Barnes & Noble, Inc. Announces Hart-Scott-Rodino Clearance of Funco Acquisition.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 1, 2000 Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : BKS BKS Barracks BKS Best Kept Secret (gaming) BKS Bildung, Kultur Und Sport (German) BKS Brookside (city) BKS Bergen Kirurgiske Sykehus (Bergen, Norway) ) today announced that it received notification of the early termination of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act The Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (Public Law 94-435, known commonly as the HSR Act) is a set of amendments to the antitrust laws of the United States, principally the Clayton Antitrust Act. The HSR Act was signed into law by President Gerald R. of 1976 applicable to the $24.75 per share cash tender offer for any and all shares of common stock of Funco, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : FNCO FNCO Federazione Nazionale Collegi Ostetriche (Italian) ). The expiration or early termination of that waiting period was a condition to the completion of the tender offer period. The tender offer is scheduled to expire at 12:00 midnight, New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. time, on Tuesday, June 13, 2000, unless extended, and is subject to certain other conditions. About Barnes & Noble, Inc. Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) operates 544 Barnes & Noble and 389 B. Dalton bookstores, and Babbage's Etc., one of the nation's largest operators of video game and entertainment software stores. Barnes & Noble stores stock an authoritative selection of book titles and provide access to more than one million titles. They offer books from more than 50,000 publisher imprints with an emphasis on small, independent publishers and university presses. Barnes & Noble is one of the world's largest booksellers on the World Wide Web (http://www.bn.com), and the exclusive bookseller on America Online (Keyword: bn). Barnes & Noble also publishes books under its own imprint for exclusive sale through its retail stores, mail-order catalogs, and Web site. General financial information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained via the internet by visiting the company's investor relations Web site: http://www.shareholder.com/bks/. |
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