One of John Lewis' flagship branches in Glasgow's Buchanan Galleries mall

The John Lewis Partnership is a major United Kingdom retailer which operates John Lewis department stores, Waitrose supermarkets and the direct services company Greenbee. Unusually, it is a public limited company that is held in trust on behalf of all its employees (called partners) - who all have a say in the running of the business and receive an annual profit distribution which is usually a significant addition to their annual salary. The chain's image is upmarket, and it appeals strongly to a middle class core of shoppers. Lewiss was a department store group operating in the United Kingdom from 1856 to the 1990s. ... Image File history File links JLPlogo. ... Oxford Street, with Centre Point in the background Oxford Street in 1875, looking west from the junction with Duke Street. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... 1864 (MDCCCLXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Drawing of a self-service store. ... Clothing protects the vulnerable nude human body from the extremes of weather, other features of our environment, and for safety reasons. ... “Make-up” redirects here. ... The household is the basic unit of analysis in many microeconomic and government models. ... Look up revenue in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For the album by the Kaiser Chiefs see Employment (album) Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Look up slogan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2288x1712, 873 KB) The north end of Buchanan Street in Glasgow, Scotland, looking east from Sauchiehall Street. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2288x1712, 873 KB) The north end of Buchanan Street in Glasgow, Scotland, looking east from Sauchiehall Street. ... For other uses, see Glasgow (disambiguation). ... The Buchanan Galleries is a shopping mall located in the central area of Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland. ... The interior of a typical Macys department store. ... Waitrose is a British supermarket chain owned by the John Lewis Partnership, with 184 branches (November 2006). ... Exterior of a typical British supermarket (a Tesco Extra) Exterior of typical North American supermarket (a Safeway) This Flagship Randalls store in Houston, Texas is an example of an upscale supermarket. ... Greenbee is a company owned by the John Lewis Partnership. ... The initials PLC after a UK or Irish company name indicate that it is a public limited company, a type of limited company whose shares may be offered for sale to the public. ...

The partnership is an investor in the Ocado web supermarket, which it supplies with Waitrose own-brand foods, and John Lewis own-brand non-food items. Ocado Logo Ocado is an internet based grocery retailer in the United Kingdom. ... ...

History

The business was founded in 1864 when John Lewis set up a draper's shop in Oxford Street, London, which developed into a department store. In 1905 he bought the Peter Jones store in Sloane Square. In 1920 his son, John Spedan Lewis, expanded earlier power-sharing policies by sharing the profits the business made among the employees. The democratic nature and profit-sharing basis of the business were developed into a formal partnership structure and Spedan Lewis bequeathed the company to his employees. In January 2006, there were 64,000 partners – most of them full-time – working for the John Lewis Partnership. John Lewis (1836-1928) was born in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England. ... Drapery refers to cloth or textiles (Latin drappus = cloth and Old French drap) or the trade of selling cloth. ... Oxford Street, with Centre Point in the background Oxford Street in 1875, looking west from the junction with Duke Street. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Peter Jones is one of the largest and best known department stores in London. ... Sloane Square is a small hard landscaped square on the boundaries of the fashionable London districts of Belgravia and Chelsea. ... John Spedan Lewis (22 September 1885 - 21 February 1963). ... A partnership is a type of business entity in which partners share with each other the profits or losses of the business undertaking in which all have invested. ...

The principle and slogan Never knowingly undersold was adopted in 1925. It was created by Spedan Lewis and applied to the company's Peter Jones store. It stated that if a customer could buy the same item cheaper elsewhere they would refund the difference. Today, the company still honours this pledge, and many of their competitors also offer such a pledge. The principle has been more refined, most notably to exclude online shopping. However, they were the only large retailer that would match the price with any UK shop, not restricting it to a local area, until DSGi plc adopted the same policy in July 2007. The policy is also to monitor local competitors and reduce the shelf edge price if they are being 'undersold'. Staff (partners) also get paid £2 for every time they notify the company that they are being 'undersold'. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

The present shop on Oxford Street was completed in 1960, the original buildings having been bombed during the war and gradually rebuilt. The sculpture Winged Figure by Barbara Hepworth was added in 1962. Hepworths Family of Man in bronze, 1970, at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. ...

