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BORDERS GROUP INC

BGP

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6.55 0.16 2.50%

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6.5192 -0.0308 -0.47%

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2008 Sales	2008 Sales Growth	2008 Net Income	2008 Employees
$3,820,900,000	-7.1%	$-157,400,000	29,500

Key Executives: BGP

Name	Title	Officer Since
George L. Jones	CEO	7/17/06
Edward W. Wilhelm	CFO	-
Thomas D. Carney	General Counsel	-
Amy B. Lane	Director	10/1/01
Dr. Edna Greene Medford	Director	9/1/98
Michael Weiss	Director	7/1/05
Brian T. Light	Director	7/1/05
Joel J. Cohen	Director	3/1/01

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Thomas D. Carney has served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for the Company since April 2008. From April 2004 through April 2008, Mr. Carney served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for the Company. From December 1994 through April 2004, Mr. Carney served as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for the Company. For more than five years prior to joining the Company, Mr. Carney was a Partner... View Full Profile

Thomas D. Carney

Ms. Lane was Managing Director, Investment Banking Group, of Merrill Lynch from 1997 until her retirement in February 2002. From 1989 through 1996, Ms. Lane served as a Managing Director, Corporate Finance, of Salomon Brothers in New York. Ms. Lane served as a director of the Company from August 1995 until March 1999, and was again appointed a director in October 2001. Ms. Lane is also a director of The TJX Companies, Inc., a global off-price... View Full Profile

Amy B. Lane

Dr. Medford is an Associate Professor of History and former Director of the Graduate Program in History at Howard University. She has served as a director of the Company since September 1998.... View Full Profile

Dr. Edna Greene Medford

Edward W. Wilhelm has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for the Company since January 2007. From August 2000 through January 2007, Mr. Wilhelm served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for the Company. From 1997 through August 2000, Mr. Wilhelm served as Vice President of Planning, Reporting and Treasury for the Company. From 1994 through 1997, Mr. Wilhelm served as Vice President of Finance for the... View Full Profile

Edward W. Wilhelm

Mr. Weiss is the Chief Executive Officer of Express, a fashion apparel retailer. He was President and Chief Executive Officer of Express from 1997 to 2004, during which it was a subsidiary of Limited Brands, Inc., and rejoined Express in 2007 upon the sale by Limited Brands, Inc. of a majority stake in Express. Mr. Weiss joined Limited in 1981 as merchandise manager for Express and rose to the position of President of Express, serving in that... View Full Profile

Michael Weiss

Mr. Light is Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Staples, Inc., an office products company. In his current position, which he has served in since November 2005, he leads the Information Systems function supporting Staples corporate, U.S. retail and North American delivery operations. He also served as Executive Vice President/Senior Vice President and CIO for Staples from 1998 to 2002. From 2002 to 2005, Mr. Light served as... View Full Profile

Brian T. Light

Mr. Cohen has served as Chairman and co-Chief Executive Officer of Sagent Advisors, Inc., a financial advisory firm, since September 2003. Mr. Cohen served as the non-executive Chairman of the Board of The Chubb Corporation, a major property and casualty insurance holding company, from December 2002 until December 2003 and currently serves as lead director of that company. Mr. Cohen was Managing Director and co-head of Global Mergers and... View Full Profile

Joel J. Cohen

Mr. Jones has served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of the Company since July 2006. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Jones had extensive retail experience, including serving as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Saks Department Store Group, a division of Saks Incorporated, from March 2001 through September 2005. Prior to joining Saks, Mr. Jones was President, Worldwide Licensing and Retail, for Warner Bros., where... View Full Profile

George L. Jones

Mr. Campbell is Vice Chairman of The TJX Companies, Inc., a global off-price retailer of apparel and home fashions, and is responsible for TJX's corporate/administrative functions and business development efforts. He joined TJX in 1973 and has held a series of increasingly responsible management positions prior to assuming his current position in September 2006. His prior positions included Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President and... View Full Profile

Donald G. Campbell

Mr. Lund has served as the non-executive Chairman of the Board of DemandTec, a provider of merchandising, sales and marketing software for retailers and consumer demand management solutions, since December 2006. Mr. Lund also served as the non-executive Chairman of the Board of Mariner Health Care, Inc., a nursing home operator, from May 2002 until December 2004. Mr. Lund was Vice Chairman of Albertson's, Inc., a food and drug retailer, from June... View Full Profile

