WHSmith will not open any more high street stores

WHSmith store on high street

WHSmith will not open any more high street stores as it focuses instead on its growing travel arm.

Travel has been the motor of the WHSmith business for some time and has grown strongly internationally as well as at home.

WHSmith chief executive Carl Cowling told the BBC: “We’ve got a very healthy high street business in the UK. But we’ve got no ambitions to grow that.”

 

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