Topic: Leonard Riggio

Posted on 08/04/11 at 11:42am by Jonathan Chen . Back in early May, Liberty Media (NASDAQ: LCAPA ) announced it had put an offer to Barnes & Noble...
For the first time since John Malone's Liberty Media (LCAPA) buyout offer, Barnes & Noble (BKS) is trading below the $17 offer price. I've been...
Hedge fund Aletheia Research & Management, which once owned one-sixth of Barnes & Noble Inc. (BKS) and stoked the bookseller's fears of a hostile...

Barnes & Noble Foe Ups Stake

Billionaire investor Ron Burkle didn't stay quiet for too long. Merely days after Barnes & Noble>(BKS) received a $1 billion bid from Liberty...
I've been reading The Art of Short Selling and I was inspired to put it into practice a bit by this post.. . The author's review and arguments in...

Investing with Geoff Gannon...

Hi Geoff, how ya doing?. . Good. . Good to Hear. Thank you for coming on and talking to us today. I have a number of questions we are hoping to...
Barnes & Noble shareholders approve shareholder rights planBarnes & Noble shareholders have ratified a shareholder rights plan, finally making the so-called "poison pill" official.Preliminary results show 72 percent of shareholders voted in favor of the plan at a special shareholder meeting in New ...

Barnes & Noble

Barnes & Noble is the top retail bookseller in the U.S. It operates over 700 Barnes & Noble superstores, plus an additional 100 mall-based B. Dalton bookstores. Barnesandnoble.com , the online seller, accounts for about 10% of the company's total sales. First ...
Barnes & Noble changes shareholder rights plan to limit stakes of Riggio familyBookseller Barnes & Noble Inc. appears to have bowed to shareholder pressure and is changing its shareholder rights plan to limit further stakes by Chairman Leonard Riggio and his family, the company ...

Investors pick Barnes & Noble board slate: Yucaipa

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Barnes & Noble Inc BKS.N> shareholders chose a board slate proposed by Chairman Leonard Riggio over a group backed by dissident investor Ron Burkle, settling a bitter proxy battle between the bookstore chain's two top stockholders.The company ...