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BASIS OF PRESENTATION
Weight Watchers International, Inc. is a Virginia corporation with its principal executive offices in New
York, New York. In this Annual Report on Form 10-K, unless the context indicates otherwise: “we”, “us”, and
“our” refers to Weight Watchers International, Inc. and all subsidiaries consolidated for purposes of its financial
statements, including WeightWatchers.com, Inc. and its subsidiaries; “Weight Watchers International” refers to
Weight Watchers International, Inc. and all of its subsidiaries other than WeightWatchers.com, Inc. and
subsidiaries of WeightWatchers.com, Inc.; “WeightWatchers.com” refers to WeightWatchers.com, Inc. and its
subsidiaries; and “NACO” refers to our North American company-owned meeting operations. Our fiscal year
ends on the Saturday closest to December 31st and consists of either 52- or 53-week periods. References in this
Annual Report on Form 10-K to:
• “fiscal 2000” refers to our fiscal year ended April 29, 2000;
• “fiscal 2001” refers to our fiscal year ended December 29, 2001;
• “fiscal 2002” refers to our fiscal year ended December 28, 2002;
• “fiscal 2003” refers to our fiscal year ended January 3, 2004;
• “fiscal 2004” refers to our year ended January 1, 2005;
• “fiscal 2005” refers to our fiscal year ended December 31, 2005;
• “fiscal 2006” refers to our fiscal year ended December 30, 2006; and
• “fiscal 2007” refers to our fiscal year ended December 29, 2007.
The following terms used in this Annual Report on Form 10-K are our trademarks: Weight Watchers®,
WeightWatchers.com®,POINTS®,TurnAround®, Core Plan®and Weight Watchers On-the-Go™.