“We are excited about expanding our partnership with Warner Bros. Consumer Products to include the United States, allowing us to make PUCCA a truly global brand,” said Boo Kyoung Kim, President, VOOZ Co., Ltd and creator/founder of PUCCA.

The stylish Curve boutiques in Soho, New York City and Los Angeles will be the site of celebrity-hosted launch parties geared towards fashion-forward, contemporary 18-29 year old guests. Curve owner Nevena Borissova, was instrumental in selecting designers for the introduction, who include: Preen; Mark Fast; Raquel Allegra; Unconditional; Not Rational; Genetic Denim; I.R.O. and jewelry by Erickson Beamon.

“The designers have interpreted PUCCA’s character and strong red and black colors into their designs in addition to the bounding hearts that seem to always surround her,” Borissova added. “Mixed with the unique approach each designer took to PUCCA’s message, the pieces are comprised of attractive, hip and wearable garments with a twist.”

Curve will showcase the PUCCA designs exclusively throughout the spring. Additionally, the PUCCA tiffany pendant may also be viewed on the PUCCA Facebook page.

About Warner Bros. Consumer Products

Warner Bros. Consumer Products, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, is one of the leading licensing and retail merchandising organizations in the world.

About VOOZ Co., Ltd.

VOOZ Co., Ltd. is an independent character development company that creates and manages characters in markets worldwide. In 2000, with the creation of PUCCA, VOOZ started expanding into Asia-Pacific and Europe across a variety of merchandising and multi-media platforms.

About Curve Boutique

Launched in 1997, Curve owner Nevena Borissova interprets fashion editing hundreds of collections with an eye toward emerging designers and collaborations, and boasts a devout following of costume designers, stylists, celebrities and fashionable women from all over the world. Curve boutiques are located in tiffany pendants, Los Angeles and Miami. www.shopcurve.com.

PUCCA and all related characters and elements are trademarks of and (c) VOOZ. Co., Ltd.

Women’s apparel and family shoes were the strongest performing merchandise divisions in August, while fine jewelry and home experienced the weakest sales during the month. The central and northwest regions were the best performing regions, with the southeast experiencing the softest sales in August.

With respect to inventory, the Company continues to expect that total inventory will be below last year’s level at the end of the Back-to-School shopping season.

September Sales Outlook

Management’s guidance for the five-week period ending Oct. 4, 2008, is for a mid- to high-tiffany bracelets digit decrease in comparable store sales, compared to a 3.7 percent decrease during the same period last year.

JCPenney will release its September sales results before the market opens on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008, one day earlier than the originally scheduled date of Oct. 9, which coincides with the observance of Yom Kippur. The related sales recording will be available at the same time as the sales release.

CEO Mike Ullman Presentation at Goldman Sachs Global Retailing Conference

JCPenney’s Chairman and CEO, Mike Ullman, will be presenting at 10:25 a.m. Eastern time today, Sept. 3, at the Goldman Sachs 15th Annual Global Retailing Conference in New York City. A webcast link to Mr. Ullman’s presentation at the Conference is available on the JCPenney Investor Relations page at www.tiffany cufflinks.net.

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About JCPenney

JCPenney is one of America’s leading retailers, operating 1,083 department stores throughout the United States and Puerto Rico, as well as one of the largest apparel and home furnishing sites on the Internet, jcp.com, and the nation’s largest general merchandise catalog business. Through these integrated channels, JCPenney offers a wide array of national, private and exclusive brands which reflect the Company’s commitment to providing customers with style and quality at a smart price. Traded as “JCP” on the New York Stock Exchange, the Company posted revenue of $19.9 billion in 2007 and is executing its strategic plan to be the growth leader in the retail industry. Key to this strategy is JCPenney’s “Every Day Matters” brand positioning, intended to generate deeper, more emotionally driven relationships with customers by fully engaging the Company’s 155,000 Associates to offer encouragement, provide ideas and inspire customers every time they shop with JCPenney.

