Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. (KDP) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to Keurig Dr. Pepper's earnings call for the second quarter of 2026. This conference call is being recorded, and there will be a question and answer session at the end of the call. I would now like to introduce Chathan Malala, Vice President of Investor Relations at Keurig Dr. Pepper. Please go ahead.

Thank you, and hello, everyone. Earlier this morning, we issued a press release detailing our second quarter 2026 results, which we will discuss on today's call. An accompanying slide presentation is available and can be viewed in real time on the webcast. Before we get started, I'd like to remind you that our remarks will include forward-looking statements, which reflects KDP's judgment, assumptions, and analysis only as of today. Our actual results may differ materially from current expectations based on a number of factors affecting KDP's business. Accept as required by law, we do not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements discussed today. For more information, please refer to our earnings release and the risk factors discussed in our most recent Form 10-K and our latest 10-Q, which will be filed with the SEC in the coming days. Consistent with previous quarters, we will be discussing our Q2 performance on a non-GAAP adjusted basis, which reflects constant currency growth rates and excludes items affecting comparability. Definitions and reconciliations to the most directly comparable GAAP metrics are included in our earnings materials. Here with us today to discuss our results are Keurig Dr. Pepper's Chief Executive Officer, Tim Koefer, and Chief Financial Officer, Anthony DiSilvestro. I'll now turn it over to Tim.

