GENESCO INC (GCO) Business

ITEM 1. BUSINESS

General

Genesco Inc., incorporated in 1934 in the State of Tennessee, is a leading retailer and wholesaler of branded footwear, apparel and accessories with net sales for Fiscal 2026 of $2.4 billion. During Fiscal 2026, we operated four reportable business segments (not including corporate): (i) Journeys Group, comprised of the Journeys®, Journeys Kidz® and Little Burgundy® retail footwear chains and e-commerce operations; (ii) Schuh Group, comprised of the Schuh retail footwear chain and e-commerce operations; (iii) Johnston & Murphy Group, comprised of Johnston & Murphy® retail operations, e-commerce operations and wholesale distribution of products under the Johnston & Murphy® brand; and (iv) Genesco Brands Group, comprised of the licensed Dockers® ("Dockers") and Levi's® ("Levi's") brands, as well as other brands we license for footwear. We also source, design, market and distribute footwear, apparel and accessories at wholesale, primarily under our Johnston & Murphy brand, the licensed Dockers® brand, the licensed Levi's® brand and other brands that we license for footwear to over 900 retail accounts in the United States, including a number of leading department, discount, and specialty stores as well as e-commerce retailers. Our license with Levi's expires in May 2026 and we are in the process of exiting that business.

During the second quarter of Fiscal 2026, we signed a multi-year licensing agreement with Kontoor Brands, Inc. ("Kontoor") to design, source market and distribute men's, women's and children's footwear under the Wrangler® brand ("Wrangler"). We expect to launch the first Wrangler footwear collection under the licensing agreement in the Fall of calendar year 2026.

During the third quarter of Fiscal 2026, we announced the formation of the Journeys Global Retail Group which unites Journeys, Schuh and Little Burgundy. This alignment creates a powerful opportunity across our retail banners to position the business as the world’s leading style-led, youth footwear retail group, with a sharp focus on the female consumer. The Journeys Global Retail Group will boost our global voice, unlock greater growth potential for brand partners and elevate our world-class talent.

At January 31, 2026, we operated 1,236 retail footwear, apparel and accessory stores located primarily throughout the United States and Puerto Rico, including 63 footwear stores in Canada and 118 footwear stores in the United Kingdom ("U.K.") and the Republic of Ireland ("ROI"). We plan to open a total of approximately 23 new retail stores and to close approximately 75 retail stores in Fiscal 2027 as part of our ongoing store optimization efforts.

The following table sets forth certain additional information concerning our retail footwear, apparel and accessory stores during the five most recent fiscal years as we optimize our retail footprint and adapt to changing consumer shopping behavior:

Shorthand references to fiscal years (e.g., “Fiscal 2026”) refer to the fiscal year ended on the Saturday nearest January 31st in the named year (e.g., January 31, 2026). Fiscal 2026 and 2025 were 52-week years and Fiscal 2024 was a 53-week year. The terms "Company," "Genesco," "we," "our" or "us" as used herein and unless otherwise stated or indicated by context refer to Genesco Inc. and its subsidiaries. All information contained in Item 7, “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” which is referred to in this Item 1 of this report, is incorporated by such reference in Item 1.

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Strategy

Across our company, we aspire to create and curate leading footwear brands that represent style, innovation and self-expression and to be the destination for our consumers' favorite fashion footwear. Each of our businesses has a strong strategic position grounded in a deep and ever-evolving understanding of the customers it serves. We strive to build enduring relationships with our target customers, leveraging our deep consumer and market insights. We seek to excite and constantly exceed customer expectations by delivering distinctive products and experiences, using our deep direct-to-consumer expertise across physical and digital channels. The strength of our concepts and the advantages we have built over time have established long-lasting leadership positions that make our footwear businesses outstanding on their own, but what they share through the benefit of synergies makes them even stronger together. We have evolved our strategy to focus more closely around the consumer with our footwear first strategy, comprised of four strategic growth drivers: 1) create and curate winning product, 2) elevate our distinctive retail and consumer brands, 3) deliver exceptional consumer experiences, and 4) build amazing teams. We anticipate continuing to optimize our store footprint in the future, concentrating on locations that we believe will be most productive, as well as closing certain stores, but improving productivity in our existing locations and investing in store remodels, technology and infrastructure to support omni-channel retailing.

