Barnes & Noble Comparable Store Sales Increase 5.9 Percent in Third Quarter.

Business Wire › November 18, 1999

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Barnes & Noble Comparable Store Sales Increase 5.9 Percent in Third Quarter.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 18, 1999--

Barnes & Noble Reports Third-Quarter Profit of $0.05 Per Share

Compared with $0.07 Loss for Prior Year

Babbage's Etc. Third-Quarter Comparable Store Sales up 55 Percent

Acquisition Completed

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the nation's largest bookseller, today reported sales of $715.9 million for the third quarter ended October 30, 1999, up 9.0 percent from $656.8 million last year. Barnes & Noble "super" store sales were $622.3 million, up 12.3 percent from $554.0 million in the third quarter of 1998, and accounted for 86.9 percent of total sales compared with 84.3...

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