Who We Are

The John Lewis Partnership is the UK’s largest employee owned business and parent company of our two cherished retail brands - John Lewis and Waitrose, which are owned in Trust by around 70,000 Partners.

 

We have 36 John Lewis shops plus one outlet and more than 300 Waitrose shops across the UK, along with johnlewis.com and waitrose.com. We also have two international sourcing offices, a soft furnishings factory, various distribution centres, a content production hub, heritage centre and our own Waitrose & Partners farm

Find out more about us by watching our film, "A Better Way of Doing Business".  

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Over 100 years ago our Founder began an experiment into a better way of doing business

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We’re so proud of the Partnership’s history that in 2013 we opened our own archive