Kontoor Brands, Inc.

NOTE 1 —BASIS OF PRESENTATION

Description of Business

Kontoor Brands, Inc. ("Kontoor," the "Company," "we," "us" or "our") is a global lifestyle apparel company headquartered in the United States ("U.S."). The Company designs, manufactures, procures, sells and licenses apparel, footwear and accessories, primarily under the brand names Wrangler®and Lee®. The Company's products are sold in the U.S. through mass merchants, specialty stores, department stores, company-operated stores and online, including digital marketplaces. The Company's products are also sold internationally, primarily in the Europe, Asia-Pacific and Non-U.S. Americas regions, through department stores, specialty stores, company-operated stores, concession retail stores, independently-operated partnership stores and online, including digital marketplaces.

Fiscal Year

The Company operates and reports using a 52/53-week fiscal year ending on the Saturday closest to December 31 of each year. Accordingly, this Form 10-Q presents the first quarter of the Company's fiscal year ending January 3, 2026 ("fiscal 2025"), which is a 53-week fiscal year. For presentation purposes herein, all references to periods ended March 2025, December 2024 and March 2024 correspond to the fiscal periods ended March 29, 2025, December 28, 2024 and March 30, 2024, respectively.

Macroeconomic Environment and Other Recent Developments

Global macroeconomic conditions that continued to impact the Company during the first quarter of 2025 included ongoing elevated interest rates, moderating inflation, fluctuating foreign currency exchange rates, supply chain issues and inconsistent consumer demand. Retailers continued to conservatively manage inventory levels as a result of this uncertain macroeconomic environment.

During 2025, the U.S. government enacted significant changes to its tariff regime which increased rates on virtually all imports. Certain foreign jurisdictions have responded with reciprocal tariffs which resulted in corresponding actions by the U.S. government. Certain of these tariffs have been paused or modified, and the uncertainty of tariff rates between jurisdictions is contributing to overall macroeconomic volatility and increasing recessionary concerns. The potential for additional tariff increases may continue to result in increased reciprocal tariffs or other restrictive trade measures by the U.S. or foreign jurisdictions. These factors continued to contribute to uncertain global economic conditions and consumer spending patterns, which impacted retailers' and the Company's operations.

The Company considered the impact of these developments on the assumptions and estimates used when preparing these quarterly financial statements including, but not limited to, our allowance for doubtful accounts, inventory valuations, liabilities for variable consideration, deferred tax valuation allowances, fair value measurements including asset impairment evaluations, the effectiveness of the Company’s hedging instruments and expected compliance with all applicable financial covenants in our Credit Agreement (as defined in Note 8 to the Company's financial statements in this Form 10-Q). These assumptions and estimates may change as new events occur and additional information is obtained regarding the impact of the above conditions. Such future changes may have an adverse impact on the Company's results of operations, financial position and liquidity.

Basis of Presentation - Interim Financial Statements

The accompanying unaudited interim financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Rule 10-01 of Regulation S-X and do not include all of the information and notes required by generally accepted accounting principles in the U.S. ("GAAP") for complete financial statements. In the opinion of management, the accompanying financial statements contain all normal and recurring adjustments necessary to fairly state the financial position, results of operations and cash flows of the Company for the interim periods presented. Operating results for the three months ended March 2025 are not necessarily indicative of results that may be expected for any other interim period or for fiscal 2025. The unaudited financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements included in the Company's 2024 Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 28, 2024, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 25, 2025 ("2024 Annual Report on Form 10-K").

Recently Issued Accounting Standards

In December 2023, the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") issued Accounting Standards Update ("ASU") 2023-09,"Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures," which requires disclosure of specific categories and greater disaggregation within the income tax rate reconciliation, and disclosure of disaggregated income taxes paid. This guidance is effective for the Company for the annual reporting period ending January 3, 2026, and the Company is currently evaluating the impact that adoption of this guidance will have on its financial statements and disclosures.

In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU 2024-03,"Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses," and in January 2025, the FASB issued ASU 2025-01,"Income Statement—Reporting Comprehensive Income—Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Clarifying the Effective Date." This guidance requires disclosure of detailed expense information, including inventory and

Kontoor Brands, Inc. Q1 FY25 Form 10-Q 8 manufacturing expense, employee compensation, depreciation and intangible asset amortization, for certain income statement line items. This guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2026, and for interim periods beginning after December 15, 2027, with early adoption permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact that adoption of this guidance will have on its financial statements and disclosures.

