Company Profile for Borders
Borders Group, Inc.
| Type | Public |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1971 |
| Headquarters | Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. |
| Industry | Retail (Specialty) |
| Key People | Bennett S. LeBow Former Chairman and CEO Mike Edwards Former President Scott Henry Former CFO |
| Products | Books, Maps, CDs, DVDs, Calendars, Zunes, Gift Packs, Magazines, Board Games, Encyclopedias |
| Subsidiaries | Waldenbooks |
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Borders Store To Be Turned Into Library System Nexus
By Ben Popken on October 24, 2011 5:00 PM
17 Comments
Here's another cool liquidated Borders store conversion story. The Pioneer Library System in Oklahoma is buying up a 25,000 square foot Borders store and turning it into their new book master control system headquarters. More »
Man Reuses Letters From Borders Sign To Open "ODE" Bookstore In Same Spot
By Ben Popken on October 24, 2011 10:00 AM
82 Comments
San Francisco is big into recycling and books, and both interests have combined in the form of a liquidated Borders bookstore that is getting reused as a used bookstore. The owner is even finding a place for the letters in the original Borders sign: spelling out the name of the new store, "ODE." More »
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Liquidated Borders Store Reincarnated As Temporary Halloween Shop
By Ben Popken on October 21, 2011 1:00 PM
106 Comments
What happens to old Borders stores now that the book chain is bankrupt and liquidated? In Kennesaw, Georgia, one old Borders shop has been brought back from the dead as a temporary Halloween supply warehouse. It makes reader DW sad. More »
Barnes & Noble Greets Borders Customers With Letter From CEO
By Mary Beth Quirk on October 3, 2011 8:30 AM
47 Comments
Now that Borders has gone belly-up, Barnes & Noble could totally sweep in and be all like, "na na na na na na!" But instead, it seems they're taking the high road and being pretty cool to the formers Borders customers grieving over their bookstore. More »
Borders Employees Say Adios With Oversized Confession To Customers
By Mary Beth Quirk on September 29, 2011 11:15 AM
244 Comments
There's nothing like the full confession of a few former employees who have a bone to pick with the common customer. In this case, it's some Borders workers, who have taken to a ginormous piece of paper to list, in detail, their biggest peeves with shoppers. More »
Judge Holds Up Borders Sale Due To Privacy Concerns
By Phil Villarreal on September 23, 2011 9:00 AM
22 Comments
Things are so bad for Borders that the company can't even seem to fail properly. A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge threw a hurdle in front of the proposed $15.8 million sale of intellectual property to Barnes & Noble, demanding that paperwork must clarify privacy rights for 48 million customers whose data will be swapped in the transaction. More »
14 Borders Stores To Be Reborn As Books-A-Million
By Laura Northrup on August 26, 2011 4:00 PM
64 Comments
Loyal customers of some Borders stores in the Northeast and Midwest, rejoice: you may not have to go long without a book superstore once Borders closes. According to bankruptcy court documents filed yesterday, Alabama-based chain Books-A-Million has agreed to take over the leases for 14 Borders outlets, mostly in the Northeast. A previous proposal for BAM (best store acronym ever) to take over 30 Borders leases fell through. More »
Google+ Circle Forms Jobs Blog For Ex-Borders Workers
By Ben Popken on July 28, 2011 4:00 PM
17 Comments
Borders shutting down means 11,000 nice bookworms are out of a job. That's a pretty sad thought so a couple of friends started musing together on Google+ about how someone should help these folks out. So they started a new blog, "Help Ex-Borders Employees" where people can post job listings for these newly unemployed. More »
Even The Computers At Borders Have Given Up
By Chris Morran on July 26, 2011 12:15 PM
51 Comments
As Borders stores around the country are being salvaged for scraps before being melted down into a homogenous molten goo, it appears that even the retailer's in-house computers have decided its time to retire. More »
Borders CEO's Goodbye Email To His Customers
By Ben Popken on July 22, 2011 10:00 AM
72 Comments
Mike Edwards, the CEO of the liquidating Borders bookstores emailed a farewell note to all Borders Rewards Members last night. In it, he looked back at the over 40 years of bookselling and imagination-stoking the chain has done and explained why they were closing down. Beyond the sentiments, he also explained some important things you'll want to know if you want to buy some books from them before they close their doors for good. More »
