Welcome to the Wolverine World Wide fourth quarter and full year 2008 earnings conference call. (Operator Instructions) I would now like to introduce Christi Cowden, Director of Investor Relations and Communications for Wolverine World Wide.

Good morning everyone and welcome to our fourth quarter and full year conference call. On the call today are Blake Krueger, our President and CEO and Don Grimes, our Senior Vice President and CFO. Other members of the Wolverine management team are sitting in as well. Earlier this morning we announced our fourth quarter and full year 2008 results. If you did not yet receive a copy of the press release please call Amanda Passage at 616-233-0500 to have one sent to you. The release is also available on many news sites or it can be viewed from our corporate website at www.wolverineworldwide.com. Before I turn the call over to Blake Krueger to comment on our results, I would like to remind you that the predictions and projections made in today’s conference call regarding Wolverine World Wide and its operations, may be considered forward-looking statements by securities laws. As a result, we must caution that as with any prediction or projection there are a number of factors that could cause results to differ materially. These important risk factors are identified in the company’s SEC filings and in our press releases. With that being said I would now like to turn the call over to Blake.

Thanks Christi, good morning to everybody and thanks for joining us today. The 2008 year was a very good year for our company and I am pleased to report another record year of revenue and earnings. This marks our eighth consecutive year of both record revenue and earnings per share, something we are very proud of given the challenging economic environment. Our consistent performance is a testament to our team’s rigorous execution against our diversified business model which is multi brand, multi country, and multi category in nature. Three of our four operating groups contributed to our record 2008 revenue led by the outdoor group and the Merrell brand. Our international businesses also had a very strong year. We recently made some tough decisions and announced a number of strategic moves which were centered on improving our operating efficiencies, strengthening our supply chain and enhancing our service levels. These initiatives which will consolidate and realign our operating infrastructure and global supply chain position us to take advantage of longer-term opportunities but also help us address the shorter-term economic headwinds. We plan to have our strategic restructuring plan fully implemented by the end of this year. The beneficial impact of these moves has been incorporated into the 2009 revenue and earnings guidance we issued today. I would like to begin my brand review with Hush Puppies. Overall Hush Puppies experienced a mid single-digit revenue decline for the full year and a low double-digit decline for the fourth quarter. The unprecedented strengthening of the US dollar contributed to the reported revenue decline in Q4. The Hush Puppies international business posted another record year with strong double-digit revenue and earnings increases. Building controlled global distribution on what is already a very strong base, is a key strategic objectives for Hush Puppies. During the…

Thank you Blake and good morning everyone. This morning I will review the financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended January 3, 2009 in a little more detail and then I’ll provide some perspective on how we see the current fiscal year. Earlier today we reported record financial results for the company’s fiscal year ended this past January 3, our eighth consecutive year of both record revenue and earnings per share, performance for which we are justifiably very proud. Revenue for the quarter totaled $346.1 million a 3.2% decrease when compared to revenue of $357.4 million in the prior year’s fourth quarter. Negative foreign exchange reduced the quarter revenue growth by 3.3% so on a constant currency basis we had essentially flat revenue in the quarter. Adjusting further for the absence in this year’s fourth quarter of revenue from Hush Puppies slippers, Stanley, and private label businesses, lines the company decided to discontinue over a year ago revenue growth in the quarter was plus 1.3%. Earnings per fully diluted share of $0.49 in the quarter equaled the $0.49 per share in the fourth quarter of the prior year. Revenue for the full year was $1.221 billion, a 1.8% increase over prior year revenue of $1.199 billion. The impact of foreign exchange on full year revenue was minimal as foreign exchange benefits in the first half of the year were essentially offset in the fourth quarter. Earnings per fully diluted share were $1.90 for the year up 11.8% from the $1.70 in the prior year. We had excellent leverage as earnings per share growth in the year was more then six times the rage of revenue growth. Full year gross margin expanded by 40 basis points, excellent performance in a retail environment that became more challenging as the…

Thanks Don, we are obviously pleased to have delivered another record year. Our strong and diversified business model which enables us to efficiently build global brand, limits risk, and gain market share while delivering for our shareholders, is very good and operates in a variety of economic climates. Above all we remain focused on delivering new, exciting, and innovative product to our loyal consumers. Thanks for your time this morning, we’ll now take your questions.

