The Stride Rite Corporation (PLG) announced that is has signed new agreements with partners in ten countries to continue the rapid international expansion of several of its brands in Mexico, Indonesia, Japan, five South American countries and the Czech Republic. Through a wholesale distribution agreement for Saucony and a wholesale distribution and retail development agreement for Sperry Top-Sider, Tavistock Group Mexico will re-introduce the two brands into the Mexico market. Sperry Top-Sider and Saucony will be made available at premium and specialty retail locations throughout the country through the firm's sport brand wholesale channel. Through a manufacturing license agreement with Life Gear Corporation, and sub-licensee Toho Lamac Co., Ltd., the two organizations will team up and design, manufacture and distribute through its wholesale partners Keds and PRO-Keds footwear products for the Japanese market. PLG has also signed a wholesale distribution and retail development deal to introduce Sperry Top-Sider into Indonesia with MAP ACTIVE. Additional wholesale distribution agreements cover the first-time entrance of the PLG brands into new markets including with Swiss Sports, which will distribute Sperry and Keds in Bolivia; Motociclo Sports, which will distribute Saucony into the Uruguay market; Tecaryn will distribute Keds and Sperry in the Uruguay market; and Buzz will introduce Keds and PRO-Keds to shoppers of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic. Market re-entrance deals include Swiss Sports for Sperry and Keds in Chile and Peru, as well as SAV, which will represent the Saucony brand in the Argentina market. All the deals announced by Collective Brands' PLG unit are multi-year agreements. Additional details are not disclosed.