John Lewis
The John Lewis Partnership is a visionary and successful way of doing business, boldly putting the happiness of Partners at the centre of everything it does. It's the embodiment of an ideal, the outcome of nearly a century of endeavour to create a different sort of company, owned by Partners dedicated to serving customers with flair and fairness.
All 69,000 permanent staff are Partners who own 27 John Lewis department stores, 198 Waitrose supermarkets, an online and catalogue business, johnlewis.com, a direct services company, Greenbee, a production unit and a farm with a turnover of nearly £6.8 billion last year. Partners share in the benefits and profits of a business that puts them first.
When our founder, John Spedan Lewis, set up the Partnership, he was careful to create a governance system, set out in our Constitution, that would be both commercial allowing us to move quickly to stay ahead in a competitive industry, and democratic giving every Partner a voice in the business they co-own. His combination of commercial acumen and corporate conscience, so ahead of its time, is what makes us what we are today.
What does working in a Partnership mean?
Being a Partnership is about much more than sharing the profits: it defines our approach to what we do. With ownership comes responsibility, and the knowledge that our success depends entirely on providing the best quality products and services to our customers so that they come back to us again and again. Through a range of Partner committees and democratic debating forums, all of us have a real say in how the business is run, and this sense of collective responsibility extends to everyone we deal with, from customers and suppliers to the communities we're part of.
What do we look for in our Partners?
Our teams are as diverse as the products we sell, and we recruit people from many backgrounds. What unites all of us is our behaviour, which is based on our powerful and distinctive Partnership culture 'Powered by our Principles'. If you want to work in a company where you can be honest, give respect, recognise others, show enterprise, work together and achieve more, as well as being a co-owner, then a career with the John Lewis Partnership could well be for you.
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