Zale's CEO Discusses Q2 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

Zale (ZLC)

Q2 2012 Earnings Call

February 22, 2012 9:00 am ET

Executives

Roxane Barry - Director of Investor Relations

Theo Killion - Chief Executive Officer and Director

Thomas A. Haubenstricker - Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President

Matthew W. Appel - Chief Administrative Officer

Analysts

Jeffrey S. Stein - Northcoast Research

Rick B. Patel - BofA Merrill Lynch, Research Division

David Wu - Telsey Advisory Group LLC

William R. Armstrong - CL King & Associates, Inc.

Janet Kloppenburg

Presentation

Operator

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Good morning. My name is Christie, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time I would like to welcome everyone to the Zale Corporation Second Quarter Fiscal 2012 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] I will now turn the conference over to Roxane Barry, Director of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Roxane Barry

Good morning, and thank you for joining us today. I'm Roxane Barry, Director of Investor Relations. Joining on the call today will be Theo Killion, Chief Executive Officer; Matt Appel, Chief Administrative Officer; and Tom Haubenstricker, Chief Financial Officer. We have posted a slide presentation for today's call on the Investor Relations homepage on our website, zalecorp.com.

Before we begin, I'll read our Safe Harbor statement. Our commentary and responses to your questions on this conference call will contain forward-looking statements including statements relating to our future goals, plans and objectives. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and a variety of factors could cause our actual results to differ materially from the anticipated or expected results expressed in those forward-looking statements. Additional information concerning other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements is available in our quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended October 31, 2011.