Chafin, and good morning, everyone. In Q2, we delivered another quarter of strong results. We demonstrated healthy momentum across the majority of our business, led by U.S. refreshment beverages, and our performance exceeded our expectations. Halfway through the year, we remain on track to achieve the goals we set at the beginning of 2026, delivering our low double-digit EPS growth guidance, integrating and activating JDE Peets, and hitting key separation milestones. While we expect the external environment to remain dynamic in the back half. Our plans, executional discipline, and year-to-date performance reinforce our confidence in delivering our 2026 guidance while setting up for a successful separation in early 2027. Before turning to our results, let me begin with an update of our transformation work. We successfully closed the acquisition of JDE Peets in early April and on day one stood up an interim operating model that is purpose-built to support both near-term delivery and separation readiness. The model embeds distinct responsibilities and clear accountability across our KDP enterprise, beverage operating unit, and coffee operating unit leadership teams, all of which are functioning well as we advance our integration and separation priorities. Let me share some key highlights from our work. We've quickly begun to capture CoffeeCo cost synergies with initial savings flowing through in the second quarter and have also commenced work to offset anticipated BeverageCo dissenergies. We've now consolidated our U.S. customers to an integrated sales force and single invoice for the joint Keurig and Pete's portfolio with the transition completed on schedule and without disruption. We've largely finalized our post-separation organizational structures, including the cross-critical operational, commercial, and finance functions. We've made significant progress establishing IT and financial reporting readiness for each future company. And we've begun deleveraging our balance sheet following the J.D. Pete's close, reducing pro forma management leverage to 4.4 times at quarter end. This was slightly better than our expectations and we remain on track to end the year with leverage of 4.1 times. In addition, our search for the future CEO of Global Coffee Co. is well underway. The nominating and governance committee of our board of directors is leading the process and has engaged a top-tier executive search firm to help identify and evaluate candidates. The role has already attracted considerable interest and we're confident we will recruit the right CEO to shape and execute Global Coffee Co.'s value creation strategy. Let's now turn to our second quarter results. Total net sales grew 75% inclusive of the JDP's acquisition impact. Net sales for legacy KDP increased at a high single-digit rate with both net price realization and volume mix contributing. We translated our top-line improvement into significant profit growth, with consolidated operating income up over 40 percent and EPS increasing 16 percent to 57 cents. Overall, our second quarter was ahead of our expectations, primarily driven by upside in our J.D.E. Peets and U.S. refreshment beverages segments, including some timing benefits that Anthony will discuss. We also delivered solid results in KDP International, partly offset by subdued trends in U.S. coffee. Now, let me walk through each segment in more detail. I'll start with U.S. refreshment beverages. Segment net sales and operating income each grew at a double-digit rate in the second quarter, reflecting strength across both our core portfolio and newer growth platforms. Our largest business, Carbonated Soft drinks continued to grow nicely. Category trends were healthy, with consumers responding to the compelling value proposition and significant commercial activity from major players. We gained market share in the quarter, led by Dr. Pepper. The brand's zero-sugar platform sustained its momentum, growing retail sales nearly 30 percent and gaining more share than any other trademark in the zero-sugar space, driven by increasing household penetration. This reflected the benefits of marketing support, increased distribution, and greater display activity, and we will continue to deploy these levers to drive further expansion. Dr. Pepper franchise trends were also fueled by our Creamy Coconut limited-time offering, which launched in April. The response to the innovation has been positive, with the distribution build, display support, and most importantly, consumers sell-through, all tracking well ahead of Creamy Coconut's prior market run. Canada Dry also had a robust quarter, with retail sales increasing at a double-digit rate. Our Fruit Splash platform continued to serve as a sustainable growth driver, with this year's highly incremental strawberry launch performing well. The brand was further supported by our impactful marketing investments, including the recent Dry Time Is My Time campaign. and Bloom Pop also contributed to our CSD growth. The brand is scaling rapidly, driven by distribution expansion and compelling innovation, and was the leading market share gainer in prebiotic CSDs in the second quarter. Moving to energy drinks, our portfolio achieved a key milestone, crossing the 9% market share threshold in the quarter. Bloom and Ghost were two of the top-performing trademarks in the category, underscoring their meaningful consumer resonance and reflecting each brand's great-tasting products, authentic positioning, and social media savvy. Growth also came from high-quality frontline execution to expand distribution points and cooler penetration, as well as compelling innovation such as Bloom Crisp Apple and Summer Splash and the Ghost 7-Up limited-time offering. C4 recently introduced updated packaging across its performance and ultimate lineups with clearer caffeine and benefit communication, bolder flavor cues, and a simplified visual system. This refresh is designed to improve shelf presence and make the portfolio easier to shop, and early results are encouraging with a double-digit sales lift and significant velocity increases in geographies where it's present. We expect brand momentum to build as the new packaging rolls out more broadly. Overall, we continue to view our energy portfolio as advantaged with a long runway for each of our brands, and good visibility to our double-digit market share goal. Beyond energy, we also experienced meaningful traction in other high-growth areas of the segment, like sports hydration, coconut water, and seltzer water. All in, our U.S. refreshment beverages business continues to enjoy strong momentum, and we expect the segment will remain a key growth engine for KDP over the balance of 2026 and beyond. Moving to coffee, we delivered solid results at the enterprise level, but experienced differing dynamics between our U.S. coffee and JDP segments. Turning first to U.S. coffee, second quarter performance was relatively consistent with our first quarter as net sales declined in the low single digits and operating income declined 25 percent. Year-over-year profit pressure was primarily driven by the impact of significantly higher input costs. As we signaled last quarter, this was due to our hedging approach and inventory positioning, which caused elevated green coffee costs and tariffs to flow through our second quarter P&L. While we always anticipated subdued segment performance in the quarter, the magnitude was larger than we initially estimated. Top and bottom line results were impacted by single-serve category volume declines and unfavorable portfolio mix, which reflected increased consumer caution and value-seeking behavior. Despite these dynamics, we made progress across the business. Notably, brewer shipments returned to growth, supported by our great coffee without the grind Keurig marketing campaign. And we expect further improvements over the balance of the year. In coffee products, our licensed McCafe K-Cups grew retail sales at a mid-single-digit rate and expanded market share, reflecting high-quality commercial execution and effective marketing. Our cold coffee, La Cologne, ready-to-drink platform also drove outsized momentum, growing retail sales over 50% and gaining more than a point of market share driven by distribution gains, increased display activity, and strong velocity. Importantly, we continue to have line of sight to improving segment trends over the balance of the year. Our cost envelope will become more favorable as lower cost inventory and improving tariff impacts flow through the P&L. Our brewer business has started to inflect and should benefit from our commercial activity, and we're actioning plans to strengthen trends in pods and other coffee products. Ultimately, we believe our U.S. coffee segment is beginning to turn a corner as we enter the back half and we remain confident in its long-term growth potential.

Moving to the J.D.

