EBF Shareholder/Stockholder Letter Transcript:
ENNIS BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Keith S. Walters
Troy L. Priddy
John R. Blind
Alejandro Quiroz
Chairman of the Board, CEO and President of Ennis, Inc.
Retired and Former Vice President of the Printing and Carbonless
Division of the Specialty Papers Business Unit of Glatfelter
Aaron Carter
President of Troy Priddy Custom Homes
Chairman of the Board, President and CEO of InveStore
Michael J. Schaefer
Assistant Regional Vice President for Ross Stores, Inc.
Retired and Former Executive Vice President, CFO and Treasurer of
Methodist Health Systems
Barbara T. Clemens
Margaret A. Walters
Retired and Former Vice President of Sales and Customer Service
for Boise Paper, a division of Packaging Corporation of America
Retired Educator
Gary S. Mozina
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ENNIS CORPORATE EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
Keith S. Walters
Dan Gus
Chairman of the Board, CEO and President
General Counsel and Secretary
Vera Burnett
Ronald M. Graham
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Vice President Administration
Wade Brewer
Terry Pennington
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CONTENTS
3 Message to Shareholders
8 Financial Highlights
Form 10-K
Corporate Info
LETTER TO
SHAREHOLDERS
Keith S. Walters
Chairman, CEO & President
Ennis is celebrating our 115th year in business. We believe this long
tenure is a testament to the strength and reputation of our company.
We continue to focus on fundamentals such as conservative
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be many opportunities as smaller printers look to exit the business.
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rate. It is not unusual for a past seller to offer a recommendation
to a future seller in Ennis behalf. I ll expand on these acquisitions
later in my letter.
Ennis is celebrating our 115th year in
business. We believe this long tenure
is a testament to the strength and
reputation of our company.
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customers overstocking during the paper supply shortages. We
started seeing a softening of orders in some of our product lines
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our backlogs during the year required a refocused level of attention
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operational accomplishments to offset the impacts caused by the
market imbalances.
Market Conditions
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many distributors in 2022 placing orders for
1.5 to 2 times their normal order patterns due
to concerns of running out of product. We
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apprehensions became reality as distributors
ordering behavior started to change in the
fourth quarter as the lead times and prices
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unique to Ennis and those orders remained.
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as the market normalizes as it has in the past
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has remained elevated from the high level
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be a risk factor in driving some customers
to alternatives such as electronic solutions
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is the Internal Revenue Service no longer
offers printed tax forms to individuals and
small businesses since the beginning of
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past year s sales due to our supply contract
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this decline.
Ennis was able to generate
gains of more than $11 million in
sales growth with our expanded
market share.
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acquisition program. Such a contract signed
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printed data roll products. Another contract
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communication documents both domestic
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expertise are the primary reasons these
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Ennis offers our distributors a
technology advantage that
makes transactions seamless
and increases efficiencies.
Leveraging our technology systems gives
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smaller competitors. End-use companies
often require their suppliers to support an
electronic transfer of orders and the return
of pertinent order data. Ennis offers our
distributors a technology advantage that
makes transactions seamless and increases
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capture additional business through our
more advanced distributor customers.
Operational
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backlog decline from the highs of 2022 and
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the past year but have softened since then.
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trends as demand softens.
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levels back to our historic level of nine turns.
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panic of buying paper in excess of needs
from fear of running out of paper! We have
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inventory through our real-time information
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control and our goal is to avoid a reoccurrence
in the future.
Acquisitions
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products and commercial printing.
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Print has been a leading trade-only printer
and provider of commercial printing services
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many of the basic systems and procedures
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We actually passed on this a couple of times
in the past but the price became attractive
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more troublesome than expected but it is
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