$300.3 million: Loss from continuing operations, 2010
$112.5 million: Loss from continuing operations, 2009
$2.27 billion: Total revenue, 2010
$2.71 billion: Total revenue, 2009
10.5: Percentage decline in comparable store sales, 2010
$1.58 billion: Book sales, 2010
$1.73 billion: Book sales, 2009
$2.00 billion: Book sales, 2008
489: Number of superstores, Jan. 29, 2011
263: Number of superstores, May 2011
$122.7 million: Reduction in lease payments for 2011 from store closings
16,000: Employees as of Feb. 16, the date filed for bankruptcy
11,000: Employees as of Apr. 22
60: Percentage of merchandise purchased from Borders’s six top suppliers
$182.6 million: Amount paid by Hilco to Borders to liquidate inventory at closing stores
$9.2 million: Price paid to acquire Borders’s Day by Day Calendar subsidiary
$52.3 million: Borders’s net loss in Jan. 30–Mar. 26 period
Borders By the Numbers: Week of 5/9/2011
May 09, 2011
A version of this article appeared in the 05/09/2011 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: Borders By the Numbers: Week of 5/9/2011