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All aboard WHSmith in Charing Cross station 🚉 Our refurbished store at Charing Cross has reopened and is our second major London rail hub store opening in as many weeks. With millions of customers travelling through Charing Cross, we’ve doubled the size of our store to offer an extensive travel essentials range, helping keep customers’ journeys on track. ✨ A huge shoutout to our teams involved, and partner Network Rail. #ForEveryJourneyTheresAWHSmith

Congratulations to our WHSmith Malaysia team for being recognised by Malaysia Airports at the Concessionaires Awards 2024🏆 This is the second year running the team have been recognised by our partner, and is recognition of the dedication, passion and hard work of everyone at WHSmith Malaysia. A huge well done to the team 👏 ✨ Thank you to Malaysia Airports for this award #ForEveryJourneyTheresAWHSmith

❄️ Snow way! Our first ever Smith’s Family Kitchen Christmas sandwich range has hit the sh-elves 🎄 Out now across our UK Travel stores, the Christmas selection is made up of eight different sandwiches, including the Ultimate Christmas Dinner, the Merry Miso Chicken on a brioche bun, and the Vegan Spiced Parsnip Christmas sandwich. With increasing numbers of travelling customer searching for high quality food on the move options, this launch is another food first for WHSmith, and is perfect for anyone in search of a little bit of Christmas magic on their journey 🎅 #ForEveryJourneyTheresAWHSmith #SmithsFamilyKitchen

A travel essentials store fit for an iconic setting - WHSmith in King’s Cross station is now open 🚆 With millions of passengers travelling through King’s Cross station every year, we’ve refurbished, doubled the size, and re-opened our store to support more of our customers’ journeys through this iconic London travel hub. Offering customers a fast and convenient shopping experience under one roof, this store also boasts a new store design which celebrates the station’s rich architectural heritage, adding to the store’s sense of place and connecting both frequent and new customers to the station’s heritage and history. Alongside our partners Network Rail, our team has delivered yet another fantastic store, demonstrating the commitment of our UK Travel division to continue to grow and invest throughout the UK. #ForEveryJourneyTheresAWHSmith #StoreRefurb 

We are saddened to hear the news of the passing of former WHSmith Chairman and CEO, Richard Handover. Richard made a significant contribution to the Group throughout his tenure and our thoughts are with Richard's family, friends and former colleagues at this difficult time.

Spotlight on WHSmith UK Travel 💡   UK Travel is the largest division in WHSmith and this year the team delivered a strong year of progress and growth, as outlined in our full year results.   From new product launches to new flagship store openings – we continued to step up and improve our offer for travelling customers, particularly across the summer peak trading period when millions of our customers were heading out on holiday.   Serving customers from more than 500 stores in airports, railway stations and hospitals in the UK, our teams are focused on innovating and building our business to become a one-stop-shop for travel essentials so customers can get everything they need under one roof on their journey.   #ForEveryJourneyTheresAWHSmith 

Today as part of our full year results, we’ve announced a number of significant new store wins at major airports across North America, the largest travel retail market in the world. This includes stores at Denver, Washington and Dallas airports as well as being the preferred bidder at a further two major US airports. These wins form part of c.60 new stores won and yet to open across the market, and follow the 40 new stores we opened this year, demonstrating why we continue to see North America as our most exciting opportunity for growth. WHSmith North America #ForEveryJourneyTheresAWHSmith 

Our full year results are out which show a strong performance from our global travel business over the past year. There is lots to be proud of this year including: • Strong revenue and profit growth across the Group, including record profits from Travel UK ⬆️ • Incredible new ranges and products in stores, including Smith’s Family Kitchen, our first ever own-brand food to go range in the UK 🥙 • Over 100 new store openings as we expanded our global travel store estate 🏪 We operate in fast growing markets where demand for our products and services is high and we have new store pipeline of over 90 stores won and yet to open including 60 in North America. We are in our strongest ever position as a global travel retailer and we are excited about the next year on our journey. Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/ewwu9GP7 #ForEveryJourneyTheresAWHSmith

Today, on Remembrance Day, we honour and remember the servicemen and women, including WHSmith colleagues, who served, sacrificed, and fought for our freedom. We are proud of our longstanding history serving our communities through times of peace and hardship alike.    At 11am, our stores will pause together in a moment of reflection, as we commemorate the courage and resilience of all who came before us.   #RemembranceDay #WeWillRememberThem

🐻 Paddington's in Peru… and at WHSmith! Today, London’s favourite bear is making his trip back to the big-screen and we can’t wait to see the latest instalment of Paddington’s adventures.    And we know we’re not alone with more than 2,000 customers purchasing a Paddington Bear at one of our Travel stores last week! Whether traveling across the city or embarking on an adventure, our customers can find a little piece of Paddington magic with our specially curated collection of Paddington-inspired goodies in selected Travel stores.   #ForEveryJourneyTheresAWHSmith