Central Garden & Pet Company (NASDAQ:CENT) Barclays 18th Annual Global Consumer Staples Conference 2025 September 4, 2025 9:45 AM EDT
Company Participants
Brad Smith – Chief Financial Officer
Conference Call Participants
Hale Holden – Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division
Presentation
Hale Holden
Managing Director
All right. Well, thank you for joining me. My name is Hale Holden. I’m joined with Brad Smith, Chief Financial Officer of Central Garden & Pet. This is Central’s first on-stage appearance, but not our first at the conference.
Question-and-Answer Session
Hale Holden
Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division
So first question we have is, at a high level, Central is a little different than some of the other staples companies that have presented this week. The company started in distribution and has a mix of branded and private label together. And so maybe walk through what makes Central a little different than some of its peers or special, if you want.
Brad Smith
Chief Financial Officer
Okay. Good morning, everyone. As the name suggests, we are a pet and garden supplies company located in the San Francisco Bay Area, with revenues right now of over $3 billion a year. We’re one of those companies that’s known really more by the brand names of the products we sell, such as Nylabone, if you have a dog, or Pennington, if you’re taking care of your lawn.
Attributes that make us unique as a company in my view, first of all, we’re really unique in that we are an entrepreneurial [ BU-led ] culture. This company was built by acquiring businesses where the founders were willing to interested in taking some money off the table, but wanted to still continue to be involved in running and growing these businesses going forward. And so we’ve got many of these businesses that we’ve taken on over the years. Pennington Seed, for
