EDGAR 10-K Filing

Company CIK: 1530721
Filing Year: 2023
Filename: 1530721_10-K_2023_0001530721-23-000087.json

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ITEM 1. BUSINESS
Item 1. Business
Our Company
Capri Holdings Limited (“Capri”) is a global fashion luxury group consisting of iconic, founder-led brands Versace, Jimmy Choo and Michael Kors. Our commitment to glamorous style and craftsmanship is at the heart of each of our luxury brands. We have built our reputation on designing exceptional, innovative products that cover the full spectrum of fashion luxury categories. Our strength lies in the unique DNA and heritage of each of our brands, the diversity and passion of our people and our dedication to the clients and communities we serve.
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Our Brands
Versace
Our Versace brand has long been recognized as one of the world’s leading international fashion design houses and is synonymous with Italian glamour and style. Founded in 1978 in Milan, Versace is known for its iconic and unmistakable style and unparalleled craftsmanship. Over the past several decades, the House of Versace has grown globally from its roots in haute couture, expanding into the design, manufacturing, distribution and retailing of accessories, ready-to-wear, footwear, eyewear, watches, jewelry, fragrance and home furnishings businesses. Versace’s design team is led by Donatella Versace, who has been the brand’s Artistic Director for over 20 years. Versace distributes its products through a worldwide distribution network, which includes boutiques in some of the world’s most glamorous cities, its e-commerce sites, as well as through the most prestigious department and specialty stores worldwide.
Jimmy Choo
Our Jimmy Choo brand offers a distinctive, glamorous and fashion-forward product range, enabling it to develop into a leading global luxury accessories brand, whose core product offering is women’s luxury shoes, complemented by accessories, including handbags, small leather goods, jewelry, scarves and belts, as well as men’s luxury shoes and accessories business. In addition, certain categories, such as fragrance and eyewear, are produced under licensing agreements. Jimmy Choo’s design team is led by Sandra Choi, who has been the Creative Director for the brand since its inception in 1996. Jimmy Choo products are unique, instinctively seductive and chic. The brand offers classic and timeless luxury products, as well as innovative products that are intended to set and lead fashion trends. Jimmy Choo is represented through its global store network, its e-commerce sites, as well as through the most prestigious department and specialty stores worldwide.
Michael Kors
Our Michael Kors brand was launched over 40 years ago by Michael Kors, a world-renowned designer, whose vision has taken the Company from its beginnings as an American luxury sportswear house to a global accessories, footwear and ready-to-wear company with a global distribution network that has presence in over 100 countries through Company-operated retail stores and e-commerce sites, leading department stores, specialty stores and select licensing partners. Michael Kors is a highly recognized luxury fashion brand in the Americas and Europe with growing brand awareness in other international markets. Michael Kors features distinctive designs, materials and craftsmanship with a jet-set aesthetic that combines stylish elegance and a sporty attitude. Michael Kors offers three primary collections: the Michael Kors Collection luxury line, the MICHAEL Michael Kors accessible luxury line and the Michael Kors Mens line. The Michael Kors Collection establishes the aesthetic authority of the entire brand and is carried by select retail stores, our e-commerce sites, as well as in the finest luxury department stores in the world. MICHAEL Michael Kors has a strong focus on accessories, in addition to offering footwear and
ready-to-wear, and addresses the significant demand opportunity in accessible luxury goods. We have also been developing our men’s business in recognition of the significant opportunity afforded by the Michael Kors brand’s established fashion authority and the expanding men’s market. Taken together, our Michael Kors collections target a broad customer base while retaining our premium luxury image.
Our Segments
We operate in three reportable segments as follows:
•Versace - accounted for approximately 20% of our total revenue in Fiscal 2023 and includes worldwide sales of Versace products through 223 retail stores (including concessions) and e-commerce sites, through 744 wholesale doors (including multi-brand stores), as well as through product and geographic licensing arrangements.
•Jimmy Choo - accounted for approximately 11% of our total revenue in Fiscal 2023 and includes worldwide sales of Jimmy Choo products through 237 retail stores (including concessions) and e-commerce sites, through 527 wholesale doors (including multi-brand stores), as well as through product and geographic licensing arrangements.
•Michael Kors - accounted for approximately 69% of our total revenue in Fiscal 2023 and includes worldwide sales of Michael Kors products through 812 retail stores (including concessions) and e-commerce sites, through 2,843 wholesale doors, as well as through product and geographic licensing arrangements.
In addition to these reportable segments, we have certain corporate costs that are not directly attributable to our brands and, therefore, are not allocated to segments. Such costs primarily include certain administrative, corporate occupancy, shared service and information systems expenses, including Enterprise Resource Planning (“ERP”) system implementation costs and Capri transformation program costs. In addition, certain other costs are not allocated to segments, including restructuring and other charges and COVID-19 related charges. The segment structure is consistent with how our chief operating decision maker plans and allocates resources, manages the business and assesses performance. All intercompany revenues are eliminated in consolidation and are not reviewed when evaluating segment performance. For additional financial information regarding our segments and corporate unallocated expenses, see Note 19 to the accompanying consolidated financial statements for additional information.
Industry
We operate in the global personal luxury goods industry. Through 2019, the personal luxury goods market grew at a mid-single digit rate over the past 20 years, with more recent growth driven by stronger Chinese demand from both international and local consumers and demographic and socioeconomic shifts resulting in younger consumers purchasing more luxury goods. Then, in 2020, due to the impact of the COVID-19 crisis, the personal luxury goods market declined 22%. According to Bain*, the personal luxury goods market returned to 2019 levels in 2021, and grew 15% in constant exchange rates in 2022. The market is predicted to increase at a 5-7% compound annual growth rate between 2022 and 2030. Future growth will be driven by e-commerce, Chinese consumers and younger generations. By 2030, Bain studies estimate that over 30% of personal luxury goods sales will occur online, Chinese consumers will represent approximately 40% of total global personal luxury goods sales and Gen Z and Alpha combined will make up at least one-third of the market. As the personal luxury goods market continues to evolve, Capri is committed to designing exceptional, innovative products that cover the full spectrum of fashion luxury categories. In our view, increased customer engagement and tailoring merchandise to customer shopping and communication preferences are key to growing market share. We believe that our innovative and luxurious product offerings and customer engagement initiatives across all three brands position us to capitalize on the continued growth of the global personal luxury goods industry.
*Bain - Altagamma Luxury Goods Worldwide Market Study, Fall 2022 (November 15, 2022). These studies were prepared by Bain & Company and Altagamma and can be obtained free of charge or at a nominal cost by contacting Bain & Company’s media contacts. While we believe that each of these studies and publications is reliable, we have not independently verified market and industry data from third-party sources.
Geographic Information
We generate revenue globally through our three reportable segments, as described above. We sell our Versace, Jimmy Choo and Michael Kors products through retail and wholesale channels in three principal geographic markets: the Americas (United States, Canada and Latin America), EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) and Asia (Asia and Oceania). We also have wholesale arrangements pursuant to which we sell products to geographic licensees. In addition, we have licensing
agreements through which we license to third-parties the use of our Versace, Jimmy Choo and Michael Kors brand names and trademarks, certain production rights and sales and/or distribution rights with respect to our brands.
The following table details our revenue by segment and geographic location (in millions):
Fiscal Years Ended
April 1,
2023 April 2,
2022 March 27,
Versace revenue - the Americas $ 408 $ 408 $ 201
Versace revenue - EMEA 468 425 276
Versace revenue - Asia 230 255 241
Total Versace revenue 1,106 1,088 718
Jimmy Choo revenue - the Americas 196 175 102
Jimmy Choo revenue - EMEA 255 229 146
Jimmy Choo revenue - Asia 182 209 170
Total Jimmy Choo revenue 633 613 418
Michael Kors revenue - the Americas 2,616 2,627 1,869
Michael Kors revenue - EMEA 819 835 607
Michael Kors revenue - Asia 445 491 448
Total Michael Kors revenue 3,880 3,953 2,924
Total revenue - the Americas 3,220 3,210 2,172
Total revenue - EMEA 1,542 1,489 1,029
Total revenue - Asia 857 955 859
Total revenue $ 5,619 $ 5,654 $ 4,060
Competitive Strengths
We believe that the following strengths differentiate us from our competitors:
Global Fashion Luxury Group Led by a World-Class Management Team and Renowned Designers. We are a global fashion luxury group, consisting of three iconic brands defined by fashion luxury products with a reputation for world-class design and innovation. The design leadership of our founder-designers Donatella Versace, Sandra Choi and Michael Kors is a unique advantage that we possess. Our founder-led design teams are supported by our senior management team with extensive experience across a broad range of disciplines in the retail industry, including design, sales, marketing, public relations, merchandising, real estate, supply chain and finance. With an average of 26 years of experience in the retail industry, including at a number of public companies, and an average of 19 years of experience with our brands, our senior management team has strong creative and operational experience and a successful track record.
For over 20 years, Donatella Versace has been the Artistic Director, molding Versace’s iconic style. A true visionary with an intuition for how to blend fashion, design and culture, Donatella continues to honor the rich and storied Versace heritage founded in 1978, while constantly evolving and adapting the luxury house to ensure the brand’s continued relevance. Donatella’s most recent collections for Versace are a testament to her bold and fearless design vision that celebrate Versace’s Italian heritage and unapologetic glamour. Versace designs have been worn by the world’s most famous celebrities and most sought-after super models.
Jimmy Choo’s design team is led by Sandra Choi, who has been the Creative Director for the Jimmy Choo brand since its inception in 1996. Jimmy Choo products are glamourous and daring. The Jimmy Choo brand offers classic and timeless luxury products, as well as innovative products that are intended to set and lead fashion trends. Jimmy Choo’s products have a strong red carpet presence and are often worn by global celebrities.
The Michael Kors brand was launched over 40 years ago by Michael Kors, a world-renowned designer, who is responsible for conceptualizing and directing the design of our Michael Kors brand products. We believe that the Michael Kors
brand name has become synonymous with luxurious fashion that is timeless and elegant, expressed through the brand’s sophisticated accessories and ready-to-wear collections. Each of our Michael Kors brand collections exemplifies the jet-set lifestyle and features high quality designs, materials and craftsmanship. Michael Kors has received a number of awards, which recognize the contribution he and his team have made to the fashion industry and our Company. Some of the most widely recognized global trendsetters and celebrities wear our Michael Kors brand collections.
Expertise in the Accessories Category. We have strong group expertise in accessories. The strength of our Michael Kors luxury collection and our accessible luxury MICHAEL Michael Kors line have allowed us to expand our brand awareness and position Michael Kors as one of the leading global luxury brands in the accessories product categories. Capitalizing on the success of our accessories product category, we continue to further develop the accessories businesses for Jimmy Choo and Versace, bringing our accessories expertise, including our product category knowledge, our merchandising best practices and our substantial group buying power to these brands. Our goal is to increase Versace’s women’s and men’s accessories penetration from 20% of revenues in Fiscal 2023 to 50% of Versace’s revenues over time and to increase Jimmy Choo’s women’s accessories penetration from approximately 20% of revenues in Fiscal 2023 to 30% of Jimmy Choo’s revenues over the next few years and to 50% over time.
Exceptional Retail Store Footprint. Versace operates in three primary retail formats: boutiques, outlet and e-commerce. We operated 223 Versace retail stores as of April 1, 2023 in some of the most fashionable cities and the most sought-after shopping destinations around the world. During Fiscal 2022, we completed renovations at approximately 50% of our Versace retail stores to incorporate our new store design and have continued with these renovations in Fiscal 2023. Versace’s products are distributed worldwide through a global network of highly specialized stores, which average approximately 2,900 gross square feet. In addition, we operate Versace e-commerce sites in the United States, Europe and China (covering 90 countries worldwide).
We operated 237 Jimmy Choo retail stores as of April 1, 2023, in some of the most premier locations worldwide. Jimmy Choo retail stores, comprised of full-price stores and outlets, average approximately 1,400 gross square feet. In addition, we operate Jimmy Choo e-commerce sites in the United States, certain parts of Europe, Japan, China, Australia and Korea.
We operated 812 Michael Kors stores as of April 1, 2023 with four primary retail store formats: collection stores, lifestyle stores, outlet stores and e-commerce sites. Michael Kors collection stores are located in some of the world’s most prestigious shopping areas and average approximately 2,900 gross square feet in size. The Michael Kors lifestyle stores are located in some of the world’s most frequented metropolitan shopping locations and leading regional shopping centers, and average approximately 2,800 gross square feet in size. We also extend our reach to additional consumer groups through our outlet stores, which average approximately 4,500 gross square feet in size. In addition, we also operate Michael Kors e-commerce sites in North America, China, Japan, South Korea, certain parts of Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific and Oceania.
World-class Omni and CRM Capabilities. We have omni-channel capabilities from best-in-class digital platforms to state-of-the-art distribution facilities globally, which we leverage across businesses. As part of our plan to continue to implement omni-channel capabilities throughout our businesses, we have begun leveraging our distribution centers globally to serve multiple brands.
Strong Relationships with Premier Department Stores. We partner with leading wholesale customers, such as Macy’s, Saks Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdale’s and Holt Renfrew in North America, as well as Harrods, Harvey Nichols, Printemps, Selfridges and Galeries Lafayette in Europe. These relationships enable us to access large numbers of our key consumers in a targeted manner. Our “shop-in-shops” have specially trained staff, as well as customized fixtures, wall casings, decorative items, flooring and provide department store consumers with a more personalized shopping experience than traditional retail department store configurations. We have engaged with our wholesale customers on various initiatives and have continued to enter into supply chain partnerships designed to increase the speed at which our luxury fashion products reach the ultimate consumer. We plan to increase Versace’s and Jimmy Choo’s presence in certain luxury department stores, and for Michael Kors, we continue to optimize deliveries with the intent to drive more full-price sell-through in the wholesale channel.
Business Strategy
Our goal is to continue to create long-term shareholder value by increasing our revenue and profits and strengthening our global brands. We also believe that sound environmental and social policies are both ethically correct and fiscally responsible. To that end, we are committed to improving the way we work in order to better the world in which we live. We plan to achieve our business strategy by focusing on the following strategic initiatives:
Leverage group expertise and capabilities. We will continue to leverage our group expertise in accessories and footwear to fuel growth across our portfolio of brands, implementing the best practices from our Michael Kors core accessories business to our Versace and Jimmy Choo brands. We will also continue to prioritize the development of our e-commerce platforms and omni-channel capabilities for our brands, leveraging our broad expertise and capabilities in this area. We see a number of opportunities to create long-term operational synergies as we combine our global competencies and footprint. These synergies will be primarily focused on opportunities in our supply chain, information systems, back office support and manufacturing.
Continue to increase our presence in Asia. We plan to continue to diversify our group’s global footprint with an emphasis on the Asia market, where we believe each of our three brands continue to have the potential to significantly grow market share in the region.
Continue to execute our strategies to grow Versace. We plan to grow the Versace business to at least $2 billion in revenues over time. To achieve this goal, we plan to build on Versace’s iconic brand codes - Virtus, La Medusa and La Greca. Additionally, we will capitalize on Versace’s high brand awareness through bold and engaging consumer communication. We also plan to expand and elevate Versace’s distribution by accelerating e-commerce and omni-channel capabilities, increasing our global retail footprint to 300 retail stores and continuing to renovate the remainder of the store fleet. Finally, we plan to leverage our group’s expertise to expand Versace’s women’s and men’s accessories to 50% of the brand’s revenues over time, while maintaining Versace’s authoritative presence in women’s and men’s ready-to-wear.
Continue to execute on our strategies to grow Jimmy Choo. We plan to continue to implement our growth strategies for Jimmy Choo with a goal of reaching $1 billion in revenues over time. Our overarching strategy is rooted in reinforcing the brand’s glamorous DNA through consumer experience and communications, as well as through product - from formal to casual, across accessories and footwear. Additionally, we plan to expand Jimmy Choo’s distribution by accelerating e-commerce and omni-channel developments and increasing our global retail footprint to 300 retail stores in the most fashionable shopping destinations around the world. We also have a significant opportunity to increase women’s accessories to approximately 50% of Jimmy Choo’s revenue over time by expanding the breadth of new collections. At the same time, we plan to continue to grow footwear sales by capitalizing on the success of glamour while expanding our fashion active and casual offerings.
Continue to leverage the strength of Michael Kors, which remains the foundation for our fashion luxury group. Our goal is to continue to elevate Michael Kors to become a stronger and more profitable brand. We are capitalizing on high brand awareness and consumer engagement by embracing Michael Kors jet set heritage through a modern lens. Reinforcing our highly recognizable brand codes including the MK Signature pattern and MK hardware across all product categories remains a core growth strategy. In accessories, we continue to refresh and celebrate brand icons while evolving styles with newness. Additionally, we plan to grow our men’s business by leading with accessories and maximizing our brand codes. Our strategy to enhance customer experience by expanding our omni-channel capabilities also remains a key priority. Finally, we plan to double Michael Kors revenue in Asia over time.
Execute on our corporate social responsibility strategy. We strive to foster a future where both people and the planet are cared for, and we believe that ethical business practices and giving back are critical to our success. Our corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy focuses on four foundational pillars - Our Governance, Our World, Our Community and Our Philanthropy. We continue to take steps to advance our CSR strategy and to support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Our key sustainability goals, our plans for getting there, and an update on the progress we have made can be found in our annual CSR report located at www.capriholdings.com/responsibility. The content on this website and the content in our CSR reports are not incorporated by reference into this Annual Report on Form 10-K or in any other report or document we file with the SEC.
Collections and Products
Our total revenue by major product category is as follows (in millions):
Fiscal Years Ended
April 1,
2023 % of
Total April 2,
2022 % of
Total March 27,
2021 % of
Total
Accessories $ 2,826 50.3% $ 2,901 51.3% $ 2,158 53.2%
Footwear 1,217 21.7% 1,208 21.4% 796 19.6%
Apparel 1,107 19.7% 1,027 18.2% 720 17.7%
Licensed product 222 4.0% 241 4.3% 185 4.6%
Licensing revenue 211 3.8% 212 3.7% 155 3.8%
Other 36 0.5% 65 1.1% 46 1.1%
Total revenue $ 5,619 $ 5,654 $ 4,060
Versace
Versace is one of the leading international fashion design houses, representing the brand’s creative vision through a wide range of products. From haute-couture to ready-to-wear, footwear, accessories and home decor, Versace delivers a unique lifestyle that welcomes customers in its elegant yet glamorous universe. Generally, Versace’s haute couture retails up to $250,000, ready-to-wear retails from $400 to $23,000, accessories retail from $100 to $6,100 and footwear retail from $400 to $3,300.
Certain product categories, such as Versace Jeans Couture, eyewear, fragrances, jewelry, watches and home furnishings, are produced under product licensing agreements. Swinger SA is the exclusive licensee for Versace Jeans Couture, Luxottica is the exclusive licensee for Versace eyewear, EuroItalia is the exclusive licensee for Versace fragrances, Vertime is the exclusive licensee for Versace watches and Poltrona Frau is the exclusive licensee for Versace home furnishings. Generally, Versace Jeans Couture retail from $45 to $1,500, Versace eyewear retails from $110 to $500, Versace fragrances retail from $38 to $400, Versace watches retail from $420 to $4,000 and Versace home furnishings, which include a variety of products, generally retail from $850 to $100,000.
Jimmy Choo
Jimmy Choo is a leading global luxury accessories brand and offers a distinctive, glamorous and fashion-forward product range, whose core product offerings are women’s luxury shoes, complemented by accessories, including handbags, small leather goods, jewelry, scarves and belts, as well as a men’s luxury shoes and accessories business. Generally, Jimmy Choo women’s and men’s luxury shoes retail from $500 to $5,000 and accessories retail from $200 to $4,500.
Certain product categories, such as Jimmy Choo fragrance and eyewear, are produced under product licensing agreements. Interparfums SA is the exclusive licensee for Jimmy Choo fragrances and makeup and Safilo SpA is the exclusive licensee for Jimmy Choo eyewear. Generally, Jimmy Choo eyewear retail from $250 to $500 and Jimmy Choo fragrances and beauty retail from $50 to $220.
Michael Kors
Michael Kors has three primary collections that offer accessories, footwear and apparel: Michael Kors Collection, MICHAEL Michael Kors and Michael Kors Mens. The three primary collections and licensed products are offered through our own Michael Kors retail stores and e-commerce businesses, in department stores around the world and by our exclusive licensees to wholesale customers, in addition to select retailers. The Michael Kors Collection is a sophisticated designer collection for women based on a philosophy of essential luxury and pragmatic glamour and includes accessories, primarily handbags and small leather goods, ready-to-wear and footwear. Generally, the Michael Kors Collection women’s handbags and small leather goods retail from $300 to $4,000, footwear retails from $300 to $1,500 and ready-to-wear retails from $400 to $9,000. MICHAEL Michael Kors is the accessible luxury collection and offers women’s accessories, primarily handbags and small leather goods, as well as footwear and apparel and is carried in all of the Michael Kors lifestyle stores and leading department stores around the world. MICHAEL Michael Kors offers handbags designed to meet the fashion and functional requirements of our broad and diverse consumer base. Generally, MICHAEL Michael Kors handbags retail from $200 to $750, small leather goods retail from $50 to $250, footwear retails from $50 to $300 and apparel retails from $75 to $700. Michael Kors Mens is an innovative collection of men’s ready-to-wear, accessories and footwear with a modern American style.
Michael Kors Mens apparel generally retails from $50 to $1,000, men’s accessories generally retail from $50 to $800 and men’s footwear generally retails from $150 to $400.
Certain product categories, including watches, jewelry, eyewear and fragrance, are produced under product licensing agreements. Fossil is our exclusive licensee for Michael Kors watches and jewelry, including our Michael Kors ACCESS smartwatches and our fine jewelry line. Luxottica is our exclusive licensee for Michael Kors distinctive eyewear inspired by our collections. The Company transitioned its fragrance business to EuroItalia during Fiscal 2023. Generally, Michael Kors fashion watches retail from $200 to $600, Michael Kors ACCESS smartwatches retail from $250 to $450, Michael Kors jewelry retails from $50 to $500, Michael Kors eyewear retails from $100 to $350 and Michael Kors fragrance and related products generally retail from $30 to $150.
Advertising and Marketing
Our marketing and advertising programs are designed to build brand awareness for each of our luxury houses as well as highlight our product offerings. We use a 360-degree marketing strategy for each of our brands to deliver a consistent message across each brand’s advertising communications, social media, celebrity dressing, special events and direct marketing activities at a national, regional and local level. Our campaigns are increasingly being executed through digital and social media platforms to drive further engagement with younger consumers.
Our brands introduce their new collections annually with fashion shows and other fashion events. These fashion events, in addition to celebrity red carpet dressing moments, generate extensive domestic and international media and social media coverage. The Versace and Michael Kors semi-annual runway shows and Jimmy Choo celebrity placements generate extensive media coverage. Jimmy Choo is also the leading brand in editorial coverage for women’s luxury shoes globally.
We believe our renowned brand founders, as well as our high-profile brand ambassadors and well-known social media influencers across our marketing programs help expand brand awareness and drive cultural relevance.
In Fiscal 2023, we recognized approximately $374 million in advertising and marketing expenses globally. We engage in a wide range of integrated marketing programs across various marketing channels, including but not limited to email marketing, print advertising, outdoor advertising, digital marketing, social media, public relations outreach, visual merchandising and partnership marketing, in an effort to engage our existing and potential customer base and ultimately stimulate sales in a consumer-preferred shopping venue.
Our growing e-commerce businesses provide us with an opportunity to increase the size of our customer database and to communicate with our consumers to increase online and physical store sales, as well as to continue to build global brand awareness for our brands. We are continuously improving the functionalities and features on our e-commerce sites to create innovative ways to keep our brands at the forefront of consumers’ minds by offering a broad selection of products, including accessories, apparel and footwear. Since e-commerce growth is critical to our overall growth strategy, we plan to accelerate Versace’s and Jimmy Choo’s e-commerce and omni-channel development and we are also in the process of re-platforming our brands’ e-commerce sites to expand our global capabilities. See Item 1A. “Risk Factors” - “If we are unable to effectively execute our e-commerce business and provide a reliable digital experience for our customers, our reputation and operating results may be harmed.”
Manufacturing and Sourcing
We generally contract for the purchase of finished goods principally with independent third-party manufacturing contractors, whereby the manufacturing contractor is generally responsible for the entire manufacturing process, including the purchase of piece goods and trim for our Jimmy Choo and Michael Kors brands. For the Versace brand, some of the piece goods and trim are separately purchased by Versace and provided to the manufacturers, and some are sourced directly by the manufacturers, as further described below.
Versace has a centrally managed production model for the majority of its products, and buys raw materials and components for these products. All raw materials arrive in a central warehouse in Novara, Italy and are distributed to independent third-party manufacturing contractors after the quality control process is complete. The vast majority of Versace’s production is located in Italy. The remaining production occurs elsewhere in Europe and a small portion is produced in Asia or North Africa.
Jimmy Choo products are manufactured by independent third-party manufacturing contractors and our Italian atelier and shoe manufacturer. Most of Jimmy Choo’s products are produced by specialists in Italy, supported by other factories across
Europe, with a small portion produced in Asia. Jimmy Choo has a product development facility in Florence. In addition to purchasing finished goods, Jimmy Choo also purchases raw materials for both product development and manufacturing purposes.
Michael Kors contracts for the purchase of finished goods principally with independent third-party manufacturing contractors that are generally responsible for the entire manufacturing process, including the purchase of piece goods and trim. Product manufacturing for the Michael Kors brand is allocated among third-party manufacturing contractors based on their capabilities, the availability of production capacity, pricing and delivery. For certain product categories, Michael Kors also has relationships with various agents who source finished goods with numerous manufacturing contractors on its behalf. This multi-supplier strategy provides specialized skills, scalability, flexibility and speed to market, as well as diversifies risk. In Fiscal 2023 and Fiscal 2022, one third-party buying agent sourced approximately 15% and 14%, respectively, of Michael Kors finished goods purchases, based on dollar volume. Michael Kors’ largest manufacturing contractor, who produces its products in Asia and who Michael Kors has worked with for approximately 20 years, accounted for the production of approximately 15% of its finished products, based on dollar volume in Fiscal 2023. Nearly all of our Michael Kors products were produced in Asia in Fiscal 2023.
The manufacturing contractors for our brands operate under the close supervision of our global manufacturing divisions and buying agents located in North America, Europe and Asia. All products are produced according to our specifications. Production staff monitors manufacturing at supplier facilities in order to correct problems prior to shipment of the final product. Quality assurance is focused on as early as possible in the production process, allowing merchandise to be received at the distribution facilities and shipped to customers with minimal interruption. See “Import Restrictions and Other Governmental Regulations” and Item 1A. “Risk Factors” - “We primarily use foreign manufacturing contractors and independent third-party agents to source our finished goods, which poses legal, regulatory, political and economic risks to our business operations.”
Our future manufacturing and sourcing strategy includes purchasing luxury manufacturing facilities in Italy to support all of our brands, pursuing manufacturing synergies across brands and securing capacity and improving our expertise in development and delivery. While the fashion design process will remain independently managed by each of our brands, we believe that in-sourcing luxury manufacturing capacity will create synergies and support expansion for our global fashion luxury group.
Distribution
Versace owns a central warehouse in Novara, Italy, managed by a third-party, which acts as a global hub for Versace’s primary operations. Versace also has a leased warehouse near Novara operated by the same third-party, which serves as a distribution point for other Versace lines. From these warehouses, products are shipped to regional warehouses that are operated by third-parties in New Jersey, Hong Kong, Mainland China and Japan, and supports the Versace retail and e-commerce businesses. E-commerce distribution for the United States market is conducted through third-party providers in New Jersey. Versace’s wholesale business is mainly serviced from three central warehouses located in Italy, the United States and Japan.
Jimmy Choo’s primary distribution facility is our Company-owned and operated distribution facility in the Netherlands. From there, products are shipped to regional warehouses in the United States, Canada, Mainland China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan and United Arab Emirates, largely supporting the Jimmy Choo retail and e-commerce businesses. Shipments to wholesale customers globally are made from the Netherlands and the United States, with some further local fulfillment. All of the distribution facilities utilized by Jimmy Choo are operated by third-parties and are shared with other unaffiliated businesses with the exception of our distribution facility in the Netherlands. This flexible method reinforces the speed and efficiency of the supply chain and allows the business to deliver Jimmy Choo product and collections to market rapidly and in line with the industry’s fashion calendar.
Michael Kors’ primary distribution facility in the United States is a leased facility in Whittier, California, which is directly operated and services our Michael Kors retail stores, e-commerce site and wholesale operations in the United States. We also engage in omni-channel order fulfillment by filling online orders through our Michael Kors retail stores and through our click-and-collect service offerings. Our primary Michael Kors distribution facility in Europe is our Company-owned and operated distribution facility in the Netherlands, which supports our European operations for our Michael Kors brand, including our European e-commerce sites. We also have a regional Michael Kors distribution center in Canada, which is leased, as well as regional Michael Kors distribution centers in New Jersey, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, which are operated by third-parties.
Intellectual Property
We own VERSACE, JIMMY CHOO and MICHAEL KORS trademarks, as well as other material trademarks, copyrights, design and patent rights related to the production, marketing and distribution of our products, both in the United States and in other countries in which our products are principally sold. We also have applications pending for a variety of related trademarks, copyrights, designs and patents in various countries throughout the world. As the worldwide usage of our material trademarks, copyrights, designs and patents continue to expand, we continue to strategically apply to register them in key countries where they are used. We expect that our material intellectual property will remain in full force and effect for as long as we continue to use and renew them.
We aggressively police our intellectual property and pursue infringers both domestically and internationally. In addition, we pursue counterfeiters in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and elsewhere in the world in both online and offline channels, working with our network of customs authorities, law enforcement, legal representatives and brand specialists around the world as well as involvement with industry associations and anti-counterfeiting organizations.
Information Systems
Each of our three brands currently operate using certain legacy systems for finance and accounting, supply chain, inventory control, point-of-sale transactions, store replenishment and other functions. Our long-term strategy includes consolidating certain systems across our brands over time to create operational efficiencies. During Fiscal 2020, we embarked on a multi-year ERP implementation to conform various processes onto one global system that would support certain finance, accounting and operational functions. The implementation of the ERP requires a significant investment in human and financial resources. As a result of COVID-19 and our need to significantly reduce our capital expenditures, we temporarily suspended our ERP project. Certain phases of the project have resumed as of the fourth quarter of Fiscal 2021 and portions of our global ERP system are live in Fiscal 2023. See Item 1A. “Risk Factors” - “A material delay or disruption in our information technology systems or e-commerce websites or our failure or inability to upgrade our information technology systems precisely and efficiently could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.”
Human Capital Management
At Capri Holdings, we strive to create workplaces where our employees and the workers across our supply chain thrive. Through our benefits and compensation packages, learning and development programs, focus on diversity and inclusion, employee engagement, wellness and safety programs and supply chain empowerment initiatives, we continue to make significant investments in our Capri community.
Governance and Oversight. Our Board of Directors has delegated oversight of matters relating to human capital management, including compensation, learning and development and diversity and inclusion to our Compensation and Talent Committee. Our Compensation and Talent Committee receives regular updates on our talent development strategies and other applicable areas of human capital management.
Employee Profile. At the end of Fiscal 2023, 2022 and 2021, we had approximately 15,500, 14,600 and 13,800 total employees, respectively. As of April 1, 2023, we had approximately 10,400 full-time employees and approximately 5,100 part-time employees. Approximately 11,500 of our employees were engaged in retail selling and administrative positions and our remaining employees were engaged in other aspects of our business as of April 1, 2023. As of April 1, 2023, we have approximately 2,900 employees covered by collective bargaining agreements in certain European countries. We consider our relations with both our union and non-union employees to be good.
Benefits and Compensation. We maintain comprehensive benefits and compensation packages to attract, retain and recognize our employees. Our health and welfare benefit program is designed to provide a wide range of benefits to meet the health care, financial, work/life and mental wellbeing needs of eligible employees. Benefits include, among others, medical, dental and vision plans, life insurance, short and long-term disability coverage, retirement plans (with matching contributions where applicable), paid parental leave for all parents, gender reassignment coverage and fertility support benefits in the United States, and a wellness program focused on mental wellbeing, including several digital therapeutic programs to assist with therapy, anxiety and worry and sleep. We also offer employees paid time off, including to volunteer with select charitable organization. Employees are also entitled to discounts on our merchandise.
Learning and Development. We honor our employees through our dedication to development and believe that enabling opportunity means ensuring our teams have the skills they need to build fulfilling careers with us. We promote employee performance with personalized development plans and by providing individualized feedback at regular intervals throughout the
year, and all employees participant in a formal performance review process annually. We continue to refresh our learning and development programming by offering targeted skill-building for employees at all stages of their career. During Fiscal 2023, we launched our first learning management system, Capri FLEX, and we continue to offer quality training touchpoints to employees throughout our global organization, including programs around compliance, ethics and integrity, promoting respect in the workplace, global cybersecurity practices, and supply chain transparency as well as a mandatory three-party diversity and inclusion (“D&I”) curriculum. We also deployed a new leadership development program focused on building and understanding emotional intelligence in our leaders.
Diversity and Inclusion. Diversity and inclusion are embedded in our DNA. We foster an inclusive environment where employees, vendors and customers of diverse backgrounds are respected, valued and celebrated. We are proud of our commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion, and will continue to advance these principles through meaningful short and long term actions across the globe.
Our commitment to diversity and inclusion is supported by three pillars:
Capri Culture - Our commitment to diversity extends beyond representation. We aim to build an inclusive space where all employees have the opportunity to realize their full potential and excel, while contributing to our success in a meaningful way.
Capri Talent - Differences in ideas and experiences allow our Company to thrive. We are attracting, advancing and advocating for a workforce that reflects the diversity of the world around us.
Capri Community - Through diversity and inclusion comes understanding and strength. Our responsibility to promote equality is not just to those who work with us, but to our industry, the customers we serve and the communities around us.
We have a Global Diversity & Inclusion Council comprised of diverse leaders across all brands and regions. The Global D&I Council works closely with senior leadership to ensure alignment of short-and long-term diversity and inclusion goals with Capri’s overall business strategy, provides governance and oversight on diversity and inclusion efforts across our brands, and promotes company-wide communication on progress. We have a number of employee resource groups (“ERGs”) to provide support for those employees who self-identify with a particular group, including Pride@Capri, BOLD@Capri”, Black Organizers, Leaders and Doers, an Asian and Pacific Islander ERG and a women’s network ERG, and we utilize global D&I listening sessions, regular D&I newsletters and communications and keynote speakers to further embed inclusion in our workplace. We are committed to recruiting, developing and retaining passionate, skilled and diverse talent. We launched a new mentorship program during the fiscal year and we educate recruiters and hiring managers to mitigate the impact of unconscious bias during the interview process. We are also a proud partner with a wide array of organizations and pledges in furtherance of driving equality and have a received a number of awards and accolades in the area of D&I.
Through The Capri Holdings Foundation for the Advancement in Diversity in Fashion, we are also driving diversity, inclusion and equality throughout the fashion industry by working collaboratively with colleges and high schools to create meaningful opportunities in fashion for underrepresented communities through scholarship programs in partnership with the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), Howard University, PENSOLE Academy and Central Saint Martins - University of the Arts London. Over the next few years, the Foundation will fund scholarships for nearly 100 students from historically underrepresented communities pursuing degrees in fashion and merchandising across these four educational institutions.
Employee Engagement, Well-being and Safety. Enhancing our employee experience has always been an integral part of our strategy and checking in with one another is a key part of our employee engagement program. We believe two-way communication, feedback and continuous improvement drive progress within our group and our brands. In Fiscal 2023, we expanded our employee listening approach and surveyed all global employees to better understand our company’s strengths and opportunities, and to ensure that the Capri employee experience is both highly engaging and inclusive. We are proud to have been certified in the U.S. as a Great Place to Work® in 2022 - an accolade that we believe is a testament to our culture of empowerment, inclusion and growth. Michael Kors was also recently certified as a Great Place to Work® in the U.K.
Everyone working on behalf of our Company is entitled to work in a safe environment while maintaining their health and well-being. Capri’s global safe workplace program, which includes employee traveler and emergency response alerts, raises awareness and provides safety resources tailored for workers in different work environments - from our distribution centers to our retail stores. Throughout the fiscal year, we continued to assess evolving health and safety guidance related to COVID-19 and tailored our practices and protocols for different workplaces. We also provided a range of resources and benefits to our employees throughout the pandemic, from remote and flexible workplace arrangements to grocery deliveries during lock-down and expanded mental health benefits through our Thrive global wellness program, designed to inspire employees to improve
their physical, emotional and financial well-being. While we have welcomed employees back to work, we continue to explore flexible work options and have implemented a hybrid working environment.
Supply Chain Empowerment. Our community extends beyond our direct employees and our corporate social responsibility program drives us toward greater engagement with our suppliers. We are dedicated to conducting our operations throughout the world on principles of ethical business practice and recognition of the dignity of workers. Through our Code of Conduct for Business Partners and Factory Social Compliance Program, we partner with our suppliers on important human rights, health and safety, environmental and compliance issues. Our goal is to establish and implement supply chain empowerment programs for key supply chain partners in line with the UN Framework for Corporate Action on Workplace Women’s Health and Empowerment by 2025. We are also signatory to the UN Women’s Empowerment Principles, we partnered with the Fashion Makes Change campaign to support the empowerment and education of women in the fashion supply chain, and we recently joined Empower@Work, a platform that serves to catalyze collective action at scale for the benefit of the women workers and gender equality in global supply chains. Beginning in 2023, we are committed to implementing workplace trainings at strategic partner facilities and leveraging the organization’s industry-wide and data-driven solutions to positively impact a greater number of women workers within our value chain.
Competition
We face intense competition in the product lines and markets in which we operate from both existing and new competitors. Our products compete with other branded products within their product category. In varying degrees, depending on the product category involved, we compete on the basis of style, price, customer service, quality, brand prestige and recognition, among others. In our wholesale business, we compete with numerous manufacturers, importers and distributors of products like ours for the limited space available for product display. Moreover, the general availability of manufacturing contractors allows new entrants easy access to the markets in which we compete, which may increase the number of our competitors and adversely affect our competitive position and our business. We believe, however, that we have significant competitive advantages because of the recognition of our brands and the acceptance of our brands by consumers. See Item 1A. “Risk Factors” - “The markets in which we operate are highly competitive, both within North America and internationally, and increased competition based on a number of factors could cause our profitability and/or gross margins to decline.”
Seasonality
We experience certain effects of seasonality with respect to our business. We generally experience greater sales during our third fiscal quarter, primarily driven by holiday season sales, and the lowest sales during our first fiscal quarter.
Import Restrictions and Other Governmental Regulations
Virtually all of our imported products are subject to duties which may impact the costs of such products. In addition, countries to which we ship our products may impose safeguard quotas to limit the quantity of products that may be imported. We utilize free trade agreements and other supply chain initiatives in order to maximize efficiencies and cost savings relating to product importation. For example, we have historically received benefits from duty-free imports on certain products from certain countries pursuant to the United States. Generalized System of Preferences (“GSP”) program. The GSP program expired on December 31, 2020. If the GSP program is not renewed or otherwise made retroactive, we will continue to experience significant additional duties and our gross margin will continue to be negatively impacted. Additionally, we are subject to government regulations relating to importation activities, including the United States. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) withhold release orders. The imposition of taxes, duties and quotas, the withdrawal from or material modification to trade agreements and/or if CBP detains shipments of our goods pursuant to a withhold release order could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition. If additional tariffs or trade restrictions are implemented by the United States or other countries, the cost of our products could increase which could adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition. Additionally, we are subject to government regulations relating to product labeling, testing and safety. We maintain a global customs and product compliance organization to help manage our import and related regulatory activity.
Corporate Social Responsibility (“CSR”)
Our CSR strategy focuses on four foundational pillars:
•Our Governance - We believe responsible business practices start from the top, and we recognize the increasing importance of ESG matters to our business and our stakeholders. Our sustainability governance model ensures our
Board of Directors, executive team and brands are aligned on the most important sustainability risks and opportunities for Capri.
•Our World - We believe that the success of our Company is directly linked to the sustainability of the world around us. Our brands strive to create the highest quality luxury products with longevity and sustainability in mind. We endeavor to operate responsibly in order to lower our impact on the planet and to promote industry-wide environmental change.
•Our Community - We believe we have a responsibility to those who work with us. Our Company strives to create inclusive workplaces where all of our employees are empowered and respected. We are committed to creating meaningful opportunities for our diverse Capri community to grow.
•Our Philanthropy - Giving back is embedded in Capri’s culture. We remain steadfast in our commitment to support our philanthropic partners and to drive positive change in the communities where we live and work.
Within each of our four foundational pillars are key CSR focus areas that guide our work in support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
We believe responsible business practices start from the top. Our sustainability governance model includes a multi-level structure to ensure our Board of Directors, executive management team and business leaders across our brands are aligned on the most important environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) risks and opportunities for Capri. The Board has delegated oversight of ESG activities to the Governance, Nominating and CSR Committee (the “Governance Committee”). On at least an annual basis, our sustainability goals and action plans are presented to the Governance Committee for review and approval, along with CSR progress updates which are generally presented quarterly. The full Board of Directors regularly receives ESG updates from the Governance Committee and reviews our annual CSR reporting. The Board’s Audit Committee also assesses ESG risks as part of its overall enterprise risk management review, and the Board’s Compensation and Talent Committee considers performance against individualized ESG goals in making executive compensation decisions.
In fiscal 2023, we conducted our latest materiality assessment with the goal of identifying and prioritizing the most relevant ESG topics to our business and our stakeholders. The results of this materiality assessment helped to reinforce our CSR strategy and inform our reporting. We are committed to regular public reporting of our ESG risks and opportunities and the progress we are making toward our CSR goals.
Additional information can be found at www.capriholdings.com/responsibility. The content on this website and the content in our CSR reports are not incorporated by reference into this Annual Report on Form 10-K or in any other report or document we file with the SEC.
Available Information
Our investor website can be accessed at www.capriholdings.com. The content of our website is not incorporated by reference into this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Our Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with or furnished to the SEC pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, are available free of charge on our website under the caption “Financials” and then “SEC Filings” promptly after we electronically file such materials with, or furnish such materials to, the SEC. No information contained on our website is intended to be included as part of, or incorporated by reference into, this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Information relating to corporate governance at our Company, including our Corporate Governance Guidelines, our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics for all directors, officers, and employees, and information concerning our directors, Committees of the Board, including Committee charters, and transactions in Company securities by directors and executive officers, is available at our website under the captions “Governance” and “Financials” and then “SEC Filings.” Paper copies of these filings and corporate governance documents are available to shareholders free of charge by written request to Investor Relations, Capri Holdings Limited, 90 Whitfield Street, 2nd Floor, London, United Kingdom, W1T 4EZ. Documents filed with the SEC are also available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.

