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We also lease six facilities located near our fulfillment centers, comprising approximately 1.2 million square
feet, which we use for off-site storage and shipping. These offsite storage and shipping facilities are under
relatively short-term lease agreements that expire at various times through July 2004 and one longer-term lease
through June 2008; following expiration, we intend to renew certain of these leases or consolidate into new
offsite facilities, or both.
Our U.S. customer service operations occupy approximately 77,000 square feet of office space and are
located in Tacoma, Washington; Huntington, West Virginia; and Grand Forks, North Dakota. The lease terms of
these facilities expire from 2006 to 2008.
Our data-center facilities have 120,000 combined square feet, including approximately 40,000 square feet of
vacant space at one facility. These facilities are under leases that expire in 2004 and 2009.
We lease additional properties outside the U.S., including approximately 135,000 square feet of corporate
office space in Germany, France, Japan, and the United Kingdom, which excludes approximately 40,000 square
feet of vacant office space in Germany. We also lease approximately 1 million combined square feet of available
fulfillment center space in Germany, France, and the United Kingdom; and approximately 66,000 combined
square feet of customer service space in Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom. The fulfillment centers in
Germany, the United Kingdom, and France are located in Bad Hersfeld, Marston Gate, and Orleans, and the lease
terms expire in December 2009, October 2025, and March 2009.
We believe our properties are suitable and adequate for our present needs, and we periodically evaluate
whether additional facilities are necessary.
Item 3. Legal Proceedings
See, Item 8 of Part II, “Financial Statements and Supplemental Data—Note 7—Commitments and
Contingencies—Legal Proceedings.”
Item 4. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
No matters were submitted for a vote of our shareholders during the fourth quarter of 2003.
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