We have made acquisitions, including the acquisitions of the Schuh Group in June 2011, Little Burgundy in December 2015 and Togast in January 2020. We expect to concentrate our efforts on opportunities to leverage our direct-to-consumer capabilities to grow our branded platform and leverage its strategies at the appropriate time going forward.

More generally, we work to develop strategies to mitigate the risks we view as material, including those discussed under the caption “Forward Looking Statements,” above, and those discussed in Item 1A, "Risk Factors". Among the most important of these factors are those related to consumer demand. Conditions in the economy can affect demand, resulting in changes in sales and, as prices are adjusted to drive sales and manage inventories, in gross margins. Because fashion trends influencing many of our target customers can change rapidly, we believe that our ability to react quickly to those changes has been important to our success. Even when we succeed in aligning our merchandise offerings with consumer preferences, those preferences may affect results, for example, by driving sales of products with lower average selling prices or products which are more widely available in the marketplace and thus more subject to competitive pressures than our typical offering. Moreover, economic factors, such as inflation, supply chain disruptions and increased logistics costs, and any future economic contraction, inflationary trends, and changes in tax and tariff policies, may reduce the consumer’s disposable income or willingness to purchase discretionary items, and thus may reduce demand for our merchandise, regardless of our skill in detecting and responding to fashion trends. We believe our experience and discipline in merchandising and the buying power associated with our relative size and importance in the industry segments in which we compete are important factors in our ability to mitigate risks associated with changing customer preferences and other changes in consumer demand.

Segments

Journeys Group

The Journeys Group accounted for 61% of our net sales in Fiscal 2026. Journeys stores target customers in the 13 to 22 year age group through the use of youth-oriented trends and multi-channel media. Journeys stores carry predominately branded merchandise across a wide range of prices. The Journeys Kidz stores sell footwear and accessories primarily for younger children, toddler age to 12 years old. Little Burgundy stores sell footwear and accessories to fashion-oriented men and women in the 21 to 34 year age group ranging from students to young professionals.

At January 31, 2026, Journeys Group operated 965 stores, including 741 Journeys stores, 194 Journeys Kidz stores and 30 Little Burgundy stores averaging approximately 2,100 square feet, located primarily in malls and factory outlet centers throughout the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada, selling footwear and accessories for children, teenagers and young adults. Journeys

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Group's e-commerce websites include the following: journeys.com, journeyskidz.com, journeys.ca and littleburgundyshoes.com. In Fiscal 2026, the Journeys Group closed a net of 41 stores.

Schuh Group

The Schuh Group accounted for 21% of our net sales in Fiscal 2026. Schuh Group stores target teenagers and young adults in the 16 to 24 year age group, selling a broad range of branded casual and athletic footwear. At January 31, 2026, Schuh Group operated 118 Schuh stores, averaging approximately 4,950 square feet, which include both street-level and mall locations in the U.K. and the ROI. Schuh Group's e-commerce websites are schuh.co.uk, schuh.ie and schuh.eu. In Fiscal 2026, Schuh Group closed a net of six stores.

Johnston & Murphy Group

The Johnston & Murphy Group accounted for 13% of our net sales in Fiscal 2026. All sales of Johnston & Murphy Group's retail and wholesale businesses are of the Genesco-owned Johnston & Murphy brand.