On 27th April 1933 John Lewis Partnership bought Jessop & Son of Nottingham. This store was the first John Lewis outside London. The store kept the name 'Jessops' until 2002, when after a refurbishment and expansion the store was renamed as simply John Lewis. The partnership has also purchased a number of other regional department stores, as well as developing stores in new locations. As of 2005 it has plans to open a new department store every year for the next 10 years, which is probably the most ambitious expansion programme in its history. (Redirected from 27th April) April 27 is the 117th day of the year (118th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 248 days remaining. ... Year 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... John Lewis on Oxford Street, London is the flagship department store of the John Lewis Partnership. ... For other uses, see Nottingham (disambiguation). ...

In line with other British department store chains, it is nearing the completion of a process of renaming any stores not branded John Lewis (Tyrrell & Green, Heelas, etc.) with the nationally recognisable name. Peter Jones in London will remain the only exception to this policy when the premises of Robert Sayle and Knight & Lee are replaced with new department stores in Cambridge and Portsmouth respectively. John Lewis on Oxford Street, London is the flagship department store of the John Lewis Partnership. ... The front of the store on Broad Street. ... Robert Sayle is a department store in Cambridge, England belonging to the John Lewis Partnership. ... Knight & Lee is a department store in Southsea, Hampshire, England. ... Geography Status City (1951) Region East of England Admin. ... For other places with the same name, see Portsmouth (disambiguation). ...

Organisation of the partnership

Every employee is a partner in the John Lewis Partnership, and has a possibility to influence the business through branch councils, which discuss local issues at every store. and the central Partnership Council, to which the partners elect at least 80% of the 82 representatives, while the chairman appoints the remaining. Waitrose has its own divisional council made up by representatives from each store. The council has the power to discuss ‘any matter whatsoever’, and is responsible for the non-commercial aspects of the business – the development of the social activities within the partnership and its charitable actions.

The Partnership Council also elects five of the directors on the partnership board (which is responsible for the commercial activities), while the chairman appoints another five. The two remaining board members are the chairman and the deputy chairman. In addition, there are two divisional councils for the two trading divisions (the department stores and Waitrose), where partners can exercise their influence, as well as a series of communications committees, appointed by non-management partners, which shall ensure that every non-management partner has an open channel for expressing his/her views to management and the chairman.

The John Lewis Partnership has a very extensive programme of social activities for its partners, including two large country estates with parklands, playing fields and tennis courts; a golf club; a sailing club with five cruising yachts; and two country hotels offering holiday accommodation for the partners. Partners are also enrolled in a very favourable pension scheme, receive a death in service insurance, and are given very generous holidays.

Finally, every partner receives an annual bonus, which is a share of the profit. It is calculated as a percentage of the salary, with the same percentage for everyone, from top management down to the shop floor and the storage rooms. Depending on the profitability of the partnership each year, the bonus has been between 9% and 18% of the partners' annual salaries since 2000. According to the preliminary result for the 2005-2006 financial year, which ended 28 January 2006, the partners will receive a bonus for that year which equals almost two months' salary. The remaining profit, after bonus payments and taxation, is always put back into in the business.

In 1999, in response to a fall in profits, there were calls from some Partners for the business to be demutualised and floated on the stock market. If this had gone through, each Partner would have been guaranteed a windfall of up to £100,000 each,in order to compensate them for their share of the business. In the end, no one on the Partnership Council agreed with the idea and only one member spoke in favour of a referendum on the issue. [2]

Financial performance

The John Lewis Partnership's financial year runs from February to January the next year. The percentage figure in the bonus column shows the bonus' value in relation to a partner's salary. 8.33% would mean one additional month's salary and 16.66% would mean two months' salary, showing that the staff has received more than one month's additional salary as bonus each year since 2000.

In the 1983/4 year they broke the £100,000,000 barrier for the first time.

