The John Lewis name first appeared in London in 1864 in Oxford Street soon to emerge as the capital’s most important retail district. From the start, the approach of the little johnlewis draper’s shop was quite distinctive.
By 1905 the small shop had grown into a large department store and Mr Lewis was poised to double the size of his business through the acquisition of an ailing rival, Peter Jones in Chelsea. In 1914 he had the opportunity to start putting his principles into practice when his father agreed to give him control of the Peter Jones business. The young Spedan promised his staff that when the shop became profitable they would share in those profits, the first step in his long-term plan to turn his employees into Partners. He fulfilled the promise just five years later when every member of staff received the equivalent of five planned system of checks and balances. He laid down the principles on which the pay for each member of the Partnership should be calculated – from the Chairman down to the newest junior entrant. In parallel to the executive management, he appointed to positions of authority an independent team, whose function would be to act as a corporate conscience and safeguard the interests of all the Partners – to ensure that the voice of every one could be heard by the management.
JOHN LEWIS PRESENT DAY
The John Lewis Partnership is the UK’s largest department store group with a network of shops stretching from Aberdeen in the north-east of Scotland to Bristol in the south-west of England. The Waitrose group also comes under the John Lewis group of companies.
John Lewis has twenty-five department stores with over five million square feet of space, offering a choice of half a million different lines. Forty thousand permanent staff members work for the John Lewis group.
John Lewis has stores in the following UK cities:
Scotland: Aberdeen Edinburgh Glasgow
North of England: Cheadle Liverpool Newcastle Sheffield
Central England: Cambridge Milton Keynes Norwich Nottingham Peterborough Solihull
London: Brent Cross Kingston Oxford Street Peter Jones
South of England: Bluewater Bristol High Wycombe Reading Southampton Southsea
Watford Welwyn Windsor
With sales approaching four billion pounds a year and with an expanding network
of department stores and
food shops, the John Lewis Partnership has been a major force in the UK over
a long period.
You can shop online at the JohnLewis web site. The following department stores are available at JohnLewis on the internet web site online:
To encourage you to shop online John Lewis offer discount vouchers typically £10 off when you spend £20 or more or free delivery online - so shopping online has financial rewards as well as saving you the hassle of getting in to town! Click and find out if your lucky (only when you order online).
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