Borders Group Names Three New Directors.Business Editors ANN ARBOR, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 12, 2002 Borders Group(R), Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) The routing protocol that is used to span autonomous systems on the Internet. It is a robust, sophisticated and scalable protocol that was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). ) recently named three new directors. Diane Mangan was promoted from associate director, children's merchandising to category director, children's. Kathryn Popoff was hired as director of multimedia and marketing and Greg M. Yarrington was appointed director of consumer commerce and human resource systems. Diane Mangan is a graduate of Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, having received her bachelor of business administration “BBA” redirects here. For other uses, see BBA (disambiguation). The Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) is a bachelor's degree in business studies. there. She has been employed by Borders Group, Inc. for seven years, having previously worked as a children's book buyer for Waldenbooks, divisional merchandise manager for Borders and associate director for children's merchandising for Borders. In 1996 Mangan was awarded a Borders Group, Inc. Profitability Award in recognition of her ability to drive sales. This September she will serve as a panel member at the Children's Book Council annual meeting. Kathryn Popoff began her career at Bloomingdale's in 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 where she held various management positions between 1992 and 1996. She worked for grocery/drug store chain Jewel-Osco for five years as a sales manager prior to joining Borders Group. Popoff obtained her undergraduate degree from Mount Holyoke College Mount Holyoke College (hōl`yōk), at South Hadley, Mass.; for women; chartered 1836, opened 1837 as Mount Holyoke Female Seminary under Mary Lyon, rechartered as Mount Holyoke College 1893. There is a noteworthy art museum on campus. in Hadley, Mass., and her master of business administration degree in marketing from the Kelley School of Business The Kelley School of Business of Indiana University is one of the top ranked business schools in the USA. It is home to approximately 4,600 full-time students on its Bloomington campus and approximately 1,200 students on its Indianapolis campus. at Indiana University. Greg M. Yarrington comes to Borders from Delphi Automotive Systems, most recently serving as director, global infrastructure program/project office and operation analysis. Yarrington obtained his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and completed three master's degrees. He holds a master of science degree in biostatistics from Yale University; a master of business administration degree from the State University of New York (body) State University of New York - (SUNY) The public university system of New York State, USA, with campuses throughout the state. in Binghamton; and a master of health administration degree from the University of Michigan (body, education) University of Michigan - A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. . Borders Group, Inc., (NYSE:BGP) is a leading global retailer of books, music, video and other information and entertainment items with stores in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the commonwealth of Puerto Rico. A FORTUNE 500 company headquartered in Ann Arbor, Mich., Borders Group employs 32,000 employees worldwide and operates over 375 Borders domestic superstores, 23 international Borders stores, 36 Books etc. locations and approximately 810 Waldenbooks stores. Teamed with Amazon.com, the company also offers online shopping through www.borders.com. More detailed information for journalists is available at www.bgimediacenter.com. Financial data is hosted on www.bordersgroupinc.com and information on Borders stores is available through www.bordersstores.com. |
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