On Monday, 22nd January 2007, John Lewis Edinburgh became one of the few shops in the UK to take over £100 million in one year. While not the first John Lewis store to reach this milestone, it is a huge achievement for the branch.

Financial section of John Lewis' website: [3].

Department stores

The John Lewis department store logo

As of January 2007 the John Lewis division operates 26 full-line department stores and a webstore. The stores are in a mixture of city centre and regional shopping centre locations. They are generally the largest or second largest department store in their local market. The flagship Oxford Street store in London remains the largest John Lewis outlet in the UK. [4]. As well as the John Lewis department stores the partnership operates five Waitrose Food & Home stores combining the group's Waitrose supermarkets with some the John Lewis chain's non-food ranges. Image File history File links JLlogo. ... Image File history File links JLlogo. ... Online shopping is the process consumers go through to purchase products or services over the internet. ...

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• Brent Cross, John Lewis Brent Cross
• Canary Wharf, Waitrose Food & Home Canary Wharf
• Kingston upon Thames, John Lewis Kingston
• Oxford Street, John Lewis
• Sloane Square, Peter Jones
• Stratford (240,000 sq ft; opening in 2011)

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• Crawley (opening in 2013)
• Greenhithe, Bluewater, John Lewis Bluewater
• High Wycombe, John Lewis Home & Leisure High Wycombe
• Milton Keynes, John Lewis Milton Keynes
• Portsmouth (230,000 sq ft; opening in 2011)
• Reading, John Lewis Reading (formerly Heelas)
• Southampton, John Lewis Southampton (formerly Tyrrell & Green)
• Southend on Sea, Waitrose Food & Home Southend on Sea
• Southsea, Knight & Lee (closing in 2011 to coincide with the opening of John Lewis Portsmouth)
• Watford, John Lewis Watford (formerly Trewins / Trewin Brothers)
• Welwyn Garden City, John Lewis Welwyn (formerly Welwyn Stores)

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• Bristol, John Lewis Cribbs Causeway
• Cheltenham, Waitrose Food & Home Cheltenham
• Salisbury, Waitrose Food & Home Salisbury

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• Cambridge, Robert Sayle (relocating to a new building in autumn 2007)
• Leicester (237,000 sq ft; opening in autumn 2008)
• Norwich, John Lewis Norwich (formerly Bonds)
• Nottingham, John Lewis Nottingham (formerly Jessops)
• Oxford (230,000 sq ft; opening in 2011)
• Peterborough, John Lewis Peterborough
• Rushden, Waitrose Food & Home Rushden
• Solihull, John Lewis Solihull (265,000 sq ft)

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• Leeds (opening in 2012)
• Sheffield, John Lewis Sheffield (formerly Cole Brothers; relocating to a new development in 2011)

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• Newcastle upon Tyne, John Lewis Newcastle (formerly Bainbridge)

North West England This article is about a city in the United Kingdom. ... John Lewis Newcastle is a major department store in the English city of Newcastle upon Tyne. ... John Lewis Newcastle is a major department store in the English city of Newcastle upon Tyne. ... North West England is one of the nine regions of England. ...

• Cheadle, John Lewis Cheadle
• Liverpool, John Lewis Liverpool (formerly George Henry Lee; relocating to a new development in 2008)
• Manchester, Trafford Centre, John Lewis Trafford (200,000 sq ft)
• Preston, John Lewis Preston (230,000 sq ft; opening in 2013)^[2]

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• Aberdeen, John Lewis Aberdeen
• Edinburgh, John Lewis Edinburgh
• Glasgow, John Lewis Glasgow

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• Cardiff (260,000 sq ft; opening in 2009)

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• Sprucefield (subject to planning which has been delayed due to opposition to the scheme and the scheme is currently in process of being scaled down although a John Lewis is planned to be part of the scheme) [5]

