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Lifetime Brands
Lifetime Brands
2025 Shareholder Letter Dear Shareholders, Along with most of the world, 2025 was, for Lifetime, a year filled with significant macroeconomic and political uncertainty. This created a business environment with significant challenges and the need to react to rapidly changing conditions. While challenging to proactively manage in this environment, Lifetime demonstrated resilience and solid performance, which gives us both confidence in our business model and in our ability to capitalize on what lies ahead. While our financial results reflected several external disruptions, the actions taken by the executive team throughout the year strengthened our operational foundation, positioning us to enter 2026 with greater flexibility and long-term durability. Central to our progress were actions taken to mitigate the uncertainty created by the U.S. government s widespread implementation of trade tariffs and the corresponding impacts on costs and end-market demand. Lifetime responded with targeted price increases to help offset tariff-related costs, optimized administrative cost efficiencies and eliminated non-essential cost infrastructure without impacting our operational capabilities, and continued execution of our manufacturing diversification strategy to create a more balanced and resilient global production footprint while reducing exposure to evolving trade conditions. Alongside targeted supply-chain investments and AI-driven enhancements, these efforts reinforced our strategy while supporting sustained long-term value creation. As can be seen in our strong Q4 financial performance, the combination of these actions proved successful at the end of 2025. Operational Discipline Despite Soft Demand. As we noted in last year s letter, the primary drivers of Lifetime s business remain consumer demand and overall consumer confidence. In 2025, end-market demand was less than we have experienced in recent years. This occurred in combination with a customer-specific interruption and trade-related shipping constraints, driven in part by the staggered and inconsistent implementation of tariffs by the U.S. government, particularly in the first half of the year. These headwinds were impactful; however, they reinforced the strategic priorities we have been implementing across our supply chain and cost structure to anticipate and react to such challenges. Margin Resilience Through Agile Sourcing. Despite fluctuations in volume, we maintained the integrity of our margin structure through disciplined pricing actions and firm cost management. Building on the progress made in 2024, we demonstrated significant agility throughout our global sourcing network. Our longstanding factory partnerships and flexible sourcing model enabled us to adjust production across regions in response to evolving trade dynamics. This adaptability helped us mitigate cost pressures in a complex environment, and remains a core competitive strength of the business. Continued Momentum Across Key International Markets. Our Asia-Pacific, Australia, and New Zealand strategy is delivering encouraging results. Following the decision to bring operations in-house, we are seeing meaningful market share gains and broader distribution. In 2025, we refined this strategy to focus on profitability, which proved successful. In Australia, our strategy to expand our sales focus beyond our historical presence with Myer to include additional major retailers such as Amazon, David Jones, and Woolworths has begun to deliver results, as we have grown at Myer while adding these additional customers. As a result, this region is growing. More broadly, our national accounts strategy in the U.K. and Europe is beginning to gain traction as relationships deepen and product listings expand. End-market conditions in the U.K. remain challenging. A particular challenge has been with Amazon, where there has been a disconnect between our shipments to Amazon (our sales) and their sell-through to the consumer, which has exceeded the shipments we have made to Amazon. We continue to work on solutions to optimize this important channel. In addition, our core independent dining and cook-shop channel continues to contract, driven primarily by store closures rather than competitive share loss. While we had previously anticipated a clear strategic solution for the U.K. business, legal constraints have made that approach challenging. We are actively assessing our options and will provide updates as our plans are solidified.
Supply Chain and Infrastructure Investments. A major milestone in 2025 was the advancement of our new Hagerstown, Maryland distribution facility, which remains on schedule and below our initial CapEx expectations. As this facility comes online, commencing in the second quarter of 2026 and ramping to full operations through year end, we expect improved logistics efficiency, reduced freight complexity, and a more structurally efficient cost base. The investment reflects the multi-year planning that underpins our broader long-term operational strategy. Advancing Technology and AI-Enabled Productivity. We also made tangible progress integrating AI-enabled tools across our supply chain, marketing, and operational functions. While adoption is in the early stages, we achieved measurable benefits in the fourth quarter of 2025. Our focus is on practical, high-impact applications, including enhanced forecasting accuracy, improved inventory and replenishment decisions, and increased productivity across daily workflows. Specifically, our AI-enabled tools will be leveraged for labor-intensive tasks such as data entry, decision analysis, and the generation of creative assets. We expect these enhancements to scale further in 2026 and play an increasingly meaningful role moving forward. Financial Strength and Strategic Flexibility. 2025 reflected the continuation of a disciplined approach that has guided Lifetime through prior market cycles. We ended the year supported by consistent cashflow generation, a defensive supply chain strategy designed to mitigate tariff-related risk, and a balanced capital allocation framework. We remain committed to maintaining a healthy balance sheet and continue to evaluate selective M&A opportunities that align with our longstanding criteria for strategic fit, margin enhancement, and long-term value creation. The steps taken over the past year position Lifetime to enter 2026 from a place of greater structural strength and with a more efficient, flexible, and technology-enabled operating foundation. We do so despite the specific disruptions that impacted the prior year and with enhanced confidence in our ability to execute. While the broader demand environment remains fluid, we believe our operational discipline, supply chain adaptability, infrastructure investments, and technology initiatives provide a clearer and more sustainable path toward improved profitability over time. I want to thank our employees for their resilience, focus, and commitment throughout a challenging year. Their dedication remains central to Lifetime s progress and performance. I also want to express my appreciation to our shareholders for their continued confidence and support. As we look ahead, Lifetime remains firmly committed to disciplined execution and longterm value creation as we navigate the opportunities before us. Robert B. Kay Chief Executive Officer
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Lifetime Brands

