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WHSmith

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WHSmith PLC (also known as WHS or colloquially as Smith's, and formerly W. H. Smith & Son) is a British retailer, headquartered in Swindon, Wiltshire, which operates a chain of high street, railway station, airport, port, hospital and motorway service station shops selling books, stationery, magazines, newspapers, entertainment products and confectionary. [1]

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American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Big-box store

A big-box store (also supercenter, superstore, or megastore) is a physically large retail establishment, usually part of a chain of stores.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Books in the United Kingdom

As of 2017, six firms in the United Kingdom rank among the world's biggest publishers of books in terms of revenue: Bloomsbury, Cambridge University Press, Informa, Oxford University Press, Pearson, and RELX Group.

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Boots UK

Boots UK (formerly Boots the Chemists Ltd), trading as Boots, is a pharmacy chain in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway, Thailand and other territories.

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Borders (Asia Pacific)

Borders was a Singaporean-based bookseller, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia that also specialized in CDs, DVDs, Calendars, stationery, Gift Packs and related merchandising in the Pacific area of Asia and Australasia.

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Camelot Music

Camelot Music was a leading mall-based retailer of prerecorded music and accessories and was one of the largest music retailers in the United States based on store count.

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Chain store

Chain store(s) or retail chain(s) are retail outlets that share a brand and central management, and usually have standardized business methods and practices.

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Chairman

The chairman (also chairperson, chairwoman or chair) is the highest officer of an organized group such as a board, a committee, or a deliberative assembly.

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Chapters

Chapters Inc. is a Canadian big box bookstore banner owned by Indigo Books and Music.

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Chief executive officer

Chief executive officer (CEO) is the position of the most senior corporate officer, executive, administrator, or other leader in charge of managing an organization especially an independent legal entity such as a company or nonprofit institution.

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Coles (bookstore)

Coles is a Canadian bookstore chain owned by Indigo Books and Music.

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Connect Group

Connect Group PLC is a specialist distributor, headquartered in Swindon, England.

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Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom.

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Copenhagen Airport

Copenhagen Airport, Kastrup (Københavns Lufthavn, Kastrup) is the main international airport serving Copenhagen, Denmark, the entire Zealand, the Øresund Region, and a large part of southern Sweden (not only Scania).

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County Clare

County Clare (Contae an Chláir) is a county in Ireland, in the Mid-West Region and the province of Munster, bordered on the West by the Atlantic Ocean.

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Do It All

Do It All was a British DIY and home improvement retailing company.

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Dublin Airport

Dublin Airport (Aerfort Bhaile Átha Cliath) is an international airport serving Dublin, the capital city of Ireland.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of EUnum member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Euston railway station

Euston railway station (also known as London Euston) is a central London railway terminus on Euston Road in the London Borough of Camden, managed by Network Rail.

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Father's Day

Father's Day is a celebration honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society.

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Fritzl case

The Fritzl case emerged in April 2008 when a woman named Elisabeth Fritzl (born 6 April 1966) told police in the town of Amstetten, Austria, that she had been held captive for 24 years behind eight locked doors in a concealed corridor part of the basement area of the large family house by her father, Josef Fritzl (born 9 April 1935), and that Fritzl had physically assaulted, sexually abused, and raped her numerous times during her imprisonment.

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FTSE 250 Index

The FTSE 250 Index is a capitalisation-weighted index consisting of the 101st to the 350th largest companies listed on the London Stock Exchange.

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Headline Publishing Group

Headline Publishing Group is a British publishing company.

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Helsinki Airport

Helsinki Airport (Helsinki-Vantaan lentoasema, Helsingfors-Vanda flygplats) is the main international airport of the city of Helsinki, its surrounding metropolitan area, and the Uusimaa region.

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Henry Staunton (businessman)

Henry Staunton (born 20 May 1948, India), is a British businessman, the chairman of British retailer, WH Smith and the former Finance Director of Granada Group and ITV plc.

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Henry Walton Smith

Henry Walton Smith (1738–1792) was the founder of W H Smith, one of the United Kingdom's largest bookselling and newspaper vending businesses.

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High Street

High Street (or the High Street, also High Road) is a metonym for the concept (and frequently the street name) of the primary business street of towns or cities, especially in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Nations.

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Hong Kong International Airport

Hong Kong International Airport is the main airport in Hong Kong.

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International Standard Book Number

The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a unique numeric commercial book identifier.

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John Menzies

John Menzies plc is a Scottish business established in 1833.

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Lending library

A lending library is a library from which books and other media are lent out.

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Lifestyle (UK TV channel)

Lifestyle was a British daytime television channel dedicated to women and family, and was broadcast on cable and on transporter 5 of the Astra satellite from 1989.

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Limited company

In a limited company, the liability of members or subscribers of the company is limited to what they have invested or guaranteed to the company.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a city in North West England, with an estimated population of 491,500 in 2017.

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London Stock Exchange

The London Stock Exchange (LSE) is a stock exchange located in the City of London, England.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.

