SEC Form 4 · accession 0001225208-15-009313

Designer Brands Inc. · DBI

Statement of changes in beneficial ownership, as filed. Original on EDGAR ↗

Reporting owner

Officer — Executive Chairman · Director · 10% Owner

Period of report

Mar 31, 2015

Accepted (ET)

Apr 2, 2015 · 5:17 pm EDT

Rule 10b5-1 plan

unknown — predates the checkbox

Issuer CIK

0001319947

Table I — non-derivative securities

Security	Date	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Owned after	D/I	Nature of ownership
Class A Common Shares	Mar 31, 2015	M	48	$0.00	A	32,628	I	By Trusts
Class A Common Shares	Mar 31, 2015	F	14	$38.03	D	32,614	I	By Trusts
Class A Common Shares	holding	—	—		—	71,905	D
Class A Common Shares	holding	—	—		—	3,891,995	I	By Schottenstein RVI, LLC
Class A Common Shares	holding	—	—		—	293,092	I	Schottenstein SEI, LLC

Security	Conv. / exercise price	Date	Code	Shares	A/D	Exercisable	Expires	Underlying	Underlying shares	Owned after	D/I
Dividend Equivalent Rights^F1	—	Mar 31, 2015	A	186	A	—	—	Class A Common Shares	186	1,035	D
Dividend Equivalent Rights^F1	—	Mar 31, 2015	M	48	D	—	—	Class A Common Shares	48	987	D

F1The dividend equivalent rights accrued on previously awarded restricted stock units (RSUs) and become exercisable proportionately with the RSUs to which they relate. Each dividend equivalent right is the economic equivalent of one share of DSW Class A common stock.