Johnston & Murphy Retail Operations. At January 31, 2026, Johnston & Murphy operated 153 retail shops and factory stores in the United States averaging approximately 1,950 square feet and selling footwear, apparel and accessories primarily for men in the 25 to 55 year age group. Johnston & Murphy retail shops are located primarily in higher-end malls and airports nationwide and sell a broad range of men’s casual and dress footwear, apparel and accessories. Women’s footwear, apparel and accessories are sold in select Johnston & Murphy locations. We also sell Johnston & Murphy products directly to consumers through the johnstonmurphy.com e-commerce website. Footwear accounted for 52% of Johnston & Murphy retail sales in Fiscal 2026, with the balance consisting primarily of apparel and accessories. Johnston & Murphy Group opened a net of five shops and factory stores, including three shops and two factory stores, in Fiscal 2026.

Johnston & Murphy Wholesale Operations. Johnston & Murphy men’s and boy's footwear, apparel and accessories, along with women's footwear are sold at wholesale, primarily to better department stores, independent specialty stores and e-commerce retailers. Johnston & Murphy’s wholesale customers offer the brand’s footwear for dress, dress casual, and casual occasions, with the majority of styles offered in these channels selling from $100 to $195.

Genesco Brands Group

The Genesco Brands Group segment accounted for 5% of our net sales in Fiscal 2026. Genesco Brands Group designs and sources licensed footwear under the Wrangler, Dockers and Levi's brand names, among others. In the second quarter of Fiscal 2026, we signed a licensing agreement with Kontoor to design, source, market and distribute men's, women's and children's footwear under the Wrangler brand. The Wrangler product will be distributed through wholesale channels, including western specialty, farm and ranch, outdoor, sporting goods and premium family footwear retailers with suggested retail prices ranging from $50 to $180. The products will also be available through wrangler.com. During Fiscal 2026, Dockers footwear was marketed to men aged 30 to 55 through many of the same national retail chains that carry Dockers pants and sportswear and in department and specialty stores across the country. Suggested retail prices for Dockers footwear generally range from $40 to $90. Our license with Levi's expires in May 2026 and we are in the process of exiting that business. In the fourth quarter of Fiscal 2022, we signed a licensing agreement with STARTER to be their exclusive U.S. and Canadian footwear licensee for athletic footwear. We design and source the STARTER brand footwear for men, women and children with suggested retail prices ranging from $49 to $120. Genesco Brands Group e-commerce website is nashvilleshoewarehouse.com.

Manufacturing and Sourcing

We rely on independent third-party manufacturers for production of our footwear products sold at Johnston & Murphy Group and Genesco Brands Group. We source footwear and accessory products from foreign manufacturers located in Bangladesh,

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Brazil, Cambodia, China, India, Italy, Pakistan, Peru, Portugal, Sri Lanka, Turkey and Vietnam. Our Journeys Group and Schuh Group businesses sell primarily branded products from third parties who source primarily overseas.

Competition

Competition is intense in the footwear, apparel and accessory industries. Our retail footwear, apparel and accessory competitors range from small, locally owned stores to regional and national department stores, discount stores, specialty chains, our vendors with their own direct-to-consumer channels and online retailers. We also compete with hundreds of footwear wholesale operations in the United States and throughout the world, most of which are relatively small, specialized operations, but some of which are large, more diversified companies. Some of our competitors have resources that are not available to us. Our success depends upon our ability to remain competitive with respect to the key factors of style, price, quality, comfort, brand loyalty, customer service, store location and atmosphere, technology, infrastructure and speed of delivery to support e-commerce and the ability to offer relevant products.

Licenses

We own our Johnston & Murphy® brand and own or license the trade names of our retail concepts either directly or through wholly-owned subsidiaries. The Wrangler® footwear line, which will be introduced in the fall of calendar year 2026, will be sold under a license agreement granting us the exclusive right to sell men's, women's and children's footwear under the trademark in the U.S. and its territories and possessions, including Puerto Rico, and Canada. The Wrangler license agreement expires December 31, 2030, with a renewal term through December 31, 2035 if mutually agreed upon by April 1, 2029. In the first quarter of Fiscal 2027, we signed a new license agreement with Authentic Brands Group ("ABG") for the Dockers® footwear line which was first introduced in Fiscal 1993. The Dockers brand was previously owned by Levi Strauss & Co. Under the new license agreement, ABG is granting us the exclusive right to sell men’s, women's and children's footwear under the trademark in the U.S. and its territories and possessions, including Puerto Rico, and Canada. The new Dockers license agreement expires December 31, 2031. The STARTER license agreement expires December 31, 2026. Our license agreement with Levi Strauss & Co. expires May 30, 2026 and we are in the process of exiting that business. We license certain other footwear brands, mostly in foreign markets. License royalty income was not material in Fiscal 2026.

