The Talbots, Inc. to Broadcast First Quarter Earnings Results Conference Call on the Web
May 10 2006 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
The Talbots, Inc. (NYSE: TLB) invites investors to listen to a
broadcast of the Company's conference call to discuss first quarter
earnings results. The conference call will be broadcast live on
Wednesday, May 17, 2006 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time at
http://www.talbots.com/about/investor.asp. The conference call,
which will last approximately one hour, will be archived online
shortly after its completion and will be available for a period of
twelve months. Participating in the call will be Arnold Zetcher,
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, and other members
of the senior management team. The Talbots, Inc. is a leading
international specialty retailer and cataloger of women's,
children's and men's apparel, shoes and accessories. The Company
currently operates a total of 1,290 stores in 47 states, the
District of Columbia, Canada and the U.K., with 1,085 stores under
the Talbots brand name and 205 stores under the J. Jill brand name.
Both brands target the age 35+ female population. Talbots brand
on-line shopping site is located at www.talbots.com and the J. Jill
brand on-line shopping site is located at www.jjill.com. The
foregoing contains forward-looking information within the meaning
of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These
statements may be identified by such forward-looking terminology as
"expect," "look," "believe," "anticipate," "outlook," "will,"
"would," "would yield," or similar statements or variations of such
terms. All of the "outlook" information (including future revenues,
future comparable sales, future earnings, future EPS, and other
future financial performance or operating measures) constitutes
forward-looking information. Our outlook and other forward-looking
statements are based on a series of expectations, assumptions,
estimates and projections about our Company which involve risks and
uncertainty, including assumptions and projections concerning store
traffic, levels of store sales including regular-price selling and
markdown selling, and customer preferences. All of our outlook
information and other forward-looking statements are as of the date
of this release only. The Company can give no assurance that such
outlook or expectations will prove to be correct and does not
undertake to update or revise any "outlook" information or any
other forward-looking statements to reflect actual results, changes
in assumptions, estimates or projections, or other circumstances
occurring after the date of this release, even if such results,
changes or circumstances make it clear that any projected results
will not be realized. Our forward-looking statements involve
substantial known and unknown risks and uncertainties as to future
events which may or may not occur, including the risk that the J.
Jill business will not be successfully integrated, the risk that
the cost savings and other synergies from the transaction may not
be fully realized or may take longer to realize than expected, the
risk that the acquisition will disrupt Talbots or J. Jill's core
business, transaction costs, the reaction of Talbots and J. Jill
customers and suppliers to the transaction, diversion of management
time on merger-related issues, effectiveness of the Company's brand
awareness and marketing programs, any different or any increased
negative trends in its regular-price or markdown selling,
effectiveness and profitability of new concept, effectiveness of
its Internet site, success of our expected marketing events in
driving sales, success of our catalogs in driving both our Direct
Marketing sales and in driving store traffic, acceptance of the
Company's fashions including its 2006 spring and early summer
fashions, the Company's ability to anticipate and successfully
respond to changing customer tastes and preferences and to produce
the appropriate balance of merchandise offerings, the Company's
ability to sell its merchandise at regular prices as well as its
ability to successfully execute its major sale events including the
timing and levels of markdowns and appropriate balance of available
markdown inventory, any difference between estimated and actual
stock option expense, retail economic conditions including consumer
spending, consumer confidence, impact on discretionary consumer
spending of significantly higher gasoline and energy costs and
higher interest rates, and the impact of a continued promotional
retail environment. In each case, actual results may differ
materially from such forward-looking information. Certain other
factors that may cause actual results to differ from such
forward-looking statements are included in the Company's periodic
reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and
available on the Talbots website under "Investor Relations" and you
are urged to carefully consider all such factors.
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