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WH Smith PLC

  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    LexUK retail industry
    The UK high street is no match for WHSmith’s wanderlust Premium content

    It is really decades since the stores were a destination, particularly in provincial towns

    a WH Smith shop in Cambridge.
  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    What does TGJones mean?

    That old, familial feeling

  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    WHSmith name to vanish from UK high streets as it rebrands to TG Jones in £76mn deal

    Station and airport outlets will continue to trade under 233-year-old brand

    A WHSmith Plc store in Woking, UK
  • Wednesday, 29 January, 2025
    Sales drop at WHSmith’s high street stores as it looks for buyer

    Decline more than offset by increased revenues from airport and train station outlets

    A WHSmith store in Woking
  • Sunday, 26 January, 2025
    WHSmith in talks to sell its UK high street shops

    Company is exploring strategic options and may concentrate on its travel business

  • Saturday, 2 November, 2024
    ReviewAlbums
    The Cure’s first album in 16 years is powerful reassurance that they’ve still got it

    ‘Songs of a Lost World’ takes on ageing and death, but the band’s music stands unaffected by time

    A man in late middle age with wild frizzy hair, wearing a black shirt, face make-up and lipstick, staring into the camera
  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
    Jeff Smith
    Jeff Smith, the activist picking a fight with Covid hero Pfizer

    Widely feared boss of Starboard Value often befriends the corporate leaders he is targeting

    Jeff Smith, chief executive officer of Starboard Value LP
  • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
    Moral Money
    Sultan al-Jaber: COP28 lightning rod confronts his critics Premium content

    A revealing conversation with the summit’s president, who is under heavy fire

    Sultan al-Jaber
  • Friday, 8 September, 2023
    Lex PopuliPersonal Finance
    Two-track companies offer both rewards and risk

    M&S and WHSmith: two examples of much-divided fortunes

    A Marks and Spencer food store
  • Friday, 14 July, 2023
    InterviewLunch with the FT
    Delia Smith: ‘Life is not a bowl of cherries’

    The celebrated cook on foodie fads, teaching Britons to boil an egg — and what football teaches us about community

  • Tuesday, 20 June, 2023
    Minimum-Living wage
    Big UK retailers named and shamed for failing to pay minimum wage

    More than 200 companies fined total of £7mn for breaching rules that hit 63,000 workers

    A view of a branch of WH Smith in London
  • Friday, 14 October, 2022
    The Top LineTom Braithwaite
    How Goldman’s derivatives saved a pension scheme

    Liability-driven investing has been pilloried but the strategy has worked for WHSmith

    A WHSmith outlet in London
  • Friday, 26 August, 2022
    News in-depth
    The reinvention of WHSmith: from high street to airport terminal

    Retailer’s fortunes have risen, fallen and are now rising again in tandem with the air industry

  • Wednesday, 15 June, 2022
    Travel rebound pushes WHSmith quarterly sales to pre-pandemic level

    FTSE 250 retailer predicts annual profits will be towards top end of market forecasts

    WHSmith shop in Gatwick airport
  • Saturday, 30 April, 2022
    Investments
    Investors’ Chronicle: PureTech Health, WHSmith, Associated British Foods

    Companies analysis from our sister publication

    A WHSmith high street store
  • Tuesday, 29 March, 2022
    Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
    Will Smith apologises for slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars

    Academy says it will explore appropriate ‘consequences’ for dust-up during awards show

    Will Smith strikes Chris Rock on stage during the Oscars ceremony
  • Wednesday, 1 September, 2021
    City Bulletin
    WHSmith warns of tough 2021 but better 2022 Premium content

    Tencent expands beyond China and ‘boring’ Bunzl now has a £1bn war chest

  • Wednesday, 28 April, 2021
    Retail sector
    WHSmith raises cash as recovery hopes grow

    Group plans to expand travel business despite losses through Covid pandemic

  • Friday, 13 November, 2020
    Investments
    Investors Chronicle: Manolete Partners, WHSmith, Oxford Instruments

    Companies analysis from our sister publication

  • Thursday, 12 November, 2020
    WHSmith plays down vaccine boost for travel unit

    UK retailer posts smaller than expected £69m loss and points to ‘steady’ high street recovery

    Branch of WHSmith in London, in August
  • Wednesday, 5 August, 2020
    WHSmith plans to axe 1,500 jobs as travel curbs bite

    Full-year loss of up to £75m forecast as coronavirus depresses passenger numbers at transport hubs

    The bulk of the job cuts at WHSmith will fall on the travel division, which generates more than three-fifths of the group’s profit
  • Friday, 21 February, 2020
    Newspaper industry
    WHSmith and Daily Telegraph reach peace agreement

    Retailer will resume sales this weekend after spat over shrinking margins

    A WH Smith Plc stationary and newsagents store stands at London Bridge railway station in London, U.K., on Thursday, June 13, 2019. "My frustration is the government thinking the way to make our country more equal is to make London poorer," London Mayor Sadiq Khan said in an interview Monday. Photographer: Chris J. Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
  • Wednesday, 19 February, 2020
    LombardCat Rutter Pooley
    Metro Bank mess looks too much for its new broom to clear up

    Challenges at challenger; Pendragon’s new salesman; Telegraph’s station spat

    A branch of Metro Bank, High Holborn, London.
  • Wednesday, 19 February, 2020
    Media
    WHSmith excludes Daily Telegraph from shops at railway stations

    Battle escalates over newspaper retailers’ shrinking margins

    DBGEP8 WH Smith outlet on the concourse of York Railway Station, York, England, UK
  • Friday, 14 February, 2020
    Newspaper industry
    WHSmith moves Daily Telegraph from ‘news’ to ‘magazine’ section of stores

    Move by UK retailer comes as publisher grapples with decline in sales

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