HAIN CELESTIAL GROUP INC - Quarter Report: 2021 March (Form 10-Q)

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

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FORM 10-Q

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(Mark One)


☒			Quarterly Report Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

For the quarterly period ended March 31, 2021


☐			Transition Report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

for the transition period from to

Commission File No. 0-22818

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THE HAIN CELESTIAL GROUP, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

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Delaware						22-3240619
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)						(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

1111 Marcus Avenue, Lake Success, NY 11042

(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (516) 587-5000

Former name, former address and former fiscal year, if changed since last report: N/A

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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:


Title of each class	Trading Symbol(s)	Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock, par value $.01 per share	HAIN	The NASDAQ Global Select Market

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.

Yes ý No ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (section 232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files).

Yes ý No ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

Large accelerated filer

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Accelerated filer

Non-accelerated filer

Smaller reporting company

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Emerging growth company

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If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).

Yes ☐ No ý

As of April 29, 2021, there were 99,720,275 shares outstanding of the registrant’s Common Stock, par value $.01 per share.

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THE HAIN CELESTIAL GROUP, INC.

Index


	Part I - Financial Information	Page

Item 1.	Financial Statements
	Consolidated Balance Sheets - March 31, 202 1 and June 30, 2020	3
	Consolidated Statements of Operations - Three and n ine months ended March 31, 202 1 and 2 020	4
	Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss) - Three and nine months ended March 31, 202 1 and 2 020	5
	Consolidated Statement of Stockholders’ Equity - Three and nine months ended March 31, 202 1 and 2 020	6
	Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows - Nine months ended March 31, 202 1 and 20 2 0	8
	Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements	9
Item 2.	Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations	39
Item 3.	Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk	57
Item 4.	Controls and Procedures	58

	Part II - Other Information

Items 3, 4 and 5 are not applicable
Item 1.	Legal Proceedings	59
Item 1A.	Risk Factors	59
Item 2.	Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds	59

Item 6.	Exhibits	60
Signatures		61

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Cautionary Note Regarding Forward Looking Information

This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2021 (the “Form 10-Q”) contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, relating to our business and financial outlook, which are based on our current beliefs, assumptions, expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections about future events only as of the date of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, and are not statements of historical fact. We make such forward-looking statements pursuant to the “safe harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

Many of our forward-looking statements include discussions of trends and anticipated developments under the “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” section of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as the use of “may,” “will,” “should,” “expects,” “plans,” “anticipates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “projects,” “intends,” “predicts,” “potential,” or “continue” and similar expressions, or the negative of those expressions. These forward-looking statements include, among other things, our beliefs or expectations relating to our business strategy, growth strategy, market price, brand portfolio and product performance, the seasonality of our business and our results of operations and financial condition. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of our future performance and involve risks, uncertainties, estimates and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Therefore, our actual outcomes and results may differ materially from those expressed in these forward-looking statements. You should not place undue reliance on any of these forward-looking statements. Further, any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date hereof, unless it is specifically otherwise stated to be made as of a different date. We undertake no obligation to further update any such statement to reflect new information, the occurrence of future events or circumstances or otherwise.

The forward-looking statements in this filing do not constitute guarantees or promises of future performance. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences may include, but are not limited to, challenges and uncertainty resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, the impact of competitive products and changes to the competitive environment, changes to consumer preferences, general economic and financial market conditions, potential legal claims and other risks relating to regulatory requirements, government investigations and other regulatory enforcement actions, the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union, consolidation of customers or the loss of a significant customer, reliance on independent distributors, risks associated with our international sales and operations, our ability to manage our supply chain effectively, volatility in the cost of commodities, ingredients, freight and fuel, our ability to implement cost savings initiatives, the impact of our debt covenants, the potential discontinuation of LIBOR, our ability to manage our financial reporting and internal control system processes, costs incurred due to pending and future litigation, potential liability, including in connection with indemnification obligations to our former officers and members of our Board of Directors that may not be covered by insurance, potential liability if our products cause illness or physical harm, impairments in the carrying value of goodwill or other intangible assets, our ability to consummate divestitures, the availability of organic ingredients, disruption of operations at our manufacturing facilities, loss of one or more independent co-packers, disruption of our transportation systems, risks relating to the protection of intellectual property, the risk of liabilities and claims with respect to environmental matters, the reputation of our brands, our reliance on independent certification for a number of our products and other risks described in Part I, Item 1A of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020 under the heading “Risk Factors”, and Part I, Item 2 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q under the heading “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” as well as in other reports that we file in the future.

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PART I - FINANCIAL INFORMATION

ITEM 1. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

THE HAIN CELESTIAL GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS (UNAUDITED)

MARCH 31, 2021 AND JUNE 30, 2020

(In thousands, except par values)


	March 31,		June 30,
	2021		2020
ASSETS
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents	$	53,014	$	37,771
Accounts receivable, less allowance for doubtful accounts of $1,178 and $638, respectively	190,737		170,969
Inventories	313,898		248,170
Prepaid expenses and other current assets	38,648		95,690
Assets held for sale	—		8,334
Total current assets	596,297		560,934
Property, plant and equipment, net	311,342		289,256
Goodwill	877,723		861,958
Trademarks and other intangible assets, net	324,791		346,462
Investments and joint ventures	17,342		17,439
Operating lease right-of-use assets	90,130		88,165
Other assets	22,263		24,238

Total assets	$	2,239,888	$	2,188,452
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable	$	210,223	$	171,009
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities	120,498		124,045
Current portion of long-term debt	699		1,656

Liabilities related to assets held for sale	—		3,567
Total current liabilities	331,420		300,277
Long-term debt, less current portion	255,540		281,118
Deferred income taxes	36,103		51,849
Operating lease liabilities, noncurrent portion	83,564		82,962
Other noncurrent liabilities	31,579		28,692

Total liabilities	738,206		744,898
Commitments and contingencies (Note 17)
Stockholders’ equity:
Preferred stock - $.01 par value, authorized 5,000 shares; issued and outstanding: none	—		—
Common stock - $.01 par value, authorized 150,000 shares; issued: 109,466 and 109,123 shares, respectively; outstanding: 99,706 and 101,885 shares, respectively	1,096		1,092
Additional paid-in capital	1,183,759		1,171,875
Retained earnings	650,740		614,171
Accumulated other comprehensive loss	(77,682)		(171,392)
	1,757,913		1,615,746
Less: Treasury stock, at cost, 9,753 and 7,238 shares, respectively	(256,231)		(172,192)
Total stockholders’ equity	1,501,682		1,443,554
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity	$	2,239,888	$	2,188,452

See notes to consolidated financial statements.

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THE HAIN CELESTIAL GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS (UNAUDITED)

FOR THE THREE AND NINE MONTHS ENDED MARCH 31, 2021 AND 2020

(In thousands, except per share amounts)


	Three Months Ended March 31,				Nine Months Ended March 31,
	2021		2020		2021		2020
Net sales	$	492,604	$	553,297	$	1,519,649	$	1,542,157
Cost of sales	362,698		420,902		1,140,614		1,206,324
Gross profit	129,906		132,395		379,035		335,833
Selling, general and administrative expenses	74,223		85,447		236,995		245,205
Amortization of acquired intangible assets	2,145		3,174		6,771		9,446
Productivity and transformation costs	4,553		11,514		12,371		37,949

Proceeds from insurance claim	(592)		(400)		(592)		(2,962)


Long-lived asset and intangibles impairment	—		13,525		57,676		15,414
Operating income	49,577		19,135		65,814		30,781
Interest and other financing expense, net	2,030		4,037		6,820		15,068
Other expense (income), net	1,566		(260)		(852)		2,312
Income from continuing operations before income taxes and equity in net (income) loss of equity-method investees	45,981		15,358		59,846		13,401
Provision (benefit) for income taxes	11,797		(10,242)		33,197		(9,753)
Equity in net (income) loss of equity-method investees	(70)		564		1,025		1,219
Net income from continuing operations	$	34,254	$	25,036	$	25,624	$	21,935
Net (loss) income from discontinued operations, net of tax	—		(697)		11,255		(105,581)
Net income (loss)	$	34,254	$	24,339	$	36,879	$	(83,646)

Net income (loss) per common share:
Basic net income per common share from continuing operations	$	0.34	$	0.24	$	0.25	$	0.21
Basic net (loss) income per common share from discontinued operations	—		(0.01)		0.11		(1.01)
Basic net income (loss) per common share	$	0.34	$	0.23	$	0.36	$	(0.80)

Diluted net income per common share from continuing operations	$	0.34	$	0.24	$	0.25	$	0.21
Diluted net (loss) income per common share from discontinued operations	—		(0.01)		0.11		(1.01)
Diluted net income (loss) per common share	$	0.34	$	0.23	$	0.36	$	(0.80)

Shares used in the calculation of net income (loss) per common share:
Basic	99,831		104,032		100,502		104,192
Diluted	101,596		104,337		101,385		104,489

See notes to consolidated financial statements.

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THE HAIN CELESTIAL GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS) (UNAUDITED)

FOR THE THREE AND NINE MONTHS ENDED MARCH 31, 2021 AND 2020

(In thousands)


	Three Months Ended
	March 31, 2021						March 31, 2020
	Pre-tax amount		Tax (expense) benefit		After-tax amount		Pre-tax amount		Tax (expense) benefit		After-tax amount
Net income					$	34,254					$	24,339

Other comprehensive income (loss):
Foreign currency translation adjustments before reclassifications	$	1,672	$	—	1,672		$	(52,315)	$	—	(52,315)
Reclassification of currency translation adjustment included in Net income from continuing operations, net of tax	14,725		—		14,725		—		—		—
Change in deferred gains (losses) on cash flow hedging instruments	322		(68)		254		134		(25)		109
Change in deferred gains (losses) on net investment hedging instruments	3,810		(800)		3,010		—		—		—

Total other comprehensive income (loss)	$	20,529	$	(868)	$	19,661	$	(52,181)	$	(25)	$	(52,206)

Total comprehensive income (loss)					$	53,915					$	(27,867)

	Nine Months Ended
	March 31, 2021						March 31, 2020
	Pre-tax amount		Tax (expense) benefit		After-tax amount		Pre-tax amount		Tax (expense) benefit		After-tax amount
Net income (loss)					$	36,879					$	(83,646)

Other comprehensive income (loss):
Foreign currency translation adjustments before reclassifications	$	80,491	$	—	80,491		$	(42,602)	$	—	(42,602)
Reclassification of currency translation adjustment included in Net income from continuing operations, net of tax	15,906		—		15,906		95,120		—		95,120
Change in deferred gains (losses) on cash flow hedging instruments	474		(100)		374		108		(25)		83
Change in deferred (losses) gains on net investment hedging instruments	(3,875)		814		(3,061)		—		—		—
Total other comprehensive income (loss)	$	92,996	$	714	$	93,710	$	52,626	$	(25)	$	52,601

Total comprehensive income (loss)					$	130,589					$	(31,045)

See notes to consolidated financial statements.

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THE HAIN CELESTIAL GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY (UNAUDITED)

FOR THE THREE AND NINE MONTHS ENDED MARCH 31, 2021

(In thousands, except par values)


											Accumulated
	Common Stock			Additional							Other
		Amount		Paid-in		Retained		Treasury Stock			Comprehensive
	Shares	at $.01		Capital		Earnings		Shares	Amount		Income (Loss)		Total
Balance at June 30, 2020	109,123	$	1,092	$	1,171,875	$	614,171	7,238	$	(172,192)	$	(171,392)	$	1,443,554
Net income						485							485
Cumulative effect of adoption of ASU 2016-13						(310)							(310)
Other comprehensive income											31,005		31,005
Issuance of common stock pursuant to stock-based compensation plans	54	1		(1)									—

Shares withheld for payment of employee payroll taxes due on shares issued under stock-based compensation plans								20	(468)				(468)
Repurchases of common stock								1,281	(42,052)				(42,052)
Stock-based compensation expense				4,367									4,367
Balance at September 30, 2020	109,177	$	1,093	$	1,176,241	$	614,346	8,539	$	(214,712)	$	(140,387)	$	1,436,581
Net income						2,140							2,140

Other comprehensive income											43,044		43,044
Issuance of common stock pursuant to stock-based compensation plans	162	2		(2)									—

Shares withheld for payment of employee payroll taxes due on shares issued under stock-based compensation plans								38	(1,255)				(1,255)
Repurchases of common stock								923	(29,684)				(29,684)
Stock-based compensation expense				3,823									3,823
Balance at December 31, 2020	109,339	$	1,095	$	1,180,062	$	616,486	9,500	$	(245,651)	$	(97,343)	$	1,454,649
Net income						34,254							34,254

Other comprehensive income											19,661		19,661
Issuance of common stock pursuant to stock-based compensation plans	127	1		(1)									—

Shares withheld for payment of employee payroll taxes due on shares issued under stock-based compensation plans								49	(2,018)				(2,018)
Repurchases of common stock								204	(8,562)				(8,562)
Stock-based compensation expense				3,698									3,698
Balance at March 31, 2021	109,466	$	1,096	$	1,183,759	$	650,740	9,753	$	(256,231)	$	(77,682)	$	1,501,682

See notes to consolidated financial statements.

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY (UNAUDITED)

FOR THE THREE AND NINE MONTHS ENDED MARCH 31, 2020

(In thousands, except par values)


											Accumulated
	Common Stock			Additional							Other
		Amount		Paid-in		Retained		Treasury Stock			Comprehensive
	Shares	at $.01		Capital		Earnings		Shares	Amount		Income (Loss)		Total
Balance at June 30, 2019	108,833	$	1,088	$	1,158,257	$	695,017	4,614	$	(110,039)	$	(225,004)	$	1,519,319
Net loss						(107,021)							(107,021)
Cumulative effect of adoption of ASU 2016-02						(439)							(439)

Other comprehensive income											56,110		56,110
Issuance of common stock pursuant to stock-based compensation plans	40	1		(1)									—

Shares withheld for payment of employee payroll taxes due on shares issued under stock-based compensation plans								17	(312)				(312)
Stock-based compensation expense				3,281									3,281
Balance at September 30, 2019	108,873	$	1,089	$	1,161,537	$	587,557	4,631	$	(110,351)	$	(168,894)	$	1,470,938
Net loss						(964)							(964)


Other comprehensive income											48,697		48,697
Issuance of common stock pursuant to stock-based compensation plans	146	2		(2)									—

Shares withheld for payment of employee payroll taxes due on shares issued under stock-based compensation plans								27	(671)				(671)
Stock-based compensation expense				3,083									3,083
Balance at December 31, 2019	109,019	$	1,091	$	1,164,618	$	586,593	4,658	$	(111,022)	$	(120,197)	$	1,521,083
Net income						24,339							24,339


Other comprehensive loss											(52,206)		(52,206)
Issuance of common stock pursuant to stock-based compensation plans	70	1		(1)									—

Shares withheld for payment of employee payroll taxes due on shares issued under stock-based compensation plans								20	(523)				(523)
Repurchases of common stock								2,439	(57,406)				(57,406)
Stock-based compensation expense				3,761									3,761
Balance at March 31, 2020	109,089	$	1,092	$	1,168,378	$	610,932	7,117	$	(168,951)	$	(172,403)	$	1,439,048

See notes to consolidated financial statements.

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS (UNAUDITED)

FOR THE NINE MONTHS ENDED MARCH 31, 2021 AND 2020

(In thousands)


	Nine Months Ended March 31,
	2021		2020
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES
Net income (loss)	$	36,879	$	(83,646)
Net income (loss) from discontinued operations	11,255		(105,581)
Net income from continuing operations	25,624		21,935
Adjustments to reconcile net income from continuing operations to net cash provided by operating activities from continuing operations:
Depreciation and amortization	37,768		40,069
Deferred income taxes	3,216		(9,035)

Equity in net loss of equity-method investees	1,025		1,219
Stock-based compensation, net	11,888		9,581

Long-lived asset and intangibles impairment	57,676		15,414
Other non-cash items, net	494		2,335
(Decrease) increase in cash attributable to changes in operating assets and liabilities:
Accounts receivable	(20,721)		(30,870)
Inventories	(60,304)		47,280
Other current assets	56,487		10,302
Other assets and liabilities	(952)		(1,166)
Accounts payable and accrued expenses	34,316		(42,972)
Net cash provided by operating activities from continuing operations	146,517		64,092
CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES
Purchases of property, plant and equipment	(53,062)		(46,961)



Proceeds from sale of businesses, net and other	27,094		14,428
Net cash used in investing activities from continuing operations	(25,968)		(32,533)
CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES
Borrowings under bank revolving credit facility	206,000		197,000
Repayments under bank revolving credit facility	(231,000)		(254,500)

Repayments under term loan	—		(206,250)
Proceeds from discontinued operations entities	—		305,247
Repayments of other debt, net	(1,917)		(1,502)
Share repurchases	(80,298)		(57,406)
Shares withheld for payment of employee payroll taxes	(3,741)		(1,506)
Net cash used in financing activities from continuing operations	(110,956)		(18,917)
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash from continuing operations	5,650		(2,110)
CASH FLOWS FROM DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS
Cash used in operating activities	—		(6,146)
Cash provided by investing activities	—		297,592
Cash used in financing activities	—		(299,418)
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash from discontinued operations	—		(537)
Net cash flows used in discontinued operations	—		(8,509)
Net increase in cash and cash equivalents	15,243		2,023
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period	37,771		39,526
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period	$	53,014	$	41,549

See notes to consolidated financial statements.

