POWER OF ATTORNEY

-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, LA1Olju8hOd03nu+/XsGUO5jEmGv6upHUqodblrvoSTrHB/BuqAUUGpYRemTDX+k YKXwlLQ36S8lgsN+yp+7lQ== 0000794367-04-000120.txt : 20040914 0000794367-04-000120.hdr.sgml : 20040914 20040914131547 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000794367-04-000120 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20040628 FILED AS OF DATE: 20040914 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20040914 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: WEATHERUP CRAIG CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001181120 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-13536 FILM NUMBER: 041029134 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE PEPSI WAY CITY: SOMERS STATE: NY ZIP: 10589 BUSINESS PHONE: 9147677100 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: FEDERATED DEPARTMENT STORES INC /DE/ CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000794367 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: RETAIL-DEPARTMENT STORES [5311] IRS NUMBER: 133324058 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 0131 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 7 WEST SEVENTH STREET CITY: CINCINNATI STATE: OH ZIP: 45202 BUSINESS PHONE: 5135797000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 7 W SEVENTH ST CITY: CINCINNATI STATE: OH ZIP: 45202 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: R H MACY & CO INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19950307 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: MACY ACQUIRING CORP DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19861124 4 1 primary_doc.xml PRIMARY DOCUMENT X0202 4 2004-06-28 0 0000794367 FEDERATED DEPARTMENT STORES INC /DE/ FD 0001181120 WEATHERUP CRAIG C/O PEPSI-COLA COMPANY 2 PEPSI WAY SOMERS NY 10589 1 0 0 0 Common Stock 2004-06-28 4 P 0 300 49.7 A 3300 D Common Stock 2004-06-28 4 S 0 300 49.7 D 3000 D Common Stock 2004-07-13 4 P 0 200 47.42 A 3200 D Common Stock 2004-07-13 4 S 0 200 47.42 D 3000 D The transactions reported herein occurred through a discretionary investment account with an unaffiliated broker without the knowledge of the reporting person. The broker corrected the unintended acquisitions retroactively through its error account on or about August 30, 2004 without any gain or loss to the reporting person. Nothing contained in this report shall be deemed to be an admission that any of the transactions reported herein is subject to Section 16(b). /s/Padma Tatta Cariappa, as attorney-in-fact for Craig E. Weatherup pursuant to a Power of Attorney 2004-09-14 EX-24 2 cew-poa.htm POWER OF ATTORNEY OF CRAIG E. WEATHERUP POWER OF ATTORNEY POWER OF ATTORNEY

The undersigned, a director and/or officer of Federated Department Stores, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), hereby constitutes and appoints Dennis J. Broderick, Padma Tatta Cariappa, Christopher M. Kelly and Mark E. Betzen, or any of them, my true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, each with full power of substitution and resubstitution (individually, a "Designee," and collectively, the "Designees"), to (i) execute and file on the undersigned's behalf all Forms 3, 4, 5 and 144 (including any amendments thereto) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") relating to the undersigned's ownership of or transactions in securities of the Company as such filings are required pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 144 of the Securities Act of 1933, and (ii) to execute on the undersigned's behalf any seller's representation letter that may be required to be submitted to the broker handling any sale of the Company's securities for the benefit of the undersigned. The authority of each such Designee (or substitute or resubstitute) under this Power of Attorney shall continue until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, 5 and 144 with regard to the undersigned's ownership of or transactions in any such securities unless earlier revoked in a writing filed with the Commission. The undersigned acknowledges that neither the Company nor any of the Designees shall be responsible for any of the information furnished to the Company or any of the Designees by the undersigned for inclusions in any such filings or representation letters or as to the timing of any such filings (except in the case of the Company only and then only to the extent provided in the written procedures of the Company from time to time in effect specifically relating to such filings), or with respect to the requirements of Section 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Rule 144 of the Securities Act of 1933.

	/s/ Craig E. Weatherup
	Craig E. Weatherup
Dated: August 27, 2004

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