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    WH Smith PLC, trading as WHSmith (also written WH Smith, and known colloquially as Smith's and formerly as W. H. Smith & Son), is a British retailer,...
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    The company, originally established as "WHSmith News", was renamed Smiths News PLC on its demerger from WHSmith on 1 September 2006. In April 2014, the...
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  • news-stands at railway stations beginning in 1848. The firm, now called WHSmith, had more than 1,400 locations as of 2017. In the U.S., chain stores likely...
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    numbers to identify books. In 1965, British bookseller and stationers WHSmith announced plans to implement a standard numbering system for its books...
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  • Booksellers Koorong Queensland Book Depot The Co-op Bookshop - defunct WHSmith Livraria Cultura Archambault Book City Chapters Coles Indigo Books and...
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  • 2021, eventually leading to physical Toys "R" Us concessions opening in WHSmith stores. The first Toys "R" Us store in the United Kingdom store opened...
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  • As Lucy Fails To Impress". HuffPost. WHSmith. "Be Body Beautiful: My Guide to a Healthy, Happy New You". WHSmith. "Lucy Mecklenburgh is the new face of...
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  • Smith (1792–1865), founder of the WHSmith chain of newsagents William Henry Smith (1825–1891), son of the founder of WHSmith, businessman and politician William...
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  • greyhound racing from Wembley Stadium – including the St Leger. By late 1984, WHSmith Television Group had purchased a 15% stake in the company, RCA also acquired...
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  • was named, the bookseller expanded rapidly until being sold in 1993 to WHSmith. In 1998, Waterstones was bought by a consortium of Waterstone, EMI and...
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    inaugural Whitbread children's book of the year award (1999), and the WHSmith book of the year (2006), among others. In 2000, Harry Potter and the Prisoner...
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    price for cassette singles to influence sales figures. In September 1989, WHSmith began to send sales data to Gallup directly through electronic point of...
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    name was bought by WHSmith. Past Times' website was taken down following the purchase. John Richard Beale, 1944–2024. "WHSmith's acquisition of Past...
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    uk. 7 July 2011. Retrieved 1 September 2013. "WHSmith Richard and Judy Book Club". richardandjudy.whsmith.co.uk. Retrieved 28 August 2013. "Specsavers...
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    Patheon, Catalent (formerly known as Cardinal Health), Becton-Dickinson, WHSmith, Early Learning Centre and Nationwide, with Dyson located in nearby Malmesbury...
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    2014 Sainsbury's eBook of the Year Award – Winner – Want You Dead 2015 WHSmith. The Best Crime Author of all Time – Winner 2015 Honorary Mastership of...
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  • restaurant, a retail outlet, a hotel and a petrol station. Most sites have WHSmith, a food court comprising popular fast food outlets such as Burger King...
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  • have previously been owned by The Entertainer, and are currently owned by WHSmith. Jonathan Elvidge founded the chain in 1991. The ideology behind the chain...
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    Dent – goodreads.com". Retrieved 2 April 2018. "Guilty by Definition". whsmith.co.uk. Retrieved 11 August 2024. Shahid, Sharnaz (14 October 2020). "Countdown's...
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  • Genre" (PDF). "Explore the Themes and Genres of Young Adult Books". blog.whsmith.co.uk. 25 February 2016. Retrieved 1 April 2018. "YA Genre-Blending | Focus...
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  • Homecentres. In 1978, the business was acquired by WHSmith and renamed W.H. Smith Do It All Limited, trading as WHSmith Do It All. Do It All sold a range of over...
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    In 1886 Charles Eason, a manager of WHSmith wrote to the company asking if he could buy out the company. WHSmith sold its Irish section to him that year...
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  • December 1934 – 17 July 2010) was a British businessman. He was chairman of WHSmith, the British retail chain, the Royal Horticultural Society and the Design...
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    Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1918), The League of Nations (1st ed.), London: WHSmith, Wikidata Q105700467{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list...
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    Shelves full of 'misery lit' at WHSmith...
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    February 2016 the ground floor of the building was occupied by a branch of WHSmith newsagents. Inside the shop London Stone in its glass case was hidden behind...
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    considerably less than the "High Street" outlets, especially the chain WHSmith. Branson once said, "There is no point in starting your own business unless...
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  • one boy, who was also named William Henry Smith. "History of WHSmith 1792-1900". WHSmith plc. Archived from the original on 12 November 2010. Cavendish...
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    said in June 1982 the company had no plans to stock the new machine in WHSmith, which was at the time Sinclair's only retailer. Searle explained that...
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    authors list (link) "Andy Weir: The Short Story Prequel to The Martian". WHSmith. September 30, 2015. Archived from the original on October 13, 2015. Weir...
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