Waterstones
London
About Waterstones
Waterstones is a bookseller on the High Street and online providing customers with a wide range of choice and expert advice from a team passionate about bookselling. Its ‘Books of the Month’ and ‘Waterstones Book Club’, as well as things like the ‘Waterstones Children’s Book Prize’ are used to champion the best new books across a range of genres and subjects with notable recent successes, including ‘The Miniaturist’, a successful debut novel of recent years, the phenomenal nature memoir ‘H is For Hawk’ by Helen Macdonald, and John Williams’ ‘Stoner’ that it turned into a bestseller forty years after the original publication. Waterstones has also improved its online availability, and currently, it has around 250,000 titles available within 24 hours, which greatly increases its users’ chances of getting the books that they want, when they want it. Waterstones was founded in 1982 and is based in London.
Company Facts
- Operating status: Active
- Company type: For Profit
- IPO status: Private
- Employees: 1,001 – 5,000
- Estimated revenue: $500K – $1M
- Total funding: $168.8M
- Funding stage: M&A
- Last round: Debt Financing (Aug 2025)
- Website: waterstones.comwaterstonesweb
Industries & Categories
Books, Retail
Social Profiles
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