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (UNAUDITED)

(Amounts in thousands, except par values and per share amounts)

1. BUSINESS

The Hain Celestial Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation (collectively, along with its subsidiaries, the “Company,” and herein referred to as “Hain Celestial,” “we,” “us” and “our”), was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Lake Success, New York. The Company’s mission has continued to evolve since its founding, with health and wellness being the core tenet — To Create and Inspire A Healthier Way of LifeTM and be the leading marketer, manufacturer and seller of organic and natural products by anticipating and exceeding consumer expectations in providing quality, innovation, value and convenience. The Company is committed to growing sustainably while continuing to implement environmentally sound business practices and manufacturing processes. Hain Celestial sells its products through specialty and natural food distributors, supermarkets, natural food stores, mass-market and e-commerce retailers, food service channels and club, drug and convenience stores in over 75 countries worldwide.

The Company manufactures, markets, distributes and sells organic and natural products under brand names, with many recognized brands in the various market categories it serves, including Celestial Seasonings®, Clarks™, Cully & Sully®, Earth’s Best®, Ella’s Kitchen®, Farmhouse Fare™, Frank Cooper’s®, GG UniqueFiber®, Gale’s®, Garden of Eatin’®, Hain Pure Foods®, Hartley’s®, Health Valley®, Imagine®, Joya®, Lima®, Linda McCartney's®™ (under license), MaraNatha®, Natumi®, New Covent Garden Soup Co.®, Robertson’s®, Sensible Portions®, Spectrum®, Sun-Pat®, Terra®, The Greek Gods®, William’s™, Yorkshire Provender® and Yves Veggie Cuisine®. The Company’s personal care products are marketed under the Alba Botanica®, Avalon Organics®, Earth’s Best®, JASON®, Live Clean®, One Step® and Queen Helene® brands.

The Company continues to execute the four key pillars of its strategy: (1) simplify its portfolio; (2) strengthen its capabilities; (3) expand profit margins and cash flow; and (4) reinvigorate profitable topline growth. The Company has executed this strategy, with a focus on discontinuing uneconomic investment, realigning resources to coincide with brand importance, reducing unproductive stock-keeping units (“SKUs”) and brands and reassessing current pricing architecture. As part of this initiative, the Company reviewed its product portfolio within North America and divided it into “Get Bigger” and “Get Better” brand categories.

•The Company’s “Get Bigger” brands represent its strongest brands with higher margins, which compete in categories with strong growth potential. The Company has concentrated its investment in marketing, innovation and other resources to prioritize spending for these brands, in an effort to reinvigorate profitable topline growth, optimize assortment and increase share of distribution.

•The Company’s “Get Better” brands are the brands in which the Company is primarily focused on simplification and expansion of profit margin. Some of these brands have historically been low margin, non-strategic brands that added complexity with minimal benefit to the Company’s operations.

In addition, as part of the Company’s overall strategy, the Company may seek to dispose of businesses and brands that are less profitable or are otherwise less of a strategic fit within its core portfolio. During fiscal 2019, for example, the Company divested its Hain Pure Protein reportable segment and its WestSoy® tofu, seitan and tempeh businesses. In fiscal 2020, the Company divested its Tilda business and its Arrowhead Mills®, SunSpire®, Europe's Best®, Casbah®, Rudi’s Gluten-Free Bakery™, Rudi’s Organic Bakery® and Fountain of Truth™ brands. In fiscal 2021, the Company divested Danival®, its U.K. fruit business, primarily consisting of the Orchard House® Foods Limited business and associated brands, and subsequent to the quarter ended March 31, 2021, the Company completed the sale of both WestSoy® and Dream®.

Productivity and Transformation Costs

In fiscal 2019, the Company announced an initiative that sought to identify areas of cost savings and operating efficiencies to expand profit margins and cash flow. As part of this initiative, during fiscal 2020, the Company began the integration of its United States and Canada operations in alignment with the North America reportable segment structure. In addition, during fiscal 2021, the Company initiated cost reduction programs for its international businesses in the United Kingdom and Europe. The Company will carry out additional productivity initiatives under this strategy in fiscal 2021.

Productivity and transformation costs include costs such as consulting and severance costs relating to streamlining the Company’s manufacturing plants, co-packers and supply chain, eliminating served categories or brands within those categories, and product rationalization initiatives which are aimed at eliminating slow moving SKUs.

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Discontinued Operations

On August 27, 2019, the Company and Ebro Foods S.A. entered into, and consummated the transactions contemplated by, an agreement relating to the sale and purchase of the Tilda Group Entities and certain other assets.

On February 15, 2019, the Company completed the sale of substantially all of the assets used primarily for the Plainville Farms business, a component of the Company’s Hain Pure Protein Corporation (“HPPC”) operating segment. On June 28, 2019, the Company completed the sale of the remainder of HPPC and Empire Kosher which included the FreeBird and Empire Kosher businesses. These dispositions were undertaken to reduce complexity in the Company’s operations and simplify the Company’s brand portfolio, in addition to allowing additional flexibility to focus on opportunities for growth and innovation in the Company’s more profitable and faster growing core businesses. Collectively, these dispositions were reported in the aggregate as the Hain Pure Protein reportable segment.

These dispositions represented strategic shifts that had a major impact on the Company’s operations and financial results, and therefore, the Company is presenting the operating results and cash flows of the Tilda operating segment and the Hain Pure Protein reportable segment within discontinued operations in the current and prior periods. See Note 4, Dispositions, for additional information.

2. BASIS OF PRESENTATION

The Company’s unaudited consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly-owned and majority-owned subsidiaries. Intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. Investments in affiliated companies in which the Company exerts significant influence, but which it does not control, are accounted for under the equity method of accounting. As such, consolidated net loss includes the Company's equity in the current earnings or losses of such companies.

The Company's unaudited consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“U.S. GAAP”) for interim financial information and the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and notes required by U.S. GAAP and should be read in conjunction with the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020 (the “Form 10-K”). The amounts as of and for the periods ended June 30, 2020 are derived from the Company’s audited annual financial statements. The unaudited consolidated financial statements reflect all normal recurring adjustments which, in management’s opinion, are necessary for a fair presentation for interim periods. Operating results for the nine months ended March 31, 2021 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2021. Please refer to the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements as of June 30, 2020 and for the fiscal year then ended included in the Form 10-K for information not included in these condensed notes.

All amounts in the unaudited consolidated financial statements, notes and tables have been rounded to the nearest thousand, except par values and per share amounts, unless otherwise indicated.

Reclassifications

Certain prior year amounts have been reclassified to conform with current year presentation.

Significant Accounting Policies

The Company's significant accounting policies are described in Note 2, Summary of Significant Accounting Policies and Practices, in the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in the Form 10-K. Included herein are certain updates to those policies.

Valuation of Accounts Receivable

The Company maintains an allowance for expected uncollectible accounts receivable which is recorded as an offset to trade accounts receivable on the Consolidated Balance Sheets. Effective July 1, 2020, collectability of accounts receivable is assessed by applying a historical loss-rate methodology in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification ("ASC") Topic 326, Financial Instruments - Credit Losses, adjusted as necessary based on the Company's review of accounts receivable on an individual basis, specifically identifying customers with known disputes or collectability issues, and experience with trade receivable aging categories. The Company also considers market conditions and current and expected future economic conditions to inform adjustments to historical loss data. Changes to the allowance, if any, are classified as bad debt provisions in the Consolidated Statements of Operations.

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Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements

In June 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") issued Accounting Standards Update ("ASU") 2016-13, Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments, which requires measurement and recognition of expected versus incurred credit losses for most financial assets. The ASU applies to trade and other receivables recorded on the Consolidated Balance Sheets. The Company adopted the standard on July 1, 2020 using the modified retrospective transition method, recognizing an adjustment to beginning retained earnings of $310 reflecting the cumulative impact of adoption. The adoption did not materially impact the Company's results of operations or financial position, and as a result, comparisons between periods were not materially affected by the adoption of ASU 2016-13.

In January 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-04, Simplifying the Test for Goodwill Impairment, which removes the second step of the goodwill impairment test that requires a hypothetical purchase price allocation. A goodwill impairment will now be the amount by which a reporting unit’s carrying value exceeds its fair value, not to exceed the carrying amount of goodwill. This guidance is effective for interim and annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2019. The Company adopted ASU 2017-04 on July 1, 2020, and the adoption of this standard did not have an impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

In August 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-13, Fair Value Measurement: Disclosure Framework - Changes to the Disclosure Requirements for Fair Value Measurement, which modifies the disclosure requirements for fair value measurement by removing, modifying or adding certain disclosures. The new guidance is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2019, and for interim periods within those fiscal years. The Company adopted ASU 2018-13 on July 1, 2020, and the adoption of this standard did not have an impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

In August 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-15, Intangibles - Goodwill and Other - Internal-Use Software, Customer's Accounting for Implementation Costs Incurred in a Cloud Computing Arrangement that is a Service Contract, which aligns the requirements for capitalizing implementation costs incurred in a hosting arrangement that is a service contract with the requirements for capitalizing implementation costs incurred to develop or obtain internal-use software. The amended guidance is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2019, and for interim periods within those fiscal years. The Company adopted ASU 2018-15 on July 1, 2020, and the adoption of this standard did not have an impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements Not Yet Effective

In December 2019, the FASB issued ASU 2019-12, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Simplifying the Accounting for Income Taxes, which simplifies various aspects related to accounting for income taxes and eliminates certain exceptions related to the approach for intraperiod tax allocation, the methodology for calculating taxes during the quarters and the recognition of deferred tax liabilities for outside basis differences. The new guidance is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2021, and for interim periods within those fiscal years. The Company is currently assessing the impact that this standard will have on its consolidated financial statements.

In March 2020, the FASB issued ASU 2020-04, Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848): Facilitation of the Effects of Reference Rate Reform on Financial Reporting, which provides temporary optional expedients and exceptions for applying generally accepted accounting principles to contracts, hedging relationships and other transactions affected by reference rate reform. ASU 2020-04 is currently effective and upon adoption may be applied prospectively to contract modifications made on or before December 31, 2022. In January 2021, the FASB issued ASU 2021-01, Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848): Scope, which clarifies certain provisions in Topic 848, if elected by an entity, to apply to derivative instruments that use an interest rate for margining, discounting, or contract price alignment that is modified as a result of reference rate reform. The Company is currently assessing the impact that these standards will have on its consolidated financial statements.

In October 2020, the FASB issued ASU 2020-10, Codification Improvements - Disclosures. This ASU improves consistency by amending the codification to include all disclosure guidance in the appropriate disclosure sections and clarifies application of various provisions in the codification by amending and adding new headings, cross referencing to other guidance, and refining or correcting terminology. This ASU is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2020. The Company is currently assessing the impact that this standard will have on its consolidated financial statements.

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3. EARNINGS (LOSS) PER SHARE

The following table sets forth the computation of basic and diluted net income (loss) per share:


	Three Months Ended March 31,				Nine Months Ended March 31,
	2021		2020		2021		2020
Numerator:
Net income from continuing operations	$	34,254	$	25,036	$	25,624	$	21,935
Net (loss) income from discontinued operations	—		(697)		11,255		(105,581)
Net income (loss)	$	34,254	$	24,339	$	36,879	$	(83,646)

Denominator:
Basic weighted average shares outstanding	99,831		104,032		100,502		104,192
Effect of dilutive stock options, unvested restricted stock and unvested restricted share units	1,765		305		883		297
Diluted weighted average shares outstanding	101,596		104,337		101,385		104,489

Basic net income (loss) per common share:
Continuing operations	$	0.34	$	0.24	$	0.25	$	0.21
Discontinued operations	—		(0.01)		0.11		(1.01)
Basic net income (loss) per common share	$	0.34	$	0.23	$	0.36	$	(0.80)

Diluted net income (loss) per common share:
Continuing operations	$	0.34	$	0.24	$	0.25	$	0.21
Discontinued operations	—		(0.01)		0.11		(1.01)
Diluted net income (loss) per common share	$	0.34	$	0.23	$	0.36	$	(0.80)

Basic net income (loss) per share excludes the dilutive effects of stock options, unvested restricted stock and unvested restricted share units.

There were 4 and 512 restricted stock awards and stock options excluded from our calculation of diluted net income per share for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively, as such awards were anti-dilutive. Additionally, there were 23 and 2,616 stock-based awards excluded for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively, as such awards were contingently issuable based on market or performance conditions, and such conditions had not been achieved during the respective periods.

There were 182 and 450 restricted stock awards and stock options excluded from the calculation of diluted net income (loss) per share for the nine months ended March 31, 2021 and March 31, 2020, respectively, as such awards were anti-dilutive. Additionally, there were 957 and 2,685 stock-based awards excluded for the nine months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively, as such awards were contingently issuable based on market or performance conditions, and such conditions had not been achieved during the respective periods.

Share Repurchase Program

On June 21, 2017, the Company's Board of Directors authorized the repurchase of up to $250,000 of the Company’s issued and outstanding common stock. Repurchases may be made from time to time in the open market, pursuant to pre-set trading plans, in private transactions or otherwise. The authorization does not have a stated expiration date. The extent to which the Company repurchases its shares and the timing of such repurchases will depend upon market conditions and other corporate considerations. During the three months ended March 31, 2021, the Company repurchased 204 shares under the repurchase program for a total of $8,562, excluding commissions, at an average price of $41.86 per share. During the nine months ended March 31, 2021, the Company repurchased 2,408 shares under the repurchase program for a total of $80,255, excluding commissions, at an average price of $33.33 per share. As of March 31, 2021, the Company had $109,495 of remaining authorization under the share repurchase program.

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4. DISPOSITIONS

Fruit

In August 2020, the Company's Board of Directors approved a plan to sell its prepared fresh fruit, fresh fruit drinks and fresh fruit desserts division ("Fruit"), primarily consisting of the Orchard House Foods Limited business and associated brands. This decision supported the Company's overall strategy as the Fruit business did not align, and had limited synergies, with the rest of the Company's businesses. The sale was completed on January 13, 2021 (the "Closing Date") for total cash consideration of $38,547 of which $2,056 was due as of March 31, 2021 and was subsequently collected in April 2021.

Fruit operated in the United Kingdom and was included in the Company's International reportable segment, comprising 4.9% and 8.6% of the Company's net sales during the nine months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively. The Company determined that the held for sale criteria was met and classified the assets and liabilities of the Fruit business as held for sale as of September 30 and December 31, 2020, recognizing a pre-tax non-cash loss to reduce the carrying value to its estimated fair value, less costs to sell of $56,093 during the six months ended December 31, 2020.

At the Closing Date, the assets and liabilities of the Fruit business consisted of the following:


	January 13,
	2021
ASSETS
Cash and cash equivalents	$	13,559
Accounts receivable, less allowance for doubtful accounts	14,057
Inventories	5,028
Prepaid expenses and other current assets	2,728
Property, plant and equipment, net	25,039
Goodwill	14,362
Other intangible assets, net	36,171
Operating lease right-of-use assets	5,623
Allowance for reduction of assets held for sale	(58,444)
Total assets	$	58,123
LIABILITIES
Accounts payable	$	14,428
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities	4,229
Operating lease liabilities	5,039
Deferred tax liabilities	7,298
Other liabilities	1,942
Total liabilities	$	32,936

The Company deconsolidated the net assets of the Fruit business during the three months ended March 31, 2021, recognizing a pre-tax loss on sale of $1,904.

Danival

The Company entered into a definitive stock purchase agreement on June 30, 2020 for the sale of its Danival business, a component of the International reportable segment, and the transaction closed on July 21, 2020. As of June 30, 2020, the Company determined the held for sale criteria was met, resulting in assets held for sale of $8,334 and related liabilities held for sale of $3,567 being included in the Company's Consolidated Balance Sheet as of June 30, 2020. These assets and liabilities were previously presented within Prepaid and other current assets and Accrued expenses and other liabilities, respectively, in the Form 10-K and have been reclassified to conform to current year presentation. The Company deconsolidated the net assets of the Danival business upon the closing of the sale during the quarter ended September 30, 2020.

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Discontinued Operations

Sale of Tilda Business

On August 27, 2019, the Company sold the entities comprising its Tilda operating segment (the “Tilda Group Entities”) and certain other assets of the Tilda business to Ebro Foods S.A. (the "Purchaser") for an aggregate price of $342,000 in cash, subject to customary post-closing adjustments based on the balance sheets of the Tilda business. The other assets sold in the transaction consisted of raw materials, consumables, packaging, and finished and unfinished goods related to the Tilda business held by other Company entities that are not Tilda Group Entities. In January 2020, the Company and the Purchaser agreed to fully resolve all matters relating to post-closing adjustments to the sale price, resulting in a final aggregate sale price of $341,800. The Company used the proceeds from the sale to pay down the remaining outstanding borrowings under its term loan and a portion of its revolving credit facility.

The Company also entered into certain ancillary agreements with the Purchaser and certain of the Tilda Group Entities in connection with the Sale and Purchase Agreement, including a transitional services agreement (the "TSA") pursuant to which the Company and the Purchaser provided transitional services to one another, and business transfer agreements pursuant to which the applicable Tilda Group Entities transferred certain non-Tilda assets and liabilities in India and the United Arab Emirates to subsidiaries of the Company to be formed in those countries. Additionally, the Company distributed certain Tilda products in the United States, Canada and Europe through the expiration of the TSA, which expired during the second quarter of fiscal 2020.

The disposition of the Tilda operating segment represented a strategic shift that had a major impact on the Company’s operations and financial results and has been accounted for as discontinued operations.

The following table presents the major classes of Tilda’s results within “Net income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of tax” in the Consolidated Statements of Operations:


	Three Months Ended March 31,				Nine Months Ended March 31,
	2021		2020		2021		2020
Net sales	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	30,399
Cost of sales	—		—		—		26,648
Gross profit	—		—		—		3,751
Selling, general and administrative expense	—		—		—		5,185

Other expense	—		—		75		1,172
Interest expense(1)	—		—		—		2,432
Translation loss(2)	—		—		—		95,120
Gain on sale of discontinued operations	—		540		—		(9,630)
Net loss from discontinued operations before income taxes	—		(540)		(75)		(90,528)
(Benefit) provision for income taxes(3)	—		(965)		(11,320)		12,900
Net income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of tax	$	—	$	425	$	11,245	$	(103,428)

(1) Interest expense was allocated to discontinued operations based on borrowings repaid with proceeds from the sale of Tilda.

