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Walden Book Company, Inc., doing business as Waldenbooks, was an American shopping mall-based bookstore chain and a subsidiary of Borders. The chain also ran a video game and software chain under the name Waldensoftware, as well as a children's educational toy chain under Walden Kids.
Under Borders, the Brentano's stores were still managed by Waldenbooks. With increased competition during the 1990s and 2000s from superstores and Internet stores, Borders was forced to close the money-losing Brentano and Waldenbooks stores. [34] [35] On 18 July 2011, Borders Group filed for bankruptcy and closed all remaining Brentano's stores ...
Borders Books. Thanks to slowing sales and mounting debts, Borders Books closed all of its U.S. stores by 2011. Its online store, also on its last legs, allowed customers to browse books, but then ...
Borders is a book and stationery retailer operating in Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates by the Al Maya Group.It was founded in the United States in 1971 by brothers Tom and Louis Borders, who opened their first bookshop in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Borders (BGP) announced Thursday afternoon that it will close 200 of its Waldenbooks stores by early January, cutting as many as 1,500 jobs, most of them part-time. The move is intended as part of ...
Borders (BGP) may have staved off a myriad of troubles thanks to an extension of revolving credit and a recent $25 million equity investment from cigarette company titan Bennett LeBow, but such ...
Borders United States: defunct 2011 Cokesbury United States: physical stores closed in 2012; continued as online retailer Brentano's United States: acquired by Waldenbooks and merged with Borders; defunct 2011 Crown Books United States: defunct 2001 Encore Books United States: defunct 1999 Family Christian Stores United States
Waldenbooks – in 2011 the chain was liquidated after parent Borders filed for bankruptcy in 2011 [158] Wallichs Music City – the largest music retailer on the West Coast during the 1950s and 1960s; founded by Glenn Wallich, founder of Capitol Records ; had stores in California and briefly in Arizona before it went bankrupt in 1977 [ 159 ...