BUSINESS
July 27, 1998 | P.J. HUFFSTUTTER, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Microsoft--it's just not a corporate brand, it's a way of life. After all, the company's logos already are splayed across your computer, automobile and television set. Now, Bill Gates wants to get into your coffee mug. Borders bookstores are selling 12-ounce packages of Windows 98 coffee beans.
NEWS
April 28, 1998 | JOSH GETLIN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
At first glance, the bustling Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica looks like a commercial playground, full of pedestrians, popular stores and jingling cash registers. But it's also become a battleground in the increasingly nasty dispute between America's independent booksellers and the nation's two largest book chains, Barnes & Noble and Borders. Last month, the American Booksellers Assn.
BUSINESS
March 19, 1998 | VANESSA HUA, TIMES STAFF WRITER
A group of independent booksellers has sued the Barnes & Noble and Borders mega-chains for allegedly bullying publishers into giving them discounts and special deals in violation of antitrust laws. The American Booksellers Assn. and 26 independent stores, including nine in California, contend the two chains have surreptitiously secured deals with publishers that undercut wholesale prices for the large chains, and that the same deals have not been offered to small retailers.
BUSINESS
November 30, 1994 | From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Kmart to Revamp Borders, Walden Subsidiaries: Kmart Corp. launched a restructuring of its Borders Inc. and Walden Book Co. units, streamlining the bookstore operations to make them more attractive in a planned public stock sale next year. Under the plan, Kmart will create a new corporate unit, Borders Group Inc., to manage Borders, Waldenbooks and Planet Music Inc. The new company will be based in Borders' current offices in Ann Arbor, Mich., and Walden's Stamford, Conn.
BUSINESS
August 17, 1994 | GEORGE WHITE, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Rebuffed by shareholders the first time around, embattled Kmart announced Tuesday that it will spin off its book, office supply and sporting goods chains to raise money for the expansion and modernization of its more than 2,000 discount stores. Analysts said the sale of 51% of Kmart's OfficeMax, Sports Authority and Borders-Waldenbooks subsidiaries could raise as much as $3 billion. Kmart's board, meeting at its Troy, Mich.