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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]
Locations across all 50 US states (614 stores). Barnes & Noble Education United States: former college division of B&N spun off in 2015 (760 stores). B. Dalton United States: Former large chain acquired by B&N in 1987; location now in Florida (1 store). Bookmans United States: Located in Arizona (5 stores). Books-A-Million United States
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 ...
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 was a chain of bookstores acquired by Kmart in 1992. In 1994, Borders merged with the Kmart chain Waldenbooks to form Borders-Walden Group, which was sold in 1995. In February 2011, Borders filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and announced plans to liquidate in July after failing to find a buyer to keep the chain's remaining 399 stores in ...
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 ...
Located mainly at indoor shopping malls, B. Dalton competed primarily with Waldenbooks. Barnes & Noble acquired the chain from Dayton's in 1987 and continued to operate it until a late 2009 announcement that the last 50 stores would be liquidated by January 2010. B. Dalton was later revived by rebranding a Barnes & Noble location in 2022.