BAM Posts 5.3% Holiday Gain
-- Publishers Weekly, 1/10/2008 3:37:00 PM
Books-A-Million was the last of the chains to report holiday sales and had the largest gain with sales up 5.3%, to $130.8 million. Comp store sales were flat. President Sandy Cochran said that despite softening economic conditions BAM saw good results in several book categories as well as a strong increase in bargain books. For the first 11 months of the year, sales were up 5.1%, to $494.2 million, and comp sales rose 2.0%.
