Waterstones Booksellers Limited
Company 00610095 Active
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How this board is put together, from the Companies House officer record and Charity Commission trustee records - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Companies House officer record: the current directors only, past directors excluded.
3
directors on the board
7.9y median 6.4y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure
2
directors past 6 years
0 vs 3 portfolio
first-time directors
0
also govern a charity
0
left in the last 12 months
Where else this board sits iWhere else this board sitsThe charitable fields these directors govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this company and any charity it is the legal face of.
Dormant 21Professional services 15Finance 4Retail and trade 3
The sectors these directors govern in elsewhere. This company, and any charity it is the legal face of, are excluded - counting them would just tell you what you are already looking at.
Gaps to watch
- Several long-serving directors could step down together
Where to look Suggested search: succession planning for long-tenured seats.
Related organisations iRelated organisationsCompanies whose board overlaps with this one through the same people. Deterministic, from public records.
- W.Heffer & Sons Limited 3 shared directors
- Blackwell UK Limited 3 shared directors
- W. & G. Foyle Limited 3 shared directors
- Blackwell (Trustees) Limited 3 shared directors
- Waterstones Overseas Limited 3 shared directors
- Hatchards UK Limited 3 shared directors
Companies whose board overlaps with this one through the same people. Deterministic, from public records.
Company details
| Number | 00610095 |
| Status | Active |
| Type | Private Limited Company |
| Incorporated | 22/08/1958 |
| Address | 203-206 PICCADILLY, LONDON, W1J 9HD |
| Accounts next due | 31/01/2027 |
| Accounts last made up | 03/05/2025 |
Industry (SIC)
47610 - Retail sale of books in specialised stores
Ownership - persons with significant control (3)
- Book Retail Bidco Limited
ownership of shares 75-100% voting rights 75-100% right to appoint and remove directors - Mr Paul Elliot Singer American
right to appoint and remove directors right to appoint and remove directors as firm - Waterstones Holdings Limited ceased 2018
ownership of shares 75-100% voting rights 75-100% right to appoint and remove directors
Officers (60)
- Karen Deborah Ashworth Director · appointed 2024
- Fiona Johnston Secretary · appointed 2022
- Kate Skipper Director · appointed 2020
- Achilles James Daunt Director · appointed 2011
Show 56 former officers
- Emma Louise Hillyard Director · appointed 2022 · resigned 2024
- Elisabeth Sullivan Secretary · appointed 2021 · resigned 2022
- Laila Aslam Secretary · appointed 2020 · resigned 2021
- Paul Best Director · appointed 2018 · resigned 2020
- Alison Campbell Secretary · appointed 2018 · resigned 2020
- Jane Molloy Director · appointed 2014 · resigned 2022
- Richard Denley John Manning Secretary · appointed 2014 · resigned 2018
- Martin Miles Secretary · appointed 2011 · resigned 2014
- Martin Terence Miles Director · appointed 2011 · resigned 2014
- Michael William Giffin Secretary · appointed 2011 · resigned 2011
- Roger Brian Childs Director · appointed 2010 · resigned 2011
- Stephen West Director · appointed 2010 · resigned 2011
- Alexandra Erika Dorothy Rayner Director · appointed 2008 · resigned 2010
- Neil James William Jewsbury Director · appointed 2006 · resigned 2010
- Simon Allan Blacklock Director · appointed 2006 · resigned 2007
- Dominic Peter Myers Director · appointed 2006 · resigned 2011
- Alan James Giles Director · appointed 2006 · resigned 2006
- Wendy Elisabeth Drinkwater Director · appointed 2006 · resigned 2010
- Gerald Thomas Johnson Director · appointed 2005 · resigned 2010
- Jonathan Robert Samols Director · appointed 2005 · resigned 2007
- David Samuel Gilbert Director · appointed 2004 · resigned 2004
- Nicholas Julian Mark Williams Director · appointed 2004 · resigned 2008
- Elaine Marriner Secretary · appointed 2003 · resigned 2011
- Michael Gerald Lymath Secretary · appointed 2003 · resigned 2003
- Shaun David Carney Director · appointed 2002 · resigned 2006
- Martin Terrence John Carr Director · appointed 2002 · resigned 2003
- David Lawrence Roche Director · appointed 2002 · resigned 2005
- Stephen John Knott Director · appointed 2001 · resigned 2003
- Sarah Dormer Director · appointed 2001 · resigned 2006
- Peter Graham Howell Secretary · appointed 2001 · resigned 2003
- Brian Finbar Mclaughlin Director · appointed 2001 · resigned 2005
- Philip Franklyn Klette Director · appointed 2001 · resigned 2002
- David Pogrund Director · appointed 2001 · resigned 2005
- Alan John Humphrey Director · appointed 2000 · resigned 2001
- Peter Charles Mitchell Director · appointed 2000 · resigned 2001
- Lesley Miles Director · appointed 2000 · resigned 2006
- Denise Lynne Tomblin Secretary · appointed 2000 · resigned 2001
- David Arthur Kneale Director · appointed 1999 · resigned 2001
- George Marsden Smith Secretary · appointed 1999 · resigned 2000
- Brian James Landers Director · appointed 1998 · resigned 1999
- Ian Kevin Newman Director · appointed 1998 · resigned 2000
- Simon Anthony Jacobs Director · appointed 1998 · resigned 2000
- Maxine Harris Director · appointed 1998 · resigned 2001
- Martin Christopher Lee Director · appointed 1998 · resigned 1999
- Shaw William Warnock Director · appointed 1998 · resigned 1999
- Fiona Anne Murray Wood Secretary · appointed 1998 · resigned 2000
- Brian George Worrall Director · appointed 1998 · resigned 2001
- Rule, Christopher Stanley, Mr. Secretary · appointed 1997 · resigned 1998
- Keith Hamill Director · appointed 1997 · resigned 1998
- Sean Anderson Director · appointed 1997 · resigned 1998
- Ian Houghton Director · appointed 1996 · resigned 1997
- Colin Anthony White Secretary · appointed 1996 · resigned 1997
- Gerard Maxwell Hughes Director · appointed 1994 · resigned 1997
- Susan Helen Bull Secretary · resigned 1996
- Philip Alan Stevens Director · resigned 1994
- Richard Chisholm Thorpe Director · resigned 1996
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