(2) At the completion of the sale of Tilda, the Company reclassified $95,120 of related cumulative translation losses from Accumulated other comprehensive loss to discontinued operations, net of tax.

(3) Includes $11,320 of tax benefit related to the legal entity reorganization for the nine months ended March 31, 2021, as well as a tax benefit related to the gain on the sale of Tilda of $750 and tax expense of $14,500 for the three and nine months ended March 31, 2020, respectively.

There were no assets or liabilities from discontinued operations associated with Tilda as of March 31, 2021 or June 30, 2020.

Sale of Hain Pure Protein Reportable Segment

In March 2018, the Company’s Board of Directors approved a plan to sell all of the operations of the HPPC operating segment, which included the Plainville Farms and FreeBird businesses, and the EK Holdings, Inc. (“Empire Kosher” or “Empire”) operating segment, which were reported in the aggregate as the Hain Pure Protein reportable segment. Collectively, these dispositions represented a

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strategic shift that had a major impact on the Company’s operations and financial results and have been accounted for as discontinued operations.

The Company is presenting the operating results and cash flows of HPPC within discontinued operations in the nine months ended March 31, 2021 and in the comparable prior year period.

Sale of Plainville Farms Business ("Plainville")

On February 15, 2019, the Company completed the sale of substantially all of the assets used primarily for Plainville (a component of HPPC), which included $25,000 in cash to the purchaser, for a nominal purchase price. In addition, the purchaser assumed the current liabilities of Plainville as of the closing date. As a condition to consummating the sale, the Company entered into a Contingent Funding and Earnout Agreement, which provided for the issuance by the Company of an irrevocable stand-by letter of credit (the “Letter of Credit”) of $10,000 which expired nineteen months after issuance, during the first quarter of fiscal 2021. The Company was entitled to receive an earnout not to exceed, in the aggregate, 120% of the maximum amount that the purchaser draws on the Letter of Credit at any point from the date of issuance through the expiration of the Letter of Credit. Earnout payments are based on a specified percentage of annual free cash flow achieved for all fiscal years ending on or prior to June 30, 2026. If a subsequent change in control of Plainville occurs prior to June 30, 2026, the purchaser will pay the Company 120% of the difference between the amount drawn on the Letter of Credit less the sum of all earnout payments made prior to such time up to the net proceeds received by the purchaser. At March 31, 2021, the Company had not recorded an asset associated with the earnout.

Sale of HPPC and Empire Kosher

On June 28, 2019, the Company completed the sale of the remainder of HPPC and EK Holdings, which included the FreeBird and Empire Kosher businesses. The purchase price, net of estimated customary adjustments based on the closing balance sheet of HPPC, was $77,714. The Company used the proceeds from the sale to pay down a portion of its outstanding borrowings under its term loan. The following table presents the major classes of Hain Pure Protein’s results within “Net loss (income) from discontinued operations, net of tax” in the Consolidated Statements of Operations:


	Three Months Ended March 31,				Nine Months Ended March 31,
	2021		2020		2021		2020
Net sales	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—
Cost of sales	—		—		—		—
Gross profit (loss)	—		—		—		—
Selling, general and administrative expense	—		—		—		—
Asset impairments	—		—		—		—
Other income	—		—		(10)		—
Loss on sale of discontinued operations(1)	—		1,781		—		3,205
Net (loss) income from discontinued operations before income taxes	—		(1,781)		10		(3,205)
Benefit for income taxes	—		(659)		—		(1,052)
Net (loss) income from discontinued operations, net of tax	$	—	$	(1,122)	$	10	$	(2,153)

(1) Primarily relates to preliminary closing balance sheet adjustments.

There were no assets or liabilities from discontinued operations associated with HPPC at March 31, 2021 or June 30, 2020.

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5. INVENTORIES

Inventories consisted of the following:


	March 31, 2021		June 30, 2020
Finished goods	$	213,411	$	158,162
Raw materials, work-in-progress and packaging	100,487		90,008
	$	313,898	$	248,170

At each period end, inventory is reviewed to ensure that it is recorded at the lower of cost or net realizable value. Inventory write-downs for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and March 31, 2020 were $0 and $1,362, respectively. Inventory write-downs for the nine months ended March 31, 2021 and March 31, 2020 were $311 and $5,278, respectively.

6. PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT, NET

Property, plant and equipment, net consisted of the following:


	March 31, 2021		June 30, 2020
Land	$	14,561	$	13,866
Buildings and improvements	73,240		74,325
Machinery and equipment	317,270		288,466
Computer hardware and software	61,661		60,391
Furniture and fixtures	23,272		20,044
Leasehold improvements	39,009		40,876
Construction in progress	34,980		16,489
	563,993		514,457
Less: accumulated depreciation and amortization	252,651		225,201
	$	311,342	$	289,256

Depreciation expense for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020 was $9,118 and $7,789, respectively. Depreciation expense for the nine months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020 was $26,302 and $23,518, respectively.

As of December 31, 2020, the Company reclassified $24,971 of Property, plant and equipment, net to Assets held for sale as part of the held for sale accounting related to the Company's Fruit business (see Note 4, Dispositions, for more information related to the held for sale assets). There was an impairment charge of $1,333 recorded during the nine months ended March 31, 2021 and no impairment charge recorded during the nine months ended March 31, 2020.

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7. LEASES

The Company leases office space, warehouse and distribution facilities, manufacturing equipment and vehicles primarily in North America and Europe. The Company determines if an arrangement is or contains a lease at inception. Lease terms may include options to extend or terminate the lease when it is reasonably certain that the Company will exercise that option. The Company’s lease agreements generally do not contain residual value guarantees or material restrictive covenants. A limited number of lease agreements include rental payments adjusted periodically for inflation.

Some of the Company’s leases contain variable lease payments, which are expensed as incurred unless those payments are based on an index or rate. Variable lease payments based on an index or rate are initially measured using the index or rate in effect at lease commencement and included in the measurement of the lease liability; thereafter, changes to lease payments due to rate or index changes are recorded as variable lease expense in the period incurred. The Company does not have any related party leases, and sublease transactions are de minimis.

The components of lease expenses for the three and nine months ended March 31, 2021 were as follows:


	Three Months Ended				Nine Months Ended
	March 31, 2021		March 31, 2020		March 31, 2021		March 31, 2020
Operating lease expenses	$	4,129	$	4,545	$	12,290	$	14,034



Finance lease expenses	72		272		318		761
Variable lease expenses	247		633		1,204		1,873
Short-term lease expenses	458		490		1,701		1,349
Total lease expenses	$	4,906	$	5,940	$	15,513	$	18,017

Supplemental balance sheet information related to leases was as follows:


Leases	Classification	March 31, 2021		June 30, 2020
Assets
Operating lease ROU assets, net	Operating lease right-of-use assets	$	90,130	$	88,165

Finance lease ROU assets, net	Property, plant and equipment, net	615		691

Total leased assets		$	90,745	$	88,856

Liabilities
Current
Operating	Accrued expenses and other current liabilities	$	11,086	$	12,338

Finance	Current portion of long-term debt	245		308

Non-current
Operating	Operating lease liabilities, noncurrent portion	83,564		82,962
Finance	Long-term debt, less current portion	376		316
Total lease liabilities		$	95,271	$	95,924

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Additional information related to leases is as follows:


	Nine Months Ended
	March 31, 2021			March 31, 2020
Supplemental cash flow information
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities:
Operating cash flows from operating leases	$	12,954		$	12,856
Operating cash flows from finance leases	$	13		$	18
Financing cash flows from finance leases	$	285		$	372
ROU assets obtained in exchange for lease obligations (a):
Operating leases	$	18,349		$	94,389
Finance leases	$	671		$	1,092
Weighted average remaining lease term:
Operating leases	10.0 years			8.4 years
Finance leases	4.1 years			2.3 years
Weighted average discount rate:
Operating leases	3.2		%	2.7		%
Finance leases	3.9		%	2.9		%

(a) ROU assets obtained in exchange for lease obligations includes leases which commenced, were modified or terminated. The balance for the nine months ended March 31, 2020 also included $87,414 relating to the impact of the adoption of ASU 2016-02 effective July 1, 2019.

Maturities of lease liabilities as of March 31, 2021 were as follows:


Fiscal Year	Operating leases		Finance leases		Total
2021 (remainder of year)	$	2,665	$	71	$	2,736
2022	14,358		246		14,604
2023	13,596		133		13,729
2024	11,878		51		11,929
2025	10,663		51		10,714
Thereafter	60,084		127		60,211
Total lease payments	113,244		679		113,923
Less: Imputed interest	18,594		58		18,652
Total lease liabilities	$	94,650	$	621	$	95,271

Maturities of lease liabilities as of June 30, 2020 were as follows:


Fiscal Year	Operating leases		Finance leases		Total
2021	$	14,781	$	308	$	15,089
2022	13,798		205		14,003
2023	12,833		95		12,928
2024	10,941		18		10,959
2025	9,521		6		9,527
Thereafter	51,545		—		51,545
Total lease payments	113,419		632		114,051
Less: Imputed interest	18,119		8		18,127
Total lease liabilities	$	95,300	$	624	$	95,924

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8. GOODWILL AND OTHER INTANGIBLE ASSETS

Goodwill

The following table provides the changes in the carrying value of goodwill by reportable segment:


	North America		International		Total
Balance as of June 30, 2020 (a)	$	606,055	$	255,903	$	861,958


Reclassification of goodwill to assets held for sale	—		(14,362)		(14,362)

Translation and other adjustments, net	2,642		27,484		30,127
Balance as of March 31, 2021 (a)	$	608,697	$	269,025	$	877,723

(a) The total carrying value of goodwill is reflected net of $134,277 of accumulated impairment charges, of which $97,358 related to the Company’s United Kingdom operating segment, $29,219 related to the Company’s Europe operating segment and $7,700 related to the Company’s former Hain Ventures operating segment, whose goodwill and accumulated impairment charges were reallocated within the North America reportable segment to the United States and Canada operating segments on a relative fair value basis.

As of September 30 and December 31, 2020, Fruit, a part of the International reportable segment, was classified as held for sale and therefore, goodwill associated with Fruit was reclassified to Assets held for sale within the Consolidated Balance Sheet as of December 31, 2020. See Note 4, Dispositions, for more information. Fruit was a component of the Company's Hain Daniels reporting unit. The decision to sell the business was a triggering event requiring an interim goodwill impairment test for the Hain Daniels reporting unit. No impairment was recorded during the nine months ended March 31, 2021.

Other Intangible Assets

The following table includes the gross carrying amount and accumulated amortization, where applicable, for intangible assets, excluding goodwill:


	March 31, 2021		June 30, 2020
Non-amortized intangible assets:
Trademarks and tradenames (a)	$	280,690	$	278,103
Amortized intangible assets:
Other intangibles	148,422		184,854
Less: accumulated amortization	(104,321)		(116,495)
Net carrying amount	$	324,791	$	346,462

(a) The gross carrying value of trademarks and tradenames is reflected net of $93,273 of accumulated impairment charges as of both March 31, 2021 and June 30, 2020.

There were no events or circumstances that warranted an interim impairment test for indefinite-lived intangible assets during the nine months ended March 31, 2021 or 2020.

During the nine months ended March 31, 2021, the Company reclassified certain of its indefinite-lived intangible assets consisting of trademarks and tradenames to definite-lived intangible assets and began amortization of these assets. The annualized amortization expense of these assets is $914 and will amortize over an estimated useful life of 10 years.

Amortized intangible assets, which are deemed to have a finite life, primarily consist of customer relationships and certain trademarks and tradenames and are amortized over their estimated useful lives of 3 to 25 years. Amortization expense included in continuing operations was as follows:

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	Three Months Ended March 31,				Nine Months Ended March 31,
	2021		2020		2021		2020
Amortization of acquired intangibles	$	2,145	$	3,174	$	6,771	$	9,446

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9. DEBT AND BORROWINGS

Debt and borrowings consisted of the following:


	March 31, 2021		June 30, 2020
Revolving credit facility	$	255,000	$	280,000


Other borrowings	1,239		2,774
	256,239		282,774
Short-term borrowings and current portion of long-term debt	699		1,656
Long-term debt, less current portion	$	255,540	$	281,118

Credit Agreement

On February 6, 2018, the Company entered into the Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement (as amended, the “Credit Agreement”). The Credit Agreement provides for a $1,000,000 revolving credit facility through February 6, 2023 and provided for a $300,000 term loan. Under the Credit Agreement, the revolving credit facility may be increased by an additional uncommitted $400,000, provided certain conditions are met.

Borrowings under the Credit Agreement may be used to provide working capital, finance capital expenditures and permitted acquisitions, refinance certain existing indebtedness and for other lawful corporate purposes. The Credit Agreement provides for multicurrency borrowings in Euros, Pounds Sterling and Canadian dollars as well as other currencies which may be designated. In addition, certain wholly-owned foreign subsidiaries of the Company may be designated as co-borrowers. The Credit Agreement contains restrictive covenants, which are usual and customary for facilities of its type, and include, with specified exceptions, limitations on the Company’s ability to engage in certain business activities, incur debt, have liens, make capital expenditures, pay dividends or make other distributions, enter into affiliate transactions, consolidate, merge or acquire or dispose of assets, and make certain investments, acquisitions and loans. The Credit Agreement also requires the Company to satisfy certain financial covenants. Obligations under the Credit Agreement are guaranteed by certain existing and future domestic subsidiaries of the Company. As of March 31, 2021, there were $255,000 of borrowings outstanding under the revolving credit facility and $6,394 letters of credit outstanding under the Credit Agreement. In the nine months ended March 31, 2020, the Company used the proceeds from the sale of Tilda, net of transaction costs, to prepay the entire principal amount of term loan outstanding under its credit facility and to partially pay down its revolving credit facility. In connection with the prepayment, the Company wrote off unamortized deferred debt issuance costs of $973, recorded in Interest and other financing expense, net in the Consolidated Statements of Operations.

On May 8, 2019, the Company entered into the Third Amendment to the Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement (the “Amended Credit Agreement”), whereby, among other things, its allowable consolidated leverage ratio (as defined in the Credit Agreement) and interest coverage ratio (as defined in the Credit Agreement) were adjusted. The Company’s allowable consolidated leverage ratio is no more than 3.75 to 1.0 from March 31, 2021 and thereafter. Additionally, the Company’s required consolidated interest coverage ratio was no less than 3.75 to 1 through March 31, 2021 and no less than 4.0 to 1 thereafter.

The Amended Credit Agreement also required that the Company and the subsidiary guarantors enter into a Security and Pledge Agreement pursuant to which all of the obligations under the Amended Credit Agreement are secured by liens on assets of the Company and its material domestic subsidiaries, including stock of each of their direct subsidiaries and intellectual property, subject to agreed upon exceptions.

As of March 31, 2021, $738,606 was available under the Amended Credit Agreement, and the Company was in compliance with all associated covenants, as amended by the Amended Credit Agreement.

The Amended Credit Agreement provides that loans will bear interest at rates based on (a) the Eurocurrency Rate, as defined in the Credit Agreement, plus a rate ranging from 0.875% to 2.50% per annum; or (b) the Base Rate, as defined in the Credit Agreement, plus a rate ranging from 0.00% to 1.50% per annum, the relevant rate being the Applicable Rate. The Applicable Rate will be determined in accordance with a leverage-based pricing grid, as set forth in the Amended Credit Agreement. Swing Line loans and Global Swing Line loans denominated in U.S. dollars will bear interest at the Base Rate plus the Applicable Rate, and Global Swing Line loans denominated in foreign currencies shall bear interest based on the overnight Eurocurrency Rate for loans denominated in such currency plus the Applicable Rate. The weighted average interest rate on outstanding borrowings under the Amended Credit Agreement at March 31, 2021 was 1.11%. Additionally, the Amended Credit Agreement contains a Commitment Fee, as defined in the Amended Credit Agreement, on the amount unused under the Amended Credit Agreement ranging from 0.20% to 0.45% per annum, and such Commitment Fee is determined in accordance with a leverage-based pricing grid.

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10. INCOME TAXES

In general, the Company uses an estimated annual effective tax rate, which is based on expected annual income and statutory tax rates in the various jurisdictions in which the Company operates, to determine its quarterly provision for income taxes. Certain significant or unusual items are separately recognized in the quarter in which they occur and can be a source of variability on the effective tax rates from quarter to quarter. The Company’s effective tax rate may change from period-to-period based on recurring and non-recurring factors including the geographical mix of earnings, enacted tax legislation, state and local income taxes and tax audit settlements.

The effective income tax rate from continuing operations was an expense of 25.7% and a benefit of 66.7% for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively. The effective income tax rate from continuing operations was an expense of 55.5% and a benefit of 72.8% for the nine months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively. The effective income tax rates from continuing operations for the nine months ended March 31, 2021 were impacted by various discrete items including the tax impact of the Fruit impairment and disposal, the enacted change in the United Kingdom's corporate income tax rate to 19% and a legal entity reorganization completed during the quarter ended September 30, 2020. In addition, the effective income tax rates from continuing operations for the three and nine months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020 were impacted by provisions in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the "Tax Act"), primarily related to Global Intangible Low Taxed Income ("GILTI") and limitations on the deductibility of executive compensation. The effective income tax rates in each period were also impacted by the geographical mix of earnings and state valuation allowance.

Through the nine months ended March 31, 2021, the Company received $53,817 including $1,317 of interest from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (the "CARES Act") tax loss carryback refund claims.

