Jim Continenza - Executive Chairman Dave Bullwinkle - Chief Financial Officer Paul Dils - Chief Tax Officer, Director of Investor Relations

Thank you and good afternoon everyone. I am Paul Dils, Eastman Kodak Company’s Chief Tax Officer and Director of Investor Relations.

Welcome to Kodak’s fourth quarter 2019 earnings call. At 4:15 p.m.

this afternoon Kodak filed its annual report on Form 10-Q and issued its release on financial results for 2019. You may access this presentation and the webcast for today’s call on our Investor Center at investor.kodak.com.

During today’s call we will be making certain forward-looking statements as defined by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All forward-looking statements are based upon Kodak’s expectations and various assumptions.

Future events or results may differ from those anticipated or those expressed in the forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements include among others, the risks, uncertainties and other factors described in more detail in Kodak’s filings with the U.S.

Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time. There may be other factors that may cause Kodak’s actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements.

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In addition, this release just issued and the presentation provided contains certain measures that are deemed non-GAAP measures. Reconciliations to the most directly comparable GAAP measures have been provided with the release and within the presentation on our website in our Investor Center at investor.kodak.com.

Speakers on today’s call are Jim Continenza, Kodak’s Executive Chairman; and Dave Bullwinkle, Chief Financial Officer of Kodak. I will now turn the call over to Jim.

Thank you, Paul. Welcome everyone and thank you for joining the fourth quarter investor call for Eastman Kodak.

Turning to slide four, 2019 was a breakthrough year for Kodak. We ended the year 2019 with $233 million of cash and cash equivalents, flat when compared to 2018, the first time in several years we have been burned $90 million to $100 million.

We are expecting to burn close to $140 million to $160 million and we really inked them down and took out the appropriate cost, shut down divisions that were not profitable. We got focused on what we do best with what’s in our DNA and part of that settlement was we completed the sale of the Flexographic Packaging Division, the issuance and sale of $100 million aggregate principal amount of a 5% secured convertible notes due in 2021; repaid in full $395 million of the First Lien Term Loans; established a strategic relationship with the People Republic of China and Lucky HuaGuang Graphics.

We're going to call this growth and profitable revenue a smart revenue. You'll hear it referred to sometimes in the future.

Volumes for Kodak SONORA Process-Free Plate grew by 22%. Again Kodak [inaudible] continued to be great stewards of the environment also and annuity revenue for Kodak PROSPER grew by 5%.

All this key steps as we try to realign the new organization that we've been talking about. Before we could get into the new organization, we had to stabilize the balance sheet and the foundations of the business and focus on what we do.

The new organization structure for 2020 will leverage our technology in core print, advanced materials and chemicals. That is what Kodak does, so when I ask what does Kodak do?

One more time, print, advanced materials and chemicals. Effective January 2020, Kodak will report results based on the following structure: Print business, which comprises of traditional print segment; and digital print and software.

Advance materials and chemicals, brand segment, those are the three areas that we’ll report. Turning to slide six, a new simplified structure will better align with our customer needs, by providing a 1 Kodak.

We've been saying this for a while and we’ve now got the customer first experience, and better allow us to continue to focus on generating free cash flow and reducing operating expenses, while serving our customer needs better. When I say customer first, it does not mean our employees aren’t important, they are equally as important, and we are going to make sure that everything we do is around the customer and product development to service, to help them become more profitable.

We want to be a key strategic partner for them. Kodak is committed to the film business, the chemical business and the print industry.

Annual R&D spend of $25 million for our print business, continuing our commitment to build on our heritage, that will be equipment held technologies, substrates, inks [ph] and software. We will continue to do business with over 200, with over half of the top 400 printers in the U.S.

Big statements from over the top 400 printers, we are doing business with over half of them. Kodak is focused on customer needs by providing simplicity.

We said we make the complicated easy. Making technologies accessible is our DNA.

When you walk around the halls of Kodak, I don’t care who you stop. Somewhere they have been involved in digital print optics, graphics, inks in this technology.

It’s who we are and the key asset as we probably have 3,000 to 4,000 people who are well versed in this industry. It's really what we do best.

Kodak technologies are easier to use, which increases productivity and reduces need of training. Productivity: Many printers are being squeezed on margins and they need to win every minute and every dollar out of their traditional business.

Kodak can help streamline workflow, increase productivity and profitability. I think overall the industry is shrinking and we are going to grow overall, because of the shrinking people are focusing on packaging, short run label and variable data.

Said differently, there's no other opportunity with digital and analog and analog and plates and cost. There are more runs being done that are short term runs on plates and the short term runs in digital are easier to switch, convert over, and now becoming cost-effective.

So the smaller runs become more the standard in print and printing organizations; digital becomes more of the player. The future is digital and Kodak is doubling down.

Shrinking volume and margins of traditional print threatens the survival of many printers that got to become more efficient, more flexible, faster and leaner; increasing demand for short runs, faster turnaround, increasing the opportunity with variable data in direct mail, newspaper, packaging which is critical and other applications. Growth of the packaging segment, there is an opportunity that represents for digital.

When I say that, we currently – you're going to get more detail on this, launched the first digital package printer. For printers today Kodak solutions is a smart investment.

No one else offers what Kodak brings to the table: Deep industry expertise, decades of experience, a complete portfolio of superior products that help increase productivity and drive growth and innovation. Introductions of new products and capabilities, you'll see over the next six to 12 months.

We are launching several new products in the digital line and also in the SONORA line there'll be an enhancement, including the previously announced UTECO Sapphire EVO press machine, which is a game changer and it's a co-branded machine between UTECO and Kodak. It’s a great example of how Kodak is helping to lower cost and drive efficiency and providing innovation.