Wholesale Backlog

Most of the orders in our wholesale divisions are for delivery within 150 days. Historically, most of our business has been at-once, and as a result, the backlog at any one time has not necessarily been indicative of future sales. As of February 28, 2026, our wholesale operations had a backlog of orders, including unconfirmed customer purchase orders, amounting to approximately $55.9 million, compared to approximately $57.1 million as of March 1, 2025. The backlog is somewhat seasonal, reaching a peak in the spring.

Corporate Responsibility Initiatives

As a leading retailer and wholesaler of branded footwear, apparel and accessories, we strive to make a positive impact on our industry, our communities and our planet by committing to transparent, socially conscious, and sustainable business practices. We believe that our practices should serve our shareholders, employees, customers and business partners.

During Fiscal 2026, we completed our fourth measurements or baselines for our greenhouse gas emissions. We issued our second corporate responsibility report in Fiscal 2026 which can be found at www.genesco.com. Our website address is provided as an inactive textual reference only. The information provided on our website is not a part of this report, and therefore is not incorporated herein by reference.

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Environmental

We are committed to reducing our impact on the environment by focusing on sustainability initiatives in our operations and throughout our supply chain and product lifecycle. To this end, we belong to the Leather Working Group ("LWG"). The LWG is a not-for-profit organization responsible for the world's leading environmental certification for the leather manufacturing industry. As a member of the LWG, we apply holistic practices in the supply chain for leather manufacturing for our third-party manufacturers.

We also monitor chemicals and substances in our supply chain for compliance with legal and regulatory requirements consistent with our Environmental Policy and expect our contracted factories and suppliers to take a proactive stance in eliminating any hazardous chemicals or substances in the manufacture of our products.

Human Capital

Our Employees

We had approximately 16,000 employees as of January 31, 2026, with approximately 13,000 employed in the United States and Canada, and approximately 3,000 in the U.K. and the ROI. The majority of our workforce consists of retail-based, customer-facing employees with approximately 70% part-time and 30% full-time as of January 31, 2026.

We consider our employees to be core to our success. Our values include treating our customers and each other with integrity, trust and respect, and creating an unrivaled home for talent to grow and succeed.

Workplace Health & Safety

We conduct health and safety training with our retail and distribution employees to build knowledge and awareness of workplace conditions and hazards according to local, regional and national standards.

Benefits and Compensation

We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. This package includes many benefits dedicated to our employees’ physical, mental and financial well-being.

We also provide valuable benefits based on the unique needs and interests of each individual employee such as domestic partner allowances, paid parental leave, family building benefits, education support, paid time for community service, financial assistance with emergencies, scholarship opportunities, matching gift contributions and a generous product discount.

Our compensation programs are designed to attract, retain and motivate employees. We provide short-term and long-term incentives to encourage and reward superior performance and also drive long-term shareholder value. We engage a nationally recognized outside compensation consulting firm to independently evaluate the effectiveness of our executive compensation programs and to provide benchmarking against our peers within the industry.

Empowering Our People

We are committed to continually strengthen our talent and to make a meaningful difference for our employees, our customers, and our communities.

We have enhanced our commitment to our people by building on our solid foundation. Through employee engagement and defined vision, we are focusing our attention on areas where we can make the most impact – our talent, our business practices and our communities. We have identified opportunities that will advance our efforts across our portfolio of brands, including

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expanded training and development programs, compensation studies, the launch of business resource groups and ongoing engagement through communication and events.

