HATS OFF TO LIDS AT WARD CENTERS By:Ward Centers, 05/11/2006 Ward Centers welcomes LIDS, a new hat store, to Ward Centre. LIDS opened in the new street-front space between Crazy Shirts and KICKS/HI. This is LIDS’ seventh location in Hawaii. “We are very excited about opening our newest store in Ward Centre,” said Ken Kocher, President of Hat World Corporation. “Our team is looking forward to the challenge of earning the business of the athletic fashion headwear customer by always offering the very best selection, variety and quality of hats anywhere.” The LIDS Passport Club discount program saves customers 20 percent on all hats, apparel and custom embroidery, and 10 percent on accessories. LIDS is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The store’s phone number is 591-9137. Founded in 1995 and comprised of more than 650 mall-based, airport, street level and factory outlet stores nationwide, and in Puerto Rico and Canada primarily under the LIDS and HATWORLD retail brands, Indianapolis-based Hat World Corporation is the specialty retail leader of officially licensed and branded athletic fashion headwear. Hat World also operates smaller retail brands HATZONE, HEADQUARTERS and CAPCONNECTION. Most stores offer a vast assortment of college, MLB, NBA, NFL and NHL teams, as well as other specialty fashion categories all in the latest styles and colors. Some stores also offer a strong complementary line of licensed apparel, and custom embroidery capability. Typically offering more than 1,000 different hats in each store, LIDS serves the core fan and fashion-conscious and trend-savvy mid-teen to mid-20s customer. Hat World also sells its products and promotes its stores through the Internet sites lids.com™, hatworld.com™, and lidscyo.com™. In addition, licensed LIDS stores operate from premier street locations and kiosks within major department stores in Korea, Hong Kong and China. Hat World is a subsidiary of Genesco Inc. Ward Centers is owned and managed by General Growth Properties Inc., the second-largest U.S.-based publicly traded Real Estate Investment Trust. General Growth currently has an ownership interest in or management responsibility for a portfolio of more than 200 shopping malls in 44 states, as well as ownership in planned community developments and commercial office buildings. The portfolio totals approximately 200 million square feet of retail space and includes more than 24,000 retail stores nationwide. General Growth Properties Inc. is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol GGP. For more information, please visit www.generalgrowth.com.