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Charming Shoppes, Inc. is a multi-brand, multi-channel specialty apparel retailer focused on women’s plus-size specialty apparel. It operates in two segments: Retail Stores segment and Direct-to-Consumer segment. The Company’s Retail Stores segment operates retail stores and related e-commerce Websites through names, such as LANE BRYANT, LANE BRYANT OUTLET, FASHION BUG, CATHERINES PLUS SIZES, PETITE SOPHISTICATE and PETITE SOPHISTICATE OUTLET. Its Direct-to-Consumer segment operates apparel, accessories, footwear, and gift catalogs and related e-commerce Websites through its Crosstown Traders business. As of February 2, 2008, it operated 2,409 stores in 48 states. In September 2008, the Company sold its non-core misses apparel catalogs to Orchard Brands. The transaction includes catalog titles and their associated e-commerce sites, such as Old Pueblo Traders, Bedford Fair, Willow Ridge, Lew Magram, Brownstone Studio, Intimate Appeal, Monterey Bay Clothing Company and Coward Shoe.