There were no discontinued operations for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and an income tax benefit from discontinued operations of $11,320 for the nine months ended March 31, 2021. The income tax from discontinued operations was a benefit of $1,624 and expense of $11,848 for the three and nine months ended March 31, 2020, respectively. The benefit for income tax for the nine months ended March 31, 2021 was impacted by a legal entity reorganization. The expense for income taxes for the nine months ended March 31, 2020 was impacted by $14,500 of tax related to the tax gain on the sale of the Tilda entities.

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11. ACCUMULATED OTHER COMPREHENSIVE LOSS

The following table presents the changes in accumulated other comprehensive loss ("AOCL"):


	Three Months Ended March 31,				Nine Months Ended March 31,
	2021		2020		2021		2020
Foreign currency translation adjustments:
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications (1)	$	1,672	$	(52,315)	$	80,491	$	(42,602)
Amounts reclassified into income (2)	14,725		—		15,906		95,120
Deferred gains (losses) on cash flow hedging instruments:

Amount of gain (loss) gain recognized in AOCL on derivatives (3)	1,168				(621)		—
Amount of (loss) gain reclassified from AOCL into (expense) income (3)	(914)		109		995		83
Deferred gains (losses) on net investment hedging instruments:

Amount of gain (loss) recognized in AOCL on derivatives (3)	3,107		—		(2,763)		—
Amount of loss reclassified from AOCL into expense (3)	(97)		—		(298)		—
Net change in AOCL	$	19,661	$	(52,206)	$	93,710	$	52,601

(1) Foreign currency translation adjustments included intra-entity foreign currency transactions that were of a long-term investment nature and were a net gain of $0 and $453 for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively. Foreign currency translation adjustments included intra-entity foreign currency transactions that were of a long-term investment nature and were a net loss of $0 and $703 for the nine months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.

(2) Foreign currency translation gains or losses of foreign subsidiaries related to divested businesses are reclassified into income once the liquidation of the respective foreign subsidiaries is substantially complete. At the completion of the sales of Danival and Fruit, the Company reclassified $15,906 of translation losses from accumulated comprehensive loss to the Company's results of operations. At the completion of the sale of Tilda, the Company reclassified $95,120 of translation losses from accumulated comprehensive loss to the Company’s results of discontinued operations.

(3) See Note 15, Derivatives and Hedging Activities, for the amounts reclassified into income for deferred gains (losses) on cash flow hedging instruments recorded in the Consolidated Statements of Operations in the three and nine months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020.

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12. STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION AND INCENTIVE PERFORMANCE PLANS

The Company has one stockholder approved plan, the Amended and Restated 2002 Long-Term Incentive and Stock Award Plan (the "2002 Plan"), under which the Company’s officers, senior management, other key employees, consultants and directors may be granted equity-based awards. The Company also grants shares under its 2019 Equity Inducement Award Program (the "2019 Inducement Program") to induce selected individuals to become employees of the Company. The 2002 Plan and 2019 Inducement Program are collectively referred to as the "Stock Award Plans." In conjunction with the Stock Award Plans, the Company maintains a long-term incentive program (the “LTI Program”) that provides for performance and market equity awards that can be earned over defined performance periods. The Company's plans are described in Note 15, Stock-Based Compensation and Incentive Performance Plans, in the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements in the Form 10-K.

Compensation cost and related income tax benefits recognized in the Consolidated Statements of Operations for stock-based compensation plans were as follows:


	Three Months Ended March 31,				Nine Months Ended March 31,
	2021		2020		2021		2020
Selling, general and administrative expense	$	3,698	$	3,761	$	11,888	$	9,581

Discontinued operations	—		—		—		544
Total compensation cost recognized for stock-based compensation plans	$	3,698	$	3,761	$	11,888	$	10,125
Related income tax benefit	$	441	$	630	$	1,447	$	1,300

Restricted Stock

Awards of restricted stock are either restricted stock awards ("RSAs") or restricted stock units ("RSUs") that are issued at no cost to the recipient. Performance-based or market-based RSUs are issued in the form of performance share units ("PSUs"). A summary of the restricted stock activity (including all RSAs, RSUs and PSUs) for the nine months ended March 31, 2021 is as follows:


	Number of Shares and Units	Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value (per share)
Non-vested RSAs, RSUs and PSUs outstanding at June 30, 2020	2,049	$	15.85
Granted	206	$	35.45
Vested	(333)	$	23.58
Forfeited	(109)	$	16.50
Non-vested RSAs, RSUs and PSUs outstanding at March 31, 2021	1,813	$	16.59

At March 31, 2021 and June 30, 2020, the table above includes a total of 1,389 and 1,384 shares (including an inducement grant of 350 shares made to the Company's CEO as previously disclosed), respectively, that represent the target number of shares that may be earned based on pre-defined market conditions and are eligible to vest ranging from zero to 300% of target. Vested shares during the current period include a total of 20 shares under the 2018-2020 LTIP that actually vested at 150% of target based on achievement of the maximum relative TSR target.


	Nine Months Ended March 31,
	2021		2020
Fair value of RSAs, RSUs and PSUs granted	$	7,298	$	16,634
Fair value of shares vested	$	12,266	$	5,848
Tax benefit recognized from restricted shares vesting	$	1,786	$	(102)

At March 31, 2021, there was $13,091 of unrecognized stock-based compensation expense related to non-vested restricted stock awards which is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 1.2 years.

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13. INVESTMENTS

On October 27, 2015, the Company acquired a minority equity interest in Chop’t Creative Salad Company LLC, predecessor to Chop't Holdings, LLC (“Chop’t”). Chop’t develops and operates fast-casual, fresh salad restaurants in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic United States. The investment is being accounted for as an equity method investment due to the Company’s representation on the Board of Directors of Chop’t. At March 31, 2021 and June 30, 2020, the carrying value of the Company’s investment in Chop’t was $11,098 and $12,793, respectively, and is included in the Consolidated Balance Sheets as a component of Investments and joint ventures.

The Company also holds the following investments: (a) Hutchison Hain Organic Holdings Limited, a joint venture with Hutchison China Meditech Ltd., accounted for under the equity method of accounting, (b) Hain Future Natural Products Private Ltd., a joint venture with Future Consumer Ltd, accounted for under the equity method of accounting, and (c) Yeo Hiap Seng Limited, in which the Company holds a less than 1% equity ownership interest. The carrying value of these combined investments was $6,244 and $4,646 as of March 31, 2021 and June 30, 2020, respectively, and is included in the Consolidated Balance Sheets as a component of Investments and joint ventures.

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14. FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS MEASURED AT FAIR VALUE

The Company’s financial assets and liabilities measured at fair value are required to be grouped in one of three levels. The levels prioritize the inputs used to measure the fair value of the assets or liabilities. These levels are:

•Level 1 – Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets that are accessible at the measurement date for identical, unrestricted assets or liabilities;

•Level 2 – Quoted prices in markets that are not active, or inputs which are observable, either directly or indirectly, for substantially the full term of the asset or liability; and

•Level 3 – Prices or valuation techniques that require inputs that are both significant to the fair value measurement and unobservable (i.e., supported by little or no market activity).

The following table presents assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis as of March 31, 2021:


	Total		Quoted prices in active markets (Level 1)		Significant other observable inputs (Level 2)		Significant unobservable inputs (Level 3)
Assets:

Derivative financial instruments	$	682	$	—	$	682	$	—
Equity investment	618		618		—		—
Total	$	1,300	$	618	$	682	$	—
Liabilities:
Derivative financial instruments	10,831		—		10,831		—
Total	$	10,831	$	—	$	10,831	$	—

The following table presents assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis as of June 30, 2020:


	Total		Quoted prices in active markets (Level 1)		Significant other observable inputs (Level 2)		Significant unobservable inputs (Level 3)
Assets:
Cash equivalents	$	7	$	7	$	—	$	—
Derivative financial instruments	1,014		—		1,014		—
Equity investment	562		562		—		—
Total	$	1,583	$	569	$	1,014	$	—
Liabilities:
Derivative financial instruments	6,405		—		6,405		—

Total	$	6,405	$	—	$	6,405	$	—

The equity investment consists of the Company’s less than 1% investment in Yeo Hiap Seng Limited, a food and beverage manufacturer and distributor based in Singapore. Fair value is measured using the market approach based on quoted prices. The Company utilizes the income approach to measure fair value for its foreign currency forward contracts. The income approach uses pricing models that rely on market observable inputs such as yield curves, currency exchange rates and forward prices.

There were no transfers of financial instruments between the three levels of fair value hierarchy during the nine months ended March 31, 2021 or 2020.

The carrying amount of cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, net, accounts payable and certain accrued expenses and other current liabilities approximate fair value due to the short-term maturities of these financial instruments. The Company’s debt approximates fair value due to the debt bearing fluctuating market interest rates (see Note 9, Debt and Borrowings).

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In addition to the instruments named above, the Company makes fair value measurements in connection with its assets and liabilities classified as held for sale, as these balances represent the estimated fair value, less costs to sell (See Note 4, Dispositions). The Company also makes fair value measurements in connection with its interim and annual goodwill and tradename impairment testing. These measurements fall into Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy (See Note 8, Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets).

Derivative Instruments

The Company uses interest rate swaps to manage its interest rate risk and cross-currency swaps and foreign currency exchange contracts to manage its exposure to fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates. The valuation of these instruments is determined using widely accepted valuation techniques, including discounted cash flow analysis on the expected cash flows of each derivative. This analysis reflects the contractual terms of the derivatives, including the period to maturity, and uses observable market-based inputs, including interest rate curves and implied volatilities. The fair values of interest rate swaps are determined using the market standard methodology of netting the discounted future fixed cash receipts (or payments) and the discounted expected variable cash payments (or receipts). The variable cash payments (or receipts) are based on an expectation of future interest rates (forward curves) derived from observable market interest rate curves.

In accordance with the provisions of ASC 820, Fair Value Measurements, the Company incorporates credit valuation adjustments to appropriately reflect both the Company’s nonperformance risk and the respective counterparty’s nonperformance risk in the fair value measurements. In adjusting the fair value of the Company’s derivative contracts for the effect of nonperformance risk, the Company has considered the impact of netting and any applicable credit enhancements, such as collateral postings, thresholds, mutual puts and guarantees.

Although the Company has determined that the majority of the inputs used to value its derivatives fall within Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy, the credit valuation adjustments associated with its derivatives utilize Level 3 inputs, such as estimates of current credit spreads to evaluate the likelihood of default by the Company and its counterparties. The Company has determined that the significance of the impact of the credit valuation adjustments made to its derivative contracts, which determination was based on the fair value of each individual contract, was not significant to the overall valuation. As a result, all of the derivatives held as of March 31, 2021 and June 30, 2020 were classified as Level 2 of the fair value hierarchy.

The fair value estimates presented in the fair value hierarchy tables above are based on information available to management as of March 31, 2021 and June 30, 2020. These estimates are not necessarily indicative of the amounts we could ultimately realize.

15. DERIVATIVES AND HEDGING ACTIVITIES

Risk Management Objective of Using Derivatives

The Company is exposed to certain risks arising from both its business operations and economic conditions. The Company principally manages its exposures to a wide variety of business and operational risks through management of its core business activities. The Company manages economic risks, including interest rate, liquidity and credit risk primarily by managing the amount, sources and duration of its assets and liabilities and the use of derivative financial instruments. Specifically, the Company enters into derivative financial instruments to manage exposures that arise from business activities that result in the receipt or payment of future known and uncertain cash amounts, the value of which are determined by interest rates. The Company’s derivative financial instruments are used to manage differences in the amount, timing and duration of the Company’s known or expected cash receipts and its known or expected cash payments principally related to the Company’s receivables and borrowings.

Certain of the Company’s foreign operations expose the Company to fluctuations of foreign exchange rates. These fluctuations may impact the value of the Company’s cash receipts and payments in terms of the Company’s functional currency. The Company enters into derivative financial instruments to protect the value or fix the amount of certain assets and liabilities in terms of its functional currency, the U.S. dollar.

Accordingly, the Company uses derivative financial instruments to manage and mitigate such risks. The Company does not use derivatives for speculative or trading purposes.

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Cash Flow Hedges of Interest Rate Risk

The Company’s objectives in using interest rate derivatives are to add stability to interest expense and to manage its exposure to interest rate movements. To accomplish this objective, the Company primarily uses interest rate swaps as part of its interest rate risk management strategy. Interest rate swaps designated as cash flow hedges involve the receipt of variable amounts from a counterparty in exchange for the Company making fixed-rate payments over the life of the agreements without exchange of the underlying notional amount. During the three and nine months ended March 31, 2021, such derivatives were used to hedge the variable cash flows associated with existing variable rate debt.

For derivatives designated and that qualify as cash flow hedges of interest rate risk, the gain or loss on the derivative is recorded in AOCL and subsequently reclassified into interest expense in the same period during which the hedged transaction affects earnings. Amounts reported in AOCL related to derivatives will be reclassified to interest expense as interest payments are made on the Company’s variable rate debt. During the remaining three months of fiscal 2021, the Company estimates that an additional $174 will be reclassified as an increase to interest expense.

As of March 31, 2021, the Company had the following outstanding interest rate derivatives that were designated as cash flow hedges of interest rate risk:


Interest Rate Derivative	Number of Instruments	Notional Amount
Interest Rate Swap	4	$230,000

Cash Flow Hedges of Foreign Exchange Risk

The Company is exposed to fluctuations in various foreign currencies against its functional currency, the U.S. Dollar. The Company uses foreign currency derivatives including cross-currency swaps to manage its exposure to fluctuations in the USD-EUR exchange rates. Cross-currency swaps involve exchanging fixed-rate interest payments for fixed-rate interest receipts, both of which will occur at the USD-EUR forward exchange rates in effect upon entering into the instrument. The Company, at times, also uses forward contracts to manage its exposure to fluctuations in the GBP-EUR exchange rates. The Company designates these derivatives as cash flow hedges of foreign exchange risks.

For derivatives designated and that qualify as cash flow hedges of foreign exchange risk, the gain or loss on the derivative is recorded in AOCL and subsequently reclassified in the period(s) during which the hedged transaction affects earnings within the same income statement line item as the earnings effect of the hedged transaction. During the remaining three months of fiscal 2021, the Company estimates that an additional $82 relating to cross-currency swaps will be reclassified as an increase to interest income.

As of March 31, 2021, the Company had the following outstanding foreign currency derivatives that were used to hedge its foreign exchange risks:


Foreign Currency Derivative	Number of Instruments	Notional Sold	Notional Purchased
Cross-currency swap	1	€24,700	$26,775

Net Investment Hedges

The Company is exposed to fluctuations in foreign exchange rates on investments it holds in its European foreign entities and their exposure to the Euro. The Company uses fixed-to-fixed cross-currency swaps to hedge its exposure to changes in the foreign exchange rate on its foreign investment in Europe. Currency forward agreements involve fixing the USD-EUR exchange rate for delivery of a specified amount of foreign currency on a specified date. The currency forward agreements are typically cash settled in U.S. Dollars for their fair value at or close to their settlement date. Cross-currency swaps involve the receipt of functional-currency-fixed-rate amounts from a counterparty in exchange for the Company making foreign-currency fixed-rate payments over the life of the agreement.

For derivatives designated as net investment hedges, the gain or loss on the derivative is reported in AOCL as part of the cumulative translation adjustment. Amounts are reclassified out of AOCL into earnings when the hedged net investment is either sold or substantially liquidated.

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As of March 31, 2021, the Company had the following outstanding foreign currency derivatives that were used to hedge its net investments in foreign operations:


Foreign Currency Derivative	Number of Instruments	Notional Sold	Notional Purchased
Cross-currency swap	2	€76,969	$83,225

Non-Designated Hedges

Derivatives not designated as hedges are not speculative and are used to manage the Company’s exposure to interest rate movements and other identified risks but do not meet the strict hedge accounting requirements and/or the Company has not elected to apply hedge accounting. Changes in the fair value of derivatives not designated in hedging relationships are recorded directly in earnings.

As of March 31, 2021, the Company had no outstanding derivatives that were not designated as hedges in qualifying hedging relationships.

