Footwear offering includes Warner Bros. Animated Characters Droopy
Dog, Top Cat, and Southern Huckleberry Hound
MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
Ruh-Roh! Global footwear industry leader Skechers today announced that
it has partnered with Warner Bros. Consumer Products to introduce a
collaboration on its BOBS from Skechers footwear that will feature the
world-famous mystery solving canine Scooby-Doo – plus the lovably shrewd
Droopy Dog, streetwise con Top Cat and sweet Southern Huckleberry Hound.
Skechers launches a new charitable BOBS collection starring Scooby-Doo and his friends. (Photo: Business Wire)
Skechers launches a new charitable BOBS collection starring Scooby-Doo and his friends. (Photo: Business Wire)
“We wanted to add animated star power to our successful BOBS from
Skechers collection, and Scooby-Doo and friends really raise the bar,”
said Michael Greenberg, president of Skechers. “We’ve had great success
helping shelter pets over the years with our BOBS collection—and now
with these iconic characters on our team, we’re reaching new fans who
can only help drive awareness for our charity efforts to save even more
dogs and cats.”
First to launch will be Scooby-Doo with other characters following soon
after. With Scooby celebrating his 50th birthday later this
year, the collection is expected to resonate with consumers of all ages.
Skechers has donated more than $3.4 million to support shelter pets
since 2016, and is now partnering with the Petco Foundation to support
the organization’s 4,000-strong charity network: for every pair of BOBS
from Skechers shoes sold at Petco stores, Petco.com, Skechers stores and
other national retail stores and online shopping sites in the United
States, Skechers will donate twenty-five cents to the Petco Foundation
to help animals across the country. Over the past three years, the
Company has helped more than 583,000 shelter pets, including saving the
lives of more than 241,000 rescued animals in the United States.
The BOBS x Warner Bros. collection from Skechers for women will be
available in Skechers retail stores, Skechers.com
and select department and specialty stores across the United States and
worldwide. Availability will expand to additional retail partners
globally for the back-to-school season.
To learn more, follow BOBS from Skechers on Facebook,
Twitter,
Instagram
and Pinterest,
or visit www.BOBSfromSKECHERS.com.
About Skechers U.S.A., Inc.
Based in Manhattan Beach, California, Skechers (NYSE:SKX) designs,
develops and markets a diverse range of lifestyle footwear for men,
women and children, as well as performance footwear for men and women.
Skechers footwear is available in the United States and over 170
countries and territories worldwide via department and specialty stores,
more than 3,060 Skechers Company-owned and third-party-owned retail
stores, and the Company’s e-commerce websites. The Company manages its
international business through a network of global distributors, joint
venture partners in Asia, Israel and Mexico, and wholly-owned
subsidiaries in Canada, Japan, India, and throughout Europe and Latin
America. For more information, please visit about.skechers.com and
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About Warner Bros. Consumer Products
Warner Bros. Consumer Products (WBCP), a Warner Bros. Entertainment
Company, extends the Studio’s powerful portfolio of entertainment brands
and franchises into the lives of fans around the world. WBCP partners
with best-in-class licensees globally on an award-winning range of toys,
fashion, home décor, and publishing inspired by franchises and
properties such as DC, Wizarding World, Looney Tunes and Hanna-Barbera.
The division’s successful global themed entertainment business includes
groundbreaking experiences such as The Wizarding World of Harry Potter
and Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi. With innovative global licensing and
merchandising programs, retail initiatives, promotional partnerships and
themed experiences, WBCP is one of the leading licensing and retail
merchandising organizations in the world.
This announcement contains forward-looking statements that are made
pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements include,
without limitation, Skechers’ future domestic and international growth,
financial results and operations including expected net sales and
earnings, its development of new products, future demand for its
products, its planned domestic and international expansion, opening of
new stores and additional expenditures, and advertising and marketing
initiatives. Forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of
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“estimate,” “intend,” “plan,” “project,” “will be,” “will continue,”
“will result,” “could,” “may,” “might,” or any variations of such words
with similar meanings. Any such statements are subject to risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from
those projected in forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause
or contribute to such differences include international economic,
political and market conditions including the challenging consumer
retail markets in the United States; sustaining, managing and
forecasting costs and proper inventory levels; losing any significant
customers; decreased demand by industry retailers and cancellation of
order commitments due to the lack of popularity of particular designs
and/or categories of products; maintaining brand image and intense
competition among sellers of footwear for consumers, especially in the
highly competitive performance footwear market; anticipating,
identifying, interpreting or forecasting changes in fashion trends,
consumer demand for the products and the various market factors
described above; sales levels during the spring, back-to-school and
holiday selling seasons; and other factors referenced or incorporated by
reference in Skechers’ annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended
December 31, 2018. The risks included here are not exhaustive. Skechers
operates in a very competitive and rapidly changing environment. New
risks emerge from time to time and the companies cannot predict all such
risk factors, nor can the companies assess the impact of all such risk
factors on their respective businesses or the extent to which any
factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual results to differ
materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements. Given
these risks and uncertainties, you should not place undue reliance on
forward-looking statements as a prediction of actual results. Moreover,
reported results should not be considered an indication of future
performance.
Jennifer Clay
SKECHERS USA
[email protected]
(310)
937-1326
Source: Skechers U.S.A., Inc.