The Board of Directors of Brown Shoe Company, Inc. (NYSE: BWS) declared
a quarterly dividend of $0.07 cents per share, payable January 2, 2009
to shareholders of record on December 19, 2008.
This dividend will be the 344th consecutive quarterly dividend paid by
the company.
Brown Shoe is a $2.3 billion footwear company with global operations.
Brown Shoe's Retail division operates Famous Footwear, the over
1,100-store chain that sells brand name shoes for the family, over 300
specialty retail stores in the U.S., Canada, and China under the
Naturalizer, Brown Shoe Closet, FX LaSalle, Franco Sarto and Via Spiga
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, Sam Edelman,
Nickels Soft, Connie and Buster Brown; it also markets licensed brands
including Franco Sarto, Dr. Scholl's, Etienne Aigner, Carlos by Carlos
Santana, Fergie branded footwear, and Vera Wang Lavender Label
Collection 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.