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Former locations

• Bristol, John Lewis Bristol (acquired 1981; closed 1998 to coincide with the opening of John Lewis Cribbs Causeway)
• Brixton, Bon Marche (acquired 1940; closed 1975)
• Brixton, Quin & Axten (acquired 1940; closed 1948)
• Edinburgh, The Silk Shop (fabrics and haberdashery; acquired 1943; closed 1973 to coincide with the opening of John Lewis Edinburgh)
• Finchley Road, London, John Barnes (acquired 1940; closed 1981; part of building converted into a Waitrose supermarket, known as Waitrose John Barnes)
• Gloucester, Blinkhorn & Son (acquired 1940; sold 1953)
• Harrogate, Buckleys (acquired 1940; sold 1953)
• Holloway, Jones Brothers (acquired 1940; closed 1990; part of site now occupied by a Waitrose supermarket, known as Waitrose Holloway Road)
• Hull, The Silk Shop Hull (acquired 1943; closed 1956)
• Newcastle upon Tyne, The Silk Shop Newcastle upon Tyne (acquired 1943; closed 1976 to coincide with the relocation of Bainbridge)
• Peckham, Holdrons (acquired 1940; sold 1948)
• Peterborough, Robert Sayle Peterborough / Thomsons (acquired 1940; closed 1956)
• Reading, A H Bull (acquired 1940; sold 1953 to coincide with the acquisition of Heelas)
• Streatham, Pratts (acquired 1940; closed 1990)
• Weston-super-Mare, Lance & Lance (acquired 1933; closed 1948)
• Windsor, Caleys (acquired 1940; closed 2006)

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Abandoned plans for new stores

In 1996 there were plans to construct a John Lewis department store with adjoining Waitrose supermarket on part of the Bodington Hall campus site of the University of Leeds in Lawnswood, Leeds. It was abandoned due to widespread opposition due to the possibility of increased traffic congestion and the risk to existing shopping locations.[6] Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... Waitrose is a British supermarket chain owned by the John Lewis Partnership, with 184 branches (November 2006). ... Bodington Hall is the largest halls of accommodation that are owned by the University of Leeds. ... The University of Leeds is a major teaching and research university, one of the largest in the United Kingdom with over 32,000 full-time students. ... Lawnswood is a suburb in the North West of the city of Leeds in West Yorkshire. ... For other uses, see Leeds (disambiguation). ...

Expansion

John Lewis has a major project of expansion underway with a number of new department stores planned to open between 2007 and 2013.

In June 2004, John Lewis announced plans to open its first store in Northern Ireland at the Sprucefield Park development, the province's largest out of town shopping centre, located outside Lisburn and ten miles from Belfast. The application was approved in June 2005 and the opening of the new store scheduled for 2008. This decision was disputed, however, and taken to the High Court where it was reversed. John Lewis is still hopeful of opening a new store at Sprucefield at the earliest opportunity. Northern Ireland (Irish: ) is a part of the United Kingdom lying in the northeast of the island of Ireland, covering 5,459 square miles (14,139 km², about a sixth of the islands total area). ... Shopping Centre located on the outskirts of Lisburn (Northern Ireland). ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: , Statistics Province: Ulster County: District: Lisburn UK Parliament: Lagan Valley European Parliament: Northern Ireland Dialling Code: (+44) 02892 Post Town: Lisburn Postal District(s): BT27, BT28 Population (2001) 71,465 Website: www. ... This article is about the city in Northern Ireland. ...

Leicester (237,000 sq ft) will open in 2008 in the Shires West development. [7] Leicester city centre, looking towards the Clock Tower Leicester (pronounced ) is the largest city and unitary authority in the English East Midlands. ... The Shires is a shopping centre in Leicester, England. ...

Cardiff (260,000 sq ft) will open in 2009 as part of the St David's Centre — Phase 2 development. It will be one of the largest John Lewis department stores in the UK and the Partnership's first department store in Wales. [8] This article is about the capital city of Wales. ...

Oxford will open in 2011 as part of the redevelopment of the Westgate Centre. Oxford is a city and local government district in Oxfordshire, England, with a population of 134,248 (2001 census). ...