Designated Hedges

The following table presents the fair value of the Company’s derivative financial instruments as well as their classification on the Consolidated Balance Sheet as of March 31, 2021:


	Asset Derivatives			Liability Derivatives
	Balance Sheet Location	Fair Value		Balance Sheet Location	Fair Value
Derivatives designated as hedging instruments:
Interest rate swaps	Prepaid expenses and other current assets	$	9	Accrued expenses and other current liabilities / Other noncurrent liabilities	$	313
Cross-currency swaps	Prepaid expenses and other current assets	673		Other noncurrent liabilities	10,518

Total derivatives designated as hedging instruments		$	682		$	10,831

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The following table presents the fair value of the Company’s derivative financial instruments as well as their classification on the Consolidated Balance Sheet as of June 30, 2020:


	Asset Derivatives			Liability Derivatives
	Balance Sheet Location	Fair Value		Balance Sheet Location	Fair Value
Derivatives designated as hedging instruments:
Interest rate swaps	Prepaid expenses and other current assets	$	—	Accrued expenses and other current liabilities / Other noncurrent liabilities	$	856
Cross-currency swaps	Prepaid expenses and other current assets	746		Other noncurrent liabilities	5,475
Foreign currency forward contracts	Prepaid expenses and other current assets	75		Other noncurrent liabilities	—
Total derivatives designated as hedging instruments		$	821		$	6,331

Derivatives not designated as hedging instruments:
Foreign currency forward contracts	Prepaid expenses and other current assets	193		Accrued expenses and other current liabilities	74
Total derivative instruments		$	1,014		$	6,405

The following table presents the pre-tax effect of cash flow hedge accounting on AOCL as of the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020:


Derivatives in Cash Flow Hedging Relationships	Amount of Gain (Loss) Recognized in OCI on Derivatives				Location of Gain (Loss) Reclassified from AOCL into Income	Amount of Gain (Loss) Reclassified from AOCL into Income
	Three Months Ended March 31,					Three Months Ended March 31,
	2021		2020			2021		2020
Interest rate swaps	$	217	$	—	Interest and other financing expense, net	$	(82)	$	—
Cross-currency swaps	1,262		—		Interest and other financing expense, net / Other expense (income), net	1,239		—
Foreign currency forward contracts	—		134		Cost of sales	—		$	—
Total	$	1,479	$	134		$	1,157	$	—

The following table presents the pre-tax effect of cash flow hedge accounting on AOCL as of the nine months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020:

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Derivatives in Cash Flow Hedging Relationships	Amount of Gain (Loss) Recognized in OCI on Derivatives				Location of Gain (Loss) Reclassified from AOCL into Income	Amount of Gain (Loss) Reclassified from AOCL into Income
	Nine Months Ended March 31,					Nine Months Ended March 31,
	2021		2020			2021		2020
Interest rate swaps	$	341	$	—	Interest and other financing expense, net	$	(212)	$	—
Cross-currency swaps	(1,124)		—		Interest and other financing expense, net / Other expense (income), net	(1,120)		—
Foreign currency forward contracts	(2)		128		Cost of sales	73		26
Total	$	(785)	$	128		$	(1,259)	$	26

The following table presents the pre-tax effect of the Company’s derivative financial instruments electing cash flow hedge accounting on the Consolidated Statements of Operations for the three months ended of March 31, 2021 and 2020:


				Location and Amount of Gain (Loss) Recognized in the Consolidated Statement of Operations on Cash Flow Hedging Relationships
				Three Months Ended March 31, 2021						Three Months Ended March 31, 2020
				Cost of sales		Interest and other financing expense, net		Other expense/income, net		Cost of sales		Interest and other financing expense, net		Other expense/income, net
The effects of cash flow hedging:
	(Loss) gain on cash flow hedging relationships
		Interest rate swaps
			Amount of (loss) reclassified from AOCL into expense	$	—	$	(82)	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—

		Cross-currency swaps
			Amount of gain reclassified from AOCL into income	$	—	$	39	$	1,200	$	—	$	—	$	—

		Foreign currency forward contracts
			Amount of gain reclassified from AOCL into income	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—

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				Location and Amount of Gain (Loss) Recognized in the Consolidated Statement of Operations on Cash Flow Hedging Relationships
				Nine Months Ended March 31, 2021						Nine Months Ended March 31, 2020
				Cost of sales		Interest and other financing expense, net		Other expense (income), net		Cost of sales		Interest and other financing expense, net		Other expense (income), net
The effects of cash flow hedging:
	(Loss) gain on cash flow hedging relationships
		Interest rate swaps
			Amount of (loss) gain reclassified from AOCL into expense	$	—	$	(212)	$	—	$	—	$	—	$	—

		Cross-currency swaps
			Amount of gain (loss) reclassified from AOCL into income (expense)	$	—	$	120	$	(1,240)	$	—	$	—	$	—

		Foreign currency forward contracts
			Amount of gain reclassified from AOCL into income	$	73	$	—	$	—	$	26	$	—	$	—

The following table presents the pre-tax effect of the Company’s net investment hedges on AOCL and the Consolidated Statements of Operations for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020:


Derivatives in Net Investment Hedging Relationships	Amount of Gain (Loss) Recognized in OCI on Derivatives				Location of Gain (Loss) Recognized in Income on Derivatives (Amount Excluded from Effectiveness Testing)	Amount of Gain (Loss) Recognized in Income on Derivatives (Amount Excluded from Effectiveness Testing)
	Three Months Ended March 31,					Three Months Ended March 31,
	2021		2020			2021		2020
Cross-currency swaps	$	3,933	$	—	Interest and other financing expense, net	$	123	$	—

The following table presents the pre-tax effect of the Company’s net investment hedges on AOCL and the Consolidated Statements of Operations for the nine months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020:


Derivatives in Net Investment Hedging Relationships	Amount of Gain (Loss) Recognized in OCI on Derivatives				Location of Gain (Loss) Recognized in Income on Derivatives (Amount Excluded from Effectiveness Testing)	Amount of Gain (Loss) Recognized in Income on Derivatives (Amount Excluded from Effectiveness Testing)
	Nine Months Ended March 31,					Nine Months Ended March 31,
	2021		2020			2021		2020
Cross-currency swaps	$	(3,498)	$	—	Interest and other financing expense, net	$	377	$	—

Non-Designated Hedges

The following table presents the effect of the Company’s derivative financial instruments that are not designated as hedging instruments on the Consolidated Statements Operations for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020:

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Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments	Location of Gain (Loss) Recognized in Income on Derivative	Amount of Gain (Loss) Recognized in Income on Derivatives
		Three Months Ended March 31,
		2021		2020
Foreign currency forward contracts	Other (income) expense, net	$	—	$	(336)


Derivatives Not Designated as Hedging Instruments	Location of Gain (Loss) Recognized in Income on Derivative	Amount of Gain (Loss) Recognized in Income on Derivatives
		Nine Months Ended March 31,
		2021		2020
Foreign currency forward contracts	Other (income) expense, net	$	(399)	$	(505)

Credit-Risk-Related Contingent Features

The Company has agreements with each of its derivative counterparties that contain a provision providing that upon certain defaults by the Company on any of its indebtedness, the Company could also be declared in default on its derivative obligations.

16. TERMINATION BENEFITS RELATED TO PRODUCTIVITY AND TRANSFORMATION INITIATIVES

As a part of the ongoing productivity and transformation initiatives related to the Company’s strategic objective to expand profit margins and cash flow, the Company initiated a reduction in workforce at targeted locations in the United States as well as at certain locations internationally. The reduction in workforce associated with these initiatives are expected to result in charges throughout fiscal 2021.

The following table displays the termination benefits and personnel realignment activities and liability balances relating to the reduction in workforce for the period ended as of March 31, 2021:


	Balance at June 30, 2020		Charges (reversals)		Amounts Paid		Foreign Currency Translation & Other Adjustments		Balance at March 31, 2021
Termination benefits and personnel realignment	$	11,541	$	3,488	$	(10,051)	$	59	$	5,037

The liability balance as of March 31, 2021 and June 30, 2020 is included within Accrued expenses and other current liabilities on the Company’s Consolidated Balance Sheets.

17. COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

Securities Class Actions Filed in Federal Court

On August 17, 2016, three securities class action complaints were filed in the Eastern District of New York against the Company alleging violations of Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The three complaints are: (1) Flora v. The Hain Celestial Group, Inc., et al. (the “Flora Complaint”); (2) Lynn v. The Hain Celestial Group, Inc., et al. (the “Lynn Complaint”); and (3) Spadola v. The Hain Celestial Group, Inc., et al. (the “Spadola Complaint” and, together with the Flora and Lynn Complaints, the “Securities Complaints”). On June 5, 2017, the court issued an order for consolidation, appointment of Co-Lead Plaintiffs and approval of selection of co-lead counsel. Pursuant to this order, the Securities Complaints were consolidated under the caption In re The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. Securities Litigation (the “Consolidated Securities Action”), and Rosewood Funeral Home and Salamon Gimpel were appointed as Co-Lead Plaintiffs. On June 21, 2017, the Company received notice that plaintiff Spadola voluntarily dismissed his claims without prejudice to his ability to

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participate in the Consolidated Securities Action as an absent class member. The Co-Lead Plaintiffs in the Consolidated Securities Action filed a Consolidated Amended Complaint on August 4, 2017 and a Corrected Consolidated Amended Complaint on September 7, 2017 on behalf of a purported class consisting of all persons who purchased or otherwise acquired Hain Celestial securities between November 5, 2013 and February 10, 2017 (the “Amended Complaint”). The Amended Complaint named as defendants the Company and certain of its former officers (collectively, “Defendants”) and asserted violations of Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 based on allegedly materially false or misleading statements and omissions in public statements, press releases and SEC filings regarding the Company’s business, prospects, financial results and internal controls. Defendants filed a motion to dismiss the Amended Complaint on October 3, 2017 which the Court granted on March 29, 2019, dismissing the case in its entirety, without prejudice to replead. Co-Lead Plaintiffs filed a Second Amended Consolidated Class Action Complaint on May 6, 2019 (the “Second Amended Complaint”). The Second Amended Complaint again named as defendants the Company and certain of its former officers and asserts violations of Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 based on allegations similar to those in the Amended Complaint, including materially false or misleading statements and omissions in public statements, press releases and SEC filings regarding the Company’s business, prospects, financial results and internal controls. Defendants filed a motion to dismiss the Second Amended Complaint on June 20, 2019. Co-Lead Plaintiffs filed an opposition on August 5, 2019, and Defendants submitted a reply on September 3, 2019. On April 6, 2020, the Court granted Defendants' motion to dismiss the Second Amended Complaint in its entirety, with prejudice. Co-Lead Plaintiffs filed a notice of appeal on May 5, 2020 indicating their intent to appeal the Court’s decision dismissing the Second Amended Complaint to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Co-Lead Plaintiffs filed their appellate brief on August 18, 2020. Defendants filed their opposition brief on November 17, 2020, and Plaintiffs filed their reply brief on December 8, 2020. Accordingly, Co-Lead Plaintiffs’ appeal is fully briefed. Oral argument has not yet been scheduled.

Additional Stockholder Class Action and Derivative Complaints Filed in Federal Court

On April 19, 2017 and April 26, 2017, two class action and stockholder derivative complaints were filed in the Eastern District of New York against the former Board of Directors and certain former officers of the Company under the captions Silva v. Simon, et al. (the “Silva Complaint”) and Barnes v. Simon, et al. (the “Barnes Complaint”), respectively. Both the Silva Complaint and the Barnes Complaint allege violation of securities law, breach of fiduciary duty, waste of corporate assets and unjust enrichment.

On May 23, 2017, an additional stockholder filed a complaint under seal in the Eastern District of New York against the former Board of Directors and certain former officers of the Company. The complaint alleged that the Company’s former directors and certain former officers made materially false and misleading statements in press releases and SEC filings regarding the Company’s business, prospects and financial results. The complaint also alleged that the Company violated its by-laws and Delaware law by failing to hold its 2016 Annual Stockholders Meeting and includes claims for breach of fiduciary duty, unjust enrichment and corporate waste. On August 9, 2017, the Court granted an order to unseal this case and reveal Gary Merenstein as the plaintiff (the “Merenstein Complaint”).

On August 10, 2017, the court granted the parties' stipulation to consolidate the Barnes Complaint, the Silva Complaint and the Merenstein Complaint under the caption In re The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. Stockholder Class and Derivative Litigation (the “Consolidated Stockholder Class and Derivative Action”) and to appoint Robbins Arroyo LLP and Scott+Scott as Co-Lead Counsel, with the Law Offices of Thomas G. Amon as Liaison Counsel for Plaintiffs. On September 14, 2017, a related complaint was filed under the caption Oliver v. Berke, et al. (the “Oliver Complaint”), and on October 6, 2017, the Oliver Complaint was consolidated with the Consolidated Stockholder Class and Derivative Action. The Plaintiffs filed their consolidated amended complaint under seal on October 26, 2017. On December 20, 2017, the parties agreed to stay Defendants’ time to answer, move, or otherwise respond to the consolidated amended complaint through and including 30 days after a decision was rendered on the motion to dismiss the Amended Complaint in the Consolidated Securities Action, described above.

On March 29, 2019, the Court in the Consolidated Securities Action granted Defendants’ motion, dismissing the Amended Complaint in its entirety, without prejudice to replead. Co-Lead Plaintiffs in the Consolidated Securities Action filed the Second Amended Complaint on May 6, 2019. The parties to the Consolidated Stockholder Class and Derivative Action agreed to continue the stay of Defendants’ time to answer, move, or otherwise respond to the consolidated amended complaint through 30 days after a decision on Defendants' motion to dismiss the Second Amended Complaint in the Consolidated Securities Action.

On April 6, 2020, the Court granted Defendants’ motion to dismiss the Second Amended Complaint in the Consolidated Securities Action, with prejudice. Pursuant to the terms of the stay, Defendants in the Consolidated Stockholder Class and Derivative Action had until May 6, 2020 to answer, move, or otherwise respond to the complaint in this matter. This deadline

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was extended, and Defendants moved to dismiss the Consolidated Stockholder Class and Derivative Action Complaint on June 23, 2020, with Plaintiffs’ opposition due August 7, 2020.

On July 24, 2020, Plaintiffs made a stockholder litigation demand on the current Board containing overlapping factual allegations to those set forth in the Consolidated Stockholder Class and Derivative Action. On August 10, 2020, the Court vacated the briefing schedule on Defendants’ pending motion to dismiss in order to give the Board of Directors time to consider the demand. On each of September 8 and October 8, 2020, the Court extended its stay of any applicable deadlines for 30 days to give the Board of Directors additional time to complete its evaluation of the demand. On November 3, 2020, Plaintiffs were informed that the Board of Directors had finished investigating and resolved, among other things, that the demand should be rejected. On November 6, 2020, Plaintiffs and Defendants notified the Court that Plaintiffs were evaluating the rejection of the demand, sought certain additional information and were assessing next steps, and requested that the Court extend the stay for an additional 30 days, to on or around December 7, 2020. Since that time, Plaintiffs and Defendants have filed a number of joint status reports, requesting that the Court stay applicable deadlines to allow for the production of certain materials by the Board of Directors for review by Plaintiffs. The current stay ordered by the Court is set to expire on May 7, 2021.

Baby Food Litigation

Since the beginning of the quarter ended March 31, 2021, approximately 25 pending consumer class actions have been brought against the Company alleging that the Company’s Earth’s Best baby food products (the “Products”) contain unsafe and undisclosed levels of various naturally-occurring heavy metals, namely lead, arsenic, cadmium and mercury. These lawsuits generally allege that the Company violated various state consumer protection laws and make other state and common law warranty and unjust enrichment claims related to the alleged failure to disclose the presence of these metals and that consumers would have allegedly either not purchased the Products or would have paid less for them had the Company made adequate disclosures. These putative class actions seek to certify a nationwide class of consumers as well as various state subclasses. One of the consumer class actions (Jenna Johnson et. al. v. Beech Nut Nutrition Co., et. al.) filed in the U.S. District Court of Kansas also alleges civil RICO claims that the Company conspired with other baby food manufacturers to conceal the presence of these heavy metals in our respective products. These actions have been filed against all of the major baby food manufacturers in federal courts across the country, although the majority of cases against the Company have been filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The Company denies the allegations in these lawsuits and contends that its baby foods are safe and properly labeled.

The claims raised in these lawsuits were brought in the wake of a highly-publicized report issued by the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy on Oversight and Reform, dated February 4, 2021 (the “House Report”), addressing the presence of heavy metals in baby foods made by certain manufacturers, including the Company. Since the publishing of the House Report, the Company has also received information requests with respect to the advertising and quality of its baby foods from certain governmental authorities, as such authorities investigate the claims made in the House Report. The Company is fully cooperating with these requests and is providing documents and other requested information.

On March 8, 2021, the plaintiffs in one of the lawsuits (Albano v. Hain Celestial Group) filed a petition before the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (“JPML”) seeking to centralize all of the consumer class action lawsuits against all of the baby food manufacturers into single multidistrict proceeding in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. On April 13, 2021, the Company and other baby food manufacturers, as well as numerous plaintiffs in the other lawsuits, filed responses to the Albano petition. The JPML has set a hearing and oral argument on the petition for May 27, 2021. The JPML is expected to decide by early June 2021 as to whether these lawsuits will be consolidated before a single court and, if so, where.

In addition to the consumer class actions discussed above, since the beginning of the quarter ended March 31, 2021, the Company has also been named in approximately six pending lawsuits in state and federal courts alleging some form of personal injury from the ingestion of the Company's Products, purportedly due to unsafe and undisclosed levels of various naturally occurring heavy metals. Six of these cases make individual claims of injury, generally related to neurological development disorders such as autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Two of the lawsuits seek relief on behalf of a class of allegedly injured persons, including damages for medical monitoring for potential injuries that may develop later. The Company denies that its Products led to any of these injuries and will defend the cases vigorously.

Other

In addition to the litigation described above, the Company is and may be a defendant in lawsuits from time to time in the normal course of business. While the results of litigation and claims cannot be predicted with certainty, the Company believes the reasonably possible losses of such matters, individually and in the aggregate, are not material. Additionally, the Company

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18. SEGMENT INFORMATION

In accordance with ASC 280, Segment Reporting, the Company, based on economic similarity, defines its operating segments as the following five segments: the United States, United Kingdom (Hain Daniels), Ella's Kitchen UK, Europe and Canada. Similarly, under the same guidance, the Company operates under two reportable segments: North America and International.

Net sales and operating income are the primary measures used by the Company’s chief operating decision maker ("CODM") to evaluate segment operating performance and to decide how to allocate resources to segments. The CODM is the Company’s CEO. Expenses related to certain centralized administration functions that are not specifically related to an operating segment are included in Corporate and Other expenses. Corporate and Other expenses are comprised mainly of the compensation and related expenses of certain of the Company’s senior executive officers and other selected employees who perform duties related to the entire enterprise, as well as expenses for certain professional fees, facilities and other items which benefit the Company as a whole. Additionally, certain Productivity and transformation costs are included in Corporate and Other. Expenses that are managed centrally, but can be attributed to a segment, such as employee benefits and certain facility costs, are allocated based on reasonable allocation methods. Information about total assets by segment is not disclosed because such information is not reported to or used by the Company’s CODM for purposes of assessing segment performance or allocating resources.

