Foot Locker, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a retailer of athletic footwear and apparel. The company operates in two segments, Athletic Stores and Direct-to-Customers. The Athletic Stores segment operates athletic footwear and apparel stores under various formats, including Foot Locker, Lady Foot Locker, Kids Foot Locker, Champs Sports, and Footaction. Foot Locker is an athletic footwear and apparel retailer that offers athletic-inspired performance products, manufactured primarily by various athletic brands for various activities, including running, basketball, hiking, tennis, aerobics, fitness, baseball, football, and soccer. Champs Sports is a mall-based specialty athletic footwear and apparel retailer that offers athletic footwear, apparel and accessories, and a focused assortment of equipment. Footaction is a national athletic footwear and apparel retailer focusing on young urban males. Lady Foot Locker provides athletic footwear, apparel, and accessories for women. Kids Foot Locker is a children’s athletic retailer that offers brand-name athletic footwear, apparel, and accessories for children. As of February 3, 2007, the company operated 3,942 stores in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. The Direct-to-Customers segment sells, through its affiliates, athletic footwear, apparel, equipment, and team licensed and private-label merchandise in the United States through catalogs and Web sites. Foot Locker, Inc. has a strategic alliance to offer footwear and apparel on the Amazon.com Web site. The company was founded in 1879 and is headquartered in New York, New York.