Apex Global Brands Announces Delay in Release of its Third Quarter Fiscal 2020 Financial Results

SHERMAN OAKS, Calif., Dec. 17, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Apex Global Brands (NASDAQ: APEX), a global brand ownership and marketing organization that manages, creates and elevates a growing portfolio of high-equity lifestyle brands, today announced that it will file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an automatic five-day extension of the deadline for submitting its quarterly report on Form 10-Q for its Third Quarter ended November 2, 2019 (the “Form 10-Q”).

Although the Company believes that its financial statements are substantially complete, the Company needs more time to finalize its financial statements and related disclosures.

The Company is working diligently on this matter and expects to file the Form 10-Q on or before the extended deadline of December 23, 2019. The Company will issue a press release of its financial results and a business update concurrent with the filing of its Form 10-Q.

About Apex Global Brands

Apex Global Brands is a global brand ownership and marketing organization that manages, creates and elevates a growing portfolio of high-equity lifestyle brands. The brand portfolio spans multiple consumer product categories and retail tiers around the world and includes Hi-Tec®, Magnum®, 50 Peaks®, Interceptor®, Cherokee®, Tony Hawk®, Liz Lange®, Point Cove®, Carole Little®, Everyday California® and Sideout®. The Company currently maintains license agreements with leading retailers and manufacturers that span approximately 140 countries in over 20,000 retail locations and digital commerce. For more information, please visit the Company's website at .

Safe Harbor Statement

This news release may contain forward-looking statements regarding future events and the future performance of APEX Global Brands. A forward-looking statement is neither a prediction nor a guarantee of future events or circumstances and is based on currently available market, operating, financial and competitive information and assumptions. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expected or projected, including, among others, risks that: the Company and its partners will not achieve the results anticipated in the statements made in this release; global economic conditions and the financial condition of the apparel and retail industry and/or adverse changes in licensee or consumer acceptance of products bearing the Company’s brands may lead to reduced royalties; the ability and/or commitment of the Company’s licensees to design, manufacture and market Cherokee^®, Hi-Tec^®, Magnum^®, 50 Peaks^®, Interceptor^®, Carole Little^®, Tony Hawk^® and Hawk Brands^®, Liz Lange^®, Everyday California^® and Sideout^® branded products could cause our results to differ from our anticipations; the Company’s dependence on a select group of licensees for most of the Company’s revenues makes us susceptible to changes in those organizations; our level of indebtedness and restrictions under our indebtedness; and the Company’s dependence on its key management personnel could leave us exposed to disruption on any termination of service. A more detailed discussion of such risks and uncertainties are described in the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K filed on April 23, 2019, its periodic reports on Forms 10-Q and 8-K, and subsequent filings with the SEC the Company makes from time to time. Except as required by law, the Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

Investor Contacts:

Apex Global Brands

Steve Brink, CFO

818-908-9868

Addo Investor Relations

Kimberly Esterkin/Patricia Nir

310-829-5400