Lifetime Brands

2025 Shareholder Letter
Dear Shareholders,
Along with most of the world, 2025 was, for Lifetime, a year filled with significant macroeconomic and political uncertainty.
This created a business environment with significant challenges and the need to react to rapidly changing conditions. While
challenging to proactively manage in this environment, Lifetime demonstrated resilience and solid performance, which gives
us both confidence in our business model and in our ability to capitalize on what lies ahead.
While our financial results reflected several external disruptions, the actions taken by the executive team throughout the year
strengthened our operational foundation, positioning us to enter 2026 with greater flexibility and long-term durability. Central
to our progress were actions taken to mitigate the uncertainty created by the U.S. government   s widespread implementation
of trade tariffs and the corresponding impacts on costs and end-market demand. Lifetime responded with targeted price
increases to help offset tariff-related costs, optimized administrative cost efficiencies and eliminated non-essential cost
infrastructure without impacting our operational capabilities, and continued execution of our manufacturing diversification
strategy to create a more balanced and resilient global production footprint while reducing exposure to evolving trade
conditions. Alongside targeted supply-chain investments and AI-driven enhancements, these efforts reinforced our
strategy while supporting sustained long-term value creation. As can be seen in our strong Q4 financial performance, the
combination of these actions proved successful at the end of 2025.
Operational Discipline Despite Soft Demand. As we noted in last year   s letter, the primary drivers of Lifetime   s business
remain consumer demand and overall consumer confidence. In 2025, end-market demand was less than we have
experienced in recent years. This occurred in combination with a customer-specific interruption and trade-related shipping
constraints, driven in part by the staggered and inconsistent implementation of tariffs by the U.S. government, particularly
in the first half of the year. These headwinds were impactful; however, they reinforced the strategic priorities we have been
implementing across our supply chain and cost structure to anticipate and react to such challenges.
Margin Resilience Through Agile Sourcing. Despite fluctuations in volume, we maintained the integrity of our margin
structure through disciplined pricing actions and firm cost management. Building on the progress made in 2024, we
demonstrated significant agility throughout our global sourcing network. Our longstanding factory partnerships and flexible
sourcing model enabled us to adjust production across regions in response to evolving trade dynamics. This adaptability
helped us mitigate cost pressures in a complex environment, and remains a core competitive strength of the business.
Continued Momentum Across Key International Markets. Our Asia-Pacific, Australia, and New Zealand strategy is delivering
encouraging results. Following the decision to bring operations in-house, we are seeing meaningful market share gains and
broader distribution. In 2025, we refined this strategy to focus on profitability, which proved successful. In Australia, our
strategy to expand our sales focus beyond our historical presence with Myer to include additional major retailers such as
Amazon, David Jones, and Woolworths has begun to deliver results, as we have grown at Myer while adding these additional
customers. As a result, this region is growing. More broadly, our national accounts strategy in the U.K. and Europe is
beginning to gain traction as relationships deepen and product listings expand.
End-market conditions in the U.K. remain challenging. A particular challenge has been with Amazon, where there has been
a disconnect between our shipments to Amazon (our sales) and their sell-through to the consumer, which has exceeded
the shipments we have made to Amazon. We continue to work on solutions to optimize this important channel. In addition,
our core independent dining and cook-shop channel continues to contract, driven primarily by store closures rather than
competitive share loss. While we had previously anticipated a clear strategic solution for the U.K. business, legal
constraints have made that approach challenging. We are actively assessing our options and will provide updates
as our plans are solidified.

Supply Chain and Infrastructure Investments. A major milestone in 2025 was the advancement of our new Hagerstown,
Maryland distribution facility, which remains on schedule and below our initial CapEx expectations. As this facility comes
online, commencing in the second quarter of 2026 and ramping to full operations through year end, we expect improved
logistics efficiency, reduced freight complexity, and a more structurally efficient cost base. The investment reflects the
multi-year planning that underpins our broader long-term operational strategy.
Advancing Technology and AI-Enabled Productivity. We also made tangible progress integrating AI-enabled tools across
our supply chain, marketing, and operational functions. While adoption is in the early stages, we achieved measurable
benefits in the fourth quarter of 2025. Our focus is on practical, high-impact applications, including enhanced forecasting
accuracy, improved inventory and replenishment decisions, and increased productivity across daily workflows. Specifically,
our AI-enabled tools will be leveraged for labor-intensive tasks such as data entry, decision analysis, and the generation
of creative assets. We expect these enhancements to scale further in 2026 and play an increasingly meaningful role
moving forward.
Financial Strength and Strategic Flexibility. 2025 reflected the continuation of a disciplined approach that has guided
Lifetime through prior market cycles. We ended the year supported by consistent cashflow generation, a defensive supply
chain strategy designed to mitigate tariff-related risk, and a balanced capital allocation framework. We remain committed to
maintaining a healthy balance sheet and continue to evaluate selective M&A opportunities that align with our longstanding
criteria for strategic fit, margin enhancement, and long-term value creation.
The steps taken over the past year position Lifetime to enter 2026 from a place of greater structural strength and with
a more efficient, flexible, and technology-enabled operating foundation. We do so despite the specific disruptions that
impacted the prior year and with enhanced confidence in our ability to execute. While the broader demand environment
remains fluid, we believe our operational discipline, supply chain adaptability, infrastructure investments, and technology
initiatives provide a clearer and more sustainable path toward improved profitability over time.
I want to thank our employees for their resilience, focus, and commitment throughout a challenging year. Their dedication
remains central to Lifetime   s progress and performance. I also want to express my appreciation to our shareholders for their
continued confidence and support. As we look ahead, Lifetime remains firmly committed to disciplined execution and longterm value creation as we navigate the opportunities before us.
Robert B. Kay
Chief Executive Officer


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