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The following tables set forth financial information about each of the Company’s reportable segments. Transactions between reportable segments were insignificant for all periods presented.


	Three Months Ended March 31,				Nine Months Ended March 31,
	2021		2020		2021		2020
Net Sales:
North America	$	287,500	$	320,440	$	850,780	$	872,834
International	205,104		232,857		668,869		669,323

	$	492,604	$	553,297	$	1,519,649	$	1,542,157

Operating Income (Loss):
North America	$	39,492	$	28,873	$	105,188	$	64,067
International	26,774		18,660		8,144		40,666
	66,266		47,533		113,332		104,733
Corporate and Other (a)	(16,689)		(28,398)		(47,518)		(73,952)
	$	49,577	$	19,135	$	65,814	$	30,781

(a) In addition to general Corporate and Other expenses as described above, for the three months ended March 31, 2021, Corporate and Other included $2,804 of Productivity and transformation costs. For the three months ended March 31, 2020, Corporate and Other included $5,572 of Productivity and transformation costs and tradename impairment charges of $7,650 (related to North America).

For the nine months ended March 31, 2021, Corporate and Other included $6,343 of Productivity and transformation costs. For the nine months ended March 31, 2020, Corporate and Other included $26,142 of Productivity and transformation costs and tradename impairment charges of $9,539 ($4,007 related to North America; $5,532 related to International), partially offset by a benefit of $2,962 of proceeds from insurance claim.

The Company's net sales by product category are as follows:


	Three Months Ended March 31,				Nine Months Ended March 31,
	2021		2020		2021		2020
Grocery	$	322,107	$	373,723	$	1,030,544	$	1,081,497

Snacks	79,768		79,252		235,641		227,925
Personal Care	50,446		66,950		144,057		138,880
Tea	40,283		33,372		109,407		93,855
Total	$	492,604	$	553,297	$	1,519,649	$	1,542,157

The Company’s net sales by geographic region, which are generally based on the location of the Company’s subsidiaries, were as follows:


	Three Months Ended March 31,				Nine Months Ended March 31,
	2021		2020		2021		2020
United States	$	251,887	$	279,534	$	735,947	$	758,759
United Kingdom	139,094		169,024		475,739		501,619
All Other	101,623		104,739		307,963		281,779
Total	$	492,604	$	553,297	$	1,519,649	$	1,542,157

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The Company’s long-lived assets, which primarily represent net property, plant and equipment, operating lease right-of-use assets and noncurrent other assets by geographic area were as follows:


	March 31, 2021		June 30, 2020
United States	$	165,516	$	146,633
United Kingdom	148,929		149,943
All Other	109,290		105,303
Total	$	423,735	$	401,879

19. RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

On April 15, 2021, the Company completed the divestiture of its North America non-dairy beverages brands, Dream® and WestSoy®, for $33,000 subject to customary post-closing adjustments. The purchaser in this transaction was SunOpta Inc. (“SunOpta”). The non-employee chair of the Company's Board of Directors is also the chair of the board of SunOpta.

SunOpta is also one of the Company’s suppliers, for which the Company incurs expenses in the ordinary course of business. The Company incurred expenses of $3,649 and $2,513 in the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively, to SunOpta and its affiliated entities. For the nine months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company incurred expenses of $12,806 and $13,106, respectively, to SunOpta and its affiliated entities.

A former member of the Company's Board of Directors is a partner in a law firm which provides legal services to the Company. The Company incurred expenses of $259 and $1,141 in the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively, and $1,476 and $3,629 in the nine months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively, to the law firm and affiliated entities. The director resigned from the Board in February 2020.

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Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

This Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations should be read in conjunction with the Consolidated Financial Statements and the related Notes thereto for the period ended March 31, 2021 contained in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020. Forward looking statements in this Form 10-Q are qualified by the cautionary statement included in this Form 10-Q under the sub-heading “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward Looking Information” in the introduction of this Form 10-Q.

Overview

In addition, as part of the Company’s overall strategy, the Company may seek to dispose of businesses and brands that are less profitable or are otherwise less of a strategic fit within its core portfolio. During fiscal 2019, for example, the Company divested its Hain Pure Protein reportable segment and its WestSoy® tofu, seitan and tempeh businesses. In fiscal 2020, the Company divested its Tilda business and its Arrowhead Mills®, SunSpire®, Europe's Best®, Casbah®, Rudi’s Gluten-Free Bakery™, Rudi’s Organic Bakery® and Fountain of Truth™ brands. In fiscal 2021, the Company divested Danival®, along with its U.K. fruit business ("Fruit"), primarily consisting of the Orchard House® Foods Limited business and associated brands, and in April 2021, the Company completed the sale of both WestSoy® and Dream®.

COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to create challenging and unprecedented conditions, and we continue our commitment to supporting the global response to the crisis. Various policies and initiatives have been implemented by governments, organizations and individuals to reduce the global transmission of COVID-19.

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Although there are effective vaccines for COVID-19 that have been approved for use, it is uncertain when the rate of vaccinations will allow a return to a more normal economic activity and business operations. Access to vaccines and vaccination rates vary greatly by country. In addition, recent lockdowns in Europe, the presence of new variants and efficacy of existing vaccines against new variants pose additional uncertainty about the duration and extent of the impact from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Employee and Consumer Health and Safety Precautions

From the outset of the pandemic, our first priority has been the well-being of our employees and consumers. We continue to consistently meet or exceed government guidelines for addressing the health and safety of our employees, including global travel restrictions, prohibitions against visitors, social distancing requirements, the use of thermal temperature scanners, and the provision of personal protective equipment to our employees. We have continued the use of certain technology to allow many of our office-based employees to work from home effectively.

Manufacturing Facilities and Supply Chain Challenges

Shelter-in-place and social distancing behaviors, which are being mandated or encouraged by governments and practiced by businesses and individuals, continue to create challenges for our manufacturing employees. We have safety protocols in place that consistently meet or exceed government guidelines for addressing the health and safety of our employees, and we have successfully implemented contingency plans overseen by crisis management teams to monitor the evolving needs of our business.

To date, there have been some disruptions to our supply chain network, including labor availability and the supply of our ingredients, packaging or other sourced materials. It is possible that additional disruptions could occur if the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact markets around the world. We are also working closely with our contract manufacturers, distributors, and other external business partners to minimize the potential impact on our business.

Additionally, we continue to consolidate product shipping orders to more efficiently meet increased customer and consumer demand.

Consumer Demand

Shelter-in-place and social distancing behaviors have resulted in increased overall demand for our products, most notably in our grocery, snacks, tea and certain personal care product categories. Other product offerings have been adversely impacted due to changed consumer behavior and priorities, such as sun care products in the early stages of the pandemic.

While we have experienced a net increase in the overall demand for our products during the COVID-19 pandemic, the continued duration of that increased demand environment is uncertain. Additionally, deteriorating economic conditions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic could adversely affect future demand for our products. Factors such as increased unemployment, decreases in disposable income and declines in consumer confidence could cause a decrease in demand for our overall product set, particularly higher priced products.

Our Financial Position

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a net increase in overall demand for our products. Accordingly, to date, our financial position has benefited from the COVID-19 pandemic, albeit to a limited extent. We finance our operations primarily with the cash flows we generate from our operations and from borrowings available to us under our Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement (as amended, the “Amended Credit Agreement”). As of March 31, 2021, we had borrowing capacity of $738.6 million available under the Amended Credit Agreement.

Business Priorities

While the current environment has caused us to delay certain planned innovation and productivity initiatives, our business strategy of simplifying our portfolio and reinvigorating profitable sales growth remains unchanged.

Financial Impact on Third Parties and Equity Investments

Deteriorating economic conditions could jeopardize the viability of some third parties and our business relationships with them and could cause us to incur losses or increased costs in our dealings with those third parties. We have taken measures to

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minimize the impact of hardships faced by individual business partners, including by identifying secondary sources of supply and manufacturing capabilities.

Productivity and Transformation Costs

In fiscal 2019, the Company announced a strategy that includes as one of its key pillars identifying areas of cost savings and operating efficiencies to expand profit margins and cash flow. As part of this overall strategy and the key pillar of realizing savings and efficiencies, during fiscal 2020, the Company began the integration of its United States and Canada operations in alignment with the North America reportable segment structure. In addition, during fiscal 2021, the Company initiated cost reduction programs for its international businesses in the United Kingdom and Europe. The Company will carry out additional productivity initiatives under this strategy in fiscal 2021.

Productivity and transformation costs include costs, such as consulting and severance costs, relating to streamlining the Company’s manufacturing plants, co-packers and supply chain, eliminating served categories or brands within those categories, and product rationalization initiatives which are aimed at eliminating slow moving SKUs.

Discontinued Operations

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Comparison of Three Months Ended March 31, 2021 to Three Months Ended March 31, 2020

Consolidated Results

The following table compares our results of operations, including as a percentage of net sales, on a consolidated basis, for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020 (amounts in thousands, other than percentages, which may not add due to rounding):


	Three Months Ended						Change in
	March 31, 2021			March 31, 2020			Dollars		Percentage
Net sales	$	492,604	100.0%	$	553,297	100.0%	$	(60,693)	(11.0)%
Cost of sales	362,698		73.6%	420,902		76.1%	(58,204)		(13.8)%
Gross profit	129,906		26.4%	132,395		23.9%	(2,489)		(1.9)%
Selling, general and administrative expenses	74,223		15.1%	85,447		15.4%	(11,224)		(13.1)%
Amortization of acquired intangible assets	2,145		0.4%	3,174		0.6%	(1,029)		(32.4)%
Productivity and transformation costs	4,553		0.9%	11,514		2.1%	(6,961)		(60.5)%


Proceeds from insurance claim	(592)		(0.1)%	(400)		(0.1)%	(192)		*

Long-lived asset and intangibles impairment	—		—%	13,525		2.4%	(13,525)		(100.0)%
Operating income	49,577		10.1%	19,135		3.5%	30,442		159.1%
Interest and other financing expense, net	2,030		0.4%	4,037		0.7%	(2,007)		(49.7)%
Other expense (income), net	1,566		0.3%	(260)		—%	1,826		*
Income from continuing operations before income taxes and equity in net loss of equity-method investees	45,981		9.3%	15,358		2.8%	30,623		199.4%
Provision (benefit) for income taxes	11,797		2.4%	(10,242)		(1.9)%	22,039		*
Equity in net (income) loss of equity-method investees	(70)		—%	564		0.1%	(634)		*
Net income from continuing operations	$	34,254	7.0%	$	25,036	4.5%	$	9,218	36.8%
Net loss from discontinued operations, net of tax	—		—%	(697)		(0.1)%	697		*
Net income	$	34,254	7.0%	$	24,339	4.4%	$	9,915	40.7%

Adjusted EBITDA	$	73,752	15.0%	$	60,690	11.0%	$	13,062	21.5%
Diluted net income per common share from continuing operations	$	0.34		$	0.24		$	0.10	41.7%
Diluted net loss per common share from discontinued operations	—			(0.01)			0.01		*
Diluted net income per common share	$	0.34		$	0.23		$	0.11	47.8%

* Percentage is not meaningful due to one or more numbers being negative.

Net Sales

Net sales for the three months ended March 31, 2021 were $492.6 million, a decrease of $60.7 million, or 11.0%, as compared to $553.3 million in the three months ended March 31, 2020. On a constant currency basis, and adjusted for the impact of divestitures and discontinued brands, net sales decreased approximately 6.0% from the prior year quarter. Net sales on a constant currency basis, adjusted for the impact of divestitures and discontinued brands, decreased in both the North America and International reportable segments. Further details of changes in adjusted net sales by segment are provided below in the Segment Results section.

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Gross Profit

Gross profit for the three months ended March 31, 2021 was $129.9 million, a decrease of $2.5 million, or 1.9%, as compared to the prior year quarter primarily driven by lower sales. Gross profit margin was 26.4% of net sales, compared to 23.9% in the prior year quarter. The increase in margin was driven by cost savings from the Company's productivity and transformation initiatives, favorable product mix and lower trade promotion costs in both our North America and International reportable segments.

Selling, General and Administrative Expenses

Selling, general and administrative expenses were $74.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2021, a decrease of $11.2 million, or 13.1%, from $85.4 million for the prior year quarter. The decrease was primarily due to lower marketing and advertising costs, salaries, consulting expense, travel and entertainment expenses, broker trade accruals and corporate expenses. Some of the decrease drivers were part of our productivity and transformation initiatives. Selling, general and administrative expenses as a percentage of net sales was 15.1% in the three months ended March 31, 2021 compared to 15.4% in the prior year quarter, reflecting a decrease of 30 basis points primarily attributable to the aforementioned items.

Amortization of Acquired Intangible Assets

Amortization of acquired intangibles was $2.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2021, a decrease of $1.0 million from $3.2 million in the prior year quarter. The decrease was due to the elimination of the Fruit business intangible amortization during the third quarter of fiscal 2021 and finite-lived intangibles from historical acquisitions becoming fully amortized or impaired during fiscal year 2020, partially offset by amortization from some of the indefinite-lived intangibles being changed to finite-lived intangibles during the first quarter of fiscal 2021.

Productivity and Transformation Costs

Productivity and transformation costs were $4.6 million for the three months ended March 31, 2021, a decrease of $7.0 million from $11.5 million in the prior year quarter. The decrease was primarily due to higher consulting fees and severance costs incurred in connection with the Company’s productivity and transformation initiatives in the prior year quarter and fewer comparable costs incurred in the current year quarter.

Long-lived Asset and Intangibles Impairment

There were no long-lived asset and intangible impairment charges recorded in the three months ended March 31, 2021. In comparison, during the three months ended March 31, 2020, the Company recorded pre-tax impairment charges of $13.5 million of which $2.1 million related to certain tradenames within the Company's North America segment, $5.5 million related to certain tradenames within the Company's International segment and $5.9 million related to a write-down of certain machinery and equipment in the United States and Europe used to manufacture certain slow moving or low margin SKUs.

Operating Income

Operating income for the three months ended March 31, 2021 was $49.6 million compared to $19.1 million in the prior year quarter as a result of the items described above.

Interest and Other Financing Expense, Net

Interest and other financing expense, net totaled $2.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2021, a decrease of $2.0 million, or 49.7%, from $4.0 million in the prior year quarter. The decrease resulted primarily from lower interest expense as a result of lower outstanding debt and lower variable interest rates on the portion of the debt not hedged by the derivatives. See Note 9, Debt and Borrowings, in the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in Part I, Item 1 of this Form 10-Q.

Other Expense (Income), Net

Other expense, net totaled $1.6 million for the three months ended March 31, 2021, compared to income of $0.3 million in the prior year quarter. The change from income to expense was primarily attributable to a loss on the sale of the Fruit business which occurred in the current year quarter.

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Income from Continuing Operations Before Income Taxes and Equity in Net Loss of Equity-Method Investees

Income before income taxes and equity in net loss of our equity-method investees for the three months ended March 31, 2021 was $46.0 million compared to $15.4 million in the prior year quarter. The increase was due to the items discussed above.

Provision (Benefit) for Income Taxes

The provision (benefit) for income taxes includes federal, foreign, state and local income taxes. Our income tax expense from continuing operations was $11.8 million for the three months ended March 31, 2021 compared to an income tax benefit of $10.2 million in the prior year quarter.

The effective income tax rate from continuing operations was an expense of 25.7% and a benefit of 66.7% for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and March 31, 2020, respectively. The effective income tax rate from continuing operations for the three months ended March 31, 2021 was impacted by various discrete items including the finalization of fiscal year 2020 income tax returns. The income tax benefit for the three months ended March 31, 2020 was primarily due to the benefits from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (the "CARES Act") tax loss carryback.

Our effective tax rate may change from period-to-period based on recurring and non-recurring factors including the geographical mix of earnings, enacted tax legislation, state and local income taxes and tax audit settlements.

Equity in Net (Income) Loss of Equity-Method Investees

Our equity in net (income) loss from our equity-method investments for the three months ended March 31, 2021 was income of $0.1 million compared to a loss of $0.6 million in the prior year quarter. See Note 13, Investments, in the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in Part I, Item 1 of this Form 10-Q.

Net Income from Continuing Operations

Net income from continuing operations for the three months ended March 31, 2021 was $34.3 million, or $0.34 per diluted share, compared to net income of $25.0 million, or $0.24 per diluted share, for the three months ended March 31, 2020. The increase in net income from continuing operations was attributable to the factors noted above.

Net Loss from Discontinued Operations, Net of Tax

There was no net loss from discontinued operations, net of tax, for the three months ended March 31, 2021, compared to a loss of $0.7 million in the three months ended March 31, 2020.

See Note 4, Dispositions, in the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in Part I, Item 1 of this Form 10-Q for further discussion.

Net Income

Net income for the three months ended March 31, 2021 was $34.3 million, or $0.34 per diluted share, compared to net income of $24.3 million, or $0.23 per diluted share, in the prior year quarter. The change to net income was attributable to the factors noted above.

Adjusted EBITDA

Adjusted EBITDA was $73.8 million and $60.7 million for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively, as a result of the factors discussed above and the adjustments described in the Reconciliation of Non-U.S. GAAP Financial Measures to U.S. GAAP Measures presented following the discussion of our results of operations.

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Segment Results

The following table provides a summary of net sales and operating income (loss) by reportable segment for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020:


(dollars in thousands)	North America			International			Corporate and Other		Consolidated
Net sales
Three months ended 3/31/21	$	287,500		$	205,104		$	—	$	492,604
Three months ended 3/31/20	320,440			232,857			—		553,297
$ change	$	(32,940)		$	(27,753)		n/a		$	(60,693)
% change	(10.3)		%	(11.9)		%	n/a		(11.0)		%

Operating income (loss)
Three months ended 3/31/21	$	39,492		$	26,774		$	(16,689)	$	49,577
Three months ended 3/31/20	28,873			18,660			(28,398)		19,135
$ change	$	10,619		$	8,114		$	11,709	$	30,442
% change	36.8		%	43.5		%	*		159.1		%

Operating income (loss) margin
Three months ended 3/31/21	13.7		%	13.1		%	n/a		10.1		%
Three months ended 3/31/20	9.0		%	8.0		%	n/a		3.5		%

* Percentage is not meaningful due to one or more numbers being negative.

