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Water Tower Research was founded by Wall Street veterans after witnessing a fundamental shift in the investment research industry with the result being a declining knowledge base among investors, a lack of awareness and a shrinking pool of fundamental research being conducted on companies across the small-cap and micro-cap spectrum. The same issues are now increasingly occurring in the mid-cap space. This sea change within the investment community is impacting not only the companies themselves but also current shareholders and potential investors. With significantly less active sell-side sponsorship by Wall Street, a substantial information gap has developed between companies and various constituents in the financial community. The net result is fewer channels for insight and information to flow between companies and investors.

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1 800 flowers.com inc cl a / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>We recently hosted a fireside chat with CFO Bill Shea and CAO James Langrock, who will move into the CFO role once Shea retires on December 29.</li><li>This report contains a transcript of the conversation, which can be accessed on demand.</li><li>Shea recounted his tenure at FLWS that went from being a floral company with a bunch of retail flower shops and a WATS line doing $150 million in sales to being the leading online gifting platform that it is today; from coming public during the dot.com bubble and managing through the Great Recession, and through all of the acquisitions the company has made over the past 20+ years, including the seminal Harry &amp; David purchase in 2014, which it had tried to buy earlier in the previous decade.</li></ul>

We recently hosted a fireside chat with CFO Bill Shea and CAO James Langrock, who will move into the CFO role once Shea retires on December 29.This report contains a transcript of the conversation, which can be accessed on demand.Shea recounted his tenure at FLWS that went from being a floral company with a bunch of retail flower shops and a WATS line doing $150 million in sales to being the leading online gifting platform that it is today; from coming public during the dot.com bubble and managing through the Great Recession, and through all of the acquisitions the company has made over the past 20+ years, including the seminal Harry &amp; David purchase in 2014, which it had tried to buy earlier in the previous decade.

1-800-Flowers.com, Inc. - Expect CFO Transition to Be Seamless