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This presentation contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995 concerning the Company's operations, performance, and financial condition.
Such forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results
to differ materially from those indicated. Such risks and uncertainties may include, but are not limited to: the
failure to develop a unique fashion point of view for our brands, the failure to turn around our operating
performance, the failure to sell the misses apparel catalog credit card receivables to Alliance Data Systems, the
failure to sell Figi's, the failure to find a suitable permanent replacement for the Company's former Chief
Executive Officer within a reasonable time period, the failure to consummate our identified strategic solution for
our other non-core assets, the failure to effectively implement our planned consolidation, cost and capital
budget reduction plans, the failure to implement the Company's business plan for increased profitability and
growth in the Company's retail stores and direct-to-consumer segments, the failure to effectively implement the
Company's plans for consolidation of the Catherines Plus Sizes brand, a new organizational structure and
enhancements in the Company's merchandise and marketing, the failure to generate a positive response to the
Company's new Lane Bryant catalog and the Lane Bryant credit card program, the failure to successfully
implement the Company's expansion of Cacique through new store formats, the failure to achieve improvement
in the Company's competitive position, adverse changes in costs vital to catalog operations, such as postage,
paper and acquisition of prospects, declining response rates to catalog offerings, the failure to maintain efficient
and uninterrupted order-taking and fulfillment in our direct-to-consumer business, changes in or miscalculation
of fashion trends, extreme or unseasonable weather conditions, economic downturns, escalation of energy
costs, a weakness in overall consumer demand, the failure to find suitable store locations, increases in wage
rates, the ability to hire and train associates, trade and security restrictions and political or financial instability in
countries where goods are manufactured, the interruption of merchandise flow from the Company's centralized
distribution facilities, competitive pressures, and the adverse effects of natural disasters, war, acts of terrorism
or threats of either, or other armed conflict, on the United States and international economies. These, and other
risks and uncertainties, are detailed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
February 2, 2008, the Company’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and other Company filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. Charming Shoppes assumes no duty to update or revise its forward-
looking statements even if experience or future changes make it clear that any projected results expressed or
implied therein will not be realized.
Forward-Looking Statements
