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| NONCASH INVESTING AND FINANCING TRANSACTIONS                | NONCASH INVESTING AND FINANCING TRANSACTIONSOmitted from the Company’s Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows for 2015 were capital expenditures related to property, plant and equipment of $24.5 million, which will not be paid until 2016. The Company paid $17.0 million in cash during 2015 related to property, plant and equipment that was acquired in 2014. This amount was omitted from the Company’s Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows for 2014. The Company paid $13.6 million in cash during 2014 related to property, plant and equipment that was acquired in 2013. This amount was omitted from the Company’s Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows for 2013.Omitted from purchases of property, plant and equipment in the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for 2015, 2014 and 2013 were $4.3 million, $4.2 million and $7.5 million, respectively, of assets acquired through capital leases.Omitted from purchases of property, plant and equipment in the Company’s Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows for 2015 was $4.1 million of leasehold improvements paid for directly by the lessor as a lease incentive to the Company. The Company recorded increases to goodwill of $51.7 million, $50.5 million and $51.0 million during 2015, 2014 and 2013, respectively, related to liabilities incurred for contingent purchase price payments to Mr. Calvin Klein. Such amounts are not due or paid in cash until 45 days subsequent to the Company’s applicable quarter end. As such, during 2015, 2014 and 2013, the Company paid $50.7 million, $51.1 million and $52.8 million, respectively, in cash related to contingent purchase price payments to Mr. Calvin Klein that were recorded as additions to goodwill during the periods the liabilities were incurred.The Company recorded during the first quarter of 2014 a loss of $17.5 million to write-off previously capitalized debt issuance costs in connection with the amendment and restatement of the 2013 facilities and the related redemption of its 7 3/8% senior notes due 2020.Omitted from investments in unconsolidated affiliates in the Company’s Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows for 2014 were noncash increases in the investment balances related to the Company’s Calvin Klein Australia joint venture and Calvin Klein India joint venture of $3.7 million and $6.2 million, respectively, resulting from the deconsolidation of these entities during the first quarter of 2014. Please see Note 6, “Investments in Unconsolidated Affiliates,” and Note 7, “Redeemable Non-Controlling Interest,” for further discussion.The Company recorded during the first quarter of 2013 a loss of $5.8 million to write-off previously capitalized debt issuance costs in connection with the modification and extinguishment of the 2011 facilities.The Company issued during the first quarter of 2013 7.7 million shares of its common stock, par value $1.00 per share (of which 416 thousand shares were issued from treasury stock), as part of the consideration paid to the former stockholders of Warnaco in connection with the acquisition, which resulted in an increase in common stock of $7.3 million, an increase in additional paid in capital of $888.9 million and a decrease in treasury stock of $30.3 million. In addition, the Company issued awards valued at $39.8 million to replace outstanding stock awards made by Warnaco to its employees, which for accounting purposes are included in the total acquisition consideration. Also included in the acquisition consideration was the elimination of a $9.2 million pre-acquisition liability to Warnaco. |

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