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Brown Shoe Co. Inc. (BWS)At 4:03PM ET: 7.10  Up 0.10 (1.43%)  
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Brown Shoe Co. Inc.
8300 Maryland Avenue
St Louis, MO 63105
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Phone: 314-854-4000
Fax: 314-854-4274
Web Site: http://www.brownshoe.com

DETAILS 
Index Membership:S&P 600 SmallCap
S&P 1500 Super Comp
Sector:Consumer Goods
Industry:Textile - Apparel Footwear & Accessories
Full Time Employees:12,400

BUSINESS SUMMARY 
Brown Shoe Company, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a retailer and wholesaler of footwear. The company provides a range of licensed, branded, and private-label casual, dress, and athletic footwear products to women, men, and children. As of January 31, 2009, it operated 1,444 retail shoe stores in the United States, Canada, the People's Republic of China, and Guam primarily under the Famous Footwear and Naturalizer names. The company also designs, sources, and markets footwear to retailers, including department stores, mass merchandisers, national chains, independent retailers, and catalogs and online retailers. In addition, it owns interest in Shoes.com, Inc., a pure play Internet e-tailing company, which offers a selection of footwear and accessories to men, women, and children that include company-branded and licensed footwear, as well as footwear purchased from outside suppliers and certain merchandise. The company also offers its products to consumers through catalogs and Web sites. Brown Shoe Company was founded in 1878 and is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.
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    CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 
    Brown Shoe Co. Inc.'s Corporate Governance Quotient (CGQ®) as of 1-Jul-09 is better than 81% of S&P 600 companies and 79.9% of Retailing companies.
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    KEY EXECUTIVES 
     PayExercised
    Mr. Ronald A. Fromm , 58
    Chairman, Chief Exec. Officer and Member of Exec. Committee
    $ 850.00K $ 7.96M
    Ms. Diane Sullivan , 53
    Pres, Chief Operating Officer
    N/A N/A
    Mr. Mark E. Hood , 56
    Chief Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer and Sr. VP
    $ 372.00KN/A
    Mr. Richard Ausick , 55
    Pres of Brown Shoe New York Whole Sale
    $ 445.00K $ 2.00K
    Mr. Joseph W. Wood , 61
    Pres of Brown Shoe Retail
    $ 532.00K $ 5.00K
    Dollar amounts are as of 31-Dec-09 and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc. "Exercised" is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year.
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