BALTIMORE, MD – September 18, 2012 – Tom Kelso, Managing Director, and Spencer Cavalier, Director, investment banking professionals with the Energy & Multi-Site Retail Team of Matrix Capital Markets Group, will present an educational workshop entitled “Capital Planning for Growth”. The presentation will take place during the Association for Convenience & Fuel Retailing (NACS) Show on Sunday, October 7, 2012 at 2:45 pm.

The workshop will feature a discussion on the capital planning necessary for long-term financial strategies designed to build and maximize shareholder value for convenience store retailers in a mature industry and a highly volatile economic climate. The presentation will focus on the issues affecting future financial performance, the current economic climate, the need for strategic financial planning to build shareholder value, and the various sources of capital available to marketers. This session is designed to include audience participation in a format where conventional wisdom is challenged. The session will also include time for questions and answers and Matrix professionals will be available for further confidential discussions at the end of the program.

The NACS Show is being held October 7 – 10, 2012 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, NV. To find out more please visit www.nacsonline.com/nacsshow.

Matrix’s Energy and Multi-Site Retail Group is recognized as the national leader in providing transactional advisory services to companies in the downstream energy and multi-site retail sectors including convenience store chains, petroleum marketers, fuels distributors, retail propane distributors, heating oil distributors, lubes retailers and distributors, terminal operators, fuels transportation companies, hospitality companies, and other specialty retail chains. Team members are dedicated to these sectors and draw upon complementary experiences to provide advisory services to complete sophisticated merger and acquisition transactions, debt and equity capital raises, corporate restructurings, corporate valuations, and strategic planning engagements. Since its inception in 1997, this dedicated group has successfully advised on nearly 100 engagements in these sectors.