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  2. John Lewis Partnership is incorporated as a limited company and first Trust Settlement created. 1929. Medical service created 19 years before the NHS providing free healthcare for all Partners. 1937. The Partnership buys Waitrose and a chain of ten shops from Wallace Waite. 1940.

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  3. Peter Jones was founded as an independent store but was bought by John Lewis, owner of the eponymous store in Oxford Street, in 1905. In 1929 Lewis's son, John Spedan Lewis, who then owned both businesses, combined them into a single business. [14]

  4. 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 over 74,000 Partners.

  5. John Lewis & Partners, commonly known as John Lewis, is a British chain of high-end department stores operating across the United Kingdom, with concessions in Ireland. It is part of the John Lewis Partnership plc , a holding company held in a trust on behalf of its employees as the beneficiaries of the trust. [ 3 ]

  6. The John Lewis Partnership is the UK’s largest employee owned business. We started as an experiment in industrial democracy by our Founder, John Spedan Lewis, who believed there was a better way of doing business.

  7. Britain was recovering from World War One, which ended in 1918, and the post-war economic depression greatly affected trade for all businesses. The eponymous founder of John Lewis died in 1928 aged 92 and his son, John Spedan Lewis established the John Lewis Partnership the following year.

  8. Mar 19, 2023 · John Lewis is considering a potential change to its employee-owned business structure, upending more than 70 years of tradition. The group, which also owns Waitrose, is currently fully...