John Lewis Partnership, which includes the department store retailer John Lewis and grocery retailer Waitrose, underwent an annual decline of 1.5 percent in its gross sales in 2020. In 2015, the partnership's gross sales had grown by 5.7 percent.

The statistic displays the annual sales revenue of John Lewis department stores in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2009 to 2024. In the year ending January 2024, the British retailer generated an annual sales revenue of over 3.64 billion British pounds, a slight decrease from the previous year. John Lewis: a minor partner John Lewis department stores are part of the John Lewis Partnership plc, which also owns the upmarket grocery chain Waitrose. Unlike the dwindling revenue of John Lewis, annual sales figures for Waitrose continue to climb, granting the grocery stores a bigger share in the partnership. Online sales at John Lewis John Lewis is one of the most well-known brands on the high street. Across the UK town centers, John Lewis has about 50 department stores, selling products ranging from fashion and home textiles to furniture, homeware and electronicals. The number of John Lewis stores had steadily risen up until 2020, but has now fallen back down to undewr 40 locations.

John Lewis is one of the UK’s most prominent department stores with a successful online business in addition to its physical store presence across the UK. John Lewis’ online retail performed its best in 2013, when sales growth on johnlewis.com was recorded at roughly 40 percent.

Growth slows down

As seen in the present statistic, John Lewis’s online estate achieved a growth rate of almost 10 percent in 2018. While this represents a considerable drop from the department store’s performance in the previous years, it still placed johnlewis.com among the ranks of UK fashion retailers with impressive online sales figures between 2017 and 2018.

waitrose.com: alone again

John Lewis is partnered up with the upscale supermarket chain Waitrose, whose business strategy is integrated well with online. In the most recent financial year results reported by Waitrose, online grocery sales displayed improved performance. For the past 19 years, Waitrose has had a grocery delivery agreement with the online supermarket Ocado. However, after Ocado’s freshly minted business relationship with its close rival Marks & Spencer, Waitrose announced that the partnership was coming to an end in September 2020.

The John Lewis Partnership is a British retailer which operates the John Lewis department stores and Waitrose supermarkets, as well as its own banking and financial services and online retail sites (johnlewis.com, waitrose.com). As of January 2023, John Lewis Partnership generated approximately 1.2 billion British pounds from its sales of fashion goods.

Between 2020 and 2024, British retailer John Lewis Partnership has reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Although gross sales increased, Scope 3 emissions decreased from 33,200 to 14,900 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent.

As shown in this graph, the number of John Lewis stores in the United Kingdom (UK) grew up until 2020, steadily increasing to 50 locations. After that however, John Lewis made the decision to close stores not deemed profitable enough, with store numbers falling to 34 by January 2024. The John Lewis Partnership John Lewis is one of the most successful department store businesses in the UK. It is part of the John Lewis Partnership with department stores, home stores and convenience stores across the United Kingdom. In addition to John Lewis stores, the Partnership also owns a steady number of Waitrose shops in the UK. The majority of the revenue of John Lewis Partnership is earned by Waitrose. Online business unbeaten With online sales channels increasingly gaining hold in retail and the ensuing fall in visitor numbers to physical stores, department stores are changing and adjusting their strategies. John Lewis is among the retailers in the UK who recorded growth in the distribution of online sales over recent years, a trend accelerated by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic which looks set to remain popular.

In the fiscal year ended on January 2023, 59 percent of the sales of the department store retailer John Lewis came from online channels, whereas stores generated 41 percent of the company's total sales. This demonstrates the recovery of footfall to stores and growth in omnichannel consumption amid the trend of consumers moving to online retail.

This statistic presents the employment figures for the leading United Kingdom (UK) companies based off their sales performance in 2020. Among the leading companies, John Lewis Partnership has the highest amount of employees with 80,700.

Waitrose sales increased by 2.6 percent in Great Britain over a 12-week period ending December 1, 2024 compared to the same time period in 2023. Waitrose has experienced an unprecedented growth in sales throughout the 2020 when coronavirus induced lockdowns caused an increase in grocery shopping. Waitrose saw an all-time high in sales growth by 13.2 percent during the 12 weeks ending on 29 November 2020. Company profile Waitrose & Partners is the food retail division of John Lewis Partnership. It has been a subsidiary of John Lewis since 1937. The Bracknell based company was founded in West London in 1904 and operated 329 stores in the United Kingdom in 2024. The company also operates an online store which experienced growth of 13 percent during 2020. Market position The company generated a revenue of over 6.75 billion pounds in the 2022/23 financial year. Revenue growth has slowed down in recent years compared to the early 2010s. As of November 2024, the company ranked 8th in its market with a share of 4.6 percent. Its grocery market share has been stable at around five percent for a number of years now.

The statistic displays the annual revenues of the John Lewis Partnership in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2009 to 2023. Over this period revenues increased gradually, reaching approximately 10.5 billion British pounds in the year ending January 2023, an increase of over four billion British pounds since 2009. This includes revenue from both John Lewis department stores and Waitrose stores operating within the partnership.

The John Lewis Partnership is a British retailer, which operates the John Lewis department stores and Waitrose supermarkets, as well as its own banking and financial services and online retail sites (johnlewis.com, waitrose.com). The company uses an employee-owned business model, where its employees - known as Partners - are influential in running the business and are given a share of the annual profits.

This statistic displays the number of people employed by the John Lewis Partnership plc in the United Kingdom (UK), as of the end of financial years 2009 to 2023. In the year ending January 2023, the partnership had 74,300 employees, including those working as part of the John Lewis department store and Waitrose grocery store operations. There has been an overall decrease in the company's employee count since 2015, with a loss of more than 10 thousand employees.

