NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--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 |
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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 |
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Speaker: | David Riedel, Founder and President, Riedel Research Group | ||
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PANEL - Current State of the Credit Markets & Retailing |
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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, 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" |
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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 |
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Moderator: | Joshua Herrity, Director & Senior Analyst, Telsey Advisory Group | ||
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PANEL – Outlook for Private Equity |
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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 |
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Michael McNamara, Global Solution Leader, SpendingPulse, MasterCard Advisors |
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PANEL - Real Estate: Reinventing the Stores |
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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 |
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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 |
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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.