(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from the line of Jim Duffy – Thomas Weisel Jim Duffy – Thomas Weisel: Can you characterize the types of products from, maybe an example of the types of products from Merrell that you invested in in advance of the capitalized unfavorable costing and maybe quantify what the costing benefit was of taking that inventory early.

If you looked at it in terms of product categories it would concentrate mostly in the multi sport, in the chameleon area, as well as some in the moc area so it was basically core, carry over product. I think another thing you have to keep in mind about the inventory is we were down about $18 million at the end of 2007 so this $30 million or thereabouts comparison is against an inventory level that was probably a little low last year. Just to quantify the whole inventory situation, I would think the strengthening dollar more then offset some of the cancellations we had in the quarter, that might be a good way to view it. And then the rest of it was split almost a third, a third, a third, between timing, our 53rd week, our strategic purchases and cost increases that came last year that frankly was built into our inventory. Jim Duffy – Thomas Weisel: Its easy to bring some of the inventory in early can you characterize the margin benefits you’ll see from that.

The benefit that related to the inventory pre buy actually is a little bit less now then what we thought we actually, with the excess capacity that factories have, the actual cost increases that we were anticipating that were being discussed when we made the pre buy decision have evaporated some, which is really a positive thing. The net financial benefit is somewhat minimal but I think it was a good strategic decision at the time and obviously the only impact is on year-end working capital because we do have, its core product and we feel like we’ll be able to sell it a full margin. Jim Duffy – Thomas Weisel: You spoke to price increases expected for the year, how much, what’s the order of magnitude there?

We’re really in the process of bringing those down. As you know we did a pretty good job last year of mitigating price increases for product in 2008, keeping it low to mid single-digits. Obviously the back half of the year there were much higher price increases that the factories tried to put through for 2009. We’re in the process right now frankly of reducing those and taking those price increases down.

Our spring 2009 price list on average are in the mid single-digit year-over-year increase but I think fall 2009 is a little bit in a state of flux as it relates to what the actual product cost will be and I would expect fall 2009 year-over-year price increases to be a bit less then that. Jim Duffy – Thomas Weisel: In that context, not the most favorable environment to be launching new retail concepts, have you been favorably inclined towards the performance of the Merrell stores and do you continue to see that as a strategic direction for the company.

We do, if you break down our own retail business last year, it was rather interesting. The outlets of course like everybody’s outlets suffered from lower traffic simply because you didn’t have to go to an outlet mall to get a discount last year as we all know. But even last year our full price concept stores Track and Trail, and then a few Merrell stores we had opened had a mid single-digit comp store increase which was significantly better then the FDRA numbers that were published. We had almost a 30% increase last year in our ecommerce business so we’ve been very pleased with the performance of Track and Trail. We’ve been very pleased with the performance of Merrell stores. We have plans this year to open probably a net eight stores and four or five of those stores would be Merrell stores, full priced Merrell stores, just to put it in perspective. So certainly as measured against the industry and some other distribution channels our concept stores did very well. The new Merrell store in San Francisco on Union Square continues to do very well as well. Jim Duffy – Thomas Weisel: On CapEx budget for 2009—

We’re targeting in the range of $20 million. We’ll continue to evaluate that over the first half of the year. That compares to $24 million in 2008.

Your next question comes from the line of Chris Svezia – Susquehanna Financial Chris Svezia – Susquehanna Financial : On the backlog position, I was wondering if you could maybe add some color where it stood and maybe some color between domestic and international would be helpful as well.

