Borders By the Numbers
by Staff -- Publishers Weekly, 4/21/2008
$2.50 billion: Total book sales, 2007
3.3%: Percentage increase of book sales, 2007
$276.5 million: Total music sales, 2007
-13.2%: Percentage decline of music sales, 2007
11,500: Number of music titles in superstores, 2007
14,000: Number of music titles in superstores, 2006
$1.51 billion: Total current assets
$1.47 billion: Total current liabilities
$340.3 million: Minimum lease obligations, 2008
$35.8 million: Gross advertising expenditures, 2007
$21 million: Co-op advertising received, 2007
$228: Sales per square foot, superstores, 2007
$236: Sales per square foot, superstores, 2006
$277: Sales per square foot, Walden Specialty stores, 2007
$381: Sales per square foot, international stores, 2007
32: Number of international stores
