Sears Stores In Ten Markets Offer Lands' End Product This Fall
A selection of Lands' End's best-selling women's, men's and kids' apparel and footwear will begin to roll out to more than 180 Sears stores late this fall.
Currently, select stores in 10 markets including Chicago; Los Angeles; San Francisco; Boston; New York; Philadelphia; Hartford, Conn.; Madison, Wis.; Atlanta and Raleigh-Durham, N.C. are scheduled to offer Lands' End merchandise this fall. Approximately 15 to 20 percent of the stores' apparel selling space will carry Lands' End product, which will be supported by local broadcast advertising and direct marketing efforts. Full roll out to remaining Sears stores will continue through 2003.
This release contains "forward-looking statements" about the roll out of Lands' End products to Sears stores. These statements are based on assumptions about the future that are subject to risks and uncertainties, such as competitive conditions in retail; changes in consumer confidence and spending; the successful execution of and customer reactions to Sears' Full- line store strategy and other performance improvement initiatives; Sears' ability to integrate and operate Lands' End successfully; anticipated cash flow; general economic conditions and normal business uncertainty. Actual results may differ materially. The company intends these forward-looking statements to speak only as of the time of this presentation and does not undertake to update or revise them as more information becomes available.
Sears, Roebuck and Co. is a broadline retailer with significant service and credit businesses. In 2001, the company's annual revenue was more than $41 billion. The company offers its wide range of apparel, home and automotive products and services to families in the U.S. through Sears stores nationwide, including approximately 870 full-line stores. Sears also offers a variety of merchandise and services through its Web site, . In June 2002, Sears acquired Lands' End, a direct merchant of traditionally styled, classic Lands' End clothing offered to customers around the world through regular mailings of its specialty catalogs and online at .
Sears Stores Expected to Carry Lands' End This Fall
PHILADELPHIA CHICAGO
Bensalem/Cornwells Heights Aurora
Burlington Bloomingdale
Deptford Bourbonnais/Bradley
Dover Calumet City
Exton Chicago/Ford City
King Of Prussia Chicago/Harlem Avenue
Langhorne/Oxford Valley Chicago/Irving Park
Lawrenceville Chicago/Lawrence
Mays Landing Chicago Ridge
Media Chicago/79th Street
Moorestown Chicago/State Street
North Wales Chicago/Western
Philadelphia/Greater NorthEast Crystal Lake
Pottstown Joliet
Reading Matteson
Upper Darby Niles
Vineland North Riverside
Whitehall Oakbrook
Willow Grove Orland Park
Wilmington/Prices Corner Peru
Wilmington/Concord Mall Schaumburg
St. Charles
BOSTON Vernon Hills
Auburn West Dundee
Braintree
Brockton SAN FRANCISCO
Burlington Antioch
Cambridge Concord
Concord Cupertino
Dedham Fairfield
Hanover Hayward
Hyannis Mountain View
Kingston Newark
Leominster Oakland
Manchester Pleasanton
Marlborough Richmond
Nashua San Bruno
Natick San Mateo
Newington/Portsmouth San Jose/East Ridge
Peabody San Jose/Oak Ridge
Salem San Rafael
Saugus Santa Rosa
HARTFORD-NEW HAVEN MINNEAPOLIS-ST PAUL
Enfield Coon Rapids
Manchester
Meriden MADISON
Milford Janesville
Waterbury Madison/East
Waterford Madison/West
West Hartford
LOS ANGELES NEW YORK
Brea Bay Shore
Buena Park Brooklyn/Beverly Road
Burbank Brooklyn/Kings Plaza
Canoga Park/Topanga Plaza Bronx/Fordham Road
Carson Danbury
Cerritos East Northport
City Of Industry Freehold
Costa Mesa Garden City
Downey Hackensack
Glendale Hicksville
Hemet Jersey City/Newport
Hollywood Kingston
Laguna Hills Lake Grove
Long Beach Livingston
Los Angeles/Baldwin Hills Massapequa
Los Angeles/Boyle Middletown/Gallaria Mall
Montclair Middletown/Highway 35
Montebello Nanuet
Moreno Valley Newburgh
North Hollywood/La Valley New Brunswick
Northridge New Hyde Park
Orange Ocean
Palmdale Paramus
Pasadena Phillipsburg
Riverside Poughkeepsie
San Bernardino Rego Park
Santa Clarita Rockaway
Santa Monica Staten Island
Temecula Toms River
Thousand Oaks Valley Stream
Torrance Watchung
Ventura Wayne
Victorville White Plains
West Covina Woodbridge
Westminster Yonkers
Whittier Yorktown Heights
RALEIGH-DURHAM ATLANTA
Cary Alpharetta
Durham/Northgate Atlanta/Cumberland Mall
Durham/The Streets of Southpoint Atlanta/Northlake
Fayetteville Athens
Goldsboro Douglasville
Raleigh/Triangle Town Center Duluth
Raleigh/Crabtree Valley Mall Gainesville
Rocky Mount Kennesaw
Wilson Lithonia
Morrow/Southlake
Rome/Mount Berry
Union City
SOURCE: Sears, Roebuck and Co.
CONTACT: Peggy A. Palter of Sears, +1-847-286-8361
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