births
May 30, 1939
Tim Waterstone, Scottish businessman, founded Waterstones
Tim Waterstone
Sir Timothy John Stuart Waterstone is a British bookseller, businessman and author. He is the founder of Waterstones, the United Kingdom-based bookseller retail chain, the largest in Europe.
Waterstones
Waterstones Booksellers Limited, trading as Waterstones, is a British book retailer based in London, England, owned by the American investment group Elliott Investment Management. It operates 311 shops, mainly in the United Kingdom and other nearby countries. As of February 2014 it employed around 3,500 staff in Britain and Europe. The average Waterstones branch sells a range of approximately 30,000 individual books, as well as stationery and other related products.