EIGHTH AMENDMENT TO CREDIT CARD PROGRAM AGREEMENT

Exhibit 10.53

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EIGHTH AMENDMENT TO CREDIT CARD PROGRAM AGREEMENT

This Eighth Amendment to Credit Card Program Agreement (the “Eighth Amendment”) is entered into this 17 th  day of October, 2008, by and among The Neiman Marcus Group, Inc. and Bergdorf Goodman, Inc. on the one hand, and HSBC Private Label Corporation (formerly, Household Corporation) and HSBC Bank Nevada, N.A., on the other hand, to that certain Credit Card Program Agreement, dated June 8, 2005 (as amended, the “Agreement”), among the foregoing parties.  All capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall have the meanings given to them in the Agreement.

1.              Schedule 3.3 (Program Relationship Managers; Partner Program Team) of the Agreement is amended by striking the existing Subsection 3(a), only, of said schedule and replacing it with