The first flexible packaging for us uses continuous inkjet technology. There will be another machine also coming out, and this will be a wide format.

So we're using both stream and Ultrastream heads, environmentally friendly utilization of industry-compliant water-based pigments, inks, allowing excellent print for various qualities of substrates, leaving the door wide open for applications such as food, beverage and personal care. Again, this is ground breaking.

When you look at how long it takes to change the packaging industry from plates on a different run, it's literally a PDF file and the quality is unbelievable and the speeds are getting better and better. We are excited about the breakthrough, we put a lot of money into it and so has UTECO who has been a great partner and we've placed a few of the machines and they've done very well out of the shoot.

We’re well aware off the coronavirus and the business impacts. We are taking everything to follow best practices and safety for our employees.

Elisa Goldberg [ph] is on this call. She's been leading in-charge of the company, if you have any questions later.

But we are addressing it and we are on top of it, we get calls daily. We get up to the minute notifications and changes as you guys know, and we're going everything we can do to keep our employees safe and our customers and our partners.

With that, I’m going to turn it over to Dave to discuss the 2019 financial results. Dave?

Thanks Jim and good afternoon. Today the company filed its Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019 with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

As always, I recommend you read this filing in its entirety. The company generated positive cash flow in the fourth quarter of 2019, and had breakeven cash flow for the full year 2019, which reflects benefits from working capital improvements and individual transactions which occurred during the year.

The company will remain focused on cash generation in 2020. I will now share further details on the full company results, operation of EBITDA and cash flow for 2019.

Please note the results of Flexographic Packaging Division have been reported as discontinued operations in 2019 and the comparable 2018 periods due to the sales division in April of 2019. Additionally, certain amounts have been reclassified for the curtain and prior year periods due to assets held for sale reporting requirements related to the HuaGuang transaction.

On slide seven, as we reported in our earnings release, net income for 2019 on a U.S. GAAP basis was $116 million compared to a net loss of $16 million in 2018.

2019 results include a net gain on sale of the FPD business of $214 million, non-cash changes in workers compensation and legal reserve adjustments of $3 million, expense of $4 million related to trade name impairments and the related changes in the fair value for the derivatives embedded in the Series A Preferred Stock and convertible notes of $42 million. The 2018 results include $11 million associated with non-cash changes in workers compensation and legal reserves and the benefits of $16 million related to the Korean withholding tax refund.

The 2018 results also include expense of $13 million related to a trade name impairment, driven by the sale of FPD. Excluding the impact of these current and prior year item, the 2019 adjusted net loss was $49 million compared to a loss of $30 million in the prior year.

Turning to slide eight, for 2019 we reported revenues of $1.242 billion compared to $1.320 billion in the prior year for a decline of $78 million. Adjusting for the unfavorable impact of foreign exchange of $27 million and license revenue received from the HuaGuang transaction of $13 million.

Revenue declined by $64 million compared to the prior year. Operational EBITDA for 2019 was $12 million compared to $1 million in 2018.

Excluding the favorable impact of foreign exchange in aluminum costs, license revenue received from the HuaGuang transaction and adjusting for the increase in workers compensation reserves, operational EBITDA decreased by $8 million from the prior year. We delivered strong full year performance in our key growth engines.

On a year-over-year basis volumes for SONORA Process-Free Plates grew by 22% and the annuity revenues for the PROSPER grew by 5%. We also continue to invest in future growth areas, Ultrastream and advanced materials.

Moving on to the company cash performance presented on slide nine. Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash for 2019 increased by $23 million compared to a decrease of $102 million in the prior year.

Restricted cash and cash included in assets held for sale increased by $23 million as compared to a decrease of $7 million in prior year. The current year includes $14 million for the establishment of an escrow in China to secure various ongoing obligations under the agreements for the strategic relationship with HuaGuang, $19 million funding related to the ABL primarily due to the sale of FPD, remaining cash prepayment of $3 million received in the U.S.

for services and products provided by the company to the buyer of FPD, which was secured by a corresponding restricted cash deposit in China, offset by a decrease of $15 million of cash included in assets held for sale as of the prior year-end. There was no change in cash and cash equivalents in 2019 compared to a net decrease of $95 million in the prior year.

We continue to evaluate opportunities to eliminate or release restricted cash in 2020 and to benefit from our cash positions around the world. As of the year end 2019, restricted cash globally is $57 million.

During 2019 cash provided by operating activities was $12 million, driven primarily by cash use from net earnings of $42 million, offset by cash generated from balance sheet changes of $54 million, including a change in working capital of $57 million and a decrease in other liabilities of $10 million. Accounts payable increased by $25 million, inventory decreased by $11 million and accounts receivable decreased by $21 million.

Cash provided by investing activities was $311 million during 2019 as compared to the use of $22 million in the prior year. The current year included proceeds from the sale of FPD and the HuaGuang transaction.

Cash used in financing activities was $298 million for 2019 compared to a use of $11 million in the prior year. The current year included $395 million of cash used for the full repayment of the Senior Secured First Lien Term Credit Agreement, partially offset by the issuance of Secured Convertible Notes of $100 million.

Finally, as disclosed in our Form 10-K, we remain in compliance with the covenants under our credit agreement. We will now open the call to your questions.

Operator, please remind participants of the instructions to ask questions.

Great! Well, I’d like to thank everyone for dialing in.

Again, it was one of our best years in a long time and it’s starting the foundation of the new Kodak and we are excited on the path we are going. So thanks again for dialing in.

We appreciate it. Take care and stay safe.

Good Bye!