This release may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements, which reflect the Company’s current views of future events and financial performance, involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause the Company’s actual results to be materially different from planned or expected results. Those risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, general economic conditions, including inflation, recession, consumer spending patterns and tiffany pendants levels, the cost of goods, trade restrictions, changes in tariff, freight, paper and postal rates, changes in the cost of fuel and other energy and transportation costs, competition and retail industry consolidations, interest rate fluctuations, dollar and other currency valuations, risks associated with war, an act of terrorism or pandemic, and a systems failure and/or security breach that results in the theft, transfer or unauthorized disclosure of customer, employee or Company information. Please refer to the Company’s most recent Form 10-K and subsequent filings for a further discussion of risks and uncertainties. Investors should take such risks into account when making investment decisions. We do not undertake to update these forward-looking statements as of any future date.

Starting in 2006, investors started filing complaints and suing British American Homes, claiming the Florida company took their deposits but didn’t deliver the homes.

A federal judge put the company into involuntary bankruptcy last year. The sale of the property — for about $3.5 million — is expected to close in the next 30 days, said Leigh Meininger, a court-appointed trustee.

Repayment for investors and others could be years away, with a return of pennies on the dollar.

“I was in England three weeks ago. A lot of these folks mortgaged their house to come up with the down payment. Some of them are retired. It’s not easy for them,” said attorney Nick Bangos, who represents about 106 investors.

The development, called Elliot’s Landing, was marketed as a vacation haven in the booming Four Corners area, where signs for vacation homes dot U.S. Highway 27 near ChampionsGate.

Hudson Gabay, the principal of British American Homes, is being held on civil contempt charges in the Orange County Jail, in part to get information about possible assets. U.S. marshals arrested him in August on the contempt warrant.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has contacted investors. A spokeswoman for the tiffany rings said it is taking a preliminary look at the situation to see whether there is cause for an investigation.

The bankruptcy trustees are still trying to determine whether there are other assets that can be recovered to help pay off lien holders.

Gabay spent more than $15 million he collected but did nothing to develop the property, according to case documents. Court records show that he put money in personal accounts and used it to buy jewelry and other luxury items. The contracts had a waiver so that the deposits did not have to go into escrow.

The trustees are seeking to recover money from other parties — including the companies that sold goods to Gabay and a real estate company that sold many of the vacation units. The trustees are seeking more than $3 million from that company.

Meininger said it has been difficult to get answers about the money because Gabay claims many company records were lost or destroyed when rent was not paid on a storage facility.

“We don’t have an explanation of how money was spent,” Meininger said. “There a lot of unanswered questions. That’s the purpose of getting him [Gabay] in front of the court and us, the trustees.”

Investors typically put down deposits of about $50,000 per house. When the project stalled, some started suing in Circuit Court and another group filed a class-action suit in Miami-Dade County.

The bankruptcy proceeding takes precedence over the civil cases, Meininger said. Money from the land sale will be held in a trustee account with any distribution at least a year away.

Osceola County also has fined Gabay $420,000 because of damage to wetlands and the tiffanys removal of trees during land clearing.

Mark Pino can be reached at 407-931-5935 or mpino@orlandosentinel.com.

The group, home to fashion house Louis Vuitton and Veuve Clicquot champagne, sought to reassure investors by confirming its full-year target of a “tangible increase” in net profit. Sales between July and September totaled 4.16 billion euros ($5.69 billion), up from 4.03 billion euros last year.

Until recently, the luxury-goods industry seemed remarkably resilient amid the financial crisis. Wealthy clients in emerging markets propped up weakening demand in mature markets such as the U.S., Japan and Europe. Yet faltering stock markets in Russia and China, coupled with a slowdown in tourism during the Olympic Games in August, have led to concerns that the party is over. LVMH’s sales decelerated from 5% in the first half to 3.1% in the third quarter.

