Delivered strong year, as One Interface strategy accelerates results

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 25, 2025-- Interface, Inc. (Nasdaq: TILE), a worldwide commercial flooring company and global leader in sustainability, today announced results for the fourth quarter and full fiscal year ended December 29, 2024.

Fourth quarter highlights:

• Net sales totaled $335 million, up 3.0% year-over-year, in the range of our expectations.
• GAAP earnings per diluted share of $0.37; Adjusted earnings per diluted share of $0.34.
• Generated $38million of cash from operations, repaid $34 million of debt in the quarter.

Fiscal Year:

• Net sales totaled $1,316 million, up 4.3% year-over-year.
• GAAP earnings per diluted share of $1.48; Adjusted earnings per diluted share of $1.46.
• Generated $148million of cash from operations, repaid $115 million of debt in the year.

“We delivered impressive results in 2024, reflecting the early achievements of our One Interface strategy. We saw growth across all product categories, largely driven by continued momentum in the Americas, where our combined selling strategy has exceeded our expectations. Our team has made tremendous progress in advancing strategic initiatives that reduce complexity, improve pricing and mix management, and realize synergies from our global functions. As a result, we significantly expanded gross profit margin and nearly doubled GAAP earnings per diluted share,” commented Laurel Hurd, CEO of Interface.

“We delivered over 4% global net sales growth in 2024 in a challenging macro environment. Global Education billings were up double digits year-over-year, we gained share in Corporate Office, and we positioned our Healthcare segment for future success. Retail billings, although small in total, also contributed to our growth,” continued Hurd.

“I am proud of the tangible progress our team accomplished in the initial stages of our strategy implementation. We continue to differentiate ourselves in the market with premium, high-quality products while remaining true to our core values rooted in sustainable innovation. Our results reinforce that we are on the right path, and we remain focused on continuing to drive growth and shareholder value in the years ahead.”

“In fiscal year 2024, strong cash generation and disciplined capital management enabled us to repay $115 million of debt, reducing net leverage to 1.1 times fiscal year 2024 Adjusted EBITDA. We made tremendous progress expanding gross profit margins which grew 174 basis points year-over-year driven by higher volumes and favorable mix, as well as lower input costs,” added Bruce Hausmann, CFO of Interface.

Outlook

Interface enters 2025 with a strong backlog, and expects customary seasonality in the year which typically means a lighter Q1 sequentially, followed by a stronger Q2 and Q3 sequentially. Separately, given current strength of the U.S. dollar compared to other foreign currencies, the Company is forecasting translation FX to negatively impact its year-over-year net sales growth rate by approximately 2% in Q1 2025 and approximately 1% to 2% for the full fiscal year 2025, which is included in the Company's Q1 and full fiscal year 2025 guidance. With that backdrop in mind, the Company anticipates the following:

Webcast and Conference Call Information

Interface will host a conference call on February 25, 2025, at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time, to discuss its fourth quarter and full fiscal year 2024 results. The conference call will be simultaneously broadcast live over the Internet.

Listeners may access the conference call live over the Internet at:
https://events.q4inc.com/attendee/583846146, or through the Company's website at: https://investors.interface.com.

The archived version of the webcast will be available at these sites for one year beginning approximately one hour after the call ends.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

Interface provides adjusted earnings per share, adjusted net income, adjusted operating income ("AOI"), adjusted gross profit, adjusted gross profit margin, adjusted SG&A expenses, currency- neutral sales and currency-neutral sales growth, net debt, and adjusted EBITDA as additional information regarding its operating results in this press release. These non-GAAP measures are not in accordance with – or alternatives to – GAAP measures, and may be different from non-GAAP measures used by other companies. Adjusted EPS, adjusted net income, and AOI exclude nora purchase accounting amortization, the cyber event impact, and restructuring, asset impairment, severance, and other, net. Adjusted EPS and adjusted net income also exclude the property casualty loss impact, the loss on foreign subsidiary liquidation, the loss on discontinuance of interest rate swaps, and the UK pension surplus tax rate change. Adjusted gross profit and adjusted gross profit margin exclude the nora purchase accounting amortization, and the cyber event impact. Adjusted SG&A expenses exclude the cyber event impact and restructuring, asset impairment, severance, and other, net. Currency-neutral sales and currency-neutral sales growth exclude the impact of foreign currency fluctuations.

Net debt is total debt less cash on hand. Adjusted EBITDA is GAAP net income excluding interest expense, income tax expense, depreciation and amortization, share-based compensation expense, cyber event impact, property casualty loss impact, restructuring, asset impairment, severance, and other, net, nora purchase accounting amortization, and the loss on foreign subsidiary liquidation. This news release should be read in conjunction with the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K furnished today to the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, which explains why Interface believes presentation of these non-GAAP measures provides useful information to investors, as well as any additional material purposes for which Interface uses these non-GAAP measures.

About Interface

Interface, Inc. (NASDAQ: TILE) is a global flooring solutions company and sustainability leader, offering an integrated portfolio of carpet tile and resilient flooring products that includes Interface® carpet tile and LVT, nora® rubber flooring, and FLOR® premium area rugs for commercial and residential spaces. Made with purpose and without compromise, Interface flooring brings more sophisticated design, more performance, more innovation, and more climate progress to interior spaces.

