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k swiss girls shoes was granted the patent to both the Cushion Board sole construction and the D-R Cinch lacing system, in February 1992. The "Belais" and the "Belais-LT" was introduced in 1993 and the company expanded into the basketball as well as the aerobics apparel markets. Moving from the indoor arena tp hiking and casual wear,ebay chanel purses handbags,K-Swiss introduced twelve new k swiss girls shoes in 1994, and expanded their magazine-advertisment platform to include Backpacker and Outside.
The company's first television advertisment, targeting a much broader market segment than previously began in 1996,shop chanel bags online,resulting in sales of $116 million and stock trading at $28 per share by 1997. Although k swiss girls shoes opened account with stores like Nordstrom,cheap chanel bags from china, Footlocker, Footaction and Dillards,chanel bags for men, the company still maintained its policy of not flooding the market.
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The $17-million ad campaing, called "Club K-Swiss" launched in 1998 resulted in sales of $162 million for that year. K-Swiss continued to expand worldwide
with sales in excess of $500 million by 2005.