In November 2006, we continued to provide our customers with the most convenient locations by opening 83 stores for a total of 1598 stores in North America. We also added 5 stores in Europe, bringing our total number of stores to 1861 worldwide at year's end.

We will continue to expand our store operations in 2007 through managed growth and adding approximately 125 stores to strengthen our market position in North America and Europe.

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