North America

Net sales in the North America reportable segment for the three months ended March 31, 2021 were $287.5 million, a decrease of $32.9 million, or 10.3%, from net sales of $320.4 million in the prior year quarter. On a constant currency basis, adjusted for the impact of divestitures and discontinued brands, net sales decreased by 7.9% from the prior year quarter. On an adjusted basis, the decrease was primarily driven by a large program with a wholesale club which was not repeated in the current quarter and pantry stocking in the prior year quarter as a result of stay-at-home orders at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Operating income in North America for the three months ended March 31, 2021 was $39.5 million, an increase of $10.6 million from $28.9 million in the prior year quarter due to lower trade promotion costs, a favorable product mix, lower selling, general and administrative expenses and supply chain cost efficiencies gained as a result of the Company's productivity and transformation initiatives.

International

Net sales in the International reportable segment for the three months ended March 31, 2021 were $205.1 million, a decrease of $27.8 million, or 11.9%, from net sales of $232.9 million in the prior year quarter. On a constant currency basis, and adjusted for the impact of divestitures and discontinued brands, net sales decreased by 2.6% from the prior year quarter. On an adjusted basis, the decrease was mainly due to United Kingdom customer inventory reductions that were elevated in three months ended December 31, 2020 in anticipation of potential Brexit supply disruptions as well as pantry stocking in the prior year quarter as a result of stay-at-home orders at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Operating income in our International reportable segment for the three months ended March 31, 2021 was $26.8 million, compared to operating income of $18.7 million for the three months ended March 31, 2020, an increase of $8.1 million due to lower trade promotion costs, supply chain cost efficiencies and lower selling, general and administrative expenses.

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Corporate and Other

Our Corporate and Other category consists of expenses related to the Company’s centralized administrative functions, which do not specifically relate to an operating segment. Such Corporate and Other expenses are comprised mainly of compensation and related expenses of certain of the Company’s senior executive officers and other employees who perform duties related to our entire enterprise as well as expenses for certain professional fees, facilities, and other items which benefit the Company as a whole. Our Corporate and Other expenses for the three months ended March 31, 2021 were $16.7 million, a decrease of $11.7 million, from $28.4 million. Included in the three months ended March 31, 2020 was a tradename impairment charge of $7.6 million compared with no tradename impairment charges in the three months ended March 31, 2021. In addition, the decrease is due to Productivity and transformation costs included in Corporate and Other, which for the three months ended March 31, 2021 were $2.8 million, a decrease of $2.8 million, from $5.6 million for the three months ended March 31, 2020.

Refer to Note 18, Segment Information, in the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in Part I, Item 1 of this Form 10-Q.

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Comparison of Nine Months Ended March 31, 2021 to Nine Months Ended March 31, 2020

Consolidated Results

The following table compares our results of operations, including as a percentage of net sales, on a consolidated basis, for the nine months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020 (amounts in thousands, other than percentages, which may not add due to rounding):


	Nine Months Ended						Change in
	March 31, 2021			March 31, 2020			Dollars		Percentage
Net sales	$	1,519,649	100.0%	$	1,542,157	100.0%	$	(22,508)	(1.5)%
Cost of sales	1,140,614		75.1%	1,206,324		78.2%	(65,710)		(5.4)%
Gross profit	379,035		24.9%	335,833		21.8%	43,202		12.9%
Selling, general and administrative expenses	236,995		15.6%	245,205		15.9%	(8,210)		(3.3)%
Amortization of acquired intangible assets	6,771		0.4%	9,446		0.6%	(2,675)		(28.3)%
Productivity and transformation costs	12,371		0.8%	37,949		2.5%	(25,578)		(67.4)%


Proceeds from insurance claim	(592)		—%	(2,962)		(0.2)%	2,370		*

Long-lived asset and intangibles impairment	57,676		3.8%	15,414		1.0%	42,262		274.2%
Operating income	65,814		4.3%	30,781		2.0%	35,033		113.8%
Interest and other financing expense, net	6,820		0.4%	15,068		1.0%	(8,248)		(54.7)%
Other (income) expense, net	(852)		(0.1)%	2,312		0.1%	(3,164)		*
Income from continuing operations before income taxes and equity in net loss of equity-method investees	59,846		3.9%	13,401		0.9%	46,445		346.6%
Provision (benefit) for income taxes	33,197		2.2%	(9,753)		(0.6)%	42,950		*
Equity in net loss of equity-method investees	1,025		0.1%	1,219		0.1%	(194)		(15.9)%
Net income from continuing operations	$	25,624	1.7%	$	21,935	1.4%	$	3,689	16.8%
Net income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of tax	11,255		0.7%	(105,581)		(6.8)%	116,836		*
Net income (loss)	$	36,879	2.4%	$	(83,646)	(5.4)%	$	120,525	*

Adjusted EBITDA	$	190,838	12.6%	$	137,827	8.9%	$	53,011	38.5%
Diluted net income per common share from continuing operations	$	0.25		$	0.21		$	0.04	19.0%
Diluted net income (loss) per common share from discontinued operations	0.11			(1.01)			1.12		*
Diluted net income (loss) per common share	$	0.36		$	(0.80)		$	1.16	*

* Percentage is not meaningful due to one or more numbers being negative.

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Net Sales

Net sales for the nine months ended March 31, 2021 were $1,519.6 million, a decrease of $22.5 million, or 1.5%, as compared to $1,542.2 million in the nine months ended March 31, 2020 as a result of a decrease in sales in the North America reportable segments. On a constant currency basis, adjusted for the impact of divestitures and discontinued brands, net sales increased approximately 1.6% from the prior comparable period. On an adjusted basis, net sales increased in both North America and International segments. Further details of changes in adjusted net sales by segment are provided below in the Segment Results section.

Gross Profit

Gross profit for the nine months ended March 31, 2021 was $379.0 million, an increase of $43.2 million, or 12.9%, as compared to the prior year comparable period. Gross profit margin was 24.9% of net sales, compared to 21.8% in the prior year comparable period. The increase was driven by cost savings from the Company's productivity and transformation initiatives, favorable product mix and lower trade promotion costs in both our North America and International reportable segments.

Selling, General and Administrative Expenses

Selling, general and administrative expenses were $237.0 million for the nine months ended March 31, 2021, a decrease of $8.2 million, or 3.3%, from $245.2 million for the prior year comparable period. The decrease was due to lower broker trade accruals, salaries, consulting expense, travel and entertainment expenses and corporate expenses. Selling, general and administrative expenses as a percentage of net sales was 15.6% in the nine months ended March 31, 2021 compared to 15.9% in the prior year comparable period, attributable to the aforementioned items.

Amortization of Acquired Intangible Assets

Amortization of acquired intangibles was $6.8 million for the nine months ended March 31, 2021, a decrease of $2.7 million from $9.4 million in the prior year comparable period. The decrease was due to the elimination of the Fruit business intangible amortization since the first quarter of fiscal 2021 and finite-lived intangibles from historical acquisitions becoming fully amortized or impaired during fiscal year 2020, partially offset by amortization from some of the indefinite-lived intangibles being changed to finite-lived intangibles during the first quarter of fiscal 2021.

Productivity and Transformation Costs

Productivity and transformation costs were $12.4 million for the nine months ended March 31, 2021, a decrease of $25.6 million from $37.9 million in the prior year comparable period. The decrease was primarily due to higher consulting fees and severance costs incurred in connection with the Company’s productivity and transformation initiatives in the prior year period and fewer comparable costs incurred in fiscal 2021.

Proceeds from Insurance Claim

In the third quarter of fiscal year 2021, the Company received $0.6 million as payment from an insurance claim related to a litigation described in Note 17, Commitments and Contingencies. In July of 2019, the Company received $7.0 million as partial payment from an insurance claim relating to business disruption costs associated with a co-packer. Of this amount, $4.5 million was recognized in fiscal 2019 as it related to reimbursement of costs already incurred, with the remaining $2.9 million recognized in the nine months ended March 31, 2020.

Long-lived Asset and Intangibles Impairment

During the nine months ended March 31, 2021, the Company recognized a pre-tax impairment charge of $57.7 million, of which $56.1 million related to the reserve recorded against the assets of the Company's Fruit business (see Note 4, Dispositions, in the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in Part I, Item 1 of this Form 10-Q) and $1.6 million related to impairment of property, plant and equipment and other non-current assets not related to the Fruit business. During the nine months ended March 31, 2020, the Company recorded a pre-tax impairment charge of $15.4 million, of which $4.0 million related to certain tradenames within the Company's North America segment, $5.5 million related to certain tradenames within the Company's International segment and $5.9 million related to a write-down of certain machinery and equipment in the United States and Europe used to manufacture certain slow moving or low margin SKUs.

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Operating Income

Operating income for the nine months ended March 31, 2021 was $65.8 million compared to $30.8 million in the prior year comparable period because of the items described above.

Interest and Other Financing Expense, Net

Interest and other financing expense, net totaled $6.8 million for the nine months ended March 31, 2021, a decrease of $8.2 million, or 54.7%, from $15.1 million in the prior year comparable period. The decrease resulted primarily from lower interest expense as a result of lower outstanding debt and lower variable interest rates on the portion of the debt not hedged by the derivatives. See Note 9, Debt and Borrowings, in the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in Part I, Item 1 of this Form 10-Q.

Other (Income) Expense, Net

Other income, net totaled $0.9 million for the nine months ended March 31, 2021, compared to expense of $2.3 million in the prior year comparable period. The change from expense to income was primarily attributable to net unrealized foreign currency losses in fiscal 2020 being higher than in fiscal 2021 principally due to foreign currency movements on the remeasurement of foreign currency denominated loans, partially offset by loss on sale of businesses of $1.3 million in fiscal 2021 compared with gain on sale of business of $2.1 million in fiscal 2020.

Income from Continuing Operations Before Income Taxes and Equity in Net Loss of Equity-Method Investees

Income from continuing operations before income taxes and equity in net loss of our equity-method investees for the nine months ended March 31, 2021 was $59.8 million compared to $13.4 million in the prior year comparable period. The increase was due to the items discussed above.

Provision (Benefit) for Income Taxes

The provision for income taxes includes federal, foreign, state and local income taxes. Our income tax expense from continuing operations was $33.2 million for the nine months ended March 31, 2021 compared to a tax benefit of $9.8 million in the prior year comparable period.

The effective income tax rate from continuing operations was an expense of 55.5% and benefit of 72.8% for the nine months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively. The effective income tax rate from continuing operations for the period ended March 31, 2021 was impacted by various discrete items including the tax impact of the sale of the Fruit business, the enacted change in the United Kingdom's corporate income tax rate to 19% and a legal entity reorganization completed during the quarter ended September 30, 2020. The income tax benefit for the nine months ended March 31, 2020 was mainly due to the benefits from the CARES Act carryback.

Through the nine months ended March 31, 2021, the Company received $53.8 million including $1.3 million of interest from the CARES Act tax loss carryback refund claims.

Equity in Net Loss of Equity-Method Investees

Our equity in net loss from our equity-method investments for the nine months ended March 31, 2021 was $1.0 million compared to $1.2 million in the prior year comparable period. See Note 13, Investments, in the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in Part I, Item 1 of this Form 10-Q.

Net Income from Continuing Operations

Net income from continuing operations for the nine months ended March 31, 2021 was $25.6 million, or $0.25 per diluted share, compared to $21.9 million, or $0.21 per diluted share, for the nine months ended March 31, 2020. The increase in net income from continuing operations was attributable to the factors noted above.

Net Income (Loss) from Discontinued Operations, Net of Tax

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Net income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of tax, for the nine months ended March 31, 2021 was income of $11.3 million, or $0.11 per diluted share, compared to a loss of $105.6 million, or $1.01 per diluted share, in the nine months ended March 31, 2020.

During the nine months ended March 31, 2021, the Company recognized a $11.3 million adjustment to the Tilda business primarily related to the recognition of a deferred tax benefit. Net loss from discontinued operations, net of tax, for the nine months ended March 31, 2020 included a reclassification of $95.1 million of cumulative translation losses from accumulated other comprehensive loss to the Company's results of the Tilda business' discontinued operations. The income tax expense from discontinued operations of $13.5 million for the nine months ended March 31, 2020 was impacted by $15.3 million of tax related to the tax gain on the sale of the Tilda entities.

See Note 4, Dispositions, in the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in Part I, Item 1 of this Form 10-Q for further discussion.

Net Income (Loss)

Net income for the nine months ended March 31, 2021 was $36.9 million, or $0.36 per diluted share, compared to a net loss of $83.6 million, or $0.80 per diluted share, in the prior year comparable period. The change from net loss to net income was attributable to the factors noted above.

Adjusted EBITDA

Our Adjusted EBITDA was $190.8 million and $137.8 million for the nine months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively, as a result of the factors discussed above and the adjustments described in the Reconciliation of Non-U.S. GAAP Financial Measures to U.S. GAAP Measures presented following the discussion of our results of operations.

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Segment Results

The following table provides a summary of net sales and operating income by reportable segment for the nine months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020:


(dollars in thousands)	North America			International			Corporate and Other		Consolidated
Net sales
Nine months ended 3/31/21	$	850,780		$	668,869		$	—	$	1,519,649
Nine months ended 3/31/20	872,834			669,323			—		1,542,157
$ change	$	(22,054)		$	(454)		n/a		$	(22,508)
% change	(2.5)		%	(0.1)		%	n/a		(1.5)		%

Operating income (loss)
Nine months ended 3/31/21	$	105,188		$	8,144		$	(47,518)	$	65,814
Nine months ended 3/31/20	64,067			40,666			(73,952)		30,781
$ change	$	41,121		$	(32,522)		$	26,434	$	35,033
% change	64.2		%	(80.0)		%	*		113.8		%

Operating income (loss) margin
Nine months ended 3/31/21	12.4		%	1.2		%	n/a		4.3		%
Nine months ended 3/31/20	7.3		%	6.1		%	n/a		2.0		%

* Percentage is not meaningful due to one or more numbers being negative.

North America

Our net sales in the North America reportable segment for the nine months ended March 31, 2021 were $850.8 million, a decrease of $22.1 million, or 2.5%, from net sales of $872.8 million in the prior year comparable period. On a constant currency basis, adjusted for the impact of divestitures and discontinued brands, net sales increased by 2.0%. On an adjusted basis, North America segment sales increased by 2.0% due to higher sales in first two quarters of the current year compared to the prior year driven by an increase in overall demand for our products as a result of increased at-home food consumption, most notably in our snacks, tea, yogurt, and certain personal care product categories. This increase was partially offset by a decrease in the third quarter due to reasons discussed above in the Comparison of Three Months Ended March 31, 2021 to Three Months Ended March 31, 2020 section. Operating income in North America for the nine months ended March 31, 2021 was $105.2 million, an increase of $41.1 million from $64.1 million in the prior year comparable period. The increase was driven by lower trade promotion costs, a favorable product mix, lower selling, general and administrative expenses and supply chain cost efficiencies gained with the Company's productivity and transformation initiatives.

International

Our net sales in the International reportable segment for the nine months ended March 31, 2021 were $668.9 million, a decrease of $0.5 million, or 0.1%, from net sales of $669.3 million in the prior year comparable period. On a constant currency basis, and adjusted for the impact of divestitures and discontinued brands, net sales increased 1.2% from the prior year comparable period primarily due to an increase in overall demand for our products including the growth in our plant-based food and beverage products. This increase was partially offset by a decrease in the third quarter due to reasons discussed above in the Comparison of Three Months Ended March 31, 2021 to Three Months Ended March 31, 2020 section. Operating income in our International reportable segment for the nine months ended March 31, 2021 was $8.1 million, a decrease of $32.5 million from operating income of $40.7 million for the nine months ended March 31, 2020. The decrease was primarily due to a reserve of $56.1 million recorded against the Fruit business. Without this charge, operating income would have increased by $23.6 million driven by improvement in gross profit from adjusted net sales growth and the implementation of productivity initiatives.

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Corporate and Other

Our Corporate and Other category consists of expenses related to the Company’s centralized administrative functions, which do not specifically relate to an operating segment. Such Corporate and Other expenses are comprised mainly of compensation and related expenses of certain of the Company’s senior executive officers and other employees who perform duties related to our entire enterprise as well as expenses for certain professional fees, facilities, and other items which benefit the Company as a whole. Our Corporate and Other expenses for the nine months ended March 31, 2021 were $47.5 million, a decrease of $26.4 million, from $74.0 million in the prior year period. This change was primarily related to a decrease in productivity and transformation costs included in Corporate and Other, which for the nine months ended March 31, 2021 were $6.3 million, a decrease of $19.8 million, from $26.1 million for the nine months ended March 31, 2020. Included in the nine months ended March 31, 2020 was a tradename impairment charge of $7.6 million compared with no tradename impairment charges in the three months ended March 31, 2021. The decrease of $26.4 million was related to Corporate and Other expenses was partially offset by lower marketing and advertising expenses.

Refer to Note 18, Segment Information, in the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in Part I, Item 1 of this Form 10-Q.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

We finance our operations and growth primarily with the cash flows we generate from our operations and from borrowings available to us under our Amended Credit Agreement. As of March 31, 2021, $738.6 million was available under the Amended Credit Agreement, and the Company was in compliance with all associated covenants. We believe that our cash flows from operations and borrowing capacity under our Amended Credit Agreement will be adequate to meet anticipated operating and other expenditures for the foreseeable future.

