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Telsey Advisory Group Hosts Its 7th Annual Spring Consumer Conference
[March 20, 2015]

Telsey Advisory Group Hosts Its 7th Annual Spring Consumer Conference


Telsey Advisory Group LLC (TAG), a leading equity research, trading, banking, and consulting firm, will hold its 7th Annual Spring Consumer Conference on Tuesday, March 24th and Wednesday, March 25th at the InterContinental Hotel New York Times Square. TAG's consumer conferences are considered an important forum for investors to meet companies across sectors, including broadlines retail, cosmetics, food services, grocery, hardlines retail, Internet, lodging, luxury, media, restaurants, specialty retail, and sporting goods.

"At this year's conference, these industry leaders will share their perspectives on how companies are leveraging technology to drive conversion and what companies are doing in response to the changing consumer landscape, such as the growing millennial demographic," said Dana Telsey, CEO and Chief Research Officer of TAG. "Even with an improving macroeconomic environment that we have not witnessed in quite some time, consumer companies still need to focus on product innovation and customer engagement and activation in order to capture market share."

The conference will feature CEOs, CFOs, and other senior-level executives from leading consumer companies. A record number of institutional investors are confirmed to attend the conference.

TAG's 7th Annual Spring Consumer Conference seeks to provide perspectives through panel discussions and presentations that address today's issues concerning the global consumer landscape, the housing cycle, retail real estate trends, technology and the consumer, and omnichannel dynamics:





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PANEL - Retail Real Estate Trends

Panelists: Christopher Conlon, EVP, COO, Acadia Realty Trust
Michael V. Pappagallo, President & CFO, Brixmor Property Group Inc.
Conor C. Flynn, President, COO & Chief Investment Officer, Kimco Realty Corporation
Thomas J. Drought, Jr., EVP, Director of Leasing, WP Glimcher
Moderator: Tom Chin, Senior Managing Director & Head of Analytics, Telsey Advisory Group
 

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Emerging Markets Presentation: The Global Consumer - A Check Up

Speaker: David Riedel, Founder and President, Riedel Research Group
 

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PANEL - Current State of the Credit Markets & Retailing

Panelists: Chris Burns, Managing Director, Consumer Leveraged Finance, Jefferies Group LLC
Andrew H. Moser, Co-Founder, President and CEO, Salus Capital Partners, LLC
Kevin Gillespie, Executive Vice President, Trade Capital, Wells Fargo Capital Finance
Irene Marks, Managing Director, Retail Finance, Wells Fargo Capital Finance
Moderator: Jeffrey C. Bloomberg (News - Alert), Principal & Office of the Chairman, Gordon Brothers Group, LLC
 

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ECONOMIC PRESENTATION: Work in Progress: The 2015 Economy Navigating Toward "Escape Velocity"

Speaker: Jack Kleinhenz, Ph.D, Chief Economist, National Retail Federation
 

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PANEL - Inside the Teen Mind: What's Hot and What's NOT

Moderator: Joshua Herrity, Director & Senior Analyst, Telsey Advisory Group
 

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PANEL - Outlook for Private Equity

Panelists: Anita Balaji, Principal, The Carlyle Group
Nikhil Thukral, Senior Partner, Catterton Partners
Richard Perkal, Partner, Irving Place Capital
Moderator: Tom Chin, Senior Managing Director & Head of Analytics, Telsey Advisory Group
 

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PRESENTATION: US Consumer Spending Q1 2015 Update: How Weather and Gasoline Price Declines are Impacting the US Consumer

Michael McNamara, Global Solution Leader, SpendingPulse, MasterCard (News - Alert) Advisors

 

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PANEL - Real Estate: Reinventing the Stores

Panelists: Andrew Graiser, Co-Founder & Co-President, A&G Realty Partners
Richard B. Hodos, Vice Chairman, CBRE Group, Inc.
Naveen Jaggi, President, JLL Americas Retail Brokerage, Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated
Brian L. Harper, EVP - Leasing and Acquisitions, Rouse Properties, Inc.
Moderator: Joe Feldman, Senior Managing Director & Assistant Director of Research, Telsey Advisory Group
 