Pete segment, Quarterly net sales were approximately $2.8 billion, and operating income was $414 million. We delivered profitability ahead of our expectations, driven by a couple of factors. First, our teams executed well, particularly in navigating commodity volatility. We maintained pricing discipline as inflationary pressures began to ease, protecting profitability and preserving reinvestment flexibility. In addition, we generated healthy productivity savings through our Reignite the Amazing program, further enhancing operating income in the quarter. And second, the segment also benefited from favorable timing, which added to the profit upside. By brand, LORE maintained its robust momentum, growing retail sales at a high single-digit rate. Brand performance was broad-based, with particular strength in capsules and beans, and was supported by our successful Destinations Innovation Platform and Awaken the Senses brand marketing campaign. Pete's was another contributor, with retail sales increasing through a combination of pricing and distribution growth. The brand's innovation activity also resonated with consumers, including the launch of Pete's Middle Ground, a half-caffeinated medium roast designed for the afternoon pick-me-up occasion, which achieved healthy on-shelf velocities. Another coffee segment highlight in the second quarter was the successful integration of J.D.E. Peet's and our legacy Keurig business. The newly created coffee operating unit team has collaborated well, establishing integrated business plans, executing unified commercial programs, and beginning to generate initial cost synergies, which are set to build over the balance of the year. In summary, we're pleased with JDP's second quarter results and expect this business will be a significant contributor to our performance in 2026 and over the long term. And finally, our KDP international segment strengthened from the first quarter, as we expected, with net sales growing at a double-digit rate and operating income flat versus the prior year. Segment performance was balanced across our two key markets. In Mexico, pricing was a key driver, but our business also returned to volume growth as the impact of the beverage tax eased. Peña Fial's AIDS and Twist platforms each grew retail sales at robust double-digit rates, driven by distribution expansion and in-store execution. Our teams also capitalized on sports enthusiasm through creative marketing activations featuring Squirt, Peña Fial mineral water, and Clamato as the green, white, and red of the Mexican flag. This activity contributed to healthy second-quarter trends for each of these brands. Canada growth was similarly broad-based. Our cold beverage performance was driven by a combination of pricing and volume mix with robust trends across CSDs, alcohol alternatives, and newer categories like energy and ready-to-drink tea. In coffee, growth was led by price, though both pod and brewer shipments were also positive, underscoring the health of the Keurig ecosystem in Canada. Overall, we have momentum in our KDP international segment and expect the business to deliver solid results over the balance of the year. In closing, our second quarter results capped a successful first half of 2026. We exceeded our EPS expectations for the quarter, reinforcing visibility to our full-year guidance. We closed the J.D. Pete's acquisition and quickly advanced integration activities, including synergy work streams. and we made important progress on key separation milestones. While there is still meaningful work ahead in the back half, we're confident in our ability to deliver on our 2026 commitments while advancing preparations to establish two world-class standalone companies. And with that, I'll turn the call over to Anthony to walk through our financial results and outlook in more detail.

