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By: Ikedi Ani-okoye.

John lewis brief history

John Lewis leased a shop. At 28 he had 14 years` experience in the drapery trade, working as a buyer at Peter Robinson. He began selling ribbons and haberdashery and in 1870, expanded into linens. In addition to selling haberdashery and linens, John Lewis was also an `outfitter, upholsterer, furrier, a dealer in china, glass, cutlery, plate and ironmongery and an importer of oriental fabrics`. In 1928, at the age of 92, John Lewis died and, as Oswald had withdrawn from the business in 1926, the management of both shops devolved entirely to Spedan Lewis.

John lewis stores

New John Lewis department stores opened in Bluewater, Kent, and in Glasgow in March 1999. John Lewis made its debut in the West Midlands in September 2001 with a department store in Solihull's new town-centre shopping development, Touchwood. In addition, John Lewis Bristol relocated to a new site at Cribbs Causeway regional shopping centre near the M5 in March 1998 and Tyrrell and Green, its Southampton department store, closed on 23 September 2000 to be reborn on 28 September 2000 as John Lewis Southampton, anchoring the new WestQuay shopping centre.

John lewis size

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... ( John Lewis has twenty-six department stores with over five million square feet of space, offering the widest range of choice available from any British retailer.) ...a pioneer amongst fresh food retailers through its Waitrose chain of supermarkets.

(Waitrose was the first ever winner of the title Organic Supermarket of the Year and a six times winner of the accolade Supermarket Wine Merchant of the Year.) ...and Britain’s biggest and longest surviving example of worker co-ownership.(All sixty thousand permanent staff are Partners in the business and share in its profits – that’s why they care
about the customers – and the suppliers – and the future.)

CONCLUSION

In today’s highly competitive retail industry, the full-line department store is one of the most powerful destinations. The John Lewis shops are geared to meet all their customers’ needs for fashion and household goods, from the cradle upwards, under a single roof. The merchandise – the ‘assortment’ – is constantly reviewed and refreshed to give customers a choice of styles and prices unmatched by any other national retailer, while guaranteeing high standards of quality and competitive prices. John Lewis is proud of its reputation as the place for shoppers who want everything at their fingertips.