At LVMH, the Olympic Games put a brake on spending in Asia, a region that accounts for 21% of group sales, excluding Japan. Many Chinese stayed home during the two-week event, putting pressure on LVMH’s duty-free chain, DFS. For the group, August represented the weakest month of the quarter.

The slowdown was felt across LVMH’s divisions. LVMH’s star Louis Vuitton brand recorded sales growth on an organic basis — excluding currency effects — slightly below 10% in the third quarter, compared with growth of more than 10% in the first half. Italian fashion house Fendi saw sales increase above 10%. The wines and spirits division has clocked strong growth in Russia and China but the company said it is a “contrasting situation” in the rest of the world. The recent acquisition of watch brand Hublot boosted the watches and jewelry tiffany sale, which has been affected by a more difficult selling in the U.S.

LVMH’s third-quarter sales do not include yacht maker Royal van Lent, which it agreed to buy last month, since the acquisition hasn’t closed.

Dallas-based Neiman Marcus Inc. and Irving-based Zale Corp. reported some of the biggest December declines in the industry. Fort Worth-based Pier 1 Imports Inc. said sales fell 10 percent in December.

Deep discounting at J.C. Penney Co. led to a better-than-expected 8.1 percent decline in December same-store sales. Analysts had forecast a more than 10 percent drop.

The Plano-based department store chain said it expects to report a low double-digit decrease in January.

Penney said its aggressive pricing resulted in improved sales, particularly in the week leading up to bangles and the rest of the month. Penney and Kohl’s Corp. opened early the day after Christmas this year with doorbuster deals that went beyond the traditional holiday decor discounts.

Those extra promotions closer to Christmas partially offset weaker performance earlier in the month, Penney said Thursday. Internet sales also helped stem the decline. Women’s apparel and accessories and family shoes were the top performers, while fine jewelry continued to lag.

Neiman Marcus

Sales at Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman stores fell 31.2 percent in December. The luxury leader said weakness was in all merchandise categories and in all regions of the country.

Total December revenue fell 26.4 percent to $532 million from $723 million a year ago.

Combined Internet and catalog sales at Irving-based Neiman Marcus Direct, which includes Horchow, fell 9.2 rings last month. Children and beauty products performing above the rest.

Pier 1 Imports

The struggling home furnishings chain said its 10 percent decline in December same-store sales would have been about 1.5 percentage points better if it had excluded currency-conversion rates from the company’s Canadian stores.

Despite the recession, Pier 1 said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it anticipates it will be able to maintain merchandise margins this quarter. It’s negotiating lower rents and finding savings from cheaper fuel and excess capacity on ocean freighters.

Management said Pier 1 “has sufficient liquidity to withstand the economic downturn, but knows that it must be cautious in the short term.”

Zale

Zale’s December same-store sales decline of 22 percent is another example of how bracelets took a beating this holiday season.

For the two-month November-December total revenue fell 19.5 percent to $582 million from $723 million last year. The company also operates Gordon’s and Piercing Pagoda and is the largest jewelry chain in Canada.

November same-store sales fell 13 percent. Zale’s best days were during the Thanksgiving weekend and the days before and after Dec. 25.

Calling it the most difficult holiday season in memory, Zale chief executive Neal Goldberg said the company is in a strong position to take advantage of the “winnowing of competitors that we’ve already seen.”

Several jewelry chains closed down in 2008, including Chicago-based cufflinks and Dallas-based Friedman’s.

The morning was growing warmer, and the line — which already stretched more than a quarter-mile through a business park of low-rise warehouses — was growing longer. And Torres was reconsidering the appeal of a cheap, used computer.

“The line’s too long,” said Torres, a 28-year-old Sacramento resident. “It’s not worth it. I’ll go buy a discount tiffany for 100 bucks more. You could go to Costco for a brand new one.”

The first day of the sale attracted at least 5,000 bargain shoppers, said State and Consumer Services Agency spokeswoman Erin Shaw.

