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Key people William & Gilbert Foyle (founders) (1945–99) Christopher Foyle (1999– ) Products Books Owner Christopher Foyle (1999– ) Website W & G Foyle Ltd. (usually called simply Foyles) is a bookseller with a of seven stores in England. It is best known for its flagship store in, London. Foyles was once listed in the as the world's largest bookshop in terms of shelf length, at 30 miles (48 km), and for number of titles on display. Foyles was famed in the past for its anachronistic, eccentric and sometimes infuriating business practices; so much so that it became a tourist attraction. It has since modernised, and has opened several branches and an online store.
Contents. Founding and early branches Brothers and Gilbert Foyle founded the business in 1903. After failing entrance exams for the, the brothers offered their redundant text books for sale and were inundated by offers. This inspired them to launch a second-hand book business from home. Flushed with success, they opened a small shop on Station Parade in Queen's Road, where they painted 'With all Faith' in gilt letters above the door. The brothers opened their first shop in 1904, at 16. A year later they hired their first member of staff, who promptly disappeared with the weekly takings.
By 1906, their shop was at 135 Charing Cross Road and they were described as London's largest educational booksellers. By 1910, Foyles had added four suburban branches: at, and. Former Foyles shop at 111–119 Charing Cross Road Not long afterwardthe brothers moved their central London store to 119 Charing Cross Road, the, where it remained until 2014. They acquired adjacent buildings at 1–7 including the site of the Old Goldbeater's House. For a time the store included premises at 121–125 Charing Cross Road, on the north side of the junction with Manette Street. In this period Foyles, like many booksellers, used to stick a small permanent label advertising themselves on every book they sold. According to one such label, at some time Foyles had a branch in, at 12–14 Church Street,.
Christina Foyle's era , daughter of co-founder William, initiated literary luncheons at the Charing Cross Road premises in October 1930; these continue to the present day. In the first 80 years 700 luncheons were held, hosting more than 1,000 authors and 500,000 guests. Speakers and guests of honour at these luncheons have included great literary figures, and celebrities from the world of politics, the media, the military and the theatre. Most British Prime Ministers since the have attended, as have, General, General and the. The store now also holds many evening literary events throughout the year. Control of the shop passed to Christina in 1945.
It was under her that the shop stagnated, with little investment and poorly paid staff who could be fired on a whim. She also refused to install any modern conveniences such as electronic tills or calculators; nor would she allow orders to be taken by phone. However, the shop excelled in other fields: expensive books ordered from as far off as Germany were sent with a bill without prepayment. The shop operated a payment system that required customers to queue three times: to collect an invoice for a book, to pay the invoice, then to collect the book, simply because sales staff were not allowed to handle cash. Equally mystifying to customers was a shelving arrangement that categorized books by publisher, rather than by topic or author. A quote of this period is: 'Imagine Kafka had gone into the book trade'.
In the 1980s a rival bookshop placed an advertisement in a bus shelter opposite Foyles: 'Foyled again? Christina Foyle and her husband, Ronald Batty, were determined to be free to fire workers at will and were fiercely opposed to worker representation. Workers were dismissed just before their period of employment was long enough to acquire statutory protection from unfair dismissal. In 1965 the organised a strike of the largely immigrant workforce. Modernisation In 1999 Christina Foyle died and control passed to her nephew Christopher, who modernised Foyles' shop and practices. Christopher Foyle was also, from 1978 until 2008, the chairman and CEO of aviation companies Air Foyle and, chairman and later Deputy President of the, and a of the Foyle Foundation. He is also a Fellow of the, a Liveryman of the and a for.
Foyles' heavily weathered panelling was replaced by a red plastic, grey metal and beech interior. Whereas the shop used to sell second-hand and new books side by side on the same shelves, it now primarily sells books in print, like other large chain bookshops, but with a notably larger range of titles on every subject. It also now sells second-hand and out-of-print books together with new books in its art, history and archaeology departments. Most of these changes were made between 2003 and 2005. Foyles also now sells electronic books on its website. Acquisitions The feminist was incorporated into Foyles in 2001 after rising rents on its Charing Cross Road premises forced it to close. In 2011 Foyles took over Grant & Cutler, a foreign language bookseller that had been founded in 1936.
In March 2011 Foyles closed Grant & Cutler's shop at 55–57 and merged it with the foreign language section of Foyles' then premises in the Foyles Building. In the new Foyles store at 107 Charing Cross Road, Grant & Cutler is on Level 4. Modern branches Foyles opened a branch in 2005 at the on London's South Bank.
In 2006 was awarded a concession to run the book departments in ' London Oxford Street and Manchester stores, but these closed in February 2009. In February 2008 it opened the only bookshop in, which had been refurbished to include the Eurostar London terminal.
Foyles also opened a branch in the shopping centre, which opened on 30 October 2008 in in West London. It opened a new 'Booktique' store at London's shopping centre in October 2010, but this closed in November 2011.
In March 2011 Foyles opened a store in, its first out-of-London store since before the Second World War. In October 2011 it opened a second Westfield store, designed by Lustedgreenin the complex next to the. In February 2014 Foyles opened a bookshop in. In September 2016 Foyles opened a store in the new Chelmsford shopping development. New flagship store In late 2011 Foyles announced that it was selling the lease of its flagship at 111–119 Charing Cross Road. It acquired premises at 107 Charing Cross Road, formerly occupied by the. The premises were refurbished to designs by London-based architects.
The store moved out of the Foyles Building and into the new premises in June 2014. Awards Foyles has earned the following awards:. 2002 Independent Bookseller of the Year;. 2005 Academic Bookseller of the Year;. 2006 London Independent Bookseller of the Year.
2008 Chain Bookselling Company of the Year, 2008 Bookseller of the Year. 2010 Bookseller of the Year. 2012 National Bookseller of the Year and National Children's Bookseller of the Year. 2013 National Bookseller of the Year See also.
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