Thanks, Tim, and good morning, everyone. Our second quarter results were driven by strong execution in a dynamic operating environment and the incremental contribution from JDE Peets. Consolidated net sales grew 74.6% in the quarter, reflecting the JDP's acquisition, which closed on April 1. Excluding the JDP's contribution, legacy KDP net sales grew 7.3%. Growth for legacy KDP was balanced, with net price realization contributing 4.2 percentage points and volume mix adding 3.1 points. By segment, legacy KDP's top line, was led by double-digit increases in U.S. refreshment beverages and KDP International, partly offset by a low single-digit decline in U.S. coffee. Consolidated gross margin was 46.5%, 860 basis points below the prior year, primarily due to the mixed impact of adding JDE Peets to the portfolio. Excluding the acquisition impact, gross margin contracted 210 basis points as elevated cost pressures more than offset the benefits of pricing and productivity. While gross margin for legacy KDP declined as a percent of sales, on an absolute basis, gross profit dollars increased 3.2%. SG&A as a percent of sales declined 400 basis points. Excluding the mixed impact from JDE Peets, SG&A leveraged 100 basis points, driven primarily by productivity savings and disciplined cost management. In total, Q2 operating income increased 42.9%, and including the below-the-line impact from acquisition financing, EPS increased 16.3% to $0.57. Turning now to our segment results, U.S. refreshment beverages' net sales increased 10 percent, driven by 6.5 percentage points of volume mixed growth and 3.5 points of net price realization, with broad-based, led by energy, CSDs, water, and sports hydration. Segment operating income grew 11.9 percent as net sales growth and productivity savings more than offset cost inflation. Moving to coffee, our performance in aggregate was solid but varied across the segments with pressure in U.S. coffee counterbalanced by strong results for J.D.E. Peets. The divergence was primarily driven by operating factors, which I'll discuss shortly. However, I'd also like to highlight a reporting dynamic that affected segment comparisons in the quarter. With the closing of the acquisition at the beginning of April, the partner economics for Pete's K-Cups, previously reported in U.S. Coffee, shifted to the JDE Pete's segment. We have since integrated distribution and transitioned to Pete's to a unified Keurig invoice, and as a result, the full sales and profit recognition for Pete's K-Cups will reside in U.S. Coffee going forward. These reporting shifts had an unfavorable impact on U.S. coffee in Q2 and will be a benefit in the back half, with the opposite effect on our JDEP segment. Importantly, these changes are neutral at the KDP enterprise level. With that background, let's now discuss the specific trends in each of our coffee segments. Starting with U.S. coffee, second quarter net sales declined 3.2%, with volume mix driving an 8.2 percentage point decline. Pod shipments declined 11.6% on an as-reported basis and 8.3%, excluding the impact of the PEATS reporting shift. The decrease primarily reflected subdued category trends in the quarter. Brewer shipments increased 2.1%, returning to growth through impactful marketing and commercial activity, as well as the benefit from lapping prior-year retailer de-stocking. Net price realization contributed 5 percentage points to growth, driven by carryover pricing actions from 2025. Turning to profit, segment operating income declined 24.7%, driven by continued cost pressure from green coffee inflation and tariff impacts. The volume mix decrease and increased marketing spending also played a role, partially offset by net price realization and productivity savings. While we continue to expect subdued segment results for the full year, our cost profile should improve in the coming quarters, and we have good line of sight to improving profit trends in the back half. Our JDE PEAT segment generated $2.8 billion in net sales and $414 million in operating income in the second quarter, exceeding our expectations. Segment profitability was primarily driven by favorable pricing net of cost inflation, along with robust productivity savings. The business also benefited from timing factors, including related to the recognition of derivative gains, as well as some marketing phasing. Looking ahead, we expect continued healthy results for JDE Peets over the balance of the year, particularly as synergies build in the second half. That said, we now believe our second quarter operating profit likely represents the high watermark for JDE Peets' quarterly earnings contribution in 2026, based on the timing benefits I just discussed, as well as the impact of the P2K Cup transition to U.S. coffee in the back half. In our KDP international segment, both revenue and profit trends improved sequentially from the first quarter, consistent with our expectations. Net sales grew 12.4 percent, driven by 6.5 percentage points from volume mixed gains and 5.9 points from net price realization. Segment operating income was flat versus the prior year. Benefits from net sales growth and productivity savings were offset by higher costs, including green coffee inflation and the Mexico beverage tax, as well as increased marketing investments. Turning to the balance sheet and cash flow, we generated healthy free cash flow of $714 million in the second quarter, driven by strong EBITDA and good cash conversion, including improved working capital trends, particularly in inventory. We continue to target approximately $2.5 billion dollars in free cash flow for the full year. Our cash generation supported our deleveraging goals with pro forma management leverage of 4.4 times the quarter end, slightly better than our expectations. We continue to expect to end the year with management leverage of approximately 4.1 times. Our capital allocation priorities remain unchanged. In the near term, we are focused on three areas, investing in our business, maintaining our current dividend, and paying down debt, consistent with our commitment to investment-grade credit ratings for KDP, Beverage Co., and Global Coffee Co. Looking ahead, we expect each business to deleverage quickly, which will provide greater capital deployment optionality over the medium to long term. With that, let me close with our full year guidance, which we are reaffirming. For the total company, we expect net sales in a range of $25.9 to $26.4 billion, including an $8.5 to $8.7 billion contribution from JDE Peets. We continue to expect legacy KDP to grow 4% to 6% in constant currency, but now see the high end of the range as most likely. On the bottom line, we are reaffirming our outlook for low double-digit constant currency EPS growth. This consists of an anticipated 6-7 percentage points contribution from the JDEP to acquisition and 4-6% constant currency growth for legacy KDP. Based on current rates, we continue to expect an approximately 1 percentage point FX tailwind to total company net sales and EPS growth for the full year. While our EPS outlook is unchanged, there are two new elements to highlight. First, during the second quarter, we completed the initial JDE-PEATS purchase price allocation. This resulted in higher fixed asset depreciation expense for the acquired entity than we previously anticipated, And our guidance now incorporates an incremental 2% non-cash expense headwind to 2026 EPS versus our prior review. Second, our outlook also now includes an anticipated one-time cash benefit from tariff refunds. On a net basis, we expect these two factors to largely offset, resulting in a neutral impact to our full-year EPS outlook. Moving to below-the-line metrics, we are now assuming the following. Interest expense of approximately $1.12 to $1.14 billion, an effective tax rate of approximately 22 to 23 percent, approximately $1.37 billion diluted weighted average shares outstanding, approximately $190 million in pre-tax coffee JV costs, and convertible preferred P&L costs based on the securities approximately 8 percent proportionate share of earnings. In closing, we delivered a strong second quarter. Exiting the first half, we are well-positioned to meet our full-year commitment while also preparing KDP for its exciting next chapter. With that, I will turn the call back to Tim for closing remarks.