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ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS
Item 1A. Risk Factors
You should carefully read this entire report, including, without limitation, the following risk factors and the section of this annual report entitled “Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements.” Any of the following factors could materially adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition. Additional risks and uncertainties not currently known to us or that we currently view as immaterial may also materially adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition. Risks are listed in the categories where they primarily apply, but other categories may also apply.
Risks Related to Macroeconomic Conditions
The accessories, footwear and apparel industries are heavily influenced by general macroeconomic cycles that affect consumer spending and a prolonged period of depressed consumer spending could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Global economic conditions and the related impact on levels of consumer spending worldwide have impacted, and are likely to continue to impact, our business and the accessories, footwear and apparel industry overall. Inflation, rising interest rates, higher fuel and energy costs and commodity prices, reductions in net worth based on market declines and uncertainty, home prices, credit availability and consumer debt levels, concerns of a global banking crisis, political instability due to war or other geopolitical factors and other macroeconomic pressures and general uncertainty regarding the overall future economic environment have led to recession fears and are creating a challenging retail environment. Purchases of discretionary luxury items, such as the accessories, footwear and apparel that we produce, tend to decline when disposable income is lower or when there are recessions, inflationary pressures or other economic uncertainty. Other factors that could depress consumer spending include extreme weather conditions and natural disasters, pandemics (like COVID-19), high levels of unemployment, fluctuating foreign currency rates and increased taxation. Reduced consumer confidence and adversely impacted consumer spending patterns in any of the regions in which we operate could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
The COVID-19 pandemic may continue to adversely affect our business and results of operations.
The COVID-19 pandemic caused significant disruption to the global economy, consumer spending and behavior, tourism and to financial markets and negatively impacted our business. While the overall COVID-19 situation appears to be improving, our business and operating results may be negatively impacted by COVID-19 again in the future if the virus worsens or if regions or countries where we operate reinstate extended lock-downs and/or implement travel restrictions. Long term store closure requirements and/or other operational restrictions placed on our business or the business of our wholesale customers or supply chain partners as a result of COVID-19 could materially impact or disrupt our business and limit our ability to fully operate in the ordinary course, which could materially impact our financial results.
Risks Related to Our Business
We may not be able to respond to changing fashion and retail trends in a timely manner, which could have a material adverse effect on our brands, business, results of operations and financial condition.
The accessories, footwear and apparel industries have historically been subject to rapidly changing fashion trends and consumer preferences. We believe that our success is largely dependent on the images of our brands and ability to anticipate and respond promptly to changing consumer demands and fashion trends in the design, styling, sustainability production, merchandising and pricing of products. Any misstep in product quality or design, executive leadership, customer services, unfavorable publicity or excessive product discounting could negatively affect the image or our brands with our customers. If we do not correctly gauge consumer needs and fashion trends and respond appropriately, consumers may not purchase our products and our brand names and the images of our brands may be impaired. Even if we react appropriately to changes in fashion trends and consumer preferences, consumers may consider our brands to be outdated or associate our brands with styles that are no longer popular or trend-setting. We have also increased the price of our products. There can be no guarantee that consumers will accept these price increases. Any of these outcomes could have a material adverse effect on our brands, business, results of operations and financial condition.
The markets in which we operate are highly competitive, both within North America and internationally, and increased competition based on a number of factors could cause our profitability and/or gross margins to decline.
Our brands face intense competition from other accessories, footwear and apparel producers and retailers, including, primarily European and American international luxury brands. In addition, we face competition through third-party distribution channels that sell our merchandise, such as e-commerce, department stores and specialty stores. Competition is based on a number of factors, including, without limitation, the following:
•anticipating and responding to changing consumer demands in a timely manner;
•establishing and maintaining favorable brand name recognition;
•determining and maintaining product quality;
•retaining key employees;
•maintaining and growing market share;
•developing quality and differentiated products that appeal to consumers;
•establishing and maintaining acceptable relationships with retail customers;
•pricing products appropriately;
•providing appropriate service and support to retailers;
•optimizing retail and supply chain capabilities;
•determining size and location of retail and department store selling space; and
•protecting intellectual property.
In addition, some of our competitors may be significantly larger and more diversified than us and may have significantly greater financial, technological, manufacturing, sales, marketing and distribution resources than we do. Their capabilities in these areas may enable them to better withstand periodic downturns in the accessories, footwear and apparel industries (including as a result of recent inflationary pressures and other macroeconomic factors), compete more effectively on the basis of price and production and more quickly develop new products. The general availability of manufacturing contractors and agents also allows new entrants easy access to the markets in which we compete, which may increase the number of our competitors and adversely affect our competitive position and our business. Any increased competition, or our failure to adequately address any of these competitive factors, could result in reduced revenues, which could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Competition, along with other factors such as consolidation, changes in consumer spending patterns and a highly promotional retail selling environment, could also result in significant pricing pressure. These factors may cause us to reduce our sales prices to our wholesale customers and retail consumers, which could cause our gross margins to decline if we are unable to appropriately manage inventory levels and/or otherwise offset price reductions with comparable reductions in our operating costs. If our sales prices decline and we fail to sufficiently reduce our product costs or operating expenses, our profitability may decline, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Our business could suffer as a result of reductions in our wholesale channel and/or consolidations, liquidations, restructurings and other ownership changes by our wholesale partners.
We have experienced and may continue to experience a decline in sales in our wholesale channel. Reductions in the amount of merchandise purchased from us by our wholesale partners or an increase in order cancellations by our wholesale partners could further reduce our revenues and have a material adverse effect on our profitability. In addition, many of our wholesale customers have experienced, and may continue to experience, liquidity constraints or other financial difficulties. These challenges could lead to the need to extend payment terms, larger outstanding accounts receivable balances, delays in collection of accounts receivable, increased expenses associated with collection efforts, increases in excess inventory, increases in credit losses and reduced cash flows.
The retail industry has also experienced a great deal of consolidation and other ownership changes over the past several years and a number of wholesale accounts were forced to file bankruptcy or undergo restructurings. We expect that the risk of consolidation, bankruptcy, restructurings or reorganizations by department stores and other retailers will continue to exist for the foreseeable future. This could result in store closings by our wholesale customers, which would decrease the number of stores carrying our products, while the remaining stores may purchase a smaller amount of our products and/or may reduce the retail floor space designated for our brands. In addition, such consolidation, bankruptcy or other changes with respect to our
wholesale customers could decrease our opportunities in the market, increase our reliance on a smaller number of large wholesale customers and decrease our negotiating strength with our wholesale customers, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Additionally, certain of our wholesale customers, particularly those located in the United States, have become highly promotional and have aggressively marked down their merchandise. We expect that such markdowns may continue to be exacerbated because of the current macroeconomic environment. Such promotional activity could negatively impact our business.
We face risks associated with operating globally.
We operate on a global basis, with approximately 47% of our total revenue from operations outside of the United States during Fiscal 2023. As a result, we are subject to the risks of doing business internationally, including:
•political or civil unrest, including protests and other civil disruption;
•unforeseen public health crises, such as pandemic and epidemic diseases, including COVID-19 and any variants thereof;
•economic instability and unsettled regional and global conflicts (such as the current war in Ukraine), which may negatively affect consumer spending by foreign tourists and local consumers in the various regions where we operate;
•laws, regulations and policies of foreign governments (including sanctions and retaliatory actions by the United States, European Union and others);
•potential negative consequences from changes in taxation policies;
•natural disasters or other extreme weather events, including those attributed to climate change; and
•acts of terrorism, military actions or other conditions over which we have no control.
In addition, we pursue selective international expansion in a number of countries around the world and through a number of channels. If our international expansion plans are unsuccessful, it could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition. There are also some countries where we do not yet have significant operating experience, and in most of these countries we face established competitors with significantly more operating experience in those locations.
We also sell our products at varying retail price points based on geographic location that yield different gross profit margins and we achieve different operating profit margins, depending on geographic region, due to a variety of factors including product mix, store size, occupancy costs, labor costs and retail pricing. Changes in any one or more of these factors could result in lower revenues, increased costs, and negatively impact our business, results of operations and financial condition. Furthermore, consumer demand and behavior, as well as tastes and purchasing trends may differ in these countries and, as a result, sales of our product may not be successful, or the gross margins on those sales may not be in line with those we currently anticipate.
There can be no assurance that any or all of these events will not have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Our retail stores are heavily dependent on the ability and desire of consumers to travel and shop and a decline in consumer traffic could have a negative effect on our comparable store sales and store profitability resulting in impairment charges, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Reduced travel resulting from economic conditions (including a recession or inflationary pressures), fuel shortages, increased fuel prices, travel restrictions, travel concerns and other circumstances, including adverse weather conditions, disease pandemics (including COVID-19), epidemics and other health-related concerns, war, terrorist attacks or the perceived threat of war or terrorist attacks, or unsettled regional and global conflicts (such as the current war in Ukraine) could have a material adverse effect on us, particularly if such events impact our customers’ desire to travel to our retail stores.
In addition, other factors that could impact consumer traffic at our retail stores include: (i) the location of the mall or the location of a particular store within the mall; (ii) the other tenants occupying space at the mall; (iii) vacancies or extended store closures within the mall; (iv) increased competition in areas where the malls are located; (v) the amount of advertising and promotional dollars spent on attracting consumers to the malls; and (vi) a shift toward online shopping. A decline in consumer
traffic could have a negative effect on our comparable store sales and/or average sales per square foot and store profitability. If our retail stores underperform due to declining consumer traffic or otherwise and our expected future cash flows of the related underlying retail store asset do not exceed such asset’s carrying value, we may incur store impairment charges. A decline in future comparable store sales and/or store profitability or failure to meet market expectations or the occurrence of impairment charges relating to our retail store fleet could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
If we are unable to effectively execute our e-commerce business strategy and provide a reliable digital experience for our customers, our reputation and operating results may be harmed.
E-commerce represents approximately 18% of our net revenues and has been our fastest growing business over the last several years. The success of our e-commerce business depends, in part, on third-parties and factors over which we have limited control, including changing consumer preferences and buying trends relating to e-commerce usage, both domestically and abroad, and promotional or other advertising initiatives employed by our wholesale customers or other third-parties on their e-commerce sites. Any failure on our part, or on the part of our third-party digital partners, to provide attractive, reliable, secure, efficient and user-friendly e-commerce platforms could negatively impact our consumers’ shopping experience, resulting in reduced website traffic, reduced conversion, diminished loyalty to our brands and lost sales. In addition, if there is a change in consumer behavior such that customers shift to utilizing e-commerce more than, or even instead, of traditional brick-and-mortar stores, and we or our wholesale partners are unable to attract consumers who previously made in-store purchases to our digital commerce channels, our financial and operating results may be negatively affected.
The success of our business also depends on our ability to continue to develop and maintain a reliable digital experience for our customers. We strive to give our customers a seamless omni-channel experience both in stores and through digital technologies, such as computers, mobile phones, tablets and other devices. We also use social media to interact with our customers and enhance their shopping experience. Our inability to develop and continuously improve our digital brand engagement could negatively affect our ability to compete with other brands, which could adversely impact our business, results of operations and financial condition.
In addition, we must keep current with competitive technology trends, including the use of new or improved technology and services, creative user interfaces and other e-commerce marketing tools such as paid search and mobile applications, among others. Since e-commerce growth is critical to our overall growth strategy, we plan to accelerate our e-commerce and omni-channel development and we are also in the process of re-platforming our brands’ e-commerce sites to expand our global capabilities. Implementing new or improved digital systems, services or technologies, such as new or improved e-commerce platforms, may increase our costs, cause delays in or hinder our ability to continually deliver a reliable or seamless digital experience for our customers, or cause us not to succeed in increasing sales or attracting consumers. Our failure to successfully respond to these risks and uncertainties might adversely affect the sales in our e-commerce business, as well as damage our reputation and brands.
Additionally, the success of our e-commerce business and the satisfaction of our consumers depend on their timely receipt of our products. The efficient flow of our products requires that our company-operated and third-party operated distribution facilities have adequate capacity to support the current level of e-commerce operations as well as any anticipated increased levels that may follow from the growth of our e-commerce business. Transportation shortages, labor shortages and port congestion as well as disruptions in factory production in certain countries where we source our products may delay inventory orders and impact product availability in our channels, including our e-commerce sites, which could result in customer dissatisfaction, and have an adverse effect on our business and harm our reputation.
The departure of key employees or our failure to attract and retain qualified personnel could have a material adverse effect on our business.
We depend on the services and management experience of executive officers who have substantial experience and expertise in our business as well as key employees involved in our design and marketing operations, including our creative officers for each of our brands, Ms. Donatella Versace, Ms. Sandra Choi and Mr. Michael Kors. Although we have entered into employment agreements with our executive officers and other key employees, we may not be able to retain the services of such individuals in the future, which may be disruptive to, or cause uncertainty in, our business and future strategic direction, particularly if we fail to ensure a smooth transition and effective transfer of knowledge. Any such disruption or uncertainty could generate a negative public perception and/or have a material adverse impact on our results of operations, financial condition, and the market price of our ordinary shares.
Competition for qualified personnel in the fashion industry is intense and turnover in the industry for retail associates is generally high. Competitors may use aggressive tactics to recruit our employees. Our ability to attract, develop, motivate and retain employees is influenced by our ability to offer competitive compensation and benefits, employee morale, our reputation, recruitment by other employers, perceived internal opportunities, non-competition and non-solicitation agreements and macro unemployment rates. Additionally, our ability to meet our labor needs while also controlling costs is subject to external factors such as unemployment levels, prevailing wage rates, minimum wage legislation and overtime regulations. If we are unable to attract, develop, motivate and retain talented employees with the necessary skills and experience, or if changes to our organizational structure, operating results or business model adversely affect morale, hiring and/or retention, we may not achieve our objectives and our results of operations could be adversely impacted.
Our business is subject to risks inherent in global sourcing activities, including disruptions or delays in manufacturing or shipments.
As a company engaged in sourcing on a global scale, we are subject to the risks inherent in such activities, including, but not limited to:
•disease pandemics, epidemics and health-related concerns, including related to COVID-19 or variants thereof;
•political or labor instability, labor shortages (stemming from labor disputes or otherwise), or increases in costs of labor or production in countries where manufacturing contractors and suppliers are located;
•labor disputes or strikes at the location of the source of our goods and/or at ports of entry;
•disruptions, delays or reductions in shipments, including port delays and congestion, and/or capacity constraints on transportation of goods or at our factories due to COVID-19 or otherwise;
•significant increase in freight, shipping and other logistics costs, including as a result of disruptions at ports of entry;
•political or military conflict (such as the current war in Ukraine);
•heightened terrorism security concerns;
•a significant decrease in availability or an increase in the cost of raw materials, including sustainable materials, or other limitations on our ability to use raw materials or goods produced in a country that is a major provider due to political, human rights, labor, environmental or other concerns;
•the migration and development of manufacturing contractors;
•product quality issues;
•imposition of regulations, quotas and safeguards relating to imports and our ability to adjust in a timely manner to changes in trade regulations;
•increases in the costs of fuel (including volatility in the price of oil), travel and transportation (including vessel and freight);
•imposition of duties, taxes and other charges on imports;
•significant fluctuation of the value of the United States dollar against foreign currencies;
•restrictions on transfers of funds out of countries where our foreign licensees are located;
•compliance by our independent manufacturers and suppliers with our Supplier Code of Conduct and other applicable compliance policies;
•compliance with United States laws regarding the identification and reporting on the use of “conflict minerals” sourced from the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the Company’s products and the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, U.K. Bribery Act and other global anti-corruption laws, as applicable; and
•regulation or prohibition of the transaction of business with specific individuals or entities and their affiliates or goods manufactured in certain regions, such as the listing of a person or entity as a SDN (Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons) by the United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control and the issuance of withhold release orders by CBP.
Any of the foregoing could materially and adversely affect our ability to produce or deliver our products and, as a result, have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Our business may be subject to increased costs and a decline in profitability as a result of increasing pressure on margins if we misjudge the demand for our products.
Our industry is subject to significant pricing pressure caused by many factors, including intense competition and a highly promotional environment, fragmentation in the retail industry, pressure from retailers to reduce the costs of products, and changes in consumer spending patterns. If we misjudge the market for our products or demand for our products is impacted by other factors, such as inflationary pressures, political instability or COVID-19, we may be faced with significant excess inventories for some products and missed opportunities for other products. We have in the past been, and may in the future be, forced to rely on donation, markdowns, promotional sales or other write-offs, to dispose of excess, slow-moving inventory, which may negatively impact our gross margin, overall profitability and efficacy of our brands. In addition, increases in our costs, such as raw materials, labor or freight, could negatively impact our gross margin, and we may not be able to offset such cost increases through pricing measures or other means.
The long-term growth of our business depends on the successful execution of our strategic initiatives.
As part of our long-term strategy, we intend to grow our market share and revenue through the following initiatives:
•trendsetting and innovative product offerings;
•increased brand engagement;
•optimizing customer experience;
•investing in technology; and
•expanding our global presence.
We also intend to support the growth of Versace and Jimmy Choo sales through retail store openings and further developing each brand’s e-commerce and omni-channel presence, as well as expanding into the luxury accessories market. We cannot guarantee that we will be able to successfully execute on these strategic initiatives.
If we are unable to execute on our strategic initiatives, our business, results of operations and financial condition could be materially adversely affected.
Our current and future licensing and joint venture arrangements may not be successful and may make us susceptible to the actions of third-parties over whom we have limited control.
We have entered into a select number of product licensing agreements with companies that produce and sell, under our trademarks, products requiring specialized expertise. We have also entered into a number of select licensing agreements pursuant to which we have granted third-parties certain rights to distribute and sell our products in certain geographical areas and have a number of joint ventures. In the future, we may enter into additional licensing and/or joint venture arrangements. Although we take steps to carefully select our partners, such arrangements may not be successful. Our partners may fail to fulfill their obligations under these agreements or have interests that differ from or conflict with our own, such as the timing of new store openings, the pricing of our products and the offering of competitive products. In addition, the risks applicable to the business of our partners may be different than the risks applicable to our business, including risks associated with each such partner’s ability to:
•obtain capital;
•exercise operational and financial control over its business;
•manage its labor relations;
•maintain relationships with suppliers;
•manage its credit and bankruptcy risks; and
•maintain customer relationships.
In addition, the geographic areas subject to our licensing agreements could be impacted by geopolitical risks. Any of the foregoing risks, or the inability of any of our partners to successfully market our products or otherwise conduct its business, may result in loss of revenue and competitive harm to our operations in regions or product categories where we have entered into such licensing arrangements.
We rely on our partners to preserve the value of our brands. Although we attempt to protect our brands through, among other things, approval rights over store location and design, product design, production quality, packaging, merchandising, distribution, advertising and promotion of our stores and products, we may not be able to control the use by our partners of our brand. The misuse of our brand by a licensing or joint venture partner could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Acquisitions may not achieve intended benefits and may not be successfully integrated.
One component of our growth strategy has historically been acquisitions. Acquisitions are not currently contemplated in the Company's capital allocation priorities, however, we may in the future evaluate and consider other strategic investments or acquisitions. Acquisitions involve various inherent risks and the benefits, cost savings and synergies sought may not be realized. The potential difficulties that we may face that could cause the results of our acquisitions to not be in line with our expectations include, among others:
•failure to implement our business plan for the combined business or to achieve anticipated revenue or profitability targets;
•delays or difficulties in completing the integration of acquired companies or assets;
•higher than expected costs, lower than expected cost savings and/or a need to allocate resources to manage unexpected operating difficulties;
•unanticipated issues in integrating logistics, information and other systems;
•unanticipated changes in applicable laws and regulations;
•retaining key customers, suppliers and employees;
•operating risks inherent in the acquired business and our business;
•diversion of the attention and resources of management and resource constraints;
•retaining and obtaining required regulatory approvals, licenses and permits;
•unanticipated changes in the combined business due to potential divestitures or other requirements imposed by antitrust regulators;
•assumption of liabilities not identified in due diligence or other unanticipated issues, expenses and liabilities; and
•the impact on our internal controls and compliance with the requirements under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
We are required to test goodwill and indefinite-lived intangible assets acquired as a result of acquisitions for impairment at least annually. For Fiscal 2023, the carrying value of certain Jimmy Choo reporting units and brand indefinite-lived intangible assets exceeded its respective fair values requiring us to record impairment charges of $106 million. Please refer to Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations for additional information.
We are subject to risks associated with leasing retail space subject to long-term and non-cancelable leases. We may be unable to renew leases at the end of their terms. If we close a leased retail space, we remain obligated under the applicable lease.
We do not own any of our retail store facilities, but instead lease all of our stores under operating leases. Our leases generally have terms of up to 10 years, generally require a fixed annual base rent and some require the payment of additional percentage rent if store sales exceed a negotiated amount. Certain of our European stores also require initial investments in the form of key money to secure prime locations, which may be paid to landlords or existing lessees. Generally, our leases are “net” leases, which require us to pay all of the costs of insurance, taxes, maintenance and utilities. We generally cannot cancel these leases or withhold payments at our option, and payments under these operating leases account for a significant portion of our operating costs. For example, as of April 1, 2023, we were party to operating leases associated with our retail stores that we operate directly throughout the globe, as well as other global corporate facilities, requiring future minimum lease payments aggregating to $1.5 billion through Fiscal 2028 and approximately $427 million thereafter through Fiscal 2044. Our substantial operating lease obligations could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
In certain cases, as we have done in the past, we may determine that it is no longer economical to operate a retail store subject to a lease or we may seek to generally downsize, consolidate, reposition, relocate or close some of our real estate locations. In such cases, we may be required to negotiate a lease exit with the applicable landlord or remain obligated under the applicable lease for, among other things, payment of the base rent for the balance of the lease term. In some instances, we may be unable to close an underperforming retail store due to continuous operation clauses in our lease agreements. In addition, as
each of our leases expire, we may be unable to negotiate renewals, either on commercially acceptable terms or at all, which could cause us to close retail stores in desirable locations. Our inability to secure desirable retail space or favorable lease terms could impact our ability to grow. Likewise, our obligation to continue making lease payments with respect to leases for closed retail spaces could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Additionally, due to the volatile economic environment, it may be difficult to determine the fair market value of real estate properties when we are deciding whether to enter into leases or renew expiring leases. This may impact our ability to manage the profitability of our store locations, or cause impairments of our lease right-of-use assets if market values decline, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition or results of operations.
We are dependent on a limited number of distribution facilities. If one or more of our distribution facilities experience operational difficulties or becomes inoperable, it could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
We operate a limited number of distribution facilities. Our ability to meet the needs of our own retail stores and e-commerce sites, as well as our wholesale customers, depends on the proper and uninterrupted operation of these distribution facilities. If any of these distribution facilities were to shut down or otherwise become inoperable or inaccessible for any reason (including due to COVID-19), we could suffer a substantial loss of inventory and/or disruptions of deliveries to our customers. In addition, we could incur significantly higher costs and longer lead times associated with the distribution of our products during the time it takes to reopen or replace the damaged, inoperable or otherwise inaccessible facility. Any of the foregoing factors could result in decreased sales and have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
To support the growth of our business, we also use third-party logistics centers that are responsible for distribution, warehousing and fulfillment services on our behalf. Significant disruptions at these facilities could have a material adverse impact on our business. Because our direct and third-party fulfillment centers include automated and computer-controlled equipment, they are susceptible to risks including power interruptions, hardware and system failures, software viruses, security breaches and other technological and operational disruptions and of which could cause shipping delays or otherwise adversely affect our business.
We are dependent on third-parties to perform certain outsourced functions.
We are increasingly looking for opportunities to cost effectively enhance capability of business services, which includes outsourcing certain functions. While we believe we conduct appropriate due diligence before entering into agreements with these third-party service providers, the failure of any of these third-parties to provide the expected services, provide them on a timely basis or to provide them at the prices we expect could disrupt or harm our business. Any significant interruption in the operations of these outsource service providers, including as a result of changes in social, political, and economic conditions, and those resulting from military conflicts or other hostilities, that result in the disruptions of business where these outsource providers are located, could also have an adverse effect on our business. Furthermore, we may be unable to provide these services ourselves in the future or implement substitute arrangements on a timely and cost-effective basis on terms favorable to us.
Increases in the cost of raw materials could increase our production costs and cause our operating results and financial condition to suffer.
Our business is subject to volatility of costs related to certain raw materials used in the manufacturing of our products, including inflationary pressure. The costs of raw materials used in our products are affected by, among other things, weather, consumer demand, speculation on the commodities market, the relative valuations and fluctuations of the currencies of producer versus consumer countries and other factors that are generally unpredictable and beyond our control. We are not always successful in our efforts to protect our business from the volatility of the market price of raw materials and our business can be materially affected by dramatic movements in prices of raw materials which have resulted, and are expected to continue to result, in increased pricing pressures and pressure on our margins. We may not be able to implement price increases that fully mitigate the impact of these higher costs and/or any such price increases could have an adverse impact on consumer demand for our products. In addition, our costs may be impacted by sanction tariffs and customs trade orders which could also impact sourcing and availability of raw materials used by our suppliers in the manufacturing of certain of our products. Manufacturing labor costs are also subject to volatility based on local and global economic conditions. Increases in commodity prices, tariffs, sanctions, customs trade orders and/or manufacturing labor costs could increase our production costs and negatively impact our revenues, results of operations and financial condition.
We primarily use foreign manufacturing contractors and independent third-party agents to source our finished goods.
Our products are primarily produced by, and purchased or procured from, independent manufacturing contractors, and in some cases third-party sourcing agents, located mainly in Asia and Europe. A manufacturing contractor’s failure to ship products to us in a timely manner or to meet the required quality standards could cause us to miss the delivery date requirements of our customers for those items. The failure to make timely deliveries may cause customers to cancel orders, refuse to accept deliveries or demand reduced prices, any of which could have a material adverse effect on us.
We do not have long-term agreements with any of our third-party manufacturing contractors or third-party sourcing agents. As a result, any single manufacturing contractor or sourcing agent could unilaterally terminate its relationship with us at any time. Our inability to promptly replace manufacturing contractors or third-party sourcing agents that terminate their relationships with us or cease to provide high quality products in a timely and cost-efficient manner could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition and impact the cost and availability of our goods.
Our business is exposed to foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations.
Our results of operations for our international subsidiaries are exposed to foreign exchange rate fluctuations as the financial results of the applicable subsidiaries are translated from the local currency into United States dollar during financial statement consolidation. If the United States dollar strengthens against foreign currencies, the translation of these foreign currency denominated transactions could impact our consolidated results of operations. In addition, we have intercompany notes amongst certain of our non-United States subsidiaries, which may be denominated in a currency other than the functional currency of a particular reporting entity. As a result of using a currency other than the functional currency of the related subsidiary, results of these operations may be adversely affected during times of significant fluctuation between the functional currency of that subsidiary and the denomination currency of the note. We continuously monitor our foreign currency exposure and hedge a portion of our foreign subsidiaries’ foreign currency-denominated inventory purchases to minimize the impact of changes in foreign currency exchange rates. However, we cannot fully anticipate all of our foreign currency exposures and cannot ensure that these hedges will fully offset the impact of foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations. We use forward foreign exchange contracts and cross-currency swap contracts to hedge material exposure to adverse changes in foreign currency exchange rates. However, no hedging strategy can completely insulate us from foreign exchange risk.
In addition, because we operate retail stores and concessions in various countries outside of the United States, we are also exposed to market risk from fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates, primarily the Euro, the British Pound, the Chinese Renminbi, the Japanese Yen, the Korean Won and the Canadian dollar, among others. A substantial weakening of foreign currencies against the United States dollar could require us to raise our retail prices or reduce our profit margins in various locations outside of the United States. In addition, our sales and profitability could be negatively impacted if consumers in those markets were unwilling to purchase our products at increased prices.
Risks Related to Information Technology and Data Security
Privacy breaches and other cyber security risks related to our business could negatively affect our reputation, credibility and business.
We are dependent on information technology (“IT”) systems and networks for a significant portion of our direct-to-consumer sales, including our e-commerce sites and retail business credit card transaction authorization and processing. We are responsible for storing data relating to our customers and employees and also rely on third-party vendors for the storage, processing and transmission of personal and Company information. Consumers, lawmakers and consumer advocates alike are increasingly concerned over the security of personal information transmitted over the Internet, consumer identity theft and privacy and the retail industry, in particular, has been the target of many recent cyber-attacks. In addition to taking the necessary precautions ourselves, we generally require that third-party service providers implement reasonable security measures to protect our employees’ and customers’ identity and privacy. We do not, however, control these third-party service providers and cannot guarantee the elimination of electronic or physical computer break-ins or security breaches in the future. Cyber security breaches, including physical or electronic break-ins, security breaches due to employee error or misconduct, attacks by “hackers,” phishing scams, malicious software programs such as viruses and malware, and other breaches outside of our control, could result in unauthorized access or damage to our IT systems and the IT systems of our third-party service providers. Despite our efforts and the efforts of our third-party service providers to secure our and their IT systems, attacks on these systems do occur from time to time. As the techniques used to obtain unauthorized access to IT systems become more varied and sophisticated (as cybercriminals are finding new ways to launch their attacks) and if the occurrence of such security breaches becomes more frequent, we and our third-party service providers may be unable to adequately anticipate these
techniques and implement appropriate preventative measures. While we maintain cyber risk insurance to provide some coverage for certain risks associated with cyber security incidents, there is no assurance that such insurance would cover all or a significant portion of the costs or consequences associated with a cyber security incident. A significant breach of customer, employee or Company data could damage our reputation, our relationship with customers and our brands, and could result in lost sales, sizable fines, significant breach-notifications and other costs and lawsuits, as well as adversely affect our results of operations.
Additionally, we may incur increased costs and experience a significant strain on our resources to account for implementation of additional required security measures and technologies to protect personal data and confidential information or to comply with current and new state, federal and international laws governing the unauthorized disclosure of confidential information which are continuously being enacted and proposed, such as the General Data Protection Regulation in the EU, various consumer privacy and data privacy and protection acts in the United States, including, but not limited to, the American Data Privacy and Protection Act, the California Consumer Privacy Act and the California Privacy Rights Act, the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act, the Colorado Privacy Act, the Utah Consumer Privacy Act, the Connecticut Data Privacy Act and the Iowa Consumer Data Protection Act, and the Personal Information Protection Law in China.
Lastly, increased scrutiny by federal regulators (such as the FTC) and state attorney generals focused on the retail industry may lead to increased privacy and cyber security costs such as organizational changes, deploying additional personnel, acquiring and implementing enhanced privacy and security technologies on e-commerce sites, mandatory employee training for those handling customer and employee personal data, and engaging third-party experts and consultants, and the unauthorized use of proprietary information may lead to lost revenues.
A material delay or disruption in our information technology systems or e-commerce websites or our failure or inability to upgrade our information technology systems precisely and efficiently could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
We rely extensively on our IT systems to track inventory, manage our supply chain, record and process transactions, manage customer communications, summarize results and manage our business. The failure of our IT systems to operate properly or effectively, problems with transitioning to upgraded or replacement systems, or difficulty in or failure to implement new systems, could adversely affect our business. We also operate a number of e-commerce websites throughout the world. Our IT systems and e-commerce websites may be subject to damage and/or interruption from power outages, computer, network and telecommunications failures, malicious software, such as viruses and malware, attacks by “hackers”, security breaches, usage errors or misconduct by our employees and bad acts by our customers and website visitors which could materially adversely affect our business.
We are undergoing a multi-year Enterprise Resource Planning (“ERP”) implementation. The implementation of the ERP will require a significant investment in human and financial resources. Implementing new systems also carries substantial risk, including failure to operate as designed, failure to properly integrate with other systems, potential loss of data or information, cost overruns, implementation delays and disruption of operations. Third-party vendors are also relied upon to design, program, maintain and service our ERP implementation program. Any failures of these vendors to properly deliver their services could similarly have a material adverse effect on our business. In addition, any disruptions or malfunctions affecting our ERP implementation plan could cause critical information upon which we rely to be delayed, defective, corrupted, inadequate, inaccessible or lost or otherwise cause delays or disruptions to our operations, and we may have to make significant investments to fix or replace impacted systems.
Risks Related to Environmental, Social and Governance Issues
Increased scrutiny from investors and others regarding our corporate social responsibility initiatives, including environmental, social and other matters of significance relating to sustainability, and changing regulatory requirements around ESG could result in additional costs or risks and adversely impact our reputation.
Investor advocacy groups, certain institutional investors, investment funds, other market participants, shareholders, customers, employees and regulators have increasingly focused on ESG or “sustainability” practices of companies. We have a publicly announced global strategy to achieve significant, measurable goals across a range of important environmental and social sustainability issues, including, renewable energy, responsible material sourcing, water use and chemical management and waste reduction. We have also set science-based targets around greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) reductions. We rely on our supply chain partners to meet certain of our targets, including our GHG emissions reduction goals; however, our supply chain is complex and comprised of parties not within our control. It is possible that stakeholders may not be satisfied with our
ESG targets, practices or the speed of adoption or that we may not be successful in achieving our goals on the timelines set or at all, which could negatively impact our brands, our reputation, and customer and employee retention.
In addition, many countries in which we and our suppliers operate have begun enacting new ESG and climate legislation and regulations. Such proposed regulations include expanded disclosure requirements regarding GHG emissions and other climate-related information, including independent auditors providing some level of attestation to the accuracy of such disclosures. Our ability to comply with any such new ESG and/or climate laws and regulations may lead to increased costs and operational complexity and/or we may be required to divert costs and resources in order to comply with ESG frameworks, and legal, legislative and regulatory requirements. Any failure on our part to comply with such ESG-related regulations could lead to adverse consumer actions and/or investment decisions by investors, as well as expose us to government enforcement action and/or private litigation.
Our business is susceptible to the risks associated with climate change and other environmental impacts which could negatively affect our business and operations.
Our business, including our retail, distribution and manufacturing operations, is susceptible to the risks associated with climate change and other environmental impacts. For example, the physical effects of climate change, such as severe weather events, natural disasters and/or significant changes in climate patterns may (i) cause potential disruptions to our retail stores, distribution centers and corporate facilities or those facilities of our wholesale customers, licensees or suppliers, (ii) adversely impact global supply chains, including the availability and cost of raw materials, (iii) negatively affect the ability of our manufacturers to fulfill our orders timely and/or to our specifications, (iv) cause shipping disruptions and/or (v) lead to higher freight costs. An increase in extreme weather conditions could also result in more frequent damage and/or closures of our stores and distribution centers (or facilities of our wholesale customers, licensees or suppliers), adversely impact retail traffic, consumer’s disposable income levels or spending habits on discretionary items, or otherwise disrupt business operations in the communities in which we or our partners operate, any of which could result in lost sales or higher costs. In addition, concern over climate change may result in transitional risks such as new or additional legal, legislative and regulatory requirements to reduce or mitigate the effects of climate change on the environment which may result in increased operational and administrative compliance costs. These physical and transitional risks relating to climate could negatively affect our business and operations.
Risks Related to Tax, Legal and Regulatory Matters
Our business is subject to risks associated with importing products, and the imposition of additional duties, tariffs or trade restrictions could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
There are risks inherent to importing our products. Virtually all of our imported products are subject to duties which may impact the cost of such products. In addition, countries to which we ship our products may impose safeguard quotas to limit the quantity of products that may be imported. We rely on free trade agreements and other supply chain initiatives in order to maximize efficiencies relating to product importation. Additionally, we are subject to government regulations relating to importation activities, including related to CBP withhold release orders. The imposition of taxes, duties and quotas, the withdrawal from or material modification to trade agreements, and/or if CBP detains shipments of our goods pursuant to a withhold release order could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition. If additional tariffs or trade restrictions are implemented by the United States or other countries, the cost of our products could increase which could adversely affect our business.
Fluctuations in our tax obligations and changes in tax laws, treaties and regulations may have a material adverse impact on our future effective tax rates and results of operations.
The Company and our subsidiaries are subject to taxation in the United States and various foreign jurisdictions, with the applicable tax rates varying by jurisdiction. As a result, our overall effective tax rate is affected by the proportion of earnings from the various tax jurisdictions. We record tax expense based on our estimates of taxable income and required reserves for uncertain tax positions in multiple tax jurisdictions. At any time, there are multiple tax years that are subject to examinations by various taxing authorities. The ultimate resolution of these audits and negotiations with taxing authorities may result in a settlement amount that differs from our original estimate. Any proposed or future changes in tax laws, treaties and regulations or interpretations where we operate could have a material adverse effect on our effective tax rates, results of operations and financial condition.
We and our subsidiaries are also engaged in a number of intercompany transactions. Although we believe that these transactions reflect arm’s-length terms and that proper transfer pricing documentation is in place, the transfer prices and conditions may be scrutinized by local tax authorities which could result in additional tax liabilities.
On October 5, 2015, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (“OECD”), an international association of 34 countries, including the United States and United Kingdom, released the final reports from its Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (“BEPS”) Action Plans. The BEPS recommendations covered a number of issues, including country-by-country reporting, permanent establishment rules, transfer pricing rules and tax treaties. Future tax reform resulting from this development may result in changes to long-standing tax principles, which could adversely affect our effective tax rate and/or result in higher cash tax liabilities. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the European Union and other countries (including countries in which we operate) have committed to enacting substantial changes to numerous long-standing tax principles impacting how large multinational enterprises are taxed in an effort to limit perceived base erosion and profit shifting incentives. In particular, the OECD’s Pillar Two initiative introduces a 15% global minimum tax applied on a country-by-country basis, for which many jurisdictions have now committed to an effective enactment date starting January 1, 2024. If these proposals are implemented in any jurisdictions in which we operate, they could negatively impact our effective tax rate as well as increase the tax compliance and reporting costs related to such requirements.
If we fail to comply with labor laws or collective bargaining agreements, or if our independent manufacturing contractors fail to use acceptable, ethical business practices, our business and reputation could suffer.
We are subject to labor laws governing relationships with employees, including minimum wage requirements, overtime, working conditions and citizenship requirements. We are also subject to collective bargaining agreements with respect to employees in certain European countries. Compliance with these laws and regulations, as well as collective bargaining agreements, may lead to increased costs and operational complexity and may increase our exposure to governmental investigations or litigation.
We require our independent manufacturing contractors to operate in compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations regarding working conditions, employment practices and environmental compliance, as well as our Supplier Code of Conduct and other compliance policies under our Factory Social and Environmental Compliance Program. Our staff and third-parties we retain for such purposes periodically visit and monitor the operations of our independent manufacturing contractors to determine compliance. However, we generally do not control these manufacturing contractors or suppliers or their labor, environmental or other business practices. The violation of labor, environmental or other laws by an independent manufacturer or supplier, or divergence of an independent manufacturer’s or supplier’s labor practices from those generally accepted as ethical or appropriate or that violate our Supplier Code of Conduct, could interrupt or otherwise disrupt the shipment of our products, harm our trademarks or damage our reputation. Further, we could be prohibited from importing goods by governmental authorities. The occurrence of any of these events could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
We may be unable to protect our trademarks, copyrights and other intellectual property rights, and others may allege that we infringe upon their intellectual property rights.
Our VERSACE, JIMMY CHOO and MICHAEL KORS trademarks, as well as other material trademarks, copyrights and design and patent rights related to the production, marketing and distribution of our products, are important to our success and our competitive position. We are susceptible to others imitating our products and infringing on our intellectual property rights in the Americas, EMEA, Asia and elsewhere in the world in both online and offline channels. Our brands enjoy significant worldwide consumer recognition and the generally higher pricing of our products creates additional incentive for counterfeiters to infringe on our brands. We work with customs authorities, law enforcement, legal representatives and brand specialists globally in an effort to prevent the sale of counterfeit products, but we cannot guarantee the extent to which our efforts to prevent counterfeiting of our brands and other intellectual property infringement will be successful. Such counterfeiting and other intellectual property infringement could dilute our brands and otherwise harm our reputation and business.
Our trademark and other intellectual property applications may fail to result in registered trademarks or other intellectual property or to provide the scope of coverage sought, and others may seek to invalidate our trademarks, copyrights or other intellectual property or block sales of our products as an alleged violation of their trademarks and/or intellectual property rights. In addition, others may assert rights in, or ownership of, trademarks, copyrights and/or other intellectual property rights of ours or in trademarks, copyrights or other intellectual property that are similar to ours or that we license, and we may not be able to successfully resolve these types of conflicts to our satisfaction. In some cases, other intellectual property owners may have prior rights to our trademarks or similar trademarks or intellectual property. Furthermore, the laws of certain foreign countries may
not protect trademarks, copyrights and/or other intellectual property rights to the same extent as the laws of the United States or the European Union.
From time to time, in the ordinary course of our business, we become involved in opposition and cancellation proceedings with respect to trademarks or other intellectual property similar to some of our brands. Any litigation or dispute involving the scope or enforceability of our intellectual property rights or any allegation that we infringe upon the intellectual property rights of others could be costly and time-consuming and, if determined adversely to us, could result in harm to our competitive position.
We self-insure certain risks and may be impacted by unfavorable claims experience.
We use a combination of insurance and self-insurance programs, including a wholly-owned captive insurance entity, to provide for the potential liabilities for certain risks including, employee health-care benefits, workers’ compensation, employer liability, general liability, marine transport and inventory, property damage, cyber risk and business interruption. Claims are difficult to predict and may be volatile. Any adverse claims experience could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
We are subject to various proceedings, lawsuits, disputes and claims in the ordinary course of business which could have an adverse impact on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
We are a global company and are subject to various proceedings, lawsuits, disputes and claims throughout the world in the ordinary course of business. These claims could include commercial, intellectual property, employment, customer and data privacy claims, as well as class action lawsuits. Typically, these claims raise complex factual and legal issues and are subject to uncertainties. Plaintiffs may seek unspecified damages and/or injunctive or other equitable relief. Our potential liability may be covered in part by our insurance policies, but we may not always have adequate insurance to defend all claims. An unfavorable outcome in any proceeding, lawsuit, dispute or claim may have an adverse impact on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Risks Related to Our Debt
We have incurred a substantial amount of indebtedness, which could adversely affect our financial condition and restrict our ability to incur additional indebtedness or engage in additional transactions.
As of April 1, 2023, our consolidated indebtedness was approximately $1.8 billion. Our total borrowings as of April 1, 2023 primarily relate to our revolving credit facility of $874 million, Versace term loan of $488 million and senior notes of $450 million. Our ability to make payments on and refinance our debt obligations and to fund planned capital expenditures depends on our ability to generate cash from our operations. This, to a certain extent, is subject to general economic, financial, competitive, legislative, regulatory and other factors that are beyond our control. Our substantial level of indebtedness could have negative consequences to our business and we cannot guarantee that our business will generate sufficient cash flow from our operations or that future borrowings will be available to us in an amount sufficient to enable us to make payments of our debt, fund other liquidity needs, make necessary capital expenditures or pursue certain business opportunities. Our financial results, our substantial indebtedness and our credit ratings could adversely affect the availability and terms of our financing and negatively impact our ability to enter into new financing arrangements in the future.
In addition, our ability to access credit and capital markets in the future as a source of funding, and the borrowing costs associated with such financing, is dependent upon market conditions and our credit rating and outlook. We are currently rated investment grade by two of the Company’s three credit rating agencies. If our investment rating is downgraded in the future, it could result in reduced access to the credit and capital markets, more restrictive covenants in future financial documents and higher interest costs and potentially increased lease or hedging costs.
We may be unable to meet financial covenants in our indebtedness agreements which could result in an event of default and restrictive covenants in such agreements may restrict our ability to pursue our business strategies.
The terms of our indebtedness contain affirmative and negative covenants that impose operating and financial restrictions on us and may restrict our ability to engage in future business opportunities or pursue our strategies. The Company’s 2022 Credit Facility and the 2022 Versace Credit Facility (of which the Company provides a parent guarantee) requires us to maintain a quarterly maximum permitted net leverage ratio of no greater than 4.0 to 1.0. The 2022 Credit Facility, the 2022
Versace Credit Facility and the Indenture governing our senior notes also contain certain restrictive covenants, including restrictions on our and certain of our subsidiaries ability to:
•incur additional indebtedness and guarantee indebtedness;
•pay dividends or make other distributions or repurchase or redeem capital stock;
•make loans and investments, including acquisitions;
•sell assets;
•incur liens;
•enter into transactions with affiliates; and
•consolidate, merge or sell all or substantially all of our assets
which collectively may limit our ability to engage in acts that may be in our long-term best interest.
A breach of the covenants or restrictions under the documents that govern our indebtedness could result in an event of default under the applicable indebtedness. Such a default may allow creditors to accelerate the related debt and may result in the acceleration of any other debt to which a cross-acceleration or cross-default provision applies. In addition, an event of default under the credit agreement governing our 2022 Credit Facility or the Versace 2022 Credit Facility would permit the lenders under our those credit facilities to terminate all commitments to extend further credit under such facility. In the event our lenders or noteholders accelerate the repayment of our borrowings, we and our subsidiaries may not have sufficient assets to repay that indebtedness. As a result of these restrictions, we may be:
•limited in how we conduct our business;
•unable to raise additional debt or equity financing to operate during general economic or business downturns, including during a recessions or other times of economic uncertainty; or
•unable to compete effectively or to take advantage of new business opportunities.
If one or more of our counterparty financial institutions default on their obligations to us, we may incur significant losses or our financial liquidity could be adversely impacted.
As part of our hedging activities, we enter into transactions involving derivative financial instruments, including fixed-to-fixed cross-currency swaps to hedge our net investments in foreign operations against future volatility in the exchange rates between the United States dollar and foreign currencies, with various financial institutions. In addition, we have significant amounts of cash, cash equivalents and other investments on deposit or in accounts with banks or other financial institutions in the United States and abroad. We also rely on borrowings under our revolving credit facilities, under which we had $694 million of borrowing capacity as of April 1, 2023. We rely on that borrowing capacity to fund our operations. As a result, we are exposed to the risk of default by, or failure of, counterparty financial institutions to meet their contractual obligations to us. This risk may be heightened during economic downturns and periods of uncertainty in the financial markets. If one of our counterparties were to become insolvent or file for bankruptcy, our ability to borrow funds or recover losses incurred as a result of a default or our assets that are deposited or held in accounts with such counterparty may be limited by the counterparty’s liquidity or the applicable laws governing the insolvency or bankruptcy proceedings. In the event of default or failure of one or more of our counterparties, we could incur significant losses or our financial liquidity could be adversely impacted, which could negatively impact our results of operations and financial condition.
Risks Related to Our Ordinary Shares
Our share price may periodically fluctuate based on the accuracy of our earnings guidance or other forward-looking statements regarding our financial performance.
Our business and long-range planning process is designed to maximize our long-term growth and profitability and not to achieve an earnings target in any particular fiscal quarter. We believe that this longer-term focus is in the best interests of our Company and our shareholders. At the same time, however, we recognize that it is helpful to provide investors with guidance as to our forecast of total revenue, earnings per share and other financial metrics or projections. While we generally expect to provide updates to our financial guidance when we report our results each fiscal quarter, we do not have any responsibility to update any of our forward-looking statements at such times or otherwise. In addition, any longer-term guidance that we provide is based on goals that we believe, at the time guidance is given, are reasonably attainable for growth and performance over a number of years. However, such long-range targets are more difficult to predict than our current quarter and fiscal year
expectations. If, or when, we announce actual results that differ from those that have been predicted by us, outside investment analysts, or others, our share price could be adversely affected. Investors who rely on these predictions when making investment decisions with respect to our securities do so at their own risk. We take no responsibility for any losses suffered as a result of such changes in our share price.
If we are unable to conduct share repurchases at expected levels, our share price could be adversely affected.
We periodically return value to shareholders through our share repurchase program. On November 9, 2022, the Company announced that its Board of Directors approved the Existing Share Repurchase Plan which permits the Company to repurchase up to $1 billion of its outstanding ordinary shares over two years in open market or privately negotiated transactions and/or pursuant to Rule 10b5-1 trading plans, subject to market conditions, applicable legal requirements, trading restrictions under the Company’s insider trading policy and other relevant factors. The program may be suspended or discontinued at any time. Our ability to conduct share repurchases depends on our ability to generate sufficient cash flows from operations in the future which may be limited by economic, financial, competitive and other factors that are beyond our control. The Existing Share Repurchase Plan may also be suspended or discontinued at any time. Investors may have an expectation that we will repurchase all shares available under our Existing Share Repurchase Plan. The market price of our ordinary shares could be adversely affected if our share repurchase activity differs from investors’ expectations or if our share repurchase activity were to terminate.
Failure to maintain adequate financial and management processes and controls could lead to errors in our financial reporting, which could harm our business and cause a decline in the price of our ordinary shares.
As an SEC registrant, we are required to document and test our internal controls over financial reporting pursuant to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. If our management is unable to certify the effectiveness of our internal controls or if our independent registered public accounting firm cannot render an opinion on the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting, or if material weaknesses in our internal controls are identified, we could be subject to regulatory scrutiny and a loss of public confidence, which could have an adverse effect on our business and cause a decline in the price of our ordinary shares.
Provisions in our organizational documents may delay or prevent our acquisition by a third-party.
Our Memorandum and Articles of Association (together, as amended from time to time, our “Memorandum and Articles”) contain several provisions that may make it more difficult or expensive for a third-party to acquire control of us without the approval of our board of directors. These provisions may delay, prevent or deter a merger, acquisition, tender offer, proxy contest or other transaction that might otherwise result in our shareholders receiving a premium over the market price for their ordinary shares. These provisions include, among others:
•our board of directors’ ability to amend the Memorandum and Articles to create and issue, from time to time, one or more classes of preference shares and, with respect to each such class, to fix the terms thereof by resolution;
•provisions relating to the multiple classes and three-year terms of directors, the manner of election of directors, removal of directors and the appointment of directors upon an increase in the number of directors or vacancy on our board of directors;
•restrictions on the ability of shareholders to call meetings and bring proposals before meetings;
•elimination of the ability of shareholders to act by written consent; and
•the requirement of the affirmative vote of 75% of the shares entitled to vote to amend certain provisions of our Memorandum and Articles.
These provisions of our Memorandum and Articles could discourage potential takeover attempts and reduce the price that investors might be willing to pay for our ordinary shares in the future, which could reduce the market price of our ordinary shares.
Rights of shareholders under British Virgin Islands law differ from those under United States law, and, accordingly, our shareholders may have fewer protections.
Our corporate affairs are governed by our Memorandum and Articles, the BVI Business Companies Act (Revised Edition 2020) (as amended) (the “BVI Act”) and the common law of the British Virgin Islands. The rights of shareholders to take legal action against our directors, actions by minority shareholders and the fiduciary responsibilities of our directors under British
Virgin Islands law are to a large extent governed by the common law of the British Virgin Islands and by the BVI Act. The common law of the British Virgin Islands is derived in part from comparatively limited judicial precedent in the British Virgin Islands as well as from English common law, which has persuasive, but not binding, authority on a court in the British Virgin Islands. The rights of our shareholders and the fiduciary responsibilities of our directors under British Virgin Islands law are not as clearly established as they would be under statutes or judicial precedents in some jurisdictions in the United States. In particular, the British Virgin Islands has a less developed body of securities laws as compared to the United States, and some states (such as Delaware) have more fully developed and judicially interpreted bodies of corporate law. As a result of the foregoing, holders of our ordinary shares may have more difficulty in protecting their interests through actions against our management, directors or major shareholders than they would as shareholders of a United States company.
The laws of the British Virgin Islands provide limited protection for minority shareholders, so minority shareholders will have limited or no recourse if they are dissatisfied with the conduct of our affairs.
Under the laws of the British Virgin Islands, there is limited statutory law for the protection of minority shareholders other than the provisions of the BVI Act dealing with shareholder remedies. The principal protection under statutory law is that shareholders may bring an action to enforce the constituent documents of a British Virgin Islands company and are entitled to have the affairs of the Company conducted in accordance with the BVI Act and the memorandum and articles of association of the Company. As such, if those who control the Company have persistently disregarded the requirements of the BVI Act or the provisions of the Company’s memorandum and articles of association, then the courts will likely grant relief. Generally, the areas in which the courts will intervene are the following: (i) an act complained of which is outside the scope of the authorized business or is illegal or not capable of ratification by the majority; (ii) acts that constitute fraud on the minority where the wrongdoers control the Company; (iii) acts that infringe on the personal rights of the shareholders, such as the right to vote; and (iv) acts where the Company has not complied with provisions requiring approval of a special or extraordinary majority of shareholders, which are more limited than the rights afforded to minority shareholders under the laws of many states in the United States.
It may be difficult to enforce judgments against us or our executive officers and directors in jurisdictions outside the United States.
Under our Memorandum and Articles, we may indemnify and hold our directors harmless against all claims and suits brought against them, subject to limited exceptions. Furthermore, to the extent allowed by law, the rights and obligations among or between us, any of our current or former directors, officers and employees and any current or former shareholder will be governed exclusively by the laws of the British Virgin Islands and subject to the jurisdiction of the British Virgin Islands courts, unless those rights or obligations do not relate to or arise out of their capacities as such. Although there is doubt as to whether United States’ courts would enforce these provisions in an action brought in the United States under United States securities laws, these provisions could make judgments obtained outside of the British Virgin Islands more difficult to enforce against our assets in the British Virgin Islands or jurisdictions that would apply British Virgin Islands law.
British Virgin Islands companies may not be able to initiate shareholder derivative actions, thereby depriving shareholders of one avenue to protect their interests.
British Virgin Islands companies may not have standing to initiate a shareholder derivative action in a federal court of the United States. The circumstances in which any such action may be brought, and the procedures and defenses that may be available in respect of any such action, may result in the rights of shareholders of a British Virgin Islands’ company being more limited than those of shareholders of a company organized in the United States. Accordingly, shareholders may have fewer alternatives available to them if they believe that corporate wrongdoing has occurred. The British Virgin Islands courts are also unlikely to recognize or enforce judgments of courts in the United States based on certain liability provisions of United States securities law or to impose liabilities, in original actions brought in the British Virgin Islands, based on certain liability provisions of the United States securities laws that are penal in nature. There is no statutory recognition in the British Virgin Islands of judgments obtained in the United States, although the courts of the British Virgin Islands will generally recognize and enforce the non-penal judgment of a foreign court of competent jurisdiction without retrial on the merits. This means that even if shareholders were to sue us successfully, they may not be able to recover anything to make up for the losses suffered.

