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Waldenbooks was an American shopping mall -based bookstore chain operated by the Walden Book Company, Inc., and from 1995 was a subsidiary of Borders Group. The chain also ran a video game and software chain under the name Waldensoftware, as well as a children's educational toy chain under Walden Kids. In 2011, the chain was liquidated in ...
Incorporated: 1933. Employees: 450. Sales: $963.4 million (1995) SICs: 5912 Books, Periodicals & Newspapers; 5942 Book Stores. Company History: Walden Book Company Inc., a subsidiary of the Borders Group, Inc., is a leading U.S. mall-based book retailer, with over 1,035 Waldenbooks stores located in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
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Jun 5, 2020 · Published June 5, 2020 Updated June 8, 2020. Harry Hoffman, who as the president of Waldenbooks cemented its standing as the No. 1 bookseller in the United States in the 1980s by opening hundreds ...
Oct 6, 2019 · In the end, Haft Sr. gave up his voting rights in Crown Books' parent company, the Dart Group, for $41 million. But this wasn't a happy ending for the bookseller; with the death of its parent ...
Feb 3, 2020 · The original Brentano's store was founded in 1853 in New York City, by August Brentano, a newspaperman. The second oldest of the three, Waldenbooks, was founded by Lawrence Hoyt, a rental library entrepreneur. Hoyt opened the first Walden Book Store in 1962 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; he named the bookstore for Henry David Thoreau's "Walden."
Mar 22, 1991 · Harry Hoffman, the most powerful person in bookselling in the 1980s as the CEO of Waldenbooks, died on May 20 at age 92. Hoffman took over the 500-bookstore chain in 1979 and, when he retired in ...
The Walden Book Store opens in Pittsburgh. 1983: Kmart Corporation acquires Walden Book; sales are more than $1 billion. 1993: Walden Book launches three-year restructuring, closing about 200 stores. 1994: Waldenbooks, Borders Books & Music, and Planet Music, Inc., form Borders Group, Inc. 2004:
