PEMBROKE PINES, Fla., April 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Claire's Stores, Inc. announced today that it filed its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended February 3, 2007. The Form 10-K includes the Company's audited financial statements for Fiscal 2007.
The Form 10-K is available on the Company's corporate website: http://www.clairestores.com/. Hard copies of the Annual Report on Form 10-K are also available free of charge upon request by writing to Claire's Stores, Inc., Attn.: Investor Relations Department, 350 Fifth Avenue, Suite 900, New York, New York 10118 or by using one of the other means of contact set forth in the section of this press release entitled "Contact Information".
Company Overview
Claire's Stores, Inc. is a leading international specialty retailer offering value-priced costume jewelry and accessories to fashion-aware tweens, teens and young adult females through its two store concepts: Claire's and Icing by Claire's. While the latter operates only in North America, Claire's operates internationally. As of April 7, 2007, Claire's Stores, Inc. operated approximately 3,000 stores in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Belgium and the Netherlands. Claire's Stores, Inc. operates through its subsidiary, Claire's Nippon, Co., Ltd., approximately 195 stores in Japan as a 50:50 joint venture with AEON, Co., Ltd. (fka JUSCO, Co. Ltd.), a $40 billion specialty retailer headquartered in Japan. The Company also licenses approximately 135 stores in the Middle East, Turkey and Russia under a licensing and merchandising agreement with Al Shaya Co., Ltd. and eight stores in South Africa under similar agreements with The House of Busby Limited.
Additional Information
Note: Other Claire's Stores, Inc. press releases, a corporate profile and most recent 10-K and 10-Q reports are available via Claire's corporate website: http://www.clairestores.com/. For information about our products and stores, please go to http://www.claires.com/.
