Brown Shoe Company, Inc. (NYSE: BWS) today announced that it will hold a
conference call to discuss its second quarter financial results on
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 8:00 a.m. Central time/9:00 a.m. Eastern
time. The question-and-answer session of the call will be limited to
institutional analysts and investors, but retail brokers, individual
investors, and other interested parties are invited to attend via a live
webcast at http://www.brownshoe.com/investor
or http://www.earnings.com
website (type in the BWS ticker symbol to locate the broadcast). The
Company plans to issue its quarterly results press release before the
market opens that day.
Brown Shoe is a $2.4 billion footwear company with global operations.
Brown Shoe's Retail division operates Famous Footwear, the approximately
1,100-store chain that sells brand name shoes for the family,
approximately 300 specialty retail stores in the U.S., Canada, and China
under the Naturalizer, Brown Shoe Closet, 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, Carlos by Carlos Santana,
and Hot Kiss, as well as Barbie, Disney and Nickelodeon character
footwear for children. Brown Shoe press releases are available on the
Company's website at http://www.brownshoe.com.