Thanks, Anthony. As said, we're pleased with our strong second quarter results, which are a testament to the capabilities and hard work of our global team. I want to recognize and thank our more than 50,000 colleagues from around the world for their contributions to our inaugural quarter as a newly combined organization. Spending time with our teams in Amsterdam and Boston has reinforced my passion, enthusiasm, and confidence in the future Global Coffee Co. And I'm equally energized by the future beverage co-business, which continues to deliver outsized performance and is well positioned for standalone success. Indeed, our teams are executing with discipline across both coffee and beverages, enabling KDP to deliver on our near-term objectives while making meaningful progress on integration and separation work streams. We have good momentum and well-calibrated plans for the balance of the year and look forward to a strong finish to 2026 while laying the groundwork for our separation in early 2027. And with that, we're now happy to take your question.

We will now begin the question and answer session. To ask a question, you may press star then 1 on your touchtone phone. If you are using a speakerphone, please pick up your handset before pressing the keys. If at any time your question has been addressed and you would like to withdraw your question, please press star the 2. We ask that you please limit yourself to one question. At this time, we will pause momentarily to assemble our roster. The first question today comes from Chris Carey with Wells Fargo. Please go ahead.

Hi. Good morning, everyone. I wanted to ask about the strength that you're seeing in the U.S. refreshment business. Certainly, it continues to come in very strong. Can you help us understand the contributions of your underlying owned business, how partners are contributing to the business, and expectations going into the back half of the year? I'm mindful that the outlook for the higher end of the net sales X currency, excluding JDEP, does imply a deceleration into the back half. U.S. refreshment is obviously a key enabler of your total company growth. So, I would just love to get a bit more sense of, you know, what's driving Q2, how you see the segment performing into the back half of the year, perhaps some, you know, construct for volume mix versus pricing.

Good morning, Chris. Yeah, we feel very good about the performance of U.S. refreshment beverages. Again, here this quarter, you saw the double-digit top and bottom line performance. And that was led by a 6.5% increase in volume mix. You know, when you look at the drivers of the strength of that volume mix performance, you start with CSDs, carbonated soft drinks, reflecting healthy category, you know, MSD-type performance, and then on top of that, market share gains in our portfolio. I talked in the prepared remarks about continued strength of Dr. Pepperm, the creamy coconut LTO, as well as Canada Dry would be the second driver driven by the momentum we have in particular in both Bloom and Ghost, and good early traction from the brand refresh of C4. Then you go to sports hydration. You see continued strong trends with our Electrolite offering. And finally, I'd point to improving. You know, that was the cue about the balance of the year. We expect, quite honestly, these same drivers to support continued segment momentum. However, in the back half, and so we expect the magnitude of the growth, which was double digits so far this year, to moderate a bit relative to H1. It will be another strong into the separation. The second part of your question was around heart. You know, on that, I just say, look, you've heard us say we have a very flexible KDP's refreshment beverage strategy. It gives us the ability to drive growth and profitability across our portfolio. And the benefits of this model were evident in our first half performance. And when you look at the company, partner brands will continue to play that important and complementary role in both.

