Corporate Patron
The John Lewis Partnership operates 27 department stores across the UK, johnlewis.com - a website and catalogue business, 193 Waitrose supermarkets and Greenbee.com, a direct services company. The business has an annual turnover of over £6.8 billion. It is the UK's largest and longest running example of employee ownership. All 69,000 permanent staff, known as Partners, own the business and share in its profits and benefits. The Partnership aims to ensure that everyone who works for it enjoys the experience of ownership, by sharing in the profits, by having access to information and by sharing in decision making.