Brown Shoe Announces Webcast of Presentation to Wachovia Consumer Growth Conference on February 22; Webcast of its Year-End Earnings Call on March 2
ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, February 21, 2006 -- Brown Shoe Company, Inc. (NYSE: BWS) today announced that its management will present a business overview at the Wachovia Consumer Growth Conference in Florida, on February 22, 2006 at 10:40 a.m. (Eastern time). The session and the Q&A segment will be webcast. The webcast and slides will be available via the following link on the Company’s website: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=101899&p=irol-audioArchives -- or the webcast can be heard directly from Wachovia’s website at http://www.wsw.com/webcast/wa32/bws/.Fourth Quarter Conference Call
Brown Shoe also will webcast its conference call to discuss its fourth quarter and year-end financial results on March 2 at 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 www.earnings.com (at the website, type in the BWS ticker symbol to locate the broadcast) or go to www.brownshoe.com/investor.
Brown Shoe is a $2.3 billion footwear company with global operations. The Company operates the 900+ store Famous Footwear chain, which sells brand name shoes for the family. It also operates 300+ specialty retail stores in the U.S. and Canada under the Naturalizer, FX LaSalle 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 Via Spiga, Naturalizer, LifeStride, 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 and Disney character footwear for children. Brown Shoe press releases are available on the Company's web site at http://www.brownshoe.com.