ADVISORY/Leonard Riggio to Receive New York University's Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame Award.Business Editors ADVISORY...Sat. (April 21) --(BUSINESS WIRE) Barnes & Noble, Inc. -- DATE: Saturday, April 21, 2001 -- TIME: 9:00 A.M. -- LOCATION: Schimmel Auditorium at Tisch Hall, 40 West 4th St., New York, NY DESCRIPTION OF EVENT: Leonard Riggio, founder, chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Barnes & Noble, Inc., will receive New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of University's Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame Award at New York University's Conference on Business Ownership, Self-Employment & Entrepreneurship. The award, established five years ago, celebrates outstanding entrepreneurial achievements as American businesses move into the new millennium. Previous winners include Kenneth Langone Kenneth Langone, (born c. 1935) Venture Capitalist, and instrumental in securing financing for The Home Depot, is a former director of the New York Stock Exchange. He was elected as director of Yum! Brands effective October 7, 1997, and is a member of the Audit Committee. , co-founder of Home Depot The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services. Headquartered in Vinings, just outside Atlanta in unincorporated Cobb County, Georgia, Home Depot employs more than 355,000 people and operates 2,164 big-box ; Fred DeLuca, co-founder of Subway Restaurants; and Arnie Greenberg, co-founder of Snapple. For further information on the awards and conference, please go to the conference's Web site, www.nyuconference.org. Mr. Riggio will give the keynote address at 9:00 A. M. and be available for interviews afterwards. LEONARD RIGGIO's business career has all the elements of the classic American success story. Raised in Brooklyn, Riggio began his career as a bookseller in 1958 when he went to work as a clerk at the New York University New York University, mainly in New York City; coeducational; chartered 1831, opened 1832 as the Univ. of the City of New York, renamed 1896. It comprises 13 schools and colleges, maintaining 4 main centers (including the Medical Center) in the city, as well as the bookstore while attending college at night. In 1965, he opened his first bookstore, called SBX SBX Snowboard Cross SBX Sea-Based X-Band Radar (missile defense) SBX Sports Bet Express SBX Sodium Borate (wood preservative treatment) , in Greenwich Village, serving local college students. In 1971, he acquired the trade name Barnes & Noble and its single store, adding it to his already existing group of stores. After successfully bringing Barnes & Noble into the trade book business, he created the nation's first group of discount stores. In 1986, Mr. Riggio acquired B. Dalton Booksellers. Today, Barnes & Noble is the world's largest bookseller, and, with its recent acquisitions of Babbage's Etc. and Funco, Inc., the company is the nation's largest operator of video game and entertainment software stores. Mr. Riggio is also the chairman of Barnes & Noble.com (http://www.bn.com), the number one electronic-commerce site of any retailer on the World Wide Web. In addition, he is the chairman and major shareholder of several privately held companies privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. , including Barnes & Noble College Bookstores, the largest operator of college bookstores in the country, serving more than 400 universities and colleges across America; and MBS See Mb/sec. MBS - mobile broadband services Textbook Exchange. Mr. Riggio is listed in the Forbes 400 and on the Forbes list of "America's Top CEOs." |
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