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Monday, April 27, 2009
TAL International Group to Webcast First Quarter Conference Call
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PURCHASE, N.Y., Apr 27, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) ----TAL International Group, Inc. (NYSE: TAL) will host a conference call that will be simultaneously Webcast on Thursday, May 7, 2009. The Company's management will discuss the financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2009.
The conference call and live Webcast will begin at 9:00 a.m. ET. An archive of the Webcast will be available one hour after the live call through Friday, May 29, 2009. To access the live Webcast or archive, please visit the Company's Web site at http://www.talinternational.com.
TAL is one of the world's largest lessors of intermodal freight containers and chassis with 19 offices in 11 countries and approximately 200 third party container depot facilities in 38 countries as of March 31, 2009. The Company's global operations include the acquisition, leasing, re-leasing and subsequent sale of multiple types of intermodal containers. TAL's fleet consists of approximately 743,000 containers and related equipment representing approximately 1,203,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU). This places TAL among the world's largest independent lessors of intermodal containers and chassis as measured by fleet size.
SOURCE: TAL International Group, Inc.
TAL International Group, Inc. Jeffrey Casucci, 914-697-2900 Vice President, Treasury and Investor Relations
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