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PAGE 4 AMERICAN EAGLE OUTFITTERS
Store Locations
Our stores average approximately 5,500 gross square feet and approximately 4,500 on a selling square foot basis. At
January 28, 2006, we operated 869 stores in the United States and Canada as shown below:
United States, including the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico – 798 stores
Alabama 15 Illinois 26 Montana 2 Puerto Rico 2
Alaska 2 Indiana 18 Nebraska 6 Rhode Island 3
Arizona 12 Iowa 13 Nevada 4 South Carolina 12
Arkansas 4 Kansas 7 New Hampshire 5 South Dakota 2
California 69 Kentucky 11 New Jersey 21 Tennessee 20
Colorado 13 Louisiana 12 New Mexico 4 Texas 58
Connecticut 10 Maine 3 New York 38 Utah 10
Delaware 3 Maryland 18 North Carolina 24 Vermont 3
District of Columbia 1 Massachusetts 26 North Dakota 4 Virginia 26
Florida 44 Michigan 29 Ohio 36 Washington 18
Georgia 25 Minnesota 17 Oklahoma 12 West Virginia 7
Hawaii 4 Mississippi 7 Oregon 9 Wisconsin 13
Idaho 3 Missouri 17 Pennsylvania 48 Wyoming 2
Canada – 71 stores
Alberta 7 New Brunswick 3 Ontario 37
British Columbia 12 Newfoundland 2 Quebec 4
Manitoba 2 Nova Scotia 2 Saskatchewan 2
Purchasing
We purchase merchandise from suppliers who either manufacture their own merchandise or supply merchandise
manufactured by others, or both. During Fiscal 2005, we purchased a majority of our merchandise from non-North
American suppliers.
All of our merchandise suppliers receive a vendor compliance manual that describes our quality standards and shipping
instructions. We maintain a quality control department at our distribution centers to inspect incoming merchandise
shipments for uniformity of sizes and colors, and for overall quality of manufacturing. Periodic quality inspections are
also made by our employees and agents at manufacturing facilities to identify quality problems prior to shipment
of merchandise.
Global Labor Compliance
We are firmly committed to the goal of using only the most highly regarded and efficient suppliers throughout the
world. We require our suppliers to provide a workplace environment that not only meets basic human rights standards,
but also one that complies with all local legal requirements and encourages opportunity for all, with dignity and respect.
For many years, we have had a policy for the inspection of factories throughout the world where goods are produced to
our order. This inspection process is important for quality control purposes, as well as customs compliance and human
rights standards. We have a comprehensive vendor compliance program that was developed with the assistance of an
internationally recognized consulting firm. This program contractually requires all suppliers to meet our global
workplace standards, including human rights standards, as set forth in our Code of Conduct. The Code of Conduct is
required to be posted in all factories in the local language. The program utilizes third party inspectors to audit
compliance by vendor factories with our workplace standards and Code of Conduct.