Brown Shoe Company, Inc. (NYSE: BWS) today announced that it will hold a
conference call to discuss its fourth-quarter and year-end fiscal 2008
financial results on Wednesday, March 4, at 8:00 a.m. Central time/9:00
a.m. Eastern time. The Company plans to issue its quarterly results
press release before the market opens that day. Last week, an incorrect
date for the conference call and release was published.
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).
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, Fisher-Price and Nickelodeon character
footwear for children. Brown Shoe press releases are available on the
Company's website at http://www.brownshoe.com.
