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Daunt Books was founded in 1990 by former banker James Daunt with the purchase of a bookshop on Marylebone High Street. [1] It now focuses on first-hand titles (especially travel-related material). The Marylebone branch is housed in a former Edwardian bookshop with long oak galleries, graceful skylights and William Morris prints.
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Achilles James Daunt CBE (born 18 October 1963) is a British businessman. He is the founder of the Daunt Books chain, and since May 2011 has been managing director of the bookshop chain Waterstones. Since August 2019, Daunt has also been CEO of Barnes & Noble, the American bookstore chain. He is known as "the man who saved Waterstones".
Marylebone High Street is a shopping street in London, running sub-parallel to Baker Street and terminating at its northern end at the junction with Marylebone Road. Given its secluded location, the street has been described as "the hidden wonder of the West End " [ 1 ] and it was voted Best Street in London in 2002 by listeners of BBC Radio 4 ...
The main area today extends from Marylebone Road in the north to Wigmore Street in the south, and from Hallam Street in the east to Marylebone High Street in the west. [5] In the 1990s the company took steps to revitalise the Marylebone High Street, adding new shops including Conran department store and Waitrose supermarket. [3]
Like their high street stores these were re-badged as The Works as opposed to their range of factory shop outlets then called Book Depot. In 2001, Remainders Ltd.'s success won the Crossleys the Birmingham Post 's Business of the Month for May [ 4 ] and, in November, Business of the Year award, which they received from the Duke of Kent at the ...
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Princesshay is a shopping precinct in the city of Exeter, Devon, England. It was built in the early 1950s to replace buildings that had been severely damaged in the World War II Baedeker Blitz . From 2005 the precinct and some surrounding buildings were demolished and rebuilt as a new shopping centre that opened in September 2007.