Next question comes from Peter Galbo with Bank of America. Please go ahead.

Hey, good morning. Thanks for taking the question. Tim, I wanted to go back to your comments around the CEO search for Global Coffee Co. Obviously, a bit of a restart on the process. It seems like you're making good progress there, but maybe you could help us put a few more guardrails around timing of when we might expect an announcement. I don't know if it's by Q3. I think there's just a bit of, you know, concern in the market that any sort of further delay could potentially delay the spin. And so maybe you can just help to quell some of those concerns with a bit more finite timeline. Thanks very much.

Thanks, Peter. Yeah, as said, the search for our future Global Coffee Co-CEO is well underway, and I would tell you it's progressing nicely. You know, what are we looking for? It's, you know, a world-class executive with significant and relevant experience to this platform, leading scaled global businesses, a strong consumer orientation, a track record of navigating complex market conditions, and leading through change that can build culture and really generate a lot of five candidates. And, you know, we're well on our way through the, you know, interview and assessment process. So we remain confident we'll have a CEO in place, business, shape the strategy ahead of our targeted 2027, finding the right CEO that we've got the right CEO to accompany and we're not going to compromise on quality and service.

The next question comes from Lauren Lieberman with Barclays. Please go ahead.

Great. Thanks so much. Given green coffee volatility and the prior pricing actions in 2025, just like where do you believe you are in the pricing recovery cycle? Just wanted to know how we should think about the balance between protecting margins and then restoring volume trends over the next several quarters in coffee. And in the prepared remarks, Tim, I know you specifically mentioned plans to strengthen pods and coffee products in the second half. So in this context, I wanted to hear a little bit more about that.

Green coffee costs, Anthony, and then I can speak a little bit to pricing.

Sure, absolutely. You know, as you know, green coffee costs have been highly volatile in recent years, inflationary in 24 and early 25, turning deflationary as we got into the latter part of 25 and early 26. And as you've seen, you know, inflationary again, and we've talked about this before, there is a lag between, in terms of the most recent upward move, remain volatile. A KDP perspective, move into lower-caused inventory position for us.

Yeah, and then, you know, I'll just pick up broadly on your pricing question. I guess, obviously, first recognize pricing is a topic of high interest across CPG, given the overall inflationary envelope we've all over time at KDP and Befco and CoffeeCo is to grow sales through mix and volume. And I think you look at our Q2 print, and it's a testament to, if you look at a legacy KDP.

It comes from Peter Grom with UBS. Please go ahead.

Great. Good morning, everyone. So I kind of wanted to follow up a little bit on Lauren's question and stick with coffee. but maybe just more from like a U.S. coffee standpoint. And I know coming into the quarter, it was expected to be under some pressure, but I think it still came in a bit below your expectations. So can you maybe unpack the weakness, why you think performance fell short? And as we look out to the balance of the year, I think you mentioned you'd expect subdued top line with some improvement on profitability. Can you maybe just unpack what that looks like relative to what we saw here in the second quarter?

Sure, Peter. So, you know, our new total coffee business, I think solid results, but differing trends across JDP than U.S. coffee, and U.S. coffee definitely under. The Q2 performance for U.S. coffee was similar to Q1. We knew the first half would be challenging given the elevated sea price impacting our P&L, and it was. And in addition, and I think more specifically to your question, that the Q2 trends were further impacted by a coffee category slowdown and a bit of unfavorable mix shift to private label, along with some continued trade inventory headwinds on pot. Importantly, I'd say as we look to the back half, we do remain confident that we'll see better trends for U.S. coffee in the second half and certainly over the long. In the near term, the input cost envelope is set to become more favorable in the back half, reflecting the timing of cost flow-throughs due to our hedging and inventory positioning. And we believe volume mix will start to improve as trade inventory dynamics in pods begin to normalize. And then, in addition to that, we think we'll benefit from some good ROI to support our sustainable long-term growth initiatives. We've got loaded for the back half, our precision marketing campaign, specifically driving sales and incremental household penetration, and we believe we will be growing household penetration in the back half. So I think these initiatives will support both a category growth improvement and KDO to the back half. So in aggregate, I do anticipate significantly improving.

