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WHSmith News, UK: Shop Online at WHSmith for Big Savings on Books, Music & more - Running Made Easy This title is designed to get everyone who thought they could never run on their way to a better body bags of confidence and soaring energy levels. It takes things back to the basics with a beginner's plan fill-in charts and diary sections to track your progress plus jargon-free tips and advice. The book aims to support readers with real-life running and weight-loss success stories and tips from regular and celebrity runners plus self-help chapters on goal setting and mind games to get you back on track. ... People Management and Development This textbook for students taking the CIPD professional qualification has been fully revised and rewritten to take account of the new academic standards that will be taught from September 2002. All students of core personnel and development need to appreciate the legal institutional national and international contexts within which organisations operate today. They also need a sound understanding of employee development relations resourcing and reward and of how these specialisms are integrated into wider corporate strategies. Features of the second edition include: new chapters on the issue of management integration; the latest research and data; and new case studies chapter objectives and summaries and revision questions and exercises. ... RHS Encyclopedia of Gardening Presents over 200 years of gardening expertise for amateur and professional gardeners. Plan and design a garden find out when and how to prune - every aspect of gardening is covered. This bicentenary edition features new chapters on container gardening and environmental issues. ... Importance Of Being Earnest - (VHS) Starring Reese Witherspoon Colin Firth and Rupert Everett here is the hilarious adventure of two dashing young bachelors and the outrageous deceptions they find themselves in over love. Whenever Worthing (Firth) wants to leave his dull country life behind he makes visits to the city posing as his fictitious brother Ernest. There he becomes smitten with the ravishing Gwendolen (Frances O'Connor). But when worthing is in town his playboy pal Algy (Everett) is in the country and falling for Worthing's young and beautiful ward Sesily (Witherspoon) while also impersonating Ernest.... ... Look Out Secret Seven What would the Seven do without Scamper the spaniel? First he discovers an unwanted visitor - then he protects the Seven as they spy on a thief late at night in Bramley Woods. ... Enter The Matrix Only by playing this game will fans get to see the full Matrix story. Awesome action and graphics all serve to enhance the experience as gamers get to play their part in the war to save Zion. Fight scenes directed by Yuen Wo Ping and motion captured especially for the game underpin its crucial place in the Matrix world. ...
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WHSmith (WHS) is one of the UK's leading retail groups incorporating market leading companies in retail, publishing and news distribution. The Group has 1,464 stores world-wide, 30,747 employees in 12 countries and sales of some £2.9bn.
WHSmith is the UK's number one family retailer selling a range of products that extends across education, entertainment and information. Each year WHSmith High Street stores sell enough pens to circle the earth; enough books to fill a library shelf from London to Edinburgh; and enough paper to write a letter to everyone in the world. WH Smith also sell 122 million magazines and newspapers each year - enough to make a pile 69 times taller than Mount Everest.
The first High Street store was a small news vendor opened in 1792 in Little Grosvenor Street, London, by Henry Walton Smith and his wife Anna. Today, WHSmith has 545 High Street stores, covering over 3 million square feet of selling space and employing 17,000 staff. Clubcard, the Company's loyalty scheme, has more than 5 million members.
Books, newspapers, magazines and stationery form the core of the High Street business. WHSmith sell more books than any other retailer in England, Scotland and Wales. For example, one in three copies of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire were bought from WHSmith in the first weekend of release. WHSmith promote new authors with their Fresh Talent showcase and also have the Thumping Good Read Award that is voted for by members of Clubcard.
WHSmith's major stores stock more than 45,000 product lines, whereas an average food supermarket carries around 10,000 lines.
WHSmith currently holds a strong market share in each of the core categories in which it trades - books, stationery, news, magazines and entertainment. WH Smith's strategy is to exploit the strength, power and potential of the WHSmith brand to provide the very best service and value for money for their customers, shareholders and wider community.
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