Tanger Continues It’s Significant Support For Cancer Research

For the 13th year, Tanger Outlet Centers showed its nationwide commitment to battling breast cancer in the communities that it serves.  As part of the company’s national Breast Cancer Awareness campaign which took place September 15- October 31, 2006, the Tanger Outlet Center in Blowing Rock raised $9,335.15.  The money raised locally by Tanger during this year’s campaign will benefit the Watauga County Relay for Life through the Stanley K. Tanger Breast Cancer Fund.  Tanger’s 2006 donation to fight breast cancer was presented during a special ceremony on January 8th at Tanger Shoppes on the Parkway.  
“We are very proud to join forces with Watauga County Relay for Life in the mutual goal of putting an end to this terrible disease that affects so many of our friends and loved ones,” stated Marilyn Cozart, Customer Service Representative of the Tanger Outlet Center in Blowing Rock.  “Our annual Breast Cancer Awareness campaign gives us the opportunity to really make a big difference by helping to save lives right here in our community.”      
Tanger’s Breast Cancer Awareness campaign raised money through a variety of onsite programs at Tanger shopping centers.  For a $2 donation, Tanger shoppers received a special Pink and Choose discount card that gave them bonus discount offers at participating Tanger stores.  Tanger also supported the fight against breast cancer by donating up to 25% of all Tanger gift cards purchased during the campaign.  Tanger Shoppes on the Parkway was fortunate enough to have The Coach Factory store as a top seller of the Special Pink and Choose Discount books.  Coach sold over $4,100 in the booklets to aid in the final donation.    
  Nationally, Tanger’s Breast Cancer Awareness campaign this fall raised $500,000 supporting the local efforts of more than a dozen different breast cancer organizations across the nation.  Since 1994, Tanger has contributed more than $4.5 million to help create awareness for the importance mammograms and early detection, to support educational programs that can improve the quality of life for patients and families and to help fund the critical research needed to discover a method of prevention and a cure for breast cancer.  
More than 211,000 new cases of breast cancer are expected in the United States, this year alone.  Breast cancer is the leading cause of death in women between the ages of 40-55.  Approximately 1,600 men are expected to be diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006 and 400 are predicted to die according to the National Breast Cancer Foundation
Tanger Factory Outlet Centers, Inc., (NYSE:SKT) a publicly traded REIT, presently has ownership interests in or management responsibilities for 35 shopping centers in 23 states coast-to-coast, totaling approximately 9.2 million square feet, leased to over 2000 stores that are operated by over 400 different store brands. In Blowing Rock, Tanger Outlet Center features 28 brand name and designer outlet stores and is located on Hwy 321.