The Stride Rite Corporation (SRR) announces Second Quarter Earnings and Conference Call Tuesday, June 26, 2007 at 10:00 a.m. ET

  
    
  
  
    
      The Stride Rite Corporation (NYSE:SRR), will hold its Second Quarter 
      conference call to discuss results on Tuesday, June 26, 2007, at 10:00 
      a.m. Eastern Time (9 a.m. Central Time).
    
    
      The Stride Rite Corporation (NYSE:SRR) expects to release its operating 
      results for the Second Quarter on Tuesday, June 26, 2007. The release 
      will be made public before the market opens and will be followed by a 
      conference call at 10:00AM ET. Interested investment analysts and 
      investors may call in at 1-800-789-4818. Ask for the Stride Rite 
      conference call hosted by our CEO, David Chamberlain.
    
    
      The conference call will be available on replay for 24 hours by calling 
      1-800-642-1687 and entering the conference ID number 1514446. 
      If you have any questions regarding the conference call information, 
      call Carol Kenney at [phone].
    
    
      This call is being webcast by Thomson Financial and can be accessed 
      at Stride Rite’s web site at www.strideritecorp.com.
    
    
      The webcast is also being distributed over Thomson Financial’s 
      Investor Distribution Network to both institutional and individual 
      investors. Individual investors can listen to the call through 
      Thomson Financial’s individual investor center 
      at www.fulldisclosure.com 
      or by visiting any of the investor sites in Thomson Financial’s 
      Individual Investor Network such as America Online’s 
      Personal Finance Channel, Fidelity Investments® 
      (Fidelity.com) and others. Institutional investors can access the 
      call via Thomson Financial’s password 
      protected event management site, StreetEvents (www.streetevents.com). 
      StreetEvents allows institutional investors to identify, organize, 
      and track the hundreds of conference calls that occur each day during 
      earnings season, to download events of interest to their Outlook 
      calendar, and to RSVP to events online.
    
    
      About The Stride Rite Corporation
    
    
      The Stride Rite Corporation markets the leading brand of high quality 
      children’s shoes in the United States. Other 
      footwear products for children and adults are marketed by the Company 
      under well-known brand names, including Keds, Sperry Top-Sider, Saucony, 
      Robeez, Tommy Hilfiger, Grasshoppers and Munchkin. Information about the 
      Company is available on our website – www.strideritecorp.com. 
      Information about the Company’s brands and 
      product lines is available at www.striderite.com, 
      www.keds.com, www.saucony.com, 
      www.robeez.com, www.grasshoppers.com 
      and www.sperrytopsider.com.