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B. Dalton Bookseller was an American retail bookstore chain founded in 1966 by Bruce Dayton, a member of the same family that operated the Dayton's department store chain. [1] B. Dalton expanded to become the largest retailer of hardcover books in the United States, with 779 stores at the peak of the chain's success. [ 1 ]
A Barnes & Noble Subsidiary: 1986-97. B. Dalton had 798 outlets in November 1986, when Dayton Hudson sold the company for around $300 million to a corporation owned by Barnes & Noble Bookstores Inc., the nation's third-largest bookseller, and two other parties--Leonard Riggio and the Dutch retailer Vendex International, N.V. Operations for both ...
Barnes & Noble bought B. Dalton in 1986, and Borders bought Waldenbooks in 1995. B. Dalton & Waldenbooks were these companies' "downmarket" outlets, basically only offering bestselling mass-market paperbacks to the least adventurous readers in economically depressed areas.
Paperback $9.99. QUICK ADD. His Way: The Unauthorized…. by Kitty Kelley. Paperback $20.00. The B. Dalton bookstore chain was founded in 1966 and was at the peak of its success in 1986. Barnes & Noble continues to operate a B. Dalton store in Oviedo, Florida. We have curated a collection of titles that were popular in B. Dalton’s heyday.
Feb 19, 2023 · In 1987, Barnes & Noble became the nation's second-largest bookstore overnight when it purchased B. Dalton Bookseller, a national chain made up of 797 stores. Other acquisitions followed ...
- Henry Blodget
Jul 7, 2024 · During the 1970s and 1980s, Riggio made numerous acquisitions, the largest of which occurred when Barnes & Noble acquired B. Dalton Bookseller’s 797 retail bookstores in 1987. The massive acquisition made Barnes & Noble a nationwide retailer overnight and catapulted the chain into being the second-largest bookseller in the United States.
Barnes & Noble operated a chain of Supermart Books which serviced drugstore and supermarket book departments, and ran the Missouri Book Co., selling used college textbooks. Barnes & Noble also more than tripled its college store leases in the mid-1980s, increasing from 40 in 1983 to 142 in 1986. B. Dalton Acquisition: 1986
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