Barnes & Noble to Open New Store at 6825 Camino Arroyo Gilroy, California; New Bookstore Debuts on June 2.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 19, 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, will open a new 23,000-square-foot bookstore on June 2 in Gilroy Crossing at 6825 Camino Arroyo, Gilroy, California Gilroy (IPA: /ˈgɪlrɔɪ/) is the southmost city in Santa Clara County, California, USA. According to the United States 2000 Census, the city population was 41,464. . 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. The new Gilroy Barnes & Noble will be open from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day, and employ approximately 50 people from the community. The public is invited to a Preview Night Party at the new Gilroy Barnes & Noble on Tuesday, June 1, from 6 to 9 p.m. A portion of the Preview Night sales will benefit Visions Literacy, a nationally recognized, library-based literacy program dedicated to improving the literacy skills of families and adults in Santa Clara Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. County. A ribbon-cutting ceremony will take place at 6:15 p.m. with Gilroy Mayor Al Pinneiro. Music will be provided by the Gilroy High School Choir and the South Valley Suzuki String Academy Touring Group. Costume characters Clifford the Big Red Dog and Curious George Curious George inquisitive, mischievous monkey. [Children’s Lit.: Curious George] See : Curiosity will be on hand to meet their fans. Prize winning art from students at San Benito High School San Benito High School is located at 1220 Monterey Street, Hollister, California, and serves as the primary high school for Hollister city residents and most county residents. The school’s current enrollment is approximately 2,700 students, served by 250 faculty and staff. also will be on display. 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, 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 (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 :BNBN) (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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