“We’re really thrilled that people are enjoying themselves and purchasing things,” Shaw said. “This is extending the life of state-purchased items.”

More than 6,000 items were on sale in the warehouse, said Shaw, and 600 cars, including a handful tiffany pendant visors autographed by the governor, were being sold or auctioned as well. As in 2004, when a similar sale took place, some items were also listed on eBay.

According to the Department of General Services’ Web site, sales Friday topped $1 million — just a drop in the $26 billion state budget deficit.

The event attracted shoppers curious to see the odd variety of items that had been collecting dust in state storage rooms, including used office furniture and computer equipment, digital cameras, sets of unused Kenmore washers and dryers, a handful of antique pianos and organs — and a variety of watches, rings and gold chains confiscated by the California Highway Patrol.

Some shoppers were disappointed. “All the good stuff is gone,” said Mirela Hrnic, who was sitting on top of a coffee table near the battered old pianos. “We wanted a flat-screen TV. There’s really nothing too interesting here for me.”

And despite the low prices, some people still wanted to make a better deal.

“People are asking to reduce prices,” said Geoff McLennan, who works for the state and volunteered at the sale. “They think it’s like a garage sale at home.”

Lisa Orta picked up a small filing cabinet and a flat-screen computer monitor for a total of $65. Isaiah Heath bought three office chairs and desks for a construction office in Lodi.

On the other hand, a six-color silk-screen printer and dental chairs — “It gives me the creeps just looking at them,” said Orta — clearly were intended for niche markets.

And the life-sized statue of Schwarzenegger in “Terminator” garb, standing in a big case just inside the warehouse’s entrance, wasn’t for sale at all.

By 10 a.m. Friday, a case of confiscated jewelry had been picked clean by eager shoppers, as had the selection of cameras, though Shaw said the shelves would be restocked overnight.

“It’s hectic in there,” said Edgar Racadio, 28, a Sacramento security guard. “I wanted to get a digital camera, but there’s a mob around that table. You could get to the outer rim, but there’s like three layers of people.”

In a parking lot a couple of blocks from the warehouse, Mahmoud Mabrouk and his 17-year-old son, Return to Tiffany heart tag Charm and bracelet, checked out long rows of Ford and Chevrolet cars that have been retired from the state fleet, weighing the options for Amir’s first vehicle.

“He’s not driving yet,” said Mahmoud, a civil engineer who works for the state.

“Almost,” said Amir, who attends Franklin High School. “And these are pretty good cars. But they have a lot of highway miles.”

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Next, let’s look at our results for the month of September. For the five weeks ended October 3, 2009, comparable store sales decreased 1.4%, which was better than the Company’s guidance for sales to decrease 3% to 6% for the month. In last year’s September period, comparable store sales decreased 12.4%. For the month, total Company sales decreased 0.6%.

From a merchandise perspective, women’s apparel was again a top-performing merchandise division in September, reflecting the Company’s ongoing progress in stepping up our style while maintaining the value pricing for which we are known. Shoes and children’s apparel were also top performers in the period. Fine jewelry continued to be our softest performing merchandise division.

By geography, the Southwest was the best performing region in September, with positive low single-digit comp sales and continued strength in California. The Northwest region had the weakest results.

Internet sales through jcp.com decreased 2.7%, reflecting the continuation of weaker demand for home merchandise, which is the largest merchandise area for our e-commerce site. Internet sales for the apparel divisions were more favorable especially in women’s apparel and shoes, where sales were up double digits to last year.

With respect to sales trends during the month, the first two weeks were relatively strong due to the shift of Labor Day and related back-to-school shopping into the September reporting period this year. The Company also experienced better-than-expected sales during the last week of the month.

During the September period, the Company opened three new stores, two in Texas and one in tiffany on sale, and 12 new Sephora inside JCPenney locations. This brings the Company’s total store count to 1109 and the total number of SiJCP locations to 155.