Employee Engagement

We conduct annual employee engagement surveys as well as other targeted surveys with various segments of our workforce to measure important aspects of the employee experience. The survey measures employee sentiment on a variety of topics including leadership, management, alignment, involvement, respect in the workplace, learning and development, social connection and work life balance, among others. The survey creates the opportunity to establish two-way communication and gives employees a direct voice in influencing change. Our results indicate high participation rates and strong engagement scores. We remain committed to listening to and learning from our employees.

Training and Development

We provide employees with the opportunity to grow their careers and be rewarded for their contributions. We have a strong promote from within culture and target training and development that is relevant to an employee’s current role as well as future roles to which they aspire.

Social Capital

We are committed to responsible sourcing practices in our supply chain. We depend on third-party vendors to produce the products we sell but strive to work only with those vendors who share our commitment to responsible practices, especially in their relationships with employees and their stewardship of the environment. Our supply chain and ethical practices policies are among the ways we seek to implement this commitment, including our Vendor Code of Conduct policy.

In 2025, we updated our comprehensive human rights policy with its commitment to respecting human rights and belief in fundamental standards that support our commitment to treat our employees, customers and business partners with integrity, trust and respect. Our human rights policy addresses our internal business ethics and code of conduct policies and principles embedded in our business operations, and is guided by the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ("OECD") Guidelines for Multi National Enterprises.

Information Security and Cybersecurity

As part of our retail and wholesale activities, marketing campaigns, customer relationship efforts and use of some third-party partners, we may handle and process certain non-public personal information that customers provide to purchase products, enroll in promotional or marketing programs, register on websites, or otherwise communicate to us in the course of providing support. This may include phone numbers, email addresses, physical addresses, contact preferences, personal information stored on electronic devices, and certain payment related information, including credit and debit card data. We have removed the transmission, processing, and storage of credit card data from our environment in North America through the use of hardware based end-to-end encryption along with tokenization.

We gather and retain information about our employees only as necessary to fulfill our responsibilities as an employer. We may share information about such persons with benefit and/or employee services vendors that assist with certain aspects of our human resources offering.

We maintain controls and safeguards to mitigate the risks to our systems and to protect this information and have made significant investments to improve our information security and privacy posture and keep pace with the ever changing and evolving risks to our systems and our information. For example, we have implemented hardware based end-to-end encryption with tokenization,

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multi-factor authentication protocols, next generation firewalls, comprehensive cloud email security and endpoint protection, detection, and response software, conducted continuous risk assessments, and established data security breach preparedness and response plans. We also promote security awareness with our employees and require all endpoint users to successfully complete our annual security awareness training.

In addition to information security, we must comply with increasingly complex and demanding regulatory standards enacted to protect the privacy of business and personal data in the United States, Europe and other jurisdictions. For example, the European Union adopted the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”), which went into effect on May 25, 2018; and California enacted the California Consumer Privacy Act (the "CCPA") which went into effect on January 1, 2020, and additional jurisdictions are considering proposing or adopting similar regulations. These privacy laws impose additional requirements on companies regarding the handling of personal data and provide certain individual privacy rights to persons whose data is stored or processed.

We have implemented processes and systems to allow for the expedient response and resolution of data subject to access requests in accordance with existing privacy laws and regulations that are applicable to our business, including GDPR and CCPA.

Community

Building better communities is part of our everyday values. Our community outreach initiatives support underserved communities including our unique signature community outreach programs Cold Feet, Warm Shoes, the Make a Difference Charity Golf Tournament benefitting United Way and Schuh’s Do More Good program. In addition, the Company and our employees engage through community sponsorship and leadership, including actively supporting the United Way of Greater Nashville’s annual campaign, among other initiatives.

