Talk:Borders Group

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Contents 1 Original location 2 Page move 3 Unions & Trends 4 Are you guys sure Borders biggest store is in Malaysia? 5 1971? 6 Store #2 7 Split? 8 Split!

[edit] Original location

The Ann Arbor Borders has only been at its current Liberty Street site since the mid-nineties. Before then it was on State. Was the State Street location the original? (I moved to Ann Arbor in 1993, and I don't know how long Borders had then been on State.) Molinari 00:14, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure that was the original location. I know for certain it was there in 1977, because I used to go there. --Chowbok 15:53, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Page move

I moved Borders Books and Music to Borders Group because the company isn't called Borders Books and Music. I fixed the 50+ links that linked to Borders Books and Music so don't worry. — oo64eva (Alex) ^{(U | T | C)} @ 07:09, May 9, 2005 (UTC)

Erm the Puerto Rico stores are not international ones.

I changed the CEO's name since it has recently changed from Greg Josefowicz to George L. Jones. Should someone mention its upcoming/completed SBC conversions?

[edit] Unions & Trends

Info on unionization was removed due to lack of relevance to the present operations of the company.

Also, info was removed which cited specific examples from Australia & the U.K. Here are the larger trends which could be inserted in place of these examples: (1) Waldenbooks (i.e.) mall locations are closing and being replaced by Borders superstores in the same mall or relocated nearby; and (2) not all cafes operate as Seattle's Best -- cafes in Hawaii are Starbucks, and in a few locations in the continental U.S., they're Dean & Deluca.

[edit] Are you guys sure Borders biggest store is in Malaysia?

Cause I know Borders stores in Puerto Rico are pretty big too.

The largest Borders is definitely Kuala Lumpur at 60000sq ft^[1]. Compare that to the (now previous) average U.S. Borders store at 25000 sq ft (in Feb 2008 Borders announced the new stores will be even smaller). --BizMgr (talk) 04:18, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 1971?

The official Borders history says the store was founded in 1971. Maybe they don't count the used book operation that preceded the Wahr's buyout? Rees11 16:45, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Store #2

How long has store number two at Southfield and 13 Mile in Beverly Hills, MI been around? It's the longest running location for sure. MMetro (talk) 07:56, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Split?

Shouldn't the UK section of this company be a seperate article now as it was sold off. Borders UK I believe is the companies name. --Lemming64 19:59, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Split!

I've started a page for Borders (UK) Ltd. and plan to gradually expand it. Although there is a page for Luke Johnson, there aren't for his Risk Capital Partners, it's subsidiary, Bookshop Acquisitions Ltd. or the Books etc. brand; Something I also plan to work on, albeit it gradually. Further plans I have encompass Philip Downer (Borders (UK)'s current C.E.O. and, his predecessor, David Roche, who, according to theBookseller.com [1] is a highly-rated and talented retailer in the book industry [2] Klausifier (talk) 18:27, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

The big Borders controversy?

I'm confused that the section entitled "controversy" refers to a cartoon. I'm aware of a lot of concern among writers and other booksellers that chain stores such as Borders have had some pretty inherent and negative effects on the variety of published thought available to the public. Should this be mentioned somewhere (anywhere?) in the article? --Sojumba (talk) 21:06, 11 February 2008 (UTC)Sojumba