Victor L. Lund

Mr. Pollock has served as the non-executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company since July 2006 and as Managing Partner of Lucky Stars Partners LLC, an investment firm, since October 2004. Mr. Pollock served as President of Cole National Corporation, which operates retail vision and gift stores, from January 2000 and as Chief Executive Officer from June 2003 until the company was sold to Luxottica Group SpA in October 2004. From... View Full Profile

Lawrence I. Pollock

Robert P. Gruen was appointed Executive Vice President of Merchandising and Marketing effective February 2007. Mr. Gruen has more than three decades of retail experience including positions at Target, Roses Stores, Warner Bros., and Parisian. Most recently, Mr. Gruen served for one year as Executive Vice President of Merchandising for HSN (Home Shopping Network), where he was responsible for strategic direction of the merchandise group.... View Full Profile

Robert P. Gruen

Kenneth H. Armstrong was appointed Executive Vice President of U.S. Stores effective February 2007. Mr. Armstrong has over 30 years of retail experience including the past three years as Senior Vice President, Director of Stores for Parisian, a division of Saks Department Store Group. Prior to Parisian, Mr. Armstrong served as Senior Vice President, Director of Stores, for Lord & Taylor. Before joining Lord & Taylor, he spent 15 years in store... View Full Profile

Kenneth H. Armstrong

Mr. McGuire is a partner of Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P. He is one of five senior professionals responsible for managing approximately $6 billion in investor capital, a role that includes evaluating, initiating and monitoring investments across a wide range of industries including, among others, retail, consumer, business services and financial services. Prior to joining Pershing Square in 2005, Mr. McGuire held positions at private... View Full Profile

Richard (Mick) McGuire

Mr. Archbold is the Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of The Vitamin Shoppe, a specialty retailer and direct marketer of nutritional products. He joined the Vitamin Shoppe in his current position in 2007. He previously served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial and Administrative Officer of Saks Fifth Avenue from 2005 through 2007. Mr. Archbold was with AutoZone from 2002 to 2005, where he... View Full Profile

Michael G. Archbold

Mr. Archbold is the Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of The Vitamin Shoppe, a specialty retailer and direct marketer of nutritional products. He joined the Vitamin Shoppe in his current position in 2007. He previously served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial and Administrative Officer of Saks Fifth Avenue from 2005 through 2007. Mr. Archbold was with AutoZone from 2002 to 2005, where he... View Full Profile

Cedric J. Vanzura

Daniel T. Smith has served as Executive Vice President for Human Resources of the Company since April 2008. From January 2003 through April 2008, Mr. Smith served as Senior Vice President of Human Resources for the Company. From March 2000 through January 2003, Mr. Smith served as Vice President of Human Resources for the Company. From April 1998 to March 2000, Mr. Smith served as Vice President of Human Resources of Waldenbooks. Mr. Smith served... View Full Profile

Daniel T. Smith

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Insider Transactions: BGP

Date	Name	Shares	Transaction Type	Market Value
06/02/08	WILHELM EDWARD W	24,430	Award of Stock Options	$150,000.20
04/25/08	CARNEY THOMAS D	1,707	Award of Stock Options	$10,805.31
04/25/08	SMITH DANIEL T	6,585	Award of Stock Options	$41,683.05

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Ownership Breakdown : BGP

Large Block Holder Type	Number
Institutions	163.00
Mutual Fund	209.00
Other Major	19.00

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Indices : BGP

Symbol	Name	Last Trade	Change
$RUT.X	Russell 2000 Index	747.79	14.84 2.02%
$IDX	S&P 400 Midcap Index	—	——%

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Short Interest Volume: BGP

Data as of 7/28/08

Current Short Interest Shares	12.06 M
Current Short Interest Ratio	13.00
Float	59.07 M

Short Interest as % of Float	20.40
Average Daily Volume	799,000.00
Outstanding Shares	60.51 M

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SEC Filings: BGP

Accepted Date	Description
08/27/2008	SEC Filing: Current Event
06/11/2008	SEC Filing: Current Event
06/06/2008	SEC Filing: Quarterly Financials

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BGP

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6.55 0.16 2.50%

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