This question comes from Robert Ottenstein with Evercore. Please go ahead.

Great. Thank you very much. I was just wondering if you could remind us about, you know, the Bloom brand. It really looks like a phenomenal brand that has, you know, broad shoulders. So can you remind us, you know, what your ownership stake is, how it hits your income statement? I know you do distribution. Do you do manufacturing? You know, what is the long-term plan for the brand? Is there any possibility of buying it and gaining control? All those sorts of questions, again, really in the context of, you know, what an attractive brand this is. Thank you.

You certainly share your view, Robert, on the attractiveness of the Bloom brand. And, you know, we have a tremendous relationship with Nutribolt and the founders of Bloom. In fact, Just last week, we had a meeting here in Dallas with both NutriBolt founder and Bloom founder, and we've got excited back half in prebiotics flavors capability a lot. Love the brand, robust growth point. You know, Bloom, we have a – it covers both seafood, and we own a – This question comes from Robert Moscow with T.D.

Cowan. Please go ahead.

Hey, thank you for the question. I was intrigued by your comment about the joint business plans that are now have been taking place between Keurig and JDEP. Can you give a little more detail on on what they're able to do on a joint basis? You know, I think the perception out there is that these are still two very separate geographic businesses. And then maybe, you know, drill in a little bit on the synergies. originally, you know, the expectation is that you could get some synergies in coffee procurement. And I wanted to know, you know, in this very volatile environment, is it still possible to get those synergies or are there any complexities that happen when coffee gets more volatile?

I think I'll start, Anthony, on kind of underway in beginning to capture the benefits of bringing these two companies together. I'll let Anthony, as I said, talk more specifically on the cost synergy. On the, you know, if you will, revenue synergy, biggest opportunity is here in the United States, the geography where you've got the biggest overlap between legacy Cura Green Mountain and legacy Pete's brand. And the opportunities we've already got under one and an integrated sales force. And that really will help us reinvesting some of the synergies that Anthony will talk to you about to fund high ROI marketing and promotions. We see coordinated programming opportunities for cross-portfolio marketing, promotions, variety packs. We see new formats when you think about the people and the way that they participate across all formats and segments of coffee. There's opportunities for us to leverage that in our system. There's opportunities in coal together. And then there's even opportunities, think about next-generation brewer. We've talked about Cure now that as part of manufacturing and logistics.

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The last question today comes from Filippo Folorny with Citi. Please go ahead.

You can get a little bit more color on the energy drink category and your expectations there. You had a previous target of getting to double-digit market share, maybe where you stand versus that target. And then bigger picture, how are you thinking the growth in the category is impacting coffee? We've obviously seen a lot of younger consumers shifting their caffeine intake into energy drinks as a replacement for coffee. So maybe if you can talk about the interaction between those categories and your perspective there will be great.

True, Filippo. So, you know, energy, we're big believers in energy. This is a category, a large category, you know, $30 billion in liquid reflux. Multiple stress that suggests that this growth won't end anytime soon. There are continued distribution, expansion opportunities. There's household penetration upside when you look at household penetration on energy relative to other LRB, more developed categories. There are occasions that have yet to be fully fleshed out. There are cohorts. Certainly these days the female consumer not only entered the category, but really a growing affinity and usage there. And there's channel diversity yet to be fully exploited. Obviously, the category was born and raised in C-Store, and it continues to feature prominently there. But there's a lot of upside in other channels and push on the category. Then our position, confident in our position. We like our portfolio. We've really curated this over the last many years. We're gaining market share. We've got real scale now. Right now on a run rate basis, Filippo, we're looking at a $1.5 billion net revenue, net sales business. If you look at what's driving our performance, I think this portfolio with authentic and distinctly positioned brands, when you think about C4, great tasting product, overlay the DSD capability that KDP brings to the part, distribution driving display activity. We focus on the most attractive part of the energy category. sugar is the outside contributor. What we've done, I would remind you that just about, and as I mentioned in the prepared remarks here in Q2, we're a 9% on our way to my goal of adult. I would tell you in...

That concludes our question and answer session. I would like to turn the conference back over to Chathan Malella for any closing remarks.

Hi, thank you for the time and the attention this morning. I know it's a busy earnings day and the IR team is around if you have any follow-ups. Have a great day.

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