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Leonard Stephen Riggio (February 28, 1941 – August 27, 2024) was an American businessman. He served as executive chairman of book store chain Barnes & Noble and was its largest shareholder from 1971 [1] until the sale of the company to the hedge fund Elliott Investment Management in 2019. [2][3] Under his leadership the company expanded ...
Leonard S. Riggio was the eldest son of a prize fighter (who twice defeated Rocky Graziano) turned cab driver and a dress maker. Even in childhood, he advanced quickly, skipping two grades and ...
Leonard Riggio, a Palm Beach resident and the former chairman of the Barnes & Noble bookstore chain, died Tuesday, Aug. 17, at 83. A release from the family listed the cause of death as Alzheimer ...
Leonard Riggio, founder and former chairman of bookstore chain Barnes & Noble, has died at age 83. A representative for Riggio confirmed his death on Aug. 27 to PEOPLE.
NEW YORK (AP) — Leonard Riggio, a brash, self-styled underdog who transformed the publishing industry by building Barnes & Noble into the country’s most powerful bookseller before his company was overtaken by the rise of Amazon.com, has died at age 83.
CEO Leonard Riggio stepped down in 2002, naming his younger brother and former acting chief executive of BarnesandNoble.com, Stephen Riggio, to succeed him. Some corporate governance experts noted that this appointment could potentially cause conflict of interest, but the company board noted that Riggio's experience at the company made him the ...
The first of these was made in 1997, when Board Chairman Leonard Riggio and his family gave the Foundation three sculptures from Richard Serra's Torqued Ellipses series (1996–97), sculptures created for an exhibition at Dia Chelsea; it was the first acquisition for Dia's permanent collection in over ten years, a $2 million purchase made by ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Former Barnes & Noble chair Leonard Riggio, powerhouse of modern bookselling, has died at 83, his family says.