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John T. Harper Named President of Macy's Home Store

Macys, Inc. (NYSE:M) today announced that John T. Harper has been named president and chief operating officer of its New York-based Macys Home Store division, effective Aug. 6, 2007. Currently, he serves as vice chairman and director of stores of the Macys Midwest division in St. Louis.

Harper replaces Michael J. Osborn, who retires effective Aug. 3 after more than 33 years of service with the company. He joins Timothy M. Adams, chairman and chief executive officer, and Jeffrey A. Kantor, president for furniture, as principals of the Macys Home Store division, which is responsible for the centralized buying, merchandising and marketing of home furnishings for Macys stores nationwide. Harper will report to Adams.

John Harper is an outstanding executive with a deep understanding of our business and our customers. His knowledge of Macys stores in new and legacy markets will be a great asset as John succeeds Mike Osborn, who has been invaluable in improving the operational effectiveness of Macys Home Store and positioning it for success in the future, said Macys, Inc. Vice Chair Janet E. Grove, to whom Macys Home Store reports. A seamless transition from Mike to John also demonstrates the value of the deep reservoir of management talent within our company.

Harper, 47, has been vice chairman and director of stores at Macys Midwest since February 2006. Previously, he served since 2004 as chairman of Hechts/Strawbridges, then an Arlington, VA-based division. He also served Hechts/Strawbridges as senior vice president/finance, senior vice president/operations and vice president/profit management. Harper joined The May Department Stores Company at its Kaufmanns division in 1983. He held numerous accounting, strategic planning, and financial positions at the Kaufmanns, L.S. Ayres, and Famous-Barr divisions prior to joining Hechts as vice president and controller in 1993.

Harper received a degree in communications and political science and an MBA in finance both from the University of Pittsburgh. A native of Pittsburgh, Harper and his wife, Janet, have two children. He will be relocating to New York.

Osborn, 59, joined Macys Home Store in August 2005 after serving as president and chief operating officer of San Francisco-based Macys West since 2002. He began his retailing career in the data processing area at Bullocks, then a division of Federated, in 1974. He became vice president of operations for Bullocks in 1984 and in 1989 moved to Burdines as senior vice president of operations. In 1993, Osborn was named executive vice president of administration at Sterns, then a separate division of Federated. He was named president and chief operating officer of Burdines in 1994 and president of Macys West in June 2002.

Osborn is a Southern California native and graduate of California State University with a degree in economics.

Macy's, Inc., with corporate offices in Cincinnati and New York , is one of the nation's premier retailers, with fiscal 2006 sales of $27 billion. The company operates more than 850 department stores in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico under the names of Macy's and Bloomingdale's. The company also operates macys.com, bloomingdales.com and Bloomingdale's By Mail. Prior to June 1, 2007, Macy's, Inc. was known as Federated Department Stores, Inc.

All statements in this press release that are not statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements are based upon the current beliefs and expectations of Federated's management and are subject to significant risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially from those expressed in or implied by the forward-looking statements contained in this release because of a variety of factors, including conditions to, or changes in the timing of, proposed transactions, prevailing interest rates, competitive pressures from specialty stores, general merchandise stores, manufacturers' outlets, off-price and discount stores, new and established forms of home shopping (including the Internet, mail-order catalogs and television) and general consumer spending levels, including the impact of the availability and level of consumer debt, the effect of weather and other factors identified in documents filed by the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

(NOTE: Additional information on Federated, including past news releases, is available at www.fds.com/pressroom)

Contacts:

Macys, Inc.
Media - Jim Sluzewski, 513-579-7764
Investor - Susan Robinson, 513-579-7780

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