水石書店
Also known as Waterstone's, Waterstones Booksellers Ltd, Waterstones Booksellers Ltd., Waterstones Booksellers
Waterstones Booksellers Limited, trading as Waterstones (formerly '''Waterstone's'''), is a British book retailer based in London, United Kingdom, owned by the American investment group Elliott Investment Management. It operates 317 shops, mainly in the United Kingdom and other nearby countries. it employed over 3,600 staff in Britain and Europe. The average Waterstones branch sells a range of approximately 30,000 individual books, as well as stationery and other related products.
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- Company.name
- Waterstones Booksellers Limited
- Company.logo
- Waterstones logo.png
- Company.logo_size
- 200px
- Company.type
- Private
- Company.industry
- RetailBookshop
- Company.foundation
- Old Brompton Road, London,
- Company.founder
- Tim Waterstone
- Company.location
- London, England, UK
- Company.locations
- 317 shops
- Company.num_locations_year
- 2024
- Company.area_served
- United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands
- Company.key_people
- James Daunt (MD)
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水石書店（Waterstones，原稱：Waterstone's）是一家英國連鎖書店，由蒂姆·水石創立于1982年，1993年被WHSmith收購。1998年被水石和EMI及買下，由HMV運營。 2011年5月又被俄羅斯商人所持有的A&NN資本基金管理（A&NN Capital Fund Management）買下。 除去水石這一品牌之外，水石書店還管理著倫敦書店“Hatchards”和愛爾蘭書店“Hodges Figgis”。每家水石書店約有3万本書在售，一些店中有咖啡店提供休閒。
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