A HIGH street giant has launched a huge “everything must go” sale – with the beloved chain expected to shut 19 sites this ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kevin covers retail, airports, and the global traveling shopper. Last week’s spectacular collapse of 34% in the share price of ...

British books and stationery giant WH Smith will sell 480 retail outlets to Modella Capital, the owner of Hobbycraft, in a deal worth approximately £76m (€91.2m). The Swindon-centred brand, which has ...

HMV owner Doug Putman is the latest potential bidder considering the acquisition of WHSmith’s unwanted portfolio of circa 500 high street stores. Putman, a Canadian billionaire, rescued music and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kevin covers retail, airports, and the global traveling shopper. Almost half of the 110 stores that convenience-to-fashion ...

It must once have seemed that, "much like the British Empire, the sun would never set on WH Smith", said Alexander Larman in The Spectator. But the skies are looking dark. The retailer is currently in ...

One of the UK's oldest and most recognisable retailers, WHSmith was founded in 1792 by Henry Walton Smith and his wife Anna ...

Shoppers could see the familiar signage of WHSmith disappear from the city centre after a bid for new signs was lodged by its TG Jones. The retailer, which specialises in stationery and books, has ...