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Touchwood has a John Lewis department store, [7] at 265,000 sq ft (24,600 m 2), as well as 80 other stores, over 20 restaurants and a Cineworld nine-screen multiplex cinema. [ 8 ] The most successful retailing area of Solihull, Mell Square and Solihull High Street both now hosting empty units.
John Lewis plc, [5] [6] trading as John Lewis & Partners, is a British chain of high-end department stores operating across the United Kingdom. It is part of the John Lewis Partnership plc , a holding company held in a trust on behalf of its employees as the beneficiaries of the trust. [ 7 ]
John Lewis & Partners: Oxford Street, London: 1864 The largest of the traditional department store groups in the UK in terms of sales and profit. John Lewis owns 30 full-line department stores. Nine long-established stores, each trading under their original name, have been re-branded as 'John Lewis' since 2000.
As a number of the partnership's branches were disposed of, others enlarged and new stores built, Caleys became the smallest of the John Lewis department stores.. On 18 January 2006, John Lewis announced the closure of the store, stating that 'the location, size and layout of the building will always stand in the way of any prospect of a return to profitable trading'.
Bristol, House of Fraser (opened 2001 in premises previously occupied by Bentalls, preceded by John Lewis and originally Lewis's; closed 2008 on relocation to Cabot Circus. The store was at 1-27 The Horsefair) [110] Bristol, Jollys (acquired 1971; closed 1977. The store was at 62-66 Whiteladies Road, Clifton) [98]
The business further grew in 1961, when John Lewis purchased the department store next door, Bon Marche, from its owners the Liverpool Co-operative Society and merged it into George Henry Lee. Bon Marche had previously been formed in the late 19th century by David Lewis, of Lewis's, but had been sold as a failing business to the Co-op in the 1950s.
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The business soon expanded into numbers 37, 38 and 40 Northumberland Street, and this remains the chain's flagship store. John's eldest son Fred Fenwick joined the business in 1890. [3] Fred had trained in retail in Paris and is said to have been inspired by Le Bon Marché, [4] which is regarded as one of the first ever department stores.