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• Hold the Confetti for Dow 10,000

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-10-13

  Wall Street Strategies submits: It was pretty clear out the gate that the market would struggle as equity futures faded into the opening bell. There wasn't any panic per se, but tension in the air was thick enough to cut with a knife. The things that bugged me early on...

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• Pier 1 Imports F2Q10 (Qtr End 8/29/09) Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-09-17

  Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question will go to the line of Budd Bugatch from Raymond James and Associates. Analyst for Budd Bugatch - Raymond James and Associates -- [McConville] filling in for Budd, who is traveling today. Kerry, Alex, the one question I had for...

  Tags: Analyst, Margin, Call Transcript, Earnings, Basis, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Seeking Alpha, Pier 1 Imports Inc.

• Picking Up Pier 1 Ahead of Earnings

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-09-13

  Since bottoming at $.15 cents in March, Pier I Imports PIR stock has rallied over 1500% to its current price of $2.6 a share. Earnings are due on the 17th and we feel that PIR may be worth a very small allocation into the numbers for the following reasons. First...

  Tags: Retail, The Inflection Point, Pier 1 Imports Inc.

• Bed Bath to Go Above and Beyond - Barron's

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-07-19

  Shares of Bed Bath & Beyond BBBY have outpaced rivals' over the past year, but investors shouldn't cash out yet, writes Barron's Lawrence C. Strauss. The stock could climb another 25% in the next year. by SA Editor Rachael Granby

  Tags: Seeking Alpha, US Market, Retail, SA Editor Rachael Granby, Bed, Bath & Beyond Inc., Pier 1 Imports Inc.

• Pier 1 Imports, Inc. F4Q09 (Qtr End 2/28/09) Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-04-07

  Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Budd Bugatch - Raymond James. Budd Bugatch - Raymond James Alex, you've done a great job in reducing inventories down to that $316 million level. Can you give us a flavor of the quality of the inventory now,...

  Tags: Inventory, Cash Flow, Call Transcript, Earnings, Pier 1 Imports Inc., Operational Accounting, Personal Finance, Finance, Seeking Alpha

• Pier 1 Imports, Inc. F3Q09 (Quarter End 11/29/08) Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-12-18

  Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Our first question comes from Analyst for Brian Nagel – UBS. Analyst for Brian Nagel – UBS You indicated that you continue to look for ways to better control costs, have you considered further store closures? Charles H. Turner As we’ve...

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• Pier 1 Imports, Inc. To Present at the Goldman Sachs Conference

  - 2008-09-03

  Pre-Announces Second Quarter Results FORT WORTH, Texas -- Pier 1 Imports, Inc. (NYSE:PIR) announced today that it is participating in the Goldman Sachs Global Retailing Conference being held today at the Marriott Marquis in New York. Members of the management team are scheduled to give an update on the...

  Tags: Company, FINANCE, GAAP, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., non-GAAP, Pier 1 Imports Inc., SALES

• Pier 1 Imports, Inc. To Present at the Goldman Sachs Conference

  - 2008-08-28

  FORT WORTH, Texas -- Pier 1 Imports, Inc. (NYSE:PIR) announced today that it is participating in the Goldman Sachs Global Retailing Conference being held at the Marriott Marquis in New York. Alex Smith, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Cary Turner, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, of Pier...

  Tags: FINANCE, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Pier 1 Imports Inc., Retail

• Pier 1 Imports, Inc. F1Q09 (Qtr End 05/31/08) Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-06-19

  Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator instructions Your first question comes from Budd Bugatch – Raymond James. Analyst for Budd Bugatch - Raymond James This is actually TJ [McCondle] filling in for Budd, he’s on the road traveling. A couple questions here, first the strong comp performance in...

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• Pier 1 Imports Responds to Cost Plus Announcement

  - 2008-06-16

  Reiterates Compelling Nature of Proposed Transaction and Value Proposition to Cost Plus Shareholders FORT WORTH, Texas -- Pier 1 Imports, Inc. (NYSE: PIR) today issued the following statement in response to the announcement by Cost Plus, Inc. (NASDAQ: CPWM) regarding Pier 1 Imports' proposal to acquire all the outstanding...

  Tags: FINANCE, Pier 1 Imports Inc., SEC, shareholder, solicitation