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NEW YORK, November 10, 2008 – BMO Capital Markets, the investment and corporate banking arm of BMO Financial Group (NYSE, TSX: BMO), will host its 16th annual Interactive Entertainment Investor Conference on Thursday, November 13, 2008, at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City.
The conference will showcase leading companies in the interactive entertainment industry, including:
- Electronic Arts
- Nintendo of America
- Sony Computer Entertainment America
- Microsoft
- International Game Technology
The featured BMO Capital Markets Arcade Room will provide media with live demonstrations of the latest games, consoles and platforms from the participating companies.
Edward Williams, BMO Capital Markets Senior Research Analyst who covers Interactive Entertainment & Leisure states, “The timing of our mid-November conference will provide a great perspective on how the holiday selling season is developing, given the current consumer concerns and economic situation.”
The conference will also feature a luncheon panel discussion on “The Future of Games” featuring executives from CCP, Epic Games, Trion World Network, WildTangent, and IGA Worldwide.
Companies that plan to participate at our conference* include:
- Activision Blizzard (ATVI)
- CCP
- Codemasters
- Electronic Arts (ERTS)
- Epic Games
- Gameloft (GLFT.PA)
- Glu Mobile (GLUU)
- IGA Worldwide
- International Game Technology (IGT)
- Mad Catz (MCZ)
- Microsoft (MSFT)
- Midway Games Inc. (MWY)
- Nintendo of America (NTDOY)
- Oberon Media, Inc.
- PlaySpan
- Sony Computer Entertainment America (SNE)
- SouthPeak Games (SOPK.OB)
- Take-Two Interactive (TTWO)
- THQ (THQI)
- Trion World Network
- Ubisoft (UBIP.PA)
- WildTangent
- WMS Industries (WMS)
* Participant list subject to change.
Presentations will be broadcast live and archived at:
www.bmocm.com/conferences/interactiveentertainment2008
An agenda with presentation times for the conference is also available on the web site.
Media Attendance
Media interested in attending the event and/or scheduling an interview are asked to call (212) 885-4153 or (416) 867-3996
About BMO Capital Markets
BMO Capital Markets is a leading, full-service North American financial services provider offering equity and debt underwriting, corporate lending and project financing, merger and acquisitions advisory services, merchant banking, securitization, treasury management, market risk management, debt and equity research and institutional sales and trading. BMO Capital Markets has offices in 26 locations around the world, including 14 in North America.
BMO Capital Markets is a member of BMO Financial Group (NYSE, TSX: BMO), one of the largest diversified financial services providers in North America with more than US$375 billion total assets and more than 37,000 employees as at July 31, 2008. For more information, visit www.bmocm.com.
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