Related Party Transactions

9 Months Ended

Oct. 28, 2017



Note 15	Related Party Transactions

C. banner International Holdings Limited

The Company has a joint venture agreement with a subsidiary of C. banner International Holdings Limited (“CBI”) to market Naturalizer footwear in China. The Company is a 51% owner of the joint venture (“B&H Footwear”), with CBI owning the other 49%. The license enabling the joint venture to market the footwear expired in August 2017 and the parties are in the process of dissolving their joint venture arrangements. B&H Footwear sold Naturalizer footwear to a retail affiliate of CBI on a wholesale basis, which in turn sold the Naturalizer products through department store shops and free-standing stores in China. The Company, through its consolidated subsidiary, B&H Footwear, sold Naturalizer footwear on a wholesale basis to CBI totaling $1.3 million and $5.1 million for the thirteen and thirty-nine weeks ended October 29, 2016, respectively, with no corresponding sales during 2017.