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Roundtable Forum: Specialty Retail

WILLIAM ARMSTRONG joined C.L. King in March of 2001 as a Senior Analyst covering the specialty retailing industry. Mr. Armstrong has 18 years experience as an equity analyst and has spent the past seven years covering the retail industry, exclusively. Prior to joining C.L. King, Mr. Armstrong covered specialty retailers with PMG Capital and Fahnestock & Company. He covered broadlines retailers as an analyst for Salomon Brothers, Inc., and organized and developed the equity research department at Rochdale Investment Management, Inc. While at Standard Research Consultants in New York as an equity analyst, Mr. Armstrong provided closely held security valuations and rendered fairness and solvency opinions in connection with corporate mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Armstrong earned a BS in Marketing and Management from Montclair State University and holds a MBA in Finance from New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst. Profile
DAVID MAGEE, Managing Director, joined SunTrust Robinson Humphrey Capital Markets in 1984, and was named a Financial Analyst in 1990. He is a 1984 graduate of Wake Forest University and a 1991 MBA graduate of Georgia State. Mr. Magee's coverage of specialty retail includes firms in the drug, home furnishings, book, and sports sectors. He has been named a Wall Street Journal All-Star three times. Profile
TWST: Bill, would you begin by telling us how you define your coverage

universe at C.L. King?

Mr. Armstrong: It's pretty broad. It's specialty retail. We're more of

an idea shop. We tend