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Cash-Strapped Borders Considering Selling Itself

Posted Mar 20, 08 11:11 AM CDT in Business 

(Newser) – Bookseller Borders is considering selling itself or some of its divisions, the Detroit Free Press reports today. The company, based in Ann Arbor, Mich., is in the midst of a turnaround, but is desperately short on cash, today borrowing $42.5 million from its biggest shareholder, Perishing Square Capital Management. Perishing also offered to buy parts of the company’s international business.

Borders’ liquidity problem will be tough to solve in the current punishing credit market. Borders reported a fourth-quarter profit of $64.7 million yesterday, which was a big improvement on a year earlier, when it lost $73.6 million. But CEO George Jones said that current economic conditions would slow down the book chain’s rebound.

Source Detroit Free Press

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