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WH. Smith Online Book Store, UK: WH. Smith Online Book Store! Books, Music, Stationery and More... - Jude the Obscure The story of a struggle between the flesh and the spirit. It concerns Jude Fawley a young Wessex villager of exceptional promise who goes to Oxford contracts a loveless marriage and becomes embroiled in a doomed love affair with his cousin. ... Silmarillion Central to Tolkien's work this book is the story of the first age: the foundations of the world of Middle-Earth and its peoples before the great events recorded in 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings'. ... Friends - Series 5 (Eps.9-12) - (VHS) Featuring the episodes: 'The One With Ross's Sandwich' 'The One With The Inappropriate Sister' 'The One With All The Resolutions' and 'The One With Chandler's Work Laugh'. ... Good to Great This text attempts to show how a "good" company can become a "great" company. It looks at the type of leadership required the one thing a company must focus on the correct uses of technology and how to make the changes last. ... Pawn in Frankincense Part of Dorothy Dunnett's series that explores the intricacies of 16th-century history through the exploits of the soldier Francis Crawford of Lymond. ... Home Alone 2 - (DVD) Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) is back! But this time he's in New York city - with enough cash and credit cards to turn the Big Apple into his own playground! But Kevin won't be alone for long. The notorious Wet Bandits Harry and Marv (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern) still smarting from their last encounter with Kevin are bound for New York too plotting a huge holiday heist. Kevin's ready to welcome them with a battery of bobby traps the bumbling bandits will never forget!.......... ...
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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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