Our Company

• WHSmith has stores in 399 out of the top 400 UK High Streets
• As at 31 August 2008, we have 557 high street stores and 449 travel outlets at airport, train station, hospital and motorway service area locations across the UK.
• WHSmith employs 17,000 people across the UK
• Every year 70% of the UK's population visit a WHSmith store
• On average, just over 1.2 million people visit a WHSmith High Street store every day of the year
• Every year 125 million travellers pass WHSmith's busiest Travel store at London's Victoria Station
  (Source: Network Rail)
• WHSmith sells 1.5 million magazines every week; 24,000 magazines every hour we are open
• Every year WHSmith sells in excess of 40 million books
• On average, we sell 3,000 A4 pads a day
• End to end the sales of our 3 best selling rulers would stretch from London to Spain