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| NONCASH INVESTING AND FINANCING TRANSACTIONS                | NONCASH INVESTING AND FINANCING TRANSACTIONSOmitted from the Company’s Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows for 2018 were capital expenditures related to property, plant and equipment of $43.7 million, which will not be paid until 2019. The Company paid $41.9 million in cash during 2018 related to property, plant and equipment that was acquired in 2017. This amount was omitted from the Company’s Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows for 2017. The Company paid $35.6 million in cash during 2017 related to property, plant and equipment that was acquired in 2016. This amount was omitted from the Company’s Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows for 2016.Omitted from purchases of property, plant and equipment in the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for 2018, 2017 and 2016 were $6.0 million, $3.6 million and $6.8 million, respectively, of assets acquired through capital leases.The Company completed the acquisition of the Geoffrey Beene tradename during 2018. Omitted from acquisitions, net of cash acquired in the Company’s Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows for 2018 was $0.7 million of acquisition consideration related to royalties prepaid to Geoffrey Beene by the Company under the prior license agreement and $0.4 million of liabilities assumed by the Company.Omitted from acquisition of treasury shares in the Company’s Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows for 2017 were $1.5 million of shares repurchased under the stock repurchase program for which the trades occurred but remained unsettled as of February 4, 2018.The Company recorded a loss of $8.1 million during 2017 to write-off previously capitalized debt issuance costs in connection with the early redemption of its 4 1/2% senior notes due 2022.The Company recorded a loss of $11.2 million during 2016 to write-off previously capitalized debt issuance costs in connection with the amendment of its credit facilities.The Company completed the TH China acquisition during 2016. Included in the acquisition consideration was the elimination of a $2.8 million pre-acquisition receivable owed to the Company by TH China.Omitted from investments in unconsolidated affiliates in the Company’s Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows for 2016 was a noncash increase in the investment balance related to the Company’s PVH Mexico joint venture of $64.3 million resulting from the deconsolidation of the Mexico business during 2016. Please see Note 5, “Investments in Unconsolidated Affiliates,” for further discussion. |

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