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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, with headquarters in Swindon, England, which operates a chain of high street, railway station, airport, port, hospital and motorway service station shops selling books, stationery, magazines, newspapers, entertainment products and confectionery.
Modelzone (often typeset ModelZone and Model Zone) is a scale model brand, owned by British retailer WHSmith, of which scale models and related products are sold in WHSmith stores and online. [4] [5] [6]
The business can trace its roots to two do it yourself chains, Big K and Calypso. These were bought by LCP (Lunt Comley & Pitt) and traded as LCP Homecentres. In 1978, the business was acquired by WHSmith and renamed W.H. Smith Do It All Limited, trading as WHSmith Do It All.
On 28 October 2021, Toys "R" Us announced plans to reopen its UK arm, initially through online purchasing from its Australian arm, then with physical branches opening from 2022 onwards. [8] The online store reopened the following year, and this was followed up with a deal with WHSmith to open up Toys "R" Us branded concessions inside nine WH ...
WHSmith United Kingdom: Waterstones United Kingdom: Barnes & Noble United States: Locations across all 50 US states (614 stores). Barnes & Noble Education United States: former college division of B&N spun off in 2015 (760 stores). B. Dalton United States: Former large chain acquired by B&N in 1987; location now in Florida (1 store). Bookmans
The chain was founded in 1982 by Tim Waterstone after he took a [18] [19] £6,000 redundancy payout from WHSmith. He set up his first shop in Old Brompton Road, Kensington with the ambition of creating a "different breed of bookshop", using techniques he had seen in the United States. [18]
Ohio-based ice cream brand Graeter's Ice Cream announced on Friday, Jan. 24 that its newest flavor, "Skyline Spice," is a collaboration with another Cincinnati icon, Skyline Chili.
The Gadget Shop (stylised gadgetshop) was a national British high-street chain of stores, predominantly selling gadgets, toys and lighting products, founded by Jonathan Elvidge in 1991. [1] At its height, it was one of the leading UK novelty gadget retailers. The chain went into administration in 2005, and subsequently closed.