Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

Share Repurchases

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Share Repurchases
3 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2012
Share Repurchases [Abstract]  
Share Repurchases
Note 13. Share Repurchases

In February 2010, the Board of Directors authorized a share repurchase program (the “February 2010 authorization”) whereby the Company may repurchase up to an aggregate of $10.0 million of its outstanding Class A Common Stock. During the three months ended June 30, 2011, 1,696,774 shares were repurchased under the February 2010 authorization with a weighted-average per share purchase price of $3.49. Repurchases include a purchase on May 31, 2011 of 1,000,000 shares of its Class A Common Stock, including 618,664 shares that were converted from the Company’s Class B Common Stock. These shares were purchased from a voting trust, dated February 23, 1994 (the “Voting Trust”) and from other trusts associated with certain members of Mr. Robert C. Penny III’s family. Robert C. Penny III and Robert W. Foskett currently are members of the Company’s Board of Directors. They also serve as co-trustees and are beneficiaries of the Voting Trust. The Company paid a total of $3.4 million or approximately $3.43 per share, which represented the volume weighted-average price of the Company’s Class A Common Stock for the three daily trading sessions on May 23, 24 and 25, 2011, as reported on the NASDAQ Global Select Market. The February 2010 authorization was fully utilized as of November 2011.

In August 2011, the Board of Directors authorized an additional share repurchase program whereby the Company may repurchase up to an aggregate of $20.0 million of its outstanding Class A Common Stock (the “August 2011 authorization”). During the three months ended June 30, 2012, approximately 2.1 million shares were repurchased under the August 2011 authorization with a weighted-average per share purchase price of $2.25. There was approximately $7.7 million remaining for additional share repurchases under this program as of June 30, 2012.

Additionally, in the three months ended June 30, 2011 and 2012, the Company repurchased 113,734 and 124,404 shares of Class A Common Stock, respectively, from certain executives that were surrendered to satisfy the minimum statutory tax withholding obligations on the vesting of restricted stock units and performance-based restricted stock units. These repurchases are not included in the authorized share repurchase program and had a weighted-average purchase price of $3.52 and $2.36 per share, respectively.