Foot Locker Files Its Delayed 2002 10-K with SEC

Foot Locker, Inc. filed its 2002 Form 10-K with the SEC on Monday. As the company previously announced, on May 2, 2003, Foot Locker, Inc. filed for an extension with the SEC due to ongoing technical discussions between the Company, its independent outside auditors and the SEC regarding the classification of its results related to the Company’s former Northern Group operation. These discussions were completed shortly thereafter and the Company filed its 2002 Form 10-K within the 15-day extension period.

On January 23, 2001, the Company announced that it was exiting its 694-store Northern Group segment and, as a result, accounted for that business as a discontinued operation. Also, as a result of that decision, the Company recorded an after-tax charge to discontinued operations in 2000 for the loss on disposal of this segment. On September 12, 2001, the Company completed the stock transfer of the 370 Northern Group stores in Canada, in exchange for a Note. Additional after-tax charges were recorded within discontinued operations during 2001 and 2002, reflecting subsequent events surrounding the disposition of this business, including the write-down of the net assets of Northern Group Canada to zero.

During the fourth quarter of 2002, the Company and the purchaser of the Northern Group agreed to revise the terms of their transaction. Subsequent to year-end, Foot Locker received CAD$5.2 million cash consideration in partial prepayment of the Note and accrued interest, and agreed to reduce the face value of the Note to CAD$17.5 million. As a result of the agreement and certain other factors, the Company believes that in the fourth quarter of 2002 it had divested its Northern Group business for accounting purposes and it therefore reflected it as such in its 2002 Form 10-K. The Company recorded the estimated fair value of the Note, which resulted in a non-cash gain of $10 million in discontinued operations in the fourth quarter of 2002. As further detailed in its 2002 Form 10-K, the Company did not amend any of its prior filings.