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W H Smith - News
Last updated 09.10.08
Profit up at WHS, books flat
W H Smith has reported a massive 22% increase in sales at its travel stores, and improved profitability across the group in its financial...
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WHS to outperform peers
W H Smith is expected to continue to outperform its retail peers over the next six months,...
WHS is selling iLiad
W H Smith has become the second bookseller after Borders to stock the iRex iLiad e-book...
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W H Smith - In Depth
Last updated 25.09.08
Ramblin' Man
There are nomadic book trade careers and then there is Rob Urquhart's. The manager of W H Smith's Gatwick South stores, who won the Bookseller Manager of the Year at the Retail Awards last night, has spent 34 years with the company and he...
Marketing magic
Adults and small children magically disappear through book-shaped holes into a parallel universe; snowballs and icicles transform into twinkling logos; and celebrity voice-overs softly lull us into buying the latest instalment of their life...
Destination known
Talking travel with Craig Hillier is a slightly exhausting experience. Not because the conversation is peppered full of dull "what I did on my holidays" tales—but rather because of the overwhelming number of places the head of...
W-H-Smith - Blogs
Last updated 08.07.08
Philip Stone
A token gesture
Promoting Book Tokens may not always be in the best interests of their business, but chains still sell them, don't they?
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ALAN GILES
Twisted lists
Bestseller lists sell more books. So why don’t branches of chain bookshops tailor their charts...
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Philip Jones
A W H Smith mystery
There was good news from W H Smith today, but the retailer did not seem to want to share it...
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