Footwear Company Has Partnered with Best Friends Animal Society to
Transport Houston’s Hurricane Harvey Animals to Local Pet Adoption
Centers
MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. -- (Business Wire)
BOBS from SKECHERS, a division of award-winning lifestyle and
performance footwear company, SKECHERS USA, Inc. (NYSE:SKX), announced
that the Company has partnered with national animal welfare organization Best
Friends Animal Society to transport 25 adoptable dogs from Houston
to rescue groups along the East Coast, ending with yesterday’s final
stop at the Best Friends Pet Adoption Center in New York City. The dogs
have been traveling on the BOBS from SKECHERS Roving Rescue bus, a
school bus that the Company purchased and retrofitted exclusively for
lifesaving pet transport.
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BOBS from SKECHERS Roving Rescue bus arrived in New York with Hurricane Harvey dogs in search of their forever homes. (Photo: Business Wire)
New York’s Roving Rescue visitors met 10 Hurricane Harvey animals who
will find homes through Best Friends Pet Adoption Center, and previewed
selects from the BOBS Spring collection, including the latest BOBS for
Dogs styles. The celebration followed stops in Arlington, Virginia and
Waldorf, Maryland, which transported five dogs to the Animal Welfare
League of Arlington and 10 dogs to the Humane Society of Charles County.
“We love finding new ways to make a difference, and the Roving Rescue
bus has given other communities a chance to directly support Houston by
adopting these pets and relieving Houston’s local animal shelter and pet
adoption organizations,” said Robert Greenberg, CEO of SKECHERS. “We
believe this is just the beginning for the transport and adoption bus.
Through this vehicle, we will spread the word about Best Friends’
movement and our charitable shoe program, BOBS for Dogs, both of which
are helping to save shelter animals. And given the incredible response,
we’re confident that many of the dogs that survived Hurricane Harvey
will find their forever homes by the year’s end.”
“A big thank you goes to SKECHERS for helping to get these dogs home,”
said Elizabeth Jensen, Northeast Regional Director, Best Friends Animal
Society - New York. “To achieve our mission of getting the country to
no-kill by 2025, we have to work together. This tour was a great example
of the teamwork that will help us Save Them All!”
The Roving Rescue bus will travel to the West Coast for future Best
Friends transport and adoption needs across the country. SKECHERS stores
in the United States are holding a register roundup through November 15
to raise money in support of the bus’ lifesaving efforts.
To support Hurricane Harvey’s displaced animals locally, SKECHERS
recently partnered with Best Friends to launch a special Texas Super
Adoption event in Houston; the Company paid adoption fees for the first
100 animals as part of a $10,000 donation to Best Friends’ Hurricane
Harvey relief efforts. Best Friends Animal Society has also cared for
pets displaced by Hurricane Harvey in the region since August, opening
and managing the Pet Reunion Pavilion at the NRG Arena to reunite
animals with their owners.
In addition to animals, SKECHERS has also donated to Hurricane Harvey
families in the wake of the disaster – donating thousands of new
footwear, socks, apparel, and SKECHERS Kids lunchboxes and backpacks to
serve the immediate needs of those impacted.
The Roving Rescue event is the latest collaboration in a multi-year
partnership between SKECHERS and Best Friends Animal Society, the only
national animal welfare organization dedicated exclusively to
eradicating the deaths of about two million dogs and cats every year in
America’s shelters. For each pair of specially packaged BOBS from
SKECHERS sold in the United States, twenty-five cents is donated to Best
Friends to help save the lives of dogs and cats in America’s shelters.
SKECHERS has committed to donating at least $3 million dollars to Best
Friends for the promotion, Best Friends’ biggest cause marketing
partnership to date.
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About Best Friends Animal Society
Best Friends Animal Society is the only national animal welfare
organization dedicated to ending the killing of dogs and cats in
America's shelters. A leader in the no-kill movement, Best Friends runs
the nation's largest no-kill sanctuary for companion animals, as well as
lifesaving programs in partnership with rescue groups and shelters
across the country. Founded in 1984, Best Friends has helped reduce the
number of animals killed in shelters nationwide from 17 million per year
to about two million. By continuing to build effective initiatives that
reduce the number of animals entering shelters and increase the number
who find homes, Best Friends and its nationwide network of members and
partners are working to Save Them All®.
To become a fan of Best Friends Animal Society on Facebook, go to: http://www.facebook.com/bestfriendsanimalsociety.
Follow Best Friends on Twitter: http://twitter.com/bestfriends.
About SKECHERS USA., Inc.
SKECHERS USA, Inc., based in Manhattan Beach, California, 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 160
countries and territories worldwide via department and specialty stores,
2,438 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 and the Middle East, and wholly-owned subsidiaries in
Canada, Japan, throughout Europe and Latin America. For more
information, please visit skechers.com and follow us on Facebook
(facebook.com/SKECHERS) and Twitter (twitter.com/SKECHERSUSA).
This announcement contains forward-looking statements that are made
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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
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uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from
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or contribute to such differences include international economic,
political and market conditions including the uncertainty of sustained
recovery in Europe; 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, 2016 and its quarterly report
on Form 10-Q for the three months ended September 30, 2017. 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
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Contacts:
SKECHERS USA, Inc.
Jennifer Clay, 310-937-1326
jennc@skechers.com
or
Best
Friends Animal Society
Hannah Stember, 412-537-0632
hannahs@bestfriends.org
Source: SKECHERS USA, Inc.
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