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<FN>
<F1> Includes net royalties of $39.6 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 cumulative effect of 
the change in accounting principle, recorded in the first quarter of 1997, is calculated based upon the 
retroactive effect of applying the new accounting method to prior year fixture acquisitions.  The effect of the 
change on the third quarter and nine months ended September 28, 1997 was to increase earnings by 
approximately $1.9 million and $2.8 million, respectively (or $0.04 and $0.06 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 nine months ended September 28, 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 $0.83 
per share.
</FN>