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Maintenance:
Whsmith’s brand stores will disappear from the UK high roads following a 76m agreement to sell business on Friday.
The group will charge all 480 shops in the city centers in Modella Capital, which also owns Hobbycraft in the UK, to focus on its lucrative business of international travel retail, which accounts for 75 percent of group income and 85 percent of trading profit.
Whsmith’s stores will be re -adhered as TG Jones as part of the deal, the company said on Friday. Group travel shops at airports, train stations and hospitals will continue to trade under the name Whsmith, which has a 233-year-old history.
Understandably, the part resides in the agreement itself, and the implications for both the high roads of Britain and one of its most visible lids-its name derived from William Henry Smith, the youngest son of its founders.
But ft Alphaville, a brain lovers, could not pass that rebrand.
Tjones … what do you mean? Is it a reference to the former Everton Center Hone, Thomas George “TG” Jones who surprisingly ended up leading a North Wales news in later life?
Surely could not be just a vague union of initials and surname designed to simply evoke Whsmith while remains special?
Uh:
Tjones feels like a worthy descendant of the brand Whsmith. Jones carries the same sense of family and reflects these stores by being in the heart of everyone’s high path.
This is a spokesman for the capital mode that announces today’s agreement. We asked them for more details, and they told us:
The brand is not a reference for any individual. It is undoubtedly based on another well -known surname (like Whsmith), which will resonate with people throughout the UK, and we have had to keep it a sense of a family business.
Heart anger.
