SALANT CORPORATION COMPLETES THE SALE OF CERTAIN ASSETS OF ITS CHILDREN’S BUSINESS TO WORMSER COMPANY

March 9, 1999

Last week, Salant Corporation completed the sale of certain assets of its children’s apparel division to Wormser Company. Wormser purchased the Dr. Denton trademark, Salant’s rights under various licenses and certain other assets related to the Dr. Denton name and the licenses.

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