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CRWS

CROWN CRAFTS INC
NASDAQ · CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY · BROADWOVEN FABRIC MILLS, COTTON
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How CRWS rewrote its risk factors

10-K ITEM 1A · FY2025 → FY2026
Text kept
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New in FY2026

  • The Company’s top two customers represented approximately 57% of gross sales in fiscal year 2026.
  • Sales of licensed products represented 52% of the Company’s gross sales in fiscal year 2026, which included 23% of gross sales associated with the Company’s license agreements with Disney.
  • Global trade policy and the imposition of tariffs on imports from China have adversely affected the cost and sourcing of the Company ’ s products, among other things.
  • The Company's business is worldwide in scope, and political instability, civil unrest, or the deterioration of the political, economic, or social situation or changes to trade policy or the breakdown of trade relations with the United States in a country in which the Company has significant manufacturing, operations or sales, or from which the Company sources raw materials, components or finished products could adversely affect the Company's business, financial condition and results of operations.
  • During 2025, the U.S. administration issued executive orders directing the United States to impose new tariffs on imports from several nations, including China.
  • The additional tariffs have increased the cost of the products the Company sources from China and for a time affected shipments from the Company’s Chinese-based suppliers.
  • The Company was not able to pass along to its customers all increases in tariffs and freight charges, and alterations the Company made to its business strategy and operations to adapt to the foregoing, including sourcing products from suppliers in other countries, were time consuming and expensive.
  • Any unforeseen future additional tariffs may have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business, cash flow, results of operations and financial condition.
  • Global trade policy continues to evolve and the ultimate impact of recent developments with respect to U.S. tariffs is unclear.
  • Supreme Court ruled that tariffs imposed under IEEPA were not authorized by the statute and were deemed illegal.
  • Following the Supreme Court’s decision, the U.S. presidential administration announced its intention to invoke other laws to collect tariffs and announced new tariffs on imports from all countries, in addition to any existing non-IEEPA tariffs.
  • There remains substantial uncertainty regarding the duration of existing and newly announced tariffs, potential changes or pauses to such tariffs, tariff levels, and whether further additional tariffs or other retaliatory actions may be imposed, modified or suspended, and the impacts of such actions on the Company's business.
  • These and future changes in tariffs, trade policies, trade actions or retaliatory trade measures in response, have resulted and may continue to result in additional costs and pricing pressures, supply chain disruptions, volatile or unpredictable customer spending patterns and increased economic or geopolitical risks, which could adversely impact the Company's future sales, and the Company’s business, cash flow, results of operations, and financial condition, materially or in ways that the Company cannot predict.
  • Any increased trade barriers or restrictions on global trade imposed by the United States, or further retaliatory trade measures or currency controls taken by other countries in response, could further adversely affect the Company's business, financial condition and results of operations.
  • We are currently experiencing significant geopolitical instability and armed conflicts in multiple regions of the world, including the ongoing conflict involving Russia and Ukraine, armed conflict and tensions involving Iran in the Middle East, increasing military and political tensions involving China and Taiwan, and increasingly unpredictable and provocative actions by North Korea.
  • These events, including disruptions affecting the Strait of Hormuz, a critical transit route for a significant portion of the world’s crude oil supply, together with elevated global oil prices and volatility in energy and financial markets, could result in a slowdown to the global economy that may affect the Company’s business by reducing the prices that the Company’s customers may be willing or able to pay for its products or by reducing the demand for the Company’s products, which could negatively impact the Company’s revenues and result in a material adverse effect on the Company’s business, cash flow, results of operations and financial condition.
  • Disruptions to global energy supplies, shipping routes and international trade flows have resulted, and may continue to result, in increased fuel, transportation, logistics, tariff and raw material costs, including costs associated with petroleum-based materials used in the manufacture and packaging of the Company’s products.
  • In addition, geopolitical instability, military activity, sanctions, retaliatory trade measures, cyberattacks and related economic uncertainty may adversely affect the operations of the Company’s manufacturers, suppliers, retailers, logistics providers and other business partners, particularly those operating in or sourcing from China and other internationally connected markets.
  • Increased inflationary pressures, higher fuel and household energy costs, weakening consumer confidence and broader macroeconomic uncertainty may also reduce discretionary consumer spending, including spending on toys and other non-essential consumer products, particularly during key seasonal selling periods.
  • Any prolonged escalation or expansion of regional conflicts, continued disruption of critical shipping channels, sustained increases in oil prices, deterioration in U.S.-China relations, instability involving Taiwan, or broader disruption to global trade and economic conditions could materially adversely impact consumer demand, the Company’s supply chain, the Company’s ability to source and transport products in a timely and cost-effective manner, and the Company’s overall business, financial condition and results of operations.
  • Also, social media has caused, and will continue to cause, monumental shifts in the modern shopping experience.
  • The Company’s failure to adapt to these changes, develop new products or reach consumers where they are could lead to lower sales and excess inventory, which could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s financial condition and results of operations.
  • Failure to comply with these laws could result in damage to the Company’s reputation, a diversion of management’s attention from its business, increased legal and investigative costs, and civil and criminal penalties, any or all of which could adversely affect the Company’s results of operations.
  • The Company’s growth is impacted by the birthrate, and in particular, the rate of first births.
  • Geopolitical risks and economic conditions, including the real and perceived threat of wars, terrorism, inflation, interest rates, tension among nations, rising prices or unemployment, could lead individuals to decide to forgo or delay having children.
  • This in connection with other economic conditions could result in reduced demand for some of the Company’s products, increased order cancellations and returns, an increased risk of excess and obsolete inventories and increased pressure on the prices of the Company’s products.
  • Economic conditions could result in an increase in the costs of the Company ’ s products.
  • Significant increases in freight costs, tariffs, and the price of raw materials that are components of the Company’s products, including cotton, oil and labor, could adversely affect the amounts that the Company must pay its suppliers for its finished goods.
  • Several of these competitors are larger and have greater financial resources than the Company, and some have experienced financial challenges from time to time, including servicing significant levels of debt.
  • See “ Risk Factors – The imposition of tariffs on imports from China have adversely affected the cost and sourcing of the Company ’ s products, among other things. ” In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. government and other allied countries across the world have levied coordinated and wide-ranging economic sanctions against Russia.
  • The recent Iran conflict impacting shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has resulted in an increase in oil prices which may affect the Company’s shipping costs.
  • Risk also remains in the Red Sea as firing on merchant vessels by militants of Yemen’s Houthi movement results in shipments to be routed around Africa.
  • The use of AI technologies are in the early stages of widespread adoption and continue to evolve rapidly.
  • A stockholder could lose all or a portion of their investment in the Company.