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ITEM 1B. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS
Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments
None.

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ITEM 2. PROPERTIES
Item 2. Properties
The following table sets forth the location, use and size of our significant distribution and corporate facilities as of April 1, 2023, all of which are leased with the exception of our distribution center in the Netherlands, our central warehouse in Italy and luxury shoe factory in Italy, which are owned. The leases expire at various times through Fiscal 2044, subject to renewal options.
Location Use Approximate Square
Footage
Whittier, CA Michael Kors United States Distribution Center 1,181,000
Venlo, Netherlands Michael Kors and Jimmy Choo European Distribution Center 1,096,000
New York, NY Michael Kors, Versace and Jimmy Choo United States Corporate Offices 211,000
Montreal, Quebec Michael Kors and Jimmy Choo Canada Corporate Offices and Distribution Center 150,000
Novara, Italy Versace European Distribution Center 109,000
Milan, Italy Versace Corporate Offices 90,000
Milan, Italy Versace Showroom 54,000
Novara, Italy Versace Manufacturing and Distribution Center 46,000
Pistoia, Italy Capri Luxury Shoe Factory 41,000
East Rutherford, NJ Michael Kors United States Corporate Offices 31,000
Milan, Italy Michael Kors Regional Corporate Office and Showroom 25,000
Shanghai, China Michael Kors, Versace and Jimmy Choo Regional Corporate Offices 25,000
London, England Jimmy Choo Corporate Offices 24,000
London, England Capri Corporate Headquarters and Michael Kors Regional Corporate Office 19,000
Manno, Switzerland Michael Kors European Corporate Offices 18,000
As of April 1, 2023, we also occupied 1,272 leased retail stores worldwide (including concessions). We consider our properties to be in good condition and believe that our facilities are adequate for our operations and provide sufficient capacity to meet our anticipated requirements.
Other than the land and building for our Michael Kors and Jimmy Choo European distribution center in the Netherlands, our Versace central warehouse in Italy and our Capri luxury shoe factory in Italy, property and equipment related to our stores (e.g. leasehold improvements, fixtures, etc.) and computer equipment, we did not own any material property as of April 1, 2023.

