Barnes & Noble Signs Lease for Maplewood, Minnesota, Store; Store Will Open in November 2004.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 8, 2004 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 signed a lease agreement to open a new Barnes & Noble bookstore in Maplewood, Minnesota Maplewood, incorporated in 1957, is a city in Ramsey County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 34,947 at the 2000 census. Maplewood is conveniently located just ten minutes from downtown St. Paul. Maplewood stretches along most of the northern and eastern borders of St. , which is in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. The 40,000-square-foot store, expected to open in November 2004, will be located in the Maplewood Mall Maplewood Mall is a super-regional shopping mall located in Maplewood, Minnesota. The is located 2 blocks off Interstate 694 on the Saint Paul side of the Twin Cities. Maplewood Mall opened in 1974. It was later renovated and expanded in 1996. on White Bear Avenue. When the new Barnes & Noble opens, the existing B. Dalton Dalton, city (1990 pop. 21,761), seat of Whitfield co., extreme NW Ga., in the Appalachian valley; inc. 1847. It is a highly industrialized city in a farm area. store in the Maplewood Mall will close. The store will stock close to 200,000 book, music, DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. and magazine titles and include a cafe serving Starbucks coffee. Barnes & Noble's bookselling innovations have established it as America's top retail brand for quality. The 2002 and 2003 EquiTrend(R) Brand Study by Harris Interactive Harris Interactive (NASDAQ: HPOL) is an American market research company that specializes in public opinion research using both telephone and surveys on online panels. The company is the product of a 1996 merger between the Gordon S. Black Company and Louis Harris & Associates. (R) named Barnes & Noble number-one in quality among the country's retail brands. The new store will feature: -- The Barnes & Noble Membership Program. Designed for Barnes & Noble's best customers, this program gives Members an additional 10 percent off virtually every item in Barnes & Noble stores and 5 percent off already discounted prices online at Barnes & Noble.com. The annual fee is $25. -- Rapid special-order service. Can't find it on the shelf? Barnes & Noble's massive warehouse inventory is available in real-time, enabling its booksellers to order and confirm the availability of over one million titles at the click of a button. -- Large-scale children's departments. Bigger than most typical bookstores and stocking over 15,000 titles in an easy-to-browse environment, "Barnes & Noble Jr." departments are designed to appeal to children, parents, teachers and librarians. Children's story hours will be held three times a week. -- Advanced technology music-listening system. The store's music department will feature RedDotNet, the most advanced listening technology. RedDotNet enables customers to listen to any CD in the store, sampling up to 200,000 music titles by simply passing it under a scanner. Connected to the company's online electronic music catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. , the store's listening stations A listening station is a facility established to monitor radio and microwave signals and analyse their content to secure information and intelligence for use by the security and diplomatic community and others. make "browsing with your ears" a reality. -- Giant Newsstand. The store's newsstand stocks over 2,000 titles, including hundreds of hard-to-find specialty magazines, out of town and even foreign newspapers. About Barnes & Noble, Inc. Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) is the world's largest bookseller, operating 653 Barnes & Noble bookstores in 49 states. It also operates 188 B. Dalton Bookseller stores, primarily in regional shopping malls. The company offers titles from more than 50,000 publisher imprints, including thousands of small, independent publishers and university presses. It conducts its e-commerce business through Barnes & Noble.com (http://www.bn.com). Barnes & Noble also has approximately a 63 percent interest in GameStop (NYSE: GME GME granulomatous meningoencephalitis. GME Graduate medical education, see there ), the nation's largest video-game and entertainment-software specialty retailer with 1,603 stores. 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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