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  1. Borders Group, Inc. was an American multinational book and music retailer based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. In its final year, the company employed about 19,500 people throughout the U.S., primarily in its Borders and Waldenbooks stores. [1][2] At the beginning of 2010, the company operated 511 Borders superstores in the United ...

  2. Oct 21, 2021 · Oct 21, 2021. Pedestrians walk past a shuttered Borders bookstore along the Michigan Avenue shopping district on February 16, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) It’s been almost exactly ten years since the last Borders bookstore closed, following the company’s February 2011 bankruptcy.

  3. Jan 11, 2015 · 717 . Number of Barnes & Noble stores still in operation. 200. Number of Borders stores that were closed earlier this year, after the company filed for bankruptcy protection. $1.28 billion. Assets ...

  4. It appears to be all over for the Borders bookselling chain. Almost 11,000 employees will lose their jobs when the company closes its remaining 400 stores by the end of September. Though the two ...

  5. Jul 15, 2011 · 202 BSS South Washington Street 1212 S. Washington Street North Attleboro MA 02760 24,297. 208 BSS Presidential Market Center 1929 Scenic Hwy. Snellville GA 30078 22,296. 210 BSS East Town Plaza ...

  6. Jul 18, 2011 · Feb. 4, 1997: Shares close at an all-time high of $44.88. March 11, 1997: Borders executes a 2-for-1 split on its stock. January 1998 to January 1999: Borders expands its store footprint by 25.5 percent, adding 52 superstores in the biggest one-year expansion in its history. By January 1999, the company has 256 superstores averaging $256 in ...

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  8. Jul 19, 2011 · Borders just got too big — so big in fact that many of its stores (an estimated 70 percent) were competing with a local Barnes & Noble’s, offering a glut of book stores even as people were shifting to online shopping. 4. It had too much debt. When the recession hit in 2008-09, Borders was already carrying a huge debt load.

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