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,...

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...

numbers to identify books. In 1965, British bookseller and stationers WHSmith announced plans to implement a standard numbering system for its books...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

closed, 70 of which were sold to WHSmith. This followed a trial of six Post Office outlets in WHSmith stores. WHSmith was expected to make up to £2.5 million...