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ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
Item 3. Legal Proceedings
We are involved in various routine legal proceedings incident to the ordinary course of our business. We believe that the outcome of all pending legal proceedings, in the aggregate, will not have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

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ITEM 4. MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURE
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures
None.
PART II

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ITEM 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT'S COMMON EQUITY
Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
Market Information
Our ordinary shares trade on the NYSE under the symbol “CPRI”. At April 1, 2023, there were 117,347,045 ordinary shares outstanding, and the closing price of our ordinary shares was $47.00. Also as of that date, we had approximately 133 ordinary shareholders of record.
Share Performance Graph
The line graph below compares the cumulative total shareholder return on our ordinary shares with the Standard & Poor’s (“S&P”) 500 Stock Index and the S&P 500 Apparel, Accessories & Luxury Goods Index for the five-year period from March 29, 2018 through March 31, 2023, the last business day of our fiscal year. The graph below assumes an investment of $100 made at the close of trading on March 29, 2018, in our ordinary shares and each of the indices presented. All values assume reinvestment of the full amount of all dividends, if any, into additional shares of the same class of equity securities at the frequency with which dividends are paid on such securities during the applicable time period.
Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
On June 1, 2022, the Board of Directors terminated our Fiscal 2022 Plan, with $500 million of availability remaining, and authorized a new share repurchase program pursuant to which we may, from time to time, repurchase up to $1.0 billion of our outstanding ordinary shares within period of two years from the effective date of the program.
On November 9, 2022, the Company announced that its Board of Directors approved a new share repurchase program of up to $1 billion of its outstanding ordinary shares, providing additional capacity to return cash to shareholders over the longer term. This new two-year program replaced the Company’s existing $1 billion share repurchase program which had $250 million of availability remaining.
Share repurchases may be made in open market or privately negotiated transactions and/or pursuant to Rule 10b5-1 trading plans, subject to market conditions, applicable legal requirements, trading restrictions under the Company’s insider trading policy and other relevant factors. The program may be suspended or discontinued at any time.
The following table provides information regarding our ordinary share repurchases during the three months ended April 1, 2023:
Total Number of Shares Average Price Paid per Share Total Number of
Shares
Purchased as Part of
Publicly Announced
Programs Remaining Dollar Value of Shares That May Be Purchased Under the Programs (in millions)
January 1, 2023 - January 28, 2023 604 $ 64.64 - $ 800
January 29, 2023 - February 25, 2023 3,288,564 $ 50.17 3,288,564 $ 635
February 26, 2023 - April 1, 2023 5,146,526 $ 45.66 5,146,526 $ 400
8,435,694 8,435,090

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ITEM 6. SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA
Item 6. [Reserved]

