WH Smith high street arm sold to Hobbycraft owner in £76m deal

Shoppers all say same thing as WHSmith set to vanish from the High Street - Liverpool Echo

Hundreds of WHSmith stores will be sold in a £76million deal, with the high street brand set to disappear after 233 years from town centres - and fans are all saying the same thing about the stores

WHSmith's rise and fall from high street icon to price fury and hospital shame - The Mirror

Henry Walton Smith opened the first shop - a newsagents week 230 years ago and this week announced the WHSmith name is disappearing from the High Street forever joining other axed brands Mothercare, Woolworths and C&A

WHSmith name to disappear from Southampton high street after £76 million sale

A shop in Southampton city centre will be rebranded after WH Smith agreed to sell its UK high street chain to Hobbycraft owner Modella Capital in a deal worth £76million

Say goodbye to WHSmith on our high streets – but it still has a future

If the centuries-old retailer is to survive being taken over and rebranded as TG Jones, it will need a lot more love than its previous owner was prepared to give, says James Moore

WH Smith brand to disappear from the high street following sale

The name WH Smith will disappear from UK high streets following the sale of the firm's shops Hobbycraft-owner Modella Capital.

End of an era as WH Smith to disappear from the High Street

The historic brand has been sold to the owners of Hobbycraft and the name will no longer appear on UK streets