Macerich Company's CEO Discusses Q2 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

The Macerich Company (MAC)

Q2 2012 Earnings Call

August 1, 2012 1:30 p.m. ET

Executives

Jean Wood – Director of Investor Relations

Thomas O’Hern – Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Arthur Coppola – Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board

Analysts

Chris Schmidt – Bank of America

Quentin Velleley - Citi

Jeffrey Donnelly - Wells Fargo

Steve Sakwa – ISI Group

Michael Mueller – JPMorgan

Rich Moore - RBC Capital Markets

Christy McElroy – UBS

Paul Morgan - Morgan Stanley

Presentation

Operator

Good day and welcome to the Macerich Company Second Quarter 2012 Earnings Conference Call. Today’s call is being recorded. At this time all participants are in a listen-only mode. Following the presentation, we will conduct a Question-and-Answer Session. Instructions will be provided at that time for you to queue up for questions.

I would like to remind everyone that this conference is being recorded and would now like to turn conference over to Miss Jean Wood, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead Miss Wood.

Jean Wood

Hi. Thank you everyone for joining us today on our Second Quarter 2012 Earnings Call. During the course of this call management will be making forward-looking statements which are subject to uncertainty and risks which are associated with our business and industry.

For a more detailed description of these risks, please refer to the Company’s press release and SEC filing.

As this call will be webcast for some time to come, we believe it is important to note that the passage of time can render information stale and you should not rely on the continued accuracy of this material.