La-Z-Boy Integrated (NYSE:LZB) Goldman Sachs thirty second Annual International Retailing Convention 2025 September 4, 2025 1:10 PM EDT
Firm Members
Melinda Whittington – President, CEO & Board Chair
Taylor Luebke – Senior VP & CFO
Convention Name Members
Emily Kech – Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Analysis Division
Presentation
Emily Kech
Analysis Analyst
Good afternoon, everybody. Thanks for becoming a member of us on the Goldman Sachs thirty second Annual International Retailing Convention. I am Emily Ghosh, and I am a part of the Hardlines staff at Goldman. It is my pleasure to introduce La-Z-Boy Inc. and to average our hearth chat.
At this time, we now have with us Melinda Whittington, Board Chair, President and Chief Govt Officer of La-Z-Boy. Melinda joined La-Z-Boy in 2018, serving as Chief Monetary Officer previous to turning into CEO in 2021. We even have Taylor Luebke, Senior Vice President and Chief Monetary Officer, who joined La-Z-Boy in 2021 and was promoted to CFO in the beginning of the 12 months; and Mark Becks, Director of Investor Relations and Company Growth.
Melinda, Taylor and Mark, thanks a lot for becoming a member of us at the moment.
Melinda Whittington
President, CEO & Board Chair
Thanks for having us.
Taylor Luebke
Senior VP & CFO
Thanks for having us.
Query-and-Reply Session
Emily Kech
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Analysis Division
Simply to start out, are you able to present a quick overview of La-Z-Boy’s Century Imaginative and prescient technique? What have been the targets that you just got down to obtain in 2021? And the place is the corporate at on the journey now?
Melinda Whittington
President, CEO & Board Chair
So we’re a 98-year-old firm, based within the U.S. on the high-quality recliner. And manufacturing is our historical past. Once I stepped into the function in 2018, we leveraged outdoors consultants in addition to quite a lot of inside functionality to actually have a look at — what acquired us right here will not get us there. Do we’d like a whole pivot of the corporate? We have