I guess we all know that orders either at once or future orders have been very volatile the whole fourth quarter from retailers as really their whole retail, and that’s large department stores down to mom and pops, really focused on reducing their inventory trying to catch falling consumer demand. That being said I’ve really never seen a time like the present when our order backlog or anybody’s order backlog was probably less relevant as a predictor of future sales. For us at year-end overall we had about a mid single-digit decrease in pairs in our order backlog, when you exclude the timing of some large low margin orders related to the Bates military business. So I will say that since year end over the last four weeks our backlog position has improved significantly but in this environment I’m sure you can appreciate that the orders, there’s still quite a bit of volatility in the orders. The retailers are really requiring the brand owners and the wholesalers to carry what they need so they can order the merchandise and get it when they need it, and we’re pretty good at that.

There was no material difference between our international backlog position and our domestic position. Chris Svezia – Susquehanna Financial : When you talk about down mid single-digit in pairs, how should we look at that from a dollar value perspective.

On a constant currency basis and taking out some pretty significant low margin Bates business that was in the backlog at this point last year, the dollars were down mid single-digits. Chris Svezia – Susquehanna Financial : When you’re giving your revenue targets broadly speaking for 2009 and you’re talking down five to up one and a half ex currency, and when you talk about with currency it looks like its down 12 to down six give or take, can you talk about as you see right now, I know visibility is difficult in terms of what potentially will be the drivers and assuming incrementally the Merrell business, maybe just talk about Hush Puppies just near-term what the outlook looks like and just add some color about segment drivers as we look to 2009.

To be honest all of our branded groups had a very good 2008 and so when you have the advantage of operating in about 180 countries around the world with eight to 10 brands you really have the ability under our business model to diversify risk. We’re really not subject to, while we’re not immune from the current consumer environment and consumer spending, we’re certainly not exposed to any single country, any single fashion trend or risk. We expect all of our brands to grow next year, first and foremost we’re going to stay fanatically focused on creative product. As you know we’re not a fast follower. We don’t follow fashion trends, we try and look out over the next two hills and set trends with each of our brands and I think some of the success we had in 2008 is directly attributable to that focus on superior product. You saw that in Merrell and the new ICS product that’s coming out in Bates and the Wolverine brand and really spread across our lines. As far as trends are concerned, we’re seeing a little bit of a boot trend coming back, its not quite the [Halcyon] days yet maybe of the mid 90’s with Nirvana and grunge and everything else but you are seeing a boot trend emerge in Europe and several other markets.

Although we don’t offer revenue guidance by individual brands or operating groups, if you take the relative performance of our operating groups and our brands in 2008 and extrapolate that over the guidance that we’ve offered up for 2009 that would give you some perspective on how we think things are going to look. Also I will say that we’re expecting tougher first half comparisons then the second half in terms of year-over-year growth. Chris Svezia – Susquehanna Financial : On the fourth quarter you mentioned the outdoor group was down mid single-digits, just point of clarification, how much can you break out possibly was Merrell ex currency. Just trying to get some feel around what was going on domestically versus international on the Merrell brand.

Of that mid single-digit decline, about a third of the decline was driven by FX and the outdoor group as I’m sure you appreciate Merrell is the driver, the dominant brand within that outdoor group. Chris Svezia – Susquehanna Financial : So it was down a bit in the US just given what was going on in the fourth quarter.

As you know Merrell is very, very strong in the US in the outdoor specialty segment either the chains or the mom and pop operators and while no distribution channel is immune from the current environment really that outdoor specialty channel which is an enthusiast distribution channel really got by the first three quarters of last year pretty clean but even they were impacted in the fourth quarter of 2008. Chris Svezia – Susquehanna Financial : On the pension expense, historically when you were fully funded, what impact did that have if any on your P&L, just trying to get an idea of how we should look at this, if this is obviously a cash item, just how we should be looking at this number as we go through 2009.

