If a company has already gone public with an IPO, why do they continue to conduct roadshows?

Charmaine asks:
I work for a limo company and I see several roadshows going on for LP Philips LCD, LG Electronics, etc., and they have already gone public since 2004 - why the need to keep doing roadshows?
I work for a limo company and I see several roadshows going on for LP Philips LCD, LG Electronics, etc., and they have already gone public since 2004 - why the need to keep doing roadshows?
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Since they are public companies, they are required to provide regular updates to the their investors.
Roadshows are usually aimed toward institutional investors and provide an additional way of releasing additional information about a company.
A company can also be trying to find out if there is any interest in an additional IPO or debt offering by meeting with the institutional investment community.