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WH Smiths Online Bookstore: Books, Music, Stationery and More. Explore WH Smiths Online Today! - Philadelphia Story - (VHS) With Katherine Hepburn Cary Grant and James Stewart heading the splendid cast. The Philadelphia Story remains one of the most hilarious and captivating romantic comedies ever to grace the screen. Hepburn recreates her Broadway role as the rich socialite Tracy Lord in a performance full of temperament and tenderness. Ex-husband Cary Grant uses magazine journalist James Stewart to try and prevent her marrying again. Stewart won an Oscar for his wildly comic interpretation of the man who helps bring Tracy to her senses. ... Guess Whos Coming To Dinner - (DVD) Spencer Tracy and Katherinr Hepburn are unfotgettable as perplexed parents in this landmark 1967 movie about mixed marriage. Joanna (Katherine Houghton) the beautiful daughter of a crusading publisher Matthew Drayton (Tracy) and his patrician wife Christina (Hepburn) returns home with her new Fiance John Prentice (Sidney poitier) a distinguished black doctor. Christina accepts her daughter's decision to marry John but Matthew is shocked by this interracial union; and the doctor's parents are equally dismayed. Both familys must sit down face to face and examine each other's level of intolerance... ... Lonely Planet: Southwest France From Hot Springs to Holy Shrines This guide to the southwest area of France covers the Dordogne Bordeaux and midi-Pyrenees regions as well as Lourdes. There are sections on food and wine chateaux and bastides as well as a look at the championship surfing along the Atlantic coast from Lacanau to Biarritz. ... Arena 20th Anniversary Remastered Live CD taken from the band's 1984 tour of Canada and the U.S. ... Dark Tower Wizard and glass Vol 4 The Dark Tower beckons Roland the Last Gunslinger and the four companions he has gathered along the road. And having narrowly escaped one world they set out on a terrifying journey across the scarred urban wasteland to brave a new world where hidden dangers lie at every junction. ... Starter for Ten It's 1985 and Brian has just started his first term at university. But he is harbouring a dark secret - a long-held burning ambition to appear on 'University Challenge'. At last the dream is about to become reality but Brian has a whole lot of living to do before the match starts. ...
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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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