Stratford will open in 2011 together with a new Waitrose supermarket. The new shops will anchor the Stratford City retail project being developed by Westfield alongside the Olympic Park in East London. , Stratford, historically Stratford Langthorne, is a place in the London Borough of Newham in East London. ... Stratford City is a project to create a major new urban centre for East London on the site of a former railway good yard at Stratford. ... The London Olympic Park, is a new sporting complex to be built in Stratford for the 2012 Summer Olympics. ... East London area East London is the name commonly given to the north eastern part of London, England on the north side of the River Thames. ...

Leeds will open in 2012 as an anchor store of the planned Harewood & Eastgate Quarter development. For other uses, see Leeds (disambiguation). ...

The opening of new department stores, at the Tithebarn development in Preston and the redeveloped town centre in Crawley, is planned for 2013. This article is about Preston, Lancashire. ... Crawley is a town and local government district in West Sussex, England. ...

John Lewis has declared an interest in establishing a department store in Croydon. Confirmation that a store will open in the town is yet to be announced. For other uses, see Croydon (disambiguation). ...

John Lewis will also relocate the Cambridge (2007) [9], Liverpool (2008) [10], Portsmouth (2011) [11] and Sheffield (2011) [12] stores to new, larger premises. Geography Status City (1951) Region East of England Admin. ... For other uses, see Liverpool (disambiguation). ... For other places with the same name, see Portsmouth (disambiguation). ... Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England. ...

John Lewis in Oxford Street is currently undergoing a major refit called Project Beacon which will cost £60million and will finish in Autumn 2007.[http://www.johnlewis.com/Shops/DSTemplate.aspx?Id=33

[13]

Disposals

Until September 2007, the John Lewis Partnership also owned textiles production businesses Carlisle-based printer Stead McAlpin and Haslingden, Lancashire-based weaver JH Birtwistle.^[3] In spite of considerable capital investment and significant improvements in efficiency, neither had been profitable for almost 10 years. The newly-formed Apex Textiles was buying both firms, which ‘would continue to trade from their current sites’, John Lewis’s announcement said. “We have supported the textile industry in the North West for many years and we recognise that the partners (employees) who work at the two businesses are skilled people whose expertise should remain in the region...The new owners will provide a high degree of textile manufacturing expertise and the opportunity to develop new markets,” the store chain’s press release quoted Martin Phillips, managing director of both affected firms as saying. , Carlisle is a city in the far north-west of England, and is the largest urban area in Cumbria. ... Haslingden is a small town in the Rossendale Valley in Lancashire, lying 19 miles north of Manchester. ... Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea. ...

John Lewis intended to keep both businesses under their new ownership as key suppliers, the press release said, adding that it would agree with ‘partners’ at the factories being sold ex gratia payments they would receive. Ex gratia (sometimes ex-gratia) is Latin (lit. ...

The store chain was holding onto a third textiles business, Darwen, Lancashire-based jacquard weaver and furnishing textiles specialist Herbert Parkinson. Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea. ...

The 132-year-old Stead McAlpin’s 200 workers ‘were stunned’ to find the factory was to be sold, the Cumberland News reported on 6 September.^[4] Manchester-registered Apex had been formed specifically to buy the former John Lewis textiles businesses, the paper added, quoting its managing director Jim Kidd as saying: “We...look forward to combining our extensive knowledge, understanding and experience of this sector to the established platform that has been built up by the John Lewis Partnership." Cumberland is one of the 39 traditional counties of England. ... This article is about the City of Manchester in England. ...

