Foot Locker ended its latest financial year with 563 stores in Europe, although its total store count declined by 1.7 percent to 3,369 units. Outside the U.S., the group also had 129 stores in Canada and 91 in Australia and New Zealand. In other 10-K notes, Foot Locker purchased 82 percent of its merchandise from five vendors, with Nike accounting for 61 percent. The group's total advertising expenditures grew in the last year by 25 percent to $121 million, and they reached $99 million after deducting reimbursement for cooperative advertising, which declined by 4 percent. As reported, Foot Locker's sales rose by 11 percent in the U.S. to $3,959 million and by 12.4 percent in the rest of the world to $1,664 million.

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