Governance

We have corporate governance mechanisms in place, along with internal controls over our financial reporting framework. We also have Enterprise Risk Management and Ethics and Compliance program frameworks, with annual updates provided to committees of our board of directors ("Board of Directors" or "Board") and our Board. To drive our efforts, we have established a corporate responsibility management and oversight framework under the direction of our Senior Vice President, Corporate Secretary and General Counsel. A subcommittee of the Nominating and Governance Committee of our Board oversees these efforts.

We are committed to bringing a wide range of skills, expertise and perspectives to our Board, which is comprised of 67% of members who are diverse in either gender and/or ethnicity as of January 31, 2026.

Seasonality

Our business is seasonal with our investment in working capital normally reaching peaks in the spring and fall of each year and a significant portion of our net sales and operating income generated during the fourth quarter. The wholesale backlog is somewhat seasonal, reaching a peak in the spring. We maintain in-stock programs for selected product lines with anticipated high-volume sales.

Environmental Matters

Our former manufacturing operations and the sites of those operations as well as the sites of our current operations are subject to numerous federal, state, and local laws and regulations relating to human health and safety and the environment. These laws and regulations address and regulate, among other matters, wastewater discharge, air quality and the generation, handling, storage, treatment, disposal, and transportation of solid and hazardous wastes and releases of hazardous substances into the environment. In addition, third parties and governmental agencies in some cases have the power under such laws and regulations to require

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remediation of environmental conditions and, in the case of governmental agencies, to impose fines and penalties. Several of the facilities owned by us in the past were located in industrial areas and have historically been used for extensive periods for industrial operations such as tanning, dyeing, and manufacturing. Some of these operations used materials and generated wastes that would be considered regulated substances under current environmental laws and regulations. We are currently involved in certain administrative and judicial environmental proceedings relating to our former facilities. See Note 15 to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in Item 8, "Financial Statements and Supplementary Data".

Information About Our Executive Officers

The officers of the Company are generally elected at the first meeting of the Board of Directors following the annual meeting of shareholders and hold office until their successors have been chosen and qualified or until their earlier death, resignation or removal. The name, age and office of each of the Company’s executive officers and certain information relating to the business experience of each are set forth below:

Mimi Eckel Vaughn, 59, Board Chair, President, Interim Chief Financial Officer and Chief Executive Officer. Ms. Vaughn joined the Company in September 2003 as vice president of strategy and business development. She was named senior vice president, strategy and business development in October 2006, senior vice president of strategy and shared services in April 2009 and senior vice president - finance and chief financial officer in February 2015. In May 2019, Ms. Vaughn was named senior vice president and chief operating officer and continued to serve as senior vice president - finance and chief financial officer until her replacement was appointed in June 2019. In October 2019, Ms. Vaughn was appointed to become president and a member of the Board of Directors. Ms. Vaughn was appointed chief executive officer of the Company on February 2, 2020. In July 2020, Ms. Vaughn was appointed Board chair of the Company. As of March 6, 2025, Ms. Vaughn became the Company's interim chief financial officer until the Company names a successor. Prior to joining the Company, Ms. Vaughn was executive vice president of business development and marketing, and acting chief financial officer from 2000 to 2001, for Link2Gov Corporation in Nashville. From 1993 to 1999, she was a consultant at McKinsey and Company in Atlanta.

Parag D. Desai, 51, Senior Vice President - Chief Strategy and Digital Officer. Mr. Desai joined the Company in 2014 as senior vice president of strategy and shared services. He was named chief strategy and digital officer in May 2021. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Desai spent 14 years with McKinsey and Company, including seven years as a partner. Previously, Mr. Desai also held business development and technology positions at Outpace Systems and Booz Allen & Hamilton.

