The Latest Breaking News from Sharon White

White announced her departure late last year after a difficult spell in charge that saw the staff bonus scrapped in back-to-back years

The pre-tax profit of £56m lags well behind the £400m that the group calls a sustainable annual return

No bonus to staff for second year running

The group is expected to reveal a £25m profit this week, but it’s mostly thanks to rising revenues at Waitrose

The 160-year-old department store chain is taking flak again

Former Jigsaw boss Peter Ruis has been appointed to lead John Lewis department stores, returning to the business where he once worked for nine years.

The Black British women who have helped shape history 

Groups of thieves are targeting high-value items such as bottles of spirits, warns the retail group chair Sharon White

The ex-civil servant took some tough decisions at the retail chain, but hired ‘theory’ people when she needed to get to grips with the detail, say insiders

Is saving John Lewis the toughest job in retail?

John Lewis is a doughty symbol of London retail, but that does not guarantee it a bricks-and-mortar future. Gamages on Holborn traded in everything from toys to supplying the army with catapults during the First World War, but was an anachronism in swinging London by the Seventies, while Dickins &…