Avondale Partners to Host Consumer Conference May 20, 2008 in New York.NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Avondale Partners, LLC, a national investment banking firm, will host a consumer conference next week in New York, announced Sarah Sherck, Avondale's director of research. The conference will be held Tuesday, May 20 at the Millennium Broadway Hotel, and it is designed to bring together institutional investors, industry executives from public companies in the consumer sector and private equity firms active in the consumer sector. Among the public companies presenting are: Cosi (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :COSI), CBRL CBRL CBRL Group, Inc (stock symbol) CBRL Council for British Research in the Levant (UK) Group (NASDAQ:CBRL), FGX International Holdings (NASDAQ:FGXI), Herbalife (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :HLF), Kona Grill (NASDAQ:KONA), Libbey (NYSE:LBY), : Lifetime Fitness (NYSE:LTM LTM abbr. long-term memory ), Morton's Restaurant Group Morton's Restaurant Group, Inc. (NYSE: MRT) is the world's largest owner and operator of company-owned upscale restaurants, with locations in the United States, Canada, Hong Kong and Singapore. (NYSE:MRT MRT, n manual resistance technique, a treatment method used during the acute and recovery phases to relieve pain and rehabilitate the body's tissues and muscles. ), Nu Skin Enterprises (NYSE:NUS), O'Charley's (NASDAQ:CHUX), Tupperware Brands (NYSE:TUP (Telephone User Part) See SS7. ), and USANA USANA United States of America Netball Association USANA United States Army Nuclear Agency Health Sciences (NASDAQ:USNA). The format for the May 20 seminar includes individual company presentations, as well as morning and afternoon breakout sessions with the presenting companies. Each of the participating companies will provide investor presentations from its management teams as well as a discussion of general market trends. A luncheon panel discussion on the developing consumer market will feature leading private equity firm executives. David Pittaway, senior managing director, Castle Harlan; David Lobel, founder and managing partner, Sentinel Capital Partners; Gary Talarico, managing partner, Sun Capital Partners; and Robyn Rutledge, vice president, TSG Consumer Partners are scheduled to conduct this discussion. "This conference is part of Avondale's continuing effort to provide valuable investment insights to the institutional investor community through the delivery of focused, industry centric conferences," said Sherck. "We've designed the participants and content of this conference to assist investors in their understanding of this broad sector." More information and registration information can be found at the Avondale Partners web site, www.avondalepartnersllc.com. Avondale Partners, LLC is a leading, full-service institutional investment bank headquartered in Nashville, Tenn., with offices in Baltimore, Boston, Philadelphia, San Diego, San Francisco and St. Louis. Avondale offers high quality equity research and sales and trading execution to institutional clients throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe as well as institutional asset management. In addition, the firm focuses on providing M&A advisory services, debt and equity underwriting, and private placements of bank debt, mezzanine finance and equity capital for its corporate finance clients. Since its inception in 2001, Avondale Partners has executed more than 100 investment banking transactions and assignments for its clients exceeding $9.7 billion in total value. |
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