Gone since FY2025

  • The Company’s top two customers represented approximately 66% of gross sales in fiscal year 2025.
  • Sales of licensed products represented 50% of the Company’s gross sales in fiscal year 2025, which included 21% of sales associated with the Company’s license agreements with Disney.
  • The imposition of tariffs on imports from China have adversely affected the cost and sourcing of the Company ’ s products, among other things.
  • The current U.S. administration has issued executive orders directing the United States to impose new tariffs on imports from several nations, including China.
  • The new tariffs have increased the cost of the products the Company sources from China and are affecting future shipments from the Company’s Chinese-based suppliers.
  • The Company may not be able to pass along all increases in tariffs and freight charges to its customers, and any alterations the Company may make to its business strategy or operations to adapt to the foregoing, including sourcing products from suppliers in other countries, will be time consuming and expensive.
  • The full impact of the new tariffs is uncertain because it is subject to a number of factors, including the duration of such tariffs, changes in the amount, scope and nature of the tariffs in the future, any countermeasures that China may take and any mitigating actions that may become available.
  • The full impact of the new tariffs may have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business, cash flow, results of operations and financial condition.
  • Mounting terrorist activity, ongoing wars and violence in the Middle East and Ukraine, the potential for the escalation of China’s aggression towards Taiwan and the increasingly erratic behavior of North Korea have resulted in growing geopolitical tensions.
  • Nearly all nations have felt the effects of global economic uncertainty, including higher energy and food prices.
  • These uncertainties could result in a slowdown to the global economy that may affect the Company’s business by reducing the prices that the Company’s customers may be willing or able to pay for its products or by reducing the demand for the Company’s products, which could negatively impact the Company’s revenues and result in a material adverse effect on the Company’s business, cash flow, results of operations and financial condition.
  • Also, the development of social media has resulted in a monumental shift in the modern shopping experience.
  • The Company’s failure to adapt to these changes, develop new products or reach consumers where they are could lead to lower sales and excess inventory, which could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s financial condition and operating results.
  • Failure to comply with these laws could result in damage to the Company’s reputation, a diversion of management’s attention from its business, increased legal and investigative costs, and civil and criminal penalties, any or all of which could adversely affect the Company’s operating results.
  • The Company’s growth is largely influenced by the birthrate, and in particular, the rate of first births.
  • Geopolitical risks and economic conditions, including the real and perceived threat of wars, terrorism, tension among nations, rising prices or unemployment, could lead individuals to decide to forgo or delay having children.
  • These conditions could result in reduced demand for some of the Company’s products, increased order cancellations and returns, an increased risk of excess and obsolete inventories and increased pressure on the prices of the Company’s products.
  • Economic conditions could result in an increase in the amounts paid for the Company ’ s products.
  • Significant increases in freight costs and the price of raw materials that are components of the Company’s products, including cotton, oil and labor, could adversely affect the amounts that the Company must pay its suppliers for its finished goods.
  • Additionally, U.S. government imposed tariffs on certain countries, including China, from which we source products.
  • The actual impact of the new tariffs is uncertain because it is subject to a number of factors, including the duration of such tariffs, changes in the amount, scope and nature of the tariffs in future, any countermeasures that China may take and any mitigating actions that may become available.
  • Several of these competitors are larger than the Company and have greater financial resources than the Company, and some have experienced financial challenges from time to time, including servicing significant levels of debt.
  • See “Risk Factors – The imposition of tariffs on imports from China could adversely affect the cost and sourcing of the Company’s products, among other things.” In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. government and other allied countries across the world have levied coordinated and wide-ranging economic sanctions against Russia.
  • The recent firing on merchant vessels in the Red Sea by militants of Yemen’s Houthi movement has resulted in the shipment of the Company’s products from China to Europe to be routed around Africa, just as the Company has been benefitting from increased sales in Europe.
  • The use of AI technologies are in the early stages of wide spread adoption and continue to evolve rapidly.
  • A stockholder could lose all or a portion of his or her investment in the Company.

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