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At that time, Waldenbooks had 1,216 stores in all 50 states. [28] In 1995, the renamed Borders Group was able to buy back its stock [29] and it was listed independently on the New York Stock Exchange. [30] [31] Beginning in 2004, many Waldenbooks locations were rebranded as Borders Express stores. [32]
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 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
Whether from changing consumer habits, the pandemic, or financial mismanagement, popular stores like RadioShack and Borders have called it quits. Big-Name Stores That Have Closed in the Last 30 ...
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 - books, music, videos (defunct) Waldenbooks - used books, music, videos (defunct) Bradlees - department store (defunct) Builders Square - home improvement (defunct) Burlington - clothing, general merchandise; Buy Buy Baby - baby superstore (defunct) Cabela's - hunting, fishing, camping goods, clothing; Caldor - department store (defunct)
B. Dalton had stores in 43 of 50 states in 1978, and was second to Waldenbooks (then the U.S.'s largest bookstore) in store numbers, but posted higher profits than its rival. [3] [4] A flagship store opened in Manhattan in December 1978, [3] and between 1983 and 1986, the chain revived the Pickwick name as a discount bookstore.
Kroch's and Brentano's was the largest bookstore in Chicago, and at one time it was the largest privately owned bookstore chain in the United States.The store and the chain were formed in 1954 through the merger of the separate Kroch's bookstore with the former Chicago branch of the New York-based Brentano's bookstore. [1]