Barnes & Noble Education

Barnes and Noble Education, Inc. engages in the management and operation of bookstore chains in universities. The company is headquartered in Basking Ridge, New Jersey and currently employs 2,200 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2015-07-23. The firm is a provider of textbook wholesalers, and inventory management hardware and software. The company operates approximately 1,120 physical and virtual bookstores, delivering educational content and general merchandise within an omnichannel retail environment. The company offers its First Day affordable access course material programs, consisting of First Day Complete and First Day, which provide faculty-required course materials to students on or before the first day of class. The First Day Complete program is an institution and includes all the undergraduate classes and, on occasion, graduate classes, providing students with both physical and digital materials. Its solutions include academic solutions, college retail solutions, college insights and wholesale & store technology services.