Cassandra E. Harris, 53, Principal Accounting Officer. Ms. Harris joined the Company in October 2024 as senior vice president of finance and chief financial officer. She was named the Company's principal accounting officer in December 2024. As previously announced, Ms. Harris resigned as senior vice president - finance and chief financial officer, effective March 6, 2026. Ms. Harris will continue to serve as the Company's principal accounting officer through the filing of this report. Ms. Harris has an extensive background of chief financial officer and finance leadership roles in retail and consumer brands companies. Prior to joining Genesco, she most recently served as chief financial officer for Artisan Design Group from 2023 to 2024. Previously, Ms. Harris was chief financial officer and chief operating officer of publicly-held Tupperware Brands Corporation from 2019 to 2022. Prior to joining Tupperware Brands Corporation, Ms. Harris spent almost 10 years at VF Corporation from 2008 to 2017 where she served in multiple senior leadership roles.

Scott E. Becker, 58, Senior Vice President - General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. In October 2019, Mr. Becker joined the Company as senior vice president, general counsel, and corporate secretary. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Becker served in a variety of roles with increasing responsibility for Nissan Group of North America and Latin America since 2006. Since 2009, he was a senior vice president with responsibilities for Nissan’s legal, government affairs, finance, strategy and administration. From 2006 to 2009, he served as Nissan’s general counsel, corporate secretary and vice president, legal and government affairs. Prior to joining Nissan, Mr. Becker served in various legal roles at Sears Holdings Corporation. Mr. Becker began his legal career with several Chicago area law firms.

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Daniel E. Ewoldsen, 56, Senior Vice President. Mr. Ewoldsen is a 22-year Johnston & Murphy veteran. He joined Johnston & Murphy in 2003 as vice president store operations and was later promoted to vice president store and consumer sales in 2006. He was named executive vice president, Johnston & Murphy Retail and E-Commerce in 2013, president of Johnston & Murphy Group in February 2018 and named senior vice president of Genesco in July 2019. Prior to joining Genesco, Mr. Ewoldsen was with Wilsons Leather from 1996 to 2002 serving in roles with increasing responsibilities, including vice president of stores for the El Portal division.

Andrew I. Gray, 48, Senior Vice President. Mr. Gray joined the Company in January 2024 as senior vice president and president of the Journeys Group. He was named chief executive officer of the newly formed Journeys Global Retail Group in September 2025. Journeys Global Retail Group unites Journeys, Schuh and Little Burgundy under one leadership. Prior to joining Genesco, he served over two decades in several senior leadership positions at Foot Locker. Mr. Gray most recently served as executive vice president, global president of Foot Locker, Kids Foot Locker, Champs Sports and Sidestep, a position he held from June 2022 until his departure from the company in January 2023. Previously, Mr. Gray served as executive vice president, chief commercial officer from July 2020 to June 2022, chief merchandising officer from October 2017 to July 2020, general manager of Foot Locker and Lady Foot Locker North America from February 2016 to October 2017, and as vice president and general merchandise manager of Foot Locker Europe from July 2013 to February 2016. During his time at Foot Locker, he developed a multi-dimensional skill set spanning merchandising, general management, retail and digital, consumer insight, brand building and global leadership.

Matthew N. Johnson, 61, Vice President and Treasurer. Mr. Johnson joined the Company in 1993 as manager, corporate finance and was elected assistant treasurer in December 1993. He was elected treasurer in June 1996. He was named vice president finance in October 2006 and renamed treasurer in April 2011 after a period of service as chief financial officer of one of the Company's divisions. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Johnson was a vice president in the corporate and institutional banking division of The First National Bank of Chicago.

Available Information

We file reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and other reports from time to time. We are an electronic filer and the SEC maintains an internet site at http://www.sec.gov that contains the reports, proxy and information statements, and other information filed electronically. Our website address, which is provided as an inactive textual reference only, is http://www.genesco.com. We make available free of charge through the website Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, and all amendments to those reports as soon as reasonably practicable after such material is electronically filed with or furnished to the SEC. Copies of the charters of each of our Audit Committee, Compensation Committee, Nominating and Governance Committee as well as our Corporate Governance Guidelines and Code of Ethics along with position descriptions for our Board of Directors and Board committees are also available free of charge through the website. The information provided on our website is not part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K and is therefore not incorporated by reference unless such information is otherwise specifically incorporated elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.