WH Smith PLC operates as a retailer in the United Kingdom and internationally. It operates in two segments, Travel and High Street. The Travel segment offers news, books, and convenience for travelling customers. As of August 31, 2021, it operated 1, 166 units primarily in airports, hospitals, railway stations, motorway service areas, and workplaces. The High Street segment sells stationery products, including greetings cards, general stationery, art and craft, and gifting products; news and impulse products, such as newspapers, magazines, confectionery, and drinks; and books. It operated 544 stores. This segment also offers its stationery, books, magazines, and gifts through whsmith.co.uk; personalized greetings cards and gifts through funkypigeon.com; pens through cultpens.com; and personalized stationery products through treeofhearts.co.uk and dottyaboutpaper.co.uk websites. The company was founded in 1792 and is based in Swindon, the United Kingdom. The 2025 version of the report offers detailed insights into the company's strategies, developments, outlook and drivers. In addition to SWOT Analysis and Financial Overview, the report analyzes key projects, business description, products, services, brands, operating locations, subsidiaries and affiliates of WH SMITH PLC.
WH SMITH PLC business operations across the value chain are included. Further, all major operating and planned locations, related contacts, details of subsidiaries and partnerships of WH SMITH PLC are also analyzed.
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SWOT Analysis of the company including key strengths and weaknesses of WH SMITH PLC , on which it can build its business along with potential opportunities and threats in the near to medium term future are detailed.
Key employees of the company including the management team and board of directors are listed with their designations. Further, statistics on key parameters such as employee count, organization structure etc is provided.
Financial analysis of WH SMITH PLC including key ratios, income statement, cash flow statement and balance sheet are provided for the company. In addition, Key historical events, summary analysis of WH SMITH PLC and all latest updates of the company are provided.
The 2025 version of WH SMITH PLC report is presented after intensive primary and secondary research processes and it presents the insights in a complete impartial and reader friendly format.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1.1 List of Tables
1.2 List of Figures
2 Introduction to the Company
2.1 WH SMITH PLC- Key Facts
2.2 WH SMITH PLC- Geographic Locations
2.3 WH SMITH PLC- Subsidiaries and Affiliates
2.4 WH SMITH PLC- Business Divisions
2.5 WH SMITH PLC- Key Employees
2.5.1 Management Team
2.5.2 Board of Directors
3. WH SMITH PLC Strategic Analysis Review
3.1 WH SMITH PLC- Key Strategies
3.2 WH SMITH PLC- Company Outlook Statement
3.3 WH SMITH PLC- SWOT Analysis
3.3.1 WH SMITH PLC- Key Strengths
3.3.2 WH SMITH PLC- Key Weaknesses
3.3.3 WH SMITH PLC- Potential Opportunities
3.3.4 WH SMITH PLC- Potential Threats
3.4 WH SMITH PLC- Key Competitors
4. Business Description of the Company
4.1 WH SMITH PLC- Business Overview
4.2 WH SMITH PLC- Operations by Segment
5 Products and Services Details
5.1 WH SMITH PLC- Key Products
5.2 WH SMITH PLC- Key Service Areas
5.3 WH SMITH PLC- Key Brands
6 Company Developments
6.1 WH SMITH PLC- Company History
6.2 WH SMITH PLC- Latest Developments
7 Financial Analysis
7.1 WH SMITH PLC- Income Statements
7.2 WH SMITH PLC- Balance Sheet
7.3 WH SMITH PLC- Cash Flow Statements
8 Competitors and Industry Analysis
8.1 WH SMITH PLC- Direct Competitors
8.2 WH SMITH PLC- Competitor Financial Ratios comparison
8.3 WH SMITH PLC- Competitor Stock Charts Comparison
8.4 WH SMITH PLC- Industry Analysis
9 Appendix
9.1 About SWOTreports
9.2 Sources and Methodology
9.3 Contact Information
P.S.Financial Analysis will be provided only for companies reporting financial data.
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