There are two issues, one is the pension expense that will record per GAAP and the other is the pension-funded status and the year-over-year incremental pension expense in 2009 will be the $9 million or the $0.12 a share that we talked about. The pension plan as of the end of 2008 are fairly significantly underfunded as probably a lot of the [bond] benefit pension plans are so we’ll have a more significant cash contribution to our pension plan in 2008 in fact exceeding the actual dollar amount of the pension expense. We’re still working through what our funded target status will be so I can’t give you an exact number today but there will be a pretty significant contribution to the pension plans during 2009. Chris Svezia – Susquehanna Financial : So they are cash expenses that flow through the P&L and flow through cash flow statement.

They’re different but they’re related I guess.

Your next question comes from the line of Mitch Kummetz – Robert W. Baird Mitch Kummetz – Robert W. Baird: You made the comment just on your sales outlook for the year, tougher first half comparison then second half comparison so I’m guessing your sales outlook for the year suggests that sales are going to be down more on a percentage basis in the first half then the second half.

That would be a correct statement. Mitch Kummetz – Robert W. Baird: What visibility do you have at this point on the second half, have you received any fall 2009 orders or had many conversations on fall 2009 yet to give you any visibility there?

We certainly have a lot better visibility on the first half then the second half. As Blake mentioned when talking about the backlog we’ve been encouraged by the order trends over the last, the first four to five weeks of the current fiscal year so that our views on the second half aren’t based strictly on blind optimism, its based on more recent order patterns and conversations and discussions that we have with our key retail customers. Mitch Kummetz – Robert W. Baird: On the SG&A in terms of your outlook for the year there, you said that you would expect benefits to accelerate over the course of the year, was that comment specific to the cost savings that you would expect coming out of the restructuring or did that include just overall SG&A including belt tightening over the course of the year.

That includes both. Mitch Kummetz – Robert W. Baird: On the call a month ago when you announced the restructuring plan you talked about annual cost savings from that plan of $17 to $19 million, I know you’re not expecting to get all of that this year, how much do you think you can get in 2009 out of that restructuring, how much is built into the guidance.

We’re not quoting a specific number of the $17 to $19 million. Obviously that $18 million midpoint once fully executed will be the net savings that we will be realizing versus what we otherwise would have been recording as cost of sales and operating expenses but I guess we’re proving a little flexibility in terms of when we’re able to execute some of these. There’s some pretty comprehensive large initiatives related to distribution consolidation and manufacturing realignment and so we’re giving ourselves a little wiggle room, the number is not insignificant built into the 2009 plan but we’re not offering up the number in terms of what the benefits will be in 2009. Mitch Kummetz – Robert W. Baird: On gross margin for the year you said flat down in the first half up in the second half, you talked about cost impact and then some pricing, what about the impact of FX on your margins for the year, are those also going to put more pressure on the first half then the second half.

Yes they will. Just to clarify, when you said I said gross margin would be down first half, FX would be a drag and product costs would be a drag in the first half versus second half. I didn’t offer any guidance on gross margin first half versus second half. Mitch Kummetz – Robert W. Baird: On the new brands that you’ve acquired can you talk about what sales and earnings impact you would expect to see from those brands in 2009.

We’re not disclosing those brands’ revenue. We have built into the guidance a small operating loss on both brands as we make needed investments and as I said, design development and infrastructure. But very modest operating loss in 2009, really the benefit will be in the 2010 season.

We’ll be having a broader launch for both brands in spring 2010 just to give you a little more insight. Cushe today is not a, it may be a gem but its not a very large brand. We said before its less then 100,000 and Chaco has been in the $20 million range, just to give you some idea. Mitch Kummetz – Robert W. Baird: You mentioned that guidance for the year assumes some strengthening of the US dollar, can you put that in context, how much strengthening is baked into the outlook.