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ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS
ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
Overview
Our Business
Capri Holdings Limited is a global fashion luxury group consisting of iconic, founder-led brands Versace, Jimmy Choo and Michael Kors. Our commitment to glamorous style and craftsmanship is at the heart of each of our luxury brands. We have built our reputation on designing exceptional, innovative products that cover the full spectrum of fashion luxury categories. Our strength lies in the unique DNA and heritage of each of our brands, the diversity and passion of our people and our dedication to the clients and communities we serve.
Our Versace brand has long been recognized as one of the world’s leading international fashion design houses and is synonymous with Italian glamour and style. Founded in 1978 in Milan, Versace is known for its iconic and unmistakable style and unparalleled craftsmanship. Over the past several decades, the House of Versace has grown globally from its roots in haute couture, expanding into the design, manufacturing, distribution and retailing of accessories, ready-to-wear, footwear, eyewear, watches, jewelry, fragrance and home furnishings. Versace’s design team is led by Donatella Versace, who has been the brand’s Artistic Director for over 20 years. Versace distributes its products through a worldwide distribution network, which includes boutiques in some of the world’s most glamorous cities, its e-commerce sites, as well as through the most prestigious department and specialty stores worldwide.
Our Jimmy Choo brand offers a distinctive, glamorous and fashion-forward product range, enabling it to develop into a leading global luxury accessory brand, whose core product offering is women’s luxury shoes, complemented by accessories, including handbags, small leather goods, jewelry, scarves and belts, as well as a growing men’s luxury shoe and accessory business. In addition, certain categories, such as fragrances and eyewear are produced under licensing agreements. Jimmy Choo’s design team is led by Sandra Choi, who has been the Creative Director for the brand since its inception in 1996. Jimmy Choo products are unique, instinctively seductive and chic. The brand offers classic and timeless luxury products, as well as innovative products that are intended to set and lead fashion trends. Jimmy Choo is represented through its global store network, its e-commerce sites, as well as through the most prestigious department and specialty stores worldwide.
Our Michael Kors brand was launched over 40 years ago by Michael Kors, a world-renowned designer, whose vision has taken the Company from its beginnings as an American luxury sportswear house to a global accessories, footwear and ready-to-wear company with a global distribution network that has presence in over 100 countries through Company-operated retail stores and e-commerce sites, leading department stores, specialty stores and select licensing partners. Michael Kors is a highly recognized luxury fashion brand in the Americas and Europe with growing brand awareness in other international markets. Michael Kors features distinctive designs, materials and craftsmanship with a jet-set aesthetic that combines stylish elegance and a sporty attitude. Michael Kors offers three primary collections: the Michael Kors Collection luxury line, the MICHAEL Michael Kors accessible luxury line and the Michael Kors Mens line. The Michael Kors Collection establishes the aesthetic authority of the entire brand and is carried by select retail stores, our e-commerce sites, as well as in the finest luxury department stores in the world. MICHAEL Michael Kors has a strong focus on accessories, in addition to offering footwear and ready-to-wear, and addresses the significant demand opportunity in accessible luxury goods. We have also been developing our men’s business in recognition of the significant opportunity afforded by the Michael Kors brand’s established fashion authority and the expanding men’s market. Taken together, our Michael Kors collections target a broad customer base while retaining our premium luxury image.
Certain Factors Affecting Financial Condition and Results of Operations
Macroeconomic conditions and inflationary pressures. Global economic conditions and the related impact on levels of consumer spending worldwide impacted our business in Fiscal 2023, and are likely to continue to impact our business and the accessories, footwear and apparel industry overall for the foreseeable future. Inflation, rising interest rates, higher fuel and energy costs and commodity prices, reductions in net worth based on market declines and uncertainty, home prices, credit availability and consumer debt levels, concerns of a global banking crisis, political instability due to war or other geopolitical factors and other macroeconomic pressures and general uncertainty regarding the overall future economic environment have led to recession fears and created a challenging retail environment, particularly in the second half of Fiscal 2023, which is expected to continue in the near term. Purchases of discretionary luxury items, such as the accessories, footwear and apparel that we produce, tend to decline when disposable income is lower or when there are recessions, inflationary pressures or other economic uncertainty which could negatively affect our financial condition and results of operations.
COVID-19 pandemic. The Company's performance during Fiscal 2023 was adversely impacted due to lockdowns in certain regions, most notably in Greater China, as a result of an increase in infections due to variants of COVID-19. These lockdowns resulted in store closures and an overall decline in demand in the region. While the situation seems to be improving, infection rates and government restrictions may continue to persist in Greater China or elsewhere.
Luxury goods trends and demand for our accessories and related merchandise. Our performance is affected by trends in the luxury goods industry, global consumer spending, macroeconomic factors, overall levels of consumer travel and spending on discretionary items as well as shifts in demographics and changes in lifestyle preferences. Through 2019, the personal luxury goods market grew at a mid-single digit rate over the past 20 years, with more recent growth driven by stronger Chinese demand from both international and local consumers and demographic and socioeconomic shifts resulting in younger consumers purchasing more luxury goods. However, in 2020, due to the impact of the COVID-19 crisis, the personal luxury goods market declined 23%. Market studies indicate that the personal luxury goods market returned to 2019 levels in 2021, and the market is predicted to increase at a 10% compound annual growth rate between 2020 and 2025. Future growth is expected to be driven by e-commerce, Chinese consumers and younger generations; however, growth may be limited by concerns over inflation, the possibility of a global recession, foreign currency volatility or worsening economic conditions.
Foreign currency fluctuation. Our consolidated operations are impacted by the relationships between our reporting currency, the United States dollar, and those of our non-United States subsidiaries whose functional/local currency is other than the United States dollar, primarily the Euro, the British Pound, the Chinese Renminbi, the Japanese Yen, the Korean Won and the Canadian dollar, among others. We continue to expect volatility in the global foreign currency exchange rates, which may have a negative impact on the reported results of certain of our non-United States subsidiaries in the future, when translated to the United States dollar.
Disruptions or delays in shipping and distribution and other supply chain constraints. Any disruptions in our shipping and distribution network, including port congestion, vessel availability, container shortages and temporary factory closures, could have a negative impact on our results of operations. See Item 1A. “Risk Factors” - “We primarily use foreign manufacturing contractors and independent third-party agents to source our finished goods” and “Our business is subject to risks inherent in global sourcing activities, including disruptions or delays in manufacturing or shipments” for additional discussion.
Costs of manufacturing, tariffs and import regulations. Our industry is subject to volatility in costs related to certain raw materials used in the manufacturing of our products. This volatility applies primarily to costs driven by commodity prices, which can increase or decrease dramatically over a short period of time. In addition, our costs may be impacted by sanction tariffs imposed on our products due to changes in trade terms. We rely on free trade agreements and other supply chain initiatives in order to maximize efficiencies relating to product importation. We are also subject to government import regulations, including CBP withhold release orders. The imposition of taxes, duties and quotas, the withdrawal from or material modification to trade agreements and/or if CBP detains shipments of our goods pursuant to a withhold release order could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition. If additional tariffs or trade restrictions are implemented by the United States or other countries, the cost of our products could increase which could adversely affect our business. In addition, commodity prices and tariffs may have an impact on our revenues, results of operations and cash flows. We use commercially reasonable efforts to mitigate these effects by sourcing our products as efficiently as possible and diversifying the countries where we produce. In addition, manufacturing labor costs are also subject to degrees of volatility based on local and global economic conditions. We use commercially reasonable efforts to source from localities that suit our manufacturing standards and result in more favorable labor driven costs of our product.
Segment Information
We operate in three reportable segments, which are as follows:
Versace
We generate revenue through the sale of Versace luxury accessories, ready-to-wear and footwear through directly operated Versace boutiques throughout North America (United States and Canada), certain parts of EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) and certain parts of Asia (Asia and Oceania), as well as through Versace outlet stores and e-commerce sites. In addition, revenue is generated through wholesale sales to distribution partners (including geographic licensing arrangements), multi-brand department stores and specialty stores worldwide, as well as through product license agreements in connection with the manufacturing and sale of products, including jeans, fragrances, watches, jewelry, eyewear and home furnishings.
Jimmy Choo
We generate revenue through the sale of Jimmy Choo luxury goods through directly operated Jimmy Choo retail and outlet stores throughout the Americas (United States, Canada and Latin America), certain parts of EMEA and certain parts of Asia, through our e-commerce sites, as well as through wholesale sales of luxury goods to distribution partners (including geographic licensing arrangements that allow third-parties to use the Jimmy Choo tradename in connection with retail and/or wholesale sales of Jimmy Choo branded products in specific geographic regions), multi-brand department stores and specialty stores worldwide. In addition, revenue is generated through product licensing agreements, which allow third-parties to use the Jimmy Choo brand name and trademarks in connection with the manufacturing and sale of products, including fragrances and eyewear.
Michael Kors
We generate revenue through the sale of Michael Kors products through four primary Michael Kors retail store formats: “Collection” stores, “Lifestyle” stores (including concessions), outlet stores and e-commerce, through which we sell our products, as well as licensed products bearing our name, directly to consumers throughout the Americas, certain parts of EMEA and certain parts of Asia. Our Michael Kors e-commerce business includes e-commerce sites in the United States, Canada, EMEA and Asia. We also sell Michael Kors products directly to department stores, primarily located across the Americas and EMEA, to specialty stores and travel retail shops in the Americas, Europe and Asia, and to our geographic licensees in certain parts of EMEA, Asia and Brazil. In addition, revenue is generated through product and geographic licensing arrangements, which allow third-parties to use the Michael Kors brand name and trademarks in connection with the manufacturing and sale of products, including watches, jewelry, fragrances and eyewear, as well as through geographic licensing arrangements, which allow third-parties to use the Michael Kors tradename in connection with the retail and/or wholesale sales of our Michael Kors branded products in specific geographic regions.
Unallocated Corporate Expenses
In addition to the reportable segments discussed above, we have certain corporate costs that are not directly attributable to our brands and, therefore, are not allocated to segments. Such costs primarily include certain administrative, corporate occupancy, shared service and information systems expenses, including system implementation costs and Capri transformation program costs. In addition, certain other costs are not allocated to segments, including restructuring and other charges, impairment costs, COVID-19 related charges and the war in Ukraine. The segment structure is consistent with how our chief operating decision maker plans and allocates resources, manages the business and assesses performance. The following table presents our total revenue and income (loss) from operations by segment for Fiscal 2023, Fiscal 2022 and Fiscal 2021 (in millions):
Fiscal Years Ended
April 1,
2023 April 2,
2022 March 27,
Total revenue:
Versace $ 1,106 $ 1,088 $ 718
Jimmy Choo 633 613 418
Michael Kors 3,880 3,953 2,924
Total revenue $ 5,619 $ 5,654 $ 4,060
Income (loss) from operations:
Versace $ 152 $ 185 $ 21
Jimmy Choo 38 13 (55)
Michael Kors 868 1,005 595
Total segment income from operations 1,058 1,203 561
Less: Corporate expenses (233) (190) (152)
Impairment of assets (1)
(142) (73) (316)
COVID-19 related charges (2)
9 14 (42)
Impact of war in Ukraine (3)
3 (9) -
Restructuring and other charges (16) (42) (32)
Total income from operations $ 679 $ 903 $ 19
(1)Impairment of assets during Fiscal 2023 includes $110 million, $30 million, and $2 million of impairment charges related to the Jimmy Choo, Michael Kors and Versace reportable segments, respectively. Impairment of assets during Fiscal 2022 includes $50 million, $19 million and $4 million of impairment charges related to the Michael Kors, Versace and Jimmy Choo reportable segments, respectively. Impairment of assets during Fiscal 2021 includes $191 million, $91 million and $34 million of impairment charges related to the Jimmy Choo, Michael Kors and Versace reportable segments, respectively.
(2)COVID-19 related charges during Fiscal 2023, primarily include net inventory credits of $9 million. COVID-19 related charges during Fiscal 2022, primarily include net inventory credits and severance expense of $16 million and $2 million, respectively. COVID-19 related charges during Fiscal 2021, primarily include net inventory reserves and severance expense of $10 million and $24 million, respectively. Inventory related costs are recorded within costs of goods sold and severance expense and credit losses are recorded within selling, general and administrative expenses in the consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income (loss).
(3)These charges primarily relate to incremental credit losses and inventory reserves which are a direct impact of the war in Ukraine. Credit losses are recorded within selling, general and administrative expenses and inventory related costs are recorded within costs of goods sold in the consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income (loss).
The following table presents our global network of retail stores and wholesale doors:
As of
April 1,
2023 April 2,
2022 March 27,
Number of full price retail stores (including concessions):
Versace 160 149 153
Jimmy Choo 182 181 176
Michael Kors 508 524 529
850 854 858
Number of outlet stores:
Versace 63 60 57
Jimmy Choo 55 56 51
Michael Kors 304 301 291
422 417 399
Total number of retail stores 1,272 1,271 1,257
Total number of wholesale doors:
Versace 744 803 868
Jimmy Choo 527 446 450
Michael Kors 2,843 2,742 2,852
4,114 3,991 4,170
The following table presents our retail stores by geographic location:
As of As of
April 1, 2023 April 2, 2022
Versace Jimmy Choo Michael Kors Versace Jimmy Choo Michael Kors
Store count by region:
The Americas 42 43 319 39 45 334
EMEA 58 70 173 55 73 176
Asia 123 124 320 115 119 315
223 237 812 209 237 825
Key Performance Indicators and Statistics
We use a number of key indicators of operating results to evaluate our performance, including the following (dollars in millions):
Fiscal Years Ended
April 1,
2023 April 2,
2022 March 27,
Total revenue $ 5,619 $ 5,654 $ 4,060
Gross profit as a percent of total revenue 66.3 % 66.2 % 64.0 %
Income from operations $ 679 $ 903 $ 19
Income from operations as a percent of total revenue 12.1 % 16.0 % 0.5 %
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“U.S. GAAP”) requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, as well as the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting period. Critical accounting policies are those that are the most important to the portrayal of our results of operations and financial condition and that require our most difficult, subjective and complex judgments to make estimates about the effect of matters that are inherently uncertain. In applying such policies, we must use certain assumptions that are based on our informed judgments, assessments of probability and best estimates. Estimates, by their nature, are subjective and are based on analysis of available information, including current and historical factors and the experience and judgment of management. We evaluate our assumptions and estimates on an ongoing basis. While our significant accounting policies are detailed in Note 2 to the accompanying financial statements, our critical accounting policies are discussed below and include revenue recognition, inventories, long-lived assets, goodwill and other indefinite-lived intangible assets, share-based compensation, derivatives and income taxes.
Revenue Recognition
Revenue is recognized when control of the promised goods or services is transferred to our customers in an amount that reflects the consideration we expect to be entitled to in exchange for goods or services. We recognize retail store revenue when control of the product is transferred at the point of sale at our owned stores, including concessions. Revenue from sales through our e-commerce sites is recognized at the time of delivery to the customer, reduced by an estimate of returns. Wholesale revenue is recognized net of estimates for sales returns, discounts, markdowns and allowances, after merchandise is shipped and control of the underlying product is transferred to our wholesale customers. To arrive at net sales for retail, gross sales are reduced by actual customer returns, as well as by a provision for estimated future customer returns, which is based on management’s review of historical and current customer returns. The amounts reserved for retail sales returns were $22 million, $22 million and $20 million at April 1, 2023, April 2, 2022 and March 27, 2021, respectively. Net sales for wholesale equals gross sales, reduced by provisions for estimated future returns based on current expectations, as well as trade discounts, markdowns, allowances, operational chargebacks, and certain cooperative selling expenses. Total sales reserves for wholesale were $73 million, $70 million and $78 million at April 1, 2023, April 2, 2022 and March 27, 2021, respectively. These estimates are based on such factors as historical trends, actual and forecasted performance and market conditions, which are reviewed by management on a quarterly basis. Our historical estimates of these costs were not materially different from actual results.
Royalty revenue generated from product licenses, which includes contributions for advertising, is based on reported sales of licensed products bearing our tradenames at rates specified in the license agreements. These agreements are also subject to contractual minimum levels. Royalty revenue generated by geographic licensing agreements is recognized as it is earned under the licensing agreements based on reported sales of licensees applicable to specified periods, as outlined in the agreements. These agreements allow for the use of our tradenames to sell our branded products in specific geographic regions.
Inventories
Our inventory costs include amounts paid to independent manufacturers, plus duties and freight to bring the goods to the Company’s warehouses, as well as shipments to stores. The combined total of raw materials and work in process recorded on our consolidated balance sheets as of April 1, 2023 and April 2, 2022 were $47 million and $31 million, respectively. We continuously evaluate the composition of our inventory and make adjustments when the cost of inventory is not expected to be
fully recoverable. The net realizable value of our inventory is estimated based on historical experience, current and forecasted demand and market conditions. In addition, reserves for inventory losses are estimated based on historical experience and inventory counts. Our inventory reserves are estimates, which could vary significantly from actual results if future economic conditions, customer demand or competition differ from expectations. Our historical estimates of these adjustments have not differed materially from actual results.
Long-lived Assets
We evaluate all long-lived assets, including operating lease right-of-use assets, property and equipment and definite-lived intangible assets, for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of any such asset may not be recoverable. For the purposes of impairment testing, we group long-lived assets at the lowest level of identifiable cash flow. Our leasehold improvements are typically amortized over the life of the store lease, including reasonably assured renewals and our shop-in-shops are amortized over a useful life of three to five years. Our impairment testing is based on our best estimate of the future operating cash flows. If the sum of our estimated undiscounted future cash flows associated with the asset is less than the asset’s carrying value, we would recognize an impairment charge, which is measured as the amount by which the carrying value exceeds the fair value of the asset. The fair values determined by management require significant judgment and include certain assumptions regarding future sales and expense growth rates, discount rates and estimates of real estate market fair values. As such, these estimates may differ from actual results and are affected by future market and economic conditions.
During Fiscal 2023, Fiscal 2022 and Fiscal 2021, we recorded impairment charges of $36 million, $83 million and $158 million, respectively, which were primarily related to operating lease right-of-use assets and fixed assets of our retail store locations. Please refer to Note 7 and Note 13 of the accompanying consolidated financial statements for additional information.
Goodwill and Other Indefinite-lived Intangible Assets
We record intangible assets based on their fair value on the date of acquisition. Goodwill is recorded as the difference between the fair value of the purchase consideration and the fair value of the net identifiable tangible and intangible assets acquired. The brand intangible assets recorded in connection with the acquisitions of Versace and Jimmy Choo were determined to be indefinite-lived intangible assets, which are not subject to amortization. We perform an impairment assessment of goodwill, as well as the Versace brand and Jimmy Choo brand intangible assets on an annual basis, or whenever impairment indicators exist. In the absence of any impairment indicators, goodwill, the Versace brand and the Jimmy Choo brand are assessed for impairment during the fourth quarter of each fiscal year. Judgments regarding the existence of impairment indicators are based on market conditions and operational performance of the business.
We may assess our goodwill and our brand indefinite-lived intangible assets for impairment initially using a qualitative approach to determine whether it is more likely than not that the fair value of these assets is greater than their carrying value. When performing a qualitative test, we assess various factors including industry and market conditions, macroeconomic conditions and performance of our businesses. If the results of the qualitative assessment indicate that it is more likely than not that our goodwill and other indefinite-lived intangible assets are impaired, a quantitative impairment analysis is performed to determine if impairment is required. We may also elect to perform a quantitative analysis of goodwill and our indefinite-lived intangible assets initially rather than using a qualitative approach.
The impairment testing for goodwill is performed at the reporting unit level. We use industry accepted valuation models and set criteria that are reviewed and approved by various levels of management and, in certain instances, we engage independent third-party valuation specialists for assistance. To determine the fair value of a reporting unit, we use a combination of the income and market approaches, when applicable. We believe the blended use of both models, when applicable, compensates for the inherent risk associated with either model if used on a stand-alone basis, and this combination is indicative of the factors a market participant would consider when performing a similar valuation. If the fair value of a reporting unit exceeds the related carrying value, the reporting unit’s goodwill is considered not to be impaired and no further testing is performed. If the carrying value of a reporting unit exceeds its fair value, an impairment loss is recorded for the difference. These valuations are affected by certain estimates, including future revenue growth rates, future operating expense growth rates, gross margins and discount rates. Future events could cause us to conclude that impairment indicators exist and goodwill may be impaired.
When performing a quantitative impairment assessment of our brand intangible assets, the fair value of the Versace and the Jimmy Choo brands is estimated using a discounted cash flow analysis based on the “relief from royalty” method, assuming that a third-party would be willing to pay a royalty in lieu of ownership for this intangible asset. This approach is dependent on many factors, including estimates of future revenue growth rates, royalty rates and discount rates. Actual future results may
differ from these estimates. An impairment loss is recognized when the estimated fair value of the brand intangible assets is less than its carrying amount.
During the fourth quarter of Fiscal 2023, we performed our annual goodwill and indefinite-lived intangible assets impairment analysis. Based on a qualitative impairment assessment of the Michael Kors reporting units, we concluded that it is more likely than not that the fair value of the Michael Kors reporting units exceeded its carrying value and, therefore, was not impaired. We elected to perform quantitative impairment analyses for the Versace and Jimmy Choo reporting units, using a combination of income and market approaches to estimate the fair values of reporting units. We also elected to perform a quantitative impairment analysis for the Versace and Jimmy Choo brand intangible assets using an income approach to estimate the fair values.
Based on the results of these assessments, the Company determined there was no impairment for the Jimmy Choo Licensing reporting unit goodwill as its fair value is significantly higher than its carrying value and no impairment for the Wholesale brand intangible asset as its approximate fair value was equal to its carrying value. Further, the Company determined that there was no impairment for the Versace reporting units goodwill as their fair values significantly exceeded the carrying values and its Retail and Wholesale brand intangible assets fair value exceeded its carrying value by approximately 10% and 5%, respectively.
The Company further concluded that the fair value of the Jimmy Choo Retail and Wholesale reporting units goodwill, along with the Jimmy Choo Retail brand indefinite-lived intangible assets, did not exceed their related carrying amounts. The resulting impairment charges were primarily related to a higher discount rate in the current year driven by higher risk-free rates. Accordingly, the Company recorded impairment charges of $82 million related to the Jimmy Choo Retail and Wholesale reporting units goodwill and $24 million related to the Jimmy Choo Retail brand intangible assets during Fiscal 2023. The impairment charges were recorded within impairment of assets on our consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive income (loss) for the fiscal year ended April 1, 2023.
In Fiscal 2022, the Company did not incur any impairment charges. In Fiscal 2021, we recorded a goodwill impairment charge of $94 million related to the Jimmy Choo wholesale and Jimmy Choo licensing reporting units and $69 million impairment charge related to the Jimmy Choo brand intangible assets during Fiscal 2021. The impairment charges were recorded within impairment of assets on our consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive income (loss) for the fiscal year ended March 27, 2021. See Note 8 to the accompanying financial statements for information relating to the annual impairment analysis performed during the fourth quarters of Fiscal 2023, Fiscal 2022 and Fiscal 2021.
It is possible that our conclusions regarding impairment or recoverability of goodwill or other indefinite intangible assets could change in future periods if, for example, (i) our businesses do not perform as projected, (ii) overall economic conditions in future years vary from current assumptions, (iii) business conditions or strategies change from our current assumptions, (iv) discount rates change, (v) market multiples change or (vi) the identification of our reporting units change, among other factors. Such changes could result in a future impairment charge of goodwill or other indefinite intangible assets.
Share-based Compensation
We grant share-based awards to certain of our employees and directors. The grant date fair value of share options is calculated using the Black-Scholes option pricing model, which requires us to use subjective assumptions. The closing market price at the grant date is used to determine the grant date fair value of restricted stock units (“RSUs”) and performance-based RSUs. These values are recognized as expense over the requisite service period, net of estimated forfeitures, based on expected attainment of pre-established performance goals for performance grants, or the passage of time for those grants which have only time-based vesting requirements. Compensation expense for performance-based RSUs is recognized over the employees’ requisite service period when attainment of the performance goals is deemed probable, which involves judgment as to achievement of certain performance metrics.
We use our own historical experience in determining the expected holding period and volatility of our time-based share option awards. Determining the grant date fair value of share-based awards requires considerable judgment, including estimating expected volatility, expected term, risk-free rate and forfeitures. If factors change and we employ different assumptions, the fair value of future awards and resulting share-based compensation expense may differ significantly from what we have estimated in the past.
Derivative Financial Instruments
Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contracts
We use forward foreign currency exchange contracts to manage our exposure to fluctuations in foreign currency for certain transactions. We, in our normal course of business, enter into transactions with foreign suppliers and seek to minimize risks related to these transactions. We employ these contracts to hedge our cash flows, as they relate to foreign currency transactions. Certain of these contracts are designated as hedges for accounting purposes, while others remain undesignated. All of our derivative instruments are recorded in our consolidated balance sheets at fair value on a gross basis, regardless of their hedge designation.
We designate certain contracts related to the purchase of inventory that qualify for hedge accounting as cash flow hedges. Formal hedge documentation is prepared for all derivative instruments designated as hedges, including a description of the hedged item and the hedging instrument and the risk being hedged. The changes in the fair value for contracts designated as cash flow hedges is recorded in equity as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income until the hedged item affects earnings. When the inventory related to forecasted inventory purchases that are being hedged is sold to a third-party, the gains or losses deferred in accumulated other comprehensive income are recognized within cost of goods sold. The Company uses regression analysis to assess effectiveness of derivative instruments that are designated as hedges, which compares the change in the fair value of the derivative instrument to the change in the related hedged item. If the hedge is no longer expected to be highly effective in the future, future changes in the fair value are recognized in earnings. For those contracts that are not designated as hedges, changes in the fair value are recorded to foreign currency loss (gain) in our consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income (loss). We classify cash flows relating to our forward foreign currency exchange contracts related to purchases of inventory consistently with the classification of the hedged item within cash flows from operating activities.
We are exposed to the risk that counterparties to derivative contracts will fail to meet their contractual obligations. In order to mitigate counterparty credit risk, we only enter into contracts with carefully selected financial institutions based upon their credit ratings and certain other financial factors, adhering to established limits for credit exposure. The aforementioned forward contracts generally have a term of no more than 12 months. The period of these contracts is directly related to the foreign transaction they are intended to hedge.
Net Investment Hedges
We also use fixed-to-fixed cross currency swap agreements to hedge our net investments in foreign operations against future volatility in the exchange rates between different currencies. We have elected the spot method of designating these contracts under ASU 2017-12, “Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815): Targeted Improvements to Accounting for Hedging Activities”, and have designated these contracts as net investment hedges. The net gain or loss on the net investment hedge is reported within foreign currency translation gains and losses (“CTA”), as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income on our consolidated balance sheets. Interest accruals and coupon payments are recognized directly in interest expense (income), net, in our consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income (loss). Upon discontinuation of a hedge, all previously recognized amounts remain in CTA until the net investment is sold, diluted or liquidated.
We are exposed to the risk that counterparties to derivative contracts will fail to meet their contractual obligations. In order to mitigate counterparty credit risk, we only enter into contracts with carefully selected financial institutions based upon their credit ratings and certain other financial factors, adhering to established limits for credit exposure.
During Fiscal 2021, the Company resumed its normal hedging program and entered into multiple fixed-to-fixed cross-currency swap agreements to hedge its net investment in Euro-denominated and Japanese Yen-denominated subsidiaries against future volatility in the exchange rate between the United States dollar and these currencies. During Fiscal 2021, the Company entered into multiple fixed-to-fixed cross-currency swap agreements with aggregate notional amounts of $4 billion to hedge its net investment in Euro-denominated subsidiaries and $194 million to hedge its net investment in Japanese Yen-denominated subsidiaries against future volatility in the exchange rates between the United States dollar and these currencies.
