Barnes & Noble Receives Perfect Score on 2017 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) for Ninth Year in a Row
December 07 2016 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS), the nation’s largest
retail bookseller and a leading retailer of content, digital media
and educational products, proudly announced today that it has
earned a perfect score of 100 percent for the ninth year in a row
in the 2017 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), a national benchmarking
survey and report on corporate policies and practices related to
LGBT workplace equality, administered by the Human Rights Campaign
Foundation. Barnes & Noble is one of 517 major U.S. businesses
which received top marks for their treatment of LGBT employees and
customers.
“We’re proud to receive another perfect score on the Corporate
Equality Index,” said Michelle Smith, Vice President of Human
Resources for Barnes & Noble, Inc. “This award reflects our
commitment to celebrating and recruiting diverse talent and
providing competitive benefits.”
The 2017 CEI rated 887 businesses in the report, which evaluates
LGBT-related policies and practices including non-discrimination
workplace protections, domestic partner benefits,
transgender-inclusive health care benefits, competency programs,
and public engagement with the LGBT community. Barnes & Noble’s
efforts in satisfying all of the CEI’s criteria results in a 100
percent ranking and the designation as a Best Place to Work for
LGBT Equality.
For more information on the 2017 Corporate Equality Index, or to
download a free copy of the report, visit www.hrc.org/cei.
About Barnes & Noble, Inc.
Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS) is a Fortune 500 company,
the nation’s largest retail bookseller, and a leading retailer of
content, digital media and educational products. The Company
operates 638 Barnes & Noble bookstores in 50 states, and one of
the Web’s premier e-commerce sites, BN.com (www.bn.com). The Nook
Digital business offers a lineup of popular NOOK® tablets and
eReaders and an expansive collection of digital reading and
entertainment content through the NOOK Store®. The NOOK Store
features more than 4.5 million digital books in the US
(www.nook.com), plus periodicals and comics, and offers the ability
to enjoy content across a wide array of popular devices through
Free NOOK Reading Apps™ available for Android™, iOS® and
Windows®.
General information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained
by visiting the Company's corporate website at
www.barnesandnobleinc.com.
Barnes & Noble®, Barnes & Noble Booksellers® and Barnes
& Noble.com® are trademarks of Barnes & Noble, Inc. or its
affiliates. NOOK® and the NOOK logos are trademarks of Nook
Digital, LLC or its affiliates.
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Barnes & Noble, Inc.Mary Ellen Keating, 212-633-3323Senior
Vice PresidentCorporate Communicationsmkeating@bn.comorAlan
McNamara, 212-633-3379Senior DirectorCorporate
Communicationsamcnamara@bn.com
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