Tim Waterstone

Tim Waterstone

Tim Waterstone (born 1939 in Glasgow, Scotland) is the chairman of the HMV Media Group plc, which includes the United Kingdom bookselling retail chain "Waterstone's" which he founded. It is now the largest specialist bookseller in the UK and also has stores in Europe and Ireland.

Early life and career

He was educated at Tonbridge School and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he read English. He then went to India where he worked for a broking firm in Calcutta and contracted Typhus. Upon his recovery and return to England he worked as a marketing manager for Allied Breweries and then W.H.Smith, he lost his job there after 8 years and opened his own bookshop in 1982. He is the chancellor of Napier University Edinburgh currently, since 2007.

Waterstone's

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Tim Waterstone has had three marriages to date and 8 children

Author

He has written 3 novels and many published articles.

External links

* [http://www.waterstones.co.uk/waterstonesweb/home.do Waterstone's online]
* [http://www.normanphillips.co.uk/tim_waterstone_bio.htm Norman Phillips Organisation Biography]


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