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URBAN OUTFITTERS, INC.
                      Philadelphia, PA - February 2, 2012


 For Immediate Release
      Contact:   Oona McCullough

       Director of Investor Relations

       (215) 454-4806


         PHILADELPHIA, February 2, 2012 (GLOBENEWSWIRE) - Urban Outfitters, Inc.
(NASDAQ:URBN),  a leading lifestyle specialty retail company operating under the
Anthropologie,  Free People, BHLDN,  Terrain and Urban  Outfitters brands, today
announced  the appointment of  Tedford Marlow as  Chief Executive Officer, Urban
Outfitters  Group, effective February 6(th), 2012. In  this new role, Mr. Marlow
will be   responsible for the Urban Outfitters brand globally.

"We are excited to have Ted rejoin our URBN team," said Richard Hayne, Chief
Executive Officer. "Ted is an exceptional leader with great vision and has an
intimate knowledge of and appreciation for the brand."  Prior to retiring in
2010, Mr. Marlow spent nine years as President of the Urban Outfitters brand.
 Under Mr. Marlow's leadership, the Urban Outfitters brand grew revenues to over
$1billion, opened more than 100 stores in the U.S., successfully expanded the
brand into Canada and Continental Europe, and oversaw the rapid growth of the
brand's direct-to-consumer businesses.


         Urban  Outfitters, Inc. is an  innovative specialty retail company that
offers  a variety  of lifestyle  merchandise to  highly defined  customer niches
through  194 Urban Outfitters  stores in  the United  States, Canada and Europe,
catalogs and websites; 166 Anthropologie stores in the United States, Canada and
Europe, catalogs and websites; Free People wholesale, which sells its product to
approximately  1,400 specialty  stores  and  select  department  stores; 60 Free
People stores, catalogs and websites, 1 Terrain garden center and website and 1
BHLDN store and website as of December 31, 2011.

        This news release is being made pursuant to the "safe harbor"
provisions
of  the  Private  Securities  Litigation  Reform  Act  of  1995. Certain matters
contained  in this release may  constitute forward-looking statements. When used
in  this release, the words "project," "believe," "plan,"
"anticipate," "expect"
and  similar expressions  are intended  to identify  forward-looking statements,
although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words. Any
one,  or all, of the  following factors could cause  actual financial results to
differ  materially from those financial results mentioned in the forward-looking
statements:  the difficulty  in predicting  and responding  to shifts in fashion
trends, changes in the level of competitive pricing and promotional activity and
other industry factors, overall economic and market conditions and the resultant
impact  on consumer spending patterns, lowered levels of consumer confidence and
higher  levels of unemployment,  and continuation of  lowered levels of consumer
spending  resulting from the continuing worldwide economic downturn, any effects
of  terrorist acts or war, availability  of suitable retail space for expansion,
timing of store openings, seasonal fluctuations in gross sales, the departure of
one  or more key senior managers,  import risks, including potential disruptions
and  changes  in  duties,  tariffs  and  quotas,  the  closing  of  any  of  our
distribution  centers, our ability to  protect our intellectual property rights,
risks  associated with internet sales, response to new store concepts, potential
difficulty  liquidating certain marketable security  investments and other risks
identified in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The  Company  disclaims  any  intent  or  obligation  to  update forward-looking
statements  even  if  experience  or  future  changes  make it clear that actual
results  may differ materially  from any projected  results expressed or implied
therein.

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