During the first quarter of Fiscal 2022, we modified multiple fixed-to-fixed cross-currency swap agreements with aggregate notional amounts of $2.875 billion to hedge its net investment in Euro denominated subsidiaries. Due to an other-than-insignificant financing element for certain of the first quarter modifications, net interest cash inflows of $31 million during Fiscal 2022 related to these contracts are classified as financing activities in our consolidated statements of cash flows.
During the third and fourth quarter of Fiscal 2022, we modified multiple fixed-to-fixed cross-currency swap agreements with aggregate notional amounts of $1.5 billion and $2.475 billion, respectively. The modification of these hedges resulted in the receipt of $59 million and $130 million in cash during the third and fourth quarter of Fiscal 2022, respectively. These amounts are classified within investing activities in our consolidated statements of cash flows.
During the first quarter of Fiscal 2023, the Company modified multiple fixed-to-fixed cross-currency swap agreements with aggregate notional amounts of $1.094 billion to hedge its net investment, of which $900 million was in Euro denominated subsidiaries and $194 million was in Japanese Yen denominated subsidiaries. The modification of these swaps resulted in the Company receiving $66 million in cash during the first quarter of Fiscal 2023. These contracts have been designated as net investment hedges.
As of July 2, 2022, the Company had multiple fixed-to-fixed cross-currency swap agreements with aggregate notional amounts of $4 billion to hedge its net investment in Euro denominated subsidiaries (the “Euro Net Investment Hedges”) and $194 million to hedge its net investment in Japanese Yen denominated subsidiaries (the “Japanese Yen Net Investment Hedges”). During the month of July 2022, the Euro Net Investment Hedges with aggregate notional amounts of $4 billion outstanding as of July 2, 2022 were terminated resulting in the Company receiving $237 million in cash.
During the second quarter of Fiscal 2023, the Company also entered into, and subsequently terminated, additional Euro Net Investment Hedges with aggregate notional amounts of $4 billion. The termination of these contracts resulted in the Company receiving an additional $100 million in cash.
During the second quarter of Fiscal 2023, the Company also modified certain Japanese Yen Net Investment Hedges with notional amounts of $100 million. The modification of these hedges resulted in the Company receiving $6 million in cash during the second quarter of Fiscal 2023. The Company entered into additional Japanese Yen Net Investment Hedges with notional amount of $100 million. These contracts have been designated as net investment hedges.
During the second quarter of Fiscal 2023, the Company received a total of $343 million from the termination of its Euro Net Investment Hedges and the modification of its Japanese Yen Net Investment Hedges.
During the third quarter of Fiscal 2023, the Company entered into multiple fixed-to-fixed cross-currency swap agreements with aggregate notional amounts of €1 billion (approximately $1.07 billion) to hedge its net investment in GBP denominated subsidiaries (the “GBP/EUR Net Investment Hedges”). Under the terms of these contracts, the Company will exchange the semi-annual fixed rate payments on GBP denominated debt for fixed rate payments of 0% in Euro. These contracts have maturity dates between November 2024 and November 2027 and are designated as net investment hedges.
As of April 1, 2023, the Company had Japanese Yen Net Investment Hedges with aggregate notional amounts of $294 million. Under the terms of these contracts, the Company will exchange the semi-annual fixed rate payments on United States denominated debt for fixed rate payments of 0% to 2.665% in Japanese Yen. These contracts have maturity dates between May 2027 and February 2051 and are designated as net investment hedges.
Certain of these contracts are supported by a credit support annex (“CSA”) which provides for collateral exchange with the earliest effective date being September 2027. If the outstanding position of a contract exceeds a certain threshold governed by the aforementioned CSA’s, either party is required to post cash collateral.
When a cross-currency swap is used as a hedging instrument in a net investment hedge assessed under the spot method, the cross-currency basis spread is excluded from the assessment of hedge effectiveness and is recognized as a reduction in interest expense (income) in the Company’s consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income (loss). Accordingly, the Company recorded interest income of $38 million, $63 million and $16 million, respectively, during Fiscal 2023, Fiscal 2022 and Fiscal 2021.
Fair Value Hedges
The Company is exposed to transaction risk from foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations with respect to various cross-currency intercompany loans. This primarily includes exposure to exchange rate fluctuations in the Euro and British Pound which will impact earnings on a consolidated basis. To manage the exchange rate risk related to these balances, during the fourth quarter of Fiscal 2023 the Company entered into fair value cross-currency swap agreements to hedge its exposure in GBP denominated subsidiaries (the “GBP Fair Value Hedge”) on a Euro denominated intercompany loan. As of April 1, 2023, the total notional values of outstanding fair value cross-currency swaps related to these loans were €1 billion (approximately $1.08 billion). Under the term of these contracts, the Company will exchange the semi-annual fixed rate payments on GBP denominated debt for fixed rate payments of 0% in Euro. These contracts have maturity dates between March 2025 and March 2026 and are designated as fair value hedges.
When a cross-currency swap is designated as a fair value hedge and qualifies as highly effective, the fair value hedge will be recorded at fair value each period on the Company’s consolidated balance sheets, with the difference resulting from the changes in the spot rate at hedge inception to the current period recognized in foreign currency loss (gain) on the Company’s consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income (loss), which will offset the earnings impact of the original transaction being hedged for. Accordingly, the Company recorded a foreign currency gain of $4 million during Fiscal 2023.
Income Taxes
Deferred income tax assets and liabilities reflect temporary differences between the tax basis and financial reporting basis of our assets and liabilities and are determined using the tax rates and laws in effect for the periods in which the differences are expected to reverse. We periodically assess the realizability of deferred tax assets and the adequacy of deferred tax liabilities, based on the results of local, state, federal or foreign statutory tax audits or our own estimates and judgments.
Realization of deferred tax assets associated with net operating loss and tax credit carryforwards is dependent upon generating sufficient taxable income prior to their expiration in the applicable tax jurisdiction. We periodically review the recoverability of our deferred tax assets and provide valuation allowances as deemed necessary to reduce deferred tax assets to amounts that more-likely-than-not will be realized. This determination involves considerable judgment and our management considers many factors when assessing the likelihood of future realization of deferred tax assets, including recent earnings results within various taxing jurisdictions, expectations of future taxable income, the carryforward periods remaining and other factors. Changes in the required valuation allowance are recorded in income in the period such determination is made. Deferred tax assets could be reduced in the future if our estimates of taxable income during the carryforward period are significantly reduced or alternative tax strategies are no longer viable.
We recognize the impact of an uncertain income tax position taken on our income tax returns at the largest amount that is more-likely-than-not to be sustained upon audit by the relevant taxing authority. The effect of an uncertain income tax position will not be taken into account if the position has less than a 50% likelihood of being sustained. Our tax positions are analyzed periodically (at least quarterly) and adjustments are made as events occur that warrant adjustments to those positions. We record interest and penalties payable to relevant tax authorities as income tax expense.
New Accounting Pronouncements
Please refer to Note 2 to the accompanying consolidated financial statements for detailed information relating to recently adopted and recently issued accounting pronouncements and the associated impacts.
Results of Operations
A discussion regarding our results of operations for Fiscal 2023 compared to Fiscal 2022 is presented below. A discussion regarding our results of operations for Fiscal 2022 compared to Fiscal 2021 can be found under Item 7 in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended April 2, 2022, filed with the SEC on June 1, 2022, which is available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov and our investor website at www.capriholdings.com.
Comparison of Fiscal 2023 with Fiscal 2022
The following table details the results of our operations for Fiscal 2023 and Fiscal 2022 and expresses the relationship of certain line items to total revenue as a percentage (dollars in millions):
Fiscal Years Ended $ Change % Change % of Total
Revenue for
Fiscal 2023
% of Total
Revenue for
Fiscal 2022
April 1,
2023 April 2,
Statements of Operations Data:
Total revenue $ 5,619 $ 5,654 $ (35) (0.6) %
Cost of goods sold 1,895 1,910 (15) (0.8) % 33.7 % 33.8 %
Gross profit 3,724 3,744 (20) (0.5) % 66.3 % 66.2 %
Selling, general and administrative expenses 2,708 2,533 175 6.9 % 48.2 % 44.8 %
Depreciation and amortization 179 193 (14) (7.3) % 3.2 % 3.4 %
Impairment of assets 142 73 69 94.5 % 2.5 % 1.3 %
Restructuring and other charges 16 42 (26) (61.9) % 0.3 % 0.7 %
Total operating expenses 3,045 2,841 204 7.2 % 54.2 % 50.2 %
Income from operations 679 903 (224) (24.8) % 12.1 % 16.0 %
Other income, net (3) (2) (1) (50.0) % (0.1) % - %
Interest expense (income), net 24 (18) 42 NM 0.4 % (0.3) %
Foreign currency loss 10 8 2 25.0 % 0.2 % 0.1 %
Income before provision for income taxes 648 915 (267) (29.2) % 11.5 % 16.2 %
Provision for income taxes 29 92 (63) (68.5) % 0.5 % 1.6 %
Net income 619 823 (204) (24.8) %
Less: Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests 3 1 2 NM
Net income attributable to Capri $ 616 $ 822 $ (206) (25.1) %
NM Not meaningful
Total Revenue
Total revenue decreased $35.0 million, or 0.6%, to $5.619 billion for Fiscal 2023, compared to $5.654 billion for Fiscal 2022, which included net unfavorable foreign currency effects of $333 million as a result of the strengthening of the U.S. dollar compared to all major currencies in which we operate in Fiscal 2023, as compared to Fiscal 2022. On a constant currency basis, our total revenue increased $298.0 million, or 5.3%. The increase is attributable to increased retail revenues in the Americas and increased retail and wholesale in EMEA, partially offset by decreased revenues in Greater China due to COVID-19 related disruptions for each of our brands and approximately $70 million of revenue attributable to the 53rd week in Fiscal 2022.
Gross Profit
Gross profit decreased $20.0 million, or 0.5%, to $3.724 billion during Fiscal 2023, compared to $3.744 billion for Fiscal 2022, which included net unfavorable foreign currency effects of $230 million. Gross profit as a percentage of total revenue increased 10 basis points to 66.3% during Fiscal 2023, compared to 66.2% during Fiscal 2022. The increase in gross profit margin was primarily attributable to a higher average unit price, partially offset by unfavorable regional sales mix.
Total Operating Expenses
Total operating expenses increased $204 million, or 7.2%, to $3.045 billion during Fiscal 2023, compared to $2.841 billion for Fiscal 2022. Our operating expenses included a net favorable foreign currency impact of approximately $198 million. Total operating expenses as a percentage of total revenue increased to 54.2% in Fiscal 2023, compared to 50.2% in Fiscal 2022. The components that comprise total operating expenses are detailed below.
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses
Selling, general and administrative expenses increased $175 million, or 6.9%, to $2.708 billion during Fiscal 2023, compared to $2.533 billion for Fiscal 2022. As a percentage of total revenue, selling, general and administrative expenses increased to 48.2% during Fiscal 2023, compared to 44.8% for Fiscal 2022, primarily due to increased marketing and unallocated corporate expenses and deleverage of operating expenses on lower revenue for Fiscal 2023.
Unallocated corporate expenses, which are included within selling, general and administrative expenses discussed above, but are not directly attributable to a reportable segment, increased $43 million, or 22.6%, to $233 million for Fiscal 2023, compared to $190 million for Fiscal 2022, primarily due to an increase in professional fees and information technology costs related to the ongoing ERP system implementation and Capri transformation projects.
Depreciation and Amortization
Depreciation and amortization decreased $14 million, or 7.3%, to $179 million during Fiscal 2023, compared to $193 million for Fiscal 2022. Depreciation and amortization decreased to 3.2% as a percentage of total revenue during Fiscal 2023, compared to 3.4% for Fiscal 2022. The decrease in depreciation and amortization expense was primarily attributable to lower depreciation due to lower capital expenditures in Fiscal 2022 and Fiscal 2021.
Impairment of Assets
During Fiscal 2023, we recognized asset impairment charges of $142 million, primarily related to the impairment of the Jimmy Choo Retail and Wholesale reporting units goodwill and Jimmy Choo brand intangible assets, as well as the impairment of certain operating lease right-of-use assets. During Fiscal 2022, we recognized asset impairment charges of approximately $73 million, primarily related to the impairment of operating lease right-of-use assets (see Note 13 to the accompanying consolidated financial statements for additional information).
Restructuring and Other Charges
During Fiscal 2023, we recognized restructuring and other charges of $16 million, primarily relating to equity awards associated with the acquisition of Versace (see Note 10 to the accompanying consolidated financial statements for additional information).
During Fiscal 2022, we recognized restructuring and other charges of $42 million, which included other costs of $33 million, primarily related to equity awards associated with the acquisition of Versace and severance for an executive officer and $9 million related to our Capri Retail Store Optimization Program.
Income from Operations
As a result of the foregoing, income from operations decreased $224 million to $679 million during Fiscal 2023, compared to $903 million for Fiscal 2022. Income from operations as a percentage of total revenue decreased to 12.1% in Fiscal 2023, compared to 16.0% in Fiscal 2022. See Segment Information above for a reconciliation of our segment operating income to total operating income.
Interest Expense (Income), net
During Fiscal 2023, we recognized $24 million of interest expense compared to $18 million of interest income during Fiscal 2022. The $42 million increase in interest expense (income), net, is primarily due to higher effective interest rates on our outstanding debt, higher average borrowings outstanding and lower interest income from our net investment hedges, partially offset by higher interest income earned on our cash and cash equivalents (see Note 11 and Note 14 to the accompanying consolidated financial statements for additional information).
Foreign Currency Loss
During Fiscal 2023 and Fiscal 2022, we recognized a net foreign currency loss of $10 million and $8 million, respectively, primarily attributable to the remeasurement of intercompany loans with certain of our subsidiaries.
Provision for Income Taxes
During Fiscal 2023, we recognized $29 million of income tax expense on pre-tax income of $648 million compared with $92 million of income tax expense on a pre-tax income of $915 million for Fiscal 2022. Our effective tax rate for Fiscal 2023 was lower than our effective tax rate in Fiscal 2022 primarily due to decreases in uncertain tax positions as well as a more favorable effect of our global financing activities during Fiscal 2023 as compared to Fiscal 2022. In addition, in Fiscal 2022, the Company recognized a benefit from the impact of enacted tax legislation in Italy which allowed the Company to reduce its deferred tax liabilities as well as a United States net operating loss (“NOL”) benefit realized which was not recurring in Fiscal 2023.
The global financing activities are related to our previously disclosed 2014 move of our principal executive office from Hong Kong to the U.K. and decision to become a U.K. tax resident. In connection with this decision, we funded our international growth strategy through intercompany debt financing arrangements between certain of our United States, United Kingdom and Hungarian subsidiaries. Accordingly, due to the difference in the statutory income tax rates between these jurisdictions, we realized a lower effective tax rate on consolidated pre-tax income.
Our effective tax rate may fluctuate from time to time due to the effects of changes in United States state and local taxes and tax rates in foreign jurisdictions. In addition, factors such as the geographic mix of earnings, enacted tax legislation and the results of various global tax strategies, may also impact our effective tax rate in future periods.
Net Income Attributable to Capri
As a result of the foregoing, during Fiscal 2023 our net income attributable to Capri decreased $206 million to $616 million, compared to net income of $822 million for Fiscal 2022.
Segment Information
Versace
Fiscal Years Ended % Change
April 1,
2023 April 2,
2022 $ Change As Reported Constant
Currency
Revenues $ 1,106 $ 1,088 $ 18 1.7 % 13.8 %
Income from operations $ 152 $ 185 $ (33) (17.8) %
Operating margin 13.7 % 17.0 %
Revenues
Versace revenues increased $18 million, or 1.7%, to $1.106 billion for Fiscal 2023, compared to $1.088 billion for Fiscal 2022, which included unfavorable foreign currency effects of $132 million. On a constant currency basis, revenue increased $150 million, or 13.8%, primarily attributable to increased retail revenue in the Americas and EMEA and wholesale shipments in EMEA, partially offset by decreased revenues in Greater China due to COVID-19 related disruptions.
Income from Operations
During Fiscal 2023, Versace recorded income from operations of $152 million compared to $185 million for Fiscal 2022. Operating margin decreased from 17.0% for Fiscal 2022 to 13.7% for Fiscal 2023, primarily due to increased retail store costs from a higher store count and increased employee costs.
Jimmy Choo
Fiscal Years Ended % Change
April 1,
2023 April 2,
2022 $ Change As Reported Constant
Currency
Revenues $ 633 $ 613 $ 20 3.3 % 11.4 %
Income from operations $ 38 $ 13 $ 25 NM
Operating margin 6.0 % 2.1 %
NM Not meaningful
Revenues
Jimmy Choo revenues increased $20 million, or 3.3%, to $633 million for Fiscal 2023, compared to $613 million for Fiscal 2022, which included unfavorable foreign currency effects of $50 million. On a constant currency basis, revenue increased $70 million, or 11.4%, primarily attributable to increased revenue in the Americas and EMEA and increased licensing revenue, partially offset by decreased revenue in Greater China due to the impact of COVID-19 related disruptions.
Income from Operations
During Fiscal 2023, Jimmy Choo recorded income from operations of $38 million compared to $13 million for Fiscal 2022. Operating margin increased from 2.1% for Fiscal 2022 to 6.0% for Fiscal 2023, primarily due to a higher average unit price and leveraging of operating expenses on higher revenue.
Michael Kors
Fiscal Years Ended % Change
April 1,
2023 April 2,
2022 $ Change As Reported Constant
Currency
Revenues $ 3,880 $ 3,953 $ (73) (1.8) % 2.0 %
Income from operations $ 868 $ 1,005 $ (137) (13.6) %
Operating margin 22.4 % 25.4 %
Revenues
Michael Kors revenues decreased $73 million, or 1.8%, to $3.880 billion for Fiscal 2023, compared to $3.953 billion for Fiscal 2022, which included unfavorable foreign currency effects of $151 million. On a constant currency basis, revenue increased $78 million, or 2.0%, primarily attributable to increased retail revenue in the Americas, partially offset by decreased revenue in Greater China due to the impact of COVID-19 related disruptions.
Income from Operations
During Fiscal 2023, Michael Kors recorded income from operations of $868 million compared to $1.005 billion for Fiscal 2022. Operating margin decreased from 25.4% for Fiscal 2022 to 22.4% for Fiscal 2023, primarily due to increased marketing investments and deleveraging of operating expenses on lower revenue.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
Our primary sources of liquidity are the cash flows generated from our operations, along with borrowings available under our credit facilities (see below discussion regarding “Revolving Credit Facilities”) and available cash and cash equivalents. Our primary use of this liquidity is to fund the ongoing cash requirements, including our working capital needs and capital investments in our business, debt repayments, acquisitions, returns of capital, including share repurchases and other corporate activities. We believe that the cash generated from our operations, together with borrowings available under our revolving credit facilities and available cash and cash equivalents, will be sufficient to meet our working capital needs for the next 12 months and beyond, including investments made and expenses incurred in connection with our store growth plans, investments in corporate and distribution facilities, continued IT system development, e-commerce and marketing initiatives. We spent $226 million on capital expenditures during Fiscal 2023 and expect to spend approximately $260 million during Fiscal 2024. This anticipated increase reflects continued expenditures related to our retail operations (including e-commerce), ERP system implementation and Capri transformation programs. The majority of the Fiscal 2023 expenditures related to our retail operations (including e-commerce), ERP system implementation and Capri transformation programs.
The Capri transformation program represents a multi-year, multi-project initiative extending through Fiscal 2026 intended to improve the operating effectiveness and efficiency of our organization by creating best in class shared platforms across our brands and by expanding our digital capabilities. These initiatives cover multiple aspects of our operations including supply chain, marketing, omni-channel customer experience, e-commerce, data analytics and IT infrastructure. Over the next three fiscal years, we expect expenditures up to $220 million related to these efforts.
The Company is also in progress with a multi-year ERP implementation which includes accounting, finance and wholesale and retail inventory solutions in order to create standardized finance IT applications across our organization. This ERP implementation will continue through Fiscal 2026 and we expect expenditures up to $170 million over the next three fiscal years.
The following table sets forth key indicators of our liquidity and capital resources (in millions):
As of
April 1,
2023 April 2,
Balance Sheet Data:
Cash and cash equivalents $ 249 $ 169
Working capital $ 420 $ 325
Total assets $ 7,295 $ 7,480
Short-term debt $ 5 $ 29
Long-term debt $ 1,822 $ 1,131
Fiscal Years Ended
April 1,
2023 April 2,
2022 March 27,
Cash flows provided by (used in):
Operating activities $ 771 $ 704 $ 624
Investing activities 183 58 (124)
Financing activities (776) (800) (870)
Effect of exchange rate changes (94) (24) 12
Net increase (decrease) in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash $ 84 $ (62) $ (358)
Cash Provided by Operating Activities
Cash provided by operating activities increased $67 million to $771 million during Fiscal 2023, as compared to $704 million for Fiscal 2022, which was as a result of the improvement in our working capital partially offset by a decrease in our net income after non-cash adjustments compared to prior year. The changes in our working capital were primarily due to the stabilization of inventory levels compared to prior year.
Cash provided by operating activities increased $80 million to $704 million during Fiscal 2022, as compared to $624 million for Fiscal 2021, which was due to an increase in our net income after non-cash adjustments, partially offset by decreases related to changes in our working capital. The decreases related to the changes in our working capital are primarily attributable to an increase in our inventory levels and fluctuations in the timing of payments and receipts when compared to the prior year.
Cash Provided by (Used in) Investing Activities
Net cash provided by investing activities was $183 million during Fiscal 2023, as compared to $58 million during Fiscal 2022. The $125 million increase in cash provided by investing activities was primarily attributable to higher cash received on the settlement of net investment hedges of $220 million during Fiscal 2023, partially offset by higher capital expenditures of $95 million compared to prior year due to ERP system implementations, increased Corporate investments related to Capri transformation programs and increased investments in our retail stores.
Net cash provided by investing activities was $58 million during Fiscal 2022, as compared to net cash used in investing activities of $124 million during Fiscal 2021. The $182 million increase in cash provided by investing activities was primarily attributable to a $189 million cash received on the settlement of certain net investment hedges during Fiscal 2022.
Cash Used in Financing Activities
Net cash used in financing activities was $776 million during Fiscal 2023, as compared to $800 million during Fiscal 2022. The decrease in cash used by financing activities of $24 million was primarily due to an increase in net debt borrowings of $774 million, partially offset by a $703 million increase in cash payments to repurchase our ordinary shares.
Net cash used in financing activities was $800 million during Fiscal 2022, as compared to $870 million during Fiscal 2021. The decrease in cash used by financing activities of $70 million was primarily due to a decrease in net debt repayments of $681 million, higher cash proceeds from other financing activities and employee option exercises, partially offset by an increase of $660 million in cash payments to repurchase our ordinary shares during Fiscal 2022.
Debt Facilities
The following table presents a summary of the Company’s borrowing capacity and amounts outstanding as of April 1, 2023 and April 2, 2022 (dollars in millions):
Fiscal Years Ended
April 1,
2023 April 2,
Revolving Credit Facility (excluding up to a $500 million accordion feature) (1)
Total Availability $ 1,500 $ 1,000
Borrowings outstanding (2)
874 175
Letter of credit outstanding 3 21
Remaining availability $ 623 $ 804
Versace Term Loan (450 Million Euro)
Borrowings outstanding, net of debt issuance costs (3)
$ 487 $ -
Senior Notes due 2024
Borrowings Outstanding, net of debt issuance costs and discount amortization (2)
$ 449 $ 448
2018 Term Loan ($1.6 billion)
Borrowings Outstanding, net of debt issuance costs (4)
$ - $ 495
Other Borrowings (5)
$ 17 $ 42
Hong Kong Uncommitted Credit Facility:
Total availability (70 million and 80 million Hong Kong Dollar) (6)
$ 9 $ 10
Borrowings outstanding - -
Remaining availability (70 million and 80 million Hong Kong Dollar) $ 9 $ 10
China Uncommitted Credit Facility:
Total availability (75 million and 45 million Chinese Yuan) (6)
$ 11 $ 7
Borrowings outstanding - -
Remaining availability (75 million and 45 million Chinese Yuan) $ 11 $ 7
Japan Credit Facility:
Total availability (1.0 billion Japanese Yen) $ 8 $ 8
Borrowings outstanding
- -
Remaining availability (1.0 billion Japanese Yen) $ 8 $ 8
Versace Uncommitted Credit Facility:
Total availability (40 million and 48 million Euro) (6)
$ 43 $ 52
Borrowings outstanding - -
Remaining availability (40 million and 48 million Euro) $ 43 $ 52
Total borrowings outstanding (1)
$ 1,827 $ 1,160
Total remaining availability $ 694 $ 881
(1)The financial covenant in our 2022 Credit Facility requires us to comply with the quarterly maximum net leverage ratio test of 4.00 to 1.0. As of April 1, 2023 and April 2, 2022, we were in compliance with all covenants related to our agreements then in effect governing our debt. See Note 11 to the accompanying consolidated financial statements for additional information.
(2)As of April 1, 2023 and April 2, 2022, all amounts are recorded as long-term debt in our consolidated balance sheets.
(3)On December 5, 2022, Gianni Versace S.r.l., our wholly owned subsidiary, entered into a credit facility, which provided a senior unsecured term loan in an aggregate principal amount of €450 million (approximately $488 million). As of April 1, 2023, all amounts are recorded as long-term debt in our consolidated balance sheets.
(4)As of April 1, 2023, we no longer had an outstanding balance under the 2018 Term Loan as it was repaid. As of April 2, 2022, all amounts are recorded as long-term debt in our consolidated balance sheets.
(5)The balance as of April 1, 2023 consists of primarily of $4 million related to our supplier finance program recorded within short-term debt in our consolidated balance sheets and $11 million related to the sale of certain Versace tax receivables, with $1 million and $10 million recorded within short-term debt and long-term debt, respectively, in our consolidated balance sheets. The balance as of April 2, 2022 consists of $21 million related to our supplier finance program recorded within short term debt in our consolidated balance sheets, $18 million related to the sale of certain Versace tax receivables, with $8 million and $10 million recorded within short-term debt and long-term debt, respectively, in our consolidated balance sheets and $3 million of other loans recorded as long-term debt in our consolidated balance sheets.
(6)The balance as of April 1, 2023 represents the total availability of the credit facility, which excludes bank guarantees.
We believe that our 2022 Credit Facility is adequately diversified with no undue concentration in any one financial institution. As of April 1, 2023, there were 17 financial institutions participating in the facility, with none maintaining a maximum commitment percentage in excess of 10%. We have no reason to believe that the participating institutions will be unable to fulfill their obligations to provide financing in accordance with the terms of the 2022 Credit Facility.
See Note 11 in the accompanying consolidated financial statements for detailed information relating to our credit facilities and debt obligations.
Share Repurchase Program
The following table presents our treasury share repurchases during the fiscal years ended April 1, 2023 and April 2, 2022 (dollars in millions):
Fiscal Years Ended
April 1,
2023 April 2,
Cost of shares repurchased under share repurchase program $ 1,350 $ 650
Fair value of shares withheld to cover tax obligations for vested restricted share awards 14 11
Total cost of treasury shares repurchased $ 1,364 $ 661
Shares repurchased under share repurchase program 27,356,549 11,014,541
Shares withheld to cover tax withholding obligations 301,326 203,863
27,657,875 11,218,404
During the first quarter of Fiscal 2022, the Company reinstated its $500 million share-repurchase program, which was previously suspended during the first quarter of Fiscal 2021 in response to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the provisions of the Second Amendment of the 2018 Credit Facility. Subsequently, on November 3, 2021, the Company announced that its Board of Directors had terminated the Company’s existing $500 million share repurchase program (the “Prior Plan”), which had $250 million of availability remaining at the time, and authorized a new share repurchase program (the “Fiscal 2022 Plan”) pursuant to which the Company was permitted, from time to time, to repurchase up to $1.0 billion of its outstanding ordinary shares within a period of two years from the effective date of the program.
On June 1, 2022, the Board of Directors terminated our Fiscal 2022 Plan, with $400 million of availability remaining, and authorized a new share repurchase program (the “Fiscal 2023 Plan”) pursuant to which we may, from time to time, repurchase up to $1.0 billion of our outstanding ordinary shares within period of two years from the effective date of the program.
On November 9, 2022, the Company announced that its Board of Directors approved a new share repurchase program (the “Existing Share Repurchase Plan”) of up to $1 billion of its outstanding ordinary shares, providing additional capacity to return cash to shareholders over the longer term. This new two-year program replaced the Fiscal 2023 Plan which had
$250 million of availability remaining. As of April 1, 2023, the remaining availability under the Company’s share repurchase program was $400 million.
Share repurchases may be made in open market or privately negotiated transactions and/or pursuant to Rule 10b5-1 trading plans, subject to market conditions, applicable legal requirements, trading restrictions under the Company’s insider trading policy and other relevant factors. The program may be suspended or discontinued at any time.
See Note 15 to the accompanying consolidated financial statements for additional information.
Contractual Obligations and Commercial Commitments
As of April 1, 2023, our contractual obligations and commercial commitments were as follows (in millions):
Fiscal Years Fiscal 2024 Fiscal
2025-2026
Fiscal
2027-2028
Fiscal 2029 and thereafter Total
Operating leases $ 473 $ 681 $ 381 $ 427 $ 1,962
Interest, net (1)
16 11 - - 27
Inventory purchase obligations 775 - - - 775
Other commitments 89 32 4 - 125
Short-term debt 5 - - - 5
Long-term debt - 450 1,374 - 1,824
Total $ 1,358 $ 1,174 $ 1,759 $ 427 $ 4,718
(1)Beginning in Fiscal 2027, we expect to be in an interest income position, therefore we would not expect to have net interest expense obligations through the above periods.
Operating lease obligations represent equipment leases and the minimum lease rental payments due under non-cancelable operating leases for our real estate locations globally. In addition to the above amounts, we are typically required to pay real estate taxes, contingent rent based on sales volume and other occupancy costs relating to leased properties for our retail stores.
Interest, net represents the estimated net interest expense associated with our term loan based on the current interest rate. It also includes the estimated net interest income from our net investment hedges and fair value hedges.
Inventory purchase obligations represent contractual obligations for future purchases of inventory.
Other commitments include non-cancelable contractual obligations related to marketing and advertising agreements, information technology agreements and supply agreements.
The above table excludes current liabilities (other than short-term debt and short-term operating lease liabilities) recorded as of April 1, 2023, as these items will be paid within one year, and non-current liabilities that have no cash outflows associated with them (e.g., deferred taxes).
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
We have not created, and are not party to, any special-purpose or off-balance sheet entities for the purpose of raising capital, incurring debt or operating our business. In addition to the commitments in the above table, our off-balance sheet commitments relating to our outstanding letters of credit were $35 million at April 1, 2023, including $32 million in letters of credit issued outside of the 2022 Credit Facility. In addition, as of April 1, 2023, bank guarantees of approximately $36 million were supported by our various credit facilities. We do not have any other off-balance sheet arrangements or relationships with entities that are not consolidated into our financial statements that have or are reasonably likely to have a material current or future effect on our financial condition, changes in financial condition, revenues, expenses, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures or capital resources.

