Newell Brands Inc. (NWL) Presents at Barclays 19th Annual Global Consumer Staples Conference Transcript

We're excited to be here. So 2023, we launched a turnaround strategy. And a big part of that turnaround strategy was capability improvement on the front-end parts of the business that were required to drive sustainable top line growth. So these are things like consumer insights, brand building, new product innovation and go-to-market. What was exciting is since we launched that turnaround in 2023, in '23, core sales for the company was down 12%. So we clearly needed to do something different. We improved in '24 and '25 sequentially, but we were still down. What's exciting about last quarter is all of those things came together, and we delivered 2.3% core sales growth. Importantly, within that 2.3% core sales growth, 7 of our top 10 brands grew, 5 of our 6 business units grew and the U.S. led the