Pearl River, NY (December, 2005): Katz & Associates Corporation is pleased to announce it has secured the exclusive right to represent Chico’s FAS, White House/Black Market and Soma in its expansion throughout North and South Carolina. The company operates 498 Chico’s stores, 29 Chico’s outlet stores, 196 White House/Black Market stores, 6 White House/Black Market outlet stores and 15 Soma by Chico’s stores nationwide.

Chico’s is a unique specialty retailer of private label, sophisticated, casual-to-dressy clothing, intimates, complementary accessories, and other non-clothing gift items.

The typical Chico’s is 4,000-4,500 sf with 40’ minimum frontage. Site selection criteria includes significant white collar, female, with an Annual Income of $100,000. Preferred co-tenants include such traffic generating retailers such as Wild Oats, Fresh Market, Whole Foods, Harris Teeter, Earthfare, Barnes & Noble and Borders Books.