Corporate Profile for Wolverine World Wide, Inc., dated April 26.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The following Corporate Profile is available for inclusion in your files. News releases for this client are distributed by Business Wire and also become part of the leading databases and information services See Information Systems. . These include Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance News/Retrieval, Bloomberg Financial Markets, Reuter Company Newsyear, Reuter Business Briefing, DataTimes, Nexis, Dialog, NewsNet, America OnLine, CompuServe, Delphi, Individual's HeadsUp and First!, Desktop Data's NewsEdge, UMI UMI University Microfilms International UMI United States Minor Outlying Islands (ISO Country code) UMI University of Miami UMI Universal Management Infrastructure (IBM) Data Courier, NewsBank, Information Access Company and many others. -0- Published date: April 26, 1996 Company name: Wolverine World Wide, Inc.
Address: 9341 Courtland Drive N.E.
Rockford, MI 49351
Telephone No.: 616/866-5500 Chief Executive Officer: Geoffrey B. Bloom Chief Financial Officer: Stephen L. Gulis, Jr. Investor Relations Contact: Thomas P. Mundt Business number: 616/866-5589 Public Relations Contact: Seyferth & Associates Business number: 616/776-3511 Fax number: 616/776-3502 Trading symbol: WWW (NYSE) Industry: Footwear Manufacturing
Market Makers: Smith Barney, Montgomery Securities, Gerard
Klauer Mattison, Value Line, Buckingham, Bankers
Trust
Company description: Net sales Net Sales The amount a seller receives from the buyer after costs associated with the sale are deducted. Notes: This amount is calculated by subtracting the following items from gross sales: merchandise returned for credit, allowances for damaged or missing goods, freight , 1995: $414 million; net sales, 1994: $378 million. Wolverine World Wide Wolverine World Wide NYSE: WWW is a footwear manufacturer. They have their own brand, Wolverine Boots and Shoes, and also make footwear for other companies, such as Caterpillar and Harley-Davidson. Wolverine also makes shoes and boots for the military. (WWW WWW or W3: see World Wide Web. (World Wide Web) The common host name for a Web server. The "www-dot" prefix on Web addresses is widely used to provide a recognizable way of identifying a Web site. ) is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of a broad range of comfortable casual shoes, rugged outdoor footwear, slippers and moccasins. Consumers on six continents purchased 30 million pairs of WWW brand products including Hush Puppies(R), Wolverine wolverine or glutton, largest member of the weasel family, Gulo gulo, found in the northern parts of North America and Eurasia, usually in high mountains near the timberline or in tundra. , Bates Bates , Katherine Lee 1859-1929. American educator and writer best known for her poem "America the Beautiful," written in 1893 and revised in 1904 and 1911. , Caterpillar, Coleman and Hy-Test. These sales generated $414 million in revenue, a 10 percent increase, and $24.1 million in net income, a 33 percent increase, in 1996. -0- During 1995 WWW stock performed as follows:
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High 19 1/8 24 1/4 28 1/8 34 1/8 Low 15 3/8 18 7/8 19 5/8 25 1/2 CONTACT: Wolverine World Wide, Inc., Rockford |
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