{"id":5254,"date":"2015-08-24T11:16:17","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T11:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=5254"},"modified":"2015-08-24T11:16:17","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T11:16:17","slug":"company-snapshot-barnes-noble-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2015\/08\/company-snapshot-barnes-noble-inc\/","title":{"rendered":"Company Snapshot: Barnes & Noble Inc."},"content":{"rendered":"

A Very New Corporate Structure for Barnes & Noble<\/p>\n

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Address<\/strong>
\n122 Fifth Avenue
\nNew York, NY 10011-5693<\/p>\n

Telephone<\/strong>
\n212 633-3300<\/p>\n

Internet Homepage<\/strong>
\nwww.barnesandnoble.com<\/p>\n

Year Founded<\/strong>
\n1873<\/p>\n

Total Stores<\/strong>
\n1,366<\/p>\n

Total Annual Sales<\/strong>
\n$6,069,500,000 (May 2015) from $6,381,400,000 (May 2014) $6,839,005,000 (April 2013)<\/p>\n

Senior Executives<\/strong>
\nLeonard Riggio- Chairman
\nRonald D. Boire- CEO<\/p>\n


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Make no mistake about it, corporate Barnes & Noble revolves around the decisions of its long-term Chairman Leonard Riggio.\u00a0 It is apparent that it was Mr. Riggio\u2019s idea to specifically bring in Ronald Boire as CEO.\u00a0 Mr. Boire\u2019s start-date as company CEO is officially scheduled to be Sept 8, 2015.<\/p>\n

Mr. Boire was brought into B&N based on his background of launching innovative electronics products.\u00a0 His executive history includes high-level executive positions at Best Buy, Toys \u201cR\u201d Us, Brookstone, and most recently at Sears Canada.<\/p>\n

It is no secret that a significant factor in the above noted declining annual company financials, is the disappointing history of the company\u2019s proprietary electronics reader, the NOOK.\u00a0 The NOOK was created by a dedicated, in-house team but never really caught on with the reading public, despite costly promotions \u00a0\u00a0At the same time, Amazon developed its own popular series of e-readers, while \u2018tablets\u2019 emerged across the industry as a staple of society.\u00a0 Finally, B&N basically gave up on the electronics behind the NOOK and essentially handed this off to Samsung.<\/p>\n

Barnes & Noble is eagerly preparing for the separation of its college and retail businesses into two public companies.\u00a0 Once the spinoff is complete, Ron Boire will become the CEO of Barnes & Noble Inc., which will include both the retail and NOOK units.<\/p>\n

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A Very New Corporate Structure for Barnes & Noble Address 122 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10011-5693 Telephone 212 633-3300 Internet Homepage www.barnesandnoble.com Year Founded 1873 Total Stores 1,366 Total Annual Sales $6,069,500,000 (May 2015) from $6,381,400,000 (May 2014) $6,839,005,000 (April 2013) Senior Executives Leonard Riggio- Chairman Ronald D. Boire- CEO Make no mistake about… Continue reading Company Snapshot: Barnes & Noble Inc.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"post-template-no-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-5254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discount-specialty","tag-snapshot","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}