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San Jose, Calif., Borders Store Hosts Grand Opening Celebration Dec. 13 - 15
Business Wire, Nov 27, 2002
Business Editors
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 27, 2002
Borders(R) is celebrating the grand opening of its 27,000-square-foot store in San Jose, Calif.--located in the Santana Row project across from Valley Fair Mall--from Wednesday, Dec. 11, through Sunday, Dec. 15. Throughout the weekend, special events are planned including Universal's "A Universe of Music and Movies," "Disney Day" and "Yoga Journal Day."
Wednesday, Dec. 11 - Meet "The Rookie"
-- 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. - Jim Morris will talk about and sign copies
of his book "The Oldest Rookie," the inspiration for the movie
Thursday, Dec. 12 - Santa Visits
-- 4 p.m. - Special after school story time with Santa
Friday, Dec. 13 - Universal's "A Universe of Music & Movies"
-- "Grand Prize Giveaway," includes a DVD player and a Universal music and movie starter set -- Free copy of the "Wall Street Journal," while supplies last -- 7 p.m. - Paul Herder, jazz pianist
Saturday, Dec. 14 - Disney Day
-- First 250 children through the door will receive cool Disney
Packs
-- Kids can enter to win a "Disney Trunk of Fun" filled with a
complete Disney story book collection, Disney DVDs and other
gifts
-- 10 a.m. - Kids Event: Disney party with games and prizes
-- 11 a.m. - Kids Event: story time and Yoko the Cat costume
character
-- noon - Family Fun Holiday Craft Spectacular
-- 2 p.m. - Artist Peter Max signs copies of "The Art of Peter
Max" (not a Disney event)
-- 5 p.m. - Rob Hart Jazz Trio, live jazz music (not a Disney
event)
Sunday, Dec. 15 - Yoga Journal Day
-- Certified yoga teacher and ayurvedic practioner Amy Stone
leads a day of yoga classes, ayurveda dosha typing and
massage, beginning at noon
-- Goody bags will be given to the first 200 participants.
-- Enter to win a yoga cruise.
-- 3 p.m. - author, chef and professional ballerina Linda Hymes
talks about and provides food samples from her cookbook, "The
Dancing Gourmet"
-- 4 p.m. -Loren Ellis, rock music
Throughout the grand opening weekend, experience what Borders has to offer Santana Row year-round--community benefit days, educational and fun children's programming, diverse music events and a wonderful place to simply discover.
Borders Group, Inc., (NYSE:BGP) is a leading global retailer of books, music, video and other information and entertainment items with stores in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the commonwealth of Puerto Rico. A FORTUNE 500 company headquartered in Ann Arbor, Mich., Borders Group employs 32,000 worldwide and operates over 400 Borders domestic superstores, 29 international Borders stores, 37 Books etc. locations and approximately 800 Waldenbooks stores. Teamed with Amazon.com, the company also offers online shopping through Borders.com (www.borders.com).
More detailed information for journalists is available at www.bgimediacenter.com. Financial data is hosted on www.bordersgroupinc.com and information on Borders stores is available through www.bordersstores.com.
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