4 Weeks 16 Weeks 52 Weeks
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US 1% 4% 5%
International 8% 9% 9%
Total Company 2% 5% 6%
Additional discussion of these sales results is available on a pre-recorded
telephone message. You can access the recording by dialing 1-800-642-1687
(conference 15757641). This recorded message will be available today
through 5:00 p.m. (PT) on Friday, September 7, 2007.
Costco ended its 52-week fiscal year on September 2, 2007 with 518
warehouses in operation, including 383 in the United States and Puerto
Rico, 71 in Canada, 19 in the United Kingdom, five in Korea, four in
Taiwan, six in Japan and 30 in Mexico. The Company also operates Costco
Online, an electronic commerce web site, at www.costco.com and at
www.costco.ca in Canada. The Company plans to open an additional 14 to 15
new warehouses, including the relocation of four warehouses to larger and
better-located facilities, in the first four months of fiscal 2008, prior
to the end of calendar year 2007.
Certain statements contained in this document and the pre-recorded
telephone message constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning
of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. For these
purposes, forward-looking statements are those that address activities,
events, conditions or developments that the Company expects or anticipates
may occur in the future. Such forward-looking statements involve risks and
uncertainties that may cause actual events, results or performance to
differ materially from those indicated by such statements. These risks and
uncertainties include, but are not limited to, domestic and international
economic conditions including exchange rates, the effects of competition
and regulation, consumer and small business spending patterns and debt
levels, conditions affecting the acquisition, development, ownership or use
of real estate, actions of vendors, rising costs associated with employees
(including health care and workers' compensation costs), rising costs
associated with the acquisition of merchandise (including the direct and
indirect effects of the rising cost of petroleum-based products and fuel
and energy costs), geopolitical conditions, and other risks identified from
time to time in the Company's public statements and reports filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission.
Contact Information: CONTACTS: Costco Wholesale Corporation Bob Nelson 425/313-8255 Jeff Elliott 425/313-8264