The Jones Group Inc. operates as a designer, marketer, and wholesaler of approximately 35 brands with product expertise in apparel, footwear, jeanswear, jewelry, and handbags. The company markets directly to consumers through branded specialty retail and outlet stores, through concessions at upscale department stores and through its e-commerce sites. Segments The company operates through six segments: Domestic Wholesale Sportswear, Domestic Wholesale Jeanswear, Domestic Wholesale Footwear and Accessories, Domestic Retail, International Wholesale, and International Retail. Domestic Wholesale Sportswear This segment’s brands cover a range of categories for the women's markets. Within those brands, various product classifications include career and casual sportswear, jeanswear, dresses, suits, and a combination of various components termed lifestyle collection. Career and casual sportswear are marketed as individual items or groups of skirts, pants, shorts, jackets, blouses, sweaters, and related accessories, which while sold as separates, are coordinated as to styles, color schemes, and fabrics, and are designed to be worn together. New collections are introduced in the four principal selling seasons - spring, summer, fall, and holiday. The company provides design and manufacturing resources to certain retailers to develop better-priced product lines to be sold under private labels. Domestic Wholesale Jeanswear This segment’s brands cover a range of categories for the women's, juniors, and girls markets. Within those brands, the company’s product classifications include jeanswear, casual sportswear, and dresses, with a focus on fit, fabric, and finish. Jeanswear and casual sportswear are designed and marketed as individual items of jeans, skirts, pants, shorts, jackets, casual tops, dresses, sweaters, and related accessories, which while sold as separates, could be combined with each other and with certain of its wholesale products into groups termed ‘lifestyle collection’ that are designed to be worn together. New collections are introduced in the four principal selling seasons - spring, summer, fall, and holiday. The company provides design and manufacturing resources to certain retailers to develop moderately-priced product lines to be sold under private labels. Domestic Wholesale Footwear and Accessories This segment includes the sale of both brand name and private label footwear, handbags, small leather goods and costume, semi-precious, sterling silver, and marcasite jewelry. International Wholesale This segment includes the sale of brand-name footwear, handbags, small leather goods, jewelry, and apparel to distributors and retailers outside the United States. The company’s products are distributed in approximately 70 countries and are available at both retail locations and e-commerce Websites operated by its international licensees. Domestic Retail This segment markets apparel, footwear, and accessories directly to consumers through the company’s specialty retail stores operating in malls and urban retail centers, its various value-based (outlet) stores located in major retail locations, and on various e-commerce Websites that the company operates. Specialty Retail Stores: As December 31, 2012, the company operated a total of 185 specialty retail stores. These stores sell either footwear and accessories or apparel (or a combination of these products) primarily under their respective brand names. Its Nine West, Easy Spirit, and Kurt Geiger retail stores offer selections of certain styles not marketed to its wholesale customers. Specialty retail stores might also sell products licensed by the company, including belts, legwear, outerwear, watches, and sunglasses. Outlet Stores: As of December 31, 2012, the company operated a total of 409 outlet stores. Internet: As of December 31, 2012, the company operated e-commerce Websites at www.jny.com, www.ninewest.com, www.easyspirit.com, www.stuartweitzman.com, www.anneklein.com, www.rachelroy.com, www.brianatwood.com, and www.us.kurtgeiger.com. Through these Websites, the company markets either footwear and accessories, apparel or