{"content":[{"text":"growing our product offering, added features and technologies that consumers desire, and \n supported these efforts with effective marketing. In the fourth quarter alone, we supported \n our Skechers GOwalk, Daddy’s Money and SKCH+3 product lines with new commercials, as \n well as commercials for our Bobs from Skechers line with Brooke Burke, and our Relaxed Fit \n by Skechers styles with three spots featuring sports icons Mark Cuban, Joe Montana and \n Tommy Lasorda. To date in this quarter, we aired a new Skechers GOrun2 commercial \n during the Super Bowl, as well as a new Relaxed Fit Joe Montana spot. The recent \n highlights for our product and marketing are many, including receiving eight awards from \n noted running and fitness publications for our performance footwear, and elite runner Meb \n achieving his personal best in Skechers GOrun, becoming the fastest American marathon \n runner and placing fourth at the 2012 Olympics. Our focus and execution have translated \n into a strong fourth quarter, and as we continue to grow our businesses around the world, we \n believe this positive momentum will continue and we will experience a strong first half of \n 2013.”","bbox":{"left":0.098039,"top":0.06867,"width":0.805138,"height":0.250829}},{"text":"Mr. Weinberg added, “2012 marked a return to profitability with growth in all of our revenue \n channels in the fourth quarter. With backlogs up double digits for our combined domestic \n and international wholesale businesses, and a strong start to the first quarter, we are \n confident that our growth trend will continue in 2013. We are looking forward to our \n Fall/Winter 2013 domestic and international trade shows later this month, delivering fresh \n Spring product around the world, and opening 30 to 35 new Company-owned SKECHERS \n retail stores this year. With a cash position of $325.8 million and inventory levels in line with \n our projected growth, we believe we are well positioned for growth across all our platforms.”","bbox":{"left":0.098039,"top":0.335716,"width":0.793486,"height":0.142874}},{"text":"ABOUT SKECHERS USA, Inc.","bbox":{"left":0.098039,"top":0.494806,"width":0.26900500000000005,"height":0.01692699999999997}},{"text":"SKECHERS USA, Inc., based in Manhattan Beach, California, designs, develops and \n markets a diverse range of footwear for men, women and children under the SKECHERS \n name, as well as under several uniquely branded names. SKECHERS footwear is available \n in the United States via department and specialty stores, Company-owned SKECHERS retail \n stores and its e-commerce website, and over 100 countries and territories through the \n Company’s global network of distributors and subsidiaries in Canada, Brazil, Chile, Japan \n and across Europe, as well as through joint ventures in Asia. For more information, please \n visit www.skechers.com, and follow us on Facebook (www.facebook.com/SKECHERS) and \n Twitter (twitter.com/SKECHERSUSA).","bbox":{"left":0.098039,"top":0.52795,"width":0.805003,"height":0.16086699999999998}},{"text":"This announcement may contain forward-looking statements that are made pursuant to the \n safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward- \n looking statements include, without limitation, any statement that may predict, forecast, \n indicate or simply state future results, performance or achievements, and can be identified by \n the use of forward looking language such as \"believe,\" \"anticipate,\" \"expect,\" \"estimate,\" \n \"intend,\" \"plan,\" \"project,\" \"will be,\" \"will continue,\" \"will result,\" \"could,\" \"may,\" \"might,\" or any \n variations of such words with similar meanings. Any such statements are subject to risks and \n uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in \n forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause or contribute to such differences \n include international, national and local general economic, political and market conditions \n including the ongoing global economic slowdown and market instability; entry into the highly \n competitive performance footwear market; sustaining, managing and forecasting costs and \n proper inventory levels; losing any significant customers, decreased demand by industry","bbox":{"left":0.098039,"top":0.705034,"width":0.806736,"height":0.23283599999999993}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}