The John Lewis Partnership is bringing back separate director roles for John Lewis and Waitrose in a move it says will allow it to get the “best of both worlds” out of its new management structure.
An almost doubling in online sales has not been enough to offset sales lost through store closures due to the Covid-19 pandemic as new chairman Sharon White accelerates plans to modernise John Lewis.
The first time the retailer has run product-focused TV adverts outside of Christmas and clearance, the spring campaign will feature more than 200 products, 60% of which are own brand.
The parent company of John Lewis and Waitrose has reported its third consecutive year of profit decline and new chairman Sharon White is thinking about how to modernise the retailer’s long-standing price promise.
Inglis will leave the business at the end of March, joining Paula Nickolds and Rob Collins in a growing list of senior management departures.
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After brands’ more ‘real’, product-focused approach to Christmas last year they have switched back to emotional advertising; but there are as many winners as losers in the brand-building game.
John Lewis and Waitrose have joined forces on their first campaign in the latest phase of a broader strategy designed to bring the brands closer together in the minds of consumers.
The two retailers are hoping to bring a bit of both their brands to tell the story of a young dragon called Edgar who keeps accidentally ruining Christmas.
Dubbed ‘The Future Partnership’, the restructure will see John Lewis’s managing director Paula Nickolds become executive director of brand, while Waitrose’s boss Rob Collins is leaving and marketing jobs are at risk.