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Melbourne Airport

Melbourne Airport, colloquially known as Tullamarine Airport, is the primary airport serving the city of Melbourne, and the second busiest airport in Australia.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative of the voters to a parliament.

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Modelzone

Modelzone (often typeset ModelZone and Model Zone) is a scale model brand owned by British retailer WHSmith, under which scale models and related products are sold in selected WHSmith stores and online.

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Our Price

Our Price was a chain of record stores in the United Kingdom and Ireland from 1971 until 2004.

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Page One (bookstore)

Page One is a bookstore chain and publisher founded in Singapore by Mark Tan (陈家强), with locations in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Thailand.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Past Times

Past Times was a United Kingdom high street retailer, specialising in gifts, as well as retro goods.

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Permira

Permira is a European private equity firm.

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Pinderfields Hospital

Pinderfields Hospital is an acute District General Hospital in Wakefield, West Yorkshire operated by the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust.

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Post Office Ltd

Post Office Ltd (Swyddfa’r Post Cyf.; Oifis a' Phuist) is a retail post office company in the United Kingdom that provides a wide range of products including postage stamps and banking to the public through its nationwide network of post office branches.

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Pound sterling

The pound sterling (symbol: £; ISO code: GBP), commonly known as the pound and less commonly referred to as Sterling, is the official currency of the United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the British Antarctic Territory, and Tristan da Cunha.

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Public limited company

A public limited company (legally abbreviated to plc) is a type of public company under the United Kingdom company law, some Commonwealth jurisdictions, and the Republic of Ireland.

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QualitySolicitors

QualitySolicitors is a grouping of law firms in the United Kingdom.

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Retail

Retail is the process of selling consumer goods or services to customers through multiple channels of distribution to earn a profit.

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Retail Book Association

The Retail Book Association is a trade union in the United Kingdom, representing workers at WHSmith.

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Rue de Rivoli

Rue de Rivoli is one of the most famous streets in Paris, a commercial street whose shops include the most fashionable names in the world.

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Screensport

Screensport was a pan-European sports television channel that broadcast from 1984 to 1993 before merging with Eurosport.

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Shannon Airport

Shannon Airport (Aerfort na Sionna) is one of Ireland's three primary airports, along with Dublin and Cork.

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Singapore Changi Airport

Singapore Changi Airport, or simply Changi Airport, is the major civilian airport for Singapore, and one of the largest transportation hubs in Southeast Asia.

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Sky Television plc

Sky Television plc was a public limited company which operated a nine-channel satellite television service, launched by Rupert Murdoch's News International on 5 February 1989.

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Stockholm Arlanda Airport

Stockholm Arlanda Airport, is an international airport located in the Sigtuna Municipality of Sweden, near the town of Märsta, north of Stockholm and nearly south-east of Uppsala.

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Sunrisers Hyderabad

The SunRisers Hyderabad (often abbreviated as SRH) are a franchise cricket team based in Hyderabad, Telangana, that plays in the Indian Premier League (IPL).

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Swindon

Swindon is a large town in Wiltshire, South West England, between Bristol, to the west, and Reading, the same distance east.

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Tesco

Tesco plc, trading as Tesco, is a British multinational groceries and general merchandise retailer with headquarters in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom.

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The Entertainer (retailer)

The Entertainer (Amersham) Ltd. is the UK's largest independent toy retailer, which operates 144 stores.

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The Gadget Shop

Gadgetshop is an electronic toy retailer based in the United Kingdom, specialising in novelty gadgets.

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Tim Waterstone

Sir Tim Waterstone (born 30 May 1939) is a British businessman, author and philanthropist.

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Times Bookstores

Times Bookstore is a part of the Times Publishing Group, which started from Singapore in 1978.

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Train station

A train station, railway station, railroad station, or depot (see below) is a railway facility or area where trains regularly stop to load or unload passengers or freight.

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Twitter

Twitter is an online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets".

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Virgin Group

Virgin Group Ltd. is a British multinational corporation venture capital conglomerate founded by entrepreneurs Sir Richard Branson and Nik Powell.

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Virgin Megastores

Virgin Megastores is an international entertainment retailing chain, founded by Sir Richard Branson as a record shop on London's Oxford Street in early 1976.

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Viscount

A viscount (for male) or viscountess (for female) is a title used in certain European countries for a noble of varying status.

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Viscount Hambleden

Viscount Hambleden, of Hambleden in the County of Buckingham, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

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Waterstones

Waterstones, formerly Waterstone's, is a British book retailer that operates about 250 shops, mainly in the UK and also other nearby countries.

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William Henry Smith (1792–1865)

William Henry Smith (7 July 1792 – 28 July 1865) was a British entrepreneur whose business was about both newsagents and book shops.

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William Henry Smith (1825–1891)

William Henry Smith, FRS (24 June 1825 – 6 October 1891) was an English bookseller and newsagent of the family firm W H Smith, who expanded the firm and introduced the practice of selling books and newspapers at railway stations.

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Wiltshire

Wiltshire is a county in South West England with an area of.

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Yorkshire

Yorkshire (abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a historic county of Northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHSmith

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