Blackwell UK, known as Blackwell's and Blackwell Group, is a British academic book retailer and library supply service owned by Waterstones.
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Blackwell UK, known as Blackwell's and Blackwell Group, is a British academic book retailer and library supply service owned by Waterstones.
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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.
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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.
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Blackwell UK reported it was expecting to return to profit in 2012.
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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.
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Blackwell UK was tasked with expanding his father's publishing business.
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When Benjamin Henry died in 1924, Basil Blackwell UK took over from his father, and went on to head the company for decades.
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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.
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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.
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