it gained widespread popularity.
"Inside all of us there's a little bit of an underdog, a little bit of an outsider. Not everybody, but almost everybody. And Vans really catered to that through the skater community," he said. "I think we got so big that we, we ended up kind of catering to other people that were just purely into fashion — which was not bad — but we kind of lost our way on really making sure, always appealing to that slightly mischievous, fun side that we all have inside.
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