EXCLUSIVEBRANDSOURCING RETAILER/WHOLESALER ...

Brands operates two other divisions: Collective Brands Performance + Lifestyle Group (PLG), a
wholesale business, some 83 countries and territories and including a retail arm of 383 stores. The
company’s Collective Licensing division (CLI) oversees the licensing operations of the company.
EB Identities: Payless ShoeSource, Payless Kids, Airwalk, Above the Rim, Spot-Bilt. Exclusive
designer lines: Christian Siriano for Payless, Lela Rose for Payless, Teeny Toes Lela Rosa
Collection, etc. Additionally, there are the Stride Rite brands mentioned above.
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Profile: In August 2007, Payless for about $ 900 million acquired the 318-store chain Stride Rite,
which owns or licenses upscale children’s footwear, under such brands as: Keds, Sperry Top-
Sider, Saucony, and Robeez. Payless at that time renamed itself Collective Brands. This broadened
the firm’s footwear business into more upscale products. Recently, hit by the weak economy in
the US, the company closed 101 stores during the year, In August 2011, Collective Brands
announced plans to close 475 non-strategic stores over the next three years.
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COMPANHIA BRASILEIRA DE DISTRIBUICAO (CBD)--PAO DE ACUCAR GROUP
Av. Brigadeiro Luis Antonio, 3.142, Jardim Paulista - CEP: 01402-901, São Paulo, BRAZIL
Tel: +55 113886-0421
Fax: +55 113884-2677
www.grupopaodeacucar.com.br
Total 2011 Consolidated Net Sales: $27.9 Billion (R$ 46.6 Billion) +45.2%; Total GPA (Grupo
Pao de Acuçãr) Food Net Sales: $15.3 Billion (R$ 25.6 Billion) +8.9%; Total GPA
Electric/Electronic/E-commerce Net Sales: $12.6 Billion (R$ 21 Billion) +144.2%
Percentage of Sales in Exclusive Brands: 17%(E)
Principal Business: Companhia Brasileira de Distribuição (CBD) is Brazil’s largest retailer,
operating 1,571 stores (supermarkets, hypermarkets, specialty stores and department stores) in 18
Brazilian states and in the Federal District, plus 50 warehouses in 13 states. In the GPA Food
Division, the company operates seven formats: 159 Pão de Açucar supermarkets, 132 Extra
Hipermercado, 204 Extra Supermercado, 72 Mini Mercado Extra neighborhood stores, 59 Assai
cash-and-carry outlets. Under electronics, there are 401 Ponto Frio and 544 Casas Bahia stores
plus its e-commerce business now called Nova Pontocom (Extra.com.br, PontoFrio.com, and