A decades-long pioneer in sustainability, Interface remains “all in” on becoming a restorative business. Today, the company is focusing on carbon reductions, not offsets, as it works toward achieving its verified science-based targets by 2030 and its goal to become a carbon negative enterprise by 2040.

Learn more about Interface at interface.com and blog.interface.com, nora by Interface at nora.com, FLOR at FLOR.com, and our sustainability journey at interface.com/sustainability.

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Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995:

Except for historical information contained herein, the other matters set forth in this news release are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements may be identified by words such as “may,” “expect,” “forecast,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “plan,” “believe,” “could,” “should,” “goal,” “aim," “objective,” “seek,” “project,” “estimate,” “target,” “will” and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements in this press release include, without limitation, any projections we make regarding the Company’s 2025 first quarter and full year 2025 under “Outlook” above. The forward-looking statements set forth above involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from any such statement, including but not limited to the risks under the following subheadings in “Risk Factors” in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023: "We compete with a large number of manufacturers in the highly competitive floorcovering products market, and some of these competitors have greater financial resources than we do. We may face challenges competing on price, making investments in our business, or competing on product design or sustainability", "Our earnings could be adversely affected by non-cash adjustments to goodwill, when a test of goodwill assets indicates a material impairment of those assets", "Our success depends significantly upon the efforts, abilities and continued service of our senior management executives, our principal design consultant and other key personnel (including experienced sales and manufacturing personnel), and our loss of any of them could affect us adversely", "Large increases in the cost of our raw materials, shipping costs, duties or tariffs could adversely affect us if we are unable to pass these cost increases through to our customers", "Unanticipated termination or interruption of any of our arrangements with our primary third-party suppliers of synthetic fiber or our primary third-party supplier for luxury vinyl tile (“LVT”) or other key raw materials could have a material adverse effect on us", "The market price of our common stock has been volatile and the value of your investment may decline", "Changes to our facilities, manufacturing processes, product construction, and product composition could disrupt our operations, increase our manufacturing costs, increase customer complaints, increase warranty claims, negatively affect our reputation, and have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations", "Our business operations could suffer significant losses from natural disasters, acts of war, terrorism, catastrophes, fire, adverse weather conditions, pandemics, endemics, unstable geopolitical situations or other unexpected events", "Disruptions to or failures of information technology systems we use could adversely affect our business", "The impact of potential changes to environmental laws and regulations and industry standards regarding climate change and other sustainability matters could lead to unforeseen disruptions to our business operations", "Sales of our principal products have been and may continue to be affected by adverse economic cycles, and effects in the new construction market and renovation market", "Health crisis events, such as epidemics or pandemics, have adversely impacted, and may continue to impact, the economy and disrupt our operations and supply chains, which may have an adverse effect on our results of operations", "Our substantial international operations are subject to various political, economic and other uncertainties that could adversely affect our business results, including foreign currency fluctuations, restrictive taxation, custom duties, border closings or other adverse government regulations", "The conflict between Russia and Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial position", "Fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates have had, and could continue to have, an adverse impact on our financial condition and results of operations", "The uncertainty surrounding the ongoing implementation and effect of the U.K.’s exit from the European Union, and related negative developments in the European Union, could adversely affect our business, results of operations or financial condition", "We have a substantial amount of debt, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations and our ability to meet our payment obligations under our debt", "Servicing our debt requires a significant amount of cash, and we may not have sufficient cash flow from our operations to pay our indebtedness", "We may incur substantial additional indebtedness, which could further exacerbate the risks associated with our substantial indebtedness", and "We face risks associated with litigation and claims".

You should consider any additional or updated information we include under the heading “Risk Factors” in our subsequent quarterly and annual reports.

Any forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and, as such, speak only as of the date made. The Company assumes no responsibility to update or revise forward-looking statements made in this press release and cautions readers not to place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statements.

Net Sales by Region (Unaudited)

Gross Billings by Customer Vertical (Unaudited)

Reconciliation of GAAP Financial Measures to Non-GAAP Financial Measures (Unaudited)
(In millions, except per share amounts)

Reconciliation of Segment GAAP Financial Measures to Non-GAAP Financial Measures ("Currency-Neutral Net Sales", "Adjusted Gross Profit" and "AOI")
(In millions)

The impacts of changes in foreign currency presented in the tables are calculated based on applying the prior year period's average foreign currency exchange rates to the current year period.

The Company believes that the above non-GAAP performance measures, which management uses in managing and evaluating the Company’s business, may provide users of the Company’s financial information with additional meaningful basis for comparing the Company’s current results and results in a prior period, as these measures reflect factors that are unique to one period relative to the comparable period. However, these non-GAAP performance measures should be viewed in addition to, and not as an alternative for, the Company’s reported results under accounting principles generally accepted in the United States. Tax effects identified above (when applicable) are calculated using the statutory tax rate for the jurisdictions in which the charge or income occurred.

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Media Contact:
Christine Needles
Global Corporate Communications
Christine.Needles@interface.com
+1 404-491-4660

Investor Contact:
Bruce Hausmann
Chief Financial Officer
Bruce.Hausmann@interface.com
+1 770-437-6802

Source: Interface, Inc.