Brown Shoe Announces Webcast of 2nd Quarter Earnings Conference Call

ST. LOUIS, July 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Brown Shoe Company, Inc.
(NYSE: BWS) today announced that it will hold a conference call to discuss its
second quarter financial results on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 8:00 a.m.
Central time/9:00 a.m. Eastern time. The question-and-answer session of the
call will be limited to institutional analysts and investors, but retail
brokers, individual investors, and other interested parties are invited to
attend via a live webcast at http://www.brownshoe.com/investor or
http://www.earnings.com website (type in the BWS ticker symbol to locate the
broadcast). The Company plans to issue its quarterly results press release
before the market opens that day.
Brown Shoe is a $2.4 billion footwear company with global operations.
Brown Shoe's Retail division operates Famous Footwear, the approximately
1,100-store chain that sells brand name shoes for the family, approximately
300 specialty retail stores in the U.S., Canada, and China under the
Naturalizer, Brown Shoe Closet, FX LaSalle, and Franco Sarto names, and
Shoes.com, the Company's e-commerce subsidiary. Brown Shoe, through its
Wholesale divisions, owns and markets leading footwear brands including
Naturalizer, LifeStride, Via Spiga, Nickels Soft, Connie and Buster Brown; it
also markets licensed brands including Franco Sarto, Dr. Scholl's, Etienne
Aigner, Carlos by Carlos Santana, and Hot Kiss, as well as Barbie, Disney and
Nickelodeon character footwear for children. Brown Shoe press releases are
available on the Company's website at http://www.brownshoe.com.
SOURCE Brown Shoe Company, Inc.

investors, Ken Golden of Brown Shoe Company, Inc., +1-314-854-4134,
kgolden@brownshoe.com; or media, David Garino of Fleishman-Hillard,
+1-314-982-0551, garinod@fleishman.com, for Brown Shoe Company, Inc.