We’re planning on $1.30 for the dollar versus the pound and $1.20 versus the Euro and $0.75 versus the Canadian dollar. Put that in perspective our average rates in 2008 for the pound was $1.86, so that’s a 30% strengthening of the dollar. The average rate on the Euro was $1.47 for us, so that’s almost a 20% strengthening of the dollar versus the Euro and then we experienced $0.95 versus the Canadian dollar, so that’s a strengthening of about 20% versus the Canadian dollar as well. So that contributes most of that $90 million of negative foreign exchange impact on the revenue line. Mitch Kummetz – Robert W. Baird: On the inventory the items that you mentioned, I assume you put those in order of magnitude in terms of the inventory increase.

Yes but as Blake mentioned they were all fairly close in terms of dollar impact. Mitch Kummetz – Robert W. Baird: So how much, the last one you mentioned was lower Q4 sales and I guess there’s some excess inventory generated as a result of that, how do you think about that, is that going to put pressure on the gross margin in the first quarter in particular as you move through some stuff. It didn’t sound like you really felt like there was a lot of at risk inventory.

Really don’t, we’ve had close out sales of our, we sold close out inventory of about $40 million during the course of 2008. We feel really good about where we are even though the year-over-year dollar increase is somewhat significant and the percentage increase. As Blake mentioned 2007 inventory was down pretty significantly versus 2006 so its been a hot topic of conversation and has been addressed at length internally and we feel good about what our plans are to move through the inventory without any detrimental impact to our gross margin. Mitch Kummetz – Robert W. Baird: Shares outstanding in the fourth quarter, average shares?

In the quarter we had 45.5 million shares outstanding on a weighted average. At year-end we had 48.9 million shares out.

Your next question comes from the line of Todd Slater – Lazard Capital Todd Slater – Lazard Capital: Can you give us a bit more color on what you’re seeing internationally in Europe in terms of maybe individual geographies, how fast is the environment slowing, where are the relative stronger versus weaker markets, and what you’re seeing maybe in Asia as well.

I think the slowdown in consumer spending has spread to a certain degree across borders. Probably the US was still one of the first countries to be effected maybe followed by the UK. We still have some very good markets in Europe and we have some softer markets in Europe and that’s generally true around the world. You’re seeing a softening of demand. We’re pretty fortunate to be in the footwear industry. Historically in tough times the footwear industry suffers less and you saw that when you looked at the fourth quarter by product category numbers in just the US so luckily in some of the apparel categories we’re down two, two plus times the amount of footwear. Still was a tough quarter for footwear in the US but historically speaking the footwear industry does pretty good. If you’re out with great product even in tough times you’re going to do pretty good. Todd Slater – Lazard Capital: If I could just get your view of what you’re seeing in terms of the stress on the retail environment if you think about the types of customers you ship to, how would you characterize the health of the department store world versus the athletic stores versus the specialty mom and pops, and have you assumed some store take outs and rationalization in the supply in your 2009 projections.

I would think having been around retail recently I think all retailers, mom and pops up through the larger department stores focused on inventory reduction obviously, lots of promotions in Q4. They were trying to catch the falling consumer spending. I think you’re going to see some more stress on some of the larger chains both in the US and some other select markets. Most of the independents, the smaller operators, they’re pretty sharp people the ones that are left and they’re going to do just fine. They were probably some of the quickest people to respond to the current situation. So from what I’m seeing at retail right now I think overall people did a fairly good job in trying to adjust inventories in Q4. At some point they’re going to need to have inventory on their shelves when their customers are walking through the front door to sell them if they’re going to generate gross margin dollars. In that respect as you know for a couple of years, we’ve been focusing on our narrow and deep inventory positions and that’s very good in this current environment.

I’m sure you’re aware of the [Stylo] reorganization in the UK which is one of our major retail customers for Hush Puppies and CAT brands in particular, and our guidance and our plans for 2009 certainly factor in their planned reorganization and the likelihood that a number of their doors will close. We are factoring that into our thinking for 2009 and our guidance. Todd Slater – Lazard Capital: So it sounds like you’re saying the independents are relatively stronger, just curious what percent of your order book is from that bucket and are you seeing better order trends relatively speaking out of that group.

