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Recognizing the tremendous opportunity in the private brand business,
Tarrant adopted a new strategy to focus on developing and building its private
brands. In April 2003, we acquired an equity interest in the owner of the
trademark "American Rag CIE". Our subsidiary, Private Brands, Inc., acquired
a license to certain exclusive rights to this trademark. Private Brands also
entered into multi-year exclusive distribution agreement with Federated
Merchandising Group ("FMG"), the sourcing arm of Federated Department Stores.
FMG has since been acquired by Macy*s and is now the greatly expanded Macy*s
Merchandising group ("MMG"). Private Brands is the sole supplier of
American Rag CIE, a casual sportswear collection for juniors and young men made
for MMG. Private Brands designs and manufactures a full collection of
American Rag apparel in vintage inpired themes exclusively for Macy*s stores
throughout the USA.
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