NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS), the nation’s largest retail bookseller and a leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, today announced that it was named the most powerful retail brand in Tenet Partners’ 2016 Top 100 Most Powerful Brands Reports (www.tenetpartners.com). Tenet Partners is a leading brand innovation and marketing firm, and its annual study of approximately 10,000 consumers and influential business decision-makers found that Barnes & Noble’s brand familiarity is at its highest point since 2010, while the Company’s brand favorability remained constant year-over-year. Barnes & Noble ranked number 32 in the overall Top 100 list, a full 13 points ahead of the closest retail competitor and 22 points ahead of Amazon.
“Barnes & Noble is proud to be named the most powerful retail brand in America by Tenet Partners, which is a clear reflection of how important our bookstores are to consumers across the nation,” said Ron Boire, Chief Executive Officer of Barnes & Noble. “As a company we’re on the cutting edge of experiential retailing, providing our customers with experiences and products that no other retailer in their community can match. We’ve also got the best employees in retail and today’s acknowledgement is largely due to the hard work and dedication of our booksellers.”
In the 2016 Top 100 Most Powerful Brands report Tenet Partners highlighted Barnes & Noble’s marketing and advertising efforts as a key driver of the Company’s brand power, including the highly successful “You Never Know Who You’ll Meet at Barnes & Noble” 2015 holiday advertising campaign featuring Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga.
The Company has also rolled out several successful events in 2016 including its B-Fest teen book festival (BN.com/B-FEST) and an expanded Summer Reading Program (BN.com/SummerReading), and is currently mid-way through its annual Get Pop-Cultured with Barnes & Noble celebration (BN.com/getpop-cultured). Additionally, stores nationwide will host Harry Potter “Countdown to Midnight Magic” parties on July 30 at 8 p.m. in preparation for the release of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on July 31 at midnight, which the Company expects to be its biggest book of the year (BN.com/harrypotterevents).
Barnes & Noble also recently announced it would open four new concept stores in Fiscal 2017, complete with a new restaurant featuring an expanded menu along with a beer and wine offering. In addition to opening the first new store in Eastchester, NY, this October, the Company plans to open stores at the Edina Galleria in Edina, MN, at the Palladio in Folsom, CA, and at One Loudoun in Ashburn, VA.
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About Barnes & Noble, Inc.
Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) is a Fortune 500 company, the nation’s largest retail bookseller, and a leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products. The Company operates 640 Barnes & Noble bookstores in 50 states, and one of the Web’s premier e-commerce sites, BN.com (www.bn.com). The Nook Digital business offers a lineup of popular NOOK® tablets and eReaders and an expansive collection of digital reading and entertainment content through the NOOK Store®. The NOOK Store features more than 4 million digital books in the US (www.nook.com), plus periodicals and comics, and offers the ability to enjoy content across a wide array of popular devices through Free NOOK Reading Apps™ available for Android™, iOS® and Windows®.
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