Our cash and cash equivalents balance increased $15.2 million at March 31, 2021 to $53.0 million as compared to $37.8 million at June 30, 2020. Our working capital from continuing operations was $264.9 million at March 31, 2021, an increase of $4.2 million from $260.7 million at the end of fiscal 2020.

Liquidity is affected by many factors, some of which are based on normal ongoing operations of the Company’s business and some of which arise from fluctuations related to global economics and markets. Our cash balances are held in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Europe and India. As of March 31, 2021, substantially all of the total cash balance from continuing operations was held outside of the United States due to debt repayments made towards our revolving credit facility at the end of the period by the United States operating segment.

We maintain our cash and cash equivalents primarily in money market funds or their equivalent. As of March 31, 2021, all of our investments were expected to mature in less than three months. Accordingly, we do not believe that our investments have significant exposure to interest rate risk. Cash provided by (used in) operating, investing and financing activities is summarized below.


	Nine Months Ended March 31,				Change in
(amounts in thousands)	2021		2020		Dollars
Cash flows provided by (used in):
Operating activities from continuing operations	$	146,517	$	64,092	$	82,425
Investing activities from continuing operations	(25,968)		(32,533)		6,565
Financing activities from continuing operations	(110,956)		(18,917)		(92,039)
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash from continuing operations	5,650		(2,110)		7,760
Increase in cash from continuing operations	15,243		10,532		4,711
Decrease in cash from discontinued operations	—		(8,509)		8,509
Net increase in cash and cash equivalents	$	15,243	$	2,023	$	13,220

Cash provided by operating activities from continuing operations was $146.5 million for the nine months ended March 31, 2021, an increase of $82.4 million from cash provided by operating activities from continuing operations of $64.1 million in the prior year period. This increase resulted primarily from an improvement of $56.2 million in net income adjusted for non-cash

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charges in the current period. The larger non-cash adjustments to net income from continuing operations related to the Long-lived asset and intangibles impairment charge of $57.7 million during the nine months ended March 31, 2021 compared with $15.4 million in the prior year period as well as a change to deferred tax expense of $3.2 million in the current year period compared with deferred tax benefit of $9.0 million in the prior year period. The reason for the change to Long-lived asset and intangible impairment charge is discussed in the Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations section entitled Comparison of Nine Months Ended March 31, 2021 to Nine Months Ended March 31, 2020. Compared to current year deferred tax expense, the prior year deferred tax benefit is primarily due to the CARES Act. Additionally, the increase in cash provided by operating activities from continuing operations resulted from greater cash generation of $26.3 million from our working capital accounts.

Cash used in investing activities from continuing operations was $26.0 million for the nine months ended March 31, 2021, a decrease of $6.6 million from $32.5 million in the prior year period primarily due to higher proceeds received in the current year period from the sale of businesses.

Cash used in financing activities from continuing operations was $111.0 million for the nine months ended March 31, 2021, an increase in cash used of $92.0 million compared to $18.9 million of cash used in the prior year period. Cash used in financing activities from continuing operations for the nine months ended March 31, 2021 included $25.0 million of net repayments of our revolving credit facility and $80.3 million of share repurchases. Cash used in financing activities from continuing operations for the nine months ended March 31, 2020 included $265.3 million of net repayments of our term loan, revolving credit facility and other debt and by $57.4 million for share repurchases, partially offset by $305.2 million related to the proceeds from the sale of Tilda.

Operating Free Cash Flow from Continuing Operations

Our Operating Free Cash Flow from continuing operations was $93.5 million for the nine months ended March 31, 2021, an improvement of $76.3 million compared to $17.1 million in the nine months ended March 31, 2020. This improvement resulted primarily from an improvement of $56.2 million in net income adjusted for non-cash charges in the current period and greater cash generation of $26.3 million from our working capital accounts. See the Reconciliation of Non-U.S. GAAP Financial Measures to U.S. GAAP Measures following the discussion of our results of operations for definitions and a reconciliation from our net cash provided by operating activities from continuing operations to Operating Free Cash Flow from continuing operations.

Share Repurchase Program

On June 21, 2017, the Company’s Board of Directors authorized the repurchase of up to $250 million of the Company’s issued and outstanding common stock. Repurchases may be made from time to time in the open market, pursuant to pre-set trading plans, in private transactions or otherwise. The authorization does not have a stated expiration date. The extent to which the Company repurchases its shares and the timing of such repurchases will depend upon market conditions and other corporate considerations. During the nine months ended March 31, 2021, the Company repurchased 2,408 shares under the program for a total of $80.3 million, excluding commissions, at an average price of $33.33 per share. As of March 31, 2021, the Company had $109.5 million of remaining authorization under the share repurchase program.

Reconciliation of Non-U.S. GAAP Financial Measures to U.S. GAAP Measures

We have included in this report measures of financial performance that are not defined by accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“U.S. GAAP”). We believe that these measures provide useful information to investors and include these measures in other communications to investors.

For each of these non-U.S. GAAP financial measures, we are providing below a reconciliation of the differences between the non-U.S. GAAP measure and the most directly comparable U.S. GAAP measure, an explanation of why our management and Board of Directors believe the non-U.S. GAAP measure provides useful information to investors and any additional purposes for which our management and Board of Directors use the non-U.S. GAAP measures. These non-U.S. GAAP measures should be viewed in addition to, and not in lieu of, the comparable U.S. GAAP measures.

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Constant Currency Presentation

We believe that this measure provides useful information to investors because it provides transparency to underlying performance in our consolidated net sales by excluding the effect that foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations have on year-to-year comparability given the volatility in foreign currency exchange markets. To present this information for historical periods, current period net sales for entities reporting in currencies other than the U.S. dollar are translated into U.S. dollars at the average monthly exchange rates in effect during the corresponding period of the prior fiscal year, rather than at the actual average monthly exchange rate in effect during the current period of the current fiscal year. As a result, the foreign currency impact is equal to the current year results in local currencies multiplied by the change in average foreign currency exchange rate between the current fiscal period and the corresponding period of the prior fiscal year.

Divestitures and Discontinued Brands

We also exclude the impact of divestitures and discontinued brands when comparing net sales to prior periods, which results in the presentation of certain non-U.S. GAAP financial measures. The Company's management believes that excluding the impact of divestitures and discontinued brands when presenting period-over-period results of net sales aids in comparability.

A reconciliation between reported and constant currency net sales adjusted for divestitures and discontinued brands increase (decrease) is as follows:

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(amounts in thousands)	North America			International			Hain Consolidated
Net sales - Three Months Ended March 31, 2021	$	287,500		$	205,104		$	492,604
Divestitures and discontinued brands	(320)			(4,144)			(4,464)
Impact of foreign currency exchange	(2,042)			(15,428)			(17,470)
Net sales on a constant currency basis adjusted for divestitures and discontinued brands - Three Months Ended March 31, 2021	$	285,138		$	185,532		$	470,670

Net sales - Three Months Ended March 31, 2020	$	320,440		$	232,857		$	553,297
Divestitures and discontinued brands	(10,717)			(42,462)			(53,179)
Net sales adjusted for divestitures and discontinued brands - Three Months Ended March 31, 2020	$	309,723		$	190,395		$	500,118

Net sales decline	(10.3)		%	(11.9)		%	(11.0)		%
Impact of divestitures and discontinued brands	3.0		%	15.9		%	8.2		%
Impact of foreign currency exchange	(0.6)		%	(6.6)		%	(3.2)		%
Net sales decline on a constant currency basis adjusted for divestitures and discontinued brands	(7.9)		%	(2.6)		%	(6.0)		%

Net sales - Nine Months Ended March 31, 2021	$	850,780		$	668,869		$	1,519,649
Divestitures and discontinued brands	(4,105)			(5,052)			(9,157)
Impact of foreign currency exchange	(2,144)			(35,133)			(37,277)
Net sales on a constant currency basis adjusted for divestitures and discontinued brands - Nine Months Ended March 31, 2021	$	844,531		$	628,684		$	1,473,215

Net sales - Nine Months Ended March 31, 2020	$	872,834		$	669,323		$	1,542,157
Divestitures and discontinued brands	(44,120)			(48,122)			(92,242)
Net sales adjusted for divestitures and discontinued brands - Nine Months Ended March 31, 2020	$	828,714		$	621,201		$	1,449,915

Net sales decline	(2.5)		%	(0.1)		%	(1.5)		%
Impact of divestitures and discontinued brands	4.7		%	6.5		%	5.5		%
Impact of foreign currency exchange	(0.2)		%	(5.2)		%	(2.4)		%
Net sales growth on a constant currency basis adjusted for divestitures and discontinued brands	2.0		%	1.2		%	1.6		%

Adjusted EBITDA

Adjusted EBITDA is defined as net income (loss) before income taxes, net interest expense, depreciation and amortization, impairment of long-lived assets and intangibles, equity in net (income) loss of equity-method investees, stock-based compensation, net, productivity and transformation costs, SKU rationalization and certain inventory write-downs, unrealized currency gains and losses and other adjustments. The Company’s management believes that this presentation provides useful information to management, analysts and investors regarding certain additional financial and business trends relating to its results of operations and financial condition. In addition, management uses this measure for reviewing the financial results of the Company and as a component of performance-based executive compensation. Adjusted EBITDA is a non-U.S. GAAP measure and may not be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies.

We do not consider Adjusted EBITDA in isolation or as an alternative to financial measures determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The principal limitation of Adjusted EBITDA is that it excludes certain expenses and income that are required by U.S. GAAP to be recorded in our consolidated financial statements. In addition, Adjusted EBITDA is subject to inherent limitations as this metric reflects the exercise of judgment by management about which expenses and income are excluded or included in determining Adjusted EBITDA. In order to compensate for these limitations, management presents Adjusted EBITDA in connection with U.S. GAAP results.

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A reconciliation of net income (loss) to Adjusted EBITDA is as follows:


	Three Months Ended March 31,				Nine Months Ended March 31,
(amounts in thousands)	2021		2020		2021		2020
Net income (loss)	$	34,254	$	24,339	$	36,879	$	(83,646)
Net (loss) income from discontinued operations, net of tax	—		(697)		11,255		(105,581)
Net income from continuing operations	34,254		25,036		25,624		21,935

Provision (benefit) for income taxes	11,797		(10,242)		33,197		(9,753)
Interest expense, net	1,327		3,332		4,781		11,884
Depreciation and amortization	12,814		12,927		37,768		40,069
Equity in net (income) loss of equity-method investees	(70)		564		1,025		1,219
Stock-based compensation, net	3,698		3,761		11,888		9,581


Unrealized currency losses (gains)	442		(1,011)		(535)		188
Productivity and transformation costs	3,915		10,967		10,428		37,402

Proceeds from insurance claim	(592)		(400)		(592)		(2,962)

Long-lived asset and intangibles impairment	—		13,525		57,676		15,414
Warehouse/manufacturing consolidation and other costs	3,598		537		7,313		3,055
Loss on sale of businesses	1,904		332		1,293		2,115
Litigation and related expenses	644		—		644		48
Plant closure related costs	21		—		17		2,354
SKU rationalization and inventory write-down	—		1,362		311		5,278



Adjusted EBITDA	$	73,752	$	60,690	$	190,838	$	137,827

Operating Free Cash Flow from Continuing Operations

In our internal evaluations, we use the non-U.S. GAAP financial measure “Operating Free Cash Flow from Continuing Operations.” The difference between Operating Free Cash Flow from continuing operations and cash flow provided by or used in operating activities from continuing operations, which is the most comparable U.S. GAAP financial measure, is that Operating Free Cash Flow from continuing operations reflects the impact of purchases of property, plant and equipment (capital spending). Since capital spending is essential to maintaining our operational capabilities, we believe that it is a recurring and necessary use of cash. As such, we believe investors should also consider capital spending when evaluating our cash provided by or used in operating activities. We view Operating Free Cash Flow from continuing operations as an important measure because it is one factor in evaluating the amount of cash available for discretionary investments. We do not consider Operating Free Cash Flow from continuing operations in isolation or as an alternative to financial measures determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP.

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A reconciliation from cash flow provided by operating activities from continuing operations to Operating Free Cash Flow from continuing operations is as follows:


	Nine Months Ended March 31,
(amounts in thousands)	2021		2020
Cash flow provided by operating activities from continuing operations	$	146,517	$	64,092
Purchases of property, plant and equipment	(53,062)		(46,961)
Operating free cash flow from continuing operations	$	93,455	$	17,131

Off Balance Sheet Arrangements

At March 31, 2021, we did not have any off-balance sheet arrangements as defined in Item 303(a)(4) of Regulation S-K that have had, or are likely to have, a material current or future effect on our consolidated financial statements.

Critical Accounting Estimates

Our financial statements are prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States. The accounting principles we use require us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and amounts of income and expenses during the reporting periods presented. We believe in the quality and reasonableness of our critical accounting policies; however, materially different amounts may be reported under different conditions or using assumptions different from those that we have applied. The accounting policies that have been identified as critical to our business operations and to understanding the results of our operations pertain to revenue recognition, trade promotions and sales incentives, valuation of accounts and chargeback receivable, valuation of long-lived assets, goodwill and intangible assets, stock-based compensation and valuation allowances for deferred tax assets. The application of each of these critical accounting policies and estimates is discussed in Part II, Item 7, Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

Refer to Note 2, Basis of Presentation, in the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in Part I, Item 1 of this Form 10-Q.

Seasonality

Certain of our product lines have seasonal fluctuations. Hot tea, hot-eating desserts and soup sales are stronger in colder months, while sales of snack foods, sunscreen and certain of our prepared food and personal care products are stronger in the warmer months. As such, our results of operations and our cash flows for any particular quarter are not indicative of the results we expect for the full year, and our historical seasonality may not be indicative of future quarterly results of operations. In recent years, net sales and diluted earnings per share in the first fiscal quarter have typically been the lowest of our four quarters.

Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

There have been no significant changes in market risk from those addressed in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020 during the nine months ended March 31, 2021. See the information set forth in Part II, Item 7A, Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk, of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020.

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Item 4. Controls and Procedures

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

Our Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) and Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”), with the assistance of other members of management, have reviewed the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered by this report. Our disclosure controls and procedures are intended to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports it files or submits under the Exchange Act is (1) recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules and forms and (2) accumulated and communicated to our management, including our CEO and CFO, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. Based on this review, our CEO and CFO have concluded that the disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of March 31, 2021.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect every misstatement. An evaluation of effectiveness is subject to the risk that the controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with policies or procedures may decrease over time.

Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

There were no changes in our internal controls over financial reporting that occurred during the three months ended March 31, 2021 that materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

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PART II - OTHER INFORMATION

Item 1. Legal Proceedings

The information called for by this item is incorporated herein by reference to Note 17, Commitments and Contingencies, in the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in Part I, Item 1 of this Form 10-Q.

Item 1A. Risk Factors

There have been no material changes from the discussion of the material factors that make an investment in the Company speculative or risky contained in the section entitled "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020, filed with the SEC on August 25, 2020.

Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds

Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

The table below sets forth information regarding repurchases by the Company of its common stock during the periods indicated.


Period	(a) Total Number of Shares Purchased (1)	(b) Average Price Paid Per Share		(c) Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Plans	(d) Maximum Number of Shares That May Yet be Purchased Under the Plans (in millions of dollars) (2)
January 1, 2021 - January 31, 2021	40,975	$	39.90	—	$	118.1
February 1, 2021 - February 28, 2021	13,764	42.24		5,283	$	117.9
March 1, 2021 - March 31, 2021	199,173	41.85		199,173	$	109.5
Total	253,912	$	41.56	204,456

(1) Includes shares surrendered for payment of employee payroll taxes due on shares issued under stock-based compensation plans and shares repurchased under share repurchase programs approved by the Board of Directors. See (2) below for further details.

(2) On June 21, 2017, the Company’s Board of Directors authorized the repurchase of up to $250 million of the Company’s issued and outstanding common stock. Repurchases may be made from time to time in the open market, pursuant to preset trading plans, in private transactions or otherwise. The authorization does not have a stated expiration date. During the three months ended March 31, 2021, the Company repurchased 204 shares pursuant to the repurchase program for a total of $8.6 million, excluding commissions, at an average price of $41.86 per share. As of March 31, 2021, the Company had $109.5 million of remaining authorization under the share repurchase program.

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Item 6. Exhibits


Exhibit Number						Description

3.1						Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 of Amendment No. 1 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed with the SEC on April 24, 2000).

3.2						Certificate of Amendment to Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2(b) of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on November 26, 2014).

3.3						Amended and Restated By-Laws (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on December 7, 2018).

4.1						Specimen of common stock certificate (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 of Amendment No. 1 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed with the SEC on April 24, 2000).

31.1						Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) and Rule 15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act, as amended.

31.2						Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) and Rule 15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act, as amended.

32.1						Certification by 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 by 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.INS						XBRL Instance Document - the instance document does not appear in the Interactive Data File because its XBRL tags are embedded within the Inline XBRL document.

101.SCH						Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document.

101.CAL						Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document.

101.DEF						Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document.

101.LAB						Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document.

101.PRE						Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document.

104						Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101).

The agreements and other documents filed as exhibits to this report are not intended to provide factual information or other disclosure other than with respect to the terms of the agreements or other documents themselves, and you should not rely on them for that purpose. In particular, any representations and warranties made by us in these agreements or other documents were made solely within the specific context of the relevant agreement or document and may not describe the actual state of affairs as of the date they were made or at any other time.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.


		THE HAIN CELESTIAL GROUP, INC.
		(Registrant)

Date:	May 6, 2021	/s/ Mark L. Schiller
		Mark L. Schiller, President and Chief Executive Officer


Date:	May 6, 2021	/s/ Javier H. Idrovo
		Javier H. Idrovo, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)