We’re seeing pretty good order trends the last four or five weeks from a lot of different channels. As you know our company in total has relatively low exposure to the US department store segment. Merrell for example does only about 20% of its total USA volume with department stores, Nordstrom’s, Dillard’s, and a couple of others. As a company we have relatively low percentage of our overall sales domestically through the department store channel.

Your next question comes from the line of Jeff Blaeser – Morgan Joseph Jeff Blaeser – Morgan Joseph: What are your expectations for store and shop in shop growth in 2009 and do you expect any impact from potential bankruptcies.

I don’t see any potential, when we looked at us opening concept stores, I’ve already given you those numbers for our own territories, we’re going to be opening a couple of stores in Montreal, and a store or two in Europe, and some more Merrell stores here in the United States. Our international partners though, we had very high number of store openings and shop in shops that were put in place in 2008. That’s been a focus area of ours for some time. The return on shop in shops is as you know very, very high, so where appropriate we certainly have the resources and the inclination to put in as many shop in shops as is consistent with the brand distribution strategy. So I don’t, our own store plans are pretty well set and we’re working closely with our international partners to increase their controlled distribution as well. Jeff Blaeser – Morgan Joseph: So you would expect it to increase in some number in 2009.

Clearly an increase, maybe not the same rate that we experienced in 2008 which was quite pleasing to see the number of, the increase in the number of points of controlled distribution. Jeff Blaeser – Morgan Joseph: Then going to Heritage and Wolverine, I think you said they were both up year-over-year despite very challenged vehicle, marine, construction industry trends, are you gaining market share, seeing any added pressure in those categories relative to the economy or do you just consider your products relatively immune to those conditions.

As you know in the US, CAT is a top five work boot brand, Wolverine is probably the number one player in the US. Both of those brands really don’t sell very much I believe to the entry level person. They’re selling more in pure work to the person that views boots as one of their tools that they use on the jobsite. Interestingly enough if you read the papers you would have thought the work category for 2008 would have suffered. The work and civilian uniform businesses in our country for 2008 were actually very, very good and its kind of counterintuitive but that’s what the numbers show.

Market share data is somewhat difficult to get at least I’ve found in our industry and its not as timely as I’d like it to be but I think you have to conclude that given the performance for Heritage brands group and Wolverine footwear that we did gain market share during the course of 2008 given that we in both of those operating groups grew their revenue.

Your next question comes from the line of Sam Poser – Sterne, Agee Sam Poser – Sterne, Agee : Can you talk a bit about currency because we’ve spoken about currency in the past and it wasn’t a big deal, is there a way that you can walk us back through maybe the positive effects of currency in the beginning of 2008 so we have some comparisons for 2009.

Our revenue growth in 2008 was 1.8% on a reported basis, currency provided 30 basis points of that revenue growth so on a constant currency basis revenue growth had been 1.5%. Currency helped our gross margin in 2008 by about 100 basis points and so when we look forward to 2009 I already covered our assumptions regarding the three major currencies that we have exposure to but to put our currency exposure in context, every 10% change in those three currencies that I referred to, the pound, the Euro, and the Canadian dollar, impact our top line revenue by about $27 million and our EPS by about $0.04 a share so if currency ends up being 10% better or worse then the rates that we have imbedded in our plan that would have about a $30 million revenue impact or about a $0.04 EPS impact. Sam Poser – Sterne, Agee : Can you talk about, in sales on the revenue line, with the restructuring, how should we be looking at the retail leather line of revenue, on a year-over-year basis.

We’re going to continue to expand our controlled distribution, what’s reported as retail sales so that will continue to go up and you can factor in a net increase of eight stores and probably on average of mid opening of those stores. With respect to the leather division we’re going to remain in the leather business. We’ve been studying alternatives with respect to the making of the leather at our tannery in downtown Rockford, so we may very well outsource those functions but we will still be in the leather business for 2009. Sam Poser – Sterne, Agee: So we would continue to see, so that would just be sort of normalized because with your guidance and you say that you expect to see growth in all of your branded lines, is that in constant currency?

