SKECHERS Named “Best of Manhattan”
October 09 2014 - 7:09PM
Business Wire
SKECHERS, a multibillion-dollar company and global footwear
industry leader based in Manhattan Beach, California, received the
Best of Manhattan Award from the Manhattan Beach Chamber of
Commerce at a special event honoring Manhattan Beach’s best
business and community success stories for 2014.
Shade Hotel owner Michael Zislis presents
the 2014 Best of Manhattan award to SKECHERS president Michael
Greenberg. (Photo: Business Wire)
Winners across nine categories were announced at a ceremony held
on October 2 at the Manhattan Beach Marriott. SKECHERS was selected
for the overall Best Business award among a group of nominees that
included Manhattan Beach Marriott, Manhattan Beach Toyota, MBS
Media Campus, and the Simms Restaurant Group.
“SKECHERS has been lucky to call Manhattan Beach our home for 22
years. We established roots by opening the first SKECHERS retail
store here in 1995 and have since grown to become a globally
recognized brand and the second largest footwear company in
America. It’s a privilege giving back as an active member of the
Manhattan Beach community that we love so much,” said Michael
Greenberg, president of SKECHERS. “Ultimately it’s the welcoming
people and businesses that make this town unlike any other. We are
honored to be this year’s Best of Manhattan recipient and thankful
to be a part of the fabric of Manhattan Beach. Everyone at SKECHERS
looks forward to continuing our leadership and involvement in this
community for many years to come.”
SKECHERS has been a longtime sponsor of local Manhattan Beach
events including the annual Pumpkin Races held in October and the
popular Holiday Fireworks show in December. And on October 26, the
Company will produce the sixth annual SKECHERS Pier to Pier
Friendship Walk which has raised nearly $3 million to benefit
children with special needs and education. For the 2014 walk,
SKECHERS is on target to raise more than $1.2 million in funds to
support The Friendship Circle and numerous education foundations.
Additionally, the SKECHERS Foundation develops community and
after-school programs for local students, including classes with
SKECHERS shoe designers held at the Company’s corporate
headquarters in Manhattan Beach.
SKECHERS also helps children on a global scale through the BOBS
from SKECHERS charitable footwear collection. Since the BOBS
program launched in 2011, more than nine million pairs of new shoes
have been donated to kids in need across the United States and
around the world.
SKECHERS offers an assortment of more than 3,000 lifestyle and
performance footwear styles for men, women and kids that appeal to
consumers across six continents. The Company raises awareness for
its collections through celebrity endorsees that currently include:
multi-platinum recording artist Demi Lovato, model and actress
Kelly Brook, TV personality Brooke Burke-Charvet, country music
star Danielle Bradbery, legendary quarterbacks Joe Montana and Joe
Namath, as well as baseball stars Pete Rose and Mariano Rivera. In
addition, Boston Marathon winner Meb Keflezighi, elite runner Kara
Goucher, and pro golfer Matt Kuchar represent the Skechers
Performance Division.
About SKECHERS USA, Inc.
SKECHERS USA, Inc. (NYSE:SKX), based in Manhattan Beach,
California, designs, develops and markets a diverse range of
lifestyle footwear for men, women and children, as well as
performance footwear for men and women. SKECHERS footwear is
available in the United States via department and specialty stores,
Company-owned SKECHERS retail stores and its e-commerce website,
and in over 100 countries and territories through the Company’s
international network of subsidiaries in Canada, Brazil, Chile,
Japan, and across Europe, as well as through joint ventures in Asia
and distributors around the world. For more information, please
visit skechers.com, and follow us on Facebook
(facebook.com/SKECHERS) and Twitter (twitter.com/SKECHERSUSA).
This announcement may contain forward-looking statements that
are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking
statements include, without limitation, any statement that may
predict, forecast, indicate or simply state future results,
performance or achievements, and can be identified by the use of
forward looking language such as “believe,” “anticipate,” “expect,”
“estimate,” “intend,” “plan,” “project,” “will be,” “will
continue,” “will result,” “could,” “may,” “might,” or any
variations of such words with similar meanings. Any such statements
are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual
results to differ materially from those projected in
forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause or contribute
to such differences include the resignation of the Company’s former
independent registered public accounting firm, and its withdrawal
of its audit reports with respect to certain of the Company’s
historical financial statements; international, national and local
general economic, political and market conditions including the
ongoing global economic slowdown and market instability; entry into
the highly competitive performance footwear market; sustaining,
managing and forecasting costs and proper inventory levels; losing
any significant customers, decreased demand by industry retailers
and cancellation of order commitments due to the lack of popularity
of particular designs and/or categories of products; maintaining
brand image and intense competition among sellers of footwear for
consumers; anticipating, identifying, interpreting or forecasting
changes in fashion trends, consumer demand for the products and the
various market factors described above; sales levels during the
spring, back-to-school and holiday selling seasons; and other
factors referenced or incorporated by reference in the Company’s
annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012 and
its quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the three months ended June
30, 2013. The risks included here are not exhaustive. The Company
operates in a very competitive and rapidly changing environment.
New risks emerge from time to time and the companies cannot predict
all such risk factors, nor can the companies assess the impact of
all such risk factors on their respective businesses or the extent
to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual
results to differ materially from those contained in any
forward-looking statements. Given these risks and uncertainties,
you should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements
as a prediction of actual results. Moreover, reported results
should not be considered an indication of future performance.
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