Barnes & Noble 401(k) and pension plans

Barnes & Noble, Inc., Westbury, NY. EIN 06-1196501. Annual reports 2009–2024. Also filed as Barnes & Noble, Inc.

Barnes & Noble, Inc. has one active retirement plan on file, the Barnes & Noble 401(k) Plan, with 16,213 participants and $790 million in assets in 2024. Fidelity has been its recordkeeper since 2009.

Active plans: 1
Participants: 16,213
Plan assets: $790 million
401(k) recordkeeper: Fidelity
Plans on file: 2
Industry: Retail

All 2 plans

Active plans first

Barnes & Noble 401(k) Plan

401(k)Active

Active. The plan filed its annual report for the 2024 plan year.

Plan number: 001Employer EIN 06-1196501
Participants (2024): 16,213
Net assets (2024): $790 million
Recordkeeper: Fidelity2009–2024
Plan administrator: Barnes & Noble, Inc.
1400 Old Country Road
Westbury, NY 11590
(516) 338-8203As filed for 2024
In effect since: January 1, 1987

Plans merged into this one: Barnes & Noble College Booksellers Savings Plan (2009); Paper Source, Inc. 401(k) Plan (2022).

Earlier plan names: Barnes & Noble, Inc. 401(k) Savings Plan.

Year by year, 2009 to 2024

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2024	16,213	$790 million	Fidelity
2023	16,118	$688 million	Fidelity
2022	15,255	$571 million	Fidelity
2021	13,935	$735 million	Fidelity
2020	14,290	$675 million	Fidelity
2019	16,739	$607 million	Fidelity
2018	16,349	$514 million	Fidelity
2017	19,409	$573 million	Fidelity
2016	20,378	$496 million	Fidelity
2015	20,808	$469 million	Fidelity
2014	24,903	$594 million	Fidelity
2013	25,772	$550 million	Fidelity
2012	27,246	$454 million	Fidelity
2011	30,954	$399 million	Fidelity
2010	32,842	$390 million	Fidelity
2009	34,559	$343 million	Fidelity

Barnes & Noble, Inc Employees' Retirement Plan

Pension (defined benefit), frozenClosed

Closed. The plan filed its final annual report for 2016, which means its assets were paid out or moved and it no longer exists.

Plan number: 002Employer EIN 06-1196501
Participants (2015): 3,141
Net assets (2015): $54.4 million
Plan administrator: Barnes & Noble, Inc
1400 Old Country Road
Westbury, NY 11590
(516) 338-7148As filed for 2016
In effect since: January 1, 1987

Earlier plan names: Barnes & Noble, Inc. Employees' Retirement Plan.

Year by year, 2009 to 2016

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2016	0	$0	not listed
2015	3,141	$54.4 million	not listed
2014	3,286	$48.8 million	not listed
2013	4,016	$54.0 million	not listed
2012	4,199	$38.9 million	not listed
2011	4,494	$35.4 million	not listed
2010	4,888	$35.4 million	not listed
2009	5,141	$31.8 million	not listed

If you had money in one of these plans

Call Fidelity (fidelity.com), which runs the Barnes & Noble 401(k) Plan. With your Social Security number and the plan name, it can tell you whether you still have a balance and, if not, where it went.
Or call the plan administrator listed on the plan below ((516) 338-8203). That number was filed for 2024; ask for the benefits or retirement plan office.
If your plan closed, unclaimed balances usually went to an IRA in your name, to the PBGC's missing participants program, or to state unclaimed property. Here is how to check each one.
Still stuck? The Department of Labor's benefits advisers help for free: askebsa.dol.gov or 1-866-444-3272. Never pay anyone to find your own money.

What these numbers are

They come from the Form 5500 annual reports each plan files with the Department of Labor, as the plan filed them. A plan year is usually a calendar year.
Participants counts everyone in the plan at year end: current employees, former employees who still have a balance or a pension coming, and retirees or beneficiaries being paid.
The recordkeeper is the service provider whose Schedule C entry says it keeps the plan's records. Small plans do not file Schedule C, so some plans show none.
We cannot see anyone's account. Only the plan or its recordkeeper can tell you your balance.

Sources: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 datasets and PBGC trusteed plans. How we read them.

All 2 plans

Barnes & Noble 401(k) Plan

Barnes & Noble, Inc Employees' Retirement Plan

If you had money in one of these plans

What these numbers are

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