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Richter: HelloFresh is one of the largest DTC companies outside China
“I think we're today one of the largest direct to consumer companies outside of China. I don't really know any direct to consumer company that is Much larger than we are”
HelloFresh owns two of North America's three largest cooking facilities
“At the moment with Factor, we have two of the three biggest cooking facilities in North America. Guess what the other one is? The one that we're not owning of the top three cooking facilities in the U.S. Disney World Orlando.”
HelloFresh generated $1.5B in operating cash flow over four years
“Over the last four years, we've generated about 1.5 billion in cash flow from operations. Of those 1.5 billion that we generated, we allocated roughly nine hundred million Into making our own operations better. So in our fulfillment network, in our last mile l…”
HelloFresh directly integrated 1,500 US suppliers to boost per-order margins
“That at certain points in time, we felt that really going from five wholesale suppliers to integrating with 1500 suppliers all over the US directly to capture that margin upside, to get much better freshness and quality, that this is something that drives a lo…”
HelloFresh raised $300M total up to IPO, matching cumulative burn
“Up to IPO, we raised around about three hundred million. And that was the sort of like we had a cumulative cash burn of about three hundred million before we actually started generating cash flow.”
HelloFresh achieved cash flow break-even three years post-IPO
“And since we have started generating cash flow, I think about three years post IPO, we had our cash flow break even.”
Richter: Recessions cause consumers to cut restaurant spending first
“One of the first buckets where people start saving is they're going less to restaurants. That's definitely what you have seen in previous recessions is That the share of out of home food has actually declined, whereas the share of food that you consume inside …”