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Fri, 11/05/2012 - 10:00Foyles and Blackwell are teaming up for the first time to organise a joint Charing Cross Road "festival". The series of events, due to launch in June, is aimed at attracting customers to the bookshops following a 10% drop in footfall and book sales because of construction works for Network Rail's Crossrail project.
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Mon, 30/04/2012 - 08:15Alexander Mamut, the Blackwell and Pearson families, and Jamie and Jools Oliver are among the book trade names on the Sunday Times Rich List 2012.
Waterstones owner Alexander Mamut has become the highest ranking book trade name on the list, with the paper putting the Russian's fortune at £1.3bn, and ranking him in 53rd...
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Mon, 26/03/2012 - 08:03Blackwell’s revenue dropped in 2011, but the company continued to reduce its losses and told publishers it is “strategically placed to assist partner publishers in benefitting from the unprecedented changes taking place in the UK academic sector".
The academic bookselling chain has reported that in the year to 25th...
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Thu, 22/03/2012 - 10:03Blackwell and Bertrams will go head-to-head with two other library supply services to bid for a contract worth a potential £1,250,000 to supply Coventry University students with complimentary textbooks come September.
In what is thought to be the first tender of its kind in the run-up to tuition fee hikes of up to £9,000...
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Fri, 02/03/2012 - 09:20Blackwell has created four senior roles including a new head of sales across the bookshops and online divisions, and resurrecting the head of operations job previously undertaken by Sharon Murray. The company has also beefed up its digital team in light of the growing e-book market.
Scott Hamilton has moved up to head of sales for the...
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Thu, 26/01/2012 - 10:00Blackwell has won a £2.5m tender from the Ministry of Defence to supply books to 19 government departments.
The MOD, which has not tendered book supplier contracts since 2007, awarded the three-year contract to Blackwell to provide the department’s libraries and buying sections with books. Blackwell will also be...
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Tue, 03/01/2012 - 16:14Booksellers are discounting books and e-books by up to 80% in post-Christmas promotions.
Amazon, which began its January Deals early in December, ran a Boxing Day Deals Week which finished on Sunday and is also offering books with large discounts though its Stock Clearance and 12 Days of Kindle promotions.
A collection of five...
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Fri, 11/11/2011 - 07:33
Blackwell and Waterstone's have unveiled two charity campaigns in the run-up to Christmas.
The academic retailer is launching a charity Christmas Wishing Tree campaign in eight of its major stores over the next two weeks. Led by its flagship Charing Cross Road branch, Blackwell will invite children represented by local charities...
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Fri, 04/11/2011 - 10:27W H Smith has fired the starting pistol for festive promotions, with Waterstone’s, Amazon.co.uk, Blackwell, John Smith and Foyles following hot on their heels as 1st November saw the switch-on of the Oxford Street Christmas lights.
WHS was first to begin its Christmas promotions last Thursday (27th October), before girl band...
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Thu, 03/11/2011 - 09:36Blackwell will close its Sheffield Hallam bookshop at the end of this year after six years of trading at a loss.
The branch was opened six years ago and will be closed as part of the company’s wider plans to return the bookseller to profitability. Ten staff are affected by the closure.
A spokesman for Blackwell said:...
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