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<FN>
<F1>Includes net royalties of $24.1 million.
<F2>Effective January 1, 1997, the Company changed its method of accounting for
product display fixtures located in its wholesale customers' retail stores,
whereby the costs for such fixtures will be capitalized and amortized over five
years using the straight-line method. In prior years, these costs had been
expensed as incurred. The Company believes that this new method will more
closely match the long-term benefit that the product display fixtures provide
with the expected future revenue from such fixtures. The new method has been
applied retroactively to product display fixture acquisitions of prior years.
The effect of the change on the second quarter and six months ended June 29,
1997 was to increase earnings by approximately $0.7 million and $0.9 million,
respectively (or $0.02 and $0.02 per share, respectively), excluding the
cumulative effect of the change in accounting principle. The cumulative effect
of the change in accounting principle of $4.0 million (after reduction for
income tax expense of $2.7 million) is included in earnings for the six months
ended June 29, 1997.
<F3>Earnings per share includes the effect of a one-time change in accounting
principle, which was equivalent to $0.09 per share. Earnings per share,
excluding the effect of the accounting change, was $0.53 per share.
</FN>