That was more of a constant currency comment but to answer your question regarding restructuring, we’re still in the Wolverine leather’s business. What’s going to happen as a result of the restructuring likely is an outsourcing of the processing of the leather from our own tannery to third parties so you won’t see an impact on the revenue line from the restructuring. Sam Poser – Sterne, Agee : What products and what geographies are you seeing the cancellations in.

Its really difficult to give you any really specific, there’s none that really stand out. It was kind of all categories and kind of across the board.

Every brand, every rank experiences work cancellations every quarter even in good times but the pace accelerated a bit in the aftermath of the October Wall Street and consumer crisis. Sam Poser – Sterne, Agee : On the, with the outdoor group business being down is that apples to apples against just Merrell and Patagonia last year or is that because you moved out Sebago at the beginning of the year.

Its apples to apples, we reclassified Sebago in the prior year numbers.

Your next question comes from the line of Scott Krasik - CL King

If I’m just looking at the sales guidance apples to apples with the 1220, because we hadn’t excluded currency before, the sort of midpoint gets you a 9% decrease, is there a seasonality to the new businesses, should we think about the first half sales being down double-digits, because, and then you pick up the new business sales in the second half of the year.

If you choose the midpoint and get the 9% down, if that ends up being a full year number I think you could be fairly certain it would be a double-digit decline in the first half and less then that in the second half.

And then generally is there a seasonality, Chaco is a big sandal business, should that be a second, third quarter business.

Those businesses are not large. Obviously Cushe is very, very small at this point. Chaco is a sandal business but they do a good business throughout the year, maybe a little heavier for Chaco in the first half of the year shipments but they’ve been an in stock item in our Track and Trail stores 12 months a year for a long time.

And then maybe talk about, our checks have indicated that that core Merrell product has held up pretty well but the Fusion, the fashion product you really haven’t been able to grow that, what’s the outlook for that business, have you lost share, are there new emerging brands that are doing a better job on the fashion side.

I don’t think we’ve lost share on the Fusion side, the sell through reports that we get continue, really across all of Merrell’s categories indicate pretty good sell through to the ultimate consumer at retail so I think our performance categories I would characterize as performing better overall and Merrell as you know is kind of the dominant player in that multi sport and performance categories. But Merrell is a big business now but Merrell also has plenty of opportunities to expand its business in the future, especially in the Fusion part, casual part of the line.

Where is the distribution now for the apparel, the Merrell apparel?

The apparel distribution would be, geographically if I was looking at it, maybe 30% in the US, 25% to 30% in Europe, 45% international. As you know we’ve got a number of international partners that want to open Merrell Lifestyle stores so we’ve got a good chunk of that apparel going to the international segment. Its about 50/50 men’s and women’s still. In the United States you’d see some at Dick’s and a little bit at Shields and Paragon and then some independents, Mountain Sports and Peter Glen and that sort of thing. In Europe you would see it in maybe Blacks, and Field and Track, and Snow and Rock, or Decathlon, those type of stores.

I assume pension was probably a favorable line item in G&A last year—

Favorable in terms of credit versus an expense?

Correct.

No, we actually had pension expense in 2008.

So then just, the last time I think, it was major expense was 2003 coming out of 2002, you didn’t exclude it from the guidance so could we just be consistent there, just because that’s what you’ve always done in the past.

We just thought it was worthy of calling out this year, in 2009, because of the significant increase, kind of the unprecedented drop in market value of pension assets. I’m not sure what drove that big increase in pension expense a few years back, I’ll look at it and see.

There are no additional questions at this time; I would like to turn it back over to management for any additional or closing comments.

On behalf of Wolverine World Wide I would like to thank you all for joining us today and as a reminder our conference call replay is available on our website at www.wolverineworldwide.com. The replay will be available through Wednesday, February 18, 2009. Thank you and good day.