Christopher & Banks Corporation Expands Board of Directors.MINNEAPOLIS -- Christopher & Banks Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CBK CBK Common Body of Knowledge CBK Commerzbank AG CBK Central Bank of Kuwait CBK Commercial Bank of Kuwait CBK Christiania Bank og Kreditkasse CBK Campus Beiaard Kring CBK Cannabis-Bundeskonferenz (Germany) ) today announced that Mark A. Cohn has been elected to its Board of Directors effective October 2, 2006. The election of Mr. Cohn increases the number of Board seats to eight and the number of independent directors to seven. Mark A. Cohn, 49, currently is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Third Season, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control (Third Season), a company which he founded in 2003. Third Season serves as a holding company, or incubator incubator, apparatus for the maintenance of controlled conditions in which eggs can be hatched artificially. Incubator houses with double walls of mud, a fireroom, and several compartments each holding about 6,000 hens' eggs were developed in ancient times; the , of a number of small micro consumer marketing companies including Second Act, LLC, an online retailer of consumer electronics. Mr. Cohn was a founder of Damark International Inc., a consumer catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. company. He served as the company's Chief Executive Officer from the company's inception in 1986 until February 2001. Mr. Cohn is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Children's Hospital A children's hospital is a hospital which offers its services exclusively to children. The number of children's hospitals proliferated in the 20th century, as pediatric medical and surgical specialties separated from internal medicine and adult surgical specialties. and Clinics of Minnesota. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of COKeM International, Ltd., a privately held wholesaler of video game and home entertainment software. In addition, Mr. Cohn is a member of the Board of Directors of Bellacor.com, Inc., a privately held online retailer of lighting and home furnishing products. Joe Pennington Joe Pennington, aka "Joe Penny," (born January 15, 1928 in Plant City, Florida) is a former lead guitarist for Hank Williams' backing band, the Drifting Cowboys. After leaving the Drifting Cowboys in 1948, Pennington continued to perform and recorded several pioneering , Chief Executive Officer, commented, "We are extremely pleased to have Mark join our Board of Directors. His expertise in direct channel selling will be a great benefit to the Company as we continue our growth. We are confident that Mark's executive experience and marketing knowledge will be a tremendous asset to our business." About Christopher & Banks Christopher & Banks Corporation is a Minneapolis-based specialty retailer of women's clothing. The Company operates 757 stores in 45 states under the names: Christopher & Banks, C.J. Banks and Acorn. The Company currently has 518 Christopher & Banks stores, 207 C.J. Banks stores and 32 Acorn stores. This release contains forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. . The achievement of such results is subject to certain risks and uncertainties and may differ materially from those projected. Such risk factors include, but are not limited to, changes in economic, market and weather conditions, shifts in consumer tastes and spending habits that result in decreased sales, failure to realize expected economies gained through the use of private label and direct import merchandise, problems in managing our growth and other factors outside the Company's control, including factors discussed from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which reflect management's analysis only as of the date hereof. The Company undertakes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that may arise after the date hereof. |
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