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Smiths Stationary ~ Shop Online at Smiths Online Stationary Store - Let Go Rock & roll wild child Avril Lavigne hit big in summer 2002 with her spiky debut song "Complicated" shifting pop music into a different direction. Lavigne who was 17 at the time didn't seem concerned with the glamour of the TRL-dominated pop world and such confidence allowed her star power to soar. The nuanced dynamic "Losing Grip" "My World" and the buoyant power pop blast "Sk8er Boi" are the album's highlights. ... Chinese Cinderella The Secret Story of an Unwanted Daughter The story of a Chinese woman and how she suffered appalling emotional deprivation and rejection by her family as a child growing up in China and Hong Kong. She tells of the consequences in her adult life above which she rose to make a happy marriage and become a successful doctor in the USA. ... Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) Dumbledore lowered his hands and surveyed Harry through his half moon glasses. It is time he said for me to tell you what I should have told you five years ago Harry. Please sit down. I am going to tell you everything. The fifth exciting title in the series contains 38 chapters and over 255000 words. Ages 8+. ... The Osbournes: Series 1 (DVD) The show that quickly became the stuff of legend. Heavy metal star Ozzy Osbourne invites you into his home to meet his family ... in ten episodes totally unscripted and uncensored. Every outrageous moment with the notorious rocker and his colourful family is captured here in MTV's top rated reality show. The situations are real the family is completely normal well as normal as they can be considering that dear ol' dad is the self proclaimed Prince of Darkness! ... Irish Girls About Town A collection of brand-new short stories - some hilarious some heartbreaking - from a wide range of contemporary Irish women writers. £1 from every copy sold will go to Barnardo's children's charity and the Irish charity the Society of St Vincent de Paul for the relief of poverty. ... Can You Keep a Secret? Emma is a nervous flyer and she can't help but tell the man next to her - quite a dishy American but she's too frightened to notice - all her innermost secrets. She survives the flight but when the American boss of the whole corporation visits the company he seems strangely familiar. ...
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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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