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To: White Shoes who wrote (46)	8/6/1998 3:40:00 PM
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To: White Shoes who wrote (46)	9/22/1998 2:39:00 PM
From: Vic Glassley	Respond to of 353

Tuesday September 15, 7:33 am Eastern Time Company Press Release The Sharper Image Names New Executive Vice President SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 15, 1998--The Sharper Image Corp. (Nasdaq/NMS:SHRP - news) announced the promotion of Tracy Wan to executive vice president and chief financial officer. Wan, 38, who joined The Sharper Image in 1988, most recently served for three years as the company's senior vice president, chief financial officer, and corporate secretary. Additionally, in the past year, she assumed responsibility for information systems, distribution, and customer service operations. Her prior positions with the company include manager, external reporting and taxes, assistant controller, controller, and vice president, controller. She is a certified public accountant and a cum laude graduate of San Francisco State University. ''Tracy has consistently demonstrated her capacity to assume ever increasing responsibilities as the company grows,'' remarked Barry Gilbert, vice chairman and chief operating officer. ''For many years, we have relied on Tracy's intelligence, energy, common sense, and sound judgment in the vital areas of finance as well as operations. This promotion recognizes the very significant contributions she has made to strengthening The Sharper Image.'' The Sharper Image is a specialty retailer that is nationally and internationally renowned as a leading source of new, innovative, high-quality products that make life easier and more enjoyable. A significant and growing proportion of sales are of proprietary products created by the company's product development group, Sharper Image Design. The company operates more than 80 stores throughout the United States and mails millions of its award-winning catalogs each month. Additionally, all of the company's products may be purchased online via its Internet store at sharperimage.com. Contact: The Sharper Image Davia Kimmey, 415/445-6199 sharperimage.com

To: White Shoes who wrote (46)	9/22/1998 2:40:00 PM
From: Vic Glassley	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 353

Thursday September 3, 7:34 am Eastern Time Company Press Release Sharper Image Catalog Sales Increase 41 Percent Sales From sharperimage.com Increased Three-Fold SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 3, 1998--Sharper Image Corp. (NASDAQ:SHRP - news) today reported a 7 percent sales increase for August driven by a 42 percent increase in mail-order sales from The Sharper Image and The Sharper Image Home Collection catalogs and a 227 percent increase in sales from the company's Internet site sharperimage.com. For August, total company sales of $13.6 million were 7 percent higher than the prior year's $12.8 million. Total store sales decreased 3 percent, to $9.6 million from $9.9 million in the prior year, with comparable stores sales decreasing 2 percent. Catalog sales increased 42 percent to $4.0 million from last year's $2.8 million. ''Our sales in August were adversely affected, in part, by insufficient inventory of certain best-selling products from overseas,'' Richard Thalheimer, founder, chairman and chief executive officer noted. ''This was due in large part to shipping constraints, including a shortage of available cargo containers due to decreased exports to, and increased imports from, Asia. Additionally, unexpected high demand for some of our most popular items outpaced our ability to produce them.'' He further stated, ''We continue to be encouraged by the response to our Sharper Image Design and proprietary products. I believe the Ionic Breeze(TM) Silent Air Purifier, which we introduced in our current catalog, is another breakthrough product. ''It's the first quality air purifier that circulates air and provides state-of-the-art cleaning while operating in total silence. The Ionic Breeze is just one of many new exciting products, developed by our Sharper Image Design team, that will be introduced over the next few months. ''Internet sales in August increased three-fold from last year. Our customers continued their very strong response to both our sharperimage.com web site and our targeted outbound e-mail marketing,'' Thalheimer concluded. For the seven months year to date, total company sales grew 11 percent, to $102.1 million from last year's $91.6 million. Total store sales were 5 percent higher at $70.2 million from $66.7 million for the prior year, with comparable store sales increasing 4 percent. Catalog sales rose 28 percent to $31.9 million from last year's $25.0 million. The Sharper Image is a specialty retailer that is nationally and internationally renowned as a leading source of new, innovative, high-quality products that make life easier and more enjoyable. A significant and growing proportion of sales are of proprietary products created by the company's product development group, Sharper Image Design. The company operates more than 80 stores throughout the United States and mails millions of its award-winning catalogs each month. Additionally, all the company's products may be purchased on-line via its Internet store at sharperimage.com. This release contains certain forward-looking statements regarding the Company's expected performance for future periods, and actual results for such periods may materially differ. Such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, including risks of changing market conditions in the overall economy and the retail industry, consumer demand, the opening of new stores, actual advertising expenditures by the Company, the success of the Company's advertising and merchandising strategy, availability of products, and other factors detailed from time to time in the Company's annual and other reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Contact: The Sharper Image, San Francisco Tracy Wan, 415/445-6120 sharperimage.com or The Investor Relations Company, Chicago Tom Laughran, 847/564-5610