NOTE 2 —ACQUISITION

On February 18, 2025, the Company entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the global outdoor and workwear brand Helly Hansen (the "Helly Hansen Acquisition"), for a purchase price of $1.276 billion Canadian dollars ("CAD") (or approximately $900 million based on the foreign currency exchange rate in effect as of the agreement date), subject to working capital and other closing adjustments. On February 19, 2025, the Company entered into foreign currency exchange contracts totaling $1.275 billion CAD to hedge the purchase price. Refer to Note 10 to the Company's financial statements in this Form 10-Q for additional information related to these derivative financial instruments. The Company anticipates funding the purchase price using excess cash on hand and borrowings under the Company's Credit Facility, which was refinanced on April 8, 2025, in anticipation of the Helly Hansen Acquisition (as discussed further in Note 8 to the Company's financial statements in this Form 10-Q). The Company has received all required regulatory approvals related to the Helly Hansen Acquisition, which is expected to close in the second quarter of 2025, subject to customary closing conditions.

NOTE 3 —REVENUES

Disaggregation of Revenue

The following tables present revenues disaggregated by channel and geography. Revenues from licensing arrangements are included within the U.S. or Non-U.S. Wholesale channels, based on the respective region where the licensee sells the product. Direct-to-Consumer revenues include sales from company-operated Wrangler® and Lee® branded full-price and outlet stores, online and international concession arrangements.

Other includes sales and licensing of Chic®, Rock & Republic®, other company-owned brands and private label apparel.

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Contract Balances and Performance Obligations

The following table presents information about contract balances recorded in the Company's balance sheets:

(a) Included within "prepaid expenses and other current assets" in the Company's balance sheets.

(b) Included within "accrued and other current liabilities" in the Company's balance sheets.

For the three months ended March 2025 and March 2024, no significant revenue was recognized that was included in contract liabilities as of December 2024 and December 2023, respectively. For the three months ended March 2025, no significant revenue was recognized from performance obligations satisfied, or partially satisfied, in prior periods. As of March 2025, the Company has contractual rights under its licensing agreements to receive $83.0 million of fixed consideration related to the future minimum guarantees through December 2030.

NOTE 4 —BUSINESS SEGMENT INFORMATION

The Company hastwo reportable segments:

•Wrangler —Wrangler® branded denim, apparel, footwear and accessories.

•Lee —Lee® branded denim, apparel, footwear and accessories.

The Company considers its chief executive officer to be its chief operating decision maker. The chief operating decision maker allocates resources and assesses performance based on the global brand net revenues and segment profit of Wrangler® and Lee®, which are the Company's reportable segments. Segment profit is defined as income before income taxes, interest expense, interest income and corporate and other expenses. Segment assets and segment expenditures for long-lived assets are not regularly provided to or used by the chief operating decision maker and thus are not disclosed.

In addition, we report an "Other" category to reconcile the Company's segment revenues to total revenues and segment profit to income before income taxes, but the Other category does not meet the criteria to be considered a reportable segment. Other includes sales and licensing of Chic®, Rock & Republic®, other company-owned brands and private label apparel, and the associated costs.

Accounting policies utilized for internal management reporting at the individual segments are consistent with those disclosed in the Company's 2024 Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Corporate and other expenses, including certain acquisition-related costs, restructuring and transformation costs and interest income and expense are not controlled by segment management and therefore are excluded from the measurement of segment profit.

Kontoor Brands, Inc. Q1 FY25 Form 10-Q 10

The following table presents financial information for the Company's reportable segments and income before income taxes:

(1) Refer to Note 3 to the Company's financial statements in this Form 10-Q for the reconciliation of reportable segment revenues to consolidated net revenues.

(2) "Other segment items" primarily includes funding fees related to the sale of trade accounts receivable program discussed in Note 5 to the Company's financial statements in this Form 10-Q. Funding fees are reflected in the Company's statements of operations within "other expense, net".

(3) "Loss related to other revenues" includes sales and licensing of Chic®, Rock & Republic®, other company-owned brands and private label apparel, and the associated costs, for purposes of reconciling "total reportable segment profit" to consolidated "income before income taxes."