Title: WHSmith
Content:  WH Smith (also known as WHS or colloquially as Smith's, and formerly W. H. Smith & Son) is a British retailer, headquartered in Swindon, England, which operates a chain of high street, railway station, airport, port, hospital and motorway service station shops selling books, stationery, magazines, newspapers, entertainment products and confectionery. The company was formed by Henry Walton Smith and his wife Anna in 1792 as a news vendor in London. It remained under the ownership of the Smith family for many years and saw large-scale expansion during the 1970s as the company began to diversify into other markets. Following a rejected private equity takeover in 2004, the company began to focus on its core retail business. It was the first retail chain in the world, and was responsible for the creation of the ISBN book identifier. WH Smith is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. It celebrated its 225th anniversary in 2017.
Title: WHSmith
Content:  publishing business based at the Steam Press, Cirencester. The younger W. H. Smith used the success of the firm as a springboard into politics, becoming a Member of Parliament (MP) in 1868 and serving as a minister in several Conservative governments. After the death of W. H. Smith the younger in 1891, his widow was created Viscountess Hambleden in her own right; their son inherited the business from his father and the viscountcy from his mother. After the death of the second Viscount in 1928, the business was reconstituted as a limited company, in which his son, the third Viscount, owned all the 
Title: WHSmith
Content:  Since 2007, the company has taken on a number of Post Office branches, mainly within its high street shops. By April 2016, this had reached 107, including former Crown Post Offices, with plans for an additional 61. WH Smith also operate a number of shops within hospitals, following its acquisition of Yorkshire-based newsagent chain United News in March 2008. In addition to its existing joint ventures and franchise shops, the company trialed the smaller format, convenience-based WH Smith Local concept during 2013. Targeted at independent newsagents and post office business owners, a total of 40 such stores were trading and a further 40 planned by the time the 2015 annual report had been published. Since 2011, the company has also opened shops using its Funky Pigeon brand and subsidiary Funky Pigeon.com Ltd which offers stationery and personalised greetings cards both online and via stores.
Title: WHSmith
Content:  shares. On the death of the third Viscount in 1948, the death duties were so large that a public holding company had to be formed and shares sold to WH Smith staff and the public. A younger brother of the third Viscount remained chairman until 1972, but the Smith family's control slipped away, and the last family member left the board in 1996. In 1966, WH Smith originated a nine-digit code for uniquely referencing books, called Standard Book Numbering or SBN. It was adopted as international standard ISO 2108 in 1970, and was used until 1974, when it became the ISBN scheme.
Title: WHSmith
Content:  has opened shops in major Indian airports. WH Smith is currently in the process of planning 30 kiosk shops in China. Currently, WH Smith sponsor the IPL cricket team (Sunrisers Hyderabad) (SRH) in India. In October 2008, WH Smith, together with SSP, opened five branches within Copenhagen Airport, and in April 2009 opened a branch in Stockholm-Arlanda Airport. In 2009, WH Smith opened two shops in Shannon Airport, County Clare, Ireland. A further three shops are operated in Dublin Airport's Terminal Two, which opened in November 2010 and 5 shops in Dublin Airport's Terminal One, which opened in 2013. The chain promised when winning this 
Title: Swire Smith
Content:  Smith also developed a career in the wool trade. He became a mill owner and rose to be a senior partner of a worsted spinning concern in Keighley. He was sometime Warden of the Worshipful Company of Clothworkers. Less successfully however he was also a director of the Land Mortgage Bank of Florida but the bank failed and was liquidated.
Title: WHSmith
Content:  share of Virgin Our Price was sold to Virgin Retail Group Ltd in July 1998 for £145m. WH Smith also owned the American record chain The Wall, which was sold to Camelot Music in 1998. In March 1998, the company acquired John Menzies' retail outlets for £68m, which for many years were the main rival to the company's railway-station outlets. This purchase also cleared the way for WH Smith's retail expansion into Scotland. Prior to the takeover, Menzies' larger Scottish shops (carrying a very similar range of products to High Street WH Smith shops elsewhere) dominated the market, and the latter's presence was minimal.
Title: WHSmith
Content:  In 1792, Henry Walton Smith and his wife Anna established the business as a news vendor in Little Grosvenor Street, London. After their deaths, the business—valued in 1812 at £1,280 —was taken over by their youngest son William Henry Smith, and in 1846 the firm became W. H. Smith & Son when his only son, also William Henry, became a partner. The firm took advantage of the railway boom by opening news-stands on railway stations, beginning with Euston in 1848. In 1850, the firm opened depots in Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool. It also ran a circulating library service, from 1860 to 1961, and 
Title: Michael Joseph Smith
Content:  three tours to China. He has finished commissions by Musik i Skåne for orchestra and alto saxophone, performed and premiered new compositions at the 100th Olympic Games in Atlanta. Smith was President and CEO of his own corporations World Music (U.S.A.), Inc. & SEATCO, Inc. Smith co-founded WR Entertainment in September 2009 with a group of Norwegian and American businessmen, including James F. Cardwell, Ryan Wiik, Alan E. Bell, Duane M. Eberlein, Øyvind Holm-Johnsen and Steinar Larsen. On January 13, 2016, WR Entertainment became a publicly traded company on the Oslo Stock Exchange Merkur Market under the name WR Entertainment ASA. In 2021, Smith was inducted in the Royal Swedish Academy of Music's Swedish Musical Heritage project as a "living musical heritage" of Sweden.
Title: Winthrop H. Smith
Content:  Winthrop Hiram "Win" Smith (June 30, 1893 – January 10, 1961) was an American businessman and investment banker. He was notable as a name partner of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith.

Question: what does wh smith stand for?
Answer: William Henry Smith.