The quick and easy answer is an increasingly common one: a Russian oligarch. Last month, we covered Waterstone’s surprisingly profitable turn in 2015, and have previously discussed the company’s restructuring under new… Read more »

Waterstones is set to make a profit for the first time in five years—that is, if the chain continues to do well over Christmas. Waterstones’ managing director, James Daunt, told The… Read more »

Good news for Waterstones: in the last financial year the retailer again cut its losses, according to The Bookseller. In the second consecutive year of reduced losses, the company’s loss… Read more »

Something interesting is happening over at Waterstones. The bookselling chain, which has around 275 stores across the UK’s high streets, has begun a spree of opening new shops. Just last… Read more »

Lisa Campbell reports at The Bookseller that Waterstones is about to open a Hatchards store at St Pancras station in London. The space is about 2,000 square feet, will boast… Read more »

A consumer survey has named WH Smith the UK’s “worst retailer”, placing the chain store at the bottom of a list of 100 retailers. It’s the second year in a… Read more »

The managing director of Waterstones, James Daunt, spoke yesterday to attendees at the Independent Publishers Guild (IPG) conference, and addressed some of the biggest questions being thrown at the national bookshop… Read more »

In May, I wrote about the news that Britain’s biggest chain bookshop Waterstones had begun a major restructure, which threatened to result in hundreds of job losses at the company.… Read more »

Waterstones CEO James Daunt is fast proving himself a late-blooming phenom of abysmal retail ideas. Daunt was interviewed by Bookseller editor Philip Jones this week, and one detail from that interview,… Read more »

Could there be promising news from the UK, less than a month after James Daunt did the ‘ruthless, money-making devil’ Amazon a favour by agreeing to sell Kindles in Waterstones stores? It… Read more »