ARLINGTON, Texas, June 18, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- First Cash Financial Services, Inc. (Nasdaq:FCFS) will be a presenting company at industry conferences sponsored by two leading research and investment banking firms. The Jefferies Financial Services Conference will be in New York on Wednesday, June 20, 2007 and the 17th Annual Wachovia Securities Nantucket Equity Conference will be held June 25-28, 2007 in Nantucket, Massachusetts.
The Jefferies Financial Services Conference will focus on trends and investment opportunities in consumer, commercial, and real estate finance. Representatives from the First Cash management team will conduct a presentation at the conference on Wednesday, June 20, 2007 at 3:00 p.m. EST. The presentation will be web cast, which can be accessed at http://wsw.com/webcast/jeff17/fcfs/. For additional information about the Jefferies Financial Services Conference, visit www.jefferies.com.
The 17th Annual Wachovia Nantucket Equity Conference provides a unique forum for exploring investment ideas from a diverse group of leading growth companies. Representatives from the First Cash management team will conduct a presentation at the conference on Tuesday, June 26, 2007 at 11:45 a.m. EST.
The Company's print-formatted conference presentations can be viewed at www.firstcash.com.
About First Cash
First Cash Financial Services, Inc. is a leading provider of specialty consumer financial services and related retail products. Its pawn stores make small loans secured by pledged personal property, retail pawned merchandise, and in many locations, provide cash advances and credit services products. The Company's cash advance locations provide various combinations of short-term cash advance products, check-cashing, credit services and other financial services products. First Cash also operates automobile dealerships focused on the "buy-here/pay-here" segment of the used-vehicle sales and financing market. In total, the Company owns and operates over 435 stores and buy-here/pay-here dealerships in thirteen U.S. states and nine states in Mexico. First Cash is also an equal partner in Cash & Go, Ltd., a joint venture, which owns and operates check-cashing and financial services kiosks located inside convenience stores.
First Cash's common stock (ticker symbol "FCFS") is traded on the Nasdaq Global Select Market, which has the highest initial listing standards of any stock exchange in the world based on financial and liquidity requirements.
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