Brown Shoe Company, Inc. (NYSE: BWS) today announced that the Company
will be presenting at the Cowen and Company 6th Annual Consumer
Conference held at The Westin New York at Times Square on Tuesday,
January 15, at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time and the 10th Annual ICR XChange
Conference held at the St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort & Spa in Dana
Point, California, on Thursday, January 17, at 12:40 p.m. Eastern Time.
Ron Fromm, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Mark Hood, Chief
Financial Officer, will host the presentation. The presentation,
including the question and answer portion, will be webcast live at http://www.brownshoe.com/investor.
About Brown Shoe Company, Inc.
Brown Shoe is a $2.4 billion footwear company with global operations.
Brown Shoe's Retail division operates Famous Footwear, the 1,000-store
chain that sells brand name shoes for the family, approximately 300
specialty retail stores in the U.S. and Canada under the Naturalizer, FX
LaSalle, and Franco Sarto names, and Shoes.com, the Company's e-commerce
subsidiary. Brown Shoe, through its Wholesale divisions, owns and
markets leading footwear brands including Naturalizer, LifeStride, Via
Spiga, Nickels Soft, Connie and Buster Brown; it also markets licensed
brands including Franco Sarto, Dr. Scholl's, Etienne Aigner, and Carlos
by Carlos Santana and Barbie, Disney and Nickelodeon character footwear
for children. Brown Shoe press releases are available on the Company's
website at http://www.brownshoe.com.
