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Evening Standard
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Jonathan Prynn

John Lewis exits its lossmaking housebuilding venture after five years

CGI of new West Ealing Waitrose store - (JLP)

John Lewis has abandoned its loss making move into housebuilding five years after it was launched by former chair Dame Sharon White.

The department store and Waitrose supermarket retail partnership said it was withdrawing from its foray into the property sector after” a fundamental shift in the economic conditions that underpinned the venture.”

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