John Lewis was born to sharecroppers in Troy, Alabama, in 1940. He would listen to the broadcasts of Martin Luther King Jr.

John Lewis is a chain of department stores in the UK which, alongside grocery stablemate Waitrose, forms the employee-owned John Lewis Partnership. John Lewis was formed in 1846 when its eponymous ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. John Lewis’s full-year loss has widened after sales fell and the UK retailer failed to slash costs ...

Dame Sharon White stepped down last September and has been replaced by former Tesco boss Jason Tarry who became only the seventh chairman on the John Lewis Partnership. The retail group ...

The former boss of John Lewis has been appointed to oversee a review of the benefits system as part of the Government’s crackdown on worklessness. As head of the “Keep Britain Working” review, Sir ...

John Lewis has launched a new partnership with Tapi Carpets, which will see the launch of dedicated concessions in 17 of its stores. The rollout is set to begin next month at the retailer‘s ...

He led more than 600 peaceful protestors across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to march for voting rights. The group was ...

John Lewis & Partners (formerly John Lewis) is a brand of high-end department stores operating throughout Great Britain. It was created by Spedan Lewis, son of the founder, John Lewis, in 1929 and ...

FROM excitable Edgar the dragon, to Monty the penguin, we round-up all the John Lewis Christmas adverts from over the years. ©News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. 679215 Registered office ...

In a television first BBC Two goes behind the scenes of John Lewis – one of Britain's biggest and best known department stores – as it tackles the worst recession for 80 years in Inside John ...