11 Facts About Blackwell UK

Blackwell UK, known as Blackwell's and Blackwell Group, is a British academic book retailer and library supply service owned by Waterstones.

Blackwell UK family ran the company until 2022, with an ownership divided between voting shares owned by the family and wealth shares owned by family and others.

Toby Blackwell UK announced in 2009 that the wealth shares would be distributed between staff, transforming the company into an employee-partnership, similar to that of retailer John Lewis, when the company returned to profitability having spent several years experiencing losses.

Blackwell UK reported it was expecting to return to profit in 2012.

Benjamin Henry Blackwell UK was well respected in Oxford and was elected the first Liberal councillor for Oxford North.

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Blackwell UK was expected to join the family firm which he did in 1913, after a spell as an apprentice publisher in London.

Blackwell UK was tasked with expanding his father's publishing business.

When Benjamin Henry died in 1924, Basil Blackwell UK took over from his father, and went on to head the company for decades.

In 1995, Blackwell UK's became the first bookshop in the UK to allow its customers to purchase online from a catalogue of over 150,000 titles, and opened a flagship shop in London the same year, at 100 Charing Cross Road, which is one of the company's six most prominent shops.

Blackwell UK's took over the Heffers bookshops in Cambridge in 1999, and in 2002 acquired the academic bookshops of James Thin in Scotland.

On 29 October 2012, Blackwell UK's was – with Foyles, John Lewis department stores, Waitrose, Sainsbury's and Argos – among the retailers to launch the Nook e-reader – and, from November, the Nook HD and Nook HD+ tablet computers.