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John Spedan Lewis (22 September 1885 – 21 February 1963) was an English businessman and the founder of the John Lewis Partnership. Elder son of John Lewis, who owned the John Lewis department store, London, Spedan joined the business at 19 and in 1914 assumed control of Peter Jones in Sloane Square, London. On his father's death he ...
Over 100 years ago our Founder, John Spedan Lewis, began an experiment into a better way of doing business by including staff in decision making on how the business would be run. He set out the principles for how the Company should operate and produced a written Constitution to help Partners understand their rights and responsibilities as co ...
19. Aug. 2021 · The flair and hard work of Spedan Lewis turned John Lewis into middle England’s favourite department store chain. He was crazy about sport, opera and animals. The howling of the gibbons in...
In 1924, there was a reconciliation between John Lewis and Spedan Lewis. Trade at Oxford Street had fared better, and John Lewis made a cash injection into the Sloane Square business. In 1925, Spedan Lewis devised the slogan 'never knowingly undersold' at Peter Jones.
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.
10. Sept. 2018 · John Spedan Lewis (1885-1963) Constance Lynn, John Spedan Lewis’s secretary and housekeeper from 1928 to 1961, remembers the Partnership’s founder. “We used to work in London during the week and go to Leckford, Mr Lewis’s country house, at the weekends, still working. It was a seven-day-a-week job. We were sometimes expected ...
22. März 2023 · The chair of John Lewis and Waitrose has vowed to protect its partnership status for decades to come despite prospective plans to sell a minority stake in the business.
