EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Sept. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Big 5 Sporting Goods Corporation (Nasdaq: BGFV), a leading sporting goods retailer, announced today that Steven G. Miller, the Company's Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer, and Barry Emerson, the Company's Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will be presenting at the Sidoti & Company, LLC Fifth Annual West Coast Emerging Growth Institutional Investor Forum to be held September 28-29, 2006, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in San Francisco, California.
The Big 5 Sporting Goods investor presentation is scheduled for Friday, September 29, 2006, at 9:05 a.m. PDT.
About Big 5 Sporting Goods Corporation
Big 5 is a leading sporting goods retailer in the United States, operating 332 stores in 10 states under the "Big 5 Sporting Goods" name. Big 5 provides a full-line product offering in a traditional sporting goods store format that averages 11,000 square feet. Big 5's product mix includes athletic shoes, apparel and accessories, as well as a broad selection of outdoor and athletic equipment for team sports, fitness, camping, hunting, fishing, tennis, golf, snowboarding and in-line skating.
SOURCE Big 5 Sporting Goods Corporation
-0- 09/11/2006
/CONTACT: Barry Emerson, Sr. Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
of Big 5 Sporting Goods Corporation, +1-310-536-0611; or John Mills, Senior
Managing Director of Integrated Corporate Relations, Inc., +1-310-954-1105,
for Big 5 Sporting Goods Corporation/
/Web site: http://www.big5sportinggoods.com/
(BGFV)
CO: Big 5 Sporting Goods Corporation
ST: California
IN: REA SPT
SU: TDS CCA
AF-EW
-- LAM057 --
9707 09/11/2006 14:35 EDT http://www.prnewswire.com