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Waterstones will open new bookstores in London and Glasgow in August and September, the Bookseller reported.
The 3,000-square-foot London bookstore will open officially on August 15 in the Brent Cross shopping center in North West London. The Glasgow store will open in September in the Silverburn shopping center in the city's Pollok neighborhood.
Changes are also coming to other Waterstones stores in August and September. On August 8 Waterstones will reopen its Hatchards store in London's St. Pancras Station, which originally opened in 2014 and is moving to a larger space in the same station. The store will increase in size by about a third and another six booksellers will join the staff.
And in September, the company will reopen its store at the Bentall Centre in Kingston Upon Thames after "an extensive refurbishment and the addition of a new cafe bar."
"We are very pleased to bring bookshops to Brent Cross and Silverburn, two of the busiest shopping centres in England and Scotland," said Waterstones chief operating officer Kate Skipper. "We have been inundated over the years with requests to open in these locations and are thrilled finally to be able to do so."
The new store openings will bring the total number of Waterstones stores--including Foyles, Hatchards and Hodges Figgis outlets as well as its international stores--up to 291. Waterstones is owned by Elliott Advisors, the U.K. branch of Elliott Management, which is in the process of buying Barnes & Noble.