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ITEM 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk
We are exposed to certain market risks during the normal course of our business, such as risk arising from fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates, as well as fluctuations in interest rates. In order to manage these risks, we employ certain strategies to mitigate the effect of these fluctuations. We enter into foreign currency forward contracts to manage our foreign currency exposure to the fluctuations of certain foreign currencies. The use of these instruments primarily helps to manage our exposure to our foreign purchase commitments and better control our product costs. We do not use derivatives for trading or speculative purposes.
Foreign Currency Exchange Risk
Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contracts
We are exposed to risks on certain purchase commitments to foreign suppliers based on the value of our purchasing subsidiaries’ local currency relative to the currency requirement of the supplier on the date of the commitment. As such, we enter into forward foreign currency exchange contracts that generally mature in 12 months or less and are consistent with the related purchase commitments, to manage our exposure to the changes in the value of the Euro and the Canadian Dollar. These contracts are recorded at fair value in our consolidated balance sheets as either an asset or liability, and are derivative contracts to hedge cash flow risks. Certain of these contracts are designated as hedges for hedge accounting purposes, while certain of these contracts are not designated as hedges for accounting purposes. Accordingly, the changes in the fair value of the majority of these contracts at the balance sheet date are recorded in equity as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income, and upon maturity (settlement) are recorded in, or reclassified into, our cost of goods sold or operating expenses, in our consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income (loss), as applicable to the transactions for which the forward foreign currency exchange contracts were established.
There were no forward foreign currency exchange contracts outstanding as of April 1, 2023 and as a result we were not required to perform a sensitivity analysis on such contracts.
Net Investment Hedges
We are exposed to adverse foreign currency exchange rate movements related to our net investment hedges. As of April 1, 2023, we have multiple fixed to fixed cross-currency swap agreements with aggregate notional amounts of $294 million to hedge our net investments in Japanese Yen-denominated subsidiaries against future volatility in the exchange rates between the United States dollar and the Japanese Yen. Under the term of these contracts, we will exchange the semi-annual fixed rate payments on United States denominated debt for fixed rate payments of 0% to 2.665% in Japanese Yen. Based on the net investment hedges outstanding as of April 1, 2023, a 10% appreciation or devaluation of the U.S. Dollar compared to the level of foreign currency exchange rates for currencies under contract as of April 1, 2023, would result in a net increase or decrease, respectively, of approximately $40 million in the fair value of these contracts. These contracts have maturity dates between November 2024 and February 2051. In addition, certain other contracts are supported by a credit support annex (“CSA”) which provides for collateral exchange with the earliest effective date being September 2027. If the outstanding position of a contract exceeds a certain threshold governed by the aforementioned CSA’s, either party is required to post cash collateral.
As of April 1, 2023, we have multiple fixed to fixed cross-currency swap agreements with aggregate notional amounts of €1 billion (approximately $1.07 billion) to hedge our net investments in Euro denominated subsidiaries against future volatility in exchange rates between the Euro and British pound. Under the term of these contracts, we will exchange the semi-annual fixed rate payments on GBP denominated debt for fixed rate payments of 0% in Euro. Based on the net investment hedges outstanding as of April 1, 2023, a 10% appreciation or devaluation of the British pound compared to the level of foreign currency exchange rates for currencies under contract as of April 1, 2023, would result in a net increase or decrease, respectively, of approximately £80 million (approximately $99 million) in the fair value of these contracts. These contracts have maturity dates between November 2024 and November 2027.
Fair Value Hedges
We are exposed to transaction risk from foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations with respect to various cross-currency intercompany loans which will impact earnings on a consolidated basis. To manage the exchange rate risk related to these balances, we enter into fair value forward cross-currency swap agreements to hedge its exposure in GBP denominated subsidiaries on a Euro denominated intercompany loan. As of April 1, 2023, the total notional values of outstanding fair value cross-currency swaps related to these loans were €1 billion (approximately $1.08 billion). Based on the fair value hedges outstanding as of April 1, 2023, a 10% appreciation or devaluation of the British pound compared to the level of foreign
currency exchange rates for currencies under contract as of April 1, 2023, would result in a net increase or decrease, respectively, of approximately £82 million (approximately $101 million) in the fair value of these contracts. These contracts have maturity dates between March 2025 and March 2026.
Interest Rate Risk
We are exposed to interest rate risk in relation to borrowings outstanding under our 2022 Credit Facility, our Versace Term Loan, our Hong Kong Credit Facility, our Japan Credit Facility, and our Uncommitted Versace Credit Facilities. Our 2022 Credit Facility carries interest rates that are tied to the prime rate and other institutional lending rates (depending on the particular origination of borrowing), as further described in Note 11 to the accompanying consolidated financial statements. Our Versace Term Loan carries interest rates that are tied to EURIBOR. Our Hong Kong Credit Facility carries interest at a rate that is tied to the Hong Kong Interbank Offered Rate. Our China Credit Facility carries interest at a rate that is tied to the People’s Bank of China’s Benchmark lending rate. Our Japan Credit Facility carries interest at a rate posted by the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. Our Uncommitted Versace Credit Facilities carries interest at a rate set by the bank on the date of borrowing that is tied to the European Central Bank. Therefore, our consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income (loss) and cash flows are exposed to changes in those interest rates. At April 1, 2023, we had $874 million borrowings outstanding under our 2022 Credit Facility, $487 million, outstanding, net of debt issuance costs, under our Versace Term Loan and no borrowings outstanding under all other Credit Facilities, as further described in Note 11 to the accompanying consolidated financial statements. At April 2, 2022, we had $175 million borrowings outstanding under our Revolving Credit Facility, $495 million, net of debt issuance costs, outstanding under our 2018 Term Loan Facility and no borrowings outstanding under our Versace Credit Facility. These balances are not indicative of future balances that may be outstanding under our revolving credit facilities that may be subject to fluctuations in interest rates. Any increases in the applicable interest rate(s) would cause an increase to the interest expense relative to any outstanding balance at that date.
Credit Risk
As of April 1, 2023, our $450 million Senior Notes, due in 2024, bear interest at a fixed rate equal to 4.250% per year, payable semi-annually. Our Senior Notes interest rate payable may be subject to adjustments from time to time if either Moody’s or S&P (or a substitute rating agency), downgrades (or downgrades and subsequently upgrades) the credit rating assigned to the Senior Notes.

