June 5, 2024, ST. PETERSBURG, FL – Water Tower Research LLC (www.watertowerresearch.com) is modernizing IR with a powerfully differentiated ecosystem of investor relations services, research-driven content and communications, and investor engagement. Water Tower Research is pleased to announce today’s kickoff of its Consumer Products Virtual Investor Conference.

WTR CEO and Co-Founder Shawn Severson and WTR’s Head of Consumer Products research Doug Lane will give opening remarks.  The event will officially kick off with keynote speaker R.J. Hottovy, the Head of Analytical Research for Placer.ai, an advanced foot traffic analytics platform. Mr. Hottovy has covered the restaurant, retail, and e-commerce sectors for nearly 20 years. He has held several analyst positions in the past, including Global Consumer Equity Strategist at Morningstar and equity analyst roles at William Blair & Co. and Deutsche Bank. He also has a wealth of experience with early-stage investments as an investor and member of the investment committee for the IrishAngels Venture Capital group. Mr. Hottovy’s efforts have been recognized by numerous financial and trade publications, including CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, Barron’s, BusinessWeek, Forbes, and The Economist.

The conference will showcase two days of presentations by branded consumer products companies across a broad spectrum. Presentations and fireside chats will focus on corporate strategies, recent results, and the outlook for each of the presenting companies, including discussions of their respective current macro and competitive environments.

Presenting companies include: 1-800-FLOWERS.COM (NASDAQ: FLWS), Bassett Furniture Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: BSET), Flow Beverage Corp. (TSX: FLOW), Gaia, Inc. (NASDAQ: GAIA), HNI Corporation (NYSE: HNI), Herbalife Limited. (NYSE: HLF), iPower Inc. (NASDAQ: IPW), Lanvin Group Holdings Limited (NYSE: LANV), LifeVantage Corporation (NASDAQ: LFVN), Medifast, Inc. (NYSE: MED), The Beachbody Company, Inc. (NYSE: BODI), The Sherwin-Williams Company (NYSE: SHW), USANA Health Sciences, Inc. (NYSE: USNA), and Vera Bradley, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRA).

We also want to acknowledge our sponsors for this event: Hunting Data Hunting Data, a digital advertising and data analytics firm, and Newsfile, a customer-first newswire and regulatory filing firm. We appreciate their support for this event.

To attend the conference or for further information, please email conferences@watertowerresearch.com or click here.

About Water Tower Research 

Water Tower Research is modernizing Investor Relations through research-driven communications and Investor Engagement. Sound investment research begins with good information. At WTR, we help companies and investors connect by creating expert information flow and strategies that are the foundation of a successful modern investor relations platform. Our analysts and capital markets professionals bring decades of unrivaled Wall Street experience and insight to a new digital world of investor communications and engagement. Our research and investor content is distributed across traditional research aggregators like Bloomberg, FactSet, etc., proprietary direct distribution lists, social media, search engines, and our website. As a result, every institutional and retail investor has equal access to our high-quality company research. Our mission is to help companies take control of their IR program and proactively reach investors while bringing investors a consistent flow of quality information to help them understand our clients’ businesses, industries, and the investment opportunities they present.

Tags: consumer products, corporate strategies, Direct Selling, foot traffic, Furniture, Health