Barnes & Noble Signs Lease for Spanish Fort, Alabama, Store; Store Will Open in Fall 2004.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 15, 2003 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 Spanish Fort, Alabama Spanish Fort is a city in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States, and a suburb of Mobile, Alabama. The 2000 census lists the population of the city as 5,423. [1] Development Since 2003, Spanish Fort has seen major growth. , which is in the Mobile metropolitan area. The 23,000-square-foot store, expected to open in Fall 2004, will be located in the Eastern Shore Centre Eastern Shore Centre is a 540,000 square foot (0 m) lifestyle center located in Spanish Fort, a suburb of Mobile, AL, at the intersection of Malbis Parkway (Alabama State Route 181) and I-10. at 30500 State Highway 181. 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. "We are delighted to bring Barnes & Noble to Spanish Fort Spanish Fort or "Old Spanish Fort" can refer to:
The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of Barnes & Noble, Inc. "We will offer readers young and old unparalleled selection, service, and convenience. We will also strive to make the store an integral part of the community by hosting an ongoing series of author signings, book discussion groups, and children's events." Barnes & Noble's bookselling innovations include: -- The Readers' Advantage 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. Booksellers are able to access the real-time inventory of books in the company's distribution network, 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 that are bigger than most typical bookstores. Stocking over 15,000 titles in an easy-to-browse environment, Barnes & Noble Junior departments are designed to appeal to children, parents, teachers and librarians. Children's story hours will be held twice a week. -- Every CD 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. . The store's music department features the most advanced listening technology, enabling customers to listen to any CD in the store 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 make "browsing with your ears" a reality. About Barnes & Noble, Inc. Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) is the world's largest bookseller, operating 628 Barnes & Noble bookstores in 49 states. It also operates 258 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) in which it owns an approximate 38 percent interest. Barnes & Noble also has approximately a 60 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 1,231 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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