Brown Shoe Announces Webcast of its Second Quarter 2005 Results Conference Call
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 19 -- Brown Shoe Company, Inc. (NYSE: BWS), today announced that it will hold a conference call to discuss its second quarter financial results on Tuesday, August 23 at 8 a.m. Central / 9:00 a.m. Eastern time. While the question-and-answer session of the call will be limited to institutional analysts and investors, retail brokers and individual investors are invited to attend via a live webcast at http://www.earnings.com website, type in the BWS ticker symbol to locate the broadcast. The Company plans to issue its second quarter earnings results before the market opens that day.Brown Shoe is a $2.3 billion footwear company with worldwide operations. The Company operates the 900+ store Famous Footwear chain, which sells brand name shoes for the family. It also operates approximately 350 Naturalizer stores in the U.S. and Canada that sell the Naturalizer brand of shoes and accessories, 16 FX LaSalle stores in Canada, and 8 Via Spiga stores that sell Via Spiga shoes and apparel. 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, Bass and Carlos by Carlos Santana for adults, and Barbie, Bob-the-Builder and Disney character footwear for children. Brown Shoe press releases are available on the Company's web site at http://www.brownshoe.com .