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Brown Shoe Co. Inc. (BWS)

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Brown Shoe Co. Inc.
8300 Maryland Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63105
United States - Map
Phone: 314-854-4000
Fax: 314-854-4274
Website: http://www.brownshoe.com

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Index Membership:N/A
Sector:Services
Industry:Specialty Retail, Other
Full Time Employees:15,300

Business Summary 

Brown Shoe Company, Inc. operates as a footwear retailer and wholesaler in the United States, Canada, China, and Guam. It provides licensed, branded, and private-label casual, dress, and athletic footwear products to women, men, and children. The company’s Famous Footwear retail stores offer products under the Nike, Skechers, New Balance, Converse, Puma, adidas, DC, Asics, LifeStride, Dr. Scholl’s Shoes, Reebok, Vans, K-Swiss, Naturalizer, BOC by Born, and Bearpaw brands, as well as sells company owned and licensed products. It also operates retail stores under the Naturalizer brand that sells women’s shoes; and other store concepts, such as Via Spiga, Dr. Scholl’s, and Sam Edelman. As of January 28, 2012, the company operated 1,323 retail stores under the Famous Footwear and Naturalizer names. Brown Shoe Company, Inc. also sells its products through Websites, including FamousFootwear.com, Shoes.com, Naturalizer.com, Naturalizer.ca, ViaSpiga.com, and DrSchollsShoes.com, as well as ShoeSteal.com, LifeStride.com, and FrancoSarto.com. In addition, it designs, sources, and markets footwear for women and men to retail stores that include national chains, mass merchandisers, department stores, independent retailers, catalogs, and online retailers. The company was founded in 1878 and is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.

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Corporate Governance 
Brown Shoe Co. Inc.’s Governance Risk Indicator (GRI®) as of May 1, 2012 is: Audit (Low Concern), Board (Low Concern), Compensation (High Concern), Shareholder Rights (High Concern).
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Key Executives 
 PayExercised
Ms. Diane Sullivan , 56
Chief Exec. Officer, Pres, Chief Operating Officer and Director
1.26M0.00
Mr. Mark E. Hood , 59
Chief Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer and Sr. VP
608.00K0.00
Mr. Douglas W. Koch , 60
Chief Talent & Strategy Officer and Sr. VP
564.00K0.00
Mr. Richard Ausick , 58
Division Pres of Retail
689.00K0.00
Mr. John W. Schmidt , 51
Division Pres of Wholesale Better & Image Brands
584.00K0.00
Amounts are as of Dec 31, 2011 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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