Supermarkets

The Waitrose logo

Main article: Waitrose

The John Lewis Partnership also owns Waitrose, an upmarket supermarket chain which has 185 branches (August 2006) and 35,573 (summer 2006) partners. Waitrose trades mainly in London and the South of England, and was originally formed by Wallace Waite, Arthur Rose and David Taylor. The company was taken over by The John Lewis Partnership in 1937. The acquisition of 19 Safeway branches in 2004 greatly increased the size of the company and saw branches open in the North of England for the first time. A further six stores were purchased from Morrisons in Autumn 2005 and again helped the march into previously unexplored territories. Then, in March 2006, Waitrose announced the purchase of five stores from Somerfield, with the first two stores in Scotland, both of which are in the capital, Edinburgh. In July 2006, Waitrose announced the purchase of six more stores and a distribution centre from Morrisons. In 2007 the first purpose built Waitrose Supermarket in the North of England opened at Cheadle Hulme, Greater Manchester. Image File history File links Waitroselogo. ... Image File history File links Waitroselogo. ... Waitrose is a British supermarket chain owned by the John Lewis Partnership, with 184 branches (November 2006). ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article is about the country. ... For other uses, see Edinburgh (disambiguation). ... Cheadle Hulme is a suburban area located in the south of Greater Manchester in the North-West of England. ... Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England which has a population of 2. ...

Credit Cards and Account (Store) Cards

Unusually, John Lewis department stores did not accept Visa and MasterCard credit cards until 1999, previously only accepting the John Lewis Account Card (a form of charge card) and the Switch (now Maestro) and Delta (now Visa Debit) debit cards. A charge card is similar to a credit card, except that the charges made to it must be paid-off each month, rather than having revolving credit which carries a balance forward. ... Maestro is an international debit card service; a joint venture by MasterCard and Europay International. ... This article is about the former Delta debit card now issued under the VISA brand in the United Kingdom. ...

On 28 March 2004, the John Lewis Partnership announced the launch of their own credit card [14] — the Partnership card. This was launched with HFC which is a division of the banking giant HSBC. It was launched as a MasterCard with a choice of four designs (effectively four different colours). HSBC Finance Corporation HSBC acquired Household International on March 28, 2003. ... For other uses, see HSBC (disambiguation). ... MasterCard Worldwide (NYSE: MA) is a membership organization owned by the 25,000+ financial institutions that issue its card. ...

The credit card follows on from, and supersedes, the John Lewis (and Waitrose) account cards which have been around for 40 years. These cards are no longer available, and holders of these are being encouraged to replace them with the Partnership card. They can, however, still be used, and some cards from the mid-1970s are still in use.

The Partnership card is designed as a cashback credit card, with 6 months interest free credit and a 16.9% APR. It offers a 1% rebate for purchases at stores that are members of the John Lewis Partnership — e.g. John Lewis, Waitrose. For purchases at other stores it offers a rate of 0.5%. Points are awarded for spending inside the John Lewis Partnership stores (1 point for every £1 spent) and outside of the brand (1 point per £2 spent). Points are saved converted into gift vouchers. These vouchers are sent out to card holders three times a year, these must be spent in a store of the John Lewis Partnership (or on one of their websites). When accepting payment by credit card, merchants typically pay a percentage of the transaction amount in commission to their bank or merchant services provider. ... Annual Percentage Rate (APR) is an expression of the effective interest rate that the borrower will pay on a loan, taking into account one-time fees and standardizing the way the rate is expressed. ... John Lewis on Oxford Street, London is the flagship department store of the John Lewis Partnership. ... Waitrose is a British supermarket chain owned by the John Lewis Partnership, with 184 branches (November 2006). ...

Direct services

On 3rd October 2006, the Partnership launched a new direct services company named Greenbee, providing home and travel insurance (with AXA), theatre tickets and travel services (in association with Expedia). 3rd October Organization is also the name of a Marxist terrorist group . ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Greenbee is a company owned by the John Lewis Partnership. ... Home insurance, also commonly called hazard insurance or homeowners insurance (often abbreviated in the real estate industry as HOI), is the type of property insurance that covers private homes. ... Travel insurance is insurance that is intended to cover financial and other losses incurred while travelling, either within ones own country, or internationally. ... Not to be confused with Sun Life Financial. ... Serge Sudeikins poster for the Bat Theatre (1922). ...

References

External links

• John Lewis Partnership
• John Lewis Consumer website
• Waitrose Consumer website
• The Partnership Card
• Ocado Website
• Memory Store
• Greenbee