Turning to our outlook for October sales, management’s guidance for the four-week October period is comparable store sales to decrease in the range of 5% to 8%, compared to a 13% decrease during the same period last year. The Company anticipates a negative impact from Halloween falling on the final Saturday of the month, which is expected to lead to lighter than normal shopping during the afternoon and evening hours.

For third-quarter earnings, based on better-than-expected gross margin improvement during the first two months of the quarter, management now expects to report third-quarter earnings of $0.03 to $0.10 per share, compared to previous guidance for earnings to be in the range of a loss of $0.05 to earnings of $0.05 per share.

We will report our third-quarter results on Friday, November 13, 2009.

In closing, please join us on Thursday, November 5, 2009, when we will release our October sales results. Thank you for listening to the September 2009 JCPenney sales call.

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The question mark hanging over the sheikh’s means and the withdrawal of another potential suitor, Financire Saint-Germain seemed to narrow options for the troubled fashion house and its acclaimed designer. Italy’s Borletti Group, parent of Printemps and La Rinascente department stores, already withdrew from the process in September.

A judge is to rule on Lacroix’s future Dec. 1, which is seen as a final deadline for potential suitors to produce proof of funding for their relaunch plans.

We are still hopeful that any of the plans can be finalized. The Ajman offer remains our preference, said Nicolas Topiol, Lacroix’s chief executive officer.

I remain confident in the sheik’s will, Lacroix said.

Louis Petiet, head of French turnaround specialist Bernard Krief Consulting, told WWD he had signed an tiffany earring with Lacroix’s owners, Florida’s Falic Group, that could see the two firms team up on licensing. He said that scenario would give Krief control over couture, ready-to-wear and jewelry, and calls for a rollout of up to 200 boutiques in five years. It’s almost impossible to be a player in fashion with three shops, he said, noting Krief has invited the designer to be the creative leader of this new company, but without an equity stake.

Lacroix could not be reached for comment.

Meanwhile, the Falics have tabled a restructuring plan that would see the workforce cut to about a dozen from some 110 employees, reducing the 22-year-old fashion house to a licensing operation.

The Paris administrator had recently suggested the sheikh’s offer would likely meet approval of the court because it would preserve jobs and pay third-party debts. The sheikh’s legal representatives did not return phone calls Tuesday.

Christian Lacroix SNC filed for court protection from its creditors in May, reflecting the vulnerability of wholesale-charm bracelet brands amid the sharp downturn in luxury spending.

Falic Group had initiated an upscaling drive at Lacroix that coincided with the global economic crisis, and a steep drop in sales drove the company deeply into the red. Losses at Lacroix ballooned to about 10 million euros, or $14 million at current exchange, on revenues that have shriveled to an estimated 30 million euros, or $42 million.

Best known for its Duty Free Americas chain, Falic Group acquired Lacroix in 2005 from LVMH Mot Hennessy Louis Vuitton, which launched a couture house for Lacroix in 1987.

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Zale Corporation (NYSE: ZLC) reported today that comparable store sales decreased 12.0% for the tiffany jewelry sale months of November and December 2009, encompassing the entire holiday selling period. Total revenues for the two-month period were $494 million compared to $582 million last year, a decrease of 15.1%.

Within this two-month period, November same store sales declined 18.6% and December same store sales declined 9.2%. During the holiday selling period, the Company maintained pricing and promotional discipline which favorably impacted gross margin performance and appreciably mitigated the impact of reduced sales on aggregate margin dollars.

About Zale Corporation

Zale Corporation is a leading specialty retailer of diamonds and other jewelry products in North America, operating approximately 1,900 retail locations throughout the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico, as well as online. Zale Corporation’s brands include Zales Jewelers, Zales Outlet, Gordon’s Jewelers, Peoples Jewellers, Mappins tiffany bracelets and Piercing Pagoda. Zale also operates online at www.zales.com, www.zalesoutlet.com and www.gordonsjewelers.com. Additional information on Zale Corporation and its brands is available at www.zalecorp.com.