Why UK charities rarely benefit from the rise in corporate volunteering July 30, 2013 BUSINESSES are under the cosh. They feel under pressure to show that they care about more than just maximising profits whatever it takes, and are keen to demonstrate their wider role to customers, to the public, and to their own staff. One way of doing this is by getting their employees to volunteer to help [...]
Our retail industry has a bright future – but it must adapt to survive August 6, 2013 A ROW of boarded up shops is not how we want our high street to look. But since the beginning of the recession, a high number of retail casualties have been claimed – great stalwarts of the high street like Woolworths and HMV among them. Despite flickering hopes of economic recovery, it is unlikely that [...]
Jubilee holiday and Olympics help John Lewis September 13, 2012 JOHN Lewis Partnership yesterday revealed that it enjoyed a strong start to the year as first-half profits jumped by 59.8 per cent to £144.5m but said consumer demand remained “fragile”. Gross sales for the six months to July were up 8.7 per cent at £3.9bn, which the firm attributed to capitalising on major events such [...]
John Lewis posts leap in first-half profit September 13, 2012 Profits at British retailer John Lewis jumped 60 per cent in the first half of the year, after strong sales growth at both the department stores and Waitrose brand. John Lewis made a pre-tax profit of £144.5m in the six months to 28 July, boosted by the Jubilee and Olympic Games. Group revenue climbed 8.6 [...]
John Lewis posts leap in first-half profit September 13, 2012 Profits at British retailer John Lewis jumped 60 per cent in the first half of the year, after strong sales growth at both the department stores and Waitrose brand. John Lewis made a pre-tax profit of £144.5m in the six months to 28 July, boosted by the Jubilee and Olympic Games. Group revenue climbed 8.6 [...]
John Lewis appoints Pramerica July 30, 2012 Pramerica Real Estate Investors, the European arm of Prudential Financial, said yesterday it has been hired by John Lewis Partnership Pensions Trust to boost its portfolio of UK property investments to £270m.
John Lewis sales up as shoppers catch sports fever August 24, 2012 John Lewis, Britain’s biggest department store group, posted strong sales growth last week, helped by increased demand for sports equipment following Britain’s gold medal haul at the London Olympics. The employee-owned firm said today department store sales jumped 14.5 per cent year on year to £61.1m in the week to 18 August, the third week [...]
John Lewis sales lifted by Olympic gold rush August 17, 2012 John Lewis, Britain’s biggest department store group, posted strong sales growth last week, helped by a feel good factor that swept the nation during the second week of the London Olympic Games. The employee-owned firm said today that department store sales jumped 14.9 per cent year on year to £60.75m in the week to 11 [...]
John Lewis first retailer to sell Barnes & Noble ereader in UK August 28, 2012 AMERICAN book retailer Barnes & Noble yesterday said it has chosen John Lewis to be its first UK partner in the push to sell its Nook ebook readers in Britain. The department store group will be the first retailer outside the United States to sell the Nook devices across its 37 of its shops from [...]
John Lewis sales rise July 20, 2012 John Lewis, Britain’s biggest department store company, has reported a double-digit rise in weekly sales – a result of its summer sales, poor weather and the Olympics. The employee-owned firm announced an increase in department store sales of 17.3 per cent year-on-year to a total of £70.3m in the week ending 14 July. Dino Rocos, [...]