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PANEL - Enabling Solutions

Panelists: Brian McFadden, President and Chief Executive Officer, Excelsis Investments, Inc.
Greg Petro, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, First Insight Corporation
Josh Glantz, Strategy & Business Development, Mobiquity Technologies, Inc.
Moderator: Joe Feldman, Senior Managing Director & Assistant Director of Research, Telsey Advisory Group

 

Participating Companies:

  • A&G Realty Partners
  • Abercrombie & Fitch Co.
  • Acadia Realty Trust
  • AMC Networks Inc.
  • ANN INC.
  • Ascena Retail Group, Inc.
  • bebe stores, inc.
  • Best Buy (News - Alert) Co., Inc.
  • The Bon-Ton Stores, Inc.
  • Bravo Brio Restaurant Group, Inc.
  • Brixmor Property Group Inc.
  • The Carlyle Group
  • Catterton Partners
  • CBRE Group, Inc.
  • The Children's Place Retail Stores, Inc.
  • Darden Restaurants, Inc.
  • Deluxe Corporation
  • Denny's Corporation
  • Domino's Pizza, Inc.
  • DSW Inc.
  • Excelsis Investments, Inc.
  • EVINE Live Inc.
  • FelCor Lodging Trust Incorporated
  • First Insight Corporation
  • The Fresh Market, Inc.
  • G-III Apparel Group, Ltd.
  • Gordon Brothers Group
  • The Home Depot, Inc.
  • Irving Place Capital
  • Jefferies Group LLC
  • Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated

 

 
  • Kate Spade & Company
  • Kimco Realty Corporation
  • The Kroger Co.
  • Macy's, Inc.
  • Marriott International, Inc.
  • Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation
  • MasterCard Advisors
  • Mattress Firm Holding Corp.
  • Mobiquity Technologies, Inc.
  • Monro Muffler Brake, Inc.
  • National Retail Federation
  • The ONE Group Hospitality, Inc.
  • Papa John's International, Inc.
  • Penske Automotive Group, Inc.
  • Perry Ellis International, Inc.
  • Riedel Research Group, Inc.
  • Rouse Properties, Inc.
  • Salus Capital Partners, LLC
  • Spectrum (News - Alert) Brands Holdings, Inc.
  • Stage Stores, Inc.
  • Staples, Inc.
  • Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.
  • Stein Mart, Inc.
  • Tile Shop Holdings, Inc.
  • Tiffany & Co.
  • Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc.
  • The Wendy's Company
  • Wells Fargo (News - Alert) Capital Finance
  • The Wendy's Company
  • WP Glimcher

 

UPCOMING CONFERENCES

TAG is also hosting its first annual, dedicated Media and Advertising Conference on June 18, 2015 in New York City. To learn more about this conference, please visit http://www.telseygroup.com/conferences/.

For further information about TAG's 8th Annual Spring 2016 Consumer Conference, please visit: http://www.telseygroup.com/conferences/.

ABOUT TELSEY ADVISORY GROUP

Telsey Advisory Group LLC (TAG), a Woman-Owned Business Enterprise, is one of Wall Street's leading equity research, trading, banking, and consulting firms devoted to consumer sectors, including advertising, apparel manufacturers, children's and teen retailers, consumer electronics retailers, cosmetics, department stores, discounters, footwear, home furnishings retailers, home improvement retailers, luxury goods, office supply retailers, off-price retailers, pay TV companies, restaurants, specialty apparel retailers, sporting goods retailers, and supermarkets. TAG markets its services to hedge funds, mutual funds, private equity firms, and private and public consumer companies.

TAG was founded in 2006 by Dana Telsey, widely recognized as Wall Street's leading retail equity analyst. In 2014, Ms. Telsey was honored with the designation of Woman-Owned Brokerage of the Year by Traders Magazine for successfully growing her firm by developing and delivering top-notch research and trading tools. In 2011, Traders Magazine awarded her as Entrepreneur of the Year. Ms. Telsey is a 13-year member of Institutional Investor magazine's "All-America Research Team," where she was the No. 1 specialty stores analyst for seven consecutive years through 2005. In 2009, Ms. Telsey was ranked the No. 1 specialty stores analyst and the No. 1 broadlines and department stores analyst on the most recent Institutional Investor magazine's "All-America Independent Research Team." In 2013, TAG was recognized for superior trading execution in P&I Magazine among US brokers surveyed by Elkins/McSherry.


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