They don't have warm and loving feelings about an employer that laid them off. And a lot of those people still live in Ann Arbor. Like we show up for work every day and say, how do we run this company into the ground? There's been so much turnover at the company over the last four or five years. "No one running a company really wants to screw it up. The thinking was, we're running this big company that was based in Michigan. When it became a multi-billion-dollar global brand, I don't think the thinking was about Ann Arbor anymore. Very connected to the cause, very connected to downtown. "We know we have a business plan that works, but it requires a lot of support to get it there, and our publishers are going to make or break our ability to transform this company at the end of the day." He also addressed a perceived disconnect with the Ann Arbor community: "When the company was founded here by the Borders brothers, it was a very different environment. "All I can tell you is that we are here fighting to the end," Borders CEO Mike Edwards told in an extensive interview where he acknowledged the myriad challenges to be faced while expressing hope the chain can emerge from court protection as a viable company.
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