Cole National Announces Second Quarter Conference Call.Business Editors CLEVELAND--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 5, 2002 Cole National Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CNJ CNJ College of New Jersey CNJ Central Railroad Company of New Jersey ), one of the nation's leading retailers of optical services through Cole Vision Corporation and personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. gifts through Things Remembered, will host a conference call at 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday, August 27, 2002, to discuss second quarter results. A live webcast of the conference call will be available to all investors at the Cole National web site located at www.colenational.com. The call will also be simulcast at www.streetevents.com and www.companyboardroom.com. To listen to the call, please go to the web site at least fifteen minutes early to register, download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. and install any necessary audio software. For those who cannot listen to the live broadcast, an audio replay of the call will be available on these web sites through September 27, 2002. About Cole National Cole National Corporation's vision business, together with Pearle franchisees, has 2,150 locations in the US, Canada, Puerto Rico Puerto Rico (pwār`tō rē`kō), island (2005 est. pop. 3,917,000), 3,508 sq mi (9,086 sq km), West Indies, c.1,000 mi (1,610 km) SE of Miami, Fla. and the Virgin Islands and includes Cole Managed Vision, one of the largest managed vision care benefit providers, serving approximately 94 million members with provider panels of as many as 20,000 practitioners. Cole's personalized gift business, Things Remembered, serves customers through 776 locations nationwide, catalogs, and the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the at www.thingsremembered.com. Cole also has a 21% interest in Pearle Europe, which has 952 optical stores in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy, Portugal and Poland. |
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