Waterstones Booksellers Overview

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Where is Waterstones Booksellers headquartered?

Waterstones Booksellers is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

What sector is Waterstones Booksellers in?

Waterstones Booksellers is a retail company.

When was Waterstones Booksellers founded?

Waterstones Booksellers was founded in 1982.

Waterstones Booksellers Ltd.

203-206 Piccadilly,
London, W1J 9HD
United Kingdom,
www.waterstones.com

Waterstones Booksellers Ltd. is the UK and Ireland’s major high street bookseller with 293 bookshops, including Foyles, Hatchards, Hodges Figgis and branches in Ireland, Brussels and Amsterdam. Waterstones is the only national specialist book retailer of scale in the UK, with the average sized shop carrying a range of around 30,000 individual books and with over 200,000 titles in the largest shop.


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vol $683M $683M
Sell (0.0/yr) # - - - - - - 0
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