The John Lewis Partnership is a British retailer, which operates the John Lewis department stores and Waitrose supermarkets, as well as its own banking and financial services and online retail sites (johnlewis.com, waitrose.com). The company uses an employee-owned business model, where its employees - known as Partners - are influential in running the business and are given a share of the annual profits.

The statistic displays the annual sales revenue of Waitrose grocery stores in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2009 to 2023. In the financial year ending in 2023, Waitrose generated a total revenue of 6.75 billion British pounds, a decrease on the previous year. The supermarket Waitrose is the eighth largest grocery retailer in the United Kingdom. Although it occupies a much smaller market share than the 'big four' supermarkets, it does, however, appeal primarily to those with a higher disposable income and thus has a reputation as being 'upmarket'. First founded in 1904 in West London, stores traditionally remained concentrated in the South of England until the mid-2000s. With headquarters in Berkshire, Waitrose is the food retail division of the John Lewis Partnership and operates a number of grocery and 'little Waitrose' convenience stores.

In the year ending March 30, 2024, the British retailer Marks & Spencer generated a total global revenue of approximately 13 billion British pounds in the United Kingdom (UK) and internationally. This was an increase of over one billion pounds from the previous year. M&S stores for all needs Marks and Spencer has been established in the UK since 1884. The retailer offers a wide range of products to its customers, from food items to general merchandise, such as clothing, beauty and personal care products and home accessories. There are currently over 1,000 Marks & Spencer stores located in the UK, and more than 400 operating internationally. These stores include the core department stores, which offer a selection of the company's general merchandise and food products, its supermarkets (branded as M&S Foodhalls), home stores, outlet stores, and convenience stores (branded as M&S Simply Food). A mark of quality Marks and Spencer is renowned for its higher quality products, especially the grocery division and its food items. British consumers also value M&S as a department home goods store, as it was voted one of the most popular department and home stores in the United Kingdom in a 2023 survey, four percentage points ahead of one of its main competitors, John Lewis.

British supermarket retailer Waitrose operated 329 supermarkets across the United Kingdom in 2024. Part of the John Lewis Partnership, Waitrose is equally invested in its store and online sales, and currently accounts for a large share of the company’s annual revenue and gross sales. Waitrose customers and competitionIn the UK, Waitrose is perceived to cater to a high-income clientele and holds a relatively small share in the UK grocery market. In a supermarket landscape where the market giants, including discount retailers, trade in an overwhelmingly higher number of locations, Waitrose ranks far behind in the competition. Online grocery retailSince 2000, Waitrose has been in a partnership with Ocado, the world’s largest online grocery retailer. Earlier this year, Marks and Spencer also struck a grocery delivery deal with Ocado, coinciding with the expiry of Ocado’s contract with Waitrose in 2020. This has raised questions as to the future of Waitrose’s online grocery business with or without Ocado.

As of the fourth quarter of 2024, Marks & Spencer was rated as the most popular home or department store in the United Kingdom (UK), receiving 78 percent positive opinion from the UK public. Right behind it, home improvement and gardening products chain, B&Q ranked in second place, by a margin of two percentage points. Leading UK department stores The two most popular department stores in the UK are Marks and Spencer and John Lewis. As well as general merchandise, Marks and Spencer also has a food division, which actually generates a larger share of revenue than their clothing and home division, which aligns with their department stores. John Lewis is part of the John Lewis Partnership, which also owns a supermarket brand, Waitrose. Of the companies’ department store segments of John Lewis and M&S, John Lewis generates a marginally higher revenue, at over 3.5 billion British pounds. Leading UK home stores The third-most popular home store, Screwfix, is owned by Kingfisher plc. This group also owns several brands worldwide, including another brand in the ranking, Block & Quayle. B&Q finished fifth on the list, with a popularity score of 69 percent. With the sales of these two brands, among others, Kingfisher plc is one of the leading retailers in the United Kingdom based on worldwide sales.

According to Pi Datametrics, in the second quarter of 2021, approximately 918 thousand individual search terms for “prom dresses” were typed on Google UK. In addition, UK consumers looked for boxers and dresses, using these search terms around 614 thousand times, on average.

How the UK fashion e-commerce market measures up The UK is a mature e-commerce market, and the number of apparel digital shoppers is expected to grow on a sure and steady course. In the fashion segment, the UK has one of the largest e-commerce revenues in the world, though it still ranks far behind China and the United States. In 2020, the UK was the third biggest clothing and footwear market globally based on total consumer spending.

Johnlewis.com stands out as the leading online store based on e-commerce net sales in the UK. John Lewis Partnership plc generates around one billion British pounds from fashion sales every year. In terms of online traffic, the retail brand receives most of its visitors through online search.

UK fashion’s voice on Google For retailers, online presence has never been more key than now, when Google visibility determines a business’ reach and relevance for its customers. In the UK, Next.co.uk and ASOS.com are the fashion retailers whose websites had the highest share of voice.

The homeware market in the UK has expanded substantially in the last decade, going from 10.8 billion to 13.6 billion British pounds by 2019. The coronavirus crisis had a major impact on the homeware market in 2020, but the source expected the market to recover from 2022 onwards.

At home with the market

The tetail sales trend of furniture and furnishings in the UK reflects the growth displayed in the present stat. Until 2017, the combined revenue generated by businesses in this sector Increased almost annually. This was driven by increasing consumer spending as the expenditure on homeware goods such as furniture increased annually from 2013 to 2019.

Homegrown homewares for the UK British consumers' preferred types of homeware stores are a mix of home-grown and global companies. Between 2010 and 2015, the British homeware and furniture retailer Dunelm had the largest share in the market. Dunelm was followed by another domestic brand: John Lewis. IKEA featured with a 4.7 share following behind, but with oscillating numbers.