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ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data
See “Item 15. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules” for a listing of the consolidated financial statements and supplementary data included in this report.

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ITEM 9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS
Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure
Not applicable.

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ITEM 9A. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
Item 9A. Controls and Procedures
Disclosure Controls and Procedures
We carried out an evaluation, under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, respectively, of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined in Rules 13a - 15(e) and 15(d) - 15(e) under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, (the “Exchange Act”)) as of April 1, 2023. Based on the evaluation, the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that disclosure controls and procedures are effective as of April 1, 2023.
Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting
Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting (as defined under the Exchange Act Rule 13a-15 (f)) to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and that the consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Such internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (i) pertain to the maintenance of records that in reasonable detail accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets; (ii) provide reasonable assurance (A) that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP and that receipts and expenditures of the Company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors; and (B) regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of our assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
Our management assessed the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of April 1, 2023. In making this assessment, it used the criteria set forth in Internal Control-Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO), the 2013 Framework. Based on this assessment, management has determined that, as of April 1, 2023, our internal control over financial reporting is effective based on those criteria.
The Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of April 1, 2023, as well as the consolidated financial statements, have been audited by Ernst & Young LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, as stated in their report which appears herein.
Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
Except as discussed below, there have been no changes in our internal control over financial reporting during the three months ended April 1, 2023, that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
We are currently undertaking a major, multi-year ERP implementation to upgrade our information technology platforms and systems worldwide. The implementation is occurring in phases over several years. We have launched the finance functionality of the ERP system in certain regions starting in Fiscal 2023.
As a result of this multi-year implementation, we expect certain changes to our processes and procedures, which in turn, could result in changes to our internal control over financial reporting. While we expect this implementation to strengthen our internal control over financial reporting by automating certain manual processes and standardizing business processes and reporting across our organization, we will continue to evaluate and monitor our internal control over financial reporting as processes and procedures in the affected areas evolve. See Item 1A. “Risk Factors” - “A material delay or disruption in our information technology systems or e-commerce websites or our failure or inability to upgrade our information technology systems precisely and efficiently could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.”

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ITEM 9B. OTHER INFORMATION
Item 9B. Other Information
Amendment to Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association
The Board of Directors of the Company approved an amendment to clauses 2 and 3 of the Company’s amended and restated Memorandum and Articles of Association (the “Amendment to the Memorandum”), effective May 24, 2023, reflecting a change of the Company’s registered agent and registered office from Vistra Corporate Services Centre to Conyers Trust
Company (BVI) Limited. A copy of the Amendment to the Memorandum is attached as Exhibit 3.2 to this Annual Report on Form 10-K and incorporated herein by reference.
This disclosure is intended to satisfy the requirements of Item 5.03 of Form 8-K.
Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
On May 30, 2023, the Company and Michael Kors (USA), Inc. (together with the Company, the “Company Parties”) entered into an amended and restated employment agreement with each of Thomas J. Edwards, Jr., Jenna A. Hendricks and Krista A. McDonough (the “Employment Agreements”). The material changes to the Employment Agreements from the executive officers’ prior employment agreements include: (i) providing that upon a termination of employment by the Company Parties without “cause” (and other than by reason of death or disability) or by the executive officer for “good reason”, in addition to the existing severance entitlements under the prior employment agreement, the executive officer would be entitled to a pro rata annual cash incentive award for the year in which the date of termination occurs based on the actual level of performance; (ii) updating the definitions of “cause” and “good reason”; and (iii) updating the restrictive covenants to reflect the most current such covenants used in the equity awards under the Company’s Third Amended and Restated Omnibus Incentive Plan.
In addition, on May 30, 2023, each of Mr. Edwards and Msmes. Hendricks and McDonough entered into a Change in Control Continuity Agreement with the Company (the “CIC Agreements”), which provides for an initial two-year term that will renew automatically for additional years commencing on the first anniversary of the effective date and each annual anniversary thereafter, unless notice of nonrenewal is provided. The payments and benefits provided under the CIC Agreements are “double trigger” and are not payable upon a termination of the executive officer’s employment for “cause,” by a resignation by an executive officer without “good reason” or any termination of an executive officer’s employment prior to a “change in control” of the Company. Defined terms referenced in this description of the CIC Agreements have the meaning given to them in such agreements.
The severance protections under the CIC Agreements become effective on a change in control of the Company and remain in effect for a two-year protected period thereafter. During such two-year period, the executive officer would generally be entitled to compensation and benefits consistent with those applicable prior to the change in control, and if the executive officer’s employment is terminated by the Company without cause (and other than by reason of death or disability) or by the executive officer for good reason, the executive officer would be entitled to receive the following payments and benefits, subject to an effective release of claims against the Company and its affiliates: (i) an amount equal to two times the sum of the executive officer’s annual base salary and target annual cash incentive; (ii) a prorated target bonus for the portion of the Company’s fiscal year elapsed prior to the date of termination; (iii) a payment equal to the cost of the monthly COBRA premiums for group health care plan coverage for a period of 24 months; and (iv) outplacement services up to a maximum cost of $25,000. If the executive officer’s employment is terminated during the protected period following a change in control due to death or disability, the executive officer would not be entitled to the benefits described above, but would be entitled to receive a prorated bonus based on the executive officer’s target annual bonus opportunity and death or disability benefits not less than those provided prior to the change in control. The payments and benefits under the CIC Agreements will be reduced to the extent that they would be subject to an excise tax under Sections 280G and 4999 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, unless the executive officer would be better off on an after-tax basis receiving all such payments and benefits and paying his or her own excise tax. The CIC Agreements do not provide for an excise tax gross-up and include perpetual confidentiality and non-disparagement covenants, and non-solicitation covenants that apply while the executive officer is employed and for two years thereafter.
The foregoing summary is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Employment Agreements and the CIC Agreements, copies of which are filed herewith as Exhibits 10.11, 10.13, 10.16, 10.21, 10.22 and 10.23 and incorporated herein by reference.
This disclosure is intended to satisfy the requirements of Item 5.02(e) of Form 8-K.

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ITEM 10. DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance
Information with respect to this Item is included in the Company’s Proxy Statement to be filed in June 2023, which is incorporated herein by reference.

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ITEM 11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
Item 11. Executive Compensation
Information with respect to this Item is included in the Company’s Proxy Statement to be filed in June 2023, which is incorporated herein by reference.

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ITEM 12. SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS
Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters
The following table sets forth information as of April 1, 2023 regarding compensation plans under which the Company’s equity securities are authorized for issuance:
Equity Compensation Plan Information
(a) (b) (c)
Plan category Number of securities to be issued upon exercise of outstanding options, warrants and rights Weighted-average exercise price of outstanding options, warrants and rights (2)
Number of securities remaining available for future issuance under equity compensation plans (excluding securities reflected in column (a))
Equity compensation plans approved by security holders (1)
3,576,840 $ 43.98 6,169,920
Equity compensation plans not approved by security holders - $ - -
Total 3,576,840 $ 43.98 6,169,920
(1)Reflects share options and restricted stock units issued under the Company’s Third Amended and Restated Omnibus Incentive Plan (or predecessor plan).
(2)Represents the weighted average exercise price of outstanding share awards only.

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ITEM 13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS
Item 13. Certain Relationships, Related Transactions and Director Independence
Information with respect to this Item is included in the Company’s Proxy Statement to be filed in June 2023, which is incorporated herein by reference.

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ITEM 14. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTING FEES AND SERVICES
Item 14. Principal Accountant Fees and Services
Information with respect to this Item is included in the Company’s Proxy Statement to be filed in June 2023, which is incorporated herein by reference.
PART IV

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ITEM 15. EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES
Item 15. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules
(a)The following documents are filed as part of this annual report on Form 10-K:
1.The following consolidated financial statements listed below are filed as a separate section of this Annual Report on Form 10-K:
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm - Ernst & Young LLP (PCAOB ID No. 42).
Consolidated Balance Sheets as of April 1, 2023 and April 2, 2022.
Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income (Loss) for the fiscal years ended April 1, 2023, April 2, 2022 and March 27, 2021.
Consolidated Statements of Shareholders’ Equity for the fiscal years ended April 1, 2023, April 2, 2022 and March 27, 2021.
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the fiscal years ended April 1, 2023, April 2, 2022 and March 27, 2021.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for the fiscal years ended April 1, 2023, April 2, 2022 and March 27, 2021.
2.Exhibits:
EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit
No. Document Description
2.1
Stock Purchase Agreement, dated as of September 24, 2018, by and among Allegra Donata Versace Beck, Donatella Versace, Santo Versace, Borgo Luxembourg S.À R.L., Blackstone GPV Capital Partners (Mauritius) VI-D FDI Ltd., Blackstone GPV Tactical Partners (Mauritius)-N Ltd. and Capri Holdings Limited (f/k/a Michael Kors Holdings Limited) (included as Exhibit 2.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K (File No. 001-35368), filed on September 25, 2018 and incorporated herein by reference).
3.1
Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association of Capri Holdings Limited (included as Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 31, 2018 and incorporated herein by reference).
3.2
Amendment to Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association of Capri Holdings, effective May 24, 2023.
4.1
Specimen of Ordinary Share Certificate of Capri Holdings Limited (included as Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 30, 2019 (File No. 001-35368), filed on May 29, 2019 and incorporated herein by reference).
4.2
Indenture, dated as of October 20, 2017, by and among Michael Kors (USA), Inc., Michael Kors Holdings Limited, the subsidiary guarantors party thereto and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (included as Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K (File No. 001-35368), filed on October 20, 2017 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.1
Second Amendment, dated as of June 25, 2020, to the Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of November 15, 2018 among Capri Holdings Limited, Michael Kors (USA), Inc., the foreign subsidiary borrowers party thereto, the guarantors party thereto, the financial institutions party thereto as lenders and issuing banks and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent (included as Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K (File No. 001-35368), filed on July 1, 2020 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.2
Form of Indemnification Agreement between Michael Kors Holdings Limited and its directors and executive officers (included as Exhibit 10.5 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form, as amended (File No. 333-178282), filed on December 2, 2011 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.3
Capri Holdings Limited Third Amended and Restated Omnibus Incentive Plan (included as Annex B to the Company’s Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A (File No. 001-35368), filed on June 16, 2022 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.4
Fifth Amended and Restated Employment Agreement, dated as of March 7, 2022, by and among Michael Kors (USA), Inc., Capri Holdings Limited and John D. Idol (included as Exhibit 10.6 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended April 2, 2022 (File No. 001-35368), filed on June 1, 2022 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.5
Executive Bonus Program (included as Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended June 29, 2013 filed on August 8, 2013 and incorporated herein by reference).
Exhibit
No. Document Description
10.6
Form of Employee Non-Qualified Option Award Agreement (included as Exhibit 10.15 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 28, 2015, filed on May 27, 2015 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.7
Form of Employee Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement (included as Exhibit 10.16 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 28, 2015, filed on May 27, 2015 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.8
Form of Performance-Based Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement (included as Exhibit 10.17 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 28, 2015, filed on May 27, 2015 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.9
Form of Independent Director Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement (included as Exhibit 10.18 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 28, 2015, filed on May 27, 2015 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.10
Aircraft Time Sharing Agreement, effective as of December 20, 2022, by and between Michael Kors (USA), Inc. and John Idol (included as Exhibit 10.3 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2022, filed on February 8, 2023 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.11
Amended and Restated Employment Agreement by and among Capri Holdings Limited, Michael Kors (USA), Inc. and Thomas J. Edwards, Jr., dated as of May 30, 2023.
10.12
Capri Holdings Limited Deferred Compensation Plan (included as Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K (File No. 001.35368), filed on November 14, 2019 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.13
Amended and Restated Employment Agreement by and among Capri Holdings Limited, Michael Kors (USA), Inc. and Krista A. McDonough, dated as of May 30, 2023.
10.14
Employment Agreement, dated as of March 30, 2020, by and among Capri Holdings Limited, Michael Kors (USA), Inc. and Daniel Purefoy (included as Exhibit 10.16 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 27, 2021, filed on May 26, 2021 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.15
Employment Agreement dated January 23, 2023, by and between Michael Kors (USA), Inc. and Cedric Wilmotte.
10.16
Amended and Restated Employment Agreement by and among Capri Holdings Limited, Michael Kors (USA), Inc. and Jenna Hendricks, dated as of May 30, 2023.
10.17
Suspension of Rights Agreement, dated as of September 23, 2021, to the Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of November 15, 2018 among, Michael Kors (USA), Inc., Capri Holdings Limited, the Foreign Subsidiary Borrowers party to the Credit Agreement, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent, the Lenders thereto and the other parties party thereto (included as Exhibit 10.3 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended September 25, 2021 filed on November 3, 2021 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.18
Revolving Credit Agreement, dated as of July 1, 2022 among Capri Holdings Limited, Michael Kors (USA), Inc., the foreign subsidiary borrowers party thereto, the guarantors party thereto, the financial institutions party thereto as lenders and issuing banks and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent (included as Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K (File No. 001-35368), filed on July 1, 2022 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.19
Term Facility Agreement by and among Gianni Versace S.r.l., as borrower, Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A., Banca Nazionale Del Lavoro S.p.A. and UniCredit S.p.A., as arrangers and lenders, and Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A., as agent, dated as of December 5, 2022 (included as Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K (File No. 001-35368), filed on December 6, 2022 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.20
Parent Company Guarantee by and among Capri Holdings Limited, as guarantor, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro S.p.A., Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A. and UniCredit S.p.A., dated as of December 5, 2022 (included as Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K (File No. 001-35368), filed on December 6, 2022 and incorporated herein by reference).
10.21
Change in Control Continuity Agreement by and between Capri Holdings Limited and Thomas J. Edwards, Jr., dated as of May 30, 2023.
10.22
Change in Control Continuity Agreement by and between Capri Holdings Limited and Jenna Hendricks, dated as of May 30, 2023.
10.23
Change in Control Continuity Agreement by and between Capri Holdings Limited and Krista A. McDonough, dated as of May 30, 2023.
21.1
List of subsidiaries of Capri Holdings Limited.
23.2
Consent of Ernst & Young LLP.
31.1
Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Section 302 of Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002.
31.2
Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Section 302 of Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002.
Exhibit
No. Document Description
32.1
Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
32.2
Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
101.1 Interactive Data Files.