Barnes & Noble Receives Grant to Train Its Booksellers in English as a Second Language; Middlesex County College to Conduct Training for Barnes & Noble.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 -- 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) ), the world's largest bookseller, announced it has been awarded a new grant from the New Jersey Department of Labor to train more than 850 of its booksellers in English as a Second Language (ESL (1) An earlier family of client/server development tools for Windows and OS/2 from Ardent Software (formerly VMARK). It was originally developed by Easel Corporation, which was acquired by VMARK. ). Middlesex County College Middlesex County College is a community college with its main campus located in Edison, New Jersey, USA. The two-year college serves the needs of Middlesex County, as well as surrounding communities. There are two urban campuses located in New Brunswick and Perth Amboy. will provide the training for the program. The grant is for $300,500. The ESL program provided by Middlesex County College will run for a year and will train the employees who work in five distribution sites in Jamesburg. "We are thrilled to have this opportunity for our booksellers to become more fully proficient in the English language English language, member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages). Spoken by about 470 million people throughout the world, English is the official language of about 45 nations. ," said Bill Duffy, executive vice president of distribution for Barnes & Noble. "It's part of our longstanding effort to help our people advance in their careers and take a more active role in their communities. We are pleased with our collaboration with Middlesex County College and know that they will provide the best possible training." "This training will allow the Barnes & Noble employees to become more productive and to do their jobs better," said Patricia Moran, director of the Institute for Management and Technical Development at Middlesex County College. "It will also give the workers skills they can use in every aspect of their lives. This is an example of a forward-thinking company investing in its most important asset -- its employees." About Barnes & Noble, Inc. Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller and a Fortune 500 company, operates 839 bookstores in 50 states. For the third year in a row, the company is the nation's top retail brand for quality, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the EquiTrend(R) Brand Study by Harris Interactive(R). Barnes & Noble conducts its online business through Barnes & Noble.com (www.bn.com), one of the Web's largest e-commerce sites and the number-one brand among e-commerce companies, according to the latest EquiTrend survey. In addition to its retail operations, Barnes & Noble is one of the largest book publishers in the world. Its subsidiary, Sterling Publishing, publishes over 1,300 new titles a year and has an active list of over 6,000 titles. General financial information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained via the